Apparently, Gary Sheffield hit the 250,000th HR (according to baseball reference) against the A's Monday night. It was Sheffield's 2nd of the game and 496th career HR. Jay Crawford (who I think does an excellent job on First Take) said "And with that home run ... we did the math, Pete and I, our producer did the math ... Gary Sheffield has accounted for 0.2% of all the home runs ever hit."
Kudos to them for getting that right - the amount of rounding is fairly insignificant. Dana Jacobsen asked "Did you do Bonds?" Crawford responded "Bonds, point 3." Again, good job Jay. Dana, not such a good job on your response "Ok, he should be more, shouldn't he be higher than that?"
Crawford followed up with "If you have 250 home runs, you accounted for 0.1% of all the home runs ever hit in baseball." Again, right on. Unfortunately, they didn't leave it there. Dana said "I would like to see someone with one home run, what's his percentage?" Without consulting the calculator, Crawford adlibed "It's point 000250."
No, Jay, it's not 0.00025%. The correct answer is 0.0004%. What is happening to math skills in this country? If you divide 100 by 25, you don't get 2.5 ... you get 4!
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