Junior Hockey Blog

Last Saturday's White Sox VS Dodgers game on WGN TV, While a great ballgame, The Sox won it on A.J. Piersynski's Home Run in the bottom of the 9th left me disapointed. Here is why -- Last week I was reading my USAToday's SPORTS WEEKLY and they said how it was going to be turn back the clock night not only with the 1959 uniforms but also that WGN would be using 1959 graphics and it would be in black and white and I cannot remember if they said this or if I imagined it but I thought they said they would throw in a little static as long as it wasn't while the ball was in play. I was really looking forward to checking it out last Sat. Anyway they only did the black and white thing for the first 15 seconds, then they went to color, and while they did have 1959 graphics up when a batter would come up and at the end of every half inning they also left the 2005 graphics at the top of the screen throughout the entire broadcast which took away from the 1959 'feel' of things. I did like the White Sox retro uniforms but the Dodgers ( i still am not sure if they were 1959 or 2005) were not baggy at all which I could be wrong but I am about 99% convinced they were not retro, which kind of took away the 1959 'feel' of the game. While it was still fun to watch I wish they would go all out when doing things like this and not just go halfway with it.