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A-Rod's 600th HR Landing Spot Projection at Tropicana Field

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Fantastic analysis. I think there will be more grown men with gloves at tonights game than the kids. Normally I feel foolish packing one along, but if I had tickets, I'd definitely bring it.

Thanks. Yes, with 100k basically flying through the air, I could see it getting a little rowdy.

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Very interesting article, except for the ticket price graph, whose lower limit is $40. Why show a bar graph that doesn't start at 0? It eliminates the purpose of bar graphs - to visually compare the magnitude of values.

Tickets don't start at $0, and the average will never be $0.

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Very interesting article, except for the ticket price graph, whose lower limit is $40. Why show a bar graph that doesn't start at 0? It eliminates the purpose of bar graphs - to visually compare the magnitude of values.

Fair point, not sure that in this case it eliminates the ability to compare because the actually raw $ numbers aren't that important, it is more about the % changes.

With that said, when not starting from 0 a "squiggly" line should be used to make note.

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Baseball may be slower than anything in the world to watch, but this one of the things that always brings me back to the game - stats.

Slower than golf?

A good sports channel will jump around the course enough to make it seem faster than baseball. Plus golf courses are better to look at especially in the women's tournaments.
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