Going from street to street playing other kids was some of the greatest sports memories I have. I kinda feel bad for kids today as it seems like a foregone era.

By listening these days I sincerely doubt most current broadcasters can appreciate that. We probably knew more about game as kids than these guys do. I still remember what guys from other blocks could do and how to try to stop them. Football baseball and basketball. God it was a blast ringing your guys doorbells to go crush kids from Paxton or Oglesby.

Seemed like every block had a D1 or pro in waiting. And our neighborhood All Star wasn't unstoppable

Ever see a creepy old guy sitting in his garage in the rain waiting for you to hit a ball in his yard?

Ever see a creepy old guy sitting in his garage in the rain waiting for you to hit a ball in his yard?

Ever see a creepy old guy sitting in his garage in the rain waiting for you to hit a ball in his yard?

So what replaced playing sports outside with friends? Video games?

So what replaced playing sports outside with friends? Video games?

For a lot of kids it did, as well as the heavy scheduling for kids cut out a lot of free time.

Ever see a creepy old guy sitting in his garage in the rain waiting for you to hit a ball in his yard?

I can take it, guys. Just one more reason I'll never truly be happy. Even internet people don't like me. One more reason to watch the rain.

I can take it, guys. Just one more reason I'll never truly be happy. Even internet people don't like me. One more reason to watch the rain.

I can take it, guys. Just one more reason I'll never truly be happy. Even internet people don't like me. One more reason to watch the rain.

Thought this was a thread about masturbating as a yute.

This post is a white woman throwing a drink in your face from a beardown facsimile.

I thought this was going to be about adolescent masturbation

Kids today are very structured in terms of time without much free time. Boredom is good, it allows for creativity.

I thought this was going to be about adolescent masturbation

So what replaced playing sports outside with friends? Video games?

Just the other side of the Canal in Skokie there was what my dad would have called a "prairie" on the southwest corner or Trumbull and Crain. We just called it the Empty Lot or just "the Empty". As in, "Let's meet up at the Empty." We played all kinds of games in that lot. Mostly football. Larry and Mike Axelrood were the best athletes in the neighborhood. Larry was a few years older than we were and I was always afraid of him. He's a Cook County judge now. If you knew him as a kid you would find that hard to believe.

For my nephew, this was it. Kid is almost 17 and can't throw a fucking baseball. Runs like a duck, too...

Man, I grew up right across the street from Frontier Park in Arlington...on the field side, we had free run of the softball diamond all damn day in the summer...until about 5:30 when actual practices would start. When they would mow and line the field for soccer, we would use the lines and play football in them. Those were the days...