I 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.
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