Barton L Smith
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Amateur critic, beer maven, seam tamer,
http://baseballaero.com
. MLB Team Consultant.
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Baseballs break because of spin, or the Magnus force. They also break because of differences between the air flow around them on two sides due to seams, which we call Seam -Shifted Wake. If you would like to learn more about it, check out
baseballaero.com/2020/12/23/c...
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Baseball Aerodynamics
The fluid dynamics of baseball pitches
https://Baseballaero.com
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I feel like she wears a sign that says all that
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Rabbit bush blossoms are about the prettiest color of yellow Iāve ever seen. But unfortunately, they make me sneeze my brains out.
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Or at least until there's a show I want to watch.
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about 7 hours ago
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I donāt see why this should ever happen.
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Combing through Gamechanger stats from the local baseball tourney from this weekend. Most abusive team so far was 12U. Had a kid throw 68 pitches across 2 games on Friday and 52 more on Saturday. Same team had another kid throw 69 on Friday and 40 more Saturday. League will claim no knowledge of it.
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23 years ago today. Taking her to a beer festival to celebrate.
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My new 13U team, half of which have never before played serious baseball before and were 0-4, won 2 today. So great to see them so happy.
2 days ago
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I'm not able to watch The Human Glitch tonight due to blackout and I'm pretty unhappy.
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Universities will just stop hiring.
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3 days ago
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Who boy they are asking for it
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Not an accident
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I've been boycotting Disney theme parks my entire life
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If you know any kids that are interested in sports-ball aerodynamics or want to learn more yourself, take a look at this excellent article:
www.snexplores.org/article/pitc...
Thanks to
@pobguy.bsky.social
for introducing Wendy and I.
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How to make a pitched ball curve to your will
A range of tricks pitchers use to get curve all come down to the thin layers of air next to the ball ā and how a ballās spin and seams affect them.
https://www.snexplores.org/article/pitch-physics-curve-baseball-softball-cricket
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Amazon NTY WaPo Disney
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John Galt
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Also weird using a young model for this hoodie
5 days ago
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Every one a unique little snowflake
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5 days ago
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Running out of services.
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Ana Marie Cox
5 days ago
Disney learned nothing from Andor.
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I've watched this. I don't think he made any comments about Kirk. They were all about Trump's reaction.
www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...
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Jimmy Kimmel Live! suspended indefinitely after hostās Charlie Kirk comments
ABC says late-night show will not air for foreseeable future after Kimmel accused Republicans of ādoing everything they can to score political pointsā from Kirkās killing
https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2025/sep/18/jimmy-kimmel-live-suspended-indefinitely-after-hosts-charlie-kirk-comments
5 days ago
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Is it a lot to ask for a president that doesn't give a shit about late-night TV?
5 days ago
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Unless Mars attacks.
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6 days ago
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Pass it on
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6 days ago
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Iām surprised to see all the Michigan caps at the Brewers game
6 days ago
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New low for the USA. Absolute clown show.
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6 days ago
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For twenty years, I've shown this video before my first exam.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=lvDF...
Rest easy, Val.
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Top Secret! Back to School Torture Scene
YouTube video by Ronz Rocketz
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lvDFJVUaXUI
6 days ago
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If you follow me, you'll probably know that I poo-poo awards. But check out the Clemente list. Lots of good baseball dudes on there. So I checked to see if my favorite baseball dude was ever nominated. Bingo.
www.mlb.com/pirates/news...
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7 days ago
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I have never once had coffee in bed. If anyone asks, thatās what I want.
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7 days ago
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Interesting that cars are not on the long list
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8 days ago
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My frequent reminder that awards are, in general, bullshit. Sometimes, the awards people make a mistake and give one to someone that deserves it.
8 days ago
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Remember that Spencer Cox occasionally lets something a bit moderate sounding slip from his lips, but was also at Arlington for that embarrassing photo shoot and for no reason.
8 days ago
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Holy shit, I started reading this and thought I'd send it to a friend that I thought it'd hit hard, but kept reading and realized it's as least as much about me.
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8 days ago
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You will never find cowardice on the scale of an US university administration
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"Despite having turned nuclear power into a minor distraction, renewables are dismissed as āintermittent.ā Again, facts intrude." Here are some facts. Solar has done well, way better than I'd hoped, but calling a source 9X larger than solar a "distraction" does not help credibility.
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9 days ago
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I'm a very lucky guy to be coaching (actually more like running) the Banditos 13U along with my son Sam, his former teammate Kyler, his dad and a dude that quit baseball to join the USMC. This is a great group of kids and I am having a blast.
9 days ago
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You're not going to believe me, but the thing on the left is a cucumber. A lemon cucumber. It's all they had at the store after my beagle ripped out my normal cucumber. But this is a perfect cucumber for baseball players, IMO.
10 days ago
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He had one semester at USU. Which is pretty similar to Dixie Tech in that regard.
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10 days ago
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Free Speech
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My governor.
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10 days ago
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When you are using talk to text and the beagle is barking
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Sen. Lemon Gogurt
11 days ago
fbi puts another one in the books. closing the case the way most crime is solved: someone calls and tells them who did it.
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I appreciate the chat. GPT has a weird way of capitalizing variable names so that I can easily spot it in my studentās work.
11 days ago
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Christopher Webb
11 days ago
Big sigh. Watch this. Can you see why the Yankeesā moment of silence, the lowered flags, the promise of the Presidential Medal of Freedom, feel like a gut punch to the very people he spent years targeting? No one wished death on this man, but what weāre seeing right now is too f*cking much.
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It's that time of year when we are reminded that W's finest accomplishment as president was throwing a strike for his first pitch at a Yankees game.
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@lowqualityfacts.bsky.social
Is this you?
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Met one of my 13U dads tonight. He told me he took my heat transfer class in 2015. Ooof.
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