12/23/08
148, 197, 199 544 Series
"200 games are overrated"
We lost the first game which put us on a 4 game losing skid but then we bounced back game 2 winning 971-956 and then controling and winning game 3 903-829. We won total pins by a slim margin of 6 pins 2181-2175. Despite leaving a combined twenty 10 pins as a team, we went 5-2 on the night and that should keep us in first place for the second third of the season. Not that we need it after winning the first third. As for my bowling game, you know it's been in a slide the last few years. Tonight was no different as I started off really badly leaving splits and missing multi-pin spares that I would have no problem converting back in 2005. Even the third game my final ball was a pathetic 5 count, giving me the 199.
As a team though, we remain consistent and have the highest combined team average at 720. The next closest team is 20 pins back at an even 700. Amazingly and Horribly I only have 9 200 games 18 weeks into the season and 0 600 Series'. I could get frustereated and angry but our team continues to win and winning equals more money at the end of the season.
On a side note, Kalkowski bowled another 300 game last week. I think that's his 10th or 11th of his career. Crazy.
Our team sits at 35-21 (81-45)
Duffy J has 9191 total pins with an average of 180.21 through 18 weeks.
Tuesday, December 23, 2008
Wednesday, December 17, 2008
Quick overdue movie reviews
Punisher- WarZone
One of the most violent movies I have ever seen. Punisher- War Zone is action packed and the violence and killing doesn't stop. I've never seen the previous one but this movie is pretty easy to follow and there's a flashback in there as well. It's all about revenge on all the mobs of the city. I really wish I had been tallying the kill count because it had to be second to only RAMBO.
6/10
The Day The Earth Stood Still
I confuse the title of this movie with The Day After Tomorrow and the Nine Inch Nails song- The Day the Whole World Went Away. But nonetheless The Day The Earth Stood Still will hold your attention and it includes some classic Keeanu Reeves one liners. My favorite scene is when this guy has a heart attack in the Airport Terminal and Keeanu who plays the alien just finishes up his tuna salad sandwich and walks away. I hadn't seen the original of this movie either which debuted decades ago.
7/10 Not bad, mild thumbs up.
One of the most violent movies I have ever seen. Punisher- War Zone is action packed and the violence and killing doesn't stop. I've never seen the previous one but this movie is pretty easy to follow and there's a flashback in there as well. It's all about revenge on all the mobs of the city. I really wish I had been tallying the kill count because it had to be second to only RAMBO.
6/10
The Day The Earth Stood Still
I confuse the title of this movie with The Day After Tomorrow and the Nine Inch Nails song- The Day the Whole World Went Away. But nonetheless The Day The Earth Stood Still will hold your attention and it includes some classic Keeanu Reeves one liners. My favorite scene is when this guy has a heart attack in the Airport Terminal and Keeanu who plays the alien just finishes up his tuna salad sandwich and walks away. I hadn't seen the original of this movie either which debuted decades ago.
7/10 Not bad, mild thumbs up.
Bowling Scores 12/16/08
12/9/08 Week 16
154, 170, 165 489 Series.
7-0! If you told me going into this night I would roll a near season worst 489 series and we would win all games, I wouldn't have believed it.
12/16/08 Week 17
169, 219, 197 585 Series
0-7
My drought for a 600 Series continues. On top of that, tonight was a complete reversal of last week. As a team we bowled pretty damn well tonight. Aside from Bill having a couple of bad games we had a shot to win the first two for sure and possibly the third one as well. The only problem was that everytime we would make a shot or go on a run of X's, our opponents would do the exact same thing. And everytime they would faulter and give us a chance to get back in it we couldn't deliver. The Second game came down to me beginning the 10th frame with a pair of XX, meaning their anchor had to convert a spare, which he did. I needed a third X to TIE. I blew it with a 7 count. So we lost the second game 889-892. These are high 8 team handicap games and still they had a couple of guys with lower averages that just went off.
Even still losing all games tonight, we remain in first place for the second third of the season at 30-19 with an overall season record of 76-43
8647 Total pins with an average of 180.14 through 17 weeks.
154, 170, 165 489 Series.
7-0! If you told me going into this night I would roll a near season worst 489 series and we would win all games, I wouldn't have believed it.
12/16/08 Week 17
169, 219, 197 585 Series
0-7
My drought for a 600 Series continues. On top of that, tonight was a complete reversal of last week. As a team we bowled pretty damn well tonight. Aside from Bill having a couple of bad games we had a shot to win the first two for sure and possibly the third one as well. The only problem was that everytime we would make a shot or go on a run of X's, our opponents would do the exact same thing. And everytime they would faulter and give us a chance to get back in it we couldn't deliver. The Second game came down to me beginning the 10th frame with a pair of XX, meaning their anchor had to convert a spare, which he did. I needed a third X to TIE. I blew it with a 7 count. So we lost the second game 889-892. These are high 8 team handicap games and still they had a couple of guys with lower averages that just went off.
Even still losing all games tonight, we remain in first place for the second third of the season at 30-19 with an overall season record of 76-43
8647 Total pins with an average of 180.14 through 17 weeks.
Thursday, December 4, 2008
Bowling Scores 12/2/08
11/25/08 Week 14-
174, 167, 189 530 Series
We swept Cabral Orchards giving us a 6 game and 14 point win streak. This also put us into first place for the second third of the season with a record of 21-7 and 67-31 overall.
12/2/08 Week 15
190, 171, 205 566 Series
The winning streak came to an end as Caparello Painting went off with a 918 Team Handicap game 1 and an 880 Game 2. I wasn't about to get swept as we have managed to avoid that all season so I fired up a 205 the third game and we barely won 855-843. The 205 was a no-tap 300 going into the final frame but the other team had already finished so there was no pressure for me to XXX out. I blew it and left a 6-10 that I was unable to convert. I chopped the 10 leaving the 6, frusterating.
7573 Total pins with an average of 180.30 through 15 weeks.
174, 167, 189 530 Series
We swept Cabral Orchards giving us a 6 game and 14 point win streak. This also put us into first place for the second third of the season with a record of 21-7 and 67-31 overall.
12/2/08 Week 15
190, 171, 205 566 Series
The winning streak came to an end as Caparello Painting went off with a 918 Team Handicap game 1 and an 880 Game 2. I wasn't about to get swept as we have managed to avoid that all season so I fired up a 205 the third game and we barely won 855-843. The 205 was a no-tap 300 going into the final frame but the other team had already finished so there was no pressure for me to XXX out. I blew it and left a 6-10 that I was unable to convert. I chopped the 10 leaving the 6, frusterating.
7573 Total pins with an average of 180.30 through 15 weeks.
Tuesday, November 18, 2008
Bowling Scores 11/18/08
200, 146, 199 545 Series
Go ahead and mark this night down as my worst night for single pin spare conversions of 2008. I missed approximatley 5 single pin spares on the night, the majority of them occuring in the second game. Two 10 pins and a 4 pin in the second frame of the third game, that was when I had to take a walk. So I walked down to the arcade area to mentally clear my head of these missed oppertunities. I returned shortly later and finished the third game strong with a XXX in the tenth. We played the "special" team tonight and this being a handicap league we had to spot them 183 pins before the first ball was thrown down the lanes. It didn't matter though and despite my horrible 146 game in the second, our team stepped it up once again with Dana and Ben going off with 205 and 209 games in game 2. Game 3 we were down by nearly 200 pins in the fifth frame and had the comeback of the year finishing strong with Bill and Ben rolling 214 and 215 respectively.
Here's the full 3 games w/handicap for each team
857-850
877-830
937-899
Forgot to mention I came through as the anchor in Game 1 and rolled a strike in the 10th giving us the win by 7 pins.
It was a clean sweep for Alsco Irrigation on this night and we move to 14-7 record for the second third of the season and 60-31 overall.
6477 Total pins with an average of 179.91 through 13 weeks.
Go ahead and mark this night down as my worst night for single pin spare conversions of 2008. I missed approximatley 5 single pin spares on the night, the majority of them occuring in the second game. Two 10 pins and a 4 pin in the second frame of the third game, that was when I had to take a walk. So I walked down to the arcade area to mentally clear my head of these missed oppertunities. I returned shortly later and finished the third game strong with a XXX in the tenth. We played the "special" team tonight and this being a handicap league we had to spot them 183 pins before the first ball was thrown down the lanes. It didn't matter though and despite my horrible 146 game in the second, our team stepped it up once again with Dana and Ben going off with 205 and 209 games in game 2. Game 3 we were down by nearly 200 pins in the fifth frame and had the comeback of the year finishing strong with Bill and Ben rolling 214 and 215 respectively.
Here's the full 3 games w/handicap for each team
857-850
877-830
937-899
Forgot to mention I came through as the anchor in Game 1 and rolled a strike in the 10th giving us the win by 7 pins.
It was a clean sweep for Alsco Irrigation on this night and we move to 14-7 record for the second third of the season and 60-31 overall.
6477 Total pins with an average of 179.91 through 13 weeks.
Friday, November 14, 2008
Quantum of Solace
Quantum of Solace is the first James Bond film that I have screened so I didn't really know what to expect. I've never been a huge fan of the series in fact I don't thing I've ever seen any of them. This shouldn't come as a shock to anyone that knows me though because you'll also know I've never seen Star Wars, Lord of the Rings, Harry Potter, or any other movie series that everyone marks out over. The exception being The Matrix Trilogy.
The movie overall was average at best. Daniel Craig does play the part well, I never had a chance to see Casino Royale but I heard that one got pretty good reviews. While a lot of the fight scenes were cool, I found myself comparing them to unrealistic films such as Transporter 2 and The Marine. At one point Bond and the Girl he's with jump from an airplane and catch each other in midair with one parachute. Then they proceed to fall to the earth, just to pull the cord at the last second to avoid death. Bond still slams into the earth at a pretty good impact. He walks away not even limping.
I know I give a lot of crap to unrealistic films, but some films if done right can get away with being unrealisitc, like Eagle Eye, which I was more into than this film.
5/10
The movie overall was average at best. Daniel Craig does play the part well, I never had a chance to see Casino Royale but I heard that one got pretty good reviews. While a lot of the fight scenes were cool, I found myself comparing them to unrealistic films such as Transporter 2 and The Marine. At one point Bond and the Girl he's with jump from an airplane and catch each other in midair with one parachute. Then they proceed to fall to the earth, just to pull the cord at the last second to avoid death. Bond still slams into the earth at a pretty good impact. He walks away not even limping.
I know I give a lot of crap to unrealistic films, but some films if done right can get away with being unrealisitc, like Eagle Eye, which I was more into than this film.
5/10
Tuesday, November 11, 2008
Bowling Scores 11/11/08
167, 182, 179 528 Series
After missing last week where our team went 2-5 to start the second third of the season, I returned to a mediocre night. Again I've been struggling in the tenth frames lately and tonight was no different. I missed a 4 pin spare conversion in the second game to end my shot at a 200 and in the first game I missed the head pin twice on lane 31 leaving a 1-2-4-10 both times and unable to convert. Never got anything going tonight, I had a couple doubles XX and a bunch of spares. The approach on lane 31 became sticky and I nearly hyperextended my knee in the 10th frame of the first game and I mentally broke down on that lane the rest of the night as I became extra cautious on every throw on that lane. Luckily my teammates stepped it up with 215 and 217 games in the third game.
Despite Matt Kalkowski rolling a ridiculous league high 707 series, we took 2 of 3 games and total pins on the night (5-2).
We are 7-7 for the second third of the season and 53-31 on the season.
5404 Total pins with an average of 179.75 through 12 weeks
After missing last week where our team went 2-5 to start the second third of the season, I returned to a mediocre night. Again I've been struggling in the tenth frames lately and tonight was no different. I missed a 4 pin spare conversion in the second game to end my shot at a 200 and in the first game I missed the head pin twice on lane 31 leaving a 1-2-4-10 both times and unable to convert. Never got anything going tonight, I had a couple doubles XX and a bunch of spares. The approach on lane 31 became sticky and I nearly hyperextended my knee in the 10th frame of the first game and I mentally broke down on that lane the rest of the night as I became extra cautious on every throw on that lane. Luckily my teammates stepped it up with 215 and 217 games in the third game.
Despite Matt Kalkowski rolling a ridiculous league high 707 series, we took 2 of 3 games and total pins on the night (5-2).
We are 7-7 for the second third of the season and 53-31 on the season.
5404 Total pins with an average of 179.75 through 12 weeks
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