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  1. PeaveyFury
    How do you double to the shortstop? Anyone care to clarify? Wilson got to the ball first... not sure how, but he got to it first in leftfield, hence double to the shortstop. I don't know if the leftfielder was asleep or what.
  2. PeaveyFury
    Wise, Turnbow, Win.
  3. PeaveyFury
    i may have alluded to it though. Yay for technicalities....
  4. PeaveyFury
    If I could do that I'd have Butch's job. But it doesn't keep you from claiming that Jenkins is sluffing off because he's the longest tenured Brewer?
  5. PeaveyFury
    That's funny, the tenured professors are usually the ones that get away with doing the minimum because their job isn't in jeopardy. So how do you explain Carlos' major slump as well? Seriously, if Hart can show the brain trust that he's good to go, then Carlos is as good as gone.
  6. PeaveyFury
    I think some serious consideration is due to JohnBriggs' thread about sign stealing. There's no way something isn't going on here.....
  7. PeaveyFury
    The season wasn't a month and a half old three weeks ago, wiseguy. Sub a month and a half old for a month old, and Russ is right, FWIW.
  8. PeaveyFury
    If Brady had gotten any kind of a jump there, that ball was an easy catch.
  9. PeaveyFury
    I'm sure he can, but it's only helping to overcoming his own mental limitations to physical performance. It's obviously hard to quantify it one way or the other, especially since there's no real study that has yet been done to prove that in baseball. There was, however, a great study released last week that showed the power of the mental aspect of athletics. Participants were asked to run a 5-K distance twice- the first time, they were given tap water for hydration purposes and told such. The second time, those same runners were given what they were told was super-oxygenated water that was being tested to prove athletic performance. In actuality, it was the same tap water they were given the first time. The shocking result? Runners shaved an average of 1.5 MINUTES off their time the second trial. Mind over matter isn't just a rumor. I'd be very interested in seeing a study with a handful of baseball players given a set number of pitches with a regular bat, and then with what they're told is a corked bat to see what the result would be.
  10. PeaveyFury
    Peavey, I think it's talking about 2 different things. There's the bat speed, which is faster with cork, and then the batted-ball Yeah, I know that he's talking about the two different things, but when talking about the batted ball speed, he's assuming that the bat speed stays the same, which he already stated can't be assumed.
  11. PeaveyFury
    And none of this is taking mental effects into account. If a player is corking his bat and is thinking that it's going to make him considerably better, then he probably will actually hit at least somewhat better. There is a mental aspect there that I know some people don't want to recognize.
  12. PeaveyFury
    Rotoherb has it right. That last article (where they actually did their own studies) clearly says that there could be a benefit for a guy like Hernan: "If your goal in life is to hit home runs, then I don't think a corked bat is going to help you too much," said Nathan, who has published studies on the subject. "On the other hand, if you're sort of a contact hitter, a singles hitter, then a corked bat probably can help you." A quicker swing means a batter can watch the ball longer before taking a cut. "The longer you watch it, the more information you have as to how you want to swing at it," Nathan said. Adair said the standard way for players to cork a bat is to drill a hole about 6 inches down the length of the bat and add cork, high-bouncing rubber balls or "whatever their fancy is." Sosa's bat contained a half-dollar-size piece of cork about halfway down the barrel. Baseball players are famously superstitious, and if a player succeeds with a corked bat once, he is apt to use it again. Also, the reputation of corked bats has a strong hold on players looking for an advantage. "Let's say you're expected to hit about .250 and about June 4 you're batting .205," Adair said. "Your timing is off, you can't seem to hit and you see your $2 million going out the window. You take an ounce off the bat and maybe it makes a difference."
  13. PeaveyFury
    From that first article: If the swing speed is kept constant, a heavier bat will always propel the ball faster and farther. So removing mass from the bat will actually reduce the batted-ball speed. But earlier, it had said: Less mass (lower inertia) means faster swing speed. So the article first states that lowering the mass will speed up the swing speed, then later makes the crux of an argument based on something that he already knows isn't the case. And I'm still looking for a study that shows how much faster a bat can be swung after shaving 1.5 ounces off the bat... The last article provided an estimated speed, but didn't say how much weight they had removed.
  14. PeaveyFury
    I'm not Al but here's a link supporting what he says. Not to be skeptical, but the 'previous' link from that blog is "An Open Letter to Mr. Timberlake." http://forum.brewerfan.net/images/smilies/smile.gif The F=ma example he uses as the crux of his argument is pretty flawed. Those aren't numbers that came from any sort of study or actual test, he's just throwing those out there. Say the batter drops the weight down an ounce and is able to swing it at 95mph, suddenly the force jumps to 3230. He's just throwing random numbers out that happen to prove his point.
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    Let's not forget, the corking of one's bat barely affects the ball, if at all. I would really like to see proof of that, Al. Link?
  16. PeaveyFury
    While the game log (6th / 7th inning), linked here, officially notes that "Hernan Iribarren grounds out to catcher Jake Fox Broken bat basehit, obviously. This is going to raise a lot of questions about how good he actually is as a prospect.
  17. PeaveyFury
    Just remember that Huntsville has the nice ability to hit the reset button mid-season and try this whole thing over again.
  18. PeaveyFury
    No TV today is just another reason why I hate the FSN contract. Are we being pre-empted for another rerun of Beyond the Glory or Poker Superstars challenge? http://forum.brewerfan.net/images/smilies/eyes.gif
  19. PeaveyFury
    Bad, bad stuff about the Hurricaine... hopefully the rumor gets squashed, but I doubt that very much.
  20. PeaveyFury
    Rogers may be struggling and somewhat ineffective at this point, but he's healthy as a horse, which makes me perfectly happy about where he is at this point. http://forum.brewerfan.net/images/smilies/frown.gif
  21. PeaveyFury
    Foul tips are never played as actually hitting the ball foul and that's why I disagree with the call. So foul tips aren't foul? How are foul tips never played as actually hitting the ball foul?
  22. PeaveyFury
    How does everyone feel about that out of the batters box call? My personal interpretation is that since it was a foul tip (which is not considered a foul ball -- ball remains live and in play), it should have been called like a swing & miss rather than actually making contact. The rule is that if he fouls it, he's out. My problem with the call comes from the fact that at that point in the game, there was no back line on the batters box to even show that he was out of it.
  23. PeaveyFury
    Brewers vs. the NL East: 11-3 Brewers vs. Everyone else: 15-20 Just sayin....
  24. PeaveyFury
    The home plate ump has officially lost his mind tonight...
  25. PeaveyFury
    Kudos to the bullpen for sucking yet again....
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