There is alot of hype concerning the Black Widow Bite, and until we see it on the lanes that is all it is.  Yet to say that it is the same thing as the Black widow, is to be very narrow minded.  

They come out with the widow and it has a refreshed big deal weight block and a new cover, and people love the ball.  Then they come out with a pearl version.  People see that it is pearl, polished, and reacts very differently on the lanes, and that ball becomes a big seller too.  Now they come out with another solid, with the same block and a new cover that sounds like a tweaked version of the origional widow cover.  Since there is no statistical report of the difference between this ball and the widow (i.e. difference in differential), we don't know how different the ball is.

That being said, there have been tremendous differences created by tweaking the cover of a ball.  I'm certainly going to take a look at this ball in the widow series.  Personally I like when both the cover and the core are tweaked, but I'm not going to write off the bite because it is only the cover.  (The only reason that I like this is that sometimes a change in a cover makes the ball more agressive, but also makes the ball burn up quicker.  By raising the rg by adding a larger flip cap, the ball can get down the lane and make up more on the back instead of up front, but it remains to be seen how much early friction the bite creates and whether the core can maintain enough energy through the fronts.)
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Edited on 12/30/2007 3:23 PM