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Old 04-21-2003, 01:39 AM   #62 (permalink)
couriers
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Headline News Bug

Robert Weber stars with cycle. He's now the 6187th player in league history to hit for the cycle! Bertram Tibbitts was the last player to hit for the cycle, doing it 7/15/2003.

First of all, this league is only 1 year old and there is no way that 6187 players have hit for cycles.

Secondly, the league started in 2001 and is now in the first month of the 2002 season, which means that 2003 hasn’t even occurred yet.

Lastly, Berthram Tibbitts plays on a Single-A team and hasn’t even had 1 single at bat yet, ever.
I would venture to guess that the above cycle was the first in the league and that the Number Of and Date Of Last cycle were randomly generated. The reason is that the following was part of the news headlines for the next month:

Timothy Delosreyes hits for the cycle. He becomes the 6188th player in league history collect at least a single, double, triple and a homerun in a single game. On 4/29/2002, Robert Weber was the last player to hit for the cycle.

This would mean that Robert Weber was in fact the first player in the leagues history to have ever hit for a cycle. If this is the case then the program should not randomly generate fake history information since it will most likely be wrong.
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