re: How much difference will the flat seam baseball make?

And while we're at it, since you've played so much baseball, what percentage of balls hit would you say have the ideal backspin used by the ball manufacturers to compare flight distances?

Did you even watch lsu baseball last year? The power hitting game was a joke

Why do you keep acting like I'm denying that? I'm not. I fully understand that it's going to happen but we're not comparing soccer balls and baseballs. We're comparing two balls with a .015" difference and it's not going to noticeably change shite. You're massively exaggerating the effect that again, a hundredth of an inch is going to produce. It isn't anything

You can't have it both ways. You can't press me for specifics and tell me I'm ignoring details and then say that the one detail that's changing isn't significant when the science and data says it does. Wtf?

I understand your comparison but to even use a soccer ball to explain a .015" difference on two identical balls isn't an effective one. And for you to say that you're a physicist and act like the difference is going to be as simple as adding 20 feet to every fly ball is a joke. I've been trying to explain that it's not that simple and that people are setting themselves up for disappointment if they expect that to be the case. Baseball is a really, really unpredictable game with so many variables that changing something as small as seam height isn't going to be enough to overcome the dozens of other things that happen during the process of a ball leaving the pitchers hand to hitting the bat to leaving the stadium. Do you disagree with what I just said? Does a .015" difference in seam height make such an impact that it overcomes exit speed, rotation, trajectory, and all of the other major components that go into hitting a home run? If you spent a month writing out a formula for it, I'm just saying that I'd bet my life that the changing the seam height wouldn't change the final distance of more than 10 balls last year into home runs. End of story, you're wearing rose colored glasses if you disagree

Some students who are struggling to keep up in ell's Physics 101 class may want to drop it if they are struggling this early in the semester.

Take the "W" letter grade and move on to something less strenuous.

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Does a .015" difference in seam height make such an impact that it overcomes exit speed, rotation, trajectory, and all of the other major components that go into hitting a home run?

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He already tried to explain this to you.

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.015"

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Thought it was .017

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act like the difference is going to be as simple as adding 20 feet to every fly ball

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Link to where I made this claim please. Jesus. Is this how you're going to argue now? Because you're making it pointless for me to say anything else.

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I'm just saying that I'd bet my life that the changing the seam height wouldn't change the final distance of more than 10 balls last year into home runs. End of story, you're wearing rose colored glasses if you disagree

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You're making a mistake here. You're talking about unpredictability of this year (which is true) and applying it to last year's results... which we can quantify in some way. A 350+ ft hit that stays in the park was hit pretty damn well whether it leaves or not. It obviously had decent spin and trajectory leaving the bat. All things the same and changing the seam height, WOULD add enough distance to send 20 or so balls out of the park.

Now if you want to talk about this year, I already addressed that there's a ton that goes into a homerun and agreed with you. But let's not pretend that it won't possibly have the effect people are talking about. And I also explained why people were associating PM's 60+ numbers to the change in the ball.

Anything else, John Rocker?

Jesus Christ you're such a typical TD dumbass. You VERY CLEARLY said that every ball that hit the warning track last year would've been a home run because of the 20 foot addition. And I'm saying that in some cases the new balls might add only 6 feet to a big hit to the track, which would still be a wall banger or a warning track out. It's not hard to understand. You keep using all of these ideal theoretical examples and just because a ball has good trajectory and spin to the warning track doesn't make it ideal or perfect every time

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Jesus Christ you're such a typical TD dumbass.

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Are you 12?

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You VERY CLEARLY said that every ball that hit the warning track last year would've been a home run because of the 20 foot addition.

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Actually, he didn't say that. He said:

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A typical warning track is 15ft. A 350 ft hit/out that doesn't leave the park increased by 5% will go 367. Holy fricking shite 17 feet. So that means that any ball that touched the warning track in between the gaps last year, theoretically, would have left the park. This doesn't take into account ball that landed deep on the track closer down the lines.

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Words are important. He then further diminished that # by taking 2/3s of them:

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So how do we come to a number for last year of balls to the track without going through every piece of film? Can we assume it happened once every 2 games? That seems kind of low, but okay. That would lead us to the number I mentioned earlier... 30! OMG!!! Now, all I'm saying is that 2/3 of that number is a good probability.

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