YankeeJim:
p.s., I may be all wet on the difference in the balls, I never tried the replacement. It just got some bad reviews when it came out. Still toting the originals. :-)
Same here Jim. I have a few Soft balls (no comments please) but have used the gift feature at the end of games to get a stock of Hex Chrome built up.
Any time we play I'll happily swap 4 sleeves, I only recently discovered you can gift more than 1 sleeve after a game. Just gift a sleeve, then when it goes back to the score card click the present symbol and gift again. And again and again if you want.