{"id":1255,"date":"2009-12-10T18:08:03","date_gmt":"2009-12-10T23:08:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.noiselabs.com\/blog\/?p=1255"},"modified":"2009-12-10T18:08:03","modified_gmt":"2009-12-10T23:08:03","slug":"over-the-line","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.noiselabs.com\/blog\/2009\/12\/10\/over-the-line\/","title":{"rendered":"“Over the LINE!”"},"content":{"rendered":"

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From NII part-time-blogger Dan comes the story of Matt Penkul<\/a>, a 31-year-old Lynn resident who scored a record-breaking 514<\/b> in three strings of candlepin bowling<\/a>, rolling 155, 161, and 198.<\/p>\n

Unfortunately, the foul line sensors at Metro Bowl in Peabody weren’t turned on that night, and so his record won’t be counted. I stand firmly with the Massachusetts Bowling Association in favor of foul-line sensors, as friend-of-the-blog Shwilly B knows all to well. I agree with Walter, from the film The Big Lebowski<\/i>:<\/p>\n

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My favorite quote from the linked article comes around the middle:<\/p>\n

The sensors intended to keep a bowler from crossing the foul line were off, making Penkul’s score unofficial, said Al Gangi, president of the Massachusetts Bowling Association.<\/p>\n

“No foul lights, no record,” Gangi said.<\/p>\n

It is the second time in five years the absence of the foul lights has negated the record. Chris Sargent of Haverhill bowled a 517 at the same alley in 2004, officials said.<\/p>\n

“It’s all politics,”<\/b> Sargent said. “If they want to count it, they’ll count it. Or they’ll say, ‘Too bad.'”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Classic!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

From NII part-time-blogger Dan comes the story of Matt Penkul, a 31-year-old Lynn resident who scored a record-breaking 514 in three strings of candlepin bowling, rolling 155, 161, and 198. Unfortunately, the foul line sensors at Metro Bowl in Peabody weren’t turned on that night, and so his record won’t be counted. I stand firmly […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4,100,265,9,7,26],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.noiselabs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1255"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.noiselabs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.noiselabs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.noiselabs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.noiselabs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1255"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.noiselabs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1255\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1256,"href":"http:\/\/www.noiselabs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1255\/revisions\/1256"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.noiselabs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.noiselabs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.noiselabs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}