perhaps the shorter distance is balanced out by the fact that it's rolling along the ground so you don't need to calculate height of the ball for your swing in the same way you do for baseball. I dunno, I'm not a sportologist.
anyway ignore the tweet itself, the video is the interesting part.
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You bowl it but it is required to bounce before it gets to the batsman. That bounce can then be used to induce radical changes in ball direction though so it's not like it's that much easier to hit because it's a bit slower now.
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A Jose Canseco bat? Tell me you didn’t pay money for this.
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I think you could probably make a meaningful comparison of relative batting difficulty between baseball and cricket but from what I can tell by perusing cricket statistics, they don't track batting stats in a way that makes that comparison easy without compiling the data oneself
and that sounds a lot more like a Jon Bois thing than a me-on-Saturday-morning thing
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I guess you could use strike rate as a loose approximation for OBP, but the games and objectives of the batters are essentially so different as to render statistical comparison meaningless and useless.
Honestly, despite the bat and the ball, the thing that they most have in common is how shitty it is to get halfway through a match only to have the game called off because of rain.
"hardest thing to do in sports" is such a poorly defined metric that it makes any subsequent argument meaningless
The hardest thing to do in sports is beat Mike Tyson in his prime. I mean, first you have to invent a time machine. Then on top of being hella smart you have to knock out Mike Tyson.
You bowl it but it is required to bounce before it gets to the batsman. That bounce can then be used to induce radical changes in ball direction though so it's not like it's that much easier to hit because it's a bit slower now.
You can bowl "on the full" (no bounce) but it's generally much easier to hit, so almost nobody ever does it.
perhaps the shorter distance is balanced out by the fact that it's rolling along the ground so you don't need to calculate height of the ball for your swing in the same way you do for baseball. I dunno, I'm not a sportologist.
Don't read the replies, that dude is WILDLY obnoxious.
Also, apparently cricket doesn't exist? The best fast bowlers can break 100 mp/h on a pitch that's 58 feet between the ball being released and the batsman's crease. So, faster pitch, shorter distance between "pitcher" and "batter", and you also have to account for the bounce of the ball off the pitch...
90-95 mph is an average for MLB. If you're talking best pitchers then the MLB pitchers like Nolan Ryan or Aroldis Chapman could get up to an electronically recorded speed of about 105 mph, according to guinness the fastest electronically recorded speed for a cricket bowler was around 100.3 mph.
Of course, just like cricket, baseball doesn't rely solely on speed, and there's a lot of different types of pitches and personal styles for pitchers. Just as bowlers and batsman have to account for the bounce, pitchers and batters have to account for the curve and trajectory of the ball in the air.
I like some of the comments I've seen on this. The object made a quick, hard turn around the sun and that clearly indicates that they got a glimpse of what was going on here on Earth and decided to fuckin' BAIL.
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I like some of the comments I've seen on this. The object made a quick, hard turn around the sun and that clearly indicates that they got a glimpse of what was going on here on Earth and decided to fuckin' BAIL.
"Damnit Svorgathrion, I told you to take a left at Alpha Centauri. Now look at the shithole neighborhood we're in."
it would be more accurate to report "scientists say they can't prove it's NOT an alien spacecraft, I guess"
Basically. "If we assume X and speculate about Y, since we don't have and can't get any observations to contradict it, then one explanation could be an alien object". I don't think there's anything wrong about their logic from A to B in the paper, just that it entirely rests on an assumption that can't be proven. And their conclusion ignores more mundane explanations even with that initial assumption to focus on the sensational "alien object" line.
Just remember that half the people you meet are below average intelligence.
Posted this the last time this object came up, in the Space thread, I think, but it's obviously an alien spaceship - an MC-30 torpedo frigate, to be exact.
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anyway ignore the tweet itself, the video is the interesting part.
All I am hearing is that they have 300+ MS to respond. It’s not a frame perfect trick, I call shenanigans.
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A Jose Canseco bat? Tell me you didn’t pay money for this.
and that sounds a lot more like a Jon Bois thing than a me-on-Saturday-morning thing
Honestly, despite the bat and the ball, the thing that they most have in common is how shitty it is to get halfway through a match only to have the game called off because of rain.
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The hardest thing to do in sports is beat Mike Tyson in his prime. I mean, first you have to invent a time machine. Then on top of being hella smart you have to knock out Mike Tyson.
Not unless you want New Zealand (yeah, the whole country) to hate you forever.
EDIT: I see Fishman covered this already.
You can bowl "on the full" (no bounce) but it's generally much easier to hit, so almost nobody ever does it.
Wish I had the slightest clue how to parse this.
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now I want to know what you think cricket is
90-95 mph is an average for MLB. If you're talking best pitchers then the MLB pitchers like Nolan Ryan or Aroldis Chapman could get up to an electronically recorded speed of about 105 mph, according to guinness the fastest electronically recorded speed for a cricket bowler was around 100.3 mph.
Of course, just like cricket, baseball doesn't rely solely on speed, and there's a lot of different types of pitches and personal styles for pitchers. Just as bowlers and batsman have to account for the bounce, pitchers and batters have to account for the curve and trajectory of the ball in the air.
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I'm about halfway through listening to this while I go about my work day and I've had a silly grin the whole time. This is a great episode.
I'm about halfway through listening to this while I go about my work day and I've had a silly grin the whole time. This is a great episode.
It's a comedy video, but it's full of actual science. All of these are great.
The problem is the lion fish are evolving changing how they look and becoming ambush predators and learning to hide
Yeah, ok
I like some of the comments I've seen on this. The object made a quick, hard turn around the sun and that clearly indicates that they got a glimpse of what was going on here on Earth and decided to fuckin' BAIL.
"Damnit Svorgathrion, I told you to take a left at Alpha Centauri. Now look at the shithole neighborhood we're in."
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it would be more accurate to report "scientists say they can't prove it's NOT an alien spacecraft, I guess"
uhhhhhhhh they've been here? like for years? how can you "find" aliens when they're like right there?
Basically. "If we assume X and speculate about Y, since we don't have and can't get any observations to contradict it, then one explanation could be an alien object". I don't think there's anything wrong about their logic from A to B in the paper, just that it entirely rests on an assumption that can't be proven. And their conclusion ignores more mundane explanations even with that initial assumption to focus on the sensational "alien object" line.
Posted this the last time this object came up, in the Space thread, I think, but it's obviously an alien spaceship - an MC-30 torpedo frigate, to be exact.
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