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Nice promotion; too bad it sucks
Topic Started: Wed Mar 26, 2008 4:14 pm (48 Views)
yankee242B
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I'm a lead farmer, motherf...

The Reds placed a new Toyota Tundra pickup truck in center field and said that if any Cincinatti player hits it with a homer, a fan would with the vehicle.

There's just one little, tiny problem with that idea:
http://deadspin.com/372461/hit-this-truck-...-of-omniscience

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I marked it at 502 feet horizontally and 65 feet above field level. On a calm, 70 degree day, a player would have to hit the ball at 134.5 mph off the bat, which is beyond the realm of possibility using MLB baseballs and MLB bats.

With a 15 mph tail wind and a 90 degree day, a hit of 122.7 mph would reach the truck. That is in fact possible by someone like Alex Rodriguez, or maybe Wily Mo Pena, but I doubt a lefty could hit one that hard in that direction. Also, at 500 horizontal feet from home plate, that's quite a lucky shot to go in just the right direction. And by the way, last year one home run was hit at GABP in wind of 15 mph or greater. It just doesn't get that windy at game time there...
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dbacksfan
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WTf is up with the reds pulling all this bullshit lately.
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JoeCoolMan24
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I got Alicia Sacramone

So A) It will never happen.

and

B) If it does, you get a nice hole in your truck from the ball that just hit it....
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