eelgrass
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Today Cal Ripken will be inducted into the baseball Hall of Fame along with Tony Gwynn. Both are very deserving IMO.
One of Cal Ripkens accomplishments is the fact that he played in a record 2632 consecutive games. I got to thinking about that, so follow along with me for a minute.
Lets say the average baseball game is 3 hours long. Half of that time one team is in the dugout (on break, if you will). Except if he's batting or on base he's sitting there drinking Gatorade and spittin' sunflower seeds. So lets say he actually worked 2 hours per game. 2632 games X 2 hours= 5264 hours worked. The average work day in real life is 8 hours. So 5264 divided by 8= 658 work days.
Now consider that it took him 16 years (from 1982-1998) to accomplish this. That breaks down to 2 hours per day for 162 days a year.(162 games schedule). Or, based on the 8 hour day, about 41 days per year.
He worked 41 days a year for 16 years and he's a hero? I wish my boss saw it that way!
Never mind that he worked in front of adoring fans or never had to be to work before 1:00 pm. And got paid about $3 million per year on average.
Just something to think about. LOL! I was bored this morning.
Eel
Today Cal Ripken will be inducted into the baseball Hall of Fame along with Tony Gwynn. Both are very deserving IMO.
One of Cal Ripkens accomplishments is the fact that he played in a record 2632 consecutive games. I got to thinking about that, so follow along with me for a minute.
Lets say the average baseball game is 3 hours long. Half of that time one team is in the dugout (on break, if you will). Except if he's batting or on base he's sitting there drinking Gatorade and spittin' sunflower seeds. So lets say he actually worked 2 hours per game. 2632 games X 2 hours= 5264 hours worked. The average work day in real life is 8 hours. So 5264 divided by 8= 658 work days.
Now consider that it took him 16 years (from 1982-1998) to accomplish this. That breaks down to 2 hours per day for 162 days a year.(162 games schedule). Or, based on the 8 hour day, about 41 days per year.
He worked 41 days a year for 16 years and he's a hero? I wish my boss saw it that way!
Never mind that he worked in front of adoring fans or never had to be to work before 1:00 pm. And got paid about $3 million per year on average.
Just something to think about. LOL! I was bored this morning.
Eel
