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It starts behaving like a chaotic system, like the weather.
And that's great, because a lot of sports mastery is just recognizing situations.
Everyone says to "keep your eye on the ball", but it's actually impossible to do that due to the limitations of human reaction.
What good hitters actually do is anticipate the ball's flight path based on cues they recognize, from being in similar situations before in the past.
In other words, they don't see the ball. They just guess its trajectory.
Ah. But they can't do that against a knuckleball.
That's right. A knuckler's trajectory is drastically different each time it's pitched.
So no matter how good you are, there's no way to reliably hit it.
Thrown correctly, it moves so erratically that it's impossible to hit except through sheer luck.
...I still can't tell if you're making this all up as an excuse for why you suck.
No, it's real.
But you couldn't catch it, so it's also a convenient excuse for you.
And if it IS real, then why doesn't everyone use it? It sounds practically game-breaking.
Well, for one...
Knuckleball's one of the hardest pitches to throw in baseball. If not {i}the{/i} hardest.
Put a little too much spin on the ball or throw it just a little too fast, and you're basically serving up a meaty practice pitch that'll get hit out of the park.
And even at its best, a knuckler is a double-edged sword.
Batters can't hit it, but that also means pitchers can't control it, and catchers can't catch it.
When thrown right, even Min has no idea where it's going.
They say throwing a knuckleball for a strike is like throwing a butterfly into a mailbox across the street.
Even in the big leagues, catchers hate it.
And if I let it get past me, it could lead to the batter or a runner on base advancing.
With a knuckleballer pitching, the catcher has to focus so hard on stopping it that runners on base will have an easier time stealing.
It's a big pain.
So basically...it's hard to throw right, it's hard to control even when you do throw it right, and it's punishing if you miss.
Pretty much! No one trusts it.
Knuckleball is the pitch of someone with nothing left to lose.
And that's us.
We can try things that no coach in their right mind would ever risk. Because no one expects anything from us.
So we might as well take advantage of that, right?
Even if we don't win a single game, at least we'll have fun.

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Put a little too much spin on the ball or throw it just a little too fast, and you're basically serving up a meaty practice pitch that'll get hit out of the park.
Put a little too much spin on the ball or throw it just a little too fast, and you're basically serving up a meaty practice pitch that'll get hit out of the park.
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Speaker: Liz
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