Science can explain many things. Maybe it can explain why the Cal baseball team hasn’t made the NCAA tournament since 2001.
Maybe not. But no matter how bad the team performed the last two years, the Bears hitting and pitching coaches can still explain how to perform well on the diamond.
KQED featured Dan Hubbs, the Cal pitching coach, and Jon Zuber, the Bears hitting coach, on a recent episode of “Out of the Park.”
After Hubbs and Zuber explained the mechanics of baseball to two scientists, the scientists explain the physics behind it all. How about we get those two scientists to coach Cal? Maybe the players will learn a thing or two.
But then again, both Zuber and Hubbs have coached major league talent (i.e. Brandon Morrow of the Seattle Mariners). Hubbs is also responsible for Tyson Ross and his bid on the U.S. National Team.
And while it’s nice to see Zuber and Hubbs lend their talent to educational programming, why not focus more of their knowledge on the team? Maybe they’ll start winning. Winning is fun, and it can be educational too.
Cal Baseball Featured on KQED’s Out of the Park: The Physics of Baseball [Calbears.com]
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Nate Tabak on Friday, April 13, 2007 04:15 pm
We don’t normally associate baseball with kinkiness, but some of Cal’s players allegedly bucked that trend.
As reported in today’s Daily Cal, campus officials “are investigating eight veteran members of the Cal baseball team for allegedly hazing six freshman”:http://www.dailycal.org/sharticle.php?id=24177, whom UC police reported finding at Evans Diamond in January wearing nothing but G-strings and shoes in 34-degree weather, much like what we like to do on a cold winter night. Two were blindfolded, according to the police report.
The six freshman believed they were waiting to do an obstacle course, yet officers did not find one, according to the police report.
UC police cited the suspected hazers, but the Alameda County District Attorney’s Office did not file any charges. Supposedly, the team handled the matter internally, but it’s unclear what that entailed since none of the alleged participants lost any playing time.
Cal’s coaches of course deny any knowledge of this, but did apparently clear the use of the locker room for that night for a “legitimate team-building activity.” According to the police report the Daily Cal reviewed, players questioned by UCPD said pitching Coach Dan Hubbs “knows, but didn’t know” about the annual event.
What we really want to know is the source of the G-strings, and what happened to them after incident.
The whole thing largely seems like no harm, no foul—pardon the pun. A few chilly balls perhaps. We think the team ought to make lemonade from this incident and try playing some games in G-strings to promote attendance.
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