The baseball arc really hits home for me (pun not intended).I wanted to be playing sport with everyone else, except I was autistic (unknown at the time) and bullied out of particpation. Then later bullied because I was not longer interested in participating, because of the bullying.
I’d laugh, but the UK has its own problems, like the recent PM Liz Truss who was mocked for lasting less time than a lettuce, and who thinks her disastrous 7 weeks as PM was cut short by something other than her own rank incompetence. She was of course, the choice after Boris Johnson, a man whose serial philandering is the least of his problematic time as an MP and subsequent PM, and the current PM Rish! Sunak, who is as charmless as the by now wilted lettuce, again the least of his defects.
Places I lived in Australia in the late 70’s and early 80’s, we had only 2 channels, ABC and one of the local affiliates to a commercial network.
One place (Cunnamulla) had just the ABC, which at the time was known for its repeats. The number of times I saw The Goodies, Monkey, Astroboy, and many others, is crazy.
You make them sound almost human.