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ronco : i was speaking from an omniscient standpoint.. the human body is a finite thing. it can be quantified even if we cannot at the moment. i'm including the things you mention as far as the unknowns about the human body - even though we don't have it 100% mapped out, yet.
this isn't an argument, because i'm 99% sure we agree on teh basics about "clutch". just going to clarify what i mean, because i think it was inclusive of what you were saying for the most part.
even the things you mention are limited per person based on their dna, diet, workout regimen etc etc etc including all that we don't udnerstand. even psychosomatic stuff.
when i say 100% yield, i mean getting the absolute most out of your body and talent = 100% and includes all the nuances you allude to. a human (potentially 'anything' unless you have tech that conrols/quantifies/manipulates things down to the subatomic particle or even further) can never reach 100%, let alone go over that 100%.
skepticism within the laws of reality or context of a human is great. even though we need to be skeptical, we know things like a peretual motion machine isn't possible due to laws of thermodynamics. a gentleman i was an acquantance with passed away recently and he had a petent on a machine that supposedly generated more electricity than the work provided by the motor... it was just a big scam. his whole life was selling this scam to people, lol. a modern snake oil salesman. i bet any scientist would agree with what i wrote in teh previous paragraph about a human being and never reaching 100% of their potential in anything, and it's not about a lack of effort at all.
i don't think fight or flight type adrenalin responses are completely out of our control, either. heck, you can meditate or use a sensory deprevation chamber and reduce your heart rate significantly, or listen to some death metal and run yourself through some mental gymnastics to go nuts like you're about to fight someone right befor an AB.
plus, all the emphatamines these guys take thinking it helps in that regard, lol. they didn't have nearly the effect, if any, on the game as steroids have. that was the wonder drug before steroids, and like a corked bat, probably did nothing or possibly redcued output in many cases. being all jittery at bat can't help much.
lol, don't get me started on kreotene and other gnc supplements proven to do nothing, ever, lol.. make your urine expensive and burn out your liver is about all that stuff does.
understanding the corked bat is a matter of physics. function of acceration * mass. either it increases force or it doesn't... no mystery there during any time baseball has been played, yet it's a generally accepted myth that it is true. it takes X newtons of force to move Ygrams of the bat at Z accelleration... it always adds up to the same number of newtons delivered by the bat relative to the person swinging. the excess speed is inherently offset by the loss of mass - it has to be, no ifs or buts. it's an equation that stays in balance.
the only possible benefit is additional bat control if it's a bit lighter than allowed. that could increase contact rates and how pure you hit it. you aren't swinging harder or faster relative to newtons, you are just centering the ball better, if anything. still relative to overall talent (=dna, effort etc)
everythign in the universe works on cause and effect and adheres to specific and repeatable rules even if we don't know them, yet. even so, >100% is not possible. you can hope to approach 100% as a human, but never can we exceed it.
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