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No Labor Day doubleheaders anymore.
Posted: Mon Sep 07, 2026 7:03 pm
by Hy Feiber
One more tradition down the drain with this modern game.
A victim of all those $200+ million prima donna contracts.
For all these lazy asses that can’t go more than nine innings, unless a phantom runner is on second first thing in the 10th.
T-ball.
Look at the schedule, typical slow Monday.
Bummer.
Re: No Labor Day doubleheaders anymore.
Posted: Mon Sep 07, 2026 7:08 pm
by D-train
Just unreal they don't have 15 games on Memorial Day or Labor day....
Re: No Labor Day doubleheaders anymore.
Posted: Mon Sep 07, 2026 7:09 pm
by Hy Feiber
D-train wrote: ↑Mon Sep 07, 2026 7:08 pm
Just unreal they don't have 15 games on Memorial Day or Labor day....
BINGO!
Re: No Labor Day doubleheaders anymore.
Posted: Mon Sep 07, 2026 7:10 pm
by Hy Feiber
D-train wrote: ↑Mon Sep 07, 2026 7:08 pm
Just unreal they don't have 15 games on Memorial Day or Labor day....
I am eternally grateful that I was a fan when baseball was baseball.
They were truly the good old days.
Re: No Labor Day doubleheaders anymore.
Posted: Mon Sep 07, 2026 7:14 pm
by Hy Feiber
As for the slowness of the games, how could anybody be bored sitting through a long sunny day, watching a doubleheader with the 1961 hated New York Yankees, joking around with your buddies?
We were never in a rush to get home, and afterwards, we waited until our Favorite guys came out of the locker room, to get autographs.
Frank Howard, Ken McMullen, Eddie Brinkman, Paul Casanova…
Re: No Labor Day doubleheaders anymore.
Posted: Mon Sep 07, 2026 7:56 pm
by D-train
Hy Feiber wrote: ↑Mon Sep 07, 2026 7:14 pm
As for the slowness of the games, how could anybody be bored sitting through a long sunny day, watching a doubleheader with the 1961 hated New York Yankees, joking around with your buddies?
We were never in a rush to get home, and afterwards, we waited until our Favorite guys came out of the locker room, to get autographs.
Frank Howard, Ken McMullen, Eddie Brinkman, Paul Casanova…
Many loved Casanova. Most were women! lol
Re: No Labor Day doubleheaders anymore.
Posted: Mon Sep 07, 2026 10:20 pm
by Michael K.
You want to watch this group of scrubs play twice on a Holiday!? I don't. Of course? I haven't watched them since like June anyway, so there's that.
Re: No Labor Day doubleheaders anymore.
Posted: Mon Sep 07, 2026 10:23 pm
by D-train
Michael K. wrote: ↑Mon Sep 07, 2026 10:20 pm
You want to watch this group of scrubs play twice on a Holiday!? I don't. Of course? I haven't watched them since like June anyway, so there's that.
Yep the alternative is to start drinking at 7am an try to decide the best way to kill yourself.
Re: No Labor Day doubleheaders anymore.
Posted: Tue Sep 08, 2026 4:02 pm
by Captain 97
Hy Feiber wrote: ↑Mon Sep 07, 2026 7:14 pm
As for the slowness of the games, how could anybody be bored sitting through a long sunny day, watching a doubleheader with the 1961 hated New York Yankees, joking around with your buddies?
We were never in a rush to get home, and afterwards, we waited until our Favorite guys came out of the locker room, to get autographs.
Frank Howard, Ken McMullen, Eddie Brinkman, Paul Casanova…
Average length of a 9 inning game in 1961 was 2 hours 34 minutes. From 1952- 1985 it was always between 2:19 and 2:40. It never made it to 3 hours until 2014. In 2021 it went up to a record 3 hours 10 minutes. With the pitch clock it is now back down to 2 hours 40 minutes. I for one am a big fan of the pitch clock.
https://www.baseball-reference.com/leag ... misc.shtml
Re: No Labor Day doubleheaders anymore.
Posted: Tue Sep 08, 2026 6:07 pm
by D-train
Captain 97 wrote: ↑Tue Sep 08, 2026 4:02 pm
Hy Feiber wrote: ↑Mon Sep 07, 2026 7:14 pm
As for the slowness of the games, how could anybody be bored sitting through a long sunny day, watching a doubleheader with the 1961 hated New York Yankees, joking around with your buddies?
We were never in a rush to get home, and afterwards, we waited until our Favorite guys came out of the locker room, to get autographs.
Frank Howard, Ken McMullen, Eddie Brinkman, Paul Casanova…
Average length of a 9 inning game in 1961 was 2 hours 34 minutes. From 1952- 1985 it was always between 2:19 and 2:40. It never made it to 3 hours until 2014. In 2021 it went up to a record 3 hours 10 minutes. With the pitch clock it is now back down to 2 hours 40 minutes. I for one am a big fan of the pitch clock.
https://www.baseball-reference.com/leag ... misc.shtml
As am I. Nobody enjoys watching grass grow.