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I don't think "it should be obvious". The world we live in is one where caber tossing, curling, boxing, cheese rolling, quidditch, and sepak takraw (to name jus

by joemi 1y ago

I don't think "it should be obvious". The world we live in is one where caber tossing, curling, boxing, cheese rolling, quidditch, and sepak takraw (to name just a few) are all sports. So "softball with a 16-inch diameter ball" really isn't so unbelievable of a concept that it should be obvious that it doesn't exist.

fsckboy 1y ago
i'm not going to get on a soapbox if i can't understand a caber toss, curling, cheese rolling, qudditch or sepak takraw headline, and but i will climb that tallest soapbox in the middle of three and complain if headlines are all so unwieldy that i can glean all the info i don't know about every sport also, a "16-in circumference softball" article still wouldn't even be allowed into the EU as it's not metric.
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dylan604 1y ago
a softball with a 16-inch diameter ball would really be unbelievable. A basketball is less than 10 inches, so imagine something ~2x the size of a basketball being swung at with a bat.
- wredcoll 1y ago
  Yeah, that's why we clicked on the link. A softball like 10% bigger isn't that interesting.
  - dylan604 1y ago
    if that was the only difference. the fact the ball is designed to get softer the longer it is played makes it so hits at the start of a game are different than at the end. fielders would learn this and change tactics based on that. normally, when the ball goes flat during a game, it is replaced. that in and of itself made it interesting to me as a standout feature.
- gwbas1c 1y ago
  I played kickball as a kid; as a clumsy nerd it was a lot more fun. I don't remember ever using a bat with a kickball, other than for laughs. It would work, though.
gwbas1c 1y ago
One of the things I like about Hacker News is that, when someone throws around a vague sports term, there's a massive discussion to just figure out the heck they are talking about. Reminds me about this thread about goats: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32191140 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32191140

by joemi 1y ago

fsckboy 1y ago

i'm not going to get on a soapbox if i can't understand a caber toss, curling, cheese rolling, qudditch or sepak takraw headline, and but i will climb that tallest soapbox in the middle of three and complain if headlines are all so unwieldy that i can glean all the info i don't know about every sport also, a "16-in circumference softball" article still wouldn't even be allowed into the EU as it's not metric.

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dylan604 1y ago

a softball with a 16-inch diameter ball would really be unbelievable. A basketball is less than 10 inches, so imagine something ~2x the size of a basketball being swung at with a bat.

wredcoll 1y ago
Yeah, that's why we clicked on the link. A softball like 10% bigger isn't that interesting.
- dylan604 1y ago
  if that was the only difference. the fact the ball is designed to get softer the longer it is played makes it so hits at the start of a game are different than at the end. fielders would learn this and change tactics based on that. normally, when the ball goes flat during a game, it is replaced. that in and of itself made it interesting to me as a standout feature.
gwbas1c 1y ago
I played kickball as a kid; as a clumsy nerd it was a lot more fun. I don't remember ever using a bat with a kickball, other than for laughs. It would work, though.

gwbas1c 1y ago

One of the things I like about Hacker News is that, when someone throws around a vague sports term, there's a massive discussion to just figure out the heck they are talking about. Reminds me about this thread about goats: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32191140 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32191140