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<font size=3>Aren't most baseball games night games nowadays?
Also, I'll bet that most of a TV baseball announcer's schedule are
night telecasts, due to the advertising market for TV. So It's
probably a habit to think of every game as a night game.<br>
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Pete Farruggio<br>
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At 10:15 AM 7/4/00, you wrote:<br>
<blockquote type=cite cite>I have noticed over the past few years a
tendency for baseball<br>
announcers to refer to afternoons as "tonight." As in
today's,<br>
"We'll see if (David) Cone is the Cone of old tonight,"
referring to<br>
a 1:00 p.m. EDT start on ESPN. Is this just a case of
announcer<br>
misspeak, or is this a semantic shift that's available only in this<br>
venue?<br>
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Any opinions?<br>
--<br>
-<br>
Greg<br>
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greg@pulliam.org<br>
<a href="http://www.pulliam.org/" eudora="autourl">http://www.pulliam.org</a><br>
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