Pro Bowlers Tour - 1979 PBA Doubles Championship

[htc6600]

I agree with you about the Brunswick machines-there's a lot of charm with these old single-lane machines. Wouldn't it be cool to combine a GSX pinsetter with one of these old facades? Larry Laub bears a striking resemblance to Gordon Lightfoot of "Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald" fame.

[brgvt97]

Roth left an 8-10 split in 1995 in Toronto. He won that title (#34).

[brian1969a]

@brgvt97 That was a 4-9 he left for #34.

[brgvt97]

@brian1969a Wrong. It was an 8-10.  The ball hit weak, and Bo Burton, in defense of Roth's power, said that oil carrydown was the reason. It could have been, but the bottom line is that he left an 8-10 split.

[brian1969a]

@brgvt97 I'm thinking of the wrong title (I'm thinking of his 33rd, where he left the 4-9 and then converted it). Even so, he didn't actually leave the 8-10 in his 34th title series. He came close, but he didn't actually leave it. I suggest you watch it again.

[brgvt97]

@brian1969a I'm going strictly from memory. I don't have the '95 Toronto show on videotape. I watched it live in April 1995. I remember Bo Burton saying oil carrydown was the reason why he left what he left. I'll watch it on YouTube (I'm assuming it's here on YouTube). I have the '87 Buffalo show on videotape. Roth left the 4-9, then converted it. That was his 33rd title. He had a 299 vs. George Branham III in his first of three matches.

[brian1969a]

@brgvt97 He had the 8-10 up for a second, and the six kicked the ten out. It was an odd pin reaction, esp. for reactives and the hook he was throwing, thus the "oil carrydown" remark from Bo. I think it is on here (I think he's bowling Voss). I think it was fairly common in the early-reactive days...anytime you hit a patch of oil, the ball just slid. I nearly left a few myself back then, lol.

[Jiltedin2007]

Mark Roth was always My Favorite Bowler.

[20alphabet]

He's reputed to be unbelievably selfish, and a real jerk with the fans at pro-am events. Still one of my favorites from my junior days.

[Jiltedin2007]

O.K., most Big Time Bowlers are Jerks anyway. Or anyone else who happens to be a Superstar in some category. Sylvester Stallone was an Asshole when I met him. So you see, some people are just too big for their own Britches!

[20alphabet]

Many are way cool. Still, I can't wait to become a Superstar so I can be an asshole, but avoid the temptation. Yes, Ted Williams is possible.

[Jiltedin2007]

If you ever become a Superstar, and later become an Asshole to your Fans, they are going to shy away from you! So don't ever entertain the tempataion!

[20alphabet]

@Jiltedin2007

You'd think so, but Pete Weber and Marshall Holman have amazingly stupid followings. It's almost like the worse you are the more gravitational pull you have. Truly, the world will end soon at this rate.

[Jiltedin2007]

I agree with you 20alphabet. Fans like those Losers who do follow those they worship no matter how big of an Ass he may be, is enough to make anyone sick.

Yes, the World will end soon they way things are going now, and especially how those who do get pampered for any reason, treat people like you and me like dirt. And that's not fair! That's why I don't read magazines like People. Or Tabloids like the National Enquirer. Since these people don't care for us. Why should I care for them?

[3443bh]

@Jiltedin2007 mad, huh?