Today, I made a purchase that I hope will help my bowling future long-term: there was a deal on woot.com on a refurbished Canon ZR950 camcorder that I couldn’t pass up. Being in possession of my own camcorder will mean I’ll be able to post video of my bowling online in the future (my best friend Ed gifted a Firewire card for my computer for Christmas, and I also found a deal on a Firewire cable to connect the camcorder today) for analysis and critique by my bowling friends online. I will likely be posting on YouTube, though I also have other hosting available, which will allow me to link or embed the source video so that people can do stop-motion analysis of the video in a media player (likely Windows Media Player, as I only have Windows Movie Maker to edit the video with).
Archive for March, 2009
A new tool
March 6, 2009Mar. 6 league standings update
March 6, 2009Despite not getting the full sweep against us, “MT Bed” grabbed sole possession of the second-half lead this week. My team slipped back down to 8th, 7 points off the pace. None of our bowlers present (myself, Patrick, and Carl) had a performance worthy of a high for the week. We face “Team 3,” the 4th place team, next week.
Thoughts on Wes Malott vs. Michael Wilbon controversy
March 5, 2009I haven’t really had anything to say until now about the recent controversy between PBA Tour star Wes Malott and Michael Wilbon of ESPN’s “Pardon the Interruption,” so pardon me if any of this has been said before elsewhere…
My feeling is that two things can be done in an attempt to level the playing field for the proposed challenge match:
- Have the match on something like the Ultimate Scoring Championship pattern (maybe even my house’s own Coke Classic League pattern). This should provide enough of a challenge to Malott while giving Wilbon a decent chance of scoring.
- Give Michael Wilbon the advantage of reactive resin and force Malott to use a plastic ball. This has the added benefit of allowing Malott to show the world what he can do with the plastic stuff, which he didn’t have the opportunity to do when he skipped the Plastic Ball Championship.
My bet is on this happening two weeks from now at the Go RV’ing Match Play Championship…Malott will be in the vicinity of ESPN headquarters and studios then, which will allow Wilbon to not have to travel a long distance for this.
A strange night
March 4, 2009The night felt strange for a couple of reasons: 1) I was still somewhat sapped from battling a cold during the latter part of last week and most of the weekend, and 2) we didn’t have our full complement, as Helen and Ted were completely absent, and Patrick had to miss the first game because of his job. More on what #2 meant for the team later in the post, but I was having some trouble bowling at a quicker pace so soon after recovering from my cold. I still managed a night well over average, but missed more spares than I would like, which prevented me from going 600+.
Result: 198-189-196=583
Average (75 games): 181 Last 9 games average: 198
Next week’s AVG+1 score: 586
As for the team, we had to forfeit the first game because of having only 2 bowlers (me and Carl), so “MT Bed” had to bowl within 50 pins of their average to take the point, which they didn’t. First game was not a win for us because of the forfeit, but that just meant “MT Bed” didn’t get the point either. We had our legal line-up for the other two games, but still lost those, although the last game was pretty close. As a result, “MT Bed” wound up winning the night 3-0 (the forfeit meant we couldn’t take total, as well).
