Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20130813:19:37:00
Can strike out the best baseball players. the bare minimum time it takes to initiate muscular action is half the total flight time of a major league pitch. just to initiate muscular action. a blink is almost as long as that. really, in order to hit that ball, you actually have to be able to predict the future. that's all based on learned cues from a pitcher's body and from the flicker, which is the flashing pattern that the seams of the ball make. that's all perceptual cues. if you face them with a softball pitcher, who has unfamiliar shoulder motion, they absolutely can't do it. i scored fast...