Will Tigers Pony up for Skubal

[chasfh]

13 hours ago, Screwball said:

I don't remember the year, sometime in the late 70s. I bowled in a pro-am at Imperial Lanes in Toledo, Ohio. You bowled 3 games and a different pro would bowl against you each game. Earl was there, and probably **** too. The big tournament started like on Thursday and would be televised on Saturday. Big stuff. We were before that started.

I was lucky, one guy I didn't know, and the other two were **** Ritger and Dave Davis. Davis was a tall lefty. He shot about 190 on the lane I was on. The next game he moved one pair to the right, made an adjustment, and tossed a 279. Dude had a big ball, and natural like most lefties did. Earl was a machine. So smooth. Made it look easy. It's not.

Those guys bowled hundreds of game a week. Saturday afternoon was about watching the tournament that week. Great stuff. Now a dying and soon to be dead sport. 

Have you seen bowling on TV lately? Now it seems all the pros are wearing flashy colors—the more the better—and talking trash to opponents. PBA is trying to attract a certain type that likes watching that kind of thing.

[chasfh]

12 hours ago, oblong said:

Curling is up next

There are these three guys on my softball team who curl during the winter, meaning, an actual league in an actual suburb, like, Buffalo Grove or someplace else way out there. I’ve never curled and expressed interest and they said I should come out and try it and they’ll let me know when.

[Tiger337]

There's a spot open in my fantasy curling league if anyone interested.  We don't use traditional categories though.  It's sabermetric.  

[tiger2022]

This guy has softball player written all over him

[Screwball]

1 hour ago, chasfh said:

Have you seen bowling on TV lately? Now it seems all the pros are wearing flashy colors—the more the better—and talking trash to opponents. PBA is trying to attract a certain type that likes watching that kind of thing.

No, I haven't watched in years. Lost interest. I do follow some bowling stuff on FB. The scores they shoot today is nuts. There are people out there averaging 230 that wouldn't average 180 back in the days of Earl Anthony, **** Weber (he was at our town for bowling alley opening in 1977).

The sport started dying years ago. For example, our little town had 3 alleys at one time. 2 with 24 alley's and one with 4. The one with 4 is in the basement of a K of C hall. It is the only one left. The others closed in 1985ish, and the other in 2016. You could see them competing for bowlers years ago when the newest 24 lane alley opened. Scores and averages went up. People went where they could score the best. I worked in the oldest one and it was quite a thing to watch. The owners hated each other but their kids were buddies.

It was great fun for a lot of people over the years. They were full 7 days a week at on time. The bar was also a happening place over the years. Bowling alleys were also the place for drinking and smoking. Cigars were a thing back then. We had a big case of them to choose from. When the smoking laws changed, and of course the local cops cracking down on DD, that was the beginning of the end for some.

I can imagine the sport today is doing everything they can to promote the sport given it's not so popular anymore, including looking like NASCAR drivers and putting on a show between the competitors. 

I found my old bowling ball in the basement a few years ago. 16lb ball. I have no idea how I could have ever thrown that thing as I can't hardly pick it up now. 😞

[NorthWoods]

12 hours ago, buddha said:

curling is awesome.  love curling.

i want to see curlers on those 70s athletics shows.  they'll show cheryl tiegs who is boss.

There's a curling club up here in Lewiston.   You can rent ice time and they'll teach people how to curl.

https://www.lewistoncurlingclub.com/

[CMRivdogs]

44 minutes ago, Screwball said:

No, I haven't watched in years. Lost interest. I do follow some bowling stuff on FB. The scores they shoot today is nuts. There are people out there averaging 230 that wouldn't average 180 back in the days of Earl Anthony, **** Weber (he was at our town for bowling alley opening in 1977).

The sport started dying years ago. For example, our little town had 3 alleys at one time. 2 with 24 alley's and one with 4. The one with 4 is in the basement of a K of C hall. It is the only one left. The others closed in 1985ish, and the other in 2016. You could see them competing for bowlers years ago when the newest 24 lane alley opened. Scores and averages went up. People went where they could score the best. I worked in the oldest one and it was quite a thing to watch. The owners hated each other but their kids were buddies.

It was great fun for a lot of people over the years. They were full 7 days a week at on time. The bar was also a happening place over the years. Bowling alleys were also the place for drinking and smoking. Cigars were a thing back then. We had a big case of them to choose from. When the smoking laws changed, and of course the local cops cracking down on DD, that was the beginning of the end for some.

I can imagine the sport today is doing everything they can to promote the sport given it's not so popular anymore, including looking like NASCAR drivers and putting on a show between the competitors. 

I found my old bowling ball in the basement a few years ago. 16lb ball. I have no idea how I could have ever thrown that thing as I can't hardly pick it up now. 😞

Meanwhile my soon to be 14 year old grandson loves the sport. I'm not sure his school has a team, but he's found some sort of league in Livonia where he rolls on a fairly regular basis.

This is after trying baseball, soccer, football, basketball and discovering he has his parents and grandparents sports genes