Baseball 'MythBusters'!

Replay just started.

 

damn, missed it... mmmm kari

 

Those pictures don't even do her justice -- she has this natural beauty, the good cute/hot combo, and she's smart. If I weren't 10 days from marrying a doctor who can probably access this computer, ahem, I'd agree with Ty that Kari's the hottest science dork ever.

Some of the stuff was hampered by the fact that they don't know anything about baseball (which you can't blame them for -- they're busy knowing everything about a bunch of other cool stuff). Like, who tries to steal second by going in standing up and dead-stopping at the bag? Sounds like a great way to blow out your knees, for one thing.

My favorite part was when Jamie said the cannon fired the ball at 80 mph, "which, as it happens, is about the speed of a Roger Clemens pitch." I think his career might have turned out differently if that were the case.

 

mmmmmm, Kari.

 

Yeah, those photos...meh. She's much cuter in her element.

I think what makes her so attractive, besides the brains and good looks, is the knowledge that were you somehow to hook up with her, she'd be all about doin' crazy shit. (Not like that...well, maybe like that.) You're never going to hear her say, "You know, I don't think that's a good idea," when you suggest blowing something up or firing something out of a homemade cannon.

 

They did knock the cover off the ball. Of course, they shot it out at more than 400 miles per hour.

 

Damn, wish I woulda seen that on last night.

 

"For using a corked bat, Sammy Sosa was suspended for seven matches."

Is baseball that foreign a sport?

 

Yeah, I noticed that too, Poin. My nagging complaint was that they entirely missed the point of corking a bat. It's not supposed to be "the cork turns your bat into superball material and balls just fly out!" My understanding is that it's supposed to make the head of the bat lighter and, thus, increase the speed of your swing. They had the corked/uncorked bats swinging at the exact same speed. Do I think corking a bat makes that big of a difference? No. Probably not. But they should have figured out how much bat speed would need to be increased with a corked bat to have significant increase in distance hit. THAT would have proven/busted the myth. What they did was neat, but meaningless.