one double, one triple

I’ve seen high schoolers field that ball over Aviles better.

And we’ll look for you next year when you let your body go to pot after saying “I do”!

We had a fun little run there in 4th place. We all had to know it would end sometime; the good times always do /snark

this turned ugly in a heartbeat.

Josh Newman, you are dead to me. You are worse than John Cooper.

Apparently the pool there is 3 meters deep, instead of the typical 2 meters.

This story talks about some other aspects of the pool that might be contributing to faster times:

“It’s by far the fastest pool in the world,” says Rowdy Gaines, an Olympic medalist and swimming commentator for Olympic broadcaster NBC. “If you step into this arena, you’ll see a thing of beauty. ... It’s really a thing of absolute beauty.”

Gaines is not referring to the futuristic exterior. He focuses on the design of the pool, which discourages turbulence and encourages speed.

“I’m talking about deep water,” Gaines explains. “It’s a perfect depth because if it’s too deep, you lose your sense of vision and where you’re at in the pool. But it’s just deep enough to where the waves dissipate (and) the turbulence dissipates down to the bottom.”

The Water Cube pool also has 10 lanes instead of eight. Waves churned up during races don’t bounce back into the swimming lanes. Waves that reach the sides are siphoned off by perforated gutters.

“It’s physics and it’s not sports, but it makes sense,” says Christine Brennan, a veteran of 13 Olympics and an Olympics columnist for USA Today. “You make a deeper and a wider pool, and you … give all of those waves and all of that splashing and all of that moving water a chance to move away from the swimmers and get out of their way, which makes them go faster. It’s as simple as that.”

The Water Cube pool is close to 10 feet deep. That’s 3 feet deeper than the pools of the past. The lane lines that separate swimmers are called wave eaters because they dissipate turbulent water. The goal is to make the water as flat and clear as possible, despite the churning that swimmers create.

It almost sounds to me like a situation where every ballpark brought in the fences 40 feet and then we all marveled at people hitting 80 home runs

He was placed on waivers. That should tell us something.