Nerf Swerve Bat Review

If you're shopping for bats lately and don't have a lot of cash - listen up, especially if you're a kid. These video reviews give you the skinny on the Nerf Swerve Bat. Also you can see reviews on Amazon, which also complain about the bat cracking.

Wiffle For A Wish

Up until recently I thought there was only one wiffleball tournament in the country that sent proceeds to the make a wish foundation (Wifflin 4 Wishes). It is with great pleasure that I inform you that there is another tournament, Wiffle for a Wish, that raises money for such a worthy cause. They played their tournament on the 20th with 33 teams and raised more than $7,000.

A little taste...

As some of you may know, the second issue of the Wiffler's Digest magazine will be out at the end of this month or the first week of September. We've finished contributing all the content and are now waiting for it all to be assembled. It's a long and painful process but I think everyone's hard work will pay off for this issue. So what all is in the upcoming issue? Well I won't spoil everything but I will tell you that there is some coverage of the London Wiffleball Tournament that I, and some of the writers, attended. There's also some opinionated articles along with part one of a fictional wiffleball series and a review of the movie Screwball: The Ted Whitfield Story. But it's not just articles, there's actually a quiz in this issue and a couple more wiffle related ads. While I won't link you any of the content in the new magazine, I do hope you enjoy a preview of the cover. Those of you who have emailed us and wanted to subscribe to the magazine will be the FIRST ones to read the new magazine before it is uploaded in .jpg form onto our Picasa photo album. For best quality, I strongly suggest you subscribe so you can have it in .pdf form - it's much nicer. Just email us at wifflersdigest@gmail.com and say you want the magazine. That's it!

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Got to love the parody videos

I know you've probably seen hundreds of the parody videos taken from parts of the movie Downfall. Most of them were removed by Youtube but now a new one has surfaced and has something to do with the upcoming NWLA Tournament this fall. It's sort of like a fantasy tournament and a bracket is set up featuring the top 50 ranked teams in the nation. Voters, typically league commissioners, determine who advances in each round until there is a figurative national champion. It's a nice way to end the wiffleball season and gets everyone into fantasy football mode. There's also a smaller bracket for teams from smaller leagues and a "Dangerfield" Tournament that features the nation's worst teams in a battle to determine who is the worst team in the U.S.A. The subtitles are really telling of some of the frustrations that some of the members of the NWLA exhibit on the message board, such as: lethargic interest of certain leagues to vote this year, amount of teams from each league being represented, etc. Enjoy this video while you can. It's only a matter of time before it gets taken offline.

Sick of hearing about the earth quake on the east coast?

Well...check this out. Some kids uploaded a video of themselves playing wiffleball when the alleged 5.8 earth quake struck the mid-Atlantic 3 days ago. I'm not certain if this video is authentic - the only way to tell for sure is if the front yard cracked and one, or more, of the kids fell to their death(s). So even if it isn't real it's still pretty funny. The effects of the earth quake that have been reported seem like jokes when you compare them to places where significant earth quakes have occurred.

I think this picture sums up this point nicely: