He took his eye off the ball... ;) If he had made the play on the ball, he probably would have been ducked out of the way.

Glad he didn't get hurt, but for what they are getting paid, they can take a few bats flying at them. I bet they have great medical coverage as well. :D

Lot of good "great medical coverage" does you when you die from being speared in the face by a bat shard. This wasn't a problem until the batters started shaving the bat handles down further and further for higher bat speed.

I hear what you are saying, and was mostly kidding.

It is not like it is only the outfielders shaving their bats to get the infielders.

Sports have inherent risks, and they are more than well compensated for those risks.

I would have scored it as an error! Any idea how it was really scored?

So you're saying that the amount of money an athlete makes is inversely proportional to the acceptable risk of the sport? Now I see why they called Michael Schumacher a huge pussy for wearing seat belts all those years! :rolleyes: If a risk can be minimized with a very low detriment to the sport (i.e. minimum bat handle thickness, or let's say stuff like fire suits and belts in motorsports) then by all means, make the rule that keeps people safe. How much money they make is totally irrelevant.

I'm sure it was scored as a hit. The definition of an error is when a player does not complete a play that they should reasonably be expected to complete. I don't think it's reasonable to expect a player to make a play while protecting themselves from a lethal shard of bat.

Has this one been posted already?


Luckiest kid alive.

(Spelling is location accurate...)

V8-Supercars... It is actually old, but this is the first time I have seen it and fairly amusing.

wow.
wasn't there a video where the tire came off and ended back on the car too?

oops, wrong thread.

This had me cracking up.

Language NSFW

Ken Block/Top Gear

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nUCsXnSqSys&NR=1

^That would be the best ride along ever. That car jump was as smooth as you can get.

You can get a free pair of those pants with this Ninja Hauler: http://sanantonio.craigslist.org/cto/1257065913.html

Sweet!!! I'll take two!!!
My wolf shirt's look good tucked into my zubaz.

I am amazed nobody has commented on the fact that Wolf shirt wear'n folk also viewed a book titled "How to live with a huge penis"....so there is a need for the baggy pants.

YouTube- Jim Clark Rally 2007 Leitholm jump
Now that's a yump. Watch 'till the end.

Bad ass.

F the rest, here is just the last one... YouTube- Jim Clark Rally 07 Barry Johnson's jump
Barry is my new hero. F Ken Block and his dirt/snow ramps. :) (Bob should like that.)

swing your arms low front to back...

http://www.techeblog.com/index.php/t...the-swiss-alps

Crazy Swiss single seater (I think) roller coaster.

Cool YouTube videos
 

I just came to realize that YouTube Rocks
Post and comment about any videos here that you want to share with your fellow Ra freaks..........

Welcome. What is an Ra Freak?

Forrmer worshipers of the defeated false god RA... He clearly thinks he is on Abydos. :)

Absolutely asinine...sparked by Cory in the S2k tonight...

ball in face.

YouTube- Soccer Goalie Hit In The Face

A penny saved, is a penny earned. wait......

I don't know why that was so complicated. The lady was right, she certainly didn't have to take the pennies... but if you refuse legal tender as payment for a debt, the debt has to be forgiven. She should have sucked it up and started counting pennies or just given the dude his car for free.

Letterman's Top 10 numbers with help from Casey Kasem.

this guy's stuff cracks me up

haha

EVOX + 1 horsepower

iGun Road Rage
Language NSFW

:(

Government Health Care on the way...

http://www.break.com/index/two-girls...st.html?mrr=we

Watch for the sick jumps!..

Do you know the number to heaven?

I laughed pretty hard at this. I don't even know why. Probably just one of those moods where you are crazy tired and laugh at everything.

I only made it to 2 minutes. I almost vomited

"Second gear feels like you're walking..."


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r3GYJTLHFvw&eurl

Cool run around the ring, and I obviously don't know the track, but it did not look like the greatest line in many of the turns and gear selection might even have been questionable in places.

An example would be that he doesn't even appear to setup for the slowest corner on the track, and he misses what i would consider to be apexes all over the place.

Again, not saying I could do better, just that he did not appear to be that great of a driver IMHO.

Actually, that was a pretty clean lap. Much of the "ideal line" around the ring is compromised by bumps, killer curbs, and plane old fear.

Specifically, you can't "setup" for the carousel. You just have to slow way down and limp though it, or risk destroying the car. And most of the apexes he's missing are either too bumpy/too high of a curb to risk, or he's missing by such a small amount that it won't really make a big impact on the overall lap time. Better to lose 10ths driving conservatively rather than lose seconds having to recover from a large error on a corner exiting onto a 3 mile long straight... or worse, shunt and kill yourself.

Think of the track more like a rally than a normal closed course track. You really don't memorize each corner, each braking zone, each apex, each track-out point. You learn the big landmarks (usually the spots where it's easiest to kill yourself), and then get a basic understanding of the corners/sectors to the point where you have basically the same amount of foresight a rally driver has with his co-drivers assistance. You expect laps there to be 9/10ths at best, because it's virtually impossible to run 10/10ths the whole way around... what with all the traffic, bumps, paint, curbs, etc. The track is just too unpredictable to run flat out and expect to survive the lap. And frankly, you don't need to run flat out, because the course is so long that even record setting laps are littered with mistakes. All you have to do is make sure your mistakes are all small, i.e. drive conservatively.

So, not to say your analysis of the lap is wrong... just pointing out that for the 'ring, it was pretty clean. Wanna see a filth dirty lap? Check out the (in)famous Yellow Bird lap of the 'ring:

I've seen that one, it is much worse. It just appears that for a "record" lap that it looks suboptimal in places. There may well be reasons for some of them, though I think he even comments on a couple of the places.

Like I said, it's like a rally stage more than a race track. Even Loeb will have tons of "suboptimal" corners on his way to winning an event by 15 minutes. Unless you're one of the top 5 drivers in history, or someone that's driver 10,000 laps at the 'ring, no one is going to be able to run an "optimal" lap the way you can run at T-Hill or something where the track is learnable and mistakes aren't lethal.

Did you listen to the guy describing the lap? He narrates why he goes off line most of the time.

Yes, and I did not mean to start a big debate. He mentions both some of his mistakes as well as why he avoids some areas of the track, so clearly even he thinks it could have been better.

He described the sounds, bumps, car loading, wing set up and even told you it was the splitter you heard hitting the ground. Great post Tyson!.. Most of the curbs to look large but this is coming from somebody that uses little wheels.

what the hell is the internet for?

Porn. Then low-cost generic viagra. Then big debates about dumb shit.

I agree with that order. But maybe it's just generic viagira ads.

a perfectly done Hook(the film) remix trip hop video

Nice, reminds me of the old Coldcut video.