What I hate about darkness is that waiting an extra 30 seconds won't be a noticeable difference. Another 30 seconds won't mean anything, nor will another 30 seconds and another, but it keeps adding up and it is hard to come up with a good moment to call the game. I had a situation like this a couple weeks ago. It was on the verge of starting to get dark, but we didn't think twice about starting the last inning. Of course the last inning took over half an hour to complete, resulted in two ejections, two idiot coaches refusing to go to the parking lot, a threat of a forfeit, a fan yelling at my partner and myself, and me fuming over what a joke these people were.
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