Things You Miss In Sports

We may have been at one together. I covered one in '90, I think.

 

Tickets like this



Not this

 

Ill check the year tonight

 

Wonder if that rasslin' card featured Greg Gagne and Buck Zumhofe....

 

When I was little, I used to love this show. My dad said it was bad TV, but he’d watch it with me, anyway. Looking at this YouTube clip, I now see what he was talking about.

 

Every time I see Greg Gagne's name in a wrestling discussion, it takes me a minute to realize the longtime Twins infielder was not moonlighting in the ring.

 

You could tell them apart by how they pronounced their surname: Baseball player, Gag-knee; wrestler, Gon-ya.

 

I remember Lord Alfred Hayes, at the time a great heel manager, used to pronounce it like the baseball player.

 

Stump the Schwab.

 

Just remembered this hilarious prank call from the Howard Stern Show, in which two of his guys call a wrestling talk show and talk about all the old wrestlers they miss.

 

The old Yankee Stadium, well not the oldest, but the one that was remodeled in the late 70s. The bleachers at that place. Sorry to disappoint hipsters, yuppies
and recent college grads who are visiting the city for the first time, but the new stadium and bleachers suck compared to the old one.

Miss being able to smuggle in a bottle of rum or vokda, rather than paying $10 for a budweiser or even more now for a mediocre craft beer like Southern
Tier. Miss the early 90s when the Yanks sucked but the bleachers still erupted when Mel Hall or Matt Nokes sent one over the right-center field wall.
Miss those rare Yankees rallies and a bone rally in the bleachers. Miss seeing the same people in the bleachers every weekend, especially Ali (RIP) playing
calypso on the cow bell. Miss singing Tom Brunansky is a horse's ass because his name just fit so well in that chant.

 

Probably listened to that 20 times. Make it 21.