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This is why we can’t have nice things…

Chad • May 05, 2017

A little rant coming your way here, forgive me.

Plastic bat and ball sports are awesome, I think you’ll agree.  Some of the products and amazing, some are good, and some don’t cut the mustard for the type of game that most of us want to play. That’s fine. That’s capitalism, I’m good with that. Here’s something I’m not good with though. It’s the blatant ripoffs. Take for instance the new “as seen on tv” Swerve Ball. You can find it in Target now and let’s be real, it’s an absolute blatant ripoff of the Blitzball. Some jackass decided that since the Blitzball patent was pending, he’d swoop in with a bunch of cash and market the crap out of a ball that is identical for all intents and purposes.

Blitzball has a place in the game. It is markedly different from a Wiffle ball and it’s genuinely a unique concept. Both balls can play nicely in the backyard and they should.

Blitzball was started by a nice and intelligent young dude in a garage in New York. He’s since grown his business he old fashioned way with hard work and this is what he gets for it.

This new Swerve ball is everything I hate about America. Screw you, and your screw ball, guy.

If you want the Blitzball experience, buy a Blitzball, folks. Support the creator.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Well, I've done it...officially. I have gone a full year without playing a game of Blitzball or Wiffleball. I'm officially a pile. I've had tons of projects around the new house and have set out space in the pasture for a ball field, however, it's simply not been built yet. Hoping that next summer will bring the first season to "the farm" (that's what we call the new place). I'm now accepting ideas for the new field. My thought is that it'll face Southeast to avoid the evening glare in the batter's eyes. Who am I kidding though, it doesn't get dark in NW Montana until 11pm in the summer, so we should be good to go for just about any game during that time. I've gotta kill some pasture grass and begin the transfer to turf grass so I'll need to install irrigation on the fence, which should be able to cover most of the short field. Maybe 120 foot fences to accommodate both Blitzball and Wiffleball. You may have noticed that I'm leaning Blitzball nowadays, and here's why. With kids learning to throw baseballs in practice, I gravitate toward giving them a toy ball that allows for the same mechanics to yield similar results as a baseball. Wiffle is all about alignment of the spinning axis of the ball, but Blitzball is so similar to throwing a baseball I think it can actually be almost a training tool for kids and adults. If you're competitive and have any number of adults that think they're still 18, Blitzball translates incredibly well for them too. It's a win-win, so that's the deal. I hope that the past year brought you more plastic bat and ball sports than it brought me, but rest assured, I haven't forgotten about you, I merely needed to finish the chicken coop...the eggs don't lay themselves!
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My mind just got blown. John is a user with a history of providing neat things for us. He’s given us a formula devised to create wiffle sized fields out of big league dimensions, a bunch of stadium draw ups for people curious on how large to build replicas, a hand made child’s wiffle glove, and now this.
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