Re: Roberts: OH mini update (p.183); Happy 200!! (p.200)

[Mizzou]

Hahaha, wasn't expecting that one. And this guy is teaching high schoolers? Wow. How'd he slip through the interview process?

[CoolHandLuke]

They probably didn't ask him what his favorite homophobic insult was.

[vance_the_cubs_fan]

Using a gay slur as an insult is the kind of thing everyone should want from someone who coaches, amarite?

[Omar]

Using a gay slur as an insult is the kind of thing everyone should want from someone who coaches, amarite?

 

GOOD HUSTLE LADIES!

[Derwood]

Using a gay slur as an insult is the kind of thing everyone should want from someone who coaches, amarite?

 

ain't no room for nancy boys in that guy's locker room

[OleMissCub]

http://www.forumammo.com/cpg/albums/userpics/10062/banned-1.gif

[Sammy Sofa]

Guys, I have a plan to cleat my players in the ankles every time they reach first. FUTURE OF BASEBALL.

[CoolHandLuke]

Using a gay slur as an insult is the kind of thing everyone should want from someone who coaches, amarite?

 

I don't know why, and it makes me feel dirty saying so, but this is one of my favorite internet words.

[TheGrinch]

And Earth2Sean faggot needs to stop with all the stupid insults or get banned or something, cuz all he does is post negative stuff about me without even coming up with a decent argument.

 

http://blogs.chron.com/beltwayconfidential/ANN_Coulter0608.jpg

My first reaction was one of nausea and utter repulsion. Then I got the joke, but I just couldn't shake the original feeling to laugh.

[seanimal]

finally this completely idiotic conversation can end.

[salukifudd]

finally this completely idiotic conversation can end.

 

It's all your fault.

[TheGrinch]

http://www.forumammo.com/cpg/albums/userpics/10062/banned-1.gif

JESUS. Where do you guys find this stuff!?! LOL Is that from 21 Jumpstreet?

[TheGrinch]

finally this completely idiotic conversation can end.

...o rly?

[XZero771679666304]

As per, Pinghitter/UK has the most useful and informative posts in this thread.

 

Get out of the box, run straight, and run through the base.

 

alle sonst Dosis nicht Sache

 

I really can't believe people are still debating this.

 

Better slide into first so you can use the time you save to get to your Flat Earth Society meeting early.

[inari]

As NSBB's resident gay, I'm going to get all uppity about DeuceBaseman's homophobic slur.

 

::gets uppity::

 

Seriously though, it's time for a banishment to cubs.com.

[TheGrinch]

As per, Pinghitter/UK has the most useful and informative posts in this thread.

 

Get out of the box, run straight, and run through the base.

 

alle sonst Dosis nicht Sache

 

I really can't believe people are still debating this.

 

Better slide into first so you can use the time you save to get to your Flat Earth Society meeting early.

That would make sense if everyone believed that the Earth was round in the first place, but since pretty much no one did, I give it a 3.1

 

I'm sure Galileo got clowned as they asked how many people were in the Round Earth Club.

 

I'm also willing to bet you still couldn't tell me what my argument is.

[Outshined_One]

As NSBB's resident gay, I'm going to get all uppity about DeuceBaseman's homophobic slur.

 

::gets uppity::

 

Seriously though, it's time for a banishment to cubs.com.

 

You're the resident gay guy?

 

Cool. This place needs its property values to increase.

[VVMattVV]

It's just a theory of mine that I think is very unique and I am convinced it is true based on my studies. I think this discussion is a lot more civil than the past so it's ok. It's good to have this discussion as long as no one is insulting anyone else. I hope it does work though and it changes the game.

 

few pages back

[TheGrinch]

As NSBB's resident gay, I'm going to get all uppity about DeuceBaseman's homophobic slur.

 

::gets uppity::

 

Seriously though, it's time for a banishment to cubs.com.

 

You're the resident gay guy?

 

Cool. This place needs its property values to increase.

Wow. (8.8)

 

Careful guys. If Brinoch finds out we aren't talking about sliding, this immensely important and serious thread will get locked ...after it gathers a few 200 pages or so.

[Laura]

DeuceBaseman has been directed to the Member Guidelines (the link to which is in my signature), in particular the following:

 

Racist, sexist and homophobic slurs and insults are not tolerated here and may be grounds for immediate suspension.

 

He will have time to ponder the meaning.

[Laura]

Wow. (8.8)

 

Careful guys. If Brinoch finds out we aren't talking about sliding, this immensely important and serious thread will get locked ...after it gathers a few 200 pages or so.

 

Enough already. If you have complaints about the Roberts thread, take it to rants.

[sneakypower]

how about using a Spoiler tag next time OMC? what a godawful ghastly sight.

[XZero771679666304]

 

I'm also willing to bet you still couldn't tell me what my argument is.

 

Yeah, I read it, and I don't buy it.

 

The whole conservation of momentum thing is true, but as far as it applies to a baserunner, it would only work if said baserunner was being propelled by something other than his stride, something independent of his legs' ability to maintain consistent motion. What your bit fails to address is that the center of mass will slow down as you prepare to dive because the act of rotating the body forward impedes the legs ability to maintain stride, resulting in deceleration. Try running 100 meters. Then run 100 meters, but bend forward for even just a couple of steps during. I'll bet you get a slower time.

 

For someone who plays a lot, running through the bag at full stride is not difficult, because he /she would have have gotten it down through repetition. Now if you had to use time to alter your stride so that it hits the bag right, that would be a factor. But I doubt most players on most plays have to do that.

 

Once you position your body to dive, you have stopped running. Maybe if the base was at chest-waist level, reaching out would allow you to touch it sooner. But you have to break stride to begin to dive forward, and that results in deceleration. Not because of the position of the body relative to the ground, but because it simply gets in the way of running. Granted this only takes a fraction of a second, but that is enough, IMO. Perhaps is there were some way to instantaneously launch into a dive without transitional deceleration, it would work, but obviously that is impossible. This has nothing to do with friction or the ground. I know what your argument is, and while it is great in theory, I just don't think it holds up in practical application because there are variables involved that aren't taken into account, and are hard to quantify.

 

If you get out of the box well and hit the right stride, I don't think there is any way diving gets you to the bag more quickly than flat out sprinting. It really seems not only counterintuitive, but illogical.

 

That is may argument for against the theory. The argument against the practice is easy. It's horrible on your body, and even if there were a time advantage, it would be so minuscule that it wouldn't nearly be worth it.

 

 

And as far as the flat earth thing goes, I don't think there is anything wrong with implying old convention and perception (sliding into first is faster = earth is flat) is now amusingly out of place in a more enlightened time. The analogy may have been hyperbolic, but it made sense.

 

That is unless you were implying that your theory was ahead of it's time, and you = Galileo, which would make it an issue of perspective.

[CoolHandLuke]

smart words

 

Yes this. Similarly to the last time we had this argument, XZero, sums up my exact feelings.

[Guest]

As NSBB's resident gay, I'm going to get all uppity about DeuceBaseman's homophobic slur.

 

::gets uppity::

 

Seriously though, it's time for a banishment to cubs.com.

 

I believe you are one of two at NSBB.