I miss the days when...

[Fred]

Originally Posted by BioCRN

Day 4: I fear there is no end. After hearing cries to "Get off muh lawn!" and moving my way off the grass, I have discovered there is nothing but lawn for miles. I am thirsty, hungry, and tired. I have accepted my life may end on this lawn and I'll never live long enough to see another 20 foot bat flip.

I don't know about the bat flip thing... One of these days I would just like to see the guy flip his bat and then have the bat come back and hit him. That would make it worth it.

I miss old school baseball. It'd be nice if the showboating just stopped.

I miss the days when scalpers would be selling nice seats, day of game for half price, just outside the stadium.

[jingram058]

I miss the days before the now stale, stupid, and dangerous massive pile-on celebrations, as if the saving of the planet from catastrophe had just been achieved.

[Mark17]

I miss the day when no manager would ever consider removing his pitcher if he was working on a no-hitter, no matter how many pitches he'd thrown.

[BobbyStrawberry]

Originally Posted by Mark17

I miss the day when no manager would ever consider removing his pitcher if he was working on a no-hitter, no matter how many pitches he'd thrown.

This is a good one. Now even a perfect game isn't enough to keep them in.

[Brian Van Horn]

Just kicking in a theme song for this thread:

Those were the days.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GI46_zBGv1A

[jingram058]

I guess if you're young, and this current state of baseball is all you have seen, then I can understand your liking it. It's all you know. I don't like it. I know a lot of people my age who quit baseball with the strike in the 90s and the steroids, and now the crazy money. But I am not seeing any empty stadiums, so I guess it's me and my peer group.

[bbcard1]

I'm 63 and have no problem with the state of the game. I guess I miss affordable concessions, Morannna the Kissing Bandit and streakers.

[Balticfox]

Originally Posted by jingram058

I know a lot of people my age who quit baseball with the strike in the 90s....

One of my buddies and I had for about a dozen years been taking an annual baseball trip for a weekend of games in a different MLB stadium every summer. We'd stretched the envelope (from Toronto) as far south as Baltimore and Cincinnati and as far west as Chicago (twice). We were eyeing Milwaukee or St. Louis for the next one but the strike put an end to those ventures - permanently.