# Questions too lame for GQ. **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [August 7, 2002, 9:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-too-lame-for-gq/122842 "2002-08-07T21:01:24Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![GopherGod72](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/f0a364/32.png) [@GopherGod72](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GopherGod72)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2002, 9:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-too-lame-for-gq/122842/1 "2002-08-07T21:01:24Z")
What would happen if a homerun hitting slugger type gave everything hes got to a 96 mph over the sweet spot fastball, and the baseball was made out of Superball material? I bet he could really smack that beeotch, huh? Yes, thats my question. ---
**Author:** ![Gopher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a183cd/32.png) [@Gopher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gopher)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2002, 1:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-too-lame-for-gq/122842/2 "2002-08-08T01:06:24Z")
You’re my god! I suppose the ball could pose a danger to birds and low flying airplanes. Hmm, that would be interesting to hear on the evening news. “Tonight at 10. Barry Bonds hit his Xth career homer. And in related news, NTSB investigators are still trying to determine the cause of a mysterious airplane crash. Sources tell this station that a superball was found lodged in the engine of the plane” ---
**Author:** ![d12](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/71c47a/32.png) [@d12](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/d12)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2002, 3:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-too-lame-for-gq/122842/3 "2002-08-08T03:58:16Z")
Golf Balls are fun aswell! Just don’t do it in your schools parking lot, you might just dent some cars and break a windshield _whistles like nothing happened_ Oh yeah, they go FAR! ---
**Author:** ![JimSox5](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/b5a626/32.png) [@JimSox5](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JimSox5)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2002, 4:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-too-lame-for-gq/122842/4 "2002-08-08T04:07:58Z")
I have hit both superballs and golf balls with my trusty Louisville Slugger. . .both of them fly like there’s no tomorrow. Superballs do go further, though. Oh yes, I’m 5’6", 135 lbs., and I’ve hit a superball two blocks. As for, say, Sammy Sosa, Lance Berkman. . .I don’t think the City of Covington would hold that superball. ---
**Author:** ![TheOnlySaneOne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/67e7ee/32.png) [@TheOnlySaneOne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TheOnlySaneOne)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2002, 5:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-too-lame-for-gq/122842/5 "2002-08-08T05:06:07Z")
I can see the news report for an incident like that now… "And in related news, several blocks city of Flint, MI was wiped out today by a ‘Superball’ hit by slugger Mark McGwire today’s Detroit game against the Tigers. The ball, pitched at 96 MPH, was launched into the upper ionosphere, and fell towards the city at Mach 3. It landed at approximately 4:30 p.m., three hours after it was hit, decimating three blocks of the city. Luckily, all that were hurt were two out of work mimes…" ---
**Author:** ![Fern\_Forest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/71c47a/32.png) [@Fern\_Forest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fern_Forest)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2002, 6:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-too-lame-for-gq/122842/6 "2002-08-08T06:39:56Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by d12 \* > \*\*Golf Balls are fun aswell! > Just don’t do it in your schools parking lot, you might just dent some cars and break a windshield _whistles like nothing happened_ Oh yeah, they go FAR! \*\* I lived next door to a golf course. And over the summer I collected over 50 golf balls. Took out my aluminum bat one day and smacked em all back into the golf course. Most made it a couple of fareways in. One smacked off the top of some guys golf cart. Boy did I disappear quickly. oh yeah, lots of fun, ehehehehe