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From: hhenderson@vax.clarku.edu
Subject: RE: Game Length (was Re: Braves Update!!
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ecaxron@ariel.lerc.nasa.gov (Ron Graham) writes:

>I think that, everything else being equal, it's not too much to ask that
>if a weeknight game can be shortened by half-an-hour by cutting out warmup
>pitches, dawdling outside the batter's box, commerical time-outs and that
>sort of thing, I'm not asking for too much.

How do you know they can be shortened by half-an-hour?  Has anybody done a
study to determine how much time is actually "wasted" -- say, in these A's
games?

Heather
HHENDERSON@vax.clarku.edu
