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Perceptions or Facts

“You play ball like a girl!” This used to be one of the worst insults of all time. It is quite a compliment. Softball seemed as only the girl version of baseball. The girls who couldn’t compete with “the big guys,” played softball. That underhand pitch, the size of the field, how much bigger the ball is easy. In reality it is harder. Recent studies shows how much harder hitting a softball is than hitting an overhand pitch of a baseball. The angle, speed, distance, and spin are just a few aspects of the windmill pitch’s difficulty. In reality, hitting a 95 mph overhand baseball pitch from 60 feet away is more difficult than hitting a 65 mph, windmill softball pitch from 43 feet away, as iSport.com tells us.

We all know that softball is simply the “girl version” of baseball. The field is smaller, the ball is bigger, and the uniforms are quite different. Most believe that these differences would make playing the game much easier. Girls are underestimated pretty often, but when it comes to softball, there is much empowerment. When baseball and softball get compared, most would always go into saying how much baseball is harder. The field is big, the ball is small and white, and the pitching is faster. All these descriptions are true but doesn’t make the sport any harder than softball.

Some sports can be very similar or different to each other, like softball and baseball or tennis and badminton. Sports like tennis and badminton are also a pair of sports that are modified towards each other. They both have the same concept, but many differences. The shape of the court, using rackets, hand/eye coordination, having a player on each side of the net, etc. are all aspects of the two sports that are similar. Softball and baseball both have the same general rules, like needing to get three outs and using a ball to pitch to a batter. They both have a first, second, and third base that runners run to so they can score. Though these basic and simple rules are a few aspects what these sports have in common, their differences are increased. For a badminton play to succeed in tennis would require extra skill practice and new coordinations to be formed. New skills would still be needed when a baseball hitter goes up against a softball pitcher and succeeds. The athletes, no matter how hight their skill level, are not prepared to face a kind of sport so similar, yet so different at the same time.

The sports, softball or baseball, have are countless aspects that can make one sport harder than the other. Just because the softball field is smaller does not make it any easier. In fact, distance and size make more difficulties to hit than a baseball. In baseball, the standard base distance is 90 feet from base to base, but in softball they are 60 feet apart. The fence in softball is usually about 220 feet or so. A baseball field fence is about 400 feet from home plate. The pitching distance from home plate is also different. They softball mound is only 43 feet from home, the baseball mound is 60 feet. The baseball mound is also higher because of the extra dirt under the mound, where-as in softball, it is flat.

The significance of these differences is how it changes difficulty. The softball rise ball, and the batter’s natural movement of dropping the bat when swinging. The batter’s effectiveness of hitting the ball productively go down tremendously. In softball, not only does the pitch rise, but it is also pitched at distance of only 43 feet. That is only where the mound is placed. After the big leap off the mound and the intimidating windmill, the pitcher ends up about 38 feet away from the batter. The reaction time the batter has to see the ball and to hit it short.

Baseball’s pitching has only a few difficulties, but the main one is the size of their ball. Because of its small shape, the ball has a better chance of movement. The pitcher can hold the ball a certain way and can make the ball do some crazy movements while approaching  the strike zone. The batter must make sure the ball won’t be out of the strike zone by the time it gets there.

It has been researched by an online myth buster channel, that the reaction time to hit a baseball is longer than softball by .045 milliseconds. If the baseball batter is pitching from 60 feet with the speed of 95 mph, the batter will have just about .395 milliseconds to react and hit the ball. A softball pitcher who pitches from 43 feet at with speed of 70 mph, only allows the hitter .350 milliseconds to react. Numbers like these can indicate that softball hitters will have a more difficult time hitting the ball.

Hitting a ball coming at the strike zone at 65 mph causes the batter to see the ball so quickly that they need to have amazing hand-eye coordination. The ciliary muscles in the eye takes time to contract and relax to see an object far, to close. During a baseball or softball game, this has to happen fast, and this takes time and finding the ball in the air takes time too. During both kind of pitching, the ball is blocked by the pitchers body at some point therefor the batter can’t see the ball until it is already in the air. This makes the eye muscles have to work even faster to see the ball and see it come closer.

To make this process quicker, the batter has to focus on a point in space that they assume the ball will come from. It can be easier to look at the pitcher’s release point. In baseball, this might be easier because the release point is next to their head, but in softball, the release point is by their hip.

The different aspects in each sport is focused on the view point of the player. A softball player might think that hitting a 90 mph, dropping pitch is harder, and vise versa for the boys. Let’s say that a badminton player tries to play tennis. They would believe that tennis is more difficult because of the bigger court and the size of the racket. A tennis player would think that badminton is difficult because of its higher net and the birdie.

Some viewers say that softball and baseball can’t be measured based off their difficulty levels. The two sports are too different for this to be stated. In the game of baseball and softball, pitchers dominate. The game is won bases off of who can make the other team’s hitters, hit less. Professional softball pitcher Jennie Finch is one who dominates every time she steps in the pitching circle. By nature, people love a good challenge, so professional baseball hitters like to face the all-powerful and mighty Ms. Finch. Professional hitter Albert Pujols accepted the challenge and stepped up to the plate. Because of Pujols not ever seeing a ball rise before, he couldn’t touch it. This got people thinking, if college players hit Finch before, then why can’t professional ball players touch her?

This doesn’t mean that the pros aren’t has good as they think they are because they truly are very good, but this just means they don’t practice hitting softball pitching as much as baseball pitching. This also could mean softball batters are pretty good in the fact that they can even touch this pitching. The movement of a softball pitch is completely different compared to a baseball pitch. Professional baseball hitters are not used to the angle. If they were, they would then be able to touch the ball more accurately. Due to the fact that it was Pujols first time ever to see this pitching, it was difficult for him. With more and more practice, there is a chance that he could perform better.

However, Finch is the best of the best, there is most likely a softball pitcher that Pujols can touch that is not Jennie. Another scenario was when Finch participated in the Pepsi All-Star Game in 2004; Finch faced more MLB hitters. “No sooner did Finch arrive at the mound the defensive players behind her sat down,” said Scott Tinley in his article, Why MLB hitters can’t hit Jennie Finch and the science behind reaction time. Though their assumptions are humorous, this states that Finch would go to strike out each MLB batter of the inning.

The batters reaction time to the ball has not been practiced enough to face a softball pitcher. Practicing this will allow a better timed swing to the ball. When athletes practice timing, they are making sure they can execute skills “without thinking.” By practicing how to come in contact with a pitcher’s rise ball, batters then will expect it at bat. Now that this a practiced, maybe even mastered, batters can then focus on whether the ball will be inside or outside.

This can prove that MLB hitters can be expected to not hit Finch on a first try, but being the professional athletes they are, they can practice and try to hit her the second time. Most hitters don’t see a second at-bat with Finch because they never want to go through that humiliation ever again. Therefore, trying to prove that a softball is harder to hit than a baseball is not reasonable. Studies can’t be accurate because the only way to prove this is if there were an athlete who practiced hitting both for an equal amount of time.

Baseball players can’t hit a softball pitch effectively because they have never seen that kind of pitching before. This is equivalent to a professional badminton player stepping onto a tennis court. Though these sports are very similar with the same kind of big idea, they are very different. With tennis, the net is low to the ground and the court is bigger. In badminton, the net is high and the court in shorter. Badminton players must focus on the speed and spin of the birdie. Tennis focuses on power and timing of the ball.

Let’s say a badminton player has played tennis for the same amount of time, we could see what sport that player has more success with. The player can give a better measure for what sport they have more difficulties in. The same concept applies to softball and baseball. Very little to no baseball players also play fast-pitch softball. If there were any who did, there is no analysis on them. Researchers have also done no recorded scenario where a softball hitter batted against a baseball pitcher. Overall, stating that one sport is harder than the other is too broad of a statement.

Some researches say that softball hitters hit less than baseball hitters because the kind of pitching is more difficult to hit. The top three softball hitters in America, as of 2015, all have batting averages over .500, while the top three baseball hitters hit just over .420. If hitting a softball is harder, then these numbers do not add up to support that statement. Because of the smaller softball field, the infield and bases are both shorter distance. The shorter distance will cause many more infield hits than baseball hitters can produce. There are aspects in both sports that make each have many different difficulties. The sports are just too different to judge if one is harder than the other.

Sandlot 2 is the biggest softball verses baseball challenge of all time. In the movie, the Sandlot boys arrive at their usual playing spot, and to their surprise they witness three girls on their dirt. Dealing with intruders is hard enough when people are on any kind of property that has clearly been taken, but girls just make it worse. As the ball players begin to make a compromise, both boys and girls make some sort of bet. The winner takes the sandlot; loser leaves. Softball pitcher, Hayley Goodfairer, challenges baseball player, David Durgano, saying she can strike out him out with three pitches. Accepting the challenge, David faces an underhand softball windmill for the first time. Foul ball after foul ball, both began to get tired and weaker. In the end they call it a draw. During draws, there is no winner and no loser.  The movie symbolizes that neither sport is harder or easier than the other.

The most critical part of comparing two sports are the view-points. When saying a softball hitter has a tougher time than a baseball hitter, the judgements are based from the viewers skill levels and their indication of the sport. The softball pitch can seem that there are more difficulties because of the completely different kind of pitching. The angle of the pitch is more difficult to hit because of angle, distance, and speed. Overall, the conclusion comes from within the view of the athlete.

Works Cited

A Women’s Softball Pitcher vs. the Top Baseball Hitters…Who Wins? (n.d.). Retrieved November 06, 2016.

CK”s Baseball 4U, B. C. (2014, February 27). What’s the Difference between Baseball and Softball? Retrieved October 30, 2016.

H. (2014). Difference Between Tennis and Badminton. Retrieved November 23, 2016.

Mann, B. A. (2011, September 30). Baseball vs. Softball. Retrieved October 30, 2016.

Sullivan, S. (2016, February 05). Baseball vs Softball, Which is Harder? – Baseball Fam. Retrieved December 05, 2016

The Difference Between Baseball & Softball | iSport.com. (n.d.). Retrieved October 30, 2016

Tinley, S. (2014, July 24). Why MLB hitters can’t hit Jennie Finch and science behind reaction time. Retrieved November 06, 2016.

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Core Value I. My work demonstrates that I used a variety of social and interactive practices that involve recursive stages of exploration, discovery, conceptualization, and development.

I have always understood that writing any kind of paper, essay, or story, to have some sort of quality, there must have more then one revision. In my life, I have had some trouble with doing this because I am a procrastinator. I am a very good procrastinator if I do say so my self. Because of this, my first draft is usually my last, and only, draft. Within this course, I realized early that procrastinating would be very difficult for my survival. Starting right away with the Stone Money assignment I began just a few hours before the deadline. Only having time for one crappy draft doesn’t demonstrate any use of recursive stages to be made. I had my second chance when we had to complete the Stone Money Rewrite. Any professor would say that I could have revised my original at any time, but I am a full time college student and college athlete; there is no more motivation for me to improve one assignment. At the end of this course I have learned to improve my time management, and I even began revising as I went along. Also, I now have a more fuller understanding that I will have more pride in myself, and my work, when I put in that extra effort for it to be my very best.

Core Value II. My work demonstrates that I placed texts into conversation with one another to create meaning by synthesizing ideas from various discourse communities. 

During the process of the research paper, I have found a good amount of articles, blog posts, and videos that relate to my topic. I noticed that most of them are greatly similar in some aspect. My topic was pretty narrow, so it was to be suspected that little research was done. Most of my sources connected in similar ways. I still used these sources because they always seemed to have one or more claims that weren’t in the other sources, and I would use them. An example of this would be seen in my Definition Argument. As seen in the works cited section, most articles have very similar titles. I used each of the sources, even if it was used for a few claims. I learned researching and reading through articles are important because even if there is only one good claim in the article, it can be effective in the assignment in some way. Also, seeing different kinds of sources will also help support claims are arguments.

Core Value III. My work demonstrates that I rhetorically analyzed the purpose, audience, and contexts of my own writing and other texts and visual arguments.

While writing papers and the multiple assignments, my audience was obviously Professor Hodges. I kept maybe random reader in mind at times, but for this class’s assignments, I was mostly writing for feedback. This can be seen in my Movie Image assignment. In this assignment I made sure that I was explaining every detail I could for the reader to picture the commercial in their mind. When Professor told us that the reader must see the image without watching the video, I knew what I had to do. In my first draft of this, I thought I captured the gist of the commercial well, and wrote everything the audience needs to know. I received feedback that I should make more claims in my movie image assignment. After I did so, I made a the next rewrite, and I was pretty proud of it. I also asked my mother if she could read it, and if she could picture the advertisement in her mind. If she did, then I knew that I hit all the points.

Core Value IV: My work demonstrates that I have met the expectations of academic writing by locating, evaluating, and incorporating illustrations and evidence to support my own ideas and interpretations.

Evidence to support a claim is support important for making the claim stronger. I learned a lot about this during the last three months. Claims are only claims and arguments if they are not backed up. Stating something is only a sentence, and does not have to be believed. If the claim was supported by evidence, then the claim would now be more true and correct. I have giving some evidence in my Definition assignment. In this assignment I stated multiple claims that were supported by evidence. I explained some scenarios where a professional baseball player struggled to hit a softball pitcher. This evidence supports that though they are the best hitters, they have trouble with the softball kind of pitching.

Core Value V. My work demonstrates that I respect my ethical responsibility to represent complex ideas fairly and to the sources of my information with appropriate citation. 

To write a persuasive paper, it is only fair to include other views of the same topic. Professor explain in the pass assignments that this is a must in our paper. It is also interesting to research a view of a topic that a writer might not agree with. This was seen between my definition argument and my rebuttal argument. The definition argument shows my first thought of my topic and the rebuttal is a argument against that. Doing this is something that I will take out of this class. This can be done in any kind of paper. I feel that this also goes into supporting evidence because the writer is supporting their claim while comparing it to other points of view.

Bibliography- Beyonce1234

Annotated Bibliography

1.CK”s Baseball 4U, B. C. (2014, February 27). What’s the Difference between Baseball and Softball? Retrieved October 30, 2016.

Background: This website article post has quick and easy to read bullet points of clear differences of the two sports. It provides measurements for each sports field and equipment. It also provides categories that each sport has, then a bullet point for each with how they are different.

How I Used It: I used this in my Definition Argument. I provide facts that I found from this website to my assignment. It helped me notice more differences that I haven’t seen before between these two sports. This helps support the claim that these sports are very different, but still have the same aspects.

2.H. (2014). Difference Between Tennis and Badminton. Retrieved November 23, 2016. 

Background: This is also an article with quick and easy facts about the two sports. There is also a table that as the same aspects of the sports, but states how those aspects are different. There are bullet point to that make the article straight forward and easy to take facts out of.

How I Used It: I used the sports badminton and tennis to support my argument. To enhance my claim, and make it more clear, I compared another pair of sports that are very similar but are different in difficulty levels. This website was used to support my claim and to persuade the reader. I also used this same article to fine rebuttals to the argument. It helped me claim that because two sports are similar, neither can be more difficult. Each sport has aspects that make them both difficult.

3. Mann, B. A. (2011, September 30). Baseball vs. Softball. Retrieved October 30, 2016.

Background: This is another website article that explains for facts about the two sports. It has some aspects that other articles do not talk about.

How I Used It: I used this website to enhance the claims I have made in my argument.

4.The Difference Between Baseball & Softball | iSport.com. (n.d.). Retrieved October 30, 2016

Background: This article includes many statistics about both of the two sports. The author makes claims about baseball and softball. It also makes other claims that the other articles don’t bring up. This article also provides many measurements and statistics.

How I Used It: This article helped me support my claim, and helped me use facts and numbers to provide in my paper.

5. A Women’s Softball Pitcher vs. the Top Baseball Hitters…Who Wins? (n.d.). Retrieved November 06, 2016.

Background: This article produces scenarios about a professional softball pitcher that pitches to some of the best baseball hitters. It also makes claims about how the pitcher and hitter work. The author also states how the hitter went through with each pitch they faced on the softball pitcher.

How I Used It: I used this to support my argument that the batters were expected to not do as well as most people think they should, since they are professional batters. I also used claims and facts that the article made in my argument.

6. Tinley, S. (2014, July 24). Why MLB hitters can’t hit Jennie Finch and science behind reaction time. Retrieved November 06, 2016.

Background: This article explains how batters approach hitting off of professional softball pitcher, Jennie Finch. It gives much background about Finch and her pitching history. This article states another scenario that Finch strikes out multiple MLB batters.

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Is it really that hard?

Sandlot 2 is the biggest softball vs. baseball challenge of all time. In the movie, the Sandlot boys arrive at their usual playing spot, to their surprise, they witness three girls on their dirt. Dealing with intruders is hard enough when people are on any kind of property that has clearly been taken, but girls just make it worse. As the ball players begin to make a compromise, both boys and girls make some sort of bet. Winner takes the sandlot; loser leaves. Softball pitcher, Hayley Goodfairer, challenges baseball player, David Durgano, saying she can strike out him out with three pitches. Accepting the challenge, David faces an underhand softball windmill for the first time. Foul ball after foul ball, both began to get tired and weaker. In the end they call it a draw. During draws, there is no winner and no loser.  The symbolization here can indicate that neither sport is harder or easier than the other.

Softball and baseball, in general, are too different to be compared on their difficulties. Baseball players can’t hit a softball pitch effectively because they have never seen that kind of pitching before. This is equivalent to a professional badminton player to step onto a tennis court. Though these sports are very similar with the same kind of big idea, they are very different. With tennis, the net is low to the ground and the court is bigger. In badminton, the net is high and the court in shorter. Badminton players must focus on the speed and spin of the birdie, tennis focuses on power and timing of the ball.

Some researches say that softball hitters hit less than baseball hitters because the kind of pitching is more difficult to hit. The top three softball hitters in America, as of 2015, all have batting averages over .500, while the top three baseball hitters hit just over .420. If hitting a softball is harder, than these numbers do not add up to support that statement. Because of the smaller softball field, the infield and bases are both a shorter distance. The shorter distance will cause many more infield hits than baseball hitters can produce. There are aspects in both sports that make each have many different difficulties. The sports are just too different to judge whether one is harder than the other.

In both baseball and softball, batters succeed only when they can strike the ball with enough force and accuracy to place it where defensive players are not. The mechanics of successful batters differ, but they need to be equally skilled players who practice responding to pitches that behave differently in the two sports. On average, the hardball arrives sooner at the plate, giving the batter less time to react. Baseball players practice to reduce their reaction time, or to decide earlier. On the other hand, the softball arrives on an upward plane, startling to new players and very disconcerting to accomplished baseball players. But given enough time to practice, hardball batters could adapt to softball hitting, and vice versa. Neither sport is harder.

Let’s say a badminton player has played tennis for the same amount of time, we could see what sport that player has more success with. The player can give a better measure for what sport they have more difficulties in than the other. The same concept applies to softball and baseball. Very little to no baseball players also play fast pitch softball. If there were any that did, there is no analysis on them. Researchers have also done no recorded scenario where a softball hitter batted against a baseball pitcher. Overall, stating that one sport is harder than the other is too broad of a statement.

Works Citied

H. (2014). Difference Between Tennis and Badminton. Retrieved November 23, 2016.

Sullivan, S. (2016, February 05). Baseball vs Softball, Which is Harder? – Baseball Fam. Retrieved December 05, 2016

Casual Rewrite- Beyonce1234

Professional Baseball Batters Vs. Professional Softball Pitcher

Should a professional painter be expected to complete a grand sculpture perfectly with out any mistakes? This painter only has painted  portraits, landscapes, and morals all their life. Doing something new for the first time is difficult in general. Just because this painter is an artist, people usually believe that artists are good at all kinds of art, but that is not always the case. Does this mean that completing art sculptures are harder to do than being a professional painter? Because a professional athlete is not good at another sport, does it make that sport a harder sport to play?

In the game of baseball and softball, pitchers dominate. The game is won on the act of who can make the other team’s hitters, hit less. Professional softball pitcher, Jennie Finch, is one who dominates every time she steps in the pitching circle. By nature, people love a good challenge, so professional baseball hitters like to face the all powerful and mighty, Ms. Finch. Professional hitter, Albert Pujols, accepted the challenge and stepped up to the plate. Due to Pujols not ever seeing a ball rise before, he couldn’t touch it. This got people thinking; if college players hit Finch before, then why can’t professional ball players touch her?

This doesn’t mean that the pros aren’t has good as they think they are because they truly are very good, but this just means they don’t practice hitting softball pitching as much as baseball pitching. This also could mean softball batters are pretty good in the fact that they can even touch this pitching. The movement of a softball pitch is completely different than a baseball pitch. The professional baseball hitters are not used to the angle. If they were, they would then be able to touch the ball more accurately. Due to the fact that it was Pujols first time ever to see this pitching, it was difficult for him. With more and more practice, there is a chance that he could perform better.

However, Finch is the best of the best, there is most likely a softball pitcher that Pujols can touch that is not Jennie. Another scenario was when Finch participated in the Pepsi All-Star Game in 2004; Finch faced more MLB hitters. “No sooner did Finch arrive at the mound then the defensive players behind her sat down.” Though their assumption is humorous, this states that Finch would go to strike out each MLB batter of the inning.

The batters reaction time to the ball has not been worked on to face a softball pitcher. Practicing this will allow better timing to the ball. When athletes practice timing, they are making sure they can execute skills “without thinking.” By practice how to come in contact with a rise ball, batters then will expect it at bat. Now that this a practiced, maybe even mastered, batters can then focus on if the ball will be inside or outside.

This can prove that MLB hitters can be expected to not hit Finch on a first try, but being the professional athlete they are, they can practice and hit her the second time. Most hitters don’t see a second at-bat with Finch because they never want to go through that humiliation ever again. Therefore, trying to prove that hitting a softball is harder to hit than a baseball is not reasonable. Studies can not be accurate because the only way to prove this to be so is if there were an athlete who practiced hitting both for an equal amount of time.

Works Citied

A Women’s Softball Pitcher vs. the Top Baseball Hitters…Who Wins? (n.d.). Retrieved November 06, 2016.

Tinley, S. (2014, July 24). Why MLB hitters can’t hit Jennie Finch and science behind reaction time. Retrieved November 06, 2016.

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What’s the Difference?

Some sports can be very similar or different to each other, like softball and baseball or tennis and badminton. Sports like tennis and badminton are also a pair of sports that are modified towards each other. They both have the same concept, but many differences. The shape of the court, using rackets, hand/eye coordination, having a player on each side of the net, etc. are all aspects of the two sports that are similar. Softball and baseball both have the same general rules, like needing to get three outs and using a ball to pitch to a batter. They both have a first, second, and third base that runners run to so they can score. Though these basic and simple rules are a few aspects what these sports have in common, their differences are increased. For a badminton play to succeed in tennis would require extra skill practice and new coordinations to be formed. New skills would still be needed when a baseball hitter goes up against a softball pitcher and succeeds. The athletes, no matter how hight their skill level, are not prepared to face a kind of sport so similar, yet so different at the same time.

When baseball is compared to baseball, the obvious difference is the gender of each sport. Baseball has boys on the field and softball has girls. There is no actual law that says girls can’t play baseball and boys can’t play softball, but this is mainly just how it is. Another difference is the size of the field. Both sports have dirt and grass, but the softball field is smaller than the baseball field. In baseball, the standard base distance is 90 feet from base to base, but in softball they are 60 feet apart. The fence in softball are usually about 220 feet or so. Baseball’s fence is about 400 feet from home plate. The pitching distance from home plate is also different. They softball mound is only 43 feet from home, and the baseball mound is 60 feet. The baseball mound is also higher because of the extra dirt under the mound, where as in softball it is flat. This effects each sport’s pitching as well.

The size of the balls are a big difference as well. The baseball is only 9 inches in circumference , and the softball is 12 inches and it is yellow too. This effects the weight of each ball. The bats that each sport uses also have differences. Maximum bats for softball are 34 inched long and weigh 24 ounces. Baseball bats have the maximum length of 34 inches and weigh 32 ounces. Though the length is the same, the weight is an important factor.

Even though there is are many differences in baseball and softball, there are also many differences in tennis and badminton. These two pairs of sports are both very similar, but require different skill levels. There is also a huge difference between the sports tennis and badminton. These sports are very similar to softball and baseball because they both are sports with the same aspect, but with different difficulty levels. Tennis and badminton are both played with a racket. Though tennis is played on a 78 feet long court, while badminton’s court is only 44 feet long, they are very different.

Tennis rackets are much heavier than a badminton racket. A tennis racket may weigh about three quarters of a pound; while a badminton racket is only just a quarter of a pound. This difference might change that athlete’s need for strength in their arms. To say that one sport is harder than the other is very difficult. A tennis player having to play a badminton match will have difficulty and vise versa.

Overall, for softball and baseball, the pitching makes the most difference. The elevated mound in baseball makes the pitch have to move downward to get into the strike zone. The baseball pitch also is thrown with an overhand motion. Softball pitching is completely different. This kind of pitching is thrown with the windmill, underhand motion. The mound is not elevated in softball. Because it is a flat surface and the ball is released low, the ball must go upward to make it into the strike zone.

All of these factors are important in playing the game. These are also important to take into when a batter is up to bat. Though these sports have big differences, they have the same concepts. Due to this amount of differences, there must also be different difficulty levels as well. This would make one sport more difficult than the other.

Works Citied

CK”s Baseball 4U, B. C. (2014, February 27). What’s the Difference between Baseball and Softball? Retrieved October 30, 2016.

H. (2014). Difference Between Tennis and Badminton. Retrieved November 23, 2016

Mann, B. A. (2011, September 30). Baseball vs. Softball. Retrieved October 30, 2016.

The Difference Between Baseball & Softball | iSport.com. (n.d.). Retrieved October 30, 2016.

Robust Verbs- Beyonce1234

Vancouver citizens are committing crimes to support bad habits. The “free heroin for addicts” program helps prevent addicts from continuing these exact habits. The crime rate from these addicts are far too high. Addicts have a hard time getting through their day to day lives. Daily activities such as jobs, interactions, and relationships are hard to maintain because of the fact that they are using. Because of their addiction, heroin users will do whatever they can to satisfy their needs. Breaking and entering and stealing are just a few of the types of crimes addicts will commit. Addicts have no limits to how far they will go to retrieve this drug to feed their addiction. This program won’t help to ween these addicts off using heroin. The program only tries to prevent rising crime rates. By providing the drug, addicts will be off the streets, which prevents them from committing minor street crimes. Heroin users will also be kept out of the hospital. Hospitals will then not have to put up with having heroin addicts as patience. This program gives people free heroin in the cleanest way possible. The city can be fixed, however, the addiction of the addicts will not.

But Enough With You- Beyonce1234

Money, without which nothing gets done, drives our society. Money has physical and nonphysical value. The government, including the banks, must be trusted to handle money with proper manner. If failed to do so, money would have to be put under mattresses. Little knowledge is known about how banks handle people’s money. Money should be known either as having money or not. The Yap Fei, US gold, French francs, Brazilian cruzeros, and debit accounts now seem similar. The money being transferred is unseen. Employees now receive direct deposit into their bank account, and must trust the system without physically seeing the money.

Rebuttal Argument- Beyonce1234

Is it really that hard?

Sandlot 2, the biggest softball vs. baseball challenge of all time. As the Sandlot boys arrive at their usual playing spot. Surprised, they to witness three girls on their dirt. It is hard enough to deal with intruders, but girls make it worse. To get these girls to stop practice their softball and leave, the girls make a bet. Softball pitcher, Hayley Goodfairer, challenges baseball player, David Durgano, saying she can strike out him out with three pitches. Winner takes the sandlot; losers leave. Accepting the challenge, David faces an under hand softball windmill for the first time. Foul ball after foul ball, both call it a draw. There is no winner and no loser. This is an accurate symbolization that proves that neither sport is harder or easier than the other.

Softball and baseball, in general, are too different to be compared on their difficulties. Baseball players can’t hit a softball pitch effectively because they have never seen that kind of pitching before. This is equivalent to a professional badminton player to step onto a tennis court. Though these sports are very similar with the same kind of big idea, they are very different. With tennis, the net is low to the ground and the court is bigger. In badminton, the net is high and the court in shorter. Badminton players must focus on the speed and spin of the birdie, tennis focuses on power and timing of the ball.

These two sports can easily compare in how important placing the ball is. The key for success in these sports is to hit the ball where the other player is not. To say one is harder than the other is unreasonable. Softball and baseball focus on different aspects as well, especially in hitting. Yes, a softball pitch has less reaction time to the ball, and yes, the angle is more difficult to hit affectively, but we can’t conclude this statement if a baseball player hasn’t practiced softball the same amount of time.

If a badminton player has played tennis for the same amount of time, we could see what sport that player has more success with. This can give a better measure for what sport has more difficulties than the other. The same concept applies to softball and baseball. There are little or no baseball players that also play fast pitch baseball. If there were any that did, there is no analysis on them. Overall, saying one sport is harder than the other is too broad of a statement.

Works Citied

H. (2014). Difference Between Tennis and Badminton. Retrieved November 23, 2016.

Causal Argument- Beyonce1234

Professional Baseball Batters Vs. Professional Softball Pitcher

Should a professional painter be expected to complete a grand sculpture perfectly with out any mistakes? This painter only has painted  portraits, landscapes, and morals all their life. Doing something new for the first time is difficult in general. Just because this painter is an artist, people usually believe that artists are good at all kinds of art, but that is not always the case. Does this mean that completing art sculptures are harder to do than being a professional painter? Because a professional athlete is not good at another sport, does it make that sport a harder sport to play?

In the game of baseball and softball, pitchers dominate. The game is won on the act of who can make the other team’s hitters, hit less. Professional softball pitcher, Jennie Finch, is one who dominates every time she steps in the pitching circle. By nature, people love a good challenge, so professional baseball hitters like to face the all powerful and mighty, Ms. Finch. Professional hitter, Albert Pujols, accepted the challenge and stepped up to the plate. Due to Pujols not ever seeing a ball rise before, he couldn’t touch it. This got people thinking; if college players hit Finch before, then why can’t professional ball players touch her?

This doesn’t mean that the pros aren’t has good as they think they are because they are very good, but this means that they don’t practice hitting softball pitching as much as baseball pitching. This also could mean softball batters are pretty good in the fact that they can even touch this pitching. The movement of a softball pitch is completely different than a baseball pitch. The professional baseball hitters are not used to the angle. If they were, they would then be able to touch the ball more accurately. Due to the fact that it was Pujols first time ever to see this pitching, it was difficult for him. With more and more practice, there is a chance that he could perform better.

However, Finch is the best of the best, there is most likely a softball pitcher that Pujols can touch that is not Jennie. Another scenario was when Finch participated in the Pepsi All-Star Game in 2004; Finch faced more MLB hitters. “No sooner did Finch arrive at the mound then the defensive players behind her sat down.” Though their assumption is humorous, this states that Finch would go to strike out each MLB batter of the inning.

The batters reaction time to the ball has not been worked on to face a softball pitcher. Practicing this will allow better timing to the ball. When athletes practice timing, they are making sure they can execute skills “without thinking.” By practice how to come in contact with a rise ball, batters then will expect it at bat. Now that this a practiced, maybe even mastered, batters can then focus on if the ball will be inside or outside.

This can prove that MLB hitters can be expected to not hit Finch on a first try, but being the professional athlete they are, they can practice and hit her the second time. Most hitters don’t see a second at-bat with Finch because they never want to go through that humiliation ever again. Therefore, trying to prove that hitting a softball is harder to hit than a baseball is not reasonable. Studies can not be accurate because the only way to prove this to be so is if there were an athlete who practiced hitting both for an equal amount of time.

Works Citied

A Women’s Softball Pitcher vs. the Top Baseball Hitters…Who Wins? (n.d.). Retrieved November 06, 2016.

Tinley, S. (2014, July 24). Why MLB hitters can’t hit Jennie Finch and science behind reaction time. Retrieved November 06, 2016.