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Old Mon Feb 18, 2008, 10:27pm
canadaump6 canadaump6 is offline
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Originally Posted by Interested Ump
That's a shame. Often there is no time between end of work (for those that have day jobs, I realize many on the forum don't) and home plate meeting, to wait 4 hours to eat or drink is patently absurd. There is much evidences that as blood sugars drop, abilities, especially cognitive and visual, drop with it.

We encourage our Contractors to allow this and to a one, they have. We do require our guys to belly up the money, that is a given and part of our IC contract.

How can they not? The players sit in the shade and drink at their leisure, eat, off their feet almost as often as they are on them.
Unless you're a powerlifter like fitump, you should be able to wait 4 hours to re-fuel.