Has anyone seen the show "Sports Science"? The premise of it is interesting: try to give a scientific explanation for things that happen in sports.

Episode 3 featured Steelers QB Ben Roethlisberger where they broke down different parts of his play. It was well done, and it's hard to watch it without being impressed. You want to see a big linebacker move quickly? Watch that episode and see how fast Luis Castillo gets to Big Ben. It takes Ben 1.5 seconds to do a 3-step drop and 1.2 seconds for Castillo to get off the line of scrimmage untouched and get to him. Truly impressive.

However, Episode 4 was crazy. The goal was to put some type of science into a cheap shot to the groin. This is a case of overkill, because all of us watching already knew in an instant what it would take science a bit longer to demonstrate: it's otherworldly painful.

So, they paid $50 to a 24-year old amateur stunt guy to stand in front of a tennis ball machine that spits out balls at 50 mph, and the goal was to let him get hit in the gonads. He was standing about 10 feet away from the machine. He also was not wearing a cup. The goal was to see how his pulse rate changed as he anticipated getting hit and then how fast his heart was beating immediately afterwards.

The results? Just prior to getting hit, his pulse moved from 72 beats per minute resting to 142, and then after he got hit, it raced to 182.

Right after he got hit, he couldn't stand up (for obvious reasons) and the paramedics had to help him.

Guys like him give other guys a bad name. How the heck are guys supposed to prove that they are an intelligent gender when someone like him volunteers to potentially destroy any chance of having future children? And all for a mere $50??????

For any of you who watched closely, can you tell me how the stunt guy cheated to make the demonstration genetically safer and less painful than it could have been for him? Trust me, if he had gotten hit dead center, he would have either passed out or started vomiting.

As for some of the other stuff in the show, they did a good piece on getting hit in the head with a major-league beanball: finding, it causes damage. They also compared someone getting hit in the face by another player swinging a hockey stick or a bat. Finding? Both cause damage but the bat is much worse by about 80-fold.

However, the scenarios for both hitting a person with a bat and a hockey stick were unrealistic. For the bat, the test dummy was stationary and the batter ended up swinging at the dummy's head like he was playing T-ball. I don't know a lot of MLB players who are going to just stand like a statue and get their faces bashed in by some bat-swinging maniac (refer to Jose Offerman in 2007).

The hockey stick blow to the face was also a bit incomplete as the guy applying the blow was completely stationary.  It also didn't account for the potentially concussive effects of the recipient as he falls and his head bounces off the ice.

Still, the show is interesting with a lot of cool graphics. Take a look at it if you have the chance.