The baseball strike was a big deal. It is hard to describe now to folks but it was a legit big deal. Baseball has never really recovered from it.
It has recovered from it
I don't think it has. It doesn't nearly have the cultural relevance it had prior to the strike.
It is am also ran compared to the NFL. Not its peer. Nobody hardly knows or cares about the best players at the national level. Interest in teams is largely regional.
I figure it makes more money now. I figure it does even accounting for inflation and the fact the country has 100mil more people than 93. However its cultural value has slipped and never recovered.
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Although maybe that was the 80s.
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That might also have been the 80s.
Is this a gimmick?Thats kind of correct. The home run chase between Maquire and Sosa renewed interest but the strike did real damage to the game. It wasnt the kind of sea change the NBA got in the early eighties in the opposite direction but it was a thing.
Is this a gimmick?
huffysAre You Afraid of the Dark was awesome.
vortex footballs
lil huggies drinks
are you afraid of the dark
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Nerf guns and super soakersI had the Nerf bow.
I had the Nerf bow.Fuhh* man. I miss that thing. It did annoy me that the purple arms seem to detach though.
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Seeing Lion King in theaters and then getting the soundtrack on cassette tape on the way home.The Goosebumps covers were amazing.
Hologram/holograph colors on a lot of things (toys, bookmarks, just random stuff).
Goosebumps books
"Adult"-style programming for kids on Nickelodeon (AYATD, Hidden Temple, All That and other shows that typically never had a kid version before)
Also I remember some crazy awesome toy shop in a mall in Southern California that looked like the set of a sci-fi show or something, but that's probably just a false memory. It had a platform you could stand on and spin yourself on. There was also a VR arcade (probably a different mall) where you would put on a VR headset and walk on a treadmill to navigate, that was ahead of its time. I don't remember the game being any good though.
Things had vibrant color still.
Watching music videos on MTv (I got hooked on that Madonna song, Speed of Light or something like that).
The big band and swing revival movement.
The Goosebumps covers were amazing.Yeah I still have a lot of them (at least 40), used to go with my mom to a book store in a small town to pick up the newest release and I was a member of the Goosebumps fan club and had some fun knickknacks like a hat, wallet and reading light. Loved those things.
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Nerf guns and super soakers
- Walking/riding/skating to the malls and arcades.I remember hacky sack
- Street Hockey between 7-9:00 pm
- Hackey-sacking out side of school while some of us were waiting for our rides (I biked to and from so when they all left, so did I. At times I would leave my bike still tied up and just hitch a ride with my friends.)
- Dodgeball, Crab Dodgeball (cutthroat battles that test your friendship)
- Six-Flags/Hurricane Harbor, with the ridiculous Super Soaker water guns.
- Renting games at BlockBuster on a Friday afternoon with the family after eating at a busy restaurant.
- Fighting a lot against the other elementary school kids at the city parks after hours (from 3rd to the 5th grade before moving to another city campus).
- Ding Dong ditching, and prank calling random numbers.
- Diss battles/YoMomma jokes in class while the teacher was out/in the bus on field trips/during lunch where nobody took it seriously.
- Waking up very early in the summers to Deliver the paper, or help my dad or uncles out with fixing their cars or tagging along to their jobsites and hand them tools and mats.
- Detention, lots of detention for talking back, insubordination, and laughing.
- My first kiss.
- Christmas presents. Tons and tons of them.
- Going hunting with my dad.
- My stabbing in my right upper front thigh during the the fourth grade.
- Sneaking into my uncle's shop to joyride his atvs and dirt bikes.
I was a baaaaaad yet a very fortunate kid, but at least I was active.
Comedy movies in theaters.