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bigfan

Post subject: Who won the "Take BP on the field at Wrigley Contest?"

Posted: Thu May 21, 2009 9:37 pm

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ME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

YEP! NO SHIT!

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Posted: Thu May 21, 2009 9:39 pm

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Hope you do better than the Cubs have lately. :cry:

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Post subject: Re: Who won the "Take BP on the field at Wrigley Contest?"

Posted: Thu May 21, 2009 9:43 pm

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Wow, that is pretty cool.

I am officially jealous of a Cubs fan, I think. :pale:

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Post subject: Re: Who won the "Take BP on the field at Wrigley Contest?"

Posted: Thu May 21, 2009 9:48 pm

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New contest, how many times will bigfan swing and miss?

Congrats man, that'll be the opportunity of a lifetime.

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Post subject: Re: Who won the "Take BP on the field at Wrigley Contest?"

Posted: Thu May 21, 2009 9:51 pm

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Spmack present at the event and I am officially in the Manny Ramirez school of hitting for the next 3 weeks!

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Posted: Fri May 22, 2009 6:16 am

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That is pretty cool. Just don't show up any of the Cubs hitters
in the cage.... well at least let them down easy.

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Posted: Fri May 22, 2009 6:18 am

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BP and a trip to the Captain Morgan Club!!!!!

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Post subject: Re: Who won the "Take BP on the field at Wrigley Contest?"

Posted: Fri May 22, 2009 6:26 am

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Thanks to the good people at Old Style! Krausened!!

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Post subject: Re: Who won the "Take BP on the field at Wrigley Contest?"

Posted: Fri May 22, 2009 6:59 am

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That's awesome bf!

(Anybody have odds that he never gets one out of the infield?)

:wink:

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Post subject: Re: Who won the "Take BP on the field at Wrigley Contest?"

Posted: Fri May 22, 2009 7:33 am

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Just looking to make full contact. As one of my many Vegas stops is the batting cages where you hit against a machine and Rf is the Green monster, CF is Wrigley and RF was Yankee Stadium. always took me a few pitches to get going.

Hope I get more than 3 pitches

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Post subject: Re: Who won the "Take BP on the field at Wrigley Contest?"

Posted: Fri May 22, 2009 9:18 am

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Halfpint wrote:

As a Sox fan I am even saying that would be cool. Why don't that do that stuff at US Cellular?

Bad things usually happen when fans get on the field at the Cell.

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Posted: Fri May 22, 2009 9:59 am

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spanky wrote:

Halfpint wrote:

As a Sox fan I am even saying that would be cool. Why don't that do that stuff at US Cellular?

Bad things usually happen when fans get on the field at the Cell.

Ha!

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doug - evergreen park

Post subject: Re: Who won the "Take BP on the field at Wrigley Contest?"

Posted: Fri May 22, 2009 10:09 am

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I would be shocked if bigfan failed to hit 48mph batting practice pitches.

that is pretty cool tho.

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Frank Coztansa

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Posted: Fri May 22, 2009 3:38 pm

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Yeah they may be 48mph, but they aren't being thrown from 60' 6".

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Posted: Fri May 22, 2009 3:42 pm

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Awesome time running into Big Fan yesterday....happy to see him win...the first guy messed up, he didn't know who were the 4 managers to lead the Cubs to division titles...

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doug - evergreen park

Post subject: Re: Who won the "Take BP on the field at Wrigley Contest?"

Posted: Fri May 22, 2009 4:59 pm

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Frank Coztansa wrote:

Yeah they may be 48mph, but they aren't being thrown from 60' 6".

o.k., but that doesn't make them any less or more than 48 mph...even if they are thrown from 52'

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Post subject: Re: Who won the "Take BP on the field at Wrigley Contest?"

Posted: Sun May 24, 2009 10:57 am

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Just for laughs you should bunt a few to show them how its done. Remember, arms extended...don't chop at the ball.

When swining, watch the ball come out of his hand...follow it all the way to the bat. And as Kevin Costner said in "Bull Durham", "Quick hands, quick hands."

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Post subject: Re: Who won the "Take BP on the field at Wrigley Contest?"

Posted: Sun May 24, 2009 12:10 pm

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I'm sorry, I'm very sorry, the correct answer is WHO GIVES A SHIT?

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Frank Coztansa

Post subject: Re: Who won the "Take BP on the field at Wrigley Contest?"

Posted: Sun May 24, 2009 1:20 pm

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doug - evergreen park wrote:

Frank Coztansa wrote:

Yeah they may be 48mph, but they aren't being thrown from 60' 6".

o.k., but that doesn't make them any less or more than 48 mph...even if they are thrown from 52'

Yeah, but a 48mph pitch thrown from 45' might be the same as a 90mph pitch thrown from 60' 6"

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Mr. Reason

Post subject: Re: Who won the "Take BP on the field at Wrigley Contest?"

Posted: Sun May 24, 2009 1:25 pm

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Frank Coztansa wrote:

doug - evergreen park wrote:

Frank Coztansa wrote:

Yeah they may be 48mph, but they aren't being thrown from 60' 6".

o.k., but that doesn't make them any less or more than 48 mph...even if they are thrown from 52'

Yeah, but a 48mph pitch thrown from 45' might be the same as a 90mph pitch thrown from 60' 6"

You would think an engineer would know that. It's all about reaction time. I'm sure there is an equation that breaks it down for us, but it has been too long for me and I am too lazy to find it.

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bigfan

Post subject: Re: Who won the "Take BP on the field at Wrigley Contest?"

Posted: Mon May 25, 2009 10:17 am

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3 straight days of BP, feeling good (Ok I ache a little and my hands hurt)

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Posted: Tue May 26, 2009 12:22 pm

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my hands hurt)

Hawk Harrelson invented batting gloves. Use it.

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doug - evergreen park

Post subject: Re: Who won the "Take BP on the field at Wrigley Contest?"

Posted: Tue May 26, 2009 1:07 pm

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Frank Coztansa wrote:

Yeah, but a 48mph pitch thrown from 45' might be the same as a 90mph pitch thrown from 60' 6"

they're not the same, but yes time is a factor.

Mr. Reason wrote:

You would think an engineer would know that. It's all about reaction time. I'm sure there is an equation that breaks it down for us, but it has been too long for me and I am too lazy to find it.

Frank never mentioned reaction time....As such, I was arguing speed.
and don't worry Mr. Reason I took Physics 3 in college. I'm well aware of relative velocities and the muon particles moving at 3.0E8 m/s.

speed is speed, guys.
48mph is 48mph is 48mph.
distance is the variable here..

ball thrown from 52' at 48mph is still a ball travelling at 48 mph.
time = 0.74 seconds
ball thrown at 60'-6" at 48mph is still a ball travelling at 48mph.
time = 0.86 seconds.

time at .74 seconds from mound at 60'-6" to home plate = 44.8mph.
ball at 90mph from mound at 60'6" to home plate = .48 seconds.

So, bigfan is looking at a reaction time variable of .08 seconds if the ball is thrown at 48 mph from the mound or from 52'. Basically 5 blinks of an eye.

still think he is gonna whiff? I don't....

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Posted: Tue May 26, 2009 1:24 pm

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doug - evergreen park wrote:

So, bigfan is looking at a reaction time variable of .08 seconds if the ball is thrown at 48 mph from the mound or from 52'. Basically 5 blinks of an eye.

still think he is gonna whiff? I don't....

Maybe.

I would be concerned about it being too slow, not too fast. I would think bigfan has or is conditioning himself to hit a ball in the 70-80mph range. If the guy is lobbing them in there, your timing is going to be all messed up, stepping too early, too much ball arc, etc.

Somebody popping the ball in there with good pace is what you want but the pitcher might just lob them in thinking bigfan wants them as slow as possible, not realize the formidable hitter that bigfan is.

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doug - evergreen park

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Posted: Tue May 26, 2009 1:25 pm

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doug - evergreen park wrote:

Frank Coztansa wrote:

Yeah, but a 48mph pitch thrown from 45' might be the same as a 90mph pitch thrown from 60' 6"

they're not the same, but yes time is a factor.

Mr. Reason wrote:

You would think an engineer would know that. It's all about reaction time. I'm sure there is an equation that breaks it down for us, but it has been too long for me and I am too lazy to find it.

Frank never mentioned reaction time....As such, I was arguing speed.
and don't worry Mr. Reason I took Physics 3 in college. I'm well aware of relative velocities and the muon particles moving at 3.0E8 m/s.

speed is speed, guys.
48mph is 48mph is 48mph.
distance is the variable here..

ball thrown from 52' at 48mph is still a ball travelling at 48 mph.
time = 0.74 seconds
ball thrown at 60'-6" at 48mph is still a ball travelling at 48mph.
time = 0.86 seconds.

time at .74 seconds from mound at 60'-6" to home plate = 44.8mph.
ball at 90mph from mound at 60'6" to home plate = .48 seconds.

So, bigfan is looking at a reaction time variable of .08 seconds if the ball is thrown at 48 mph from the mound or from 52'. Basically 1/5th of a blink of an eye.

still think he is gonna whiff? I don't....

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doug - evergreen park

Post subject: Re: Who won the "Take BP on the field at Wrigley Contest?"

Posted: Tue May 26, 2009 1:26 pm

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what the hell just happened there? this board is all fucked up. can't search. can't edit posts. can't upload pix.

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Posted: Tue May 26, 2009 1:28 pm

Looks like you edited your post using the quote function.

Keep at it. You'll figure out how the board works soon.

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Posted: Tue May 26, 2009 1:31 pm

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it's a series of virtual work matrices inversely proportional to the number of fat jokes Frank gets in a day divided by the number of mults logged on at any given time, sampled every 14.78 seconds.

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Posted: Tue May 26, 2009 1:38 pm

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Halfpint wrote:

As a Sox fan I am even saying that would be cool. Why don't that do that stuff at US Cellular?

First off Awesome BF as I love to feel like a kid again and you will get that chance and make sure you get pictures and post them up.

Secondly , the White Sox do something like this for their Scout seat and Jim Beam season ticket holders as they have a workout on the field day which includes batting practice , shagging fly balls, playing the infield during batting practice and seeing the locker rooms and dugouts and meeting former Sox players and they have food and beer for you as well. A real cool thing to do that not many people know about and as you might guess the Sox are out of town on that day as well .

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Posted: Tue May 26, 2009 2:44 pm

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Doug, what about aerodynamic resistance and gravity rendering the ball speed variable.

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