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August 28, 2016
SportsFilter: The Sunday Huddle:
A place to discuss the sports stories that aren't making news, share links that aren't quite front-page material, and diagram plays on your hand. Remember to count to five Mississippi before commenting in anger.
grum, I've asked this different places, and nobody seems to know the definite answer. Why do balls hit in Rogers Centre sound so different than other parks? Is it acoustics? Different microphones? The Canadian exchange rate on sound waves?
posted by MeatSaber at 09:05 PM on August 28, 2016
Right. It's a metric sound, which, as you may remember, is the unit of sound that Jimmy Carter tried to get the US to adopt back in the '70s after hearing Rush's "A Farewell to Kings" one wild night with Willie Nelson atop the White House. #highasshit #prog4ever
posted by NoMich at 09:15 PM on August 28, 2016
Why do balls hit in Rogers Centre sound so different than other parks? Is it acoustics? Different microphones?
Accoustics (the dome) and mic locations are the prime suspects, but no one is sure why.
There have been a few too many times where the batter's response to striking out swinging was very understandable to the viewing audience, including one time where Josh Donaldson was caught telling the Angels' dugout "From you? Check my clock!"...or something very similar.
posted by grum@work at 09:56 PM on August 28, 2016
Thanks, both of you. I've had a lot of free time on my hands lately, and one of the things I fill the time with on occasion is sports highlights on YouTube. I noticed this a while back, but it never occurred to me to bring it up here until you posted those videos...
posted by MeatSaber at 10:16 PM on August 28, 2016
Here is the French call for the Donaldson hat trick.
UN! DEUX! TROIS!
And here he is with all the hats!
posted by grum@work at 10:48 PM on August 28, 2016
If a woman ever walks up to me in a bar and asks me if I believe in reincarnation, now I know what (one of) my answer(s) will be.
posted by beaverboard at 06:55 AM on August 29, 2016
Why do balls hit in Rogers Centre sound so different
The answer is obvious. Everything in Canada has to be in two languages, French and English. In order to comply with this regulation the sound system must be modified. Thus, what you hear is a combination of "coup sur baton" and "crack of the bat". This is not easy, so the sound is quite different in Canada. The sound system for the Montreal Expos had the same problem, except it tended more to the French language, while the system in Toronto tends toward the English.
posted by Howard_T at 04:28 PM on August 29, 2016
Hat trick day!
365 days ago
Today
It's an (almost...damn leap year) annual tradition!