The Yankees tell themselves the same thing, citing their track records and the long schedule ahead.
"What's happened is probably because of the long schedule of training – there was a big dip not long after.
GATT included a long schedule of specific tariff concessions for each contracting nation, representing tariff rates that each country had agreed to extend to others.
With the N.B.A.'s long schedule — normally 82 games, but truncated to 66 this season — teams are expected to go on winning and losing streaks.
For the crew at Jack's, 12-hour workdays are frequent, and the long schedule keeps Walder from attending as many games as he would like.
This week's discussions, while long scheduled, were the first top-level talks to occur since the Chinese ratcheted down military relations last fall.
Gone were the "Dan and Dave" advertising campaigns, even for gold medalists, the event's long schedule not suitable for television, the point system difficult to explain and impossible for the average viewer to understand.
As for the pros, at this stage of their long schedule only one thing is certain, and that is that the Giants and the Jets are a shoo-in for the Super Bowl, provided everybody else drops dead.
As fate, luck or good old-fashioned planning would have it the pair were long scheduled to meet up again yesterday on Hazeltine's 10th tee at 8.34am for the first round of the 2009 US PGA Championship.
They have cleared their calendar to some extent, moving a complicated criminal case that was long scheduled for argument next Wednesday until January to be able to give more attention to Bush v. Palm Beach County Canvassing Board.
