mythbusters Stories - South Side Sox
Mythbustin' Part 2: KU Can't Play Without Big 12 Refs
Immediately following the game on Saturday, I received two text messages from different people reminding me that Big 12 officials can't save the Jayhawks in tournament games. As pissed as I was at the time, I didn't pay any attention to the comments and went on with the mourning. Then later in...
Mythbusters: Citi Field Kills Homeruns
This'll be a quick one. We don't actually know yet whether Citi Field will generally suppress homeruns, runs, hits, or inflate any or all of those things. Eighty-one games isn't enough to make any long-term assertions with any significant degree of certainty. Coming into the season we thought it...
Mythbusters 2: The AAA Lineup
Hat tip to Lookout Landing for the inspiration a while back, and metsblog for the title. Part 1 here. Cory Sullivan is _______: Versatile. Good at defense. A passable hitter. Not a reason Buffalo has been terrible, despite their great pitching staff. All of these descriptions are false. Every...
Helium Footballs: Busted
As narrator Robert Lee said, at 110 PSI you lose a football but gain a hat. In honor of this being Vanderbilt Week around here, I decided to write up a quick piece on a football physics puzzle. Does filling a football up with helium make it fly farther? In season four of the popular show...
Mythbusters: Is Jacksonville only a "College Town"?
Welcome to a very special edition of "Mythbusters". Today's episode focuses on an NFL team that is surrounded by poorly researched talking points and rehashed arguments that hold little water. Rather than repeat the same nonsense, Big Cat Country will attempt to settle these "myths" once and...
Does It Count as a Loss When the Site is Down?
I think for the rest of the season we shall refer to games like this--where the opposing right-handed starter expertly changes speeds and hits his spots--as being Sonnanstined. Mike Mussina doesn't have much in the way of stuff anymore, but he made up for on Wednesday night by throwing...
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