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That was Excellent!

--Winston

LOL!

Wow, a 14-megaton pitch.

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Phil Hobbs

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And people were wondering why Congress was investigating Roger Clemens.

And the runner advances!

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I claim bullshit on this statement:

"When it reaches the batter, the center of the cloud is still moving at an appreciable fraction of the speed of light. It hits the bat first,"

It wouldn't hit the bat first as the bat is held behind the batter's back.

I suspect it has been borrowed from a cricket version where it would. Based on a 150g ball I make it a roughly 2MT groundburst equivalent.

Always the big problem for relativistic travel too. You get fried to a crisp by blue shifted microwave background radiation all too easily.

Maybe he's bunting.

Best regards, Spehro Pefhany

Yes,because since he hasn't even seen the ball leave the pitcher's fingertips yet, he certainly hasn't swung yet.

But the transition of the wave, etc. through him, the plate, the bat, the catcher, et all happens in a few nanoseconds. Does it matter the order it got listed in?

You're right tho...this cartoon stuff is like bar room pool. You have to call your shots.

It was the only error I saw too, but only after I went back and examined your observation.

Was that a punt?

Nope. A bunter won't telegraph his intent before the pitch is thrown. :)

In what frame of reference?

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Phil Hobbs

If it was a sac bunt he might well show bunt when the pitcher comes to set.

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Hmm I don't know baseball that well, but can he still be hit by the pitch if it's a sacrifice bunt?

George H.

Except in the Aztec League.

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Phil Hobbs

I think it's a matter of intention. My understanding is that if the umpire believes that the batter was trying to pull back at the time he was hit by the pitch that he will advance. He wouldn't have time to react, but there might be something unsettling visible just prior to the pitch. ;-)

In this case, however, the ball would be simultaneously inside and outside the strike zone, and likely partially inside when it touches the batter, so my reading of the rules is that it would be officially a "dead ball" and called a strike in any case.

It is about what the cloud hits first. Try to keep up.

Not if everything is "blowing up REAL good" it wouldn't. D'oh!

If the Mayans were right (are right?)(will be right?), and everything ends... if it is simply an entropy thing, we will not see it until it arrives, and any death it brings will occur faster than you can feel it. And we really wont see it at all, not just 'till it arrives'. Maybe some will prophecy about it.

Unless... there is a "soul". The, you might 'feel it'.

Nothingness for eternity. Where pain, agony, flame, cold, all torments... forever... For some.

Or a big rock will simply hit us, and it will be death by giant meteorite. God probably wailed one at us about 2000 years ago.