A batter hit with a fastball hurts much more than a skater blocking a slap shot

[Boner_18]

Its science.

 

[bacon]

I don't believe it

 

[roguejuror]

This is true MrX?

 

[Boner_18]

Essentially speed and mass and thus force are the same. Puck has more applied force due.to hardness but only slightly (a baseball is pretty hard) while a baseball has a slight edge on the surface of applied force - a sphere applies preasure at a single point where a flat edge of a puck almost always applies pressure across a plane disburssing the force. Add on top of it pads and its really no contest.

Im writing mythbusters to have them confirm.

 

[bacon]

Seems to make sense and I can see how pads are big

hockey players are still much tougher though except for Sid THE BIB I'd like to see him take an Aroldis Chapman 4 seamer right in the face

 

[Saulty]

Let me do a test. I will throw a fastball at boner, followed by a slap shot and he can tell us what hurts the most.

 

[bacon]

Saulty you still owe us taste test results for organic fruit

 

[Boner_18]

Yes. I think hockey players are tougher in total... but maybe not in this regard when looking at total force. But toughness also incorporates intentionally feeling this pain. Most HBPs are unintentional

 

[bacon]

That's true and on that note fuck the Rangers those tough motherfuckers.

 

[PuckOff]

Let me do a test. I will throw a fastball at boner, followed by a slap shot and he can tell us what hurts the most.

Do you actually know how to take a slapshot?

 

[PuckOff]

A hockey puck has right edges / angles on it. I doubt a ball hurts more than getting hit with a puck from a slapshot and getting hit from the angle of the puck. The shit slices you open.

 

[Boner_18]

A sphere is all edges, actually its all points. The rim of a puck would also be a point, in that instance the disbursement of force is equal and the puck has more force applied because of the slightly greater hardness.

Yes a puck rim on bare skin will apply more force than a fastball on bare skin. Im sure in actuality a puck rarely (approaching never) strikes perfectly on the rim. And then there are the pads.

 

[Matty]

All I know is I would choose the fastball over the puck.

And I'd cover my genitals.

 

[Boner_18]

would you choose a fastball over a puck if allowed regulation gear for each?

 

[Saulty]

Do you actually know how to take a slapshot?

You take a stick hold it with both hands and hit the puck square? It can't be harder than hitting a golf ball which I can do very well. I watched Happy Gilmore.

 

[Matty]

would you choose a fastball over a puck if allowed regulation gear for each?

Puck for sure.

 

[betplom]

I think the message here is :

Pain - it hurts.

 

[betplom]

Matty, ask E if she would rather take 10 fastballs to the mid section or spend 4 hours in labour - birthing another baby.


Babies are a pain in the cunt.