tonight

[Peter Farruggio]

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.

Pete Farruggio




At 10:15 AM 7/4/00, you wrote:
>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?
>--
>-
>Greg
>
>greg at pulliam.org
>http://www.pulliam.org
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