Mythbusters - Baseball Myths

Watch what really happened when Adam and Jamie tested the myth of the corked bat.

Category:

Science & Technology

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• mythbusters
• baseball
• adam
• jamie
• bat
• speed
• crash
• test
• myth

[WatchMeShred]

Why didn't they just hit the ball off of a tee?

[ThugMaster143]

Wow the whole video was just fixing the fukin machine not the miyth

[tardxcore]

that was the longest 2:59 of my life

[AJhuntington1]

@WatchMeShred because they needed the secondary momentum.

[teammotoplex]

it dosn't matter if the ball is moving or not the only reason players cork wooden bats is to make the bat lighter so the bat speed increase the key to hitting the ball farther in baseball is bat-speed

[MightyJoeBlack95]

@WatchMeShred Because that would bring in human differential between two individual results which would make the experiment worthless and uncertifiable.

[allsports249]

retards if you got a tee and a ball +albert pujols=dust dust=ball

[michaelbarajas3]

@ajlepisto but why would you want to use math

[ajlepisto]

@michaelbarajas3 What he's saying is that once you can measure the difference between the two variables, the regular bat and the corked one, you can use math to see what the difference would be.

The only thing that changes is if the power increases exponentially, you'd need to measure it with SOME increase so you could see if there was linear change or not. I'm almost 100% sure it would be totally linear, so you could easily do this off of a tee, and use math to get the end result.

[michaelbarajas3]

@WatchMeShred but you wont get the right results. Yeah they are both constant. So it would be an experiment, but pitchers dont pitch 0 miles per hour

[WatchMeShred]

@michaelbarajas3 lol, they were using a machine to bat. That variable remains constant. The ball is not moving, that variable also remains constant. Ya see I learned all that stuff in a big concrete building called "College"

[michaelbarajas3]

@WatchMeShred No it would not be right cause if you just hit the ball off the tee it wouldnt be the right bat speed. You dont play baseball hitting off a tee.(unless your in teeball) Therefore your wrong and im right.