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Hello and welcome to episode 2152 of effectively wild,

a fangrass baseball podcast brought to you by our

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at Grolli fan graphs and I am joined by Ben Lincolmberg of the

R Ben. How are you? Doing all right. You know how we talked about the

sweaty jerseys recently? And they're still prone to sweat stains or whatever euphemism Nike used to describe the sweat stains, but it has now broken containment and come to the attention of a publication called Chemical and

Engineering News.

Which I learned about from our Patreon discord group where I learned about all sorts of interesting things. The textile

researchers are on it now. They're investigating what could possibly be

causing this informally. It's not that they're formally consulting, they're just speculating, informed

speculation about what's causing the sweatiness of the jerseys, the visible sweatiness.

This article quotes some experts, including Juan Innistrosa, Professor of Fiber Science and

apparel design at Cornell University.

He says textile structures are incredibly complex and when you add chemical finishes, the degree of complexity

multiplies.

So it sounds like there's any number of potential causes for this, why this has gone wrong, assuming this was not what Nike intended.

Here are the possibilities that he lays out here.

Performance Fabric's Wick Moick moisture using two methods in Istrocy says,

the physical method combines fibers of different diameters and shapes

to create channels that move sweat away from the body via the capillary effect.

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