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I said in an earlier post that the Agent orange could have been ball of the year with enough marketing or pba behind it I firmly believe that, but that being said and after throwing 3 or more games last night with this new ball, I will say it is even better then the AO in certain aspects,
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If you truely believe that a ball of the year is based on marketing, then Richie should have won several of them.

IME, the ball of the year is generally one that performs as well as it's marketed by a large number of bowlers. It's not only just a popularity contest.

L#1 over markets all of it's releases and the ball (generally) under performs the hype that's attached to it.

JMHO..
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Sales have nothing to do with what I think of as an "(anything) Of The Year)." If you go by that, then Hershey's makes the Chocolate Bar of the Year every year because they outsell everyone else 20-1. It's like calling the Toyota Camry "Car of the Year" when you've got high-end models from Lexus, Mercedes, Bentley, Bugatti and Maserati available to you.

The Cell, IMO, was ball of the year last year. Biggest reason for me was that it took me about six months after it debuted before I found one person who disliked it. Same thing for Storm's T-Road Solid. Finally the sales started to catch up with the buzz.

As it relates to Lane #1, the Buzzbomb had detractors from day one, even some very loyal fans. But I'm still waiting to find my first Agent Orange hater.

Whether any Lane #1 ball ever has a shot at any kind of award/recognition will depend on two things: 1) Whether there is bias towards sales volume, and 2) whether folks will swallow their pride long enough to try one.

Just a suggestion, I'd get a little more open-minded about the company. I avoided Lane #1 for years because of a couple of bad experiences I had with their stuff in the early 2000s, but came back around to them and now I'm performing better in league than I have in at least 10 years. I still throw other stuff mixed in with my Lane #1 gear.

A lot of the most fervent detractors remind me of guys from back in high school who just liked to be a**es for the hell of it. The other thing I can't figure out is how other companies get a pass for doing basically the same kind of marketing Lane #1 does. There isn't a ball company in the world that won't tell you they don't sell the greatest equipment available, a lot of them make outlandish claims and some of them achieve that performance by producing balls that don't last a month's worth of use. Yet Lane #1 gets hammered for it? That pretty much tells me the person doing the complaining is the one with the real problem.

Jess

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Ball companys will always hype their stuff. But none of them go waaay over the top like lane 1 does..

Double the hook, double the score..blah..blah..blah..

Improve your scores by 10 pins or more..yada..yada..yada..

More 300 games than any other company..bs..bs...bs...

Diamond core is the best....hype..hype..hype..

Granted, being a niche company that produces bowling balls you need to try and grab an edge somewhere. IMHO, the sub-200 average bowler is the target market for their products with the claims that they make. It's pretty much the same disdain that I have for Elite bowling as well. But at least Elite has two PBA titles under its belt despite the phony claims.


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Edited on 12/19/2008 1:14 PM