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Biotech / Medical : Ligand (LGND) Breakout! -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: RXGOLF who wrote (23450)	7/23/1998 8:38:00 AM
From: Henry Niman	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 32384

The rule of thumb for therapeutics is about 10 years to market. Progenx switched to Ligand in 1989, so Ligand is on schedule for their first drug. However, I was not expecting 5 drugs in that time frame. As far as 16 runs in a world series games, that's quite a bit. My daughter, Emily is competing with her 12 and under team (she's 11). The pitcher is 35 feet away, there's just a rubber and no mound, and the pitches come in at about 50 mph. The Stealers played a Georgia team, and their pitchers were not that fast. At this level, slow pitchers can really get pounded. The base running has few restrictions, so a relatively inexperienced team can get very confused very quickly. The Stealers really had everything clicking yesterday and although there is a 10 run limit, they score 6 in the 7th (last) inning, to produce a 14 run win. This morning they play the Manatee Strikers (from FL), who lost yesterday to the Texas Rebels 2-3 (its double elimination and the Stealers lost their first game 1-6 to the Kingston Dodgers from TN - we really played poorly).