Text 12612, 67 rader
Skriven 2008-08-24 11:36:34 av hap newsom (1:124/311)
     Kommentar till en text av MICHAEL LOO
Ärende: RE: besbool 813
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Hiya Michael!

->  HN> Well he's just signed a multi year contract so
->  HN> we may find out...he's gonna be here for a loong
->  HN> time!
-> 
-> Well, have fun with him.
-> 
Not much fun in mudville these days
we're playing like a bunch of kids.
Oakland is slapping us around like the
perverbial red headed stepchild! 

->  -> The news stories that got out here portrayed him as a
->  -> bit of a prima donna baby.
->  HN> That's because the fit that got him 
->  HN> released was so well publicized.
-> 
-> He seems to have landed on his feet, though.
->
Well, he's with the Yanks...and they have 
the wherewithal to carry an anchor like 
him for the rest of the season. The M's 
are likely to trade off some of our high
priced anchors in the off season. I'm still
wondering who the next GM will be and 
who the manager will be...I'm expecting
BIG shakeups in the off season and next
year NO one will be feeling comfortable
if they are not "cutting the mustard"
 
->  I'm sure you can impart a
->  HN> certain amount of spin and velocity
->  HN> to a mechanically thrown ball...but 
->  HN> to duplicate a pitcher's touch...wow
->  HN> I can't imagine how hard that would be!
-> 
-> I wouldn't try to duplicate the touch - I'd track a number
-> of pitches' trajectory and try to figure out how to impart
-> the spin that would produce them by any possible quick and
-> dirty method - no fussing with grip, motion, delivery.
->
but that's what gives the trajectory. Which
is why no one's yet been able to create such
a device and those that have been created 
have been so "predictable" that they are 
easily hit once you've seen several pitches
you can just hold the bat in position and 
the ball hits it.
 
->  HN> It might be as hard as trying to create
->  HN> a machine that could play violin as well
->  HN> as someone like Itzhak Perlman .
-> 
-> Which has been attempted - when we had a tour of the
-> Smithsonian musical instrument collection, there was
-> a 19th-century music box apparatus connected to a
-> violin and bow that played the Mendelssohn actually
-> quite well.
->
There's a far space between quite well and Itzhak Perlman
I'd expect. And that's a lot of machine for one song.
 
chat with you soon!
hap 
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