Author Archives: Karl Hungus

My bad, BoPo.  I may have pushed a little too hard having opening night on New Year’s Day.  The energy wasn’t there but everyone gets a mulligan for that one.  Tough day, lots of new faces on new teams.  I think the energy comes back this week as we settle in. What did we learnContinue reading “Week 2 Is The New Week 1”

Thursday 1/3 B Division B&B (1-0) 4.5 3 4 11.5 1601 Granola (0-1) 0.5 2 1 3.5 1481 ICBING (1-0) 5 2 4 11 1681 Happy Hands (0-1) 0 3 1 4 1605 Chunk 223 Pinny Candy (1-0) 5 4 3.5 12.5 1677 Bowlderdash (0-1) 0 1 1.5 2.5 1510 Payday 203 FC Portland (1-0)Continue reading “Thursday and Friday Box Scores”

Thursday Late finally brought the ruckus and got the BoPo season started off like it should be.  As mentioned Tuesday snoozefest NYD related, and Hungus stacked the late Thursday shift with party squads galore.  So BoPo back baby, tell your friends and now a lite Friday Night Lights! Guacabowle -1 versus Saucy Posse:  UPSET ALERT!!!!!!  SaucyContinue reading “Thunder Does Friday”

Thunder – Well Tuesday went off like a wet fart.  Sure, there were some big games, but there was zero energy in the building.  We gonna chalk that up to New Year’s Day and folks being hungover.  SoThursday we got to step it up in a big way and get after this thing like only a ThursdayContinue reading “Welcome Back”

We are 18 hours away from the opening roll.  I’m home on New Year’s Eve (not at Bayside) for the first time since we opened 8 years ago.  Of course, I never would have opened Bayside except for the community that sprang from a random group activity 12 winters ago…’fuck it dude, let’s go bowling’. Continue reading “BoPo Eve”

44 Hours til opening roll. BoPo XII kicks off with the long awaited Turkey Club banner unveiling at 5:25. Then I’ll inevitably say something simultaneously incoherent and sappy around 5:35 while early shift is warming up. Then we all party like crazy. Oh, and bowling if you’re into that kind of thing. Hopefully you’ve beenContinue reading “44 Hours”

Most of the analysis this year has been on the teams with the best records, or at least those that have players practically living at Bayside and supplying board material.  This week, let’s spend some time with the teams facing elimination this week in the play-in round. THU: ICBING (-1) vs Goldilocks and the 5Continue reading “BoPo VI: Play-in Games Preview”

Game of the Week: Tuesday, Jan 4th – 6pm #3 Team Micaela (-7) vs #8 Saucy Posse: No team enters the league with more buzz than Team Micaela.  They are in an unbelievable place for an expansion team with a #3 preseason ranking, but they do have the house mechanic on the team (his bowlingContinue reading “BoPo IV (2011) Week One Lines – First Night at Bayside Bowl!”

So, things have kind of quieted down around BowlPortland. I haven’t been doing writeups, the smack talk board has been limited to Dr. Thunder and Uli trading barbs with an occasional Knuffi appearance, postgames have dried up to around 12-15 people (bringing me closer than ever to Pud’s Taxi).  It’s eerie.  That is, if youContinue reading “BoPo 3 (2010) Playoff Preview”

Binga’s Ringas 15  Happy Hands Productions  0 Last year, only one team was merciless enough to roll a shutout: Off Constantly.  Well, this year Binga’s fancies itself as a top contender, and they look as if they will emulate OC’s scorched earth tactics.  They kicked off BowlPortland 2009 with a 15-0 victory over a shell-shockedContinue reading “BoPo Year 2 Week 1: Debut of Jamaican Jerk, Invisible Hand (fka Hawse Pipe) and many others”