Is this not America? Is podcasting not America's favorite pastime? Is podcasting not America's favorite pastime? Is she being a Karen there?
Like you know... His hand is split open. I know. That's why I'm saying maybe she's not.
But the fact that she immediately goes to like, baseball is important to America and not just like, the guy is fucking bleeding out of his arm. Can we deal with it? What's most odd about it? He's gonna open bloody wound and they're like, Sam over there.
But the star is so small. When they show it and when he's, it's covered in blood. Right. It's, look, I don't know.
I was like, what? You're fucking pitcher. The scar looks like, to your point, what he would get for accidentally like, nicking his hand while dicing on you. Yes.
Like I have that scar and there was not that much blood. I have that scar from recycling, from folding too much cardboard. And he like tears open his arm on a bandsaw and he's got this little tiny scar. But it's also funny that such a running thing in this movie is that she doesn't understand how famous he is, that like other people react to him so differently than she does.
And then this is the one scene where no one seems to know who he is. Well, they're in that mountain town. They're not gonna get baseball. Yeah, baseball.
But it's like he's the most distinctive looking man. He has fucking big dick energy. Even when he's bleeding out and she has to scream at them. Now, here's what's wild.
I texted you guys that line all caps. Yeah. Is this not America for separate texts? Yeah.
For each word. And then it's based on America's favorite pastime. Ben said it's gotta be the opening quote, right? I said, yes, David, you said, I don't know, a lot of competition, so many huge lines.
I just, I had the line written out, right? In the text, but I just checked on me to be to see, is there anything else worth doing? Other good quotes. I was being funny.
Now I will say, Vince Scali has got some great lines. Okay. Okay. Now this is the point.
There are a surprising amount of quotes killed out here for this movie, considering this movie is not often thought of. Is this not America? Is baseball not America's favorite pastime is not included on the post page. Oh, it's not in there.
It's not in there. That is the only line I remember from the movie. There are a fair amount of quotes on it. And a lot of long ones like Billy's entire final monologue, like full Vince Scali stretches.
Well, the Vince Scali stuff is gold. I'm sure he wrote it. It's the best performance in the movie. Right?
He's in the pocket. I've got some options for you, but he is real obviously, he's good. I'm just saying. Oh, I'm saying David.
The cathedral that is Yankee Stadium. No, you're not going to do Vince Scali right now. Belongs to a champion. I was just going to do the one.
That's fucking good. That's a kind of... Do you think that that is why they named it like reverse engineered in this last game? Well, look, it's from a book.
Is he named that in the book? Let's find out. And I think the book isn't the Yankees. I think that was an E.
Robinson thing. No, no, no, no. In the book, he doesn't play for the Tigers. I think he plays for the Tigers in the movie because Sam Raimi is a Midwestern boy.
In the book, he plays for the Atlanta Hawks, which is a fake team. But they are pitching against the Yankees. Okay. You know, because you know, the Yankees.
That's the usual. Exactly. Belongs to a champion. You have braids.
I have no idea. It's so... I'm going off a wicket beat here. But apparently his team is called the Atlanta Hawks in the book.
I don't know why. We can't ask him because he's dead. And there is an Atlanta Hawks. Sorry.
It's a basketball. This is true. I don't know. Why are they the Hawks?
Well, there's also the Falcons. They're like a bird. Why isn't it with the birds? I don't know.
Atlanta doesn't have good sports team because braids obviously get rid of that. I don't know. I'm realizing this is going to be one of those. Brewed to me.
My mom is from Atlanta. I grew up a Braves fan. I had a big chipper Jones poster in my room as a child. Well, that's a Mets fan.
Obviously, that's violence to me. But I said, but this guy, I don't mean braids. You know, the American American story. Oh, yeah, that's not right.
I'm also from DC and that has a bad history of Native Americans. I also had the basketball team. I knew the other couple of other baseball. Because David had said, she doesn't love baseball.
I think you love baseball. I like the idea of baseball. OK, yeah. What I love is going to a baseball game.
And drinking a beer with iPads for however many hours. Watching a baseball game on TV, not for me. I mean, I don't watch baseball on TV much anymore. I'll admit it.
But it can have the same vibe where it's like, well, this will be on. And I'll be doing various things. Or I'll have my friends. But yeah, you're not going to be glued to it.
No. And I was like, I think baseball is the one sport that you can listen to on the radio. Like it is background noise. It is very easy.
It's very easy. It's very easy to listen. It's very easy to listen to. This soundscape of baseball is great.
Oh, like a crack of a bat. Let's talk about the crack of the bat. Let's talk about the crack of the bat. David was saying the crack of the bat before we start recording.
I said, David, keep it. David, David, David. You got to talk about the crack of the bat in the set. How many sports are there?
Where did you hear the crack of the bat? Well, there's a few of them. Crickett. Crickett, another great slow sport.
Crickett and Britain does have the exact same vibe where it's like, I'm here with my friends. Where chat? We're not going to bring it to gaming like a day long. No, that is this not just America.
How many sports are there? Where it is not just accepted, but it is encouraged. That there will be times when people are just going to go to the mound, just stop the game. We have to talk for a bit.
Yeah. And people are like, well, this is part of the game. Of course. The man is just going to come up and have a chat.
That's part of the game. But this is why I think. No one's like, hurry up. We're here to be entertained.
I can't hear you. I think this is why baseball is the most cinematic sport. Right. It's up there.
I think there's something about the actual structure of a baseball game allows for more conversation. Yeah. There's a lot of breathing room. There's a lot of conversation.
Right. Because you watch like a basketball game. And if there's a timeout, it's not long. No.
They're talking very quickly. Yes. And they're also winded. Baseball players rarely seem winded.
Baseball players sit on the bench. They might as well be at the theater. Like they're chatting. There's a lot of fun.
There's an ebb and flow to the energy. The basketball player comes off to the bench, puts a towel over his face. He's tired. He's like covered by blood coming out of his ears.
There's also the fact that, I mean, and Sam Raimi has talked about this, is like the biggest driving factor in wanting to do this movie. Baseball is like a wide screen sport. Like the field is so big. The players are so stretched out.
The way the state is covered is green, blue, and sky. I was thinking about the crack of the bat. Especially when they like really hit the ball and go to the wall. And you can really like track the ball.
Like, oh, that's beautiful. It's a fucking wide screen sport. It's a cinematic sport. And it leaves room for dramatic arcs within a game.
OK. So hold on. So I just found out today that David, you love baseball. Well, when I was a little miss, like this is like an astonishing riddle.
I was a huge baseball man and dork. And I will say, when I moved to England when I was nine years old, I stuck with it. It was one of my kind of tethers to America, right? It was like, kept up with baseball.
Did you ask when you got off the plane? Did you say, is this not America? Yes. And they said, it's not.
You should learn this and get this into your head as possible. And then when I moved back, I was like, I'm back in the country of baseball. This is going to be great. And I did keep up with a little more, but I quickly went back to basketball, which was another of my early loves.
And Olivia and I share it. And I don't want to tell any baseball fan listeners because I do love the sport, but I feel unattached to it now. I feel unromantic about it or whatever. Can you not feel romantic about baseball?
To quote moneyball? But moneyball is so good. So many good baseball movies. Moneyball is good because it's not about baseball.
Moneyball is not particularly about baseball. I mean, but moneyball is the best one for me. Yes. But now, OK, you're a fan of baseball.
But did you play baseball? Because I have to say, I'm like, little league baseball. Sure. Because I can't imagine either of you ever playing baseball.
You're saying, me? I can't imagine Greg and what you're saying. I don't know why. Ding ding ding.
You liked and played baseball. One of those two things. You played it. I didn't like it, but I played it a lot.
Your dad seems like someone who liked baseball. At some point this time. I guess your position was right, like bench. Well, I'm going to give the sancto on the podcast before.
I did little league for a while. My brother and I close together in age. My sister was born much later. So there was a lot.
There was a decade where it was the boys. What did the boys do? And my dad wanted to coach teams on the weekend. My brother really wanted to play.
And they'd be like, the boys play baseball, right? I just got lumped into the boys. The boys. And I would do that for multiple years, multiple seasons.
How were you at bat? Well, Ben, this is the exact one. Griffin at the bat. This is the exact one.
I was so small. I was so tiny and anemic. Hey. And frail and small strike zone.
Well, and I was left handed. Oh, God. Oh, it's an advantage. As a kid, I was impossible to pitch to.
He was like, the strike zone was small. Eight year olds are like, I can't. Yes, this is truly. This is truly.
That's so funny. This kid's like a ringer or something. Where did you get him? So this is like a really telling Griffin origin story in terms of my energy and my outlook and how I perceive where I relate to the world and all of this.
I was so bad. But what they would do is they would hold me on the bench until like bases loaded. Right. Bottom of the nine.
And then they walk. And they were like, we're going to put them on the mound and they're going to hit you with a ball and you're going to walk and we're going to get a run. And they called me the walk on kid. And the way I could earn the respect.
You're like, Mary Bond. The way I could earn the respect of these boys is I had to surrender my body and just get fucking pelted with balls. And I would be crying and I'd be limping and I'd be like, you did good. You did good.
You did good. You did good. That is a really sad story. That is a really sad story.
Did you play sport? I played baseball. I played baseball on a team that was mostly boys when I was like seven in Washington. And yeah, I think in Alexandria, Virginia, there was one other girl on the team and her dad was the coach.
So we could really bond over that. But then eventually they kind of like, if you're a girl, they're like, you got to play softball now. And I did not like softball. So I just went back to basketball.
I do think that was probably the point where I said to my parents, I'm not doing this anymore is when it's split off into not being co-it teams. Because when there were girls on the team, I felt a little more sick. They can be mean. Yeah, they were mean in sporting situations.
Yeah. Girls can be mean too. Girls, please. I've seen them go really mean.
The thing about little sports, they played all of them was like, with soccer, we were never allowed to play with the girls, because they were like a lot better than really mean. Girl soccer? I know a couple of girls soccer players. And they're like, oh, yeah, you just have to like pull our ponytail.
And then like, I don't know. That actually, the girl soccer is like roller derby. Like it has like, yeah, it was intense. I mean, they were good.
They were better than we were terrible. Yeah. I played baseball for years. I know you went to Joey Spunos, a sports club, shout out.
Like after school baseball. Oh, I remember that. Yeah. Yeah.
Where's your position? A second base. Second base Sims. Second base Sims.
Second base Sims. To this day, if you know what I mean? It's a sex joke. Yeah.
OK. Yeah. Pull me out. You kind of pull me out.
Yeah. I'm sorry. Yeah. Your most famous for is second base.
Sexual. I can't make it home. I'm so good at second base. And I just stall out.
He stays there. He stays parked on second. Just like, let's just like, no. And I played basketball because I was so tall.
But I was really talk about it. And I was horrible at it. Did you at least like stand under the basket and just like lay it out? I should have had like a Daryl Morrie constructing a team around me.
It's like, David, there's one spot on the court. I want you. But no, we were kids. We were all just running into each other.
There was a kid at my high school who, I actually don't even remember his proper name because everyone called him Biggie. And he was built almost exactly like you. And he was a very shy kid. And then at one point, all the basketball kids were like, if we just put him on the court.
Right. And they were like, we were like, we were going to go into our friend group. And it was the same thing where people would sit much of the games and maybe like Biggie. He's like, he's the all-star.
And then there'd be silence. He'd be like, he's not actually good at basketball. He's big. He's just big.
He's just, you know, I played a ball. No, this is embarrassing. I played water polo as a teenager in Britain. What?
I'm not even doing a horse. I'm actually doing a horse. On what? Orsons?
No, water polo. See horses? You know, it's like swimming. It's like swim basketball.
You're like treading water and like throwing a ball. It seems really hard. It's incredibly demanding. I did it because I'm big and I'm a good swimmer.
I'm not good at water polo, but I'm a swimmer. Good team. Yes. But being like, I do like the pressure.
Being like a big body in water polo is crucial because that's all very violent. A lot of dunking. You know, a lot of, and you know, whatever happens under the water is kind of tough to referee. Like, obvious.
Well, should I say something about my playing of baseball, please? I love to steal. Oh, you're. A thief, a bass thief.
Because the thing that I love is I love going against authority. Right and so once you're out there, you know, you got a third base coach. You got a third base coach. You got the coach on the bench, but you're on your own out there.
So even if the first base coach, like stay here. I got two hundred point I had a reputation and they would say, do not steal. You don't steal! Like enough of this.
And then I just would be like, I've got this. Why? So I would always, you weren't good at that. I was a good at that.
You weren't like, which Henderson. But I just had to try. Would you slide? Would you like slide?
I would slide into the best part. It's like, what's going on? Yeah, it's so fun. And you're like, it's so healthy.
Hell yeah. And kids are as a second base, but kids would really, slide with too much applause. Knock you over. They fucking old time rock and roll slide.
Ben, I'm assuming you also were attempting to steal in both senses of the word. You would be on second. You would grab the physical face from under your feet and then run to third. Absolutely.
Yeah. We should say, this is going check with Griffin and David. I'm Griffin. It's a podcast about filmography.
It's a podcast about filmography. It's a massive success early on in their careers. They're given a series of blank checks, whatever crazy passion products they want. And sometimes those checks clear.
And sometimes the crack of the bat, baby. Yeah. And what else is it about? It's about freshly cut grass and the chalk crack.
I'm trying to think of other, the smell of a hot dog. A fresh ditching on a ball. Cracker Jack's over here. Popcorn.
25 cents. Oh, yeah. How much are cracker jacks? Like probably 1850.
You ever had cracker jacks? They stink. I got a sweet popcorn. Is it popcorn?
Right. I never. I was thinking that while watching the movie, I had a couple notable cracker jack. Of course.
I was like, I don't think I know exactly what that is. You think that it's like it's caramel covered popcorn, I think. With like a little bit of like peanut. There's like something like nutty.
Yeah. Okay. It tastes like cardboard. It tastes like the box that it comes in.
It's like a box. Popcorn is never really going to, you know, you want fresh popcorn. Right. Yeah.
What's the thing? Cracker Jack used to be a 50-50 ratio. Okay. At the very last crack to jack, 60 caramel popcorn, 50 or 40 peanuts.
In years, they've come under fire because people are like, I got a bag of two peanuts. There's almost no peanuts in it. And the other thing is used to get like a physical prize. It's like a line of America things where it's like, man, cracker jacks used to mean something.
Yeah. It's just like a bunch of shitty popcorn. Yeah. I think it's, yeah.
Normal Rockwell used to do covers for magazines and his stuff stinks. Oh, so you're coming back against that. You're like, no, the 50s or whatever. Past time is in the past.
Let's look ahead. I don't like what I see. I want to look at the past. The past is fine.
I'm forgetting if this is on his short list. It's the funniest thing I've seen Jimmy Fallon do in 20 years. He shared some anecdote about Lauren Michaels taking him to a Yankees game with Jack Nicholson. Okay.
And him going like, Hey, Jack, you've been joining the game. And Jack was like eating cracker jacks and had a far off look and then he like reached into the box and he took out a sticker and he said, like, they used to have real prizes in these things. And now it's a goddamn piece of paper. And he was like, he was like shaken to his core by the decline of the cracker Jack prize.
That's probably why Jack Nicholson mostly goes to link your game. Absolutely. But, but doesn't get to hear the crack of the back. Look, there's a series on the films of Sam Raimi.
It's called podcast me to help. Today we're talking about the movie that I think least exists in his biography and beyond that, no one remembers the same. If you remember this thing exists, you will somehow auto correct it in your head to anyone else to recognize. Yeah, right.
Unquestionably, right? Yeah. It's a Kevin Costner movie. Yes, it is.
And the extent that he gets in the picture. Sam Raimi did the right. And had final cuts. You know this and saying, Oh, I didn't know he had final cuts.
We're going to have this limited final cuts. Yes. Well, that's, but they were like his quote was $20 million at this point in time, even though he was coming off of his two biggest flops ever, he's going off. Well, you know, that's the thing.
They say his quote was $20 million. And I'm sure he had been paid $20 million for like the postman, right? Right. I was like, look, my quote is $20 million.
I'm happy to do this Elvis movie for a cool 18. You know, this dude is like, look at me at nine. It's dropping. It's this is not where it's dropping.
And he's trying to maintain it. And they're like, we would like this to be $50 million all in. Like, you think he got 20 for message in a bottle? Maybe.
That's the one he did right before this. Uh, yes it is. Yes. Right.
Cause Raimi met him on the set of that to pitch on intended to direct this movie. Correct about it. Correct about it. He was like, I will forgo my two.
I think universal said we'd like to get this at 50. What if we don't give you your quote, but you have huge stake in the profits of the film, you get director approval and you get final cut, which giving an actor final cut is a bad idea. I would say quite a thing. Fundamentally, just a bad idea, especially when an actor is like a director, a director who can control the Egomaniac exactly.
And Oscar winning director at that. Yes. Yes. Now I will say this.
And I think I said this before. Ken and Cos. Yeah. I worked with them.
I'm sure it did. Which I saw on a plane recently. Thank you. I liked it a lot.
It was great. But also the ideal plane movie. Oh, it was perfect. But it was made for Cable and I've said this before, that was a movie where customer wouldn't cut his boat because he was coming up with Hatfield McCoy and he felt like he had a hot hand and he could get his number back up there and they were trying to keep the budget low.
So every other actor in that movie took like a seg minimum in order to do that to give him the amount he wanted. It wasn't a full 20, but it was a lot. Sure. And so I did not get paid much money for that movie.
And when that movie had only been on Delta planes for three months, I got a residual check that was significantly bigger than I've been paid in total. And immediately the second it went on planes blew up. Wow. That makes so much sense to me.
Because I was like, this is an out on VOD that hasn't been released on blue. Like where's this money coming from? And then I realized I keep having people text me photos watching on the little screen. Yeah.
And I was like, this thing was just designed. It's still on fucking flights like nine years later. It's a good movie. It's a good movie.
The point I was going to say, I like it though. I don't remember what I'm going to say is watching him on set. It did click for me. Like, oh, I think Kevin Costner kind of directs every movie.
I think at the very least it is a collaboration. Yeah. But he comes in and he really feels like he's the director. Yes.
And I think he likes directors. I think he respects directors. But he has very strong opinions. I will say to his credit, they are not exclusively based in ego.
Like they are big picture thoughts, but he's just like has to feel like this. And he gets in there and he's just like, I'm going to fucking fight for this. For the love of the game. That's a pretty good cost.
Well, I spent a lot of time with that one. Today we're talking about love again. And returning as one of our favorite guests, baseball, I guess well known. Baseball zone.
Short stop for the Mets. Look at Craighead. Hello guys. I had never heard of this movie before.
I was asked. Come on, come on the show. Yeah. I always like to get you on.
It's been a little bit and David's like Olivia likes to get you a baseball. I was just like done. And beyond that it was kind of like no one was asking for the love of the game. For love of the game.
For love of the game. For love of the game. But I'm sure there are fans out there. In fact, a couple people have tweeted me like my favorite, Raimi.
I hope you like it. I was sort of like. No offense to those people. Raimi.
That's weird. It's a little weird. I love you. My brother loves this movie.
James name. I'm passing future guests. I don't know if he's seen it against them, but he especially as a kid loved this kind of like I wonder if he's going to send me to text going like you did it for love of the game episode and didn't ask me. The only other time he's done that is when he wasn't asked to be on Ali and then he was like, oh, it's Jamal.
That's fine. Do you think he remembers how much of this movie is Kelly Preston? This is the thing. So my brother, my brother's very, he's not guy.
He's a great guy. He's a very smart guy. He loves sports, right? And he's got excellent taste in movies.
He did as a kid love these sort of like glossy 90s adult dramas. And whereas I think a lot of boys, especially a lot of sports loving, jockey boys are like, oh, gross romance kissing. He was like, even tall of that. I think this movie was like a perfect blend for him.
The thing I always say about my brother is I think when he was nine or 10, he had like a sleepover birthday party where my mom was like, well, I'll rent a movie that even all your friends can watch. And the movie he picked was Keeping the Faith. He made a bunch of nine year old boys watching the Faith. It was the fourth time he had seen the movie.
That's my one of four keys, one of four keys, all time favorite movies. It's a I mean, it's a fun movie, but I just think for him, he was like the exact one's gonna pun intended strike zone for this movie where it was like you what amount of like romanticizing baseball and middle aged people falling in love and trying to figure out their shit does this nine year old boy want. I was so ready to love this movie. Same.
And the first first anything I love from a late nineties movie now, the credits are rolling and it's like John C. Riley, Jake, you said, I'm like, ah, right, right. And we've been getting a run of those with the rain is where it's like quick in the dead, simple plan. It's just a murderers row, single card, like assassins.
And then it's baseball. He's on the mound. It's a baseball door score. One of his fun is blowing them horns.
Beautiful. One of those beautiful twinkling nineties score. Absolutely. And this like end of film, they finally perfected how to make movies look as shiny and warm as possible.
It's got major. It's got major. And he's got a lot of the designers. Hair is just absolutely lost the battle.
He's walking around the hotel and his button down. He's like, you know, Brian Cox is like, I'm selling the team. Baseball RIP. You'll fuck.
It'd be funny if you had that. Fucking kids don't like baseball. Then he's on the mound and he's talking through the players that he's facing off against. And I love that about baseball.
The idea that it's like pitchers. It's like a logical to pitchers. But we're talking about it. This guy never swings.
Whatever. Yeah. And I'm like, I don't love this movie. And then our first is all I was just immediately like, I want to look at my phone.
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I'm back in. I'm back in. The baseball is so good. It's so good.
The only thing about this movie is that when he pitches the perfect game at the end, I was crying. I was so invested in the thing I knew he was definitely going to do that. I was like crying and they cut to his friend who plays for the Yankees now and I started crying again. And then when he goes to the airport, I felt absolutely right.
Okay, two out of 10. Yeah. I was like, now and I'm like, no, and now. I'm all set.
Look, I think there's an imbalance in this film, but I think the biggest mistake it makes is there's that unbroken 45 minute chunk where we stay in the relationship. Very early on. And they don't cut back to the game at all. Yeah.
And I'm like, if you were going back and forth, you'd maybe keep me on the hook a little more. Here's an embarrassing confession. So I was watching this movie with the one I'm dating. Humblebray!
And she... Crack out of the humble bray. We're like watching it. She's sort of like, ah, Kevin Costner based on the way.
I was also watching this movie with the one I'm dating. Humblebray. My wife. Or who you dated all the way to the point of her.
Sure. Yeah. And then the flashbacks happen. And she's like, do you mind if I like do some work while you're watching the movie?
I'm like, that's fine. To be clear is what my wife was doing. Right. She's like, I'm just not doing that.
That's fine. And she's sitting there on the couch next to me work on her and I'm actually using stuff to bread into a glass of milk. And then eat it in the middle of the night with your step daughter and said don't ask any questions. But my thing was I was like, sort of fakes it.
What do you call it? Step girlfriend's daughter. I mean, I just went for it because whatever you can. As soon as Jenna Malone showed up, I like looked at how much time was in the movie in another hour.
I was like, oh my God. My ruling made to myself was I was like, I have to get to the halfway point of this before I put on Swiner. Because you won't feel it'll be insurmountable next day. So I can make up the morning and watch the second half of this two hour and 17 minute movie, but I have to get to that halfway point.