Since it has come up elsewhere twice in the past week, I’ll stick my nose in…
If you claim to be a purist or a traditionalist about which sweaters should be worn at home, that means you want the darks at home, the way they do it (again) in the NHL, as it was pre-expansion.
You want lights at home, hey, it’s a valid opinion. But a “purist” who wants lights at home is like a “traditionalist” who yearns for Astroturf and designated hitters.
And thoroughly unrelatedly, I’ve been asking this for a couple of years but have never gotten a straight answer, and this seems as good a time as any to bring it back up. This guy Chase Utley… Didn’t he used to do the news on NBC with Andy Brickley?
*-If you’ve not read it or seen it, there’s a CBC audio clip here. Go now. Really, now.