in the old days

In the old days, you’re there strumming a chord, everyone’s playing something, you walk up to the mic and it just comes out.

"The spread of bTB is from cow to cow and it’s because of inefficient hygiene situations. Biosecurity in the old days meant keeping the badgers out but now means keeping the slurry away from the cows so they can’t infect each other," Sir Brian said.

Instead of canned tomatoes for salsas, for instance, they’re roasting them like in the old days.

“In the old days when there was no mound visit limit, you would do that to get the pitcher a break,” Muncy said.

In the old days, if the paper or network you worked for was important enough, your pass would get you onto the “press plane” and the bus populated by the “Boys on the Bus,” in the words of the title of Timothy Crouse’s best-selling book on the way the press covered the 1972 presidential campaign.