[jacketree]

I always think it's funny when authorities make nonsensical comments.  In 2004, Mayor Dinkins of NYC said "Things are not out of control and this isn't Dodge City" about New York and its violence level.  Murders in NYC in 2003: 597.  Average annual murders in Dodge City during reference period of extreme western violence: 3.

Maybe not so nonsensical Mick.

The murder rate in NYC in 2003 (population 8.127 million) was 7.35 per 100,000.

The murder rate in Dodge City in 1876 (population 1,200) was 250 per 100,000.


Don't know why I find stuff like this fascinating, but that's what it took to get me to comment on softball without beer in the dugout.

[jacketree]

I always think it's funny when authorities make nonsensical comments.  In 2004, Mayor Dinkins of NYC said "Things are not out of control and this isn't Dodge City" about New York and its violence level.  Murders in NYC in 2003: 597.  Average annual murders in Dodge City during reference period of extreme western violence: 3.

Maybe not so nonsensical Mick.

The murder rate in NYC in 2003 (population 8.127 million) was 7.35 per 100,000.

The murder rate in Dodge City in 1876 (population 1,200) was 250 per 100,000.


Don't know why I find stuff like this fascinating, but that's what it took to get me to comment on softball without beer in the dugout.