Can anyone else tell I'm bored this week? (g)

You ever think about what you'd get if you could put a Lane #1 core inside someone else's coverstock? I used to think about this a lot when Brunswick when was still pouring the balls for Lane #1, because at that time I didn't match up well with Brunswick covers. But I liked the core idea.

I'd love to see either the Diamond or the Bomb core inside Storm's Monsoon Pearl or the Reactor covers, maybe even the defunct EOX cover from the Paradigm line. I'd also like to see what Visionary could do with these cores.

If I have a complaint about the old Columbia-poured balls and those after them, it's that they're a little milder than the Brunswick balls and have a different roll characteristic. I'd like to see the company build some angularity back into the balls through the coverstocks.

Jess