What is the Gyro Ball?  Is it nothing more than a Japanese version of a slider? Is it an epidemic that has caused many well respected sporting sites to spend weeks explaining it? Maybe. My guess is once a few hitters see the gyro ball; it's going to become apparent that its secret is that it travels about 400 feet in the opposite direction fairly often. It’s just a splitter with a little more downward movement. That’s all it really is, a combination of a splitter and cut fastball. I won’t fully understand it until Scooter explains it for me on Fox Baseball. Anyways, there are some myths on the gyro ball that I would now like to share with you. This is the stuff ESPN won’t let you see.

The Gyro ball is mear space junk left over from the formation of our solar system. There are three reasons why astronomers will never give it planetatary status, it has an elliptical orbit (as opposed to a circular one), it doesn't orbit our sun, and it has a cork center instead of a heavy metal core.

The pitch spins in circles, change directions in mid-air and dates Salma Hayek. All at the same time

Dice K Matsuzaka needed help from the top Japanese scientists to find a pitch that would counteract the effects of the rampaging, radiation-mutated Barry Bonds

You can throw a gyro ball in Baseball Simulator on the original Nintendo, but it would split into 3 different balls and had flames shooting out of them.

Kerry Wood tried to throw it once and has never been the same. 

The gyro ball was one of the causes for man-made Global Warming. It's magnetism seems to get it's strength from the nothern Magnetic Pole [or Czech] and is causing the glaciers to get slushy and the Polar Bears to P&M.

Rex Grossman tried to throw a Gyro Ball during the Super Bowl, but unfortunately, it doesn’t work for two sports.

The gyro ball is the father of Anne Nicole Smiths kid and is the father of Bridget Monyhan's kid. Let's just say it gets around.

Manny Ramirez reported early to spring training because the gyroball told him to.

Tom Selleck had trouble hitting the gyro ball when he was playing in Japan.

When the Boogeyman goes to sleep every night, he checks his closet for the gyro ball.

The gyro ball is the reason why Waldo is hiding

Matt Millen tried to draft the gyro ball in last year's NFL draft thinking it was Japanese for wide receiver. He was sadly mistaken.

David Wells is trying to learn how to pitch the gyro ball so he can revive his career. He's eaten enough gyros, why not try a pitch named after it?

The gyro ball once challenged the BCS to a fight. The BCS has never been the same

The gyro ball challenged Roger Federrer to a tennis match. Unfortunately, Federrer has yet to accept the challenge or humiliation he will receive from it.

It takes more time to deliver a gyro then to finish watching the Oscars and let me tell you, that's a long #### time.

The gyro ball is behind all the blog wars between Dusty, NYace, Fatmaw, Socal, and everyone else that's in the war. So if you want to blame anything, blame the gyro ball.

So there you have it, the truth behind the Gyro Ball. Or is it?