I'm impressed.  That just about sums it up perfectly.

The Wired has the core of the Wow and Wow Pearl, but an added Ti nugget, which had made the Messenger series one of the best lines any company has come up with and made the original Cuda/C almost legendary.

The Wow and Wow Pearl are very "rolly" balls, especially being particle balls.  I expected the Ti nugget to help give a bit more flip to the core, but the resin coverstock gives the Wired some nice kick off the dry as well.  The combination is nothing short of awesome.  You get a ball the revs up hard but doesn't make a move until it gets through the heads and midlane, and when it does move, it's almost reminscent of a flippier Purple Offset Hammer, that hard revving-action and controllable, yet powerful flip on the back, sawing the pins apart.

My Wired is drilled with the pin above the bridge and a 1" kick of the CG.  Final specs are 5 1/4 by 4 1/4.

I wouldn't recommend this ball for heavy oil as it is a pearl resin, and the drier dries will be too dry for it, but anything inbetween the two extremes should be fine for the Wired.  I'll give it a 9.5 out of 10 because I think that this will be one of the best kept secrets out there and I was really THAT impressed.

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while not being impressed with the throttle r, my local pro shop offered me the wired "like it or return it i (he) picks the layout". how can i go wrong? 14# pin 3" in the 12 o'clock position before drill. label drilling cg out 1" pin over ring finger. house shot, wet heads, dry outside 10, clean backends. going to return it. for me, this ball snaps than rolls out hitting the pins like a cotton ball. is it the lay out the driller chose? same reaction as the throttle r but rolls out even sooner. driller bowls on the same team as myself and knows my shot, deep inside, out to 10. he wants to try another layout,i'll see. better luck to others.

I got the Wired ball for Christmas.  I had previously been using the Columbia Messenger.  When I hit the 1-3 pocket I carried my strikes but on non buried balls I was getting little action.  My first time out with the Wired I noticed a big difference.  The ball explodes the pins on light shots when I play outside and when I play inside I'm now kicking out the 4 pin.  The only drawback is that the ball snaps in the pocket a little too much and I'm leaving splits like never before.  But overall I'm happy with the ball.  I normally average in the low 190's and this year I've been in the 180's but since I got the ball I haven't thrown below 585 in my two leagues and last week threw the first nine strikes before leaving the 4-9 split in the tenth for a 264.  I recommend this ball for dry to medium oil conditions and also recommend the light pocket hit.  Great pin action.

well as the story goes ,i recomeneded this ball to a fellow bowler and he took my advice and bowled the best he has since he started bowling,so i decided to buy one drill it out at a 45 degree axis and it hits like a truck, was avg around 195 im at 212 now for 8 weeks of league really great ball for the money god luck and great bowling  Jim Argie

I have mine drilled 5 inch pin out pin above ring cg 1/8th to the right and I have to say I love this ball it is so aggresive and smooth that it is awsome I have had 5 700s with it and have to say if I would pick up my spares I wouldnt throw under a 220 with it. Last night I threw it sets up earlier than any other polished ball I have ever owned and works percectly for my style I throw 18 miles an hour and have about 380-400 revs on the ball it is a great ball

Got this ball as a blem.  About 3" pin and 2.5-3oz top,cannot remember.  I wanted to try something for a drier sport shot.  Got it drilled pin over the middle finger and slightly to the left, very close to my track (I have a high track).  CG was kicked back to the center of my grip.  This drilling for me results in early roll with very little back end.  The cover on this goes extremely long, so it should work out well.  I wanted a very mild ball.  Well I got what I wanted, a ball that goes very straight with very little backend.  Unfortunately the cover makes the ball go so long it you have to consistent with the speed and release.  After using it on several conditions and occasionally clipping the fingers,  I thought the core may be too strong to use this type of drilling for my high track.  It hit well and carried ok, the problem was getting a consistent reaction.
However, I started to play around with releases and something interesting happened.  On the sport shot, the more you flub the release (weaken or stoke) the better reaction you get.  On a house shot, you want to spin it a little to give it that extra kick in the back to recover.
This ball definitely has it's place for me.  I can usually use this to find a shot, when my normal drill balls cannot.

FYI, based on the what I have seen so far, if you drilled this more normal, say a label stacked, or 10:30-11:30 drill, on a THS, it will go pretty long and snap pretty hard, with the latter drills getting a earlier break point.  You may run into some 10 pins though, if the pattern is longer oil.