3/20 Bowlstering BowlStars!

Since there will be no play-by-play reporting for the BowlStar Blog this Friday and until April, I am taking the chance to bolster (BOWLster) up my BowlStars' confidence by sharing with you a poem my anchor inspired me to write, and some words of encouragement for my awesome team, as they face the Bowlinators in my absence. 

My dear Mitchie Pie has improved by leaps and bounds from last year's league.  Through our summer league adventures as the IncrediBOWLs with Chelo, and our shared obsession to improve our games and be true students of the sport, I have found in her a kindred soul.  Her ability to throw three strikes in the 10th frame is uncanny (she did a Mitchie!).  Here is a poem I sent her after our "giyera de patani" V-Day fiasco, which she missed.  She had just had a couple of weeks of sub-par (in her opinion) game nights when this was written, so she was working on a comeback.  Since then she has had very remarkable, consistently excellent performances.  Go my Anchor Batter! 

You're my dear anchor batter

Nobody bowls better

I trust in your talent, my dear

Unbeatable some days

Yet we all have our bum days

So let me be crystal and clear

I have said it before

I will say it once more

You're the best bowler I've ever seen

I may not always show it

But please always know it

On the lanes, my dear, you are my queen

On this journey we're growing

Our best always showing

But our best changes so constantly

So no matter how you play

I will always and ever say

You are the best anchor for me

Many are attempting to steal my anchor from me, I hope she stays with me, but she is not mine to keep....  I want her to win, I want her to progress, I wish her the best, always.  But for now, she is the BowlStar anchor batter and all mine!


Let me not forget my fellow BowlStars, all stellar and remarkable in their own ways. 

• Chelo Babe is a 200 clubber, capable of exploding with her spare master abilities and ultra consistent release.  I had written her a "Top Ten Reasons Why Chelo is an IncrediBOWLicious BowlStar" back in the summer...wouldn't you want to know! Back then the #10 and #1 reasons were "Talo niya si Roy, 'nuff said!", but since then Roy has improved greatly.  Talo pa rin siya ni Chelo, LOL! 
• Secret weapon String: when she is on, she is ON, baby!  She can be a 200 clubber when least expected.  Potential is there...
• And last year, we could only dream of bowling like our legendary Liz.  My dream girl Lizzie Babe, you are our original idol and our "glue" = know that we absolutely believe in you and know that your inner BowlStar that we know and love will come out to play again.  Hala!

OK, my BowlStars, I know you will do me proud. 

As for all you Philly Pinoy bowlers, I wish y'all a good night at the lanes.  Go buy your 50/50 ticket coz you may be the lucky winner tonight!  I will see you at fun night on April 5, where I hope to bowl a 300 game with 8-pin no-tap like my GoPapa Joel.    In the meantime I am headed for a beach with a bowling alley, HEAVEN!

Bowl, baby, bowl!