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Old 06-29-2009, 12:00 PM   #202 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by Spritze View Post
How circular is a selection that is a half mile "high" by 3000 miles "long"? Not very. That is more of a strip. Nearly a line depending on the map scale. So by manipulating Lat and Long one can get all sorts of ovoids, from very flat to perfectly round. It's a circular world out there, which is what Lat and Long describe, so of course the shapes they produce are always rounded.
You realize, of course, that I'm just busting your chops about it since your idea is probably better than mine, right?

Though I'm still right about the number and sizes of the minors in relation to the majors... but that's really a separate matter from the cities making up a particular minor league circuit.
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