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MLB says Yankees’ new “torpedo bats” are legal and likely coming

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Post by dylan604 »

triceratops wrote: post #249
dylan604 wrote: post #227

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If workers want to work without PPE, then let them. Just ensure that they sign releases acknowledging that the PPE was made available to them and they chose of their own volition to not use it, and that by doing so they release everyone from any liability about what happens to them from not using the PPE.

It's a slippery slope from there to "the children yearn for the mines".

You mean like deport those that do jobs that nobody else wants so we're not trying to lower the ages restrictions for those jobs? Not sure why the hypothetical slope is even necessary. We're doing it to ourselves

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Post by dustbunny »

scoofy wrote: post #243
jparishy wrote: post #14

I think it's quite cool (disclaimer: I am indeed a dirty Yankees fan) Hitting is really hard. If you feel up to it, and can find a public batting cage near you that has a fast pitch machine (usually maxes out 75-85mph which is 20+ mph less than your typical MLB fastball), give it a shot. When you hit the ball away from the sweet spot, especially on the parts closer to your hands, it really freaking hurts and throws o…

I play golf. I write about golf. I genuinely love golf. Over the last 50 years, we have slowly broken the game of golf by allowing incremental technological advancements -- just like this -- that make it easier to do something that is hard, that is making it easier to hit the sweet spot. I am sending a grave warning to baseball fans here from the future that you will arrive at by following this road. Golf used to be…

Can't they make the courses bigger/harder?

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impossiblefork wrote: post #250
dylan604 wrote: post #221

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> If it's really about entertainment, then it has no appeal. Then you end up with professional wrestling. Do you not see the contradiction here? Professional wrestling is huge. It has very loyal fans. The fans pay for pay-per-view and live event sales. They buy merch. Nobody attends a WWE event expecting Greco-Roman style wrestling. They all know exactly what they are getting.

Only among certain kinds of people. But a European PM doesn't go watch professional wrestling, but if his country is doing well enough in association football and there's nothing incredibly important going on he will go to the match. This is because winning in this game is seen as an achievement, and a natural and reasonable achievement-- after all, there are many world records that nobody cares about.

Well, if we're limiting the rules of sports in any country based on what a European PM does...

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Post by janalsncm »

to11mtm wrote: post #235
jparishy wrote: post #168

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Very true. I dream to be able to hit off one of the fancy ones the players have at the facilities

NGL that sounds like a fun concept... How cheap could one prototype a 'programmable' pitch machine that can handle the scenarios one would want to practice against?

I have practiced on machines which can throw different pitches. There might be some mechanical enhancement required to quickly switch between different pitches though.

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Post by scoofy »

DrFalkyn wrote: post #275
scoofy wrote: post #261

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I don't disagree with any of this, I'm just saying that we know where this goes. It's just an arms races if you let it become one. If the pitching is getting too good, make it harder to pitch. >In short, you would rather have a lower BA and a higher home run rate even if it means a higher K rate, since home runs (and 2Bs) are so significantly more valuable than singles, and fly outs are also much more valuable than g…

There’s minor leagues all over the USA. It’s pretty cheap to go to a baseball game if it’s not MLB. And even MLB if your not picky on where you sit and the game time

I used to attend round rock express games a lot. The problem is because they are a minor league team, it doesn’t matter if they are good or bad. There is no one to root for because their best players are all just sent up to the majors.

It lacks generational fandom, because there is no place for hope in farm teams.

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Post by DrFalkyn »

next_xibalba wrote: post #108
jorvi wrote: post #105

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Every sport hits this sort of threshold where they ban optimization. Swimming did it with 'sharkskin' suits and long distance running with Nike's Alphafly and Vaporfly shoes. Maybe that's where advanced baseball bats will end up eventually.

Which is so silly. I would love to watch a sport where all the athletes are on cutting edge, dangerously experimental PEDs and all the equipment is engineered to the very limits of nature. We draw oddly arbitrary lines what is and isn’t ok in sports.

It’s called bodybuilding

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Post by fsckboy »

scoofy wrote: post #266
dcrazy wrote: post #259

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The data show the only things that have had an impact on golf are the golf ball and speed training. And we’re rolling back the golf ball.

>The data show It's the clubs and everyone knows it but nobody wants to admit it because the club manufacturers are the money behind the game. You give a pro a persimmon driver and 70's blades and it doesn't matter if they're hitting a modern ball or the pre-pro v's from the 90s... you can't hit it out of your shoes because you won't be able to hit the sweet spot. Yes, the ball is a problem, but it's not the problem.…

I don't know as much about golf as you, but I have the urge to object to "finesse" being used to describe being able to hit a smaller sweetspot. Thinking of tennis, I would say finesse should be used to describe being able to vary your swing, putting "english" on the ball, soft tap dink shots, etc.

pros are going to be better with any type of equipment, and they're going to be better at finesse, but doesn't a bigger sweet spot allow amateurs to play with more finesse than they could otherwise? it means more reliably being able to fade, draw, etc. rather than slice and hook, and it means more people can enjoy the game.

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Post by gradus_ad »

Innovations are always fun and disruptive at first, until the competition gets wise and adapts.

By concentrating weight in the center of the bat hitters will be less able to protect the outside and inside of the zone.

I don't expect to see the torpedos past June.

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Post by scoofy »

dustbunny wrote: post #282
scoofy wrote: post #243

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I play golf. I write about golf. I genuinely love golf. Over the last 50 years, we have slowly broken the game of golf by allowing incremental technological advancements -- just like this -- that make it easier to do something that is hard, that is making it easier to hit the sweet spot. I am sending a grave warning to baseball fans here from the future that you will arrive at by following this road. Golf used to be…

Can't they make the courses bigger/harder?

That’s exactly what has happened. The real issue is that it’s materially changed what the game is about.

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Post by fracus »

I'm wary this will change baseball for the worse. Already, we've seen the power game become more and more dominant since the steroid era. You see less of the base running and nickel and dime baseball. It's all about home runs. If it were up to me, they would make the bats deader, not more lively.
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