Tigers announcers going on about launch angle/speed

[Tlaker]

I am officially too old anymore…. Tiger radio announcer tonight, complaining about a ball leaving a Tiger player’s bat at x/mph plus y/launch angle and the ball didn’t leave the yard!! They couldn’t believe that was even possible without being a home run!!

I have got to say, I have never ever heard MLB radio announcer’s bringing up the math during the play by play on what it should take to get a ball over the fence….. just weird what the game has become! And it’s not for the better…..frickin nerds.

Can you imagine these geeks doing the math on Mazeroski’s homer during the play….or Joe Carter’s, or Bobby Thompson’s!

Can’t stand the pencil geeks taking over the game…..makes for such a sterile less organic event!

Nobody more sterile and boring than Rocco btw

[Cory Engelhardt]

I'm old too (whatever your definition of old is) but I have to say I very much enjoy data and numbers. More information helps me appreciate the game I grew up and love even more. 

To each their own I guess. 

[bean5302]

On 4/21/2025 at 8:40 PM, Tlaker said:

I am officially too old anymore…. Tiger radio announcer tonight, complaining about a ball leaving a Tiger player’s bat at x/mph plus y/launch angle and the ball didn’t leave the yard!! They couldn’t believe that was even possible without being a home run!!

I have got to say, I have never ever heard MLB radio announcer’s bringing up the math during the play by play on what it should take to get a ball over the fence….. just weird what the game has become! And it’s not for the better…..frickin nerds.

Can you imagine these geeks doing the math on Mazeroski’s homer during the play….or Joe Carter’s, or Bobby Thompson’s!

Can’t stand the pencil geeks taking over the game…..makes for such a sterile less organic event!

Nobody more sterile and boring than Rocco btw

This is what the announcers said. "The ball was absolutely rocketed off the bat! The way it sounded and came off at a great angle, a perfect long fly ball, I thought it was landing way up into the outfield seats for sure. How does that not wind up in the stands? Was the wind gusting in just for that hit? Man, that should have been gone!"

But, the announcers provided the information in a way somebody familiar with the game could image in their heads rather than with descriptive superlatives. It's not like launch angles or exit velocities are hard to understand or visualize with 5 minutes of thought and a couple references.

While I agree that most people prefer the superlatives because it's artistic and colorful, the "math" they did was little more than just a colder, but more accurate description of the play.