Q: C'mon, Juggsy. Ball manufacturers "duping" the public into thinking they need their new product?
A: "No one ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American people. People can easily be persuaded to accept the most inferior ideas or useless products." H.L. Mencken.
All it takes is convincing them it is a good thing, or finding something that helps a great majority lie to themselves and convince themselves they are "special" or "elite", which is EXACTLY what they have done.
Q: How is that any different than any marketing dept. of any company doing the same thing? What do you think every television commercial, radio ad, newspaper and magazine ad, pop-up ads on the internet are designed to do?
A: SADLY, I agree with this statement. It doesn't make it the proper thing to do, yet does explain what they are designed to do.
"Most of the American buying public can and does resist that. I sure hope you're not walking around with the latest IPhone, juggsy. That would tell me you succombed to the latest Apple spiel."
REPLY: I can resist, often have, and often do. And my phone is a several years old LG-VX8560 that does, let me see, oh yea, it makes PHONE CALLS. I also am throwing a "CLAW" Hammer from 2002, and have an undrilled Nitro/R and A.M.F. XS in the closet.
"As far as whether people need the new stuff or not is up to them. As Carmen Salvino says in the Nexxus P+R video, "this ball will allow amateurs to play the lanes like a pro". Now, do you really think any bowler who is any good is going to believe that? I hope not."
REPLY: It isn't the "good" bowlers, or the "knowledgable" ones that are changing the face of bowling, it is the great masses of un-informed or lesser talented bowlers who want to BE ALLOWED to "play the lanes like a pro" by buying equipment instead of developing the physical skills to do so. There are FAR AND AWAY more of these types of bowlers than there are those who wish to challenge themselves to master the skills necessary to be able to do so on their skill alone.
"You and Falco are almost as reliable as Ground Hog Day with your annual rants. Joe rails against what he feels are too high ball prices and you come on to complain that you haven't been able to adjust your game to take advantage of the new equipment. I don't get that."
REPLY: Sorry that you do not understand. They really are two different points (mine and Joe's), but they are tied together loosely by some things, and the prices that he complains about are often masked behind the facade of technological development, technological advancements that really weren't needed by the "good" bowlers, only by lesser skilled participants who were looking for "the easy way" to score.
"There are weak shell reactive balls, urethane balls with real cores in them, and more than enough old urethanes with pancakes in them to suit just about any bowler that cannot adjust to what must be done with the new reactives. What is the problem?"
REPLY: The "problem" is, that the technological "advancements" did not work equally well for everyone. The people who were already very accurate and could develop the power necessary to score well didn't receive nearly the benefits of those whose skill set WAS just outside the preffered limits, but was moved into the acceptable range by the changes.
And me, personally? I have drilled several (read that as MANY) different pieces, both weak and strong, with several (read that as MANY also) drillings, both weak and strong, and have NOT been able to reproduce the increase in average for myself that MANY formerely considered "lesser skilled" players have been able to since the resin era started. If their talent level has stayed the same (and it has), and my talent level has stayed the same (and it has), the only thing that changed was the technology available, yet their averages have increased geometrically while mine have stayed static.
You and I have jousted before, and it has always been productive. While I can appreciate your take on things, because your intellect tends to show through your sarcasm, we probably will continue to disagree on many things and many subjects. That is not a bad thing though, because it gives us the opportunity to discuss these differences in opinions on an intellectual level. That can only serve to improve undersstanding of the subject as a whole.
I wish things WERE as cut and dried as you try to make them out to be, but regretfully, they are not, and cannot, be that way, because conditions effect us all in different ways, which makes the resolutions different for all of us also, and impossible for some. Perhaps I fall into the "impossible" category. If so, I apologize for wasting peoples time.
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"The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits."
Albert Einstein
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