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Prudy 2 year s ago
#12 Officially black and gold, not black and yellow
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Kill 2 year s ago
#14 - There are 162 games in a season, so that would mean the average team uses ~5200 balls /per game/. Even if that stat was supposed to be 850K balls for all teams combined, that would still equate to 350 balls per game. I call shenanigans.
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Teeny 2 year s ago
Kill,
Actually it's 30 teams x 162 is 4860 games, 850,000/4860 =174.8 ball per team per game, still agree that's not correct
Actually it's 30 teams x 162 is 4860 games, 850,000/4860 =174.8 ball per team per game, still agree that's not correct
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Jack 2 year s ago
Teeny,
2 teams per game, so Kill was right.
2 teams per game, so Kill was right.
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Ariadne 2 year s ago
#14 Thirty teams at 850k per season is 25.5mil. That is a lot of balls. The total number of balls used in a single MLB season can go over 900,000 baseballs. Each of the thirty teams plays a total of 162 games. Hence, every season has about 2430 games. And since we estimated that up to ten dozen balls used in a single game, the math is pretty straightforward!
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Nonie 2 year s ago
Ariadne,
No, your math is not straightforward. "Ten dozen" = 120. 120*2430 = 291600. That is less than 1/3 of your claim of 900K, which was for all of MBL combined. So the original post of 850K per team per year is clearly bunk.
No, your math is not straightforward. "Ten dozen" = 120. 120*2430 = 291600. That is less than 1/3 of your claim of 900K, which was for all of MBL combined. So the original post of 850K per team per year is clearly bunk.
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Rube 2 year s ago
Kill,You guys aren't considering practices/fan giveaways/etc? Where does it specify only games?
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Benjamin 2 year s ago
#16 They use nitrogen for most of the same reasons it is used in airplane tires.
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Lidia 2 year s ago
Benjamin,
my normal simply run-off-the-mill car has nitrogen in it's tires.
my normal simply run-off-the-mill car has nitrogen in it's tires.
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Obed 2 year s ago
Lidia,
The normal compressed air used to inflate tyres is made up of 78% nitrogen, oxygen and water vapour. So all tires are full of nitrogen and having pure nitrogen in normal car tires does nothing for you.
The normal compressed air used to inflate tyres is made up of 78% nitrogen, oxygen and water vapour. So all tires are full of nitrogen and having pure nitrogen in normal car tires does nothing for you.
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Carrie 2 year s ago
#2 More records thanks to chemistry. Shame he had to taint his natural talent by using PEDs.
#4 Refs kissed his butt more than they did MJ's. He was a bum!
#4 Refs kissed his butt more than they did MJ's. He was a bum!
Actually it's 30 teams x 162 is 4860 games, 850,000/4860 =174.8 ball per team per game, still agree that's not correct
2 teams per game, so Kill was right.
No, your math is not straightforward. "Ten dozen" = 120. 120*2430 = 291600. That is less than 1/3 of your claim of 900K, which was for all of MBL combined. So the original post of 850K per team per year is clearly bunk.
my normal simply run-off-the-mill car has nitrogen in it's tires.
The normal compressed air used to inflate tyres is made up of 78% nitrogen, oxygen and water vapour. So all tires are full of nitrogen and having pure nitrogen in normal car tires does nothing for you.
#4 Refs kissed his butt more than they did MJ's. He was a bum!