http://www.metafilter.com/tags/gyroball Posts tagged with 'gyroball' at MetaFilter. Sun, 02 Apr 2006 08:06:26 -0800 Sun, 02 Apr 2006 08:06:26 -0800 en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 60 http://www.metafilter.com/50582/Gyroballfact%2Dor%2Dfiction In their book <i>The Secret of the Miracle Pitch</i>, Japanese researchers using supercomputers modeled a potentially unhittable breaking pitch called the <a href="http://sports.yahoo.com/mlb/news?slug=jp-gyro031306&prov=yhoo&type=lgns">"Gyroball"</a>. Baseball has been simmering with <a href="http://www.robneyer.com/book_04_gyroball.html">debate </a> over <a href="http://www.baseballmusings.com/archives/013449.php">whether anyone</a> can <a href="http://baseballprospectus.com/article.php?articleid=2240">actually throw it</a>. Seekers of the elusive pitch claim that <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daisuke_Matsuzaka">Japanese superstar</a> and <a href="http://ww2.worldbaseballclassic.com/2006/news/article.jsp?ymd=20060321&content_id=1357787&vkey=wbc_news&fext=.jsp&sid=wbc">MVP of the 2006 World Baseball Classic</a> Daisuke Matsuzaka throws one, and cite this <a href="http://youtube.com/watch?v=PQCbvYwHPoA&search=gyroball">high-speed video</a> <small>(YouTube)</small> as an example. Another video exists, of high school ace <a href="http://thejuice.baseballtoaster.com/archives/181026.html">Joey Niezer purported throwing it</a>. If it actually exists, the <a href="http://everything2.com/index.pl?node_id=1792187">Gyroball would be the first new pitch developed in almost 40 years.</a> tag:metafilter.com,2006:site.50582 Sun, 02 Apr 2006 08:06:26 -0800 baseball daisukematsuzaka gyroball pitching worldbaseballclassic edverb