Bowling league is back! Well, sort of...
For the past 15 or so years, I have been bowling in the IBM league. When the league first started, there was a lot of IBMer participation and we had maybe 12 full 4-person teams filling out the league. Over the years, participation would gradually fall to the point where last year we only had 6 teams and two of them weren't even teams containing any IBM employees or retirees. :(
It is now 2020 and I am sad to say that the IBM league was only able to gather 4 interested teams, which is under the minimum required to have a league. So unfortunately there is no IBM Bowling League this season and honestly there might not be for a while.
However, there's a house league that bowls on Thursday nights and a few of the IBMers still interested in bowling decided to join that league instead, which contains over 20 teams. I was on the fence about joining since basically all of my former teammates from the past decade no longer bowl with me. I got invited by a former IBM team to join their squad and eventually I decided to give it a try. Honestly, with stay-at-home life, it would be nice to just get out of the house and I do still very much love bowling even though it is a dying sport.
And so with that, bowling is back! We are now in our 3rd week already and the new team is good and we're also doing well, off to a 22-2 start! I'm currently sitting around a 180 average, which is where I want to be. It'll be interesting to see how the season goes and if it doesn't get shut down to Covid. One must wear a mask at all times unless they are eating, drinking, or up on the lanes to bowl. Here's seeing if I can carry my championship level success to a new league!
