When it comes to creative baseball blog concepts, the fellas at PastKast are at the top of the list. After starting the popular @tweetsfrom1982 and @tweetsfrom1987 Twitter accounts last year,�this pair of nostalgia-minded Milwaukee Brewers fans have conceived�1982Brewers.com and 1987Brewers.com. Each day the sites feature a game recap that corresponds to the same date from those years. Sure, it's a little nerdy and obsessive, but it's a fun-to-follow (and altogether different) exercise.
Especially when J. Scott and Rob tread on bloggable incidents that would have been featured on the front page of a 1987 Big League Stew. For instance, Tuesday marks the 24th anniversary of the June 28, 1987 game when a fan threw a cherry bomb on the County Stadium field during a game with the Toronto Blue Jays. The incident happened during the seventh inning and the fan was reportedly arrested by the ninth.
As for the cherry bomb,�Rob Deer was stunned.
"I couldn't believe it," Deer told the Journal. "That's when you know things are going bad. It was loud. It felt like someone took both hands and slapped them on my ears." [...]
"I don't think they were throwing at us," [Tom Trebelhorn] said of the cherry bomber. "I think someone was bound and determined to have a little fun with pyrotechnics and chose that particular time.
"I didn't take it personally."
Classic line from Trebelhorn there ? "I don't think they were throwing at us" ? considering that the Brewers lost to the Jays 8-1 that day.
Of course, we can chuckle at this when looking back because no one was hurt. But in researching this post, I was surprised to learn that the idiocy of lighting off a cherry bomb at a ballpark wasn't limited to this day. There were reports of the small explosives being lit by fans at Disco Demolition Night and Ten Cent Beer Night, and a young boy was injured at an Oakland A's game in 2003 when a fan threw one out of the upper deck and into the bleachers. Nostalgic blogs may be a fairly recent invention, but bloggable stupidity has existed forever.
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