An Unbelievable Throw?

[BigUmp56]

I guess you need to understand how long this discussion has been going on and how most of us don't take kindly to being told repeatedly that the laws of physics can be cheated. Say what you want about the appearance of a baseball thrown overhand appearing to rise. However as an engineer I must tell you that absent some incredible extraneous force put on a thrown baseball, it cannot escape it's initial velocity vector once released. By extraneous I mean a force that a human cannot exert on a baseball. It's simply impossible.

Perhaps some of the hostlity you feel directed your way is a result of the frustration quite a few of us feel with SAUmp. He's been shown excact mathematical equations to prove that he's wrong, yet he continues to argue. Of course some of the problems we have with him go beyond this more complex issue and go directly to the root of his umpiring philosophies. It doesn't seem to matter to him how many excellent and seasoned umpires try to explain to him how inept his ideas are. He will still argue and argue. It's oft been said that when the worlds against you, you should bet on the world.


Tim.