Saturday, July 08, 2006
Masters, Day 1
7/9/06
The good news for me is that I'm +75 for the day. The bad news is that my spare shooting troubles are continuing and I had four games that were pretty horrendous. Imagine what I could do if I could actually cover a 4-pin?
After eight games, I'm in fifth place, about 60 pins out of third and 75 from second. So tomorrow there is a lot of bowling to be done and a lot of ground I can make up. If only I can cover a few 4-pins and not get six-counts on good shots ... who knows what would be.
Thankfully, I've left myself in a workable spot going into the second day of eight games. I've got a few big matches tomorrow, including against Emil, Moshe and Josh, which should be not only interesting but also very telling of the entire tournament. Moshe and Josh are both ahead of me in the standings right now, and if I can take some pins from them, that will be very helpful to my bottom line. I'm sure it will be a mad rush to the finish and the cream will truly rise to the top.
We're now off to watch Adam and Emil go diving with the sharks. On Tuesday night/Wednesday morning, as we came back from the casino around 3:30 a.m., they decided it was time to make a reservation to dive with the sharks, as they had been talking about for a few days. We've all been joking that they should change their online questionnaire to ask "Are you intoxicated?" when you are putting in the information to weed out people who may not be in their right frame of mind, which none of us were that night. If nothing else, it will be one of the entertainment highlights of our weeks in Sydney; hopefully, they will both return with all their limbs fully intact.
The good news for me is that I'm +75 for the day. The bad news is that my spare shooting troubles are continuing and I had four games that were pretty horrendous. Imagine what I could do if I could actually cover a 4-pin?
After eight games, I'm in fifth place, about 60 pins out of third and 75 from second. So tomorrow there is a lot of bowling to be done and a lot of ground I can make up. If only I can cover a few 4-pins and not get six-counts on good shots ... who knows what would be.
Thankfully, I've left myself in a workable spot going into the second day of eight games. I've got a few big matches tomorrow, including against Emil, Moshe and Josh, which should be not only interesting but also very telling of the entire tournament. Moshe and Josh are both ahead of me in the standings right now, and if I can take some pins from them, that will be very helpful to my bottom line. I'm sure it will be a mad rush to the finish and the cream will truly rise to the top.
We're now off to watch Adam and Emil go diving with the sharks. On Tuesday night/Wednesday morning, as we came back from the casino around 3:30 a.m., they decided it was time to make a reservation to dive with the sharks, as they had been talking about for a few days. We've all been joking that they should change their online questionnaire to ask "Are you intoxicated?" when you are putting in the information to weed out people who may not be in their right frame of mind, which none of us were that night. If nothing else, it will be one of the entertainment highlights of our weeks in Sydney; hopefully, they will both return with all their limbs fully intact.
# posted by Matthew Halpern @ 11:35 PM 
