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8 SOLERA DIAMOND VALLEY | JULY 2026 By eresa Rossetti, Resident I invite you to join me on a trip back in time courtesy of the WABAC. For those unfamiliar, I refer you to e Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle and Mr. Peabody & Sherman. Mr. Peabody, an intelligent, talking beagle, traveled through time in his WABAC machine with his adopted human boy, Sherman. If you're not familiar, I'm sure YouTube can help. Go back to the days of our youth, somewhere between the invention of the television and before the proliferation of cable TV and streaming services. If you wanted to see or hear a baseball or football game, or whatever other sport was playing at the time, you had to watch/listen to it when it was on. Even if that meant hiding your transistor radio in a pocket in school or under your pillow when your parents thought you were asleep. If it was summer and school was out it was a little bit easier, but sand in your radio wasn't all that great. We listened to, in my case, Maris, Mantle and Mays, Koufax and Drysdale, the Celtics and maybe the US Open. e Open for me only because McEnroe lived less than two miles from where I did. His mom still owes me money for a photo album I made when his rst child was born. But I digress. Now, we are in the middle of baseball season. Football season is around the corner, hockey season and basketball season start in October, Soccer may or may not be over in October, the World Cup was in June, golf goes through September, or perhaps forever, same for tennis, and don't even get me started on NASCAR, wrestling, UFC (whatever that is), and MMA (again, what?). You can watch all your relatives participate in their events in person, or on videos that your kids, grandkids, friends with kids, friends with grandkids, etc. send you. en there's YouTube, "regular" TV, streaming channels, and in some retro way or another, on the radio. Oh, and if that's not enough, there are shows on TV about some of these sports as well. Ted Lasso anyone? Or Running Point, and Welcome to Wrexham which I would watch with the sound o just to see Ryan Reynolds. I think we can thank Friday Night Lights for them. To attend a professional game will likely cost more than our monthly HOA fee. Not to mention getting there, getting food, and parking. Season ticket prices are insane. What's a reasonable person supposed to do? My suggestions: pick your sports and teams, watch wherever and whenever you can, tell all your family what T-shirt/jersey/cap you want for your birthday, and enjoy. Do not agonize over the win/loss column. If you can. I leave you with a wayback photo of someone close to my heart. Her brick is embedded in Citi Field near her beloved team. Signed, A Mets Fan now and forever Go Team!