Westerwick
Rookie
Sounds familiar. I also saw one really funky ball that had a huge blob of rubber at one of the seams where it should have been a seam and some felt.Just opened a can of the Costco Penns on Saturday (two days ago) ... one ball was completely flat, one ball had a really erratic bounce and the third one was playable. So the two "good ones" sent into the ball machine hopper. You get what you pay for. Yes. They are cheap. Essentially seconds just packaged as "championship" balls.
Several times now I've gone to our club Monday morning drop in where they pass out cans of this junk, and pulled out the Babolat or Diadem balls with half a dozen sets from the weekend to use since they bounce better and have better felt. I don't even ask for the used Penns at the end of the day for the ball machine. I do suggest that they could donate them to the Humane Society Thrift Store where they sell them for a quarter each as dog toys.
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