RE: [asa] Explanatory filter

The angle is a real angle and the broadcasters are reacting to the replay rather than the live action so their reactions are not unexpected. Overall, I find it believable but I am not sure that I believe it is real. I am not even sure what could convince me it is real though I am sure that I could be convinced by evidence it is not real. I guess the question is, as long as the action is possible does it have to be real for the event to have meaning? Depending on what is being claimed the reality of the event it does or doesn't make any difference to me.
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From: asa-owner@lists.calvin.edu [mailto:asa-owner@lists.calvin.edu] On Behalf Of David Opderbeck
Sent: Monday, May 26, 2008 11:58 AM
To: Dick Fischer
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Subject: Re: [asa] Explanatory filter

Um.... they don't show you every available angle while you watch the game -- they have these guys called "directors" that choose the broadcast angle. Anyway, I don't doubt the thing is fake -- but I don't think the camera angle is a clue one way or the other.
On Mon, May 26, 2008 at 11:42 AM, Dick Fischer <dickfischer@verizon.net<mailto:dickfischer@verizon.net>> wrote:

Hi David:

Watch any televised ball game. That is not a normal camera angle. Also, the announcers would have followed the play, not remained fixed on the bat. They reacted too quickly to boot. All they had to do was to tie a thread to the bat handle and suspend it overhead after the batter threw the bat. The whole thing was a set up.

BTW, I was at a party Sunday night in Burke, Virginia and met a retired Army Colonel. We were regurgitating our military experiences and I mentioned that I was stationed at Nellis AFB going through F-111 training in the early 1970's. Coincidentally, he was there at the same time undergoing a course conducted by the Industrial College of the Armed Forces. While he was there they took him to a secret underground hanger where he viewed the remains of the UFO crash that took place at area 51 near Roswell in 1947.

Thought you guys would be interested.

Dick Fischer, author, lecturer

Historical Genesis from Adam to Abraham

www.historicalgenesis.com<http://www.historicalgenesis.com/>

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From: asa-owner@lists.calvin.edu<mailto:asa-owner@lists.calvin.edu> [mailto:asa-owner@lists.calvin.edu<mailto:asa-owner@lists.calvin.edu>] On Behalf Of David Opderbeck
Sent: Monday, May 26, 2008 9:33 AM
To: Dick Fischer
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Subject: Re: [asa] Explanatory filter

There are about a dozen cameras covering a pro game; the camera behind home plate might not be the one the follows the runner.

On Mon, May 26, 2008 at 12:25 AM, Dick Fischer <dickfischer@verizon.net<mailto:dickfischer@verizon.net>> wrote:

It's a fake. The camera operator is trained to follow the runner. He wouldn't have left his camera focused on the bat while the runner took off unless he knew the bat would stand on end.

Dick Fischer, author, lecturer

Historical Genesis from Adam to Abraham]

www.historicalgenesis.com<http://www.historicalgenesis.com/>

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From: asa-owner@lists.calvin.edu<mailto:asa-owner@lists.calvin.edu> [mailto:asa-owner@lists.calvin.edu<mailto:asa-owner@lists.calvin.edu>] On Behalf Of Randy Isaac
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Subject: [asa] Explanatory filter

How would we apply the explanatory filter to this video? Can we determine by probabilities whether it was edited? Or designed?

http://www.collegehumor.com/video:1775904

Randy

David W. Opderbeck
Associate Professor of Law
Seton Hall University Law School
Gibbons Institute of Law, Science & Technology

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David W. Opderbeck
Associate Professor of Law
Seton Hall University Law School
Gibbons Institute of Law, Science & Technology
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