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drizzt3117 said:
It depends, I guess. I always found hitting a bit harder (even though I was pretty good at it) and pitching was natural for me... I think some people just have naturally good mechanics and others don't.
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pitching and fielding were waaaay easier for me than hitting. i played baseball (not softball) until i was 14 and the guys got way bigger than me (i'm 4'11" and pretty small, even for a girl). i was such a bad hitter that even when i played SS (which is what i did when i didn't pitch) they DH-ed for me. :laugh: i got like 20 at bats a season.

drizzt3117 said:
I think most of your velocity is generated from your hips, or at least that's what I've been told. It makes sense, though.
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this is truth. i could only throw about 60 at my best, though... you'd think with the size of my hips and the fact that i'm a girl i could have done better :laugh:
 
DrYoda said:
Wow, we've got lots of previous baseball players here. I only played two years of T-ball.
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:shrug: my whole family's really athletic. i played baseball and was a competitive figure skater. my brother played baseball and was like a soccer prodigy. my dad was a high school all-star baseball player growing up. baseball's in my blood.
 
dw2158 said:
this is truth. i could only throw about 60 at my best, though... you'd think with the size of my hips and the fact that i'm a girl i could have done better :laugh:
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the reason this is is because the biggest muscle in your body (gluteus Maximus) rotates your hips. You generate most of the force for throwing with your hips and legs, although your arms are impt too.
 
Pedie Packs said:
Hey dw, stop fkng hitting HOMERUNS!!!!!!! WTF!
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😀😀😀

drizzt3117 said:
the reason this is is because the biggest muscle in your body (gluteus Maximus) rotates your hips. You generate most of the force for throwing with your hips and legs, although your arms are impt too.
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right... which is why i always wondered why i couldn't throw more than 60ish. i have massive (ly strong) glutes, hips, and thighs. figure skating does that to you.
 
dw2158 said:
right... which is why i always wondered why i couldn't throw more than 60ish. i have massive (ly strong) glutes, hips, and thighs. figure skating does that to you.
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I think a lot of it is mechanics. I wasn't very strong as a freshman in hs and gained ~40 lb of muscle during the four years of hs w/o moticably increasing my velocity, some people do though.
 
I never played baseball or football - then again I didn't really grow up in the US... I'm a Badminton/Soccer/Sprinting person.

But I did play a bit of hockey when I was in Canada - I guess if I grew up here that's what I'd have ended up playing (because hockey is awesome! Well, except for the broken teeth)
 
baseball is teh suck. ESPECIALLY yankees & bosox. could they possibly take any longer?
 
Yeah I had the 'less than a month until May 16th' realization yesterday. It was nuts.

That's the day I move to FL.
 
ksmi117 said:
Wanna know what's weird?

Four weeks from today is May 16th. We'll all know where we are going... well mostly. So weird.
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Sammich117 said:
Yeah I had the 'less than a month until May 16th' realization yesterday. It was nuts.

That's the day I move to FL.
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Heh yea - but fortunately we are the lucky ones - we already know we are going 😀

And I know some of us already know for sure where we are going which is totally awesome :luck:

On another side note - officially scrapped my ideas to get a condo over leasing an apt today. Finally got mortgage #s from my bank, looked over real estate trends in philly, analyzed closing costs/selling prices taking into account amortization - the margin is way too small to be worth the risk (actually, if calculated carefully, I'd lose a good chunk of $ for buying a condo vs leasing an apt!!)
 
metallica81788 said:
Wow, all this baseball talk. I was never interested in baseball, so I never played as a kid. I only played soccer and hockey briefly until I screwed up my knee.
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i played pee wee hockey for a year when i was like 6. then i got sucked in by figure skating.
 
Bout to go aimlessly play racquetball... damn I love having no out of bounds 😀
 
metallica81788 said:
Okay just wondering how important they were.

I just really hate writing scientific papers and stuff.
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We don't do much writing, we've had a few short writing assignments (all for touchy-feely class) and they were all P/F assignments. We also have patient differential diagnosis forms we do as a group and turn in for PBL.
 
DrYoda said:
We don't do much writing, we've had a few short writing assignments (all for touchy-feely class) and they were all P/F assignments. We also have patient differential diagnosis forms we do as a group and turn in for PBL.
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That doesn't sound bad. I like differential diagnoses (at least I think I do now :laugh:).
 
Yeah, they're decent assignments. I'm not a fan of PBL meetings, but the forms are ok (plus we can do them online on google-docs telecommuting FTW).
 
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I have sooo many sources, so that could make things go faster once I become dedicated to the actual writing process.

Another good hockey game between Detroit and Phoenix so far.
 
JJMrK said:
What are you writing about?
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Rifampin's mode of action and bacterial resistance.

It's kind of annoying writing about how it kills, because all it does is stop transcription. You can't really expand much on that, and I was hoping to write a full page on it.

I should be able to write a ton on the resistance, though. TB has been fighting rifampin for a while, and now MRSA is, too.
 
JJMrK said:
I think you can probably write a page about transcription. How long does this thing have to be?
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That's what I'm trying to do. I figure I can insert a good bit of the scientific (obvious) fluff of transcription.

It only needs to be 5 pages. I can probably pull 2.5 pages on resistance.
 
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