tonight

[Greg Pulliam]

I have noticed over the past few years a tendency for baseball
announcers to refer to afternoons as "tonight."  As in today's,
"We'll see if (David) Cone is the Cone of old tonight," referring to
a 1:00 p.m. EDT start on ESPN.  Is this just a case of announcer
misspeak, or is this a semantic shift that's available only in this
venue?

Any opinions?
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Greg

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