Modern sports barriers: How low can you go?

It happened just a few years ago, with the Wizards, of all teams. They lost to the Rockets 159-158 in 2019.

There was also another team that topped 160 that same season, IIRC. The Bulls, I think?

 

I honestly don't see how the pole vault record can go much higher. I don't know if that Sports Science show is still a thing, but with all the lab work they do with athletes, it would be interesting to consider just the physics required for some records to fall, athlete height and weight, force, velocity etc.

 

He'll test the outer limits of what a print headline writer can fit. Unless Antetokounmpo already did that.

 

That Robinson game was the most shameless stat-filling attempt I've ever seen (other than Anthony Bowie's bullshit triple-double). All to give The Admiral the scoring title over Shaq.

 

We'll see that sub 2-hour marathon soon.

Sub 9-second 100m? Sub 19 200?

Why not.

Every time you see a record you don't think can ever be broken, remember Katie Ledecky. https://olympics.nbcsports.com/2022/10/29/katie-ledecky-world-record-swimming-1500/

I'd be shocked if we ever got another 56-game hitting streak in the majors, or a .400 season, but never say never.

 

That might be somewhat dependent on the technology. Just how much can they make the poles bend and forcefully snap back while keeping them in one piece? I think they have some room to push the envelope with that.

 

Tend to agree on both. Though I'm interested to see what the shift ban will do. I'm not really in favor of the shift ban... maybe the part of two infielders on each side of second base, but feet on the dirt seems extreme. They had the shift when Teddy Ballgame hit .406, so maybe that door is open a crack. Though, it will take a complete overhaul in approach at the plate from what it is now.

 

70s-80s, especially NL parks, were conducive to slap hitters and speed.

 

It will keep going up a centimeter at a time for as long as sponsors and meet directors keep offering cash incentives for world records.

 

Long fences and artificial turf.

 

Seems like there also has to be a limit to the length and weight of a pole you can carry while running at a dead sprint. At some point its center of gravity has to be in a spot where the vaulter can't control it, right?

 

Yes. grounders in the gap skipped like tennis balls on hard courts, 85 Cardinals had one guy with more than 13 HR and five with at least 30 SB,
including 110 from Vince Coleman.