Minor criticism of an otherwise beautiful Throwback Thursday

when he wants.

The first Throwback Thursday was so much fun. This one was fun too, but not as good. Maybe my expectations were just too high.

The person isn’t doing their job if they aren’t loud and intrusive.

1. Love throwback Thursdays. But wouldn’t that two-tone brown and yellow have been a road jersey? I remember they had a similarly styled white with the brown sleeves — wasn’t that the home jersey for this uni?

2. Not sure what they called these colors, but when they added another ~79 or 80 it was called “burnt orange.”

they look like a really good time.

I wasn’t expecting all the piped in disco or the wedding dj to be there and I was disappointed. It seemed to increase as the game went on, round the 7th I was half-expecting them to cave in and have the digital friar tell us to make some noise. The wedding dj can’t help but be annoying no matter how nice he probably is in person. I think losing the game is just part of the throwback theme.

The color on the 70s uni is known as “Athletic Gold.” It is the same color used by the Lakers, Packers and Vikings.

Big discussion of this yesterday on the Uniwatch blog:

http://www.uniwatchblog.com/2010/05/27/monochrome-in-baseball-part-i/#comments

1. by Ricko on 05.27.10 8:19 am | Quote

For the umpteenth time, the Padres’ athletic gold (in all their unis with it) was the same athletic gold as everyone else’s…the A’s, the bumblebee Pirates, the Steelers, the Lakers…all of ‘em.

Maybe it’s because it’s was paired with brown that everyone thinks mustard. Or it’s a visual quirk that the brown "tints" the gold when our rods and cones deal with it.

Same for the gold in the Broncos gold & brown set.

And the A’s did wear only athletic gold in ‘63, but ‘64 saw them add the grays ("seafom green") AND the white ("wedding gown white"). As far as I know from watching on TV, going to the Met and photos in the dailies at the time, they alternated the unis, gold-white at home and gold-"gray" on the road. Did that pretty much through the run of the vested unis.

Don’t think the whites became "Sunday only" until the sansabelt doubleknit set came along.

—Ricko

Which the Padres lost in both instances. I hope this is just coincidence and not a pattern that the Padres lose on Throwback Thursdays.

The organ music was kinda cool. It wasn’t very loud, so it sounded kinda hokey.

My observation is that the game kinda dragged. There wasn’t anything different except the uniforms and the music. When they had throwbacks last year, they showed pics of the guys on the Jumbotron with crazy hair and facial hair. I remember people giggling & pointing.
They should lower prices on food or something similar as well.