Hmmmm. (760 Views)
Posted by:
Mall (IP Logged)
Date: October 01, 2002 09:35PM
Assuming that the east to west distance, the bottom of the triangle so to speak, is 15'. Assume also that the gradual swinging out takes place on a linear basis over 10'. Ask your young asst if the distance to 6w, the other side of the triangle, isn't 18' according to the theorum developed by his celebrated ancester. Of course, the 10' the horse has gone forward over that 18' needs to be subtracted out, so the horse goes about 8 extra feet, or about .37 of a TG pt. Not much perhaps, but I've lost & won a lot of races by lesser margins, which is not surprising. What's surprising is that we were able to figure this out w/o any help from an alleged genius who has somehow reached the dubious conclusion that a hot power hitting team with poor defense is going to prevail over a team with a vastly superior rotation.