With one out in the seventh, Yastrzemski stepped out of the box for several seconds at a time, forcing Guidry to delay the delivery of his pitches by six or seven extra seconds.
("Sometimes Byron gazed at the sky above the moor, pulsing so heavily with stars that the darkness seemed alive, and he would ache — ache for the removal of those two extra seconds").
Does it take two extra seconds?
Consider the instant-on circuit in your television, which is smart enough to serve up four extra seconds of Leno or Letterman every evening.
It takes two extra seconds to cut and paste the letter, print, and mail.
Those two or three extra seconds for braking could mean all the difference.
Could those two extra tenths of a second have made the difference for Stoudemire?
With a young franchise quarterback already in place, they were able to, through various trades, convert that pick into two extra second-round selections this year and extra first-round selections in 2013 and 2014.
PATRIOTS Bill Belichick thought the value of the draft was beyond the first round, so he wheeled and dealed out of it, picking up so many extra picks that he now has two extra second-round picks in 2010.
He picked up two extra first-round picks from a team that has just two winning seasons in the last 12 years, and the Rams now have 4 of the top 38 picks in this year's draft.
Scraps of paper and plastic bottles spewed from the trash can in a discontinuous stream, like water blown out of a sprinkler, and he could already hear his mother going on about how somebody had been too lazy and too careless to take one extra second to fasten the raccoon clamps on the lid.
