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Originally Posted by AtlUmpSteve
Just for the sake of argument, would anyone wish to follow this up with a calculation of the speed of sound traveling that distance, to determine the time delay? Or, the time delay for the base umpire from his A position, or from the 3 standing behind the fence?
I suspect my point is made without the math, but now we are judging if the sound was made at a point either more or less than within 0.2 seconds from release?? And think this has something to do with softball??
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I am too lazy to do any further math on this, but if I got dredge up a notebook from college (I'm so old we actually used scrolls, but still...) I have a formula to help determine this.
Without any Googling I know that Speed of sound at sea level is 761 mph (Because I remember EVERYTHING), while speed of light is about 670 MILLION miles per hour.
If we are concerned about pitchers grunting when the ball is halfway to the plate, well, you do the math.
What's the pitcher supposed to do? Grunt when she gets the ball back fromthe catcher so it doesn't disconcert the batter? ::::sigh::::