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Monday, June 23, 2025

Rant #3,723: Stand and Deliver

My son's bowling season ended this past Saturday, but more on that later.

He got a reprieve with his Friday night basketball, as they added an extra date, which will be this coming Friday.

Then one week off, and he goes right back to basketball on the next Friday, which is July 11.

Back to bowling.

My son's team ended up in fifth place, actually fourth place because there was a tie for second.

His team did quite well, since they didn't have one of their members for an extended time, due to a number of maladies.

That being the case, the team did well, with all of their players increasing their averages, my son by seven pins to 145, the eighth highest average in the league.

All told, he tied with seven others for the most games bowled (62).had the fourth highest pin total (9,006); was tied with two others for the eighth highest game bowled (201); and had the 10th highest two-game series (348).

He also had five turkeys, or three strikes in a row--once bowling four strikes in a row--which i believe was tied for the third highest total in the league.

He led his team in all the categories except high two-game series and high game (tied), so i would have to say that my son had a good season--

Capped by a nice 170 game in the last bowling game of the season.

The Nassau County Special Needs Unit of the Police Activity League offers a variety of activities for youngsters and younger adult special needs people, and the bowling and basketball groups that my son belongs to are under its aegis.

All skill levels are welcomed to these activities, all mental levels, too, and I have to tell you, you would be completely amazed at what the participants can do--a lot of them are quite athletic, and even those that aren't give it 1,000 percent each time out.

And a lot of the participants have been part of this program since they were children, so you can see their progression--athletically and socially--as many of them are in their late 20s through their 30s ... and even some in their 40s.

Honestly, I don't know what he would be doing if he didn't have these activities.

It gives him something to look forward to each and every week.

So all told, it was a good season, and we look forward to the 2025-2026 season, which will begin in September.

I am looking forward to that, but I am not looking forward to Tuesday, when I have to go through an early morning urological procedure to try to find out what is ailing me.

I hope the urologist can pinpoint exactly what it is, I really do.

So tomorrow's Rant will probably be a reading Rant.

Please keep me in your thoughts.

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