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Title: Koivuniemi
Post by: pate08 on June 21, 2009, 05:26:27 AM
Is Mika still with brunswick?
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Title: Re: Koivuniemi
Post by: J_Mac on June 21, 2009, 01:28:20 PM
Nope.
Title: Re: Koivuniemi
Post by: Joe Jr on June 21, 2009, 01:52:41 PM
What was he throwing? kinda looked like a Freeze.
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Title: Re: Koivuniemi
Post by: J_Mac on June 21, 2009, 01:54:36 PM
Kinetic Energy?  I thought there was quite a bit of orange on whatever it was.  I'm sure it could have been a Virtual Gravity, but it was awfully shiny looking.
Title: Re: Koivuniemi
Post by: Juggernaut on June 21, 2009, 02:08:15 PM
Looked like one of those new 900global balls. Breakpoint pearl? http://www.900global.com/balls/breakpointpearl
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Title: Re: Koivuniemi
Post by: SleepOnIce on June 21, 2009, 02:32:12 PM
From what I could tell:

Fagan - Natural
Belmo - T-Road Solid (blue ball, orange pin. I could be wrong)
Wolfe - 715A
Mika - Virtual Gravity

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Title: Re: Koivuniemi
Post by: pate08 on June 21, 2009, 02:52:54 PM
Mika definitely wasn't throwing a Virtual. I'm pretty sure I saw the Global logo on it.

And his daughter is cute
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Title: Re: Koivuniemi
Post by: JD74 on June 21, 2009, 03:58:16 PM
Its on ESPN again now here and hes definately throwing a Storm ball  right now, the Storm logo was right in front of the camera when he was in his stance.
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Title: Re: Koivuniemi
Post by: SVstar34 on June 21, 2009, 03:58:59 PM
I think Mika might be throwing Storm... I wish I could rewind the show right now, because I believe I saw a Storm logo on the ball he was throwing.
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Title: Re: Koivuniemi
Post by: SleepOnIce on June 21, 2009, 04:04:51 PM
I think it was a T-Road Pearl in his 2nd match.
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Edited on 6/21/2009 4:07 PM
Title: Re: Koivuniemi
Post by: SVstar34 on June 21, 2009, 04:08:02 PM
quote:
I think it was a T-Road Pearl in his 2nd match.
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Edited on 6/21/2009 4:07 PM


It was not a T-Road Pearl, it was too dark
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Title: Re: Koivuniemi
Post by: gbrown on June 21, 2009, 04:16:10 PM
Mika's last ball was a hyroad first ball was a freeze.
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Title: Re: Koivuniemi
Post by: I Flush 8s on June 21, 2009, 04:19:35 PM
mika was throwing a vg all week when i was there
Title: Re: Koivuniemi
Post by: TheDude on June 21, 2009, 05:45:29 PM
Well it sounds like he is a free agent. it would be nice to see what schlemer can do for him.
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Title: Re: Koivuniemi
Post by: I Flush 8s on June 21, 2009, 06:34:36 PM
i didnt see the show today but i was there the second and third day of tapng and mika was throwing a virtual gravity switched one or two shots but the virtual was def being used alot

wolfe used the new track series balls
Title: Re: Koivuniemi
Post by: snowspike1 on June 21, 2009, 07:05:08 PM
got this from his own web site blog...


i like my fans to know that i will be free agent starting may 1st.
now i feel like i will have better chance to do well in every tournament i bowl. my hands will not be tight to just one of kind reaction and i can use whatever will give me best look that day!
i like to thank john bravata from bbc equities for that opportunity because without help from bbc eguities i could not do this move.



If that helps clear anything..
Title: Re: Koivuniemi
Post by: on June 21, 2009, 09:59:10 PM


On the main topic, I wish Mika well. I guess with his free agency, he can always come back to throw the Wild Thing and Seige.


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Edited on 6/22/2009 3:51 PM
Title: Re: Koivuniemi
Post by: FastTracker33 on June 21, 2009, 10:17:11 PM


See ya, Mika. I'll miss watching you throw Brunswick.

All the best.
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Edited on 6/22/2009 3:54 PM
Title: Re: Koivuniemi
Post by: J_Mac on June 21, 2009, 10:27:26 PM
I like Brunswick a bunch, but I'd rather see Mika have more success on tour than he had last season.  If that's with another company,  so be it.

As was mentioned already, just because he's no longer on staff doesn't mean he won't throw Big B if he feels that is his best chance to match up.

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A Brunswick dying? I've never heard of it. Not even relatively close.

See ya, Mika. I'll miss watching you throw Brunswick.

All the best.

Title: Re: Koivuniemi
Post by: pagnouch on June 22, 2009, 03:02:12 PM
I thought this was a Mika post?
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Title: Re: Koivuniemi
Post by: Brickguy221 on June 23, 2009, 12:59:50 AM
There is several posts about this topic that disappeared. I wonder what happened to them???? I'm sure the Modulators didn't delete any because there are no Modulators on BR so it seems.

 If I recall right, there was a second page to this topic this morning and tonight there were only 21 posts prior to this post.
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Edited on 6/23/2009 1:00 AM
Title: Re: Koivuniemi
Post by: J_Mac on June 23, 2009, 01:09:50 AM
Off topic posts were deleted.  So what? Happens on other manufacturer forums all the time.
Title: Re: Koivuniemi
Post by: Strider on June 23, 2009, 05:42:45 AM
I've seen many entire topics deleted for going way off topic, whether from the OP or the moderators, but I can't remember seeing selective off topic (not counting swearing/racist type remarks) posts selectively removed.
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Title: Re: Koivuniemi
Post by: No_THB633 on June 23, 2009, 09:23:38 AM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PReTyP9JrkY
If you pause it at 4:37 you can see the storm logo and it looks like a hyroad.
Title: Re: Koivuniemi
Post by: Brickguy221 on June 23, 2009, 10:31:26 AM
quote:
Off topic posts were deleted. So what? Happens on other manufacturer forums all the time


 
quote:
I've seen many entire topics deleted for going way off topic, whether from the OP or the moderators, but I can't remember seeing selective off topic (not counting swearing/racist type remarks) posts selectively removed.
 


If that is the case, then someone explain why the off topic posts in the Lane 1 forum is allowed to be continually trashed constantly by the same people almost daily and there is no deletion of their posts in that forum....
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Edited on 6/23/2009 10:32 AM
Title: Re: Koivuniemi
Post by: kcbruns300 on June 29, 2009, 12:17:17 AM
Mika left Brunswick staff after the end of the PBA season, and was planning on doing so since the Dick Weber Open to my knowledge.  He wasn't having huge success with the Bruns equipment and wanted to explore more since his contract was up.  He already has a very lucrative contract with the BBC company that is on his shirts, so money was a small detail of leaving.  He will be a free agent for next season, at least at this point in the game.  Never know what could change.
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Title: Re: Koivuniemi
Post by: DON DRAPER on July 02, 2009, 04:46:47 PM
parker can't win with brunswick ?  i could of swore i saw him beat mike scroggins 242-198 at the cheetah championship back on december 7th. am i the only one who saw parker win this past season ?
Title: Re: Koivuniemi
Post by: BrunsBob on July 02, 2009, 04:54:24 PM
wannabe, yes, we are continuing to improve every day down in our new plant and you won't see them making boats and/or pool tables down there anytime soon.

And, PBA lane conditions often favor one brand of ball over another based on volumes of oil and distances. It just happens. We now have a couple balls that can combat those conditions that weren't favoring us in the past. We should be able to match up with ALL their conditions now.

Don't count on finding any "Half Price" deals anytime soon on these balls.

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Title: Re: Koivuniemi
Post by: TheDude on July 03, 2009, 09:28:30 AM
No i'll just wait for a blem list to come out.
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Title: Re: Koivuniemi
Post by: BrunsBob on July 03, 2009, 08:49:20 PM
You can do that too if that floats your boat. Hell, several of the balls I have in my arsenal came from that list. Every company has blems, and with the standards we have set, we will always have those balls that don't live up to that standard as a first quality ball, so we will always have factory seconds, that's just part of the manufacturing processes for all ball companies.

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