Things You Miss In Sports

The complete absence of white outs or black outs or any other clothing-related gimmick in the stands.

Skip Carey somehow knowing where each person who caught a foul ball was from.

The Braves in the playoffs.

The gravel in the back of Larry Munson's throat.

Taking an annual trip to a different ballpark with my dad.

Reaching a bowl game actually meaning something.

When Tweets weren't stories on SportsCenter.

NCAA Football on Xbox.

 

Baseball opening day starting on a Monday in April in Cincy during the day.
Teams giving a scoreboard "greeting" to people without it being paid for. Double for not using the ceremonial first pitch as a marketing opportunity.
Wondering if the Cubs or Red Sox would ever win a Series.

 

Or Playstation. It was the best.

 

Caring about sports
I follow sports because I find them interesting still, but I don't really care very much about them anymore. I'm not really emotionally invested anymore.

 

• WOR with Ralph Kiner and Tim McCarver bringing Mets baseball to my house in the Pittsburgh suburbs.

• Same goes for TBS broadcasting 8 million Braves games.

• Each NBA arena having its own distinct character before money and greed gave everyone a 20,000 playpen loaded with luxury boxes.

• Starter jackets.

• Four divisions in Major League Baseball and the NBA.

• Vin and Joe doing the Saturday Game of the Week.

 

Championship fights on network TV on weekend afternoons

This Week in Baseball

The Sporting News

Starter jackets? Got one of these beauties in the hall closet:

 

Which “old” Big East?

 

And Major League Baseball magazine on ESPN.

Speaking of ESPN, I miss some of the niche filler sports they had on before they got too big to fail - fitness shows, pool tournaments, roller derby, Legends of World Class Wrestling, cheesebag Roy Firestone's show, etc.

 

1980s basketball version...the nine-team league

 

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