Baseball has a different pace than football. When I arrive at a football game, all my prep work is done. I have four 11-by-17 pieces of cardboard full of info done by Saturday night at the latest. (I keep those boards in front of me throughout the game. They basically turn the game into an open-book test—all the info is there. I just have to find it.) By Sunday, if I could be assured of getting there five minutes before I went on TV, I could do that and be fine. In baseball, I don’t know the lineup or the defense until I arrive that day, usually about four hours before the game, because there
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