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From: [email protected] (Mike Jones)
Subject: Re: Game Length (was Re: Braves Update!!
Reply-To: [email protected]
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[email protected] writes:
>In article <[email protected]>,
>[email protected] (Sherri Nichols) writes:
> [stuff about Ron Gant incident deleted]
>> A reasonable umpire would do as he's been instructed to do this season: get
>> the batters back in the box sooner to try to cut down on the ridiculous
>> length of games. I for one am glad to see this happen, (!!!!)
> I agree that Hirschbeck was just doing what he was instructed to do
>and also that Gant should have listened to him. However, what is with this
>policy of trying to speed up the games. You are the first person
>( non-mediot ) I have seen endorse this policy. I have no problem with the
>length of games at all and am tired of the ESPN crowd ( and other announcers )
>bitching about it. I have never been in a ballpark filled with people looking
>at their watches and shouting "Hurry up!" If I cough up big bucks for a
>ticket, I don't mind a game that last more than 2:10. I really don't
>understand it.
> Games are longer now for several reasons:...[stuff deleted]
> Maybe I am just a ne'er-do-well with nothing better to do, but I
>would like to hear reasons why the longer games upset you.
Well, I don't want shorter games *per se*, but I would like for them to stop
*wasting* so much time during games. The Gant incident is a perfect example.
When a guy comes to the plate, he should be up there to hit, not show off
(or show up the umpire, which is clearly what Gant was doing). I feel like
writing a fan letter to Hirschbeck.
Mike Jones | AIX High-End Development | [email protected]
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