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Re: Washington Metro criticized for not extending hours last night due to Nationals Game |
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Posted by Wallyhorse on Sat Oct 15 00:28:32 2016, in response to Re: Washington Metro criticized for not extending hours last night due to Nationals Game, posted by Sand Box John on Fri Oct 14 23:01:12 2016. What should have been done was to make clear to MLB and the TV partners is due to the need of METRO to close at Midnight because of repairs that clearly can not afford to be delayed any further under any circumstances, all playoff games at Nationals Park (including World Series games) must start no later than 6:40 PM so that if you do get a long game like last night, you can still get everyone on METRO by midnight (last night was the longest nine-inning game in MLB history regular OR postseason I believe, but you can get 15+ inning games that easily run past four and a half hours). The problem is of course, doing that PO's CEOs, COOs and CFOs on the west coast where if that were in effect Thursday night, Dodgers-Nats would have started at 3:40 PM on the west coast and many people likely would have left work as early as 1:30 to make sure they were home in time for the game.Short of that, perhaps whoever was in position to do so could have issued an Executive Order compelling METRO to run service as late as necessary for the Nationals game. I wonder if Nats players were affected by everyone leaving when they did due to the length of the game? |
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