"Challenger, Gray & Christmas is predicting all the office and plant time spent following the games over the next several weeks could add up to more than $1.2 billion in lost productivity. The estimate is based on the assumption that 22.9 million workers — nearly 20 percent of the work force — will spend an average of 13.5 minutes a day following the games and updating their brackets (or tearing them up)."
- Allison Linn, msnbc.com

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Thinks the WBC is boring? Not when American pitchers take a little too seriously, the pause of a Dutch player watching a home run, even in a relatively easy blow out match up that eliminated the Dutch: