This week's question: The average nine-inning Major League Baseball game lasted a record 3 hours, 5 minutes this season, up from 2 hours and 46 minutes in 2005. Please come with a medical term to describe the fatigue felt by fans when a baseball game creeps into the third hour.
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THE WINNER: "Louisville sluggish"
Kim Doyle, Woolwich, Maine
SECOND PLACE: "Bat-atonic"
D. McSwain, Fort Lauderdale, Florida
THIRD PLACE: "Seventh inning kvetch"
Peter W. Reichert, Richmond, California
HONORABLE MENTIONS:
"Ty Clobbered"
Ken Kellam III, Dallas
"Restless league syndrome"
Deborah Gandolfo, Kirkland, Washington
"Bladder up"
Bill Doughty, Honolulu
"America’s past-bedtime"
David P. Simmons, Harpers Ferry, West Virginia
"Apathletic"
Phyllis Klein, New York City
"The dold-runs"
Jim Kulakoski, Port Orange, Florida
"A fatigue of their own"
Bob Latham, Dallas
"MLBeleaguered"
Dan Larkin, Saint Paul, Minnesota
"Batigue"
Laurel Rose, Pittsburgh
"Homer-rhoids"
Chip Rollinson, Cambridge, Massachusetts
"Inningsomnia"
Ken Liebman, Williston, Vermont
"Spring draining"
Beth Simon, Oakland, California
"19th inning nervous breakdown"
Bill Levine, Belmont, Massachusetts
"Beg-inning-to-end syndrome"
Peter Gordon, Great Neck, New York
"Major league fatigue"
Bill Mistele, New City, New York
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