15 (Possibly) unbreakable sports records
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How do you measure a quarter of a second? Not with a Timex!!
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Oh yes, good ol Carmel. They only have 179 state championships through the years.
We used to joke how you knew you were in Carmel?
There is a school bus going by with state champs on the side.
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Any MLB pitching record. Season or Career. The game has changed too much.
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In high school I once came in third in a 220. My measured time was about half a second lower than the guy who came in second. It was the first time timing for the guy who was timing third place, and he started on the sound of the gun rather than when seeing the smoke.
Human reactions are why all timing is electronic now.
the amount of time it takes sound to travel the distance from the gun (in the 100 and 200) to the finish line is relatively close to the average untrained reaction time.
So if reacting to seeing the smoke, you should end up starting the watch at about the same time you do hear the sound. Your timer probably was crap...in your favor! but good timers will use both the smoke and the sound to really lock in. At the very least, it meant the timers at our meets were pretty consistent among the lot. I could (humblebrag) pretty consistently beat the sound of the gun in the 100m, but it was more important to be consistent with everyone else.
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Uh, no. You see the smoke 0.6 second before you hear the pop. So no matter the reaction time, the reaction starts that much later if you’re reacting to the sound than if you’re reacting to the smoke. Whether the person is trained or not is about a tenth of a second, much smaller than the time it takes for sound to travel 200m.
What? It's about 130m diagonally across the track. It takes sounds .35s or so to travel that distance.
Me thinks you missed the day they taught pythagorean formula in math. Plus it's a curve, not a square with two 100m edges. The diagonal across a football field is a good estimate of the distance.
Edit: Scoped it out on an actual track on google maps (Uconn's track fwiw). it's ~120m as the crow flies from where a starter should stand to start a 200m race to the finish line. This is .35s....as stated....nowhere near the .6 seconds you suggest.
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The 220 on my high school track was straight. 200 m at 330 m/s is 0.6 s.
Not cool to bring up 2004 lol, that was just a historic run by the Redsox knew my Yankees were cooked after the Sox had back to back walk offs against Mariano in games 4 and 5.
Well we're all UConn fans though 2011 was amazing winning 5 games in 5 days, then pulling it off in the tourney.
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I was working in SE CT in 2004, in the middle of serious NYY fandom kingdom. I stayed up and watched all of those games, and then had to be on the road by 6:45 am to get to the office by 8 am. My boss was also a BRS fan. Needless to say, there was A LOT of coffee consumed over those 16 days. One IT guy humorously needled me throughout both series and wanted me to make predictions. My response - I'm a Red Sox fan, and a realist, not an idealist. LOL
Very likely to be broken, since it's an active streak.
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Secretariats time and lengths win at the Belmont.
Funny thing is it was an off year for UConn. No bye in the BE tournament. They were lucky to get a 7 seed in the NCAA tournament. But they went nuts at the right time. Considering the circumstances it was truly remarkable.
from what I remember, it was kind of rigged. Every boat had to be built in its own country and then sailed across the ocean to Newport. Each ship had to be built sturdy enough to cross the ocean meaning it wasn't going to be very fast.
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True early on. However in 1851 the U.S. yacht "America" sailed across the Atlantic to win the race around the Isle of Wight. Hence the naming of the trophy the America's Cup.
Incidentally, it is the oldest international sporting competition still being contested. The oldest U.S. collegiate competition, begun a year later in 1852, is the Harvard-Yale crew race.
No one will break Nolan zzRyans strike out record or 9 no hitters. No starting pitchers pitch enough innings, and no one completes a game anymore.
With the way it is going, just about all the pitching records are frozen. Not necessarily because of talent, but because the way the game has changed.
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Seven no-hitters. Ryan said that his no-hitter record is more breakable than the strikeout record, but that was 20 years ago, and pitchers pitch even fewer innings now as you alluded.
I responded to Sarge in the Sue Bird thread, and I got to thinking will someone ever break the record of 6 Olympic women's basketball gold medals? I think not, and if it happens, I probably won't be alive to see it. A woman would have to be pushing 50 to get 7 Olympic gold medals.
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Did anyone notice the 56 game hitting streak by DiMaggio, has a photo of Ted Williams?
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You are a tad late…check out post #6
Nolan Ryan was an unbelievable strike out pitcher but it turns out he is also the all time walks leading pitcher - 2795 - this exceeds the second place pitcher Steve Carlton by over 900. Not sure anyone is going to come close to that record.