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James R Womack Date: Tue Jun 8, 1999 1:05 pm Subject: Re: Another use for SW | |
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On Tue, 8 Jun 1999 08:18:43 EDT William McGruder writes: > Now I'm not advocating making public folks' deepest secrets; just > wondering if any baseball players out there have used SW for their own > signals. Not likely because they have no reason to. The signals have to be demonstrated in specific situations. They are highly unlikely to put that info into print as they have learned the hard way. Cases of traded or dismissed football players taking the players handbook with plays and offering them to rival teams was rather common in the NFL and some college conferences. The lessonlearned was to tightly control the books and print as little as possible. Since signalled plays ar dynamic in that they can change in the middle of a play, they are of high strategic value. Thus, no team will tolerate their being inprinted form of any kind. It would be self-defeating. Thsi exception is mainly due to the fact that pro and college sports are major revenue producers so the folks in volved as paranoid as casino owners. In addition, sports signals in football and basketball tend to be converted into numeral data on the field and court to further prevent the opponents from deciphering the called play. The signals themselves donot appear in playbooks, that's how secretive they are and that's why coaches have closed practices so certain plays and signals are not recorded or seen by any means. Thus my statement that they'd "kill" you if you put it in print somehow. But your idea is very intriguing. It just doesn't apply to sports due to how pro sports is run. That's nto to say some innovative coach might decide that since all teams and all people don't know SW, why no try it out. i would not be really surprised if that was done. But it'd be short lived cause it opens the way for signals to go the way of stolen playbooks. However, societies are becoming more and more iconic. It's very possible that SW may be employed as a universal tool to communicate important and/or technical information via computers or other visual media. Thus allowing inter-lingual communication access. Indeed, we just might be the foreguard to a one language one world society. Then there's the international space station and the lingual problems sure to appear with time. SW is a logical choice as a tool to circumvent this to some degree. Besides, "in space no one can hear you scream." Thus, as signed languages are more effective to scuba divers than signals, so too would SW be nmore effctive in the vacuum of space (especially when radio transmission is knocked out) where you have a multi-national crew working outside the station. SW in sports? It does make sense in many ways, but the money motivated dynamics won't let it happen. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ o/ James Womack \o , <| Don't mince words |> __o/ / > Say what you really think! < \ __\__ |
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