Boston College Women's Hockey 2018-2019: NO COMMERCIALS, NO MERCY

[FiveHoleFrenzy]

Re: Boston College Women's Hockey 2018-2019: NO COMMERCIALS, NO MERCY

Well, WCHA fans are also doing the ECAC historical research. It is just part of the service we offer.

Just wondering what the rest of "the service" we offer is...

[ne7minder]

Re: Boston College Women's Hockey 2018-2019: NO COMMERCIALS, NO MERCY

Literally everyone here except me is a WCHA fan lol

don't be so hard on ItB, they have so little to celebrate it is a shame to take any of it away

[D2D]

Re: Boston College Women's Hockey 2018-2019: NO COMMERCIALS, NO MERCY

Copy and paste from Candace in this week's Wednesday Women.

"Regardless, I think Northeastern has established itself as the team to challenge BC, and in some ways, the script may be flipped, as Northeastern hasn’t had any hiccups. Perhaps the Huskies are the team to beat in HE now, and BC is the challenger."

[TonyTheTiger20]

Re: Boston College Women's Hockey 2018-2019: NO COMMERCIALS, NO MERCY

That's an opinion someone is free to have, sure

[ARM]

Re: Boston College Women's Hockey 2018-2019: NO COMMERCIALS, NO MERCY

Don't let Candace fool you; she's almost as big of a BC fan as Grant is.

[D2D]

Re: Boston College Women's Hockey 2018-2019: NO COMMERCIALS, NO MERCY

Don't let Candace fool you; she's almost as big of a BC fan as Grant is.

I don't see how that's even possible, ARM.

[ARM]

Re: Boston College Women's Hockey 2018-2019: NO COMMERCIALS, NO MERCY

I don't see how that's even possible, ARM.

Average it out over time. Candace doesn't spend every late March, April, and May in a near-suicidal despondency.

[TonyTheTiger20]

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Weekend preview, in which the salt freely flows: https://www.bcinterruption.com/bosto...ts-predictions

[thirdtime's . . .]

Re: Boston College Women's Hockey 2018-2019: NO COMMERCIALS, NO MERCY

Just in case BC doesn't sweep this weekend, despite its four returnees from the bigs:

Most research studies have found that the weighted bat doughnut has a positive mental effect yet negative physical effect. The "kinesthetic illusion" created by the bat doughnut makes players believe they are swinging the standard bat post warm-up with the bat doughnut when the subsequent swings are in fact, slower.[6] This effect influences batters hitting mechanics and timing of swing.

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[ARM]

Re: Boston College Women's Hockey 2018-2019: NO COMMERCIALS, NO MERCY

Weekend preview, in which the salt freely flows: https://www.bcinterruption.com/bosto...ts-predictions

To temper your level of being upset, you should look into the 2004 Frozen Four from the perspective of Dartmouth and St. Lawrence. The BS that BC had to withstand here is more on the order of 2009-2010 Cornell, if that. The international obligations cost Cornell a chance to host a quarterfinal, but didn't keep the Big Red out of the NCAA Championship game. The Big Green and Saints had to deal with BS of a higher magnitude.

[TonyTheTiger20]

Just in case BC doesn't sweep this weekend, despite its four returnees from the bigs:

Most research studies have found that the weighted bat doughnut has a positive mental effect yet negative physical effect. The "kinesthetic illusion" created by the bat doughnut makes players believe they are swinging the standard bat post warm-up with the bat doughnut when the subsequent swings are in fact, slower.[6] This effect influences batters hitting mechanics and timing of swing.

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Oh this is interesting I did not know this

[thirdtime's . . .]

Re: Boston College Women's Hockey 2018-2019: NO COMMERCIALS, NO MERCY

Oh this is interesting I did not know this

Apparently the BoSox hitters don't either

[TonyTheTiger20]

Apparently the BoSox hitters don't either

I don't get it

[thirdtime's . . .]

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I don't get it

The world champs are blissfully indifferent to “kinesthetic illusion.” They use their doughnuts and hit home runs. (That should be encouraging to BC fans.)

[Blackbeard]

Re: Boston College Women's Hockey 2018-2019: NO COMMERCIALS, NO MERCY

The world champs are blissfully indifferent to “kinesthetic illusion.” They use their doughnuts and hit home runs.

For those interested in this sort of thing a couple of decades ago I either saw a program or read an article on the topic of physics and batting. Someone's research had shown that the goal of "aiming" to hit the ball squarely was all wrong. It was shown and the research concluded that ideally a batter should attempt to make contact with the ball a bit lower than "squarely". The thinking (as far as I can recall) was that just before impact the air getting forced out of the way between the bat and the ball creates a vacuum and the ball falls a bit...which would then result in the bat making contact squarely with the ball...or at least more squarely than would otherwise be the case.

Tried it for fun a couple times and remember walking away with the impression that there appears be something to this.