1992 PBA Florida Open Match 1 Greg Thomas vs Chris Warren part 2

[SmooveLefty]

Were those weapon balls Chris is talking about any good back then?

[MikeHL78]

LOL @ 4:20. I live in Marquette, MI, though I was not living there at the time of this telecast.

[top2pear]

The Tracker was a 3 piece pancake, you're thinking the Enforcer.

[bowlingfordumdums]

Thanks for the posting...John

[PahangDragonbird]

LOL 2:50 "What?" in falsetto when he left solid 9

[deesyphrr]

Brunswick Phantom with the "stealth bomber" logo. Help me out, folks. But was that the first asymmetrical core in a ball?

[syntonik]

@deesyphrr

Actually, no. Track came out with the Trackster series a year earlier that had a really funky weight block, but wobbled terribly. AMF tried it, too, with the Ultra Angle, but it wobbled horribly if not drilled perfectly. The Phantom series never really surfaced because they, too, wobbled because of the asymmetric weight block. Thomas was actually throwing the X-Caliber black, which was the precursor to the sport-changing resin ball that came out a few weeks later.

[bowlingfordumdums]

@syntonik Actually the X-calibur Reactive came out in december of 1990...15 months prior to this show...I threw one against Warren in the 1991 ABC Masters defeating him 738-737....Which I have on home video....I was actually the first person to throw the reactive X-calibur on the PBA Tour in the summer of 91.....

[syntonik]

@bowlingfordumdums

I remember seeing that ball for the first time on TV. I was like....how in the hell can a ball turn over like THAT??? :)

Thanks for clearing up my misconception. But wasn't what Thomas throwing an X-caliber, but not the resin kind?

[showtimeman5673]

@syntonik I was at this show and was given quite a few balls that week, NITRO was huge, but that X was the purple pearl X, and the HOOKED and nobody could get their ball to go as long as that thing, it was like cheating

[Wolfman12395]

Chris Warren is a monster. He's just like marshall holman with his determination to win.

[gurowiczw]

@Wolfman12395

And a blast to bowl with! Got to bowl with him in a recent Pro-Am and he was just a tiny ball of energy!