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Baseball?
- Thread starter Rascally Badger
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Violentvixen
(She/Her)
My spouse is trying to figure out if it he could reasonably drive up to Seattle for one of the games in a couple weeks.
That was some game. Sipping champagne right now. I'm not expecting to win the series against Houston, but if we do it'd be flippin' sweet.
The Mets tied for the third best record in MLB and they've been bounced before the NLDS. Sports are so cruel.
Cardinals are starting to make a tradition of putting away the bats when the season ends regardless of postseason. pretty disappointing and now I get to hear a bunch of dumb fans talk about goldy and arenado being choke artists or whatever.
Been pretty good post season so far beside that though
Been pretty good post season so far beside that though
Violentvixen
(She/Her)
Oh come on tickets in Seattle are starting at $300 while Houston is $33? BAH.
Houston has one of the nation's low key worst sports cultures. It's right up there with Atlanta and Miami.
Looks like Springer's injury is not too terrible. That's a relief. We were jumping up and down at the tie runs and then immediately stopped and all started feeling sick when we realized what had happened because it looked like he might be paralyzed or worse. Hoping he has a speedy recovery.
Not sure what was meant by this?
It's a scientifically preposterous idea, unless I'm somehow misinterpreting what you're saying. But I do get your feelings though.
If it would affect a ball, we're talking maybe milimeters at best in the grand scheme of things. You begin to see real differences when the atmospheric pressure goes up or down in big ways. A baseball hit in Denver where the air is only about 82% the pressure vs sea level will make a ball go about 10% further. But the air pressure up in Seattle today is maybe only like, 0.1% higher than somewhere with a similar climate like SF where there's no smoke.
I can see extremely high humidity affecting a ball by merit of if you've got a really thick marine layer - you've got a ball hitting floating water droplets in the air that have a much higher mass than individual microscopic molecules of whatever is in smog, but water will also stick to a ball adding to its mass in a way that smoke won't.
I do think smoke inhalation would have a bigger effect on the athletes ability to perform at their best. But any of these situations, it's also a case of where both teams are equally disadvantaged by playing in the same scenario. If the smoke was affecting the Mariner's balls, it was also affecting the Astro's to the same degree, so it's a neutral event that can basically be cancelled out versus other factors that likely affected the game's outcome a lot more.
I feel ya tho. Sucks when you go 3-out in the playoffs, but I think you can be proud of your team. Close losses and young talent is a good recipe for further success.
I can see extremely high humidity affecting a ball by merit of if you've got a really thick marine layer - you've got a ball hitting floating water droplets in the air that have a much higher mass than individual microscopic molecules of whatever is in smog, but water will also stick to a ball adding to its mass in a way that smoke won't.
I do think smoke inhalation would have a bigger effect on the athletes ability to perform at their best. But any of these situations, it's also a case of where both teams are equally disadvantaged by playing in the same scenario. If the smoke was affecting the Mariner's balls, it was also affecting the Astro's to the same degree, so it's a neutral event that can basically be cancelled out versus other factors that likely affected the game's outcome a lot more.
I feel ya tho. Sucks when you go 3-out in the playoffs, but I think you can be proud of your team. Close losses and young talent is a good recipe for further success.
My theory was about why it took so long for anyone to score, considering how many hits by both teams came sooo close to being homers. It was more just an "I wonder if this may have been a thing" than saying for certain it was a factor.
I do wish the game had been postponed or at least continued the next day once it hit extra innings. The air quality was in the high 100s and the announcers said it wouldn't be postponed unless the air quality got over 200, but I could feel my breathing start to get a little labored just walking the short distance from work to home yesterday, so having players and fans out in that for 6 hours was extremely irresponsible.
The Gerrit Cole experience:
I just really don't like the Astros.
Hard agree
More than the Yankees? I'm sorry, the Yankees can continue losing, even to the Astros. I'm happy.
Especially considering everything the Astros have done to us since they've gone to the AL. They've easily surpassed the Angels as the Mariners' most hated rival by this point.
It's been long enough since the Yankees have had any meaningful success that I currently find them rather benign. Meanwhile, the Astros still have that cheating stink about them.
I wasn't exactly expressing surprise as much as I was expressing my distaste for my (erstwhile since I'm not a Red Sox fan really anymore) team's division rival.