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Brian Moon
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| drewwilkie86 wrote: | You're right, Brian. Randy is up there on the mound with a calculator and a chalkboard, running the equations for his next pitch.
I should know better than to jump into these discussions. |
If you are going to try to pooh pooh them with some vague remark that may or may not be true....................
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razeontherock
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| Posted: Tue Jun 19, 2012 4:01 pm Post subject: |
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| drewwilkie86 wrote: |
Does Randy Johnson really think about the rate of rotation on the baseball when he throws his slider? Does he think about how the air is flowing around the seams? Nope. And neither does anybody else, because they don't really care.
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I haven't read all this thread, and I'm not about to. Did anybody mention MF's credo, of just play a melody and take it up?
That approach has the OP's name written all over it ... |
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crzytptman
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| Posted: Tue Jun 19, 2012 7:19 pm Post subject: |
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| drewwilkie86 wrote: | | You're right, Brian. Randy is up there on the mound with a calculator and a chalkboard, running the equations for his next pitch.
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I'm sure that's the stuff that's done in practice. Just like musicians are meticulous about their technique during practice, so we can play by feel during performance.
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