It's About Time . . .

[Tim C]

No this thread has nothing to do with either Joe E. Ross or Imogene Coca . . .

I am still stuck on an earlier thread where we were discussing the "average" time of a varsity high school baseball game.

We had a wide range of estimates of length of games. We were doing fine until one poster decided to place arbitrary time limits on individual activities.

Here's my sitaution:

Game #4001 was a varsity high school game betwix two pretty good teams.

The final score was 8-7. We had a 5 run bottom of the first and a 6 run top of the 7th for the losing visitor.

We finished in 1:29.

Since the original thread I have been talking to local umpires and all feel "most games" go between 1:30 and 1:45 @ the high school varsity level (sure we have games that go forever but I am talking average).

Now I don't think high school baseball is any better (or any worse) than other areas in the US -- my questions falls back to the original thread:

Why do games in certain areas take 2:00 as an average and other areas considerably less?

Enquiring minds type thing.

Regards,