Games End, Games Continue

08/12/08 07:29 AM | Spurts

Tonight's the night we make history, I do believe it's true. Tonight our effort is recorded forever in the annals of bowling history, a permanent record will be added to USBC's massive database. We won't have done anything overly fantastic, but a record will be made anyway. Last week we did the possible for the first time in this 14 week summer series, we took all three games and series (duh.).
Tonight we will be competing to stay above worst. We will be trying to finish 17th or better out of 18 teams.
Last week I had my league high game @ 189, and my second highest series @ 510, tonight I try once again to hit the elusive 200 mark. Wish me luck.

At 12:50 I shut the TV off and tried for sleep. The USA mens' gymnastic team had just won a Bronze against what was supposed to be insurmountable odds. The Chinese team crushed the competition and the Japanese barely squeaked by the USA team in the final round. Just like the qualifications rounds the final event for the Americans was the pommel horse, and this time the first two had problems erasing the points lead the US had over Japan and putting the bronze in peril, that's when Alexander 'Sasha' Artemev gave another amazing pommel horse routine. Again he had the fastest, widest flares of any of the competition, and put The American team in solid for the Bronze, the Germans were the last to compete who may have had a chance to beat the US and on the same apparatus, but the first tow wee lackluster performances and their anchor best effort still fell short of the amazing Artemev. Michael Phelps continues to be the unstoppable force in the swimming events, and has tied Mark Spitz from my generation with 9 career Gold metals, but he still has 5 events to win and become the greatest Olympian of all time!
Chuck Pace ©2008