re game length was re braves update ecaxron ariel lerc nasa gov ron graham writes i hesitate to make assumptions about other people when they write but neither of you two sound as though you have kids and you may not have spouses either i wonder why you say that i don t see why having a spouse and or kids would have anything to do with it it might if you brought your kids to the game and wanted them to get home in time to get to bed at a reasonable hour in which case i d probably decide to take my kids to games on weekends as many people do or else be prepared to leave the game early but from what you say later on you don t bring your kids or your spouse to the game as it happens i have a husband but no kids and my husband usually attends games with me extra innings could put me well past midnight even without extra innings if the score is beyond i can t see my family that night at all if the next day is a workday i may have to bag that as well i can see it s a problem if you don t bring your wife to the ballgame but that s a problem even if the game goes a trim hours as far as bagging work the next day i don t really understand why that s necessary unless going to a game also means that you consume vast quantities of beer i note that this is the case for many guys if you don t think you can get up to go to work after a long evening out then don t have long evenings out during the week all that stuff enters into my consideration of even going to a game if you say you don t care about whether the game is sped up impo you are saying you don t care where the time goes and that the game is for people who don t have families and don t have to get up for work the next day look if i pay between and apiece for tickets plus for parking plus spending my time and energy driving to and from boston plus spending additional money on concessions etc at the ballpark then i see going to a game as a considerable investment of time and money i can t afford to go to a lot of games hence going to a game is a big deal like going to a play or an opera maybe you have more money than i do and can go to games all year long so it s not such a big deal for you but i m not interested in having games sped up any more than i want to have die walkure cut down to a convenient weeknight version of two hours if i felt that going to a night game during the week would interfere with my family life or my work life then i d choose to go to a weekend game impo heather hhenderson vax clarku edu
