OK, I don’t do this often but get ready for my opinion and feel free to share yours in the comment section.
I am tired of retro days. I’m even tired of the word retro.
60’s day, 70’s day, 80’s day. What happened to 1880 to 1950? Aren’t those years “retro” enough? How about some big band music for the 40’s or barbershop quartets for the 1880’s? Wool uniforms, short brimmed hats and umpires wearing tuxedos?
Yeah I know.. not going to happen. I do like when the players get to wear the older uniforms for a change… I love those Phillies baby blues although the White Sox shorts experiment.. not so much.
How about a future day? Silver space uniforms and Ferrous and FeFe take the field on a hovercraft or via a jetpack? Yeah, I know… not going to happen.
Maybe I’m getting old, maybe I’m just longing for the days before loud speakers and electronic scoreboards. I do love those day games that seem to be fewer and fewer each season.




I’m all for the 1880’s, with a barbershop quartet singing the National Anthem. They would certainly be a lot better than some of the people we’ve heard so far this year! (not even accounting for some of last season’s fiascos!) Maybe they’d offer 5 cent cups of Coke & 10 cent pints of beer – LOL.
But seriously, I lived through the 60’s, 70’s, and 80’s, (and part of the 50’s), and have no need to revisit them. unless the flashback would include a REAL ballpark organist, and not the canned stuff we get today!
I, unlike some of you, can watch the games on TV2, and frankly, they’re too busy with their commercials to pay any attention to the showbiz stuff that surrounds the actual play.
On one night, they happened to catch Ferrous in a getup apparently inspired by “Grease,” prompting a throwaway line from one of the staff, but not much was made of it the rest of the game (at least what I was able to watch)
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