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Barton L Smith

@themagnuspi.bsky.social

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Amateur critic, beer maven, seam tamer, http://baseballaero.com. MLB Team Consultant.

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Barton L Smith @themagnuspi.bsky.social · Sep 20

Baseballs break because of spin, or the Magnus force. They also break because of differences between the air flow around them on two sides due to seams, which we call Seam -Shifted Wake. If you would like to learn more about it, check out baseballaero.com/2020/12/23/c...

Baseball Aerodynamics

The fluid dynamics of baseball pitches

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Barton L Smith @themagnuspi.bsky.social · 3h

Those bank commercials help

Barton L Smith @themagnuspi.bsky.social · 4h

Clearly a fudge lava lamp

Barton L Smith @themagnuspi.bsky.social · 4h

I’ve never understood these things. Was similar with Arod. Everyone hated him but he was out there for years.

Wendy Thurm @wendythurm.bsky.social · 5h

Who is the audience for his nonsense? Seriously, what do broadcasters think he adds to and who agrees with that?

Barton L Smith @themagnuspi.bsky.social · 4h

I have a long track record of Influencing MLB word choices. Haha

Barton L Smith @themagnuspi.bsky.social · 5h

What’s another pitch that we give a name based on the place one finger touches the ball? And it’s the finger that matters the least.

Barton L Smith @themagnuspi.bsky.social · 5h

It’s weird that broadcasts delineate knuckle curves.

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Barton L Smith @themagnuspi.bsky.social · 5h

Ball in the dirt, Smoltz says he released it too soon.

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Barton L Smith @themagnuspi.bsky.social · 6h

Gausman looks like he should be in a traveling medicine show.

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Barton L Smith @themagnuspi.bsky.social · 6h

I’d be front of the line

Barton L Smith @themagnuspi.bsky.social · 6h

Or just shove a sock in it

Barton L Smith @themagnuspi.bsky.social · 6h

Was looking forward to this game. Then … Smoltz

Barton L Smith @themagnuspi.bsky.social · 6h

Definitely, but why tf stop there?

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Barton L Smith @themagnuspi.bsky.social · 11h

I ready a book called "My Beer Year", which has an awesome description of the smell of the cabin of an airliner leaving Denver the day after GABF ends.

Barton L Smith @themagnuspi.bsky.social · 11h

Not saying that is the model.

Barton L Smith @themagnuspi.bsky.social · 11h

=LET(
angle, 270 - ATAN2(SQRT(3)/2*(D2-E2), C2-0.5*(D2+E2))*180/PI(),
clock, MOD((angle - 180)/30, 12),
rounded, MROUND(clock*2,1)/2,
hour, IF(rounded=0,12,INT(rounded)),
minute, IF(MOD(rounded,1)=0,":00",":30"),
TEXT(hour,"0") & minute
)

Barton L Smith @themagnuspi.bsky.social · 11h

Pro tip: if you have a hackattack, any model, this will give you the spin direction if C2 is the number on the bottom dial, D2 is the left dial, E3 is the right dial. Try it! 1/2