Red Sox to play in October

Bill Glasheen · Post by **Bill Glasheen** » Fri Sep 26, 2003 5:34 pm

You know how the joke goes... The punch line was "The Red Sox never play in October!" It was the curse of the bambino (having sold Babe Ruth to the Evil Empire, nasty, good-for-nuthin, world-hated New York Yankees).

Really?

They won the wild card bid last night - most of any team in history THIRD time - by a score of 14 to 3!

Was that your car windshield that Nomar just hit??

Yankees lost the last time they played...

Red Sox to play in October

And as I said earlier this summer when they were above .600 and I (gasp) talked about it, I don't believe in superstition.

The best team wins.

Go Bosox!

BTW, Yankees have to play the Twins, who have recently gone on a tear. Ten and one in their last eleven outings. Nyuk, nyuk, nyuk....

- Bill the Virginian

Bill Glasheen · Post by **Bill Glasheen** » Mon Sep 29, 2003 6:30 pm

Apparently I'm not the only Yankee hater, or person rooting for the sentimental favorites. Check out the results of the survey in this article.

Which World Series would you MOST like to see this year?

Vote early. Vote often.

Vote for anyone but the stinkin' Yanks.

- Bill

newguy · Post by **newguy** » Mon Sep 29, 2003 7:56 pm

Cowboy Up!

http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/gammons/story?id=1624162

f.Channell · Post by **f.Channell** » Wed Oct 08, 2003 2:21 am

What no new posts on this thread?
Bring on the dreaded yankees!!!
Just don't park your car in the Fenway the next couple of nights!!
F.

TSDguy · Post by **TSDguy** » Wed Oct 08, 2003 7:49 am

I took a picture of the Prudential building the other night when they spelled out "GO SOX" over 52 stories in office lights. I just can't seem to get it on my computer.

Bill Glasheen · Post by **Bill Glasheen** » Wed Oct 08, 2003 3:51 pm

What no new posts on this thread?

Too busy celebrating success to do trash talking about the Evil Empir... I mean the Damned Yankees.

The Red Sox are masters of body conditioning...

The Red Sox have heart - something that all of Steinbrenner's filthy money can never possibly buy.

The Red Sox aren't afraid to dish it if you think you're going to talk trash (before you ultimately lose anyway

).

I don't think I want to mess with the likes of Timlin, Ortiz, and Ramirez.

This guy was lucky! (Nice lateral vascular neck restraint!)

Bring on the urine-stinkin', subway trash from the Bronx!

I can't wait to see Steinbrenner crying on TV - again!

- Bill

RACastanet · Post by **RACastanet** » Wed Oct 08, 2003 7:31 pm

Go Sox!

TSDguy · Post by **TSDguy** » Wed Oct 08, 2003 8:23 pm

IJ · Post by IJ » Wed Oct 08, 2003 9:06 pm

I hadn't watched a baseball game unless I was forced (2 lifetime incidents) until the last Sox game. I just don't care, and most of the fun was in watching my roommate phone all her friends after every major point and feign drug intoxication. But the game DID remind me about some major karate principles. There is NOTHING like the force generated with the lower body and delivered in the right place to knock someone out. I would be hard pressed to top the kind of force those two players experienced just from running into each other. Another valuable lesson in whoop-a$$ development.

IJ · Post by IJ » Wed Oct 08, 2003 9:07 pm

And lessons learned from other recent events:

Don't mess with the Tiger.

f.Channell · Post by **f.Channell** » Wed Oct 08, 2003 10:20 pm

My first instructor taught the seisan elbow strike as a put it up and let the guy run ito it technique. It does have some merit.
That had to hurt when they collided.
I got a concusion 2 months ago, took about a week before I could be thrown again and not have my head ring.
Fred

Bill Glasheen · Post by **Bill Glasheen** » Thu Oct 09, 2003 7:12 pm

I too was fascinated by the collision, and wanted to comment on it. I guess great martial minds think alike.

My first instructor taught the seisan elbow strike as a put it up and let the guy run ito it technique.

Yes! This is something I teach, Fred, but I go one step further. I try to tell people that THEIR OWN LEG POWER should be the source of the energy of the technique. The rest of it is just plain jousting. All the jouster does is lower the sharp pole - period. The forward momentum behind that point is what matters.

When you can reproduce the jousting situation completely where 2 folks are charging together and one gets hit, well then pleasant dreams!

Another thing I noted...

* These two individuals DID NOT SEE EACH OTHER in spite of their superior athletic peripheral vision. Why??? I propose that it was the adrenaline of the situation that caused them to have a reduced field of vision.

* However.... Watch the replay again, if you get a chance.

Just before the collision happen, you can see Johnny Damon wince and turn his head counterclockwise just ever so slightly. You can only see it when viewed in slow motion. I'm convinced that this happened completely at the subconscious level. Whatever peripheral vision exists, it is highly sensitive to motion. Problem was, he tilted his head just enough to allow Damian Jackson's forehead to hit him right in the temple. Ouch!!! No wonder he was knocked out for 2 mintutes, and is suffering from a Grade II concussion.

FWIW.

- Bill

Bill Glasheen · Post by **Bill Glasheen** » Thu Oct 09, 2003 7:25 pm

Another martial point to make note of...

What was the secret behind Wakefield's pitching? The knuckleball - when it is thrown correctly - has been described as "a butterfly with hiccups."

What's the deal here?

Well what the pitcher does is throw the ball in a manner where there is little to no spinning. As such, the circular object essentially becomes aerodynamically unstable. Mathematically speaking, it is chaos in real life. Just the slightest imperfection on the speeding object - like the seams on the ball, will cause it to take an unpredictable path away from straight forward. To some extent, neither the pitcher nor the catcher will know where the ball will end up; chaos means you cannot predict this without knowing initial conditions to an infinite degree of precision.

So what does that have to do with martial arts? Well "rifling" vastly improved the range and accuracy of projectiles. When first introduced by its European inventors, the technology that caused projectiles to spin caused such a dramatic improvement in range and accuracy that the Catholic Church temporarily banned it as the work of the devil. Go figure...

Even arrows have the feathers on the back at a slight angle so the arrow spins as it moves forwards.

Aerodynamics becomes quite the black art when fluid flow (in this case, air) reaches the magic "Reynold's number." Ahh, the power of math!

The camera work in baseball these days is outstanding. If Wakefield pitches again, watch the slow motion. Watch the seams on the ball. A knucleballer is "on" (as Wakefield was last night) when the ball takes no more than half to three quarters of a complete rotation from pitcher to catcher. When the batter "reads the seams" and sees this, he knows he's in for a very bad evening.

- Bill

f.Channell · Post by **f.Channell** » Thu Oct 09, 2003 9:02 pm

Bill,
I wonder how the impact compares with running into a temple strike, or having one side of the head held while being hit as in our hammer fist.

I was impressed with Garciaparra and how he finished that play before checking his teammates. I bet most people would forget about the game and check on their teammates first.

Interesting information on the knuckleball, it's obviously effective.

Looking forward to tonight and another short night of sleep.

F.

Bill Glasheen · Post by **Bill Glasheen** » Thu Oct 09, 2003 9:04 pm

I agree with the Garciaparra assessment. I thought the same thing. BEAUTIFUL focus. Threw the Oakland runner out advancing to second!

As to the physics you mentioned, well nothing matches getting the COG of your body moving fowards, and putting a technique in front of it. If you are going to take on someone with a weapon, charge in and don't look back. Do or die.

- Bill