Simmons's team revealed the bat's amazing discriminatory ability by putting a bat on a platform and electronically manipulating the echoes from the sounds it made so that they came back in different patterns.
Most of it could be measured using a stopwatch or a radar gun: I could run, I could catch, I could throw and I could put a round bat on a round ball with accuracy.
HEADING HOME As a hitter, you have about two-tenths of a second to decide what pitch you are actually seeing, all the while attempting to put a round bat on a ball that is bending and breaking in three dimensions.
Says Brandon's mother, Debbie Patch, in a recent phone interview: "If you put a label on this bat that read, 'Use this bat and your son could be killed,' would you hesitate before using the product?
Bar-ry!" Bonds finally put on a batting helmet with one out, one on and facing a 6-0 deficit.
Put into bat on day one, Scotland could only manage a hugely disappointing 125 all out, with Robert Taylor top scoring on an unbeaten 48.
The banter about batting put a light spin on a surprising decision that was announced yesterday by Mets Manager Bobby Valentine and the pitching coach, Dave Wallace.
Facing a guy like him or even Pedro, you're just trying to look for that one mistake you can put your bat on, and I got it.
"He's a strikeout pitcher, so I was just trying to battle, put the bat on the ball," Bartlett said.
On one end, you had this guy Bruce Wayne who lost his parents as a child, developed a fear of loss (and bats) and put on a bat costume to cope.
