Congratulations to Mike Scroggins for outlasting the other finalists to win title #8 and move solidly into third place in the Player of the Year race.
Yes, I know he missed two 7-pin spares today, but he still scored well enough to stay in the hunt through the first two "eliminator" matches and then beat Brian Kretzer in the final match.
A lot of people don't seem to like or, at least, respect Mike Scroggins much as a bowler, and I confess that I used to be one of them. Aside from my longstanding aversion to lefties in general, I didn't like Scroggins' simple, low rev, down-and-in style. That, coupled with his low key personality, made him someone I wanted to see everybody else beat, especially if "everybody else" happened to be right-handed.
Of course, the contradiction inherent in this is that Walter Ray Williams is my all-time favorite bowler despite the fact that he too has a simple, low rev, predominately down-and-in style and a low key personality. And so, for that matter, do I. Go figure.
But lately I've come to appreciate just how good Scroggins is and how effective his simple keep-the-ball-in-play game can be on a variety of conditions. Besides that, everyone says he's an extremely nice guy, and that goes a long way in my book of what's important. Mike Scroggins has quietly climbed his way onto my hallowed list of favorite bowlers. I'm sure he'd be overwhelmed with pride and joy to hear that.
It sure was entertaining in the beginning watching Osku Palermaa demolish the pins. I'm smitten with the two-handed style of Belmonte and Palermaa especially. It generates obscene power, and those two guys can harness all that power in miraculous ways. I was hoping Palermaa would win so that he'd receive an exemption and bowl on tour all next season as he told Randy Pedersen he would. I'm not sure how much his mistake of bowling what he thought was a practice shot during a commercial break in the second match and having it count may have upset his concentration, but, in any case, he struggled after that except for finishing strong after it was too late to matter.
I also want to take my figurative hat off to Brian Kretzer for getting as far as he did today. Kretzer is a what you might call a journeyman player on tour. Although he was a very successful amateur bowler whose noteworthy accomplishments included winning the International Eliminator tournament in Las Vegas for $100,000 in both 1997 and 1999, the United Arab Emirates Open (the world's highest paying amateur bowling tournament) in 1999, and being Bowlers Journal's Amateur Bowler of the Year in 1999, he's never won a tour title. His big, slow hooking ball just didn't seem well suited to PBA tournament conditions. So, approximately four years ago, he began learning how to throw a much straighter shot and used it to cash in 18 out of 19 events last season and make his way onto today's televised finals and finish a very respectable second.
I respect anyone dedicated enough to his craft to make such a big change at such a relatively late stage in his career. More power to him, and may he continue to make telecasts.
In my next post, I have a proposal to make about how the majority of televised finals might best be conducted in the future.
Sunday, March 7, 2010
Saturday, March 6, 2010
Another Two-Hander in Tomorrow's Eliminator Finals
Jason Belmonte is nursing a hamstring injury he sustained in last week's U.S. Open tournament and didn't bowl this week. But that didn't stop the other best two-hander in the world from making tomorrow's telecast. That's right, the extremely talented Osku Palermaa sliced and diced rack after rack this week to earn his way into tomorrow's final along with Mike Scroggins, Wes Malott, and Brian Kretzer. As you may recall, Osku was the first two-hander to make a PBA telecast, doing it as a 20-year-old in no less than the U.S. Open in 2004, and he performed very respectably on it even though he didn't win the title. He's an amazing bowler, and I'd like to see him do well.
Tomorrow's "eliminator" format is unusual in that it will begin with all four players bowling the first game together. The lowest scorer will exit, leaving the other three to bowl the second game. The lowest scorer that game will be finished, and the remaining two players will bowl for the championship.
It should be fun to watch, even if it looks like sole lefty Mike Scroggins may have the advantage of being able to "groom" the pair for himself in practice and, if he advances, in competition.
Tomorrow's "eliminator" format is unusual in that it will begin with all four players bowling the first game together. The lowest scorer will exit, leaving the other three to bowl the second game. The lowest scorer that game will be finished, and the remaining two players will bowl for the championship.
It should be fun to watch, even if it looks like sole lefty Mike Scroggins may have the advantage of being able to "groom" the pair for himself in practice and, if he advances, in competition.
Friday, March 5, 2010
Walter Ray's New Trick
If you weren't watching PBA Xtra Frame today, you missed a sight for sore eyes. In the final block of qualifying, Walter Ray Williams started throwing his strike ball like Jason Belmonte. Well, not exactly like Belmo. He didn't have the speed or accuracy of Belmo. But he didn't look too bad.
I'd heard that he was practicing the two-handed style, but I never expected to see him use it in a tournament. If I didn't have Xtra Frame, I probably never would have, unless he REALLY surprises me someday and bowls two-handed on the televised finals.
Unfortunately, he won't have the chance to do it in this tournament. He finished out of the top sixteen that go into tomorrow's "eliminator" format. But the experience he obtained today bowling two-handed in competition may help him someday.
Who says old dogs can't learn new tricks?
I'd heard that he was practicing the two-handed style, but I never expected to see him use it in a tournament. If I didn't have Xtra Frame, I probably never would have, unless he REALLY surprises me someday and bowls two-handed on the televised finals.
Unfortunately, he won't have the chance to do it in this tournament. He finished out of the top sixteen that go into tomorrow's "eliminator" format. But the experience he obtained today bowling two-handed in competition may help him someday.
Who says old dogs can't learn new tricks?
Cataract Surgery, Chris Barnes, and Kelly Kulick
"It’s a tremendous privilege and honor to be invited to the White House and to meet the President and First Lady. I see this not only as something that honors my accomplishment but provides recognition for the sport of bowling as well.”
--Kelly Kulick
I had cataract surgery yesterday and will be taking it kinda easy on my eye so far as blogposting is concerned for the next few days or so. But I do want to say that I'm looking forward to getting back out on the lanes in a couple of weeks and to actually being able to see the arrows and boards once again.
When I bowled last Monday night, I literally couldn't see the arrows, much less the boards between them. Fortunately, I was playing a line near the right channel, and I didn't have to shoot many spares, so I didn't need to see very well. But on a more challenging condition or with lots of spares to shoot at, you're in real trouble if you can't see worth a darn.
On another note, I'm looking forward to the next Chris Barnes Challenge. Tomorrow night, Chris will go head-to-head with a high school sophomore names Sean Johnson in a three game match in which the high series will win the pot. This time, each bowler put $400 of his own money into the pot. Actually, Sean's dad put up the money for him.
Sean averages 225 on a house shot and even bowled the TQR in Columbus, Ohio this week, finishing 59th in a field of 96 and averaging 191 on a pro pattern to do it. So it sounds like he's pretty good for a 16-year-old.
However, there's been some discussion on the PBA website about whether a kid that young should be bowling in adult leagues and TQR's and going one-on-one with PBA superstars for money. Some have said that he should get more seasoning in junior leagues and collegiate competition before he jumps into the deep end of the bowling pool.
I'm inclined to agree when it comes to him bowling adult leagues and TQR's, but I think it's great that his dad submitted the winning bid for him in the upcoming Chris Barnes Challenge and that young Sean will now have what may very well be a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to take on the best bowler in the world in a three game match shown live all around the world via Xtra Frame. Whatever the outcome, it's likely to be one of the most joyously memorable experiences of his life, and he may even learn some valuable lessons from it about bowling better. I say more power to him, and I hope he gives Mr. Barnes all he can handle. If you subscribe, you can watch it live tomorrow at 5:30 PM EST on PBA Xtra Frame. I just hope that "Bowling Doctor" Jeff Mark and guest Del Ballard provide more informative commentary than they did last time.
Finally, I see that Kelly Kulick will be visiting the White House Monday to meet with President Obama and the First Lady for Women's History Month, and I'm thrilled to see her receive this kind of recognition for the history she made recently. As I wrote in a previous entry, Why Isn't Kelly Kulick a Star?, I've been very disappointed with how little attention Kelly and her remarkable TOC Championship have garnered. I even wrote Oprah Winfrey about it a few days ago, but I haven't heard back from her yet. :-)
Maybe you could write too.
--Kelly Kulick
I had cataract surgery yesterday and will be taking it kinda easy on my eye so far as blogposting is concerned for the next few days or so. But I do want to say that I'm looking forward to getting back out on the lanes in a couple of weeks and to actually being able to see the arrows and boards once again.
When I bowled last Monday night, I literally couldn't see the arrows, much less the boards between them. Fortunately, I was playing a line near the right channel, and I didn't have to shoot many spares, so I didn't need to see very well. But on a more challenging condition or with lots of spares to shoot at, you're in real trouble if you can't see worth a darn.
On another note, I'm looking forward to the next Chris Barnes Challenge. Tomorrow night, Chris will go head-to-head with a high school sophomore names Sean Johnson in a three game match in which the high series will win the pot. This time, each bowler put $400 of his own money into the pot. Actually, Sean's dad put up the money for him.
Sean averages 225 on a house shot and even bowled the TQR in Columbus, Ohio this week, finishing 59th in a field of 96 and averaging 191 on a pro pattern to do it. So it sounds like he's pretty good for a 16-year-old.
However, there's been some discussion on the PBA website about whether a kid that young should be bowling in adult leagues and TQR's and going one-on-one with PBA superstars for money. Some have said that he should get more seasoning in junior leagues and collegiate competition before he jumps into the deep end of the bowling pool.
I'm inclined to agree when it comes to him bowling adult leagues and TQR's, but I think it's great that his dad submitted the winning bid for him in the upcoming Chris Barnes Challenge and that young Sean will now have what may very well be a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to take on the best bowler in the world in a three game match shown live all around the world via Xtra Frame. Whatever the outcome, it's likely to be one of the most joyously memorable experiences of his life, and he may even learn some valuable lessons from it about bowling better. I say more power to him, and I hope he gives Mr. Barnes all he can handle. If you subscribe, you can watch it live tomorrow at 5:30 PM EST on PBA Xtra Frame. I just hope that "Bowling Doctor" Jeff Mark and guest Del Ballard provide more informative commentary than they did last time.
Finally, I see that Kelly Kulick will be visiting the White House Monday to meet with President Obama and the First Lady for Women's History Month, and I'm thrilled to see her receive this kind of recognition for the history she made recently. As I wrote in a previous entry, Why Isn't Kelly Kulick a Star?, I've been very disappointed with how little attention Kelly and her remarkable TOC Championship have garnered. I even wrote Oprah Winfrey about it a few days ago, but I haven't heard back from her yet. :-)
Maybe you could write too.
Wednesday, March 3, 2010
Better Bowling Through Alcohol?
"It is no wonder that a bowler who uses alcohol and bowls on an easy house shot averages 200 and yet gets completely destroyed at the USBC Championships."
--Mark Gurule and Paul Butcher, Bowling This Month (March 2010)
As you may know and as I mentioned in a previous entry, you can drink alcoholic beverages down on the lanes this year at the USBC Open. I wrote that I don't like this new rule at all. I think it could lead to slippery or sticky approaches and cause some bowlers to misbehave in ways that undermine the dignity and integrity of this revered tournament.
However, some may drink alcohol at the tournament because they believe that it will loosen them up and enable them to bowl better. There's an article in the March issue of Bowling This Month that addresses the common observation that some people actually score better after they've "had a couple." Perhaps we've even done it ourselves on occasion.
The article lists several reasons why this might happen:
1. Alcohol may soothe one's anxieties or "nerves" and relax one's hand and body.
2. Alcohol may cause "alcohol myopia"--i.e., keep one "in the moment" and narrowly focused on the bowling task at hand instead of allowing extraneous perceptions and thoughts to cause distraction.
3. Alcohol may spur people to socialize more instead of sitting and brooding on their mistakes and overanalyzing their games.
4. Alcohol may reduce or eliminate deleterious fear of failure.
5. Alcohol may increase one's feeling of "well being."
Indeed, at first glance, these modifications seem part of what one sports psychologist calls an "Ideal Performance State," and this, in turn, might tempt some of us to drink alcohol during bowling competition. However, the article gives us ample reason to reconsider this idea.
The article points out that we generally see scores improve under the influence of alcohol only on easy house conditions that allow wide margins of error and require few adjustments and not on more challenging "sport" or PBA oil patterns, and that we never see professional bowlers sipping beer or wine while vying for regional or national PBA titles. This is because alcohol, despite the potentially positive effects listed above, demonstrably reduces the "precision, equilibrium, hand-eye coordination, judgment, ability to process information, focus, stamina, strength, power, and speed necessary to perform at one's best in bowling or any sport."
The article ends on this sobering note:
So, before you crack a cold one at the nationals in Reno this year, you might want to give it some serious second thoughts if you wish to bowl your very best. And why travel all that distance and spend all that money to do anything less?
--Mark Gurule and Paul Butcher, Bowling This Month (March 2010)
As you may know and as I mentioned in a previous entry, you can drink alcoholic beverages down on the lanes this year at the USBC Open. I wrote that I don't like this new rule at all. I think it could lead to slippery or sticky approaches and cause some bowlers to misbehave in ways that undermine the dignity and integrity of this revered tournament.
However, some may drink alcohol at the tournament because they believe that it will loosen them up and enable them to bowl better. There's an article in the March issue of Bowling This Month that addresses the common observation that some people actually score better after they've "had a couple." Perhaps we've even done it ourselves on occasion.
The article lists several reasons why this might happen:
1. Alcohol may soothe one's anxieties or "nerves" and relax one's hand and body.
2. Alcohol may cause "alcohol myopia"--i.e., keep one "in the moment" and narrowly focused on the bowling task at hand instead of allowing extraneous perceptions and thoughts to cause distraction.
3. Alcohol may spur people to socialize more instead of sitting and brooding on their mistakes and overanalyzing their games.
4. Alcohol may reduce or eliminate deleterious fear of failure.
5. Alcohol may increase one's feeling of "well being."
Indeed, at first glance, these modifications seem part of what one sports psychologist calls an "Ideal Performance State," and this, in turn, might tempt some of us to drink alcohol during bowling competition. However, the article gives us ample reason to reconsider this idea.
The article points out that we generally see scores improve under the influence of alcohol only on easy house conditions that allow wide margins of error and require few adjustments and not on more challenging "sport" or PBA oil patterns, and that we never see professional bowlers sipping beer or wine while vying for regional or national PBA titles. This is because alcohol, despite the potentially positive effects listed above, demonstrably reduces the "precision, equilibrium, hand-eye coordination, judgment, ability to process information, focus, stamina, strength, power, and speed necessary to perform at one's best in bowling or any sport."
The article ends on this sobering note:
"In conclusion, use of alcohol while bowling may improve performance for some on a typical house shot over a few games. But drugs and alcohol have no place for bowlers who hope to be competitive in a variety of environments and situations...It is critical to note that athletes can achieve all "Ideal Performance State" characteristics without drinking and are much better off doing so sober."
So, before you crack a cold one at the nationals in Reno this year, you might want to give it some serious second thoughts if you wish to bowl your very best. And why travel all that distance and spend all that money to do anything less?
Tuesday, March 2, 2010
Why Isn't Kelly Kulick a Star?
"Hello? America? This is the equivalent of "Man Gives Birth!" It's never happened in any ball sport in American history. Kulick, 32, should own Page 1. Somebody should throw her a parade. Or at least a state dinner. Instead, she's gotten one free hair coloring. That's the highlight...Zero. Nada. Zilch. She has to keep checking her phone to see if it died.."
--Rick Reilly, ESPN The Magazine
When Kelly Kulick won the Tournament of Champions a month ago, many in the bowling world were very excited. I was one of them. I wrote in my blog the next day that Kulick's performance was the greatest bowling moment I'd ever witnessed in the almost fifty years that I'd been following the sport.
Some predicted that Kulick's victory would give men's and women's professional bowling a tremendous boost, and they wrote glowing accounts of the media's enthusiastic coverage of Kulick's feat immediately after the fact. However, I was more skeptical. Yes, for a few days after Kulick's accomplishment, she was a minor media darling, appearing on TV news and radio talk shows. But I still didn't see what I was hoping to see, and I said as much in a blog entry:
A little later, I read this article on pba.com criticizing an article by David Whitley that asserted that bowling is not a sport because in real sports the best women can't beat the best men. It also seemed to me that the interest in Kelly Kulick's TOC title was fading fast and that, in no time, almost nobody was talking about ir anywhere, even among us bowlers. I predicted that Kulick's victory wouldn't be the "bowling tsunami" sweeping the sport into new realms of fame and fortune that some thought it would be but that it would likely have some kind of positive impact on the sport. But now I'm not so sure. And after reading Rick Reilly's gloomy article in ESPN The Magazine titled "The greatest moment in women's sports," I'm even less sure than I was before. In fact, I'm feeling downright demoralized.
Reilly says that Kulick's victory and Kulick herself have, in fact, received astonishingly little recognition from the media and public at large given the true magnitude of her accomplishment. He writes:
Kelly Kulick's answer to this question is, "Beats me. They hate bowling?"
Maybe "hate" is too strong a word. "Indifference" seems more like it. Maybe Rob Stone is right. Maybe we need to inject more excitement into the sport But whatever we need to do, we who love bowling better do it fast before the sport we love dies from apathy and neglect.
--Rick Reilly, ESPN The Magazine
When Kelly Kulick won the Tournament of Champions a month ago, many in the bowling world were very excited. I was one of them. I wrote in my blog the next day that Kulick's performance was the greatest bowling moment I'd ever witnessed in the almost fifty years that I'd been following the sport.
Some predicted that Kulick's victory would give men's and women's professional bowling a tremendous boost, and they wrote glowing accounts of the media's enthusiastic coverage of Kulick's feat immediately after the fact. However, I was more skeptical. Yes, for a few days after Kulick's accomplishment, she was a minor media darling, appearing on TV news and radio talk shows. But I still didn't see what I was hoping to see, and I said as much in a blog entry:
"I began searching online for media reactions to Kulick's achievement and saw a demoralizingly small number of mostly brief and tepid articles about it apparently penned by writers obligatorily going through the motions of reporting a story they cared nothing about. The real kicker was what someone scornfully wrote in the comments section of one of these lackadaisical articles. A close paraphrase of his comment is: "Kelly, how do you feel winning an insignificant championship in a sport nobody cares anything about?" My heart sank when I read this. Then I got angry. Then I realized that this person probably spoke for the majority of this football (both kinds) obsessed country and beyond and probably always would and that there was absolutely nothing I or Kelly Kulick could do about it."
A little later, I read this article on pba.com criticizing an article by David Whitley that asserted that bowling is not a sport because in real sports the best women can't beat the best men. It also seemed to me that the interest in Kelly Kulick's TOC title was fading fast and that, in no time, almost nobody was talking about ir anywhere, even among us bowlers. I predicted that Kulick's victory wouldn't be the "bowling tsunami" sweeping the sport into new realms of fame and fortune that some thought it would be but that it would likely have some kind of positive impact on the sport. But now I'm not so sure. And after reading Rick Reilly's gloomy article in ESPN The Magazine titled "The greatest moment in women's sports," I'm even less sure than I was before. In fact, I'm feeling downright demoralized.
Reilly says that Kulick's victory and Kulick herself have, in fact, received astonishingly little recognition from the media and public at large given the true magnitude of her accomplishment. He writes:
"Danica Patrick beats men in an auto race and she's on TV more often than the Geico gecko. Why isn't Kelly sifting through huge endorsement deals?...In golf, people turn 1260 McTwists when Michelle Wie nearly makes a men's cut. In tennis, Billie Jean King's thumping of a 55-year-old man is hailed as the greatest thing for women since the sports bra.Kelly Kulick? Who dat?...Listen! She beat 62 of the best male pros -- straight up -- in arguably the Tour's creamiest event, the Tournament of Champions. And she beat them like egg yolks. She beat Chris Barnes, the No. 1 bowler on the Tour, by 70 pins in the final! That's like beating Emeril by three hams!...So why is she getting no love? Why isn't she known across America as Queenpin? Why isn't she doing Letterman's Top Ten?"
Kelly Kulick's answer to this question is, "Beats me. They hate bowling?"
Maybe "hate" is too strong a word. "Indifference" seems more like it. Maybe Rob Stone is right. Maybe we need to inject more excitement into the sport But whatever we need to do, we who love bowling better do it fast before the sport we love dies from apathy and neglect.
Monday, March 1, 2010
Final Thoughts on the U.S. Open
I'm still shaking my head over Walter Ray's six count in the fill ball of the final game of match play. But it may not have made that much of a difference if Tommy Jones had bowled as well against him as he did against Jason Couch that first game. Walter finished as high as he did because he just kept grinding away through qualifying and match play, making all his makable spares and getting a double or turkey every now and then to salt away some decent, if unspectacular, games. But he didn't seem to match up with the lanes as impressively as he often does, and I didn't see him shoot any big games during the week. Still, I wish he'd thrown the "high hard one" on that fill ball. Don't you think that, with his accuracy, he'd have likely knocked down more than six pins, or am I suffering from hindsight is 20/20 itis?
In following the U.S. Open throughout the week, one of my convictions was strongly reinforced. If you subscribe to Xtra Frame and watch the qualifying and, especially. match play, you get so much more out of the tournament than if you watch only the televised finals on Sunday. One thing you would have gained last week is greater respect for Jason Belmonte's dazzling talent and skill as he dominated the lanes, the pins. and his fellow bowlers through much of the tournament until his hamstring injury reduced him to mere mortal status. "Bowling Doctor" Jeff Mark was certainly dazzled by Belmo's ability to adjust his axis tilt to suit his angle of attack, to throw reverse hooks to convert difficult right side spares, and to put the ball where he wants it and repeat shots on the tour's most formidable oil pattern in a way that seems miraculous for a two-handed, thumbless cranker. This guy's got game like we've never seen before, and we'll be seeing a lot more from him as soon as his hamstring heals. I'd love to see how he does in the plastic ball championship coming up shortly.
If you didn't watch Xtra Frame, you also missed Ken Simard's insightful commentary during the final round of match play. Simard bowled the tournament but didn't make it to match play. Too bad. I would have liked to see him bowl. I didn't know this, but he said that a few years ago, his ball was measured in the 690 RPM range at the Kegel Center in Florida. I thought only Robert Smith was capable of that. But he's been trying to tone it down to make his ball more controllable. You can watch a YouTube video of him bowling Wes Malott here.
Without Xtra Frame, you also missed Rob Stone's commentary during the opening part of the final round of match play. He sat in for two or three games and was even more animated and jocular than he is on the ESPN telecasts. If you don't like him, he might have driven you crazy. But if you do like him, you would have probably enjoyed him. You certainly can't deny his energy and enthusiasm. One of the first things he said was that he was disappointed when he walked in the building and it was as quiet as a church. He said bowling fans need to make more noise, show more enthusiasm, and inject more excitement into the sport.
Do you think he's right?
Finally, congratulations to Bill O'Neill who seems poised to attain PBA superstar status. As Jason Thomas reports in his article today, no less an eye for bowling talent than Chris Barnes says that O'Neill is "scary good." He may very well end up this season's Player of the Year with the year he's having.
In following the U.S. Open throughout the week, one of my convictions was strongly reinforced. If you subscribe to Xtra Frame and watch the qualifying and, especially. match play, you get so much more out of the tournament than if you watch only the televised finals on Sunday. One thing you would have gained last week is greater respect for Jason Belmonte's dazzling talent and skill as he dominated the lanes, the pins. and his fellow bowlers through much of the tournament until his hamstring injury reduced him to mere mortal status. "Bowling Doctor" Jeff Mark was certainly dazzled by Belmo's ability to adjust his axis tilt to suit his angle of attack, to throw reverse hooks to convert difficult right side spares, and to put the ball where he wants it and repeat shots on the tour's most formidable oil pattern in a way that seems miraculous for a two-handed, thumbless cranker. This guy's got game like we've never seen before, and we'll be seeing a lot more from him as soon as his hamstring heals. I'd love to see how he does in the plastic ball championship coming up shortly.
If you didn't watch Xtra Frame, you also missed Ken Simard's insightful commentary during the final round of match play. Simard bowled the tournament but didn't make it to match play. Too bad. I would have liked to see him bowl. I didn't know this, but he said that a few years ago, his ball was measured in the 690 RPM range at the Kegel Center in Florida. I thought only Robert Smith was capable of that. But he's been trying to tone it down to make his ball more controllable. You can watch a YouTube video of him bowling Wes Malott here.
Without Xtra Frame, you also missed Rob Stone's commentary during the opening part of the final round of match play. He sat in for two or three games and was even more animated and jocular than he is on the ESPN telecasts. If you don't like him, he might have driven you crazy. But if you do like him, you would have probably enjoyed him. You certainly can't deny his energy and enthusiasm. One of the first things he said was that he was disappointed when he walked in the building and it was as quiet as a church. He said bowling fans need to make more noise, show more enthusiasm, and inject more excitement into the sport.
Do you think he's right?
Finally, congratulations to Bill O'Neill who seems poised to attain PBA superstar status. As Jason Thomas reports in his article today, no less an eye for bowling talent than Chris Barnes says that O'Neill is "scary good." He may very well end up this season's Player of the Year with the year he's having.
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