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…….but I miss Cardinal baseball. I am already looking forward to 2022. It’s going to be a long winter. Me and Whitey Herdog are going to have a tough time playing this waiting game.
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I feel the same way, Rats. There’s a lot to look forward to for the Cards in 2022, so hopefully the owners and players get their ducks in a row so we can enjoy it!
I usually enjoy the offseason because I like the hot stove and the machinations involved in building a roster. Unfortunately the CBA fiasco is going to put a damper on all of that and we may be twiddling our thumbs for a few months.
Some rousing games of Strat-O-Matic should provide some warmth and amusement for you and the great Whitey Herdog, Rat. I always hope for a brutal winter. The more cold and snow that you endure over winter, the more pleasing Spring is once it finally arrives. I vividly recall how glorious the Spring of 1978 was……best ever! As a kid, the December winter baseball meetings was one of my favorite times of the year. The trades were almost always plentiful. I would rip into the sports pages of the Janesville Gazette with great enthusiasm, as there was no efficient way of getting sporting news prior to receiving your newspaper.
My wife and I survived the winter of 78/79 in Chicago. Still holds the record for the most snow fall of any Chicago winter in recorded history.
I think you gentlemen may be correct on the year. It must have been the Spring of ’79 instead of ’78. It was a winter that would have had the residents of Siberia complaining for years. But when the ensuing Spring relented with it’s first 40 degree day, it felt like 80.
The 5 snowiest winters in Chicago history
1978/1979 – 89.7 inches
1977/1978 – 82.3 inches
2013/2014 – 82 inches
1969/1970 – 77 inches
1966/1967 – 68.4 inchesThe winter of ’78 was brutal in the Ozarks as well. I remember vividly the Southern Missouri/Northern Arkansas area having snow on the ground for 45 consecutive days. I haven’t seen anything like it since since except for the occasional ice storm.
In Chicago, the traffic tie ups went on for hours. People were running out of gas and knocking on the windows of other cars
to ask in out of a sense of survival. Snow plows were plowing through snow drifts only to find that there were cars buried under the drifts.My parents graduated high school in the spring of 1977, which was a particularly brutal winter for the Northeast, I heard. Being on the downwind side of Lake Erie, we are no strangers to snow (the area within 30 miles of me averages anywhere from 80-200″ of snow per year) and it can be enjoyable if you’re into skiing, snowshoeing or snowmobiling.
I graduated from high school 16 years before your parents did, 25? Wow.
If you graduated in 1961, then that would be the case. And I’m no spring chicken, having just reached my final year of my 30s. Time flies!
Perspective — 39 is still a spring chicken. I graduated high school same year as your parents, but they started their family much earlier than we did. My oldest will be 31 next month. Get ready, like everybody says, the decades will seem like they’re turning over faster and faster than you even think today.
It’s also funny how some people’s perspective of sports changes over time. I guess that’s just life in general.
Euro – it’s the toilet paper roll concept as far as time going faster.
25 – Yes, the class of ‘61. College class of ‘65. Time does fly.
I’m 63, graduated HS in 1976. When my son turned 40 this past year, I told him, “You don’t know what you turning 40 does to me!” He said, “YOU? What about me?” I said, “It’s worse for me. You just turned 40. I now have a SON that’s 40! Do you how much older i feel knowing that?”
Cobby… when he turns your present age of 63, you’ll be 86. Crap, I’ll be too old to sing Happy Birthday. “Ain’t life grand.” (Warren Beatty in “Bonnie and Clyde”.)
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