I'm not going to lie, it was a huge adjustment for me. One of my daily rituals on gameday is to have a late breakfast at Waffle House before heading to the team facility. There's nothing that gets me in the right frame of mind for a game than an All-Star Special with scrambled eggs, bacon, grits, wheat toast, and a plain waffle. But now that games are earlier, I don't have enough time to eat my delicious meal and also digest it properly before the game starts. I've toyed with just waking up earlier and moving the schedule ahead seven hours, but I love sleep too much to do that. The best compromise I could come up with was to stagger all the individual pieces of the meal throughout the day to make it slightly easier for the earlier start time. I start with bacon and grits first thing in the morning, have the waffle after the first period, then finish with eggs and toast after the second. So far it's worked out pretty well for me but we're definitely still in a "wait and see" mode.

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