SEC Eternalment

By Tim Cottrell
Sports Writer/Designer
Published: May 24, 2008

If you had given me 200-1 odds I don’t know that I’d have taken Ole Miss making it all the way to the final.

It’s been a wildly entertaining four days in Hoover so far, but man have these games been taking forever or what?

If you ever wanna see a desk guy such as myself sweating bullets, just stop by the office on a night like tonight when a game he has to get in in time for an 11 p.m. color deadline is in the top of the seventh at 10 p.m.

And of course, last night Alabama’s game, which started just a tinge before 7, didn’t end until right at 11, causing us to be a few minutes late.

I haven’t been able to pay close enough attention to what’s happening to cause these games to last so long (outside of the obvious, which has been a lot of scoring), but it’s pretty ridiculous.

The fact that Alabama’s game Wednesday night was supposed to start at 8 p.m. and didn’t start until 10:45, with only one game having gone into extra innings (and just one extra inning at that) is absurd.

Unless I’m just way off base here (and by all means, let me know if I am) the SEC needs to take a look at speeding the action up a bit next year.