Simonsen's behavior was embarrassing. Like you said, Dick Allen and Bill O'Neill started going down that road too, but not as severely. Bill O'Neill got really lucky...for lack of a better word.
We have some bowlers on our league that also punch chairs, pick chairs up and slam them down, yell obscenities, flip off the pins, etc. It is pointless behavior. It isn't the chairs fault or the fault of the pins. When you throw a bad shot, simply brush it off and move on to the next frame. It is kind of alarming, actually, that people get so upset they feel the need to punch or throw something...particularly furniture and mechanical/electronic equipment that doesn't even belong to them. Verbally abusing other people is just unacceptable.
No one is going to execute a perfect shot every single time. No one is averaging 300.
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