Bring back the shorts!
Posted on 07/25/2025 6:12:19 AM PDT by Salman
I would say that in the 70s when you had the artificial turf cookie cutter stadiums of Three Rivers, Riverfront, Busch, and Veterans that were essentially asphalt under a thin green rug, that field conditions in the summer were immensely more miserable than today.
Here in Texas we just call it Summer.
Recalling comedian James Gregory’s classic skit that had a bunch of young college-age people in stitches...
“In the summer...it’s hot. And get this ..some summers...are hotter...than others!”
“ince 1970, human-made climate change has driven up average summer temperatures in Chicago by 2 degrees”
Or they’ve added a lot more concrete and that’s what caused it.
There is no such thing as Manmade Weather Change.
aww c’mon...I used to be the one that got stuck behind a pole. I always thought the park’s dumpiness was part of its charm.
Watch what you say about drunken Southies...! LOL
The Yankees seem more relaxed and comfortable!
Ted Simmons of the Cardinals used to catch double headers in the mid-summer heat in St. Louis when the temperature would reach 120 degrees on the Astroturf covering the asphalt in Busch Stadium. Today’s players are wimps and there is no other way to describe them.
Of course, it has nothing to do with building concrete this and concrete that and reflective windows and everyone whining that there isn’t 3 feet of snow on the ground in mid-July. Humans have turned into pansies.
All-Star game 1966 in St. Louis they had to pack the TV cameras with dry ice to keep them from getting overheated.
Remember, if you’re old enough, back in the 70s science teachers were warning the earth was entering a mini ice age. It must have been mini because I sure missed it.
Boiled wool uniforms
Afternoon games in Jackson Mississippi in summer
We’d have kids drop in the outfield
Sway a bit and crumple
Coaches bring em in and water and ice them in dugout
Happened to me a few times that and working const that environment
We went to cotton nylon uniforms around 1974 maybe
Coaches new heat exhaustion from heat stroke and usually a general practitioner or RN amongst the parents
I literally sat behind a post/girder on the first base side grandstand to see Clemons pitching to Reggie Jackson. When Reggie was on the Angels(I think). This was late 1980s.
I recently went with my son in law and sat in his companies AURA deck section. Just above the first base side. Where you have access to the Aura club, restaurant and bar.
Clean bathrooms, no lines, you can even watch the game somewhat from inside in AC. We sat there through a rain delay a couple months back.
When the delay was over we sat in the front row of the Aura section right behind the plate.
AND there were two Drunkin Irishman from Southie sitting right next to me!
Actually one was his Mom visiting her son straight in from Dublin!
Some things never change.
Hire this man!
Bring back the shorts!
It is even worse if the golf course just received several inches of rain. It is similar to playing spring golf in my neck of the woods.
Total Bull S^^T!!
The eco warriors’ newest doom news: ChatGpt wastes water.
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