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NPR Science Friday

For all you itunes users, you may want to check out the NPR Science Friday podcast.  This week's edition is about baseball.  Topics covered include

1) What goes on in the brain in hitting a baseball and why it is so hard

2) Pitching mechanics and stress on the arm with injury prevention.  They interview the Brewers team physician who talks about a study that documented the reduced stress on the shoulder when the mound was lowered.

3) Why fans stay loyal to losing teams (they mention the Cubs and Red Sox pre-2004, but I was thinking Mariners)

4) The process of an outfielder tracking a flyball

5) The role in the seams in determining the break on offspeed pitches such as the knuckleball

Along with other stuff, I'm still listening to it right now, it's pretty interesting

*Edit* Now a Phillies fan is talking about "loving to hate our team" Where even in success the fans expect failure and love to hate on their own team... Whatever, M's still lose

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I'm just going to come out and say it

Losing is more fun. Winning just makes me nervous of the impeding failure.

by Robert on Mar 28, 2008 5:33 PM PDT reply actions   0 recs

Dear Brewers team physician:

You're doing a really shitty job at injury prevention.

Signed,
Ben Sheets

by Gomez on Mar 28, 2008 6:42 PM PDT reply actions   0 recs

word up

the artist formerly known as Mere Tantalisers.

by Bearskin Rugburn on Mar 29, 2008 10:04 AM PDT up reply actions   0 recs

The process of an outfielder tracking a flyball

They needed to interview Mike Cameron for that. Remember when he said he knew where to run in the outfield based on the positioning of the infielders (which told him what pitch was thrown) and the sound of the bat? Based on those two things, Cammy said he could just turn and run to the spot where the ball was going to be.

by Llewdor on Mar 29, 2008 12:51 PM PDT reply actions   0 recs

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