Sometimes, one writes incogneato. (Hee hee). The Animal was a very strange ball. I had one, and several first rate scratch bowlers that I knew tried them. To be fair, one of the guys (1 of
really liked the ball. He had a high degree of axis rotation and a relatively high axis tilt with a slower ball speed (13-14 mph). The rest of us didn't HATE the ball, it just was not as advertised for us -- well, that's not fair either, three of us HATED it. Everything in the review was a summary of consensus comments and contained only those observations from the consensus that I could verify myself.
Thanks for the nice comments on the review. A caution on reviews -- as the ever wise Charlest has noted -- just because a ball works for others or does not work does not mean it will work for you. What I try to give is a sense of how it worked for me (and generally others who I see throwing the ball) together with an idea of what it might or might not do in the hands of others if I don't see a use for it. If we would all provide those types of information in our reviews, they would be much more helpful.
Two more reviews are coming, one of a ball I (and the vast majority of folks I know) like, on balance (the Xception) and one that I (and my cohorts) don't (the Intense Inferno).
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