2022 Kia PBA Playoffs Championship (Playoffs Show 8 of 8) | Full PBA Bowling Telecast

you can't be a professional athlete without having some lofty aspirations i mean you gotta dream big a few majors maybe a player of the year and when it's all said and done a one-way ticket to the hall of fame yeah why not the reality is most of the tour never reaches those heights never experience that rarefied air but these two aren't most guys they've done what most bowlers can only dream of the hall of famer who's never shied away from the spotlight [Music] the reigning player of the year and defending champ for the win he's got it it's tommy jones and kyle true toe to toe for the belt this is what i call finishing the year in style the 2022 kia pba playoffs championship starts now on fox [Music] [Music] we are live inside bolero jupiter for the conclusion of the fourth edition of the kia pba playoffs the top seeds toppled long ago so now it's down to the first throw of bowling your nine seed kyle troop and the hall of famer six seed tommy jones and you have a free chance to win one thousand dollars today playing the fox bed super six simply scan that qr code right now download the super six app and make your six picks for today's pba playoffs final for a free shot at the one thousand dollar jackpot we welcome you lane side i'm rob stone glad you're with us today he is the hall of famer randy peterson he is the living legend norm duke chilling with us on a sunday great to have you to be here on a sunday man it's so good to have you as long as you're associated with the lanes the sport is in the good place all right so norm it's great to have you here with us let's talk about our two finalists here today and some some similar resurgent type stories but certainly on different timelines we begin with kyle troop the reigning pba playoff champ one of the titles he won last year enroute to winning player of the year honors but 2022 randy has been off until until these playoffs rob uh i mean it all changed when kyle troupe uh came to the 2022 playoffs he beat rash he's undefeated this year at the playoffs he literally saved his season here and to me he is back to 2021 form where he won just south of a half a million dollars yeah if this season was going to continue a couple more months might be back into the play of the year race talk about tommy jones how many tv appearances did he have zero none the donut the goose egg so there are a lot of folks out there saying tommy we're gonna start writing you off right like a little soap opera we're done with him rewrite tommy jones is back in a big way this season yeah we've all been through it i mean if you're an athlete you've had a slump or a bad year and the great ones are able to bounce back and with 20 pva titles tommy jones is a great one and three times he's been in the top five this season it's a chance today if you can knock off kyle troop at 100 000. take a look at the top finishes this season again the big the big number down there at the bottom zero tv apps last year look at these finishes third fourth fifth fifth sixth seventh today will be his best finish regardless of how he finishes this season let's take a look at your odds to win courtesy of our great partners at fox bet and kyle troop has been installed as the favorite in this race to three how about this crowd today in jupiter kimberly fressler standing by with today's two finalists well rob on paper looks like this can be an absolute slugfest but kyle let's start with you because you're undefeated in the playoffs but tommy over here has had a phenomenal season so far making five television shows so what is your game plan against the hall of famer today so that you walk away with a second wwe belt kimberly i've gotta just stick and stick to me you know do my game uh tommy like you said he's been red hot all year i've known him for a long time so uh you know we we have a lot of friendly wagers throughout the years and whatnot so uh you know i'm gonna stick to my game hopefully that's enough to beat him and between you and me i think it is i love the trash talking already good luck to you today kyle all right tommy you heard him he's not going to make it easy on you he is coming into this and he hasn't even had to go to a roll off he's take down every opponent but like i said you've had a phenomenal season so what do you have to focus on so that you walk away with that belt today same thing college said you know we all have our own process so i have to stick to my process and uh you know get out there and make some decisions i mean this is a little bit different than uh most tv shows we're going to bowl each other for almost two hours here so we're going to go through some transition and stuff and whoever can battle that the most is probably going to come up victorious well it's going to be a phenomenal match no matter what good luck to you all right kimberly thank you very much as we take a look at the format for this pba playoff final it is a race to three winner of each game gets one point if we are tied after four games at 2-2 we're going on to a ninth and tenth frame roll-off to decide who takes home that wwe belt tommy jones is up first representing south carolina out of simpsonville 20 career pba tour titles two-time major champion a pba rookie and player of the year pba hall of famer tommy joe [Applause] i'm not sure what that was that was a pick oh there's nothing to pick though exactly that's the joke i'll tell you what though in the semifinals he picked on aj johnson but it was a total grind guys beats aj in the first game 215 193 loses game two 181 to 172 and then wins in a roll-off but this is the year of resurgence for tommy jones he's three wins away from 100k 20 tour titles there's his path here through the pba playoffs took down the 11 14 and 10 seed tommy is your sixth seed kyle your nine seed tommy's starting with urethane purple hammer no no big shock there no big shock especially early guys you know for me i think there's there's two formulas and we'll get to that right after the intro of kyle troop representing north carolina out of taylorsville eight career pba tour titles the son of guppy the reigning bba player of the year in defending bba playoffs champion the afrofish kyle troop and fowler actually had some here to pick rob right a lot yeah semifinals for kyle went up against chris brather wins game one two twenty seven two twelve wins game two two thirty three two fifteen throughout the playoffs and we've talked about it we talked about it in the open it's the kyle of 2021 all over again he's lost here at the playoffs all right nothing but 202020s took down sean rash bill o'neil and then chris prather in the semis yeah you know what he looks different now than he did earlier in the year earlier in the year it looks like it was just going to come to him now he looks like he has to work for it and he knows it and it's working for him kyle two going with urethane using a fast pitch and norm that's kind of what we've seen throughout the playoffs for a lot of players they start with urethane and they go they go with that ball for about a game they push enough oil down towards the head pin and then they jump in with the reactive resin yeah earlier in the matches their reactive resin bone balls just respond too much left to target and it gets them in trouble too often so they start with a ball that doesn't hook very much there's good spare there but i'll tell you what i just watched the first shot for for call truth there and he really babied that ball took a lot of the ball speed back and it still didn't get up the hill i think he'll change outside of urethane before tommy jones does there's the arsenal for kyle troop today different ball in the left lane rod pitch black oh [Applause] same thing right there randy that ball just did not roll enough to hit the pins hard enough i think the practice has gotten so much oil down in front of the pins already that that transition that first one's gonna happen quick don't get me going on the practice time practice talking about practice well rob norm seems to think that kyle's going to jump into reactive resin a lot sooner than we've seen he's already having a conversation right with his his assistance again there's a race to three so no reason to panic you're gonna have plenty of time to make up some ground but definitely some some question marks early on in the troop camp nine spare nine spare tommy opened up the show with a strike looking for his second and there's that soft urethane hit norm you know that's what you and i were kind of used to back in the 80s we did that all the time in the 80s that's why we didn't miss near as many 10 pins we shot more yeah we sure did tell me more about the 80s uncle norm i've got i've got a great normal duke story but i'll tell you when we come back from our first break takes care of the 10-pin all right let's take a look at today's brunswick oil pattern and randall they're rolling on the don carter 39 feet yeah 39 feet remember the outside part of the lane is slick and you can't get it wide of maybe three four if you do it's gonna hydroplane so you can see the red line is what the players are gonna start with with urethane and then once they go to reactive resin they're gonna jump into the blue line this is the first ever head-to-head tv meeting between jones and troop two frames in leads at one now you know norm when you're asking a urethane ball to hook a bunch isn't that asking a bit much i thought it was but it looked much you know he missed this off his hand and didn't get quite the rotation on it that he was looking for he also missed right and it still got up so i'll tell you this the caveat about this pair is the right lane if you get it wide of about the seventh board good luck it's going to miss the headpin the left lane you got a little bit more right room seems like the left lane hooks a bit more and has throughout the playoffs and you can see it there right i mean back to back light shots for kyle on the right lane [Applause] that was not a bad shot either not bad two pin dropped 97 of the time on the tour you know where we get those stats we get the stats from our good friends at blaine talk for more information visit lanetalk.com so kyle remains clean but it's three spares through three frames and kyle has had just some explosive numbers here at the kia pba playoffs look at the numbers back to back two six sixes versus sean rash a 278 on bill o'neil and then 227 233 versus prather so at 245.83 average to the course of his six games in the playoffs coming into today kyle needs a strike he needs to get this crowd going he's not gonna find it there oh he is he is not so fast my friend take it yeah there's some non-verbals going on with kyle yeah he throws this ball so good but it overhooked when it got yeah around that area where tommy jones ball got back and he didn't think it was his ball actually rebounded too hard off of it this this transition has already started well and earlier i said i think there's two keys to winning today it's execution and following the transition norm you shook your head but they didn't hear you say yes i said yes okay inside my mind randy sometimes needs that validation well you should know this listen listen anytime norm validates anything i say 100 it's a good thing it's a good day yeah it's not a good day it's a great day yeah y'all talk like i don't validate much by the way norm uh in the coming weeks we're going to see you on the lanes the little king of the lanes competition can't wait to see out there and by the way tommy is going to take on kyle yeah in an upcoming latest showdown that's uh next month on fs1 we are live today on fox tommy jones right through the nose all right so norma what are you seeing now you got the early jump on the left lane for kyle this one goes right through the face for tommy and it's all it's all because of the urethane beating the front part of the lane up well to get your thing to hook you have to sand it and when you sand those bowling balls they're going to pick up more oil in the front than they are delivering oil in the back so they're overhooking now to the right just from what about a dozen shots on each lane total so this is going quick got to pay respect to this bear and that's why yep open frame tape oh he's going to the tape now remember we had some tape issues with tommy in a recent broadcast yeah well he's had some issues here in florida because of the heat and humidity this is like uh the bowling version of operation right don't touch the edge don't just get shocked that was an 80s game by the way it all comes back to the 80s norm uncle norm tell me about the 80s next year's going to be a battleship reference great game so two former players of the year we had a little chris ankle conversation last night yeah we did out at dinner with the great bill raftery amazing amazing time it was an epic name drop seven yeah this crowd is just wanting yeah they're waiting they're waiting they're wanting to explode we got some hardcore bowling fans we got some newbie fans in the crowd too and yeah these are not the numbers they are expecting here through four and a half norm how much longer do they stay with the urethane i would have already been out of it however uh tommy's probably going to stay with urethane a lot longer than kyle because he's getting his ball to actually hook i don't see kyle throwing another urethane ball on the right lane if he doesn't go to the black one which helps a little bit more than the pitch blue uh i'd be changing right now yeah we've seen more curious faces than we have strikes today both troop jones just a lot of looks a lot of looks at the lanes at the ball choices what's going on and a real deliberate pace here today as well yeah he's staying with the pitch blue working on a strike so then you add that to the equation norm uh so you ace a shot so you're having trouble getting into the pocket then you ace a shot and you leave a ring 10. right and that's just because the ball is not on the lane it is just hovering on that oil hydroplaning and so therefore it renders the pins and it deflects a little more you leave the 10 pin not to say that there's not moves that you can continue with that ball and get the tin pin out but what ratio he thought he had that one for sure you saw that reaction again probably the early theme here outside of the challenges these two guys are having with the oil is kyle's clean tommy's had that open frame and nobody is struck yet on the right lane no strikes in the right lane no pairs of strikes yet [Music] well every time i've personally been on this pair of lanes the right lane has been awful to me hey come on there we go there we go kyle troop lead at ten through five and a half game one here at the key uh pba playoffs final tommy and kyle both still trying to find their way through these lanes [Music] [Applause] the pba on fox is sponsored by guaranteed rate get cash out of your home's equity with a cash out refund from guaranteed rate learn more at rate.com and by kia and the new forte gt it is one fantastic ride beautiful look at jupiter inlet that's how norm duke got here oh look at the power couple that showed up today brady quinn brady quinn yeah alicia sacrimoni quinn one of the most decorated gymnasts in u.s women's history brady quinn you know him you love him notre dame legend box sports legend sloan and tegan here as well and you still have a free chance to win one thousand dollars playing fox bets super six scan the qr code now download that super six app and enter your six picks for a free shot at the jackpot the contest closes soon so download that foxped super six app right now play for free i know in the past some of those questions have been like what will the final score be well i think we were optimistic that the scoring would be high here in game one not so much right now as you take a look at how both kyle and tommy got here to the final in the semifinals troop took care of prather aj johnson falling to tommy jones so these two colliding for the first time but not the last time in a couple weeks here we're going to have these two guys on a king of the lane show taking on each other for the right to go after the crown so this is a race to three format today game one what could be four tommy hasn't struck since the third and is that a strike on the right lane finally [Applause] here's what tommy did in his six games through the course of the kia pba playoffs as high in 249. about 172 that's stuck in there of course that was in a loss came back nicely though in that roll off you wanna you wanna hear my norm duke please yes a 1980 story involving the story norm's driving home from uh way out east driving back to oklahoma nor do you know this story already yes he's dead tired wait for it back-to-back jacks dog tired stops at the gas station puts the nozzle in the tank goes to fill up his car pumping the gas he gets done and goes into pay and then gets in his car and he drives off with the nozzle still in the tank oh no i pulled that pump straight out of the ground the cover came off first and that thing's winding and following me i'd already i'd already told the attendant i'd waved him off it was full service i'd waved him off because it was so cold and next thing i know that thing's laying on its side oh kyle leaves the tent that's like um vacation or chevy goes around the back and puts the dog on the bumper another flat 10 on the right lane here i'll tell you what he's going to have to do something that ball just is not what can i go back to the gas station thing did you have to did you just speed off or did you have to reimburse them do anything no no i gave my number to the guy and uh you know he was really really livid and uh rightfully so by the way he called me for about two months because i had no money i couldn't pay him for a while kyle kicks that one in there uh did he finally track you down he tracked me down yeah yeah he got him he got yeah he's telling you what does a gas thing go for shoot in the 80s i don't remember um i know that he got me i don't know if he got his money yeah good follow-up question hey rob yes sir you're welcome yeah that was a good one we are even through seven norm duke randy peterson kimberly pressler rob stone here with you today live on fox final the 2022 kia pba playoffs race to three here match number one it has been a slugfest a real grind third strike of this match for kyle troop [Applause] i like when you call this a rock fight it's yeah it's rocky for sure yeah yeah this is definitely a rock fight right now not sexy not all that pretty just slugging it out but it they're grinding kyle troop hasn't got less than nine on one shot he only has three strikes to eight frames and the only blemish for jones is the miss spare yeah empty empty frame in the ninth or the fourth rattle but tommy's up now he's the only one to pair strikes together and he's in the midst of it right now so two in a row looking for three and the only player to strike on the right lane which is where he's back to right now another win for the right lane get it there it goes well he he kind of whispered it but i i picked up on what he was saying first he said this lane and then he said i get it right it picks up too early i get it in it doesn't pick up at all meaning that if he gets it right and over hooks if he gets it in it doesn't help is that not a telltale sign that it's time to get out that's the urethane that is the telltale sign when you got over hook right with non-reactive and underhook left you get a bigger ball you move inside you bank it off of there now he knows this of course he does if he knows it why isn't he making a change maybe because the match is tight i i couldn't agree more i mean they don't want to just go 0-1 and when you start when you start fishing that's the easiest way to go one somebody resets himself three of his four strikes have come on this left lane down two we begin the ninth frame right with this pace you can just tell you know automatically how much is on the line right 100 000 to the winner pretty good numbers there norm track powered by kia telling us that that shot was within one tenth of an inch of the previous shot on that left lane back to the right lane for troop and he's staying with that pitch blue that has not been looking for him this one is a little newer right here than the old one that he started with right but there's still the same ball he feels like he's gonna hook a [Applause] trying to be the first to win exactly two pva play-off titles kyle burns a re-rack what's that ball he's using on the right lane fast pitch there you go don't worry norm i do it all the time yeah you know when you have a pitch black and then you show them the blue one you just figure strike nine spare to win which one is the better the two lanes for him nor the left lane okay and where's he finishing on the left lane okay just want to make sure that you're following along i know rob is looking for three strikes in a row is troop [Music] wow a delayed kick of the 10. he was staring at 7-10 for a split second we got the corners to drop and troop is suddenly in control of game one needs just a nine spare that was almost catastrophic and then it turned out to be a strike for him it was eight then it was nine then it was ten yeah and now he needs nine or ten nine spare strike he takes game one [Applause] there's your nine if he could take care of the seven pin it's his yeah normally the seven pin is a pretty easy pin to knock over we're probably about 96 percent on tour average but when you have to have it to shut your opponent out it goes down to probably in the 70 right yeah it's at 93 percent on the tour straighten that circle right sorry sorry my stylus the spare for game one he's got it yeah this is an exhale type of a win 217. is enough kyle troop takes game one in our race to three more on kyle and some words of wisdom from papa guppy when we return which is awfully timely considering what we just saw kyle troop too [Music] my dad gave me a lot of advice growing up a few things that i always share and always tell people when i'm asked this question is one strike super show spares make the dough uh you know i live by that but also just got to have fun with the game double pink baby you know i'm just blessed to be able to do what i love for a living and that's bold so i want to try and make the best of every opportunity when i get to shoe up whether it's for league tournaments pro-am events have the most fun you can and you know be the best version of yourself you can be uh spares make the dough there is gup we're gonna see guppy in a couple weeks on the king of the lanes royal family edition on fs1 and did he just did he just adopt a grandkid is that kyle's is that kyle's illegitimate son what is happening over here i love it that kid with the wig and the hair pick is awesome are you are you sure it's a wick i checked it i pulled on it yeah well what a great look so two two things happen in game one all right let's recap tommy misses three six nine ten so miss spare and kyle trips the 7-10 out for a strike could be could could be a 50 000 difference yep 33-pin win for kyle only two total strikes on the right lane one for each kyle starts game two on the left he gets all ten to collapse remember the late great billy whaley remember what he called that hit hit him thin and watch him spin remember that normally well i used to hear that but i i never met billy waylon i never did either but i watched his telecast hit him thin and watch him spin thin and watch him spin tommy is in urethane now looks like a redemption solid [Music] [Applause] well well well 7 10 until that messenger came over in a hurry normally you like the move oh i do i like i like the move i liked it probably first two frames of the last game to tell you the truth but you can just watch the power that this type of ball has into the pins and now they've got enough oil on the left side of the lane to hold pockets isn't it amazing how much faster the wood flies from urethane to reactive resin that was my first reaction dude it's like it's like uh like you're shooting marbles and then a wrecking ball going through a straw house right it's just like incredibly different he's staying with the non-reactive on the left lane now if you remember he had a little more hook on the left lane right he's okay with that he needed help on the right lane this will be his best ever finish in the pba playoffs pba junior club members got a message for you the pba junior showdown powered by lane talk kicks off in just a few days june 1st this is your chance to compete for six thousand dollars in smart scholarships head to pba.com for more info and download the lane talk app today on the right lane which has been problematic throughout the day i mean what a difference right the the subtlety of the strikes with urethane equipment and then you watch the reactor resin go down the lane and the whole the whole scenery changes it really does i mean he's begging for this ball to hit right if you put a big ball in his hand he's only begging for nothing exactly yeah you know these lanes uh the oil pattern you know they got the blue dye and the oil that's what we're looking at lane's not dirty there but every shot they throw you can see those little strips so they're taking oil off the front part of the lane but when it gets to the back end where there is no oil it is delivering that oil there and that's what's tightened tightening the lane up we say tighten the lane means it doesn't hook as much great start for troop here in match number two perfect through three how's that number yeah do you think he i don't even know what color that line is now yeah what do you get when when red is over blue right it's purple purple yeah there's the the marks on the lane that norm's talking about and the basically the trench that the players have created and it looks like the outsides of that lane is is dry no but it's not it is not it is so slick to tell you the truth yep tommy going for his 21st career tour title right now he's tied for 13th most in pba history with 20. [Music] what a difference game two has been already from game one yeah and you get these two guys with the power game i mean when they get this ball it's a reactive resin so it's stickier it's going to hook more yeah when you give these power players that much hook their carry percentage way way up now they just need to get it to the pocket right and like we talked about earlier execution followed the transition tommy maybe waited too long to go to that ball but that's what he thought he had to do and the match was still closed late or excuse me the game was still close late right yeah on the left lane they've been getting it too barely it hasn't been you know quite as obvious that kids are trying to hit other pins but they're just not getting there right i think it's just a matter of time before he goes to reactive resin on both yeah i agree kyle carrying the light hits tommy just lost one there what do you call that robe we had to go shopping for some skinny jeans this sunday not all the stores are open at this hour that's my boy skinny jeans he squeezed into that spare norm i'll take them do you have them in gray also so kyle pops up opening three bagger for him leads at 11. kyle already threw one of his re-racks [Applause] oh yeah [Applause] [Music] oh we gotta we have an update randy tell me we're here we're where we want to be we are at the beer frame sponsored by pabst blue ribbon of milwaukee wisconsin grabs a pabst today and please drink responsibly normal quick say that line grabs yep grabs yeah okay i'll go with that yeah just read the copy that's pretty much all i do he doesn't have his glasses on [Applause] [Music] well you heard tommy jones on that left lane when you left that shaker seven he said why can't i get one of those kyle just comes back with another one and says no that's my head yes because he's got no thumb in that ball and tommy jones does it might be about a rev and a half more maybe that's the reason randy a little higher rev right wraps tastic i know those two people you know everyone jones down by 31 no halfway through game number two on that right lane there's some good numbers here guys look at these numbers here yeah watch this ball respond right there like somebody just kicked it left and that's the break point it's because that's where the blue oil stops right and where no oil starts so when people reference break point that's what we're talking about yeah staying with urethane on the left strike and a nine spare on that left lane here in game number two for jones the strike to it well game one was a rock fight randall and norm this is a scorers paradise here in game number two and troop is perfect through five [Music] it's one of the biggest tag team matches in history the usos take on arcade broad in the tag team championship unification match it's an all-new friday night smackdown live at 80's turn on fox oh my goodness look at that t-shirt it's awesome and to get kyle with that facial expression is beautiful oh that's good stuff yeah so tommy's got one look right and kyle's got another look polar opposites well i wonder what would happen if i don't know if we flip the looks no way the crowd is watching it right now look at kyle kyle's going to the side uh i mean i kind of like the pba thanos look on jones yeah yeah you know right oh this is great uh we're having great fun and we're gonna have more fun because norm we are in the midst of a pap six pack alert kyle troop strikes here he's gonna win 15 1500 sponsored by pap's blue ribbon in milwaukee wisconsin please remember to drink responsibly we love a good six-pack alert what a start this would be to game two for kyle troupe if he can't isn't he one of the most colorful people in the entire world was it his dad yes apple doesn't fall far brother apple trees make apples norm he's great six pack converted and cracked open thank you pabst blue ribbon for your sponsorship kyle troop you know that energy and that fun for sure but sometimes you got to pump the brakes here there's a hundred thousand dollars on the line here and kyle in control of game number two and threatening to take a 2-0 lead in this race to three against tommy jones yeah and kyle troupe has moved his feet two or three boards to the left and he is just getting on it paul's not hooked [Applause] yeah and you know unlike tommy who switched balls in the right lane he just got in a little bit and then started overhitting it that'll get that ball back a 41 pin lead just like that that's what happens when you're rolling against [Applause] perfection big time break for tommy jones he needs everything to fall his way right now well he was talking about not getting that late i mean that light hit before yeah well he gets to brooklyn i guess that makes up that makes up for it because that keeps him in this match otherwise he was he was out yeah oh two whoa hello whoa somebody's phone alarm or something turn your phones off folks i wonder if that was dj archer tommy's roommate he's standing just off the side of our set he's shaking his head looking at me going nope you know better than that randy throw dj under the i would never i love dj i think it's guppy a good thing i know and love guppy troop big shot here for jones he likes it four in a row for tommy to keep things within striking distance how big is that brooklyn oh my gosh um let's flash back to last year guys randy you remember this one milford connecticut milford i do here at the pba playoffs it was sam cooley the australian tanking on kyle troop game two coulee down 1-0 and the 31st televised perfect 300 game in qba history look how excited he is oh my god he was lit it was cartwheels he was like i didn't even know sam had teeth and he flashed him to us for just a brief moment you know 300 but troop able to win standby i got a thought perfect through seven not through oh what a great job we did jinx in him sorry about that kyle that was randy's call [Music] wall speed up on that shot there you can see 17.6 a little faster and that's the reason for the bucket but did you know in the two years of kyle troops run at the pba playoffs he's lost only two games and one of them was sam cooley's three hundred yeah 14 and two yeah and he had a perfect shot at it he's 7-0 in this year's edition of the pba playoffs so we did a tremendous slash horrible job jinxing that 300 possibility game from kyle tube so instead we're going to honor him with the spare of the game sponsored by guaranteed raid if you believe it you can do it guaranteed rate believe you will so again no open frames this afternoon to kyle troupe he was perfect through seven gets the sixth spare there in the eighth and he steps up now to begin the ninth the lead sitting at 17. good news norm he struck on the left lane in the ninth frame to set up the 10th bad news he's got to finish the game on the right lane yeah he's got to finish on the right lane and he saw that 41 pin lead it's down to 17. yeah yeah fast and yeah all because of a brooklyn right reminder of how the kia pba playoffs works again this is a race to three so even if kyle holds on to this lead he's up 2-0 but tommy jones will have plenty of time to chip away at that lead and pull himself back in and if he levels things at two and two yeah we go to a ninth and tenth frame rolloff [Applause] what a nice shot there by tommy jones one more strike norm he'll take the lead in game two for the first time for the first time in the match but if he strikes out he's a winner no [Applause] no [Applause] i'm sorry i read that wrong don't have my glasses it's all right norm and uh also we are currently in the midst of another pap six pack alert tj strikes here he's gonna win a thousand dollars sponsored by pabst blue ribbon of milwaukee wisconsin please remember to drink responsibly our second pbr six-pack alert of game two [Applause] tj's not done yet well that puts him in the 250s the high 250s kyle troop is in the mid 250s one more tommy gets into the 260s and will force kyle troop to double in the 10. eight total strikes for tommy jones including the last six in a row how fast this one has swung in favor of tommy jones and he might have gotten away with that one that looked in the whole way and it was look at our numbers right here by strike track up the lane [Applause] yeah randy he knows that his miss has to be left and it just can't be this far left right different ballgame if he carries a couple of seven pins early and no doubt about it all right so he's gonna go to reactive and throw a strike shot here because he doesn't need to cover the pin the scenario stays the same if he makes the spare or not right right he's fishing right here right no folks that wasn't a mistake it sounded like one did you hear that the crowd now kyle troop must strike first ball here in the tenth break if he doesn't we're all leaving one game apiece striking six strike and six he was chasing a perfect game until he ran into the right lane in the eighth frame got a sixth spare he's back on that right lane right now if he can strike here he takes a 2-0 lead it's just six boy the difference in two oh and one one is absolutely huge insurmountable not for tommy jones but sometimes when you're sitting in that seat you feel like it's insurmountable now kyle he needs six does he look at reactive does he keep doing what he's doing he's going to look at reactive he's going to look at the reaction he needs six and two shots by the way yeah yeah need six for the game he'll take 10. [Applause] he's got a reference to my life it's it's called altered reality for kyle no that's really the name what a shot there but you know these you guys i mean you know the difference in in the equipment you know how much more that ball hooks you have a really good idea how many boards you got to move with your feet how many boards you got to move with your target when you go to the reactor well especially i mean he's got two what does he do now norm he went back to him right there what does he do i don't know i think we asked him 276 257 one more for the belt says your reigning defending pba playoff champ if he can get one more win the belt goes back to troop tommy jones knows what he needs to do strike and win asap [Music] [Applause] [Music] welcome back to our continuing coverage of the kia pba playoffs we're going to recap the major winners this year it started with who else mr major jason belmonte taking the players championship anthony simonson claiming the u.s open our good friend don barrett becoming the eighth to win the triple clown as he took the toc chris prather and followed that up with a world championship title yeah that was after finishing second at the tournament of champions and then the usbc masters anthony simonson taking care of our guests on the set norm duke you never remember that moment norm oh yeah i've thrown that shot a thousand times and never threw it very good let me tell you something about that i i i was texting back and forth with with a lot of players like aj tackett for one and we were all so nervous watching that show i did the show i was like on the edge of my seat ej attacking text me saying i've never been this nervous watching a bowling telecast and it was all because of norm here at the playoffs kyle troupe with the 2-0 lead we have a bit of a worlds colliding situation yes we do going on today i don't know if you know that you know i've got my my bowling brethren over here over my shoulder do you see who's here we've got two legends that are both at fox sports in the house yeah brady quinn and bill raftery standing by with kimberly pressler kimberly man you are you look at that the the thorn between two roses legends indeed and i'm so excited to have both of you here today brady let's start with you because you're used to competing at this level so what is it like watching these two pro athletes out here today i i mean one the second uh the second game i mean just the way they turned it on was phenomenal the crowd's awesome it's just the difference between how quiet it is when they're getting ready to go but then after they hit a strike it's huge so it's good fun now over the break i heard you say that uh you used to bowl in the league are we ever gonna get you out here one of these days uh maybe i brought two of my two oldest daughters with us they're having a great time although we're trying to keep them quiet though for the bowler so hopefully that didn't mess them up the first game thank you so much and bill you're used to being on tv as well so but this is your first time at a pba event what is your first impression well normally a bowling alley i'm having a beverage with a bunch of friends and having a great time but this is i think i should have grown my hair a lot bigger i would have been a much better athlete well we can get you a pabst blue ribbon right over there anytime you want thank you guys both for coming out today oh my god i have tears coming out of my eyes the rap is the best by the way we didn't even know he was coming here yeah uh randy and i saw him what about six hours ago i think we closed out an establishment in the greater jupiter area had dinner with bill and his beautiful wife joni so i turned around the corner and there's ralph showing up i told him to come by and there he is all dressed up and then brady quinn and his beautiful wife alicia coming up here we love it we're spreading the gospel of a sport that the three of us really care a lot about no doubt about it to have them here and present and exciting we got to get them up we don't have enough headsets up in our booth right now you got to hold down the ground norm because they're coming for you they're coming for you they can have no no they're not taking it at all all right so game number three coming up next here at the kia pba playoffs and uh kyle true has stormed to a 2-0 lead tommy jones is in an absolute must win situation and it's next live on fox [Applause] [Music] [Applause] yeah definitely one of the older guys i don't necessarily feel old because i've surrounded myself with the younger guys and kind of you know helped them along just like some of the the older guys before me helped me along so it kept me young and kept me feeling like i'm still part of the group there but my body definitely knows it sometimes [Music] 22nd year on the tour for the 43 year old from simpsonville south carolina tommy jones and the crowd is coming alive right now and they need to elevate that man tommy he needs a win otherwise kyle troops will be your back-to-back pba playoff champ [Applause] tell you you bring a sign we're putting you on television we've got some grab-tastic signs as well as we continue our coverage of the kia pba playoff championship race to three kyle has raced to a 2-0 lead as you take a look at the strike total today and remember kyle with 11 last game including the front seven tommy had eight but not enough well game two heated up like a mongolian barbecue didn't it i was not expecting that spice after the rock fight we had in game one [Music] [Applause] so one of the themes to this broadcast norm was tommy jones no tv appearances last season folks wanted to write him off not so fast he's down 2-0 folks want to write him off today i say not so fast not so fast he's down oh two however he's not out there's no question about it but it is a lonely feeling down there in that seat when you're down 02 and you got you know you're you're one loss away from watching the playoffs go to your competitor tall mountain in front of him tall mountain in front of him just saying yeah randy they pulled up just enough oil off of those you see the stripes down there uh just enough oil to get that ball to hook you know i thought he was going to to move in and do more like tommy yeah at least react to resin on the right lane he decided not and you know he got a shot 270 why not stick with what brought brought you here what's your what's the saying you like to use norm dance with the one who brung you yeah there you go well he's just a couple flat tens away on that right lane from going to reactive red no question yes and that looked like a flat 10 to me the last shot he threw three six nine ten the danger pin is that back pin the nine pin you gotta have enough ball going through the three six to cover that back pin yeah and oftentimes you get just enough to get that back then and you chop three off the six or the three six off the 10. only 66 percent of the time on the tour the spare conversion is dropped so again no open frames from kyle troupe today yeah that's just like a double right there you can tell he wasn't liking it pitter pat hit her pat right um tommy on that right lane this has certainly been the tougher of the two lanes today [Applause] yeah i think the right lane has now become tommy's favorite lane now that he's in the bigger ball he missed only once last game on that right lane norm hated it but we'll take it so [Applause] three in a row to start for tommy jones that's a little bit inside and it just kind of laid there norm yeah it did and you know kyle troop just got off that lane he got his inside and it didn't lay it down at all it just moved right through right through the head pin i mean you can really see the track on the lanes look at that beat up area in the front well neither of those shots he liked very much and he's got a 20 pin lead so score wise this is his best start of the afternoon [Music] another strike both on that right lane for kyle troop and the pba king of the lanes the royal family edition begins monday june 6th on fbs one nine eastern premier bolero and yeah team gupp guppy there's baby kyle that was the last time guppy rolled on television was in erie pennsylvania was it 98 98. 1998 there's gup live with us right now you're going to see guppy and his son kyle in action coming up one of the best one of the best absolutely you walk into a bowling center and you see guppy and you say to yourself they just got better yep i'll tell you norm knows he's known guppy as long as i have you rolled against guppy i bowled against him in 1984 and he beat me not that you remember it i do yes i do i didn't like it for at least now so you referenced norm reference norm bowling against skeptic but you like you don't think eyeballs ever hold against cutting hey randy did you ever bowl against guppy troop you're damn right all right tell me about it uh it was a long time ago did you lose i don't know i can't remember i don't think i ever pulled him on television plenty of times in match play and one time guppy turned me in and i got fined he turned you in for what i kicked foul so you didn't like him for a year either there you go now you can watch this tommy is digging right now he knows he's got to keep this lead messenger four for four to start game three for tommy jones what a great time for a messenger for tommy jones watch this it gets flipped around head pits sidewall 10 pin get out of my face so remember last game kyle true perfect through seven tommy doing some maintenance work right now perfect through four [Applause] well he's doing exactly what he has to do to stay in this right well if he doesn't miss he doesn't lose we learned that early didn't we now uh he he needs to strike a lot too because called troop other than that bucket he just hasn't seen anything except struck six sparrow in the second on the left lane but strikes first third and fourth defending champ down 30. if he wins this game he takes the title [Applause] [Music] early dig there norm yeah that was same as frame two for him where he got it in get overhooked he's looking at a 310 this time instead of the three six nine ten yeah believe it or not this is a split but it is quite a bit easier than the three six nine ten is it's starting to look more and more like the transition is going to take over the urethane for kyle troop and he's going to have to get into the reactive ball i think you're right 310 only covered 57 of the time on the tour and he missed it first open frame of the afternoon for kyle true this is exactly what tommy jones needed a perfect start coupled with an open frame from troop lead has swollen to 44 just like that swollen swollen yeah could be a word maybe it's not i'd like to think it is usfl action randy coming up next pittsburgh maulers and houston gamblers here on fox and fox sports app and your team is the tampa bay bandits just cross across this beautiful state of florida no messenger it's time oh nothing it's time right because he's high on the on the lane two shots ago he moves in and now he's not getting his ball through the pins like it was before i think it's time but i thought it was time and match game number one yeah but he shot 270 in game two and he's like you said you dance with the one that that you've rung and he stayed with it but i think he's getting real close to that time yeah he'll get a chance troop shot out to a 2-0 lead in this race to three tommy jones ender game three saying win or it's over and tommy is in control and he is perfect through five frames [Music] [Applause] rob stone norm duke randy peterson kimberly pressler here with you in the online graphics you see today including the ball tracer courtesy of clutch bowling love me some clutch love me the way that tommy jones has come out here game number three a must-win situation and been perfect up 44 on kyle troupe [Applause] no six pack for tommy there urethane carry down norm yep that's what i'm seeing right there i think about four or five shots to go in that lane that ball rolls up maybe it's a commercial break maybe i don't know maybe he missed it it looked pretty good to me though in the face of the two pins so spare for tommy well here's the interesting part about it had tommy got that strike then i think that kyle troop changes balls on both lanes and make sure and fishes around and gets lined up with the with the reactive bowling ball now that tommy missed that shot it almost you know it puts it puts kyle back in play he may not make that move now i think kyle's going to reactive resin on both lanes i do too but it sure did muddy the water a little bit didn't it yeah it brought it brought him back back down to earth a bit but still a big lead [Applause] so right before we went to break here's kyle troop looking over to his tour rep done let's see what let's see if we think he's yeah he's going to react to resin so he was meaning done i'm done with the urethane i'm getting out of it correct going with altered reality change worked look at the difference from the urethane ball the big lot the big the big angle versus the urethane angle the blue line was urethane break point is still the same norm yeah they're trying to get it off the same break point down lane but getting it to that break point and how much on it do you want once it gets there that's the whole equation you're trying to solve that was pretty good right there and solving that equation yep same ball in the left lane jones still using urethane on the left lane go to the eighth yikes three four six seven he's gonna try to get the ball over here to the right side of the three pin and cut it into the four and seven twenty percent of the time is almost 21 percent of the time is a tour average oh wow look at that curve here early second open frame here in game number three and this one is looking more and more like we're gonna go to at least game number four yeah we're definitely going to see a game before hang on hand norm he was throwing a strike ball oh absolutely yeah that's why we know we're going to game four so kyle thinking big picture he has moved on from game [Applause] maybe not to his liking that's that spot we talked about early down lane on the right lane once it gets wide really did just no way right there no way yeah you know we call that part of the lane norm out of bounds what we used to call that you know we call it now what rob and i call it we we say it's slicker than an otter's pocket out there slicker than an odds pocket i've never seen an otter's pocket i'm going to take your word for it where do otters live they live in the ocean just take his word for it take his word kyle troop and some conversation as tommy jones steps up yeah this is his first look at reactive resin on the left i think that's black widow ghost right there for tommy on the left lane getting out of the urethane question is does he stay with it going into game four what do you think norm i would be guessing because that has been a pretty good lane for him all day but uh the fact that he did change and he's fishing uh that means it's a it's a possibility maybe probability this game is over kyle troop is just trying to get locked in for game four and avoid a ninth and tenth frame roll off got that lane locked in norm i think he's just gonna move a couple left on this left lane remember it's it's the hook and lane of the two he probably played it a couple of boards different it might be four or five now exactly because of the reactive i mean the non-reactive balls drying up the mid part of the lane you don't see that very often down by 77 that was pretty deep and it may be a little lost well this is what you showed earlier on your graphic where players going to start here they're going to end here well we've got one more game at least and he's in there yeah i mean who do you give the edge to going into game four now norm i call it 50 50. okay you know the only question mark i have is the one shot that tommy threw on the left lane with the reactive you know now now what's going on in his head is it well that looks pretty good so do i go to reactive now on both lanes or do i stay with the urethane on that lane well that's the question he's asking himself and right now i don't think he's answered it yet he's going to get up in the next game and make that call on the fly here's another look at a different ball from kyle drewes and what's funny is even though the motion looked better yeah you can tell he put it right on the last shot spot so both balls he played from the same spot [Applause] i like the one that strikes not the one that tin fins jim callahan as tour rep told us he's playing the lanes five quarts difference and that's pretty much what you said north yeah we had him a couple most of the years here now it's already [Applause] tommy jones it's the black widow ghost that he used on the left lane can i throw the last two on the left lane is that legal that's exactly what you just mentioned that's what we've been talking about he wants another shot on that left lane unfortunately he's not going to get it until the next game exactly that's the fun part of this strategy right right now he knows i got the right lane he doesn't know how much different the left lane is he's been throwing two different balls all day long he doesn't know it's five i think he thinks it's two he's gonna finish the next game on the left lane he's trying to pick something out of his head that he doesn't have he doesn't even own a pick he's got some razors for sure a lot of chess pieces being moved around figuring out plans of attack as we close in on the start of game fours we close out game three 78 pin win for tommy jones 279 201 so tommy's been here before will he be back again another must-win game for tommy jones otherwise it's troops title [Music] welcome back to the kia pba tour playoffs kyle troop and his 2-0 lead now reduced to 2-1 against tommy jones as we enter game four we go head-to-head through three games between these two top ten seeds strikes spares and opens and those two opens from kyle troop came in the last game tommy jones so strong that last game so if tommy can get a win here we're off to a two frame roll off the ninth and tenth frames kyle wins it he's your first ever two-time pba playoff champion [Music] [Applause] you know they start with urethane they're moving all over the place game one's a little dicey then all of a sudden the strike fest starts then they're changing bowling balls moving ten boards left with their feet i mean and and just oh there's the guppy thrust that's a baby thrust he's got a bigger one if he wins no comment there i guess just a thrust guys just the thrust your strikes yeah now this is the decision i think of the whole game of the tournament i think he's going to stay put randy thinks he's going to change balls neither of us know what would you do norm i would change randy change tommy he's staying and this is just all about not having enough information on the left lane to be confident that you can start with a 4-5 bagger he knows what this ball is going to do but it can change in a heartbeat [Applause] did that validate his decision i know he got the result he wanted but the way he got it no did not validate anything in fact i think i think that he just knows he's got five shots over there and i mean you know his tenth frame maybe he's got six or seven he just doesn't want to fish jones last two games 257 279 the highest for him in the playoffs did you know that i did not know that and he's contemplating changing balls so wow opening pair for troop as well well let's take a look at what kyle troop was doing with urethane and now what he's doing with reactive reactions with blue ball urethane the red one and you can see how much faster he has to throw the reactive resin because it just hooks that much more so he's got to get it down the lane but here's some of the numbers i want you to look at here's his position at the arrows and his position of the laydown or the launch 14 boards difference the lay down area where the ball comes in contact with the lane 10 at the arrows yeah which equates to probably 20 boards with your feet [Applause] as you're looking at the strike track to the right and it held pocket because of urethane well that end because of angle you know we don't think there's there's been oil pushed down by tommy jones on that left lane to make that ball hold up absolutely i do but the angle that he that he's using at least allows every shot to get wide of the pocket um when you're going straight sometimes it starts off it's not wide in the pocket so angle has a little bit to do with the the hold he created there okay [Music] here in game four what'd you see there norm i saw that ball labor down lane little wiggle yeah where it wasn't laboring before but listen he's got so much hand in it coming up next guys usfl action pittsburgh muller's houston gamblers here on fox and on the fox sports app who's got the best unis tampa bay bandits yeah but that's just because that's your team no they actually have really good uniforms too they've got it all they're the complete package although the birmingham stallion's 5-0 to start this season jones on that left lane he's got the right figured out this is where questions arise we're questioning that shot opening hambone there for jones when he takes a seat so rob you called game one a rock fight yep game two was scorefest okay game three um team jones okay what would you call game four to this point strategery i love you rob you're the one here we go with some strategery both troop and jones four for four to open up game four now pick it out kid 24-6 on this shot guys it's covering a lot of real estate isn't it norm that is really balancing the ball a whole lot and that's what the two handers can do is man they two or three games into a block they just throw their feet way left and just wind on it kyle a good ten boards left on the lane than tommy jones ten two arrows yes and that is definitely at his advantage kyle had the opening seven in game two and pops guppy seeing him with the opening five here in game four the gupper you gotta love the gupper he'd be smiling that big even if if kyle was bold and bad though he just smiles every day doesn't matter every day above ground is a good day for guppy what a match we have here yeah and keep in mind if troop wins he is the champion if jones wins two frame roll-off two-frame roll-up yep [Applause] no messenger 10 stands nice shot dill wad yeah you call it the last time he was up on that right lane yeah i just labored that's when it labors yeah you get a strike here and there but you're not going to get 10 baggers if your ball is laboring down lane this thing has to move into the pins now you didn't throw it very good randy he did get an inside target he did miss it a little bit so he might not be worried about it i don't know you and i seem to be worried about it well the only thing i'm worried about is that kyle troop may not miss he may not and if that's the case game over game two kyle 11 total strikes including the front seven troop with the front five here it's the first spare we've seen of this game again jones must win to force a roll off [Music] [Applause] 43 year olds slinging messengers guys i think he still has some left in the tank yeah so does kyle troupe though who's been perfect through five we wrap up game four from the pva playoff championship round next [Music] now it's my game to win so if i third five strikes i win correct you just keep making good shots so repeat what you're doing and like you say listen to my voice and so i won't make you forget anything that's your reason yeah so you don't forget anything the playoffs tommy jones wins we'll go to that [Applause] the pba on fox is sponsored by guaranteed rate get cash out of your home's equity with a cash out refund from guaranteed rate learn more at rate.com and by kia and the new forte gt it is one fantastic ride beautiful look at the jupiter inlet lighthouse opened in 1860 i'm being told by a trusted source 105 steps to the top i think our producer david bruner was there that is the trusted source yeah yeah it's pretty awesome yeah look that camera out there to give us that billboard shot do we take a look at the all-time pva playoff winners prather back in 2019 in the first ever edition of the playoffs a good friend billy oh in 2020 and then kyle last year as the one seed and he's just a few frames away from defending that title and of course we're going to see kyle and tommy a little bit later in june in the king of the lanes tournament coming up so kyle do they even have i asked it takes you out of the running huh yeah and then uh the fact that it's 12 bucks to get in that writes off randy that took randy out i don't do well in thin air [Applause] and again look at the angles 23 and a half to five leads at 21 for team troop last time guppy used angles like that norm he was shooting a 10 pin and he hit it yeah 22-5 if only guppy enjoyed life a little bit more i know thanks oh strike seven in a row to start for troop second time today he's opened up with the front seven did it in game two and route to a 19-pin he's win it right now here in game four foot on the accelerator just like guppy driving him home to north carolina later today turn signals optional [Applause] tommy down 31 must win this game [Applause] [Music] all right one more cut it to 11. just one of his best shots of the day here gets it all the way to the right that's where the friction is yep then it comes back still with the urethane can't change now right he can't gotta stay committed he can't change now yeah there's just not enough information in his head to go changing don't forget to head on over to the pba youtube channel guys in just a couple minutes pba post show presented by kia once this one is done usfl action on the backside here on fox [Applause] did you tell uh the viewers that tommy's 43 43 years old 22 years on the tour 20 tour titles tied for 13th most in the history of this great league like at the beginning of the of the that's exactly what we hit right weren't we wasn't there some mention of people writing them off after 100 right yeah right off tommy jones at your own peril whether it's today or through the course of the season i wasn't one of those because i have him as an anchorman on the dallas strikers coming up and i called him you got tommy i got tommy and i got wow two years ago his winner bill o'neil get down get in your home eight in a row and tries to settle things down asking for a re-rack how about this messenger delivering on sundays he may get one he's gonna get a shot clock violation yeah there is a little screen it's out of the shot right now and the clock is what is it 25 yeah yeah you'll you'll you'll take the minor fine yeah it's a minor fine right right right right right six packs all day long you know what randy might go over there and just kick it and guppy will find him i'm gonna go i'm gonna run down there and chuck and chuck that shot clock out the side door that's a big shot in the ninth troop has been perfect here in game four it laid there norm well inside and it just stuck there guppy that proves yeah this looked left off his hand and it just laid there that's what the left of your opponent gives you that's why it's an advantage that's clean that's a clean part of the lane nobody's throwing a shot right there wow second time kyle has flirted with the 300 game today alone had the first seven in game two he's got the first nine here in game four must strike now for tommy absolutely he has to strike out to have any chance [Music] nope it's over it's over yeah he got that one down on the floor a little early looked like he might have dropped it a little bit and just caught it lost speed all took off early kyle has done the math he's sitting there he don't he does not want to celebrate sitting down there's some internal partying going on right now definitely now yeah guppy's over there coming out of his shoes he can't wait to party with his kids the belt will go back to kyle he will be your two-time defending pba playoff champ what color is the sky in those glasses right now man but the story is not done here yet yeah gets the finish on his good lane chasing 300. i think the right lane's a little bit a little bit friendlier for kyle well he got the bird dog on the right wing last shot yeah that's tour title number nine kyle first this year let's finish this season for both of them here today tommy is the right thing step aside and let's see if we got some history all right let's go kyle yeah say normally these are three hard shots to throw because it's a ten thousand dollar bonus should you get them but when you just when you just pocketed a hundred grand it makes these three a lot easier chasing 300. [Applause] [Music] hey guys guys does pb8 bowling ever disappoint on bucks let's finish this thing off in style kyle folks if you're watching at home call your neighbors turn their tv on to fox everybody in this building is cheering for that young man oh [Applause] oh congratulations kyle [Applause] all [Music] right and the kia pba play-off belt once again goes to kyle troop who's the champ baby you're the champ baby the satisfying moment of the match sponsored by snickers beat the man nothing satisfies like a snickers storm love you guys cool wigs mike's roller x team fish also shawn wrestler king of delays royal family edition begins monday june 6 fs1 9 eastern right here from bolero jupiter contenders chris and ryan barnes taking on western jordan a lot the winners meet the royal family of kyle and guppy troop coming up next though here on fox usfl action pittsburgh taking on houston for randy peterson the legend norm duke the hall of famer wow what a great great show that is so good to have you with us normie kimberly pressler is always ever present and what a show kyle troupe put on he is once again your pba playoff champ [Music] [Music] you

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Length: 100min 35sec (6035 seconds)

Published: Tue Jun 28 2022