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Something That Has Always Bugged Me

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Ed0517:

--- Quote from: Mira on July 04, 2022, 10:35:51 AM ---Was it? Unless they had a before close up, you wouldn't see an existing crack before he broke it over his knee.  Or there is a trick to it, which apparently there is;

According to The Hardball Times. Here is the physics of it;

It also goes into how a bat is shaped and knowing where to apply the force at the weakest point.  In other words, the players that do it make a dramatic impression, but it apparently is something they studied and perhaps practiced before hand.

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Both guys were carrying the bat back from the plate. Bo certainly hadn't cracked it hitting the ball, that was why he was mad.  The wood is more rigid across the grain. and breaking it over your knee (or helmet) is different than breaking on a pitch  - on a pitch the lever end is not having any other forces on it. Over the knee you push both ends and then block the middle.  Different driving a splitting edge from the side as opposed to the edge.

The bat, or the end of harry's staff, catches a lot of torque if it hits something at the end. Harry has to be doing something to upgrade the structural integrity. i think magic more likely than a vacuum chamber and resins. 

Conspiracy Theorist:
In The Law there is a disgusting and feeble piece of innuendo made by Triple Jay in Pontiac equating Harry’s ‘wand’ to an intimate piece of his anatomy.

Frankly I was shocked and appalled that Jim Butcher would stoop to such low tactics to get a cheap laugh from the reader. Frankly it is completely untelegraphed by any of Butchers other writing and felt very out of place.

morriswalters:

--- Quote from: Ed0517 on July 05, 2022, 05:17:10 AM ---Both guys were carrying the bat back from the plate. Bo certainly hadn't cracked it hitting the ball, that was why he was mad.  The wood is more rigid across the grain. and breaking it over your knee (or helmet) is different than breaking on a pitch  - on a pitch the lever end is not having any other forces on it. Over the knee you push both ends and then block the middle.  Different driving a splitting edge from the side as opposed to the edge.

The bat, or the end of harry's staff, catches a lot of torque if it hits something at the end. Harry has to be doing something to upgrade the structural integrity. i think magic more likely than a vacuum chamber and resins.

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What this has to do with the Files is beyond me.  But.  Bats can break without any visible signs. I've watched it happen on a machine designed to break bats.  One of the more interesting yet useless jobs that I've had.  Breaking one across your knee is an invitation to a broken knee. Not to mention soft tissue damage. But if you must, make sure to hit it on the flat grain close to the handle.

g33k:

--- Quote from: morriswalters on July 05, 2022, 04:34:20 PM --- What this has to do with the Files is beyond me.  But...
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As a spin-off from "the mundane combat efficacy of a staff," the question of "how breakable is a bat" seems reasonably relevant...?

Your Files May Vary

Conspiracy Theorist:
Actually baseball bats have featured quite heavily in the files, mostly in relation to ‘Snake Boy’  Cassius Quintus. He has received a substantial drubbing from Harry who mercilessly worked him over with his wood on their first time together and Snakeboy returned the favour in Dead Beat on their next hook up (snakeboy used a hook tipped knife) just before Cassius penetrated Harry and Mouse went down on him finishing him off. Butters did little more than watch.

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