European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - June 27, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 18 b the stars and stripes thursday june 27, 1991of baseball by Kevin Lyttle Cox news service scenes from a recent baseball game its the sixth inning of a 4-4 game in Arlington. There a a runner on first base two out and its Batter up. Well sort of. Kevin Reimer of the rangers shakes his wrist wiggles his batting Glove Steps into and starts digging in. Out on the Mound royals7 relieve commentary Steve Crawford goes through his ritual. He saunters Back and Forth surveys the infield then squeezes the life out of the Rosin bag on this muggy night. He Steps Back on the rubber Peers in toward the plate shakes off a few signs. Finally he winds up and fires a strike to first base. Just keeping that runner honest. After several More irritating delays by a Pitcher Catcher Batter and runner re Imer struck out. To took these Guys five minutes to play their game of cat and mouse All for one Batter. It took the teams half an hour to play the inning a and nobody even scored. Joe Bob fan could have roamed Arlington stadium stopped at the restroom Chow cd Down a Chili cheese dog slowed through some super nachos and guzzled a in ounce Lone Star without missing a thing. That game would go on for .3 hours 53 minutes before the rangers would outlast. The royals 10-9 in 10 innings. T he game was More than three 1 Tours old at the end of nine. All of the habitual mane vering has multiplied Over the years. And. Now its gotten out . Managers and players alike Are treating every inning of every game like its the last of the ninth in the a seventh game of the world series. -.-. the two hour game extinct. In the last decade the average game time in the american league a climbed from 2 36 to 2 51. In the National league it jumped from 2 32 to 2 45. A lot of blame is there to pass around for these ridiculously Long games Clevi Sion the expanded role of Relief pitchers extra meetings on the Field batters Quirky habits you name it. / National sports surveys that have come out in the last few years indicate baseball a popularity is sliding among Young people everyone in be Ever met who disliked baseball said the same thing a it moves too slowly its too clearly its time to do something. Commissioner Fay Vincent is studying the problem. Here arc some suggestions. A give umpires the authority to Speed up the game. Permit them to order batters into the Box or pitchers onto the inbound. Allow fewer timeouts. A a Cut out or limit the number of times a1 Catcher can go out to the Mound. Gut out All Tatj other conferences around the in Field. A a a a a a a a a a a a a. A a a a. A a a a a. A expand the strike zone so there Are fewer walks arid More batters going up looking to swing. A lets get the game moving again or Well All fall come As by Michael Smith a the associated press. Oklahoma City former Oklahoma head football coach Barry Switzer will be Back on the sidelines saturday As a guest coach for a Maxi can College team. A. A Switzer will coach the Mexico White eagles in an exhibition game a a against the. Oklahoma City twisters a Scondr year minor league team. Its the first return to coaching for. Switzer since he resigned in 1989. He will Lead the National polytechnic team through one Day of practice before the game at Robert Kalsu stadium in Del City a a a a a a. A a a a. A. What a the game plan no clue Switzer said tuesday except that it wont be the Wishbone offence he made famous at Oklahoma. A i done to know what they do a he said. T think they re a conventional style of offence today a Switzer said at a news conference. A i will a. Thing to do a i can to Tell about our football team i Hope they re working out Down in Mexico City.�?�. A a. A. Switzer will match wits with former Oklahoma running Back Jimmy Rogers a backup to Billy Sims and second year coach of the twisters. The appearance is a Way to drum up. Support for the twisters he said. Its also a Chance to visit a an old Friend Mexico a head coach Jacinto Licea. Switzer has known Alieca since the Mexico coach visited Norman about 20 years ago when Switzer was an assistant coach Al Oklahoma Licea wanted. To learn sooner football and the in Quiry led to a Long term association be tween the two. A Switzer said Mexico is. Used to playing against Small College teams so this. A a v a a Quot a a a. Quot a a. Not. Barry Switzer. ,. Resigned in 1939 game is a step up in Competition a a they had a couple of pretty Good players a couple of years ago a a he said a most of them Are undersized obviously. They re doing this for .7 a v a a Rogers played with the soon cars from 1975 through 1979 before a 10-year career in the cat Tadian football league and the nil he is looking Forward to coaching against coach. A Barry Switzer is a legend a Rogers said a a he a directly responsible for. Me wearing All these championship rings. Its exciting to coach against Rogers also said the game is a Chance to evaluate his squad which opens regular season play july 6 against the California bears in los Angeles. A a a we re going to approach the matchup As a fun game a Chance to evaluate some Talent a Chance to look at some players a he said. A but we re also going into it with intentions of winning.�?�. Last years team finished the regular season at 9-2, losing to Pueblo in the first round of the playoffs. Rogers Hopes to take this years team whose roster mostly includes players from Oklahoma colleges and universities even farther. A a a a. A a basically what we re looking at is a More United team a he said. A a we be got a very very talented football team. I made the cuts i made the evaluations All the a. A. Switzer said minor league football is a Chance for players to continue competing.-. A a they still live the dream a he said a a it a the Field of dreams to but the game is no indication he will return 40 coaching especially at the College level. A. A a a in la always be involved in coaching the. Special olympics a Switzer said. A a in la stay with that team.�?�. A asked about professional football Switzer said a i done to move in the world of that fraternity. More importantly they done to know ,. Switzer said he recently got a Call from Bill Parcells who was considering resigning from the new York giants. Parcells resigned to take a Job As a football television analyst. told him what an experience it was for me and How much i enjoyed it the things i got to do that i never had a Chance to do before. Today i get to do things at my own discretion a he said. Those things include spending More time with his children and running his insurance and marketing companies he said. Book reveals secrets of Tennis tour stars Wimbledon England a Chris Evert smoked marijuana and Boris Becker a thought of quitting at age 22, according to a new Book about the pro Tennis tour v. An advance1 copy of John Feinstein a Book a hard courts a also has Evert explaining How she persuaded her Catholic parents to accept her divorce from British player John Lloyd and How Andre Agassi apparently is obsessed with Security. Scheduled for publication aug. 26, Fin Stein a Book says Evert came Down against smoking marijuana after trying it More than once a a a it a illegal and its dangerous a the Book quotes her As saying. A when i smoked it it made me brain dead. I was out of it a in the american journalists Book Evert says her parents were horrified at the Prospect of her. Divorce from Lloyd. A my father did no to speak to me for months when. John and i divorced a she was quoted As saying. A the whole thing was very Tough on my whole family. Part of it was being Catholic part was that they loved a a a. When she introduced her new Boyfriend to her parents before the divorce was finalized her father hit the roof the Book says. A. A a a a a a a a a A a a. A a a a the started screaming at me that the divorce Wasny to final i was seen in Public with another Man John might ask for Money and All sorts of things like that a 1 Evert was quoted As saying. She finally got. Lloyd to explain to her father he was not worried situation. Evert later married that Boyfriend former skier Andy Mill and is expecting her first a baby. Through her agents International management group Evert said tuesday she would not comment on the Book. A a a a a a a a a a a a. According to the Book Beckers retirement threat came last year after a conflict with his romanian manager Ion Siriac. The three time Wimbledon Champion decided he would play the Davis cup final. Against Sweden and then retire a no one will believe How close i was to doing that a Becker is quoted As saying a i thought to win the Davis cup at Home and. Then walk away was the right Way. It would be a Clear break. I would not be letting anyone Down or not fulfilling any commitments. But the More i thought about it the less Clear i was on thursdays programs g of can sports tonight. 6 3.0 Abc world news tonight 7 00 Abc Nigel line. 7 30 headline news 7 55 sesame Street a. 3 55 movie Quot three a a without fear Quot Advent lure/1964 �.�.,"� a a .10 30. General Hospital a. A 11 i 5 guiding Light / 12 00 headline nows a a a. A. 12 30 Gasthaus a.12 35. Joop Ardyl a ,. 1 00 Good morning America a a a a 3 00 Donahue a. A. A a. A. .3 50 just Lor kids cartoons. A a 4 00 the magical world of Disney. 4 45 can newsroom a a a. A. 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