Comments on: Episode 83: Baseball Myths

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By: Justin

Justin — Fri, 20 Apr 2012 10:01:26 +0000

Nooooooooo!
A pound of feathers has exactly the same mass as a pound of bricks – that is what ‘a pound’ means. the feathers have greater volume, lower density, but the same mass.

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Vitoria — Thu, 19 Apr 2012 03:50:39 +0000

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By: kalvin

kalvin — Wed, 18 Apr 2012 06:08:44 +0000

Marc that only works if you are using the same of material so let’s say a pound of feathers verses. A pound of bricks the feathers have more mass than the bricks even though the they have the same weight

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By: Lucas

Lucas — Mon, 26 Mar 2012 03:29:23 +0000

the hitter in video comes up when he redists into the pitch (very apparent in slow mo) instead of staying down and waiting for the ball to come into the strike zone. a lot of times that will cause the head to pop up and hitter will pull off the ball. all momentum should be into and through the ball going forward, not up then down. the head should always be stationary, allows for a flight of the ball to be seen better, better visual tracking. some good ideas here.

By: Betty

Betty — Sat, 24 Mar 2012 19:22:09 +0000

To swing a baseball bat encfioiprtly, your body uses many joints.Wrists, Elbows, Shoulders, Knees, Hips.Some are used more than others in the mechanics of the swing.The Spine is not a joint >_>

By: Guy

Guy — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 16:36:21 +0000

Rob is right…it is an illusion. The ball does not actually ‘rise.’ It just falls more slowly.

By: keith

keith — Fri, 30 Dec 2011 14:22:33 +0000

for a track event, he line they cross is measured on the entire plane or at the chest level, so diving could make a difference. Diving to the ground to touch a base, I’m not so sure about.

By: todd

todd — Fri, 09 Dec 2011 16:27:38 +0000

To continue, a correct comparision would have been to use 2 bats with the SAME total mass, but where one was able to be longer because of the cork. One with a sweet spot at 25 inches, and one with a sweet spot at 30 inches. Of course, if you’re picturing this, you’re already realizing that this would be as silly a test as their current one, because its obvious without even testing it that the corked bat, with the same mass, and the sweet spot at 30 inches, would hit the ball further.

Again, this is something anyone who has ever swung a bat knows instinctively.

Another test would be to drop a golf ball on the driveway and then on the grass and see which one bounces higher. Think that might indicate that using superballs might have some bearing on the ‘bouce factor’? The composition of the bat?

I guess after 83 episodes, you have to start inventing some new myths so that you have some myths to bust in your 160th episode, when everyone has forgotten why they ‘always thought corked bats were a myth’.