Pujols is not 26

[EDGECRUSHER]

Yeah, that was screwed up what happened. 2 years difference at that age is huge. Those kids got cheated.

[Spider-Dan]

Scores and playing conditions are purposely inflated to astronomical proportions for local league play.  This is why everyone and their mom (literally) shoots and averages 220 every game, and 300 games are fired every night.

Forgive the extended hijack, but how do you "inflate" playing conditions in bowling?  Bumper rails?

[EDGECRUSHER]

I'm not a bowler but I am guessing the lanes aren't as waxed or are even more waxed so the ball doesn't move too much. Lighter pins?

[jtex316]

Edge,

The lanes are "waved" in certain patterns.  These patterns match up to high-tech bowling balls, producing a "funnel" effect on the lane that will allow for incredibly high scores, due to such a wide margin of error. 

Oil makes the ball hook less. Consequently, less oil means the ball will hook a lot more.  There is a much higher volume of oil concentrated in the very middle of the lane, and much less volume of oil as you go farther out from the center of the lane towards the gutter. Therefore, if you throw a shot closer to the middle, it will not hook very much, if at all, almost in line to hit the pins exactly in the area where they need to be hit for all of them to fall down.  If you throw a shot closer to the outside part of the lane, the ball will hook back (because there is far less oil towards the outside) and stop hooking once it gets closer to the middle (because there is much more oil towards the middle of the lane).  So, you can almost throw it anywhere you want, and you have a good chance to strike.

On the PBA, lanes have strict dressing and conditioning standards that disallow such improportionate ratios of lane oil to be applied between the different parts of the lane, making scoring much lower and level of difficulty much higher.

The pins are 3.7 lbs., and they've been the same weight for a very long time.

[Phishfan]

Looks like we have another Danny Almonte controversy here.

In a crazy coincidence we have a Danny Almonte update right here.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/12871322/