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Seattle Mariners Cutting Down On Energy Costs With LED Lighting

Fans visiting the Seattle Mariners at Safeco Field this season may notice a difference in the stadium’s lighting. The Mariners have made their stadium lights more technologically advanced by replacing the 570 metal halide lights around Safeco Field with 578 GigaTera SUFA LED fixtures in January. LED lights are directional, which means that they focus […]

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Phillies and Yankees Would Face Off In a 2012 Twitter World Series

By Simon Ogus – Email  |  Twitter |  Articles The 2012 Major League Baseball season kicked off Wednesday night at new Marlins stadium and it got us thinking about who the best teams are at engaging fans through Twitter. It turns out the Philadelphia Phillies blow away everyone with 679,519 followers while posting just over 4,000 tweets, by far the largest “follower to tweet” ratio in all of MLB. The New York Yankees pace the American league with 554,000 followers, but have a very low tweet count of just fewer than 5,000, which is much less than many other teams. The Houston Astros and the Washington Nationals respectively have the league’s lowest and second-lowest amounts of Twitter followers; the only teams to...

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