Let me profile the ingredients that lead to a 'short-night!' A looming 8:00 A.M. (Thursday) meeting waits its pending promise as one stirs into the equation a three o'clock (Wednesday) afternoon San Francisco @ St. Louis baseball start-time some three hours away from my home base; a 3 1/2 hour rain delay; major-league contractual expanding television commercials and managers who believe that their baseball knowledge is somehow validated when using five-to-six pitchers per game.
During such rain interruptions friends and mates can pass the time visiting, watching jumbo-tron 're-plays' of recent team victories and cheering as if it is happening in the moment or perhaps shouting out answers to video games like fourth grade children on a sugar-high. Another delay activity for we Americans is always food consumption. That 1964, World Series game I spoke about yesterday was played faster than last night's game and the cost of a beer and hot dog basket has increased in the interim time $16.75.
St Louis fans are knowledgeable baseball people and terrific beer consumers; that has remained their greatest summer-time into fall distinguishing trait! Gotta run...MEETING!
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