Each week, the pop culture website Pop-A-Looza shares posts from my vast 'n' captivating Boppin' (Like The Hip Folks Do) archives. The latest shared post is a reminiscence of my life as a young baseball fan: "Diamonds Are Forever."
I'm no longer much of a baseball fan; I'll occasionally catch parts of random games when flipping channels some evenings, but I don't follow my former faves the New York Yankees, or anybody. I saw the end of a recent exhibition game between the Yankees and the Philadelphia Philles, and I was quite pleased to learn that all the players on the Yankees and the Washington Nationals kneeled in support of Black Lives Matter prior to their season-opener on Thursday.
I am an avid fan of Syracuse University men's basketball. I've also become a fan of SU football. My sports interests were detailed in a January 2020 post called "Sportsball." I also wrote a short bit in 2017 about the long-standing SU-Georgetown rivalry, which included a link to video of local sports commentator Brent Axe reading my take on the rivalry in 2011: Georgetown Is The Joker.
Otherwise, there hasn't been much sports talk here at Boppin' (Like The Hip Folks Do). I have one additional baseball-related fantasy that I may share in a near-future Pop-A-Looza, and those curious about my own secret origin can read my story of reading comic books and listening to pop music while growing up in the 1960s: Singers, Superheroes, And Songs On The Radio: My Life In Pop Culture, The 1960s. It contains one whole paragraph about baseball! Also a paragraph about Playboy. Yeah, both just to prove I was interested in more than only Batman and The Beatles.
But today: an emotional memoir about baseball, family, legacy, and loss. "Diamonds Are Forever" is the latest Boppin' Pop-A-Looza.
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The many fine This Is Rock 'n' Roll Radio compilation albums are still available, each full of that rockin' pop sound you crave. A portion of all sales benefit our perpetually cash-strapped community radio project:
Volume 1: download
Volume 3: download
Waterloo Sunset--Benefit For This Is Rock 'n' Roll Radio: CD or download
Carl's writin' a book! The Greatest Record Ever Made! (Volume 1) will contain 155 essays about 155 tracks, each one of 'em THE greatest record ever made. An infinite number of records can each be the greatest record ever made, as long as they take turns. Updated initial information can be seen here: THE GREATEST RECORD EVER MADE! (Volume 1).
Carl's writin' a book! The Greatest Record Ever Made! (Volume 1) will contain 155 essays about 155 tracks, each one of 'em THE greatest record ever made. An infinite number of records can each be the greatest record ever made, as long as they take turns. Updated initial information can be seen here: THE GREATEST RECORD EVER MADE! (Volume 1).
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