Disco Demolition

So Computer Boy, Skate Kid and I were watching the 10 minute "look back" that ESPN had on Disco Demolition Night 30 years ago in Chicago. By a show of 3 hands, we say it was great!

Incredible video footage.

7 foot high flames in the outfield!

People climbing down the flagpole from the upper deck.

Riot police on the field.

A free win for the Tigers!

Both Computer Boy and Skate Kid said that they wished they were there.

Me too. (Though I would have been in the "watching from the stands/keeping an eye out for a stray thrown bottle" mode)

No drugs or alcohol either for me but with that show on the field, you don't really need any of that stuff.

One thing in the ESPN segment that I found interesting was the reaction of Jimmy Piersall who was the White Sox radio announcer at the time. Jimmy was still quite angry and bitter at the whole thing calling it a "disgrace to baseball" and scoffing at the interviewer who asked him if he saw anything other than negative in it and eventually telling the interviewer that he was "stupid".

As I recall in his playing days, Jimmy used to spontaneously climb fences at the ballpark in fits of craziness which if you think about it is not much different than what the anti-disco revellers were doing that night.

I guess it is ok when it is just you.