1970 World Series

Watching the 4th 1970 World Series game yesterday between the Orioles and Reds. Was in black and white, just the play-by-play announcer and no annoying color guy explaining what you just saw with your own eyes, no slow-motion replay of every spit and tobacco chewing, men in the stands wearing ties, no body armor on batters, no batting gloves, they all had the same stockings and normal size gloves (not the huge baskets they have today) and all appeared to be the same color (the gloves, I mean), no annoying roaming reporter in the crowd, no stupid individual music playing for the next batter, no replay, pitchers batted…all in all, a much simpler and streamlined game, back to the real game before it got hopelessly overanalyzed with this analytics crap, which takes so much of the joy out of watching and much of the joy out of playing.

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