The Sandlot – MOVIE – Episode 50

The Buddies revisit a childhood classic, The Sandlot movie. It was their collective 115th viewing of the movie, but the first as adults, and it gave the Buddies a different perspective especially on many of the characters. The Buddies got into deep discussions about Wendy Peffercorn, James Earl Jones’ character, and Scotty’s parents. Lot of questionable stock purchases and sales on this one, so don’t miss out. Or in other words don’t be a scab eater, goofus, or ‘L7 weenie’.

Intro: (0:00-1:06)
Stock Up/Down (1:07-23:41)
Love/Hate (23:42-29:10)
Studio Notes/Reviews (29:11-33:33)
Conclusion (33:34-37:18)

Next Book: THE THIRD OPTION by VINCE FLYNN

Next Movie: HITCH

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club I’m Dylan here with the Colossus of
podcast Cloud Keith what’s up Goofus
Goofus is yeah a good term that I didn’t
realize was a uh insult big fan of
Goofus we’re talking about The Sandlot
which is what we’re doing today 1993’s
The Sandlot here at the Buddy book club
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Keith how many times have you seen The
Sandlot in recent years not very often
when I was growing up probably 15 times
I would say this one was one that I
owned I didn’t own a bunch so I watched
the sand a lot a lot baseball was my
first love as a kid sports related not
lady related that was my first grade
teacher this is Sebring
uh yeah so I’ve probably seen this movie
I don’t know a hundred times
let’s Jump Right In with some stock up
stock down keep it here for uh stock up
stock up this is this is a comedy
podcast I’m gonna start off a little
high
stock up grooming uh oh I was gonna talk
about this I was gonna save it for the
end wow you’re really popping off at the
top I find a stock I mean the stock I
don’t even think it’s legally sold I
think it’s against the law to sell it
this is on the the dark web or something
but at the end of the movie we learned
that Squints and Wendy spoilers
peppercorn peppercorn pepper that name
is very hard to say peppercorn all right
and I’m getting married and having kids
I mean but if we do this some of the
simple math here Squints I I’m maybe
you’re supposed to be 12. he looks like
he’s like eight yeah I was gonna say
like 10 to 12. the relationship seemed
to start between him and Wendy when he
was 12 and she was probably 18 19. no
she was 16. I’m gonna guess oh is she
supposed to be younger okay I think I
looked up her at the how old she was the
actress at the time I think she was 19.
so
I’m gonna whatever let my math work okay
okay sure she’s an adult she’s an adult
okay they have nine kids and she
literally so unless like they just
started having kids write when he was
the math doesn’t really check out for
that right like that’s gonna be that’s a
lot of kids in a shorts amount of time
since she’s gonna be older you know what
I mean well okay so let’s say he’s 12.
let’s just let’s just say 12 and 18. so
there’s a six year difference right so
by the time he’s 18 she’s 20. she’s 24.
so yeah they could have that’s just
grooming straight up if they’re just
getting right when she turns 18 they’re
getting married and having kids well
it’s funny because this is not where I
was going with the group
you were talking about the dog needing
to be groomed I was talking about I was
just gonna ask I was just gonna throw it
out there I don’t want to ruin anyone’s
favorite movie or anything but I was
gonna throw it out there is James Earl
Jones grooming oh Jesus
James those rooms can’t see what do you
mean who cares just because don’t don’t
be an ableist okay I don’t know what
that means I think it’s people who say
something about disabled people all he
asked for for a signed baseball of
whatever the 1923 or whatever the case
is Yankees worth a lot of money and the
guy doesn’t seem to have a very nice
house so he could and he can’t see his
you can’t see the ball or the house what
does it matter
he’s willing to give it away as long as
they come back once a week to talk
baseball
these kids just almost murdered his dog
they ruined his fence almost murdered
his dog and he’s like okay here’s a
baseball come back once a week and yeah
we’ll talk baseball my grooming was
funny it’s like a a hot older girl
seducing a young kid but then they get
old and they get married that’s like a
cute story an actual old dude seducing
young kids is not funny that’s like this
is I wasn’t suggesting that was the case
I was just putting it out there what are
the odds that was it okay let’s let’s
not put me up on the stand here James
Earl Jones should be on the stand it’s
an old dude that’s lonely that just
wants to talk baseball and you you made
it not to be something terrible my girl
Wendy Peppercorn peppercorn or her name
is she’s just a minx that just is just
like manipulating young boys to then
marrying them and having nine kids them
there’s a way different thing there
going on I understand nine times out of
ten
James Earl Jones has the right mindset
and he just wants to chat with the boys
you got to be careful and there’s a
reason why people say this day and age
this stuff would never be allowed to
happen because back then it was always
the nice neighborly people that were
that were grooming the kids so so but
anyway stock up I was gonna turn this
around on you somehow and be like this
is d-man’s favorite movie growing up and
he’s he’s into grooming so he’s he’s the
one buying the stock I’m just reporting
on it you know oh yeah fair enough fair
enough yeah fair enough my first stock
up is summer vacation I just need to
have it have it out there and at the top
I mean what beats that school’s out and
you can do whatever the heck you want
even when you’re in high school you have
to have a job or something along those
lines but when you’re a kid and you have
summer vacation it’s like I just want to
get up and play video games all day or
I’m gonna go bike to my buddy’s house
and we’re gonna jump on his trampoline
and shoot water guns at each other it’s
like that’s [ __ ] great I’m gonna go
down the street to this old man’s house
and he’s going to talk baseball with me
while my clothes are off you know those
kind of things are what summer vacation
is all about right right of course so it
made me a little nostalgic for for
summer vacation for sure because I
missed yeah company is just all like get
together and decide we’re gonna take off
the Summers and there’s like everyone in
the world has it off you know what we’ll
do is like what like bears do where they
like hibernate we get all the food made
and everything ready for the summer
right summer right they store all the
food up so no one has to work on the
food and then this the math might not
check out on this but or the southern
hemisphere does all the work during the
summer and then we benefit see yep there
we go I think that work for us yeah and
then when it’s their summer we’re doing
all the work you know we help each other
out but everyone gets a summer off again
that’s what I run on as president I’m
into it what’s your next stock up
pickles and third base coaches a lot of
pickle talk yes
not by James Earl Jones by the way
well can we not talk about the
peppercorn one
tons of stuff about getting into pickles
getting out of pickles being in a
baseball pickle personally I’m not a big
pickle guy if you’re in a deli or
ordered a sandwich you want to stand
next to me because you know I’m giving
you that picture yeah that’s my favorite
person to be next to then also I’ll hand
you a pic for my sandwich if you know
what I mean but uh also stock of Third
Base coaches because Benny the jet just
has zero baseball awareness he gets into
multiple pickles in this movie yeah yeah
you’re supposed to be a future MLB
player why are you rounding thirds so
hard and not have any field awareness he
gets out of the pickles which I think at
the end of the movie correct me if I’m
wrong d-man I didn’t think the stealing
home really has any symbolism right get
get him into a pickle right he run
around second hard the guy sends them he
gets into a pickle gets out of it scores
that would be much more apra Pro if
that’s the word yeah there so I’m not
really sure why they stole home there
was no yeah and also like why are you
still at home in in general but hey I’m
not a huge baseball guy anymore like I
said it was my first love but it’s not
my my last love that’s now pickleball
talking no pickles
um but yeah I I agree because they start
the movie with him in in a pickle so why
not why not finish it fun fact too I
just heard on another podcast that do
you know why it’s called pickleball they
don’t actually know but it’s potential
that the people who started its dog name
was pickle oh well then the podcast was
lying to me but they said it was because
the people that invented it were big
crew people and the people that were not
on The A Team were called the pickle
crew like the second crew and they said
oh like this sports for people that
aren’t good at tennis it’s like the
pickle oh interesting I I’ve heard that
and and like they’re the family’s dog
name was pickle mine one was core I
don’t know I think the B Coolidge is
named it after your dog it’s like yeah
people like ooh where does this name
with this Sport come from I was like I
don’t know I invented it and my dog’s
name was pickle and you play with a ball
so oh well speaking of playing with
balls uh
my other stock up here is uh pickup ball
over organized Sports I used to be in a
like once we were out of college we just
played pickup softball with some friends
and it was just like whoever could come
show up you pitch to your own team you
know you make your own calls whatever
the case is you crack beers on the
sideline you know it was wonderful and
when you’re a kid even even then pickup
is so much better than the organized
Sports it’s like casual there’s no
stupid uniforms that your mom forgets in
the washing machine 10 minutes before
you’re about to leave for a game and
then you’re like oh where’s my uniform
she said oh it’s in the washing machine
you have to play a baseball game with a
saga uniform which is terrible there’s
no parents as the coaches who always
play favorites especially with their own
kid it’s like okay Billy’s gonna pitch
today it’s like your son is terrible
like he should not be pitching I know
that this is a seven to eight year old
baseball game but he is terrible I don’t
want to sit here and watch them walk
everyone the whole time so uh Calvin
from Calvin and Hobbes had it right just
make up your own sports have fun with
your friends don’t worry about paying
the fee to the town to get involved in
organized Sports it’s stupid uh what
else you have stock up that’s it for
stock up okay I got a couple tree houses
I mean the Treehouse they have in this
one is epic tree houses were a big thing
another thing that was like big when we
were kids that somehow I don’t even know
if it’s like cool anymore like people
really chat about it or build trees we
did a stock up treehouses this is a way
back one but Matthew McConaughey book we
read oh right right yeah
where he said the Treehouse was a
hundred years yeah 120 feet in the air
or something like that yeah yeah
whatever McCone I trust him man I don’t
know why I trust him everything else in
that book seemed legit he had a pee
funnel in his van that went out the side
so he could pee while he drive like I
believe that but come on how do you even
get the lumber up there but this one is
also fairly epic one of their dads must
be the absolute man because if it’s all
nine kids comfortably I mean they have a
sleepover in the tree house so I’m just
I tried to like conceptualize how big
this treehouse must have been because it
looked quite large according to the
internet the average 10 year old is 50
to 58 inches tall so let’s just take the
low end and say you know 50-ish that’s
four feet so if the kid’s a foot wide
each kid when he’s laying down takes up
four square feet nine kids that’s 36
square feet it technically only would be
a six by six to fit all of them but
there was a bunch of other stuff in
there are we counting the the vertical
element too where people can sleep on
bunk bed and things like that building
up kids oh well they did have multiple
levels on that too so interesting so
maybe there’s multiple foot plans but
even then I don’t I didn’t see any bunk
beds whatever the case is so I am going
to say the Treehouse is probably like 10
by 10 which is incredible and there’s
multiple levels and they had as
different Escape hatches you could
Escape down the ladder down the pole it
was awesome I didn’t have any friends
with tree houses but I always wanted one
the best thing that someone had was like
the pre-fabricated playground that had
like the thing you could climb up into
once again being a kid having tree
houses sounds great uh my last stock up
was English Mastiffs which is what
Hercules is at the end they said that
Hercules lived to be 199 in dog years
which is 28 in human years it’s pretty
pretty incredible for a large breed dog
I think it’s probably because he still
had his testicles which were shown
gratuitously throughout the end of the
film if I say so myself it’s like why do
you have to do slow motion to this dog’s
balls slapping against his leg I didn’t
notice it but some people I guess were
looking for it I don’t know that’s weird
and even James L Jones could have seen
those balls I mean come on you can me
it’s ridiculous
ah stay in well done there’s the clip
for the kids I guess get yourself an
English Mastiff because they’ll live
forever so good uh what do you ever
stuck down
uh
baseball supply stock down
what’s up with baseball just being
impossible to get a hold of the market
ran dry on these it seems like if I were
a parent in the 60s and my kids are out
just all day great that’s that’s perfect
that’s exactly what I want out of the
house not getting into trouble playing
sports
buy the kids a pack of 30 baseballs like
what are these cost them like a thousand
dollars like what’s the deal here there
were 96 cents I think they said which
probably translates like five bucks also
when I was a kid my parents just dropped
me off with our swimming tennis club and
you just went there and you did whatever
you wanted we would play all the time
tennis baseball on the tennis courts
tennis balls were hard to find so you
hit the ball over the fence you’re in
the woods like like deep in the woods so
we would just go for anytime we wanted
to play we’d go out for 30 minutes
everyone would go and just try to find
tennis balls never hit over the fence
yeah and pick them up and then we have
like 20 balls these kids will like gotta
work for it well they couldn’t do that
because all the balls were over the
fence where Hercules’s Lair was yeah
that’s true that’s why they said at the
end they could play baseball for years
they were able to like get money
together to get a baseball for when they
needed to get this signed or whatever
the fake one yeah so I feel like that
would be what you do you just work for
it you do stupid stuff to figure out a
way to get that next ball that should be
like their their brainchild instead they
were like I guess today’s done it’s like
come on no yeah I wish that that was was
part of the movie that’s an interesting
theme that I thought would be fun you
know some Shenanigans to like get some
money to buy another ball as opposed to
them playing against the like organized
biker gang baseball team which was like
the trash talk that I thought that was
cool well the only good part about that
was hambino behind the behind the plate
talking trash
my first stock down is uh stepdads so
yeah Bill Bill you have a stepdad I do
he’s a great he’s a great man okay all
right I just want to clear that up no
he’s a big listener huge fan yeah he
always asked me to recommend a book for
him when he goes on like a cruise or
something like that BBC yeah indeed but
yeah so that’s why the Stock’s pretty
high because there’s some great ones out
there but Bill might be the worst ever
he can spend hours just meticulously
setting up his trophy room which by the
way had a bunch of like actual trophies
on the wall close the yearbook buddy
okay you’re a pencil Pusher why do you
have your fifth grade t-ball trophy on
the wall get over it but this guy needs
prodding to teach his stepson how to
play baseball he’s they’ve only him and
his the mom have only been together a
couple years and now you’re moving this
kid into a new environment he loves
baseball you love baseball that’s an
easy in just say yeah like let’s go play
catch I mean I I remember when my little
brother got to the age where we could
play because he’s 16 years younger than
me that we could go out and play ball I
was like heck yeah like let’s play
street hockey as much as we possibly can
let’s throw a football around some
baseball that’s fun it’s supposed to be
fun he’s just a terrible stepdad and
then on top of that it’s like fine you
have to be fair this kid kind of sucked
I mean well yeah be sucked because he
never taught him how to throw a baseball
and then even even when he does teach
him eventually he’s just teaching him in
the worst possible way Benny’s at least
like hey you were on a newspaper route
right okay so just throw it like you
threw a newspaper and he’s totally fine
with his stepdad’s like Point your arm
This Way Fall it’s like too much
Direction yeah well some people aren’t
teachers you know that’s tough like I
said totally fine if you want to be like
a parent that doesn’t give a [ __ ] about
your kid that that’s fine but at least
give the kid a decent glove and a
baseball hat it’s really not that hard
he has it’s like plastic glove that his
grandmother bought him Bill’s obsessed
with baseball he can’t just get the kid
a glove and on top of that what is going
on with smalls’s hat it’s like you’ve
got a brim that’s I like that
yeah the original flat Prem no that hat
was terrible he also I think is wearing
that in the announcer Booth so somehow
he got it back yeah well he didn’t tell
him to burn it yeah he didn’t burn it
but Bill’s got like four baseball hats
hanging on his wall in his trophy room
just grab one and give it to the kid now
you’re right you’re right and lastly
when he hits a kid in the face he
decides to put a stake on his eye and
I’m not even gonna talk about the color
of that steak because that steak must
have been a month old it was gray it was
disgusting but Bill have you heard of
bacteria you’re just gonna throw a steak
he’s trying to murder his stepson that’s
what I that’s the conclusion I came to
he’s actually trying to murder his
stepson he was like this is a festering
steak I’m gonna put it on his eye and
fill his eye hole with bacteria been
blind to him like James Earl Jones
why did they use that steak to distract
Hercules too you know like think out to
the Box yeah yeah great call it’s a it’s
a freaking great call out all the ideas
that dad was a normal dad for like the
pretty pretty normal he’s a total piece
of [ __ ] [ __ ] Bill and also [ __ ] the mom
too she asks him Scotty why haven’t you
made any friends uh mom maybe because
you decided to move two weeks before
summer and I didn’t have a chance to
meet any other kids and now you’re
literally shaming me you’re shaming me
because you don’t want me playing with
my Erector Set well it’s either this
erector set or the one in my pants
because I haven’t met anyone so I don’t
know what you want from me
I I also know what she did in Animal
House so his mother is uh
from uh Indiana Jones but the parents
were terrible I felt so bad for them
that’s fair yeah that’s fair my next
stock down is Good Fellas I think the
intro from this movie was stolen from
Goodfellas but you know what they did a
better job of it they did they had some
funnier nicknames uh all the intros were
good I I liked it I think it was kind of
ripped completely from that you know
like the famous scene that they go
through and they go that’s Joey two
times you know like those things yeah
they just they ripped it right from it
but it was better and then and the
narration the whole narration was ripped
from Goodfellas exactly yeah how do you
feel about a narrator because I was
gonna talk about this later but I’m kind
of getting rid of all my love hates here
how do you feel about a narrator in a
movie one of my favorite movies I have
narrators or at least the most
rewatchable movies I don’t know what
that tells you about me tell me besides
Goodfellas did you have another one
Shawshank Redemption okay there’s a
couple other ones oh hard it has I mean
all the basically movies with that
yeah Scorsese has it what about you are
you I know it’s like art wise it’s like
it’s poor taste if you have to have a
narrator apparently no I think the idea
is just if you need someone to kind of
be the exposition person it means you
can’t like write a script or whatever I
think that’s kind of silly I totally
think it’s fine for me I don’t mind a
narrator at all unless it’s getting to
the point where they’re like explaining
oh Memento too that’s one of my favorite
right yeah but you’re like in his head
too yeah so the definitely night club
okay yeah I’m fine with it and I thought
it was did good in this book I also love
I mean this movie I also love a um a
flashback and not uh there’s a flashback
in the movie Just when the entire movie
is a flashback that kind of thing so I I
enjoy it it’s a better time kind of
thing like another coming-of-age movie
that you said you haven’t seen now and
then also all flashback for the most
part my next knock down was cha AKA just
don’t do it kids if you’re kids out
there if you’re listening one if the
neighbor’s gonna give you a baseball
don’t go to his house uh two
if someone offers you dip especially if
you’re at an amusement park oh do not do
it we’re at Gran Torino the Clint
Eastwood movie and for some reason I was
like we didn’t have any snacks or
anything so I was just sitting there my
buddy’s like oh you want a dip I was
like yeah sure why not I’ll try it
and it was the last 15 minutes that
movie my head was spinning like as much
as possible like my whole neck was
around 360 Degrees spinning I was like I
gotta go to the bathroom I puked in the
movie theater from taking this job it
was just like these boys and I wasn’t on
a roller coaster did I learn my lesson
no my brother-in-law came to town and
he’s a hockey player so those guys all
like shot and he was like oh you want to
pick some up because we’re going bowling
I was like yeah that sounds good I have
no idea what I’m doing so I get the fine
cut which is like it’s like superb it
just hits you right immediately we’re
bowling put it in nope I was spinning
like those bowling balls ran to the
bathroom peaked again that was the
officially the last time I was out after
that that’s fair so I know a lot of
people enjoy I’ve never had the actual
like chewing tobacco though it’s always
been no yeah I think that’s pretty
disgusting the baseball managers seem to
like it so they put it in their bubble
gum yeah they mix it with the gum which
is interesting the first times I had it
were on San Patrick’s Day and I was
every time I was been drinking a little
bit uh we just were surpassing St
Patrick’s Day here recently and no
effect zero I was just like yep really
and then I had it like two beers deep at
a concert and I spit it out after like
three minutes I was like my head is
absolutely spinning right yeah I was
drinking with it in my mouth no impact
I don’t know what I think St Patrick’s
Day just eliminates everything it
cancels everything out the last one I
had and we already kind of covered it
was consent because nowadays you you
really should be asking for consent and
really not nowadays like it should just
be a thing it can get taken to a level
you know you’re supposed to ask someone
if you can kiss them before you kiss
them it’s just that’s the way it is and
uh I hate to say it but it worked out
for squint Scolari here when he surely
didn’t ask for consent and it was closer
to sexual assault if if you ask some
because he just went in on Wendy
Peppercorn and uh it turned out turned
out well for him he ended up with with
nine kids and married the love of his
life but uh probably not the best move
probably wouldn’t be done you know would
be done in the movie this this time
around but uh yeah word for squids so
what can we say stock up drowning yeah
yeah there you go stock up drowning I
was actually it would have been
hilarious if because the male
lifeguard’s the one that pulled him out
out so it would have been great if he
just went in on him is there any like
theories out there that the movie has
actually been told from squint’s point
of view and he died and it’s just like a
dream it’s a Favorite Dream after that
no but I like this yeah yeah that might
be the new conspiracy though because
he’s the one telling the story about how
bad the Beast is Hercules is yeah I
might be onto something and then all of
a sudden the story ends everyone else is
like yeah this guy was got big into the
him again squint Squints uh had nine
kids with his lovers
Squints has not stopped [ __ ] Wendy
since his 18th birthday
love hate would you love I think you
mentioned earlier but brings it right
back to being a kid summer vacation I
told you I I pretty much had Summers
where they I got dropped off and I could
do whatever I wanted every day it was
anything could happen today and that’s
what a feel like gave you and you’re
right it just made me be like damn I
wish I had some medications off or I had
like more time to do what they’re doing
you know yeah it makes you it makes you
really nostalgic for the good old days
yeah zero responsibility yeah great
great
I already talked about the flashback
stuff L7 weenie we’d we’d be remiss if
we didn’t talk about L7 weenie in a
Sandlot thing but it makes zero sense
but I love it it’s it’s a great way to
talk about someone just call them at L7
weenie you know what someone means
someone says to you oh that person’s an
L7 weenie sounds like exactly what it is
and I looked it up it didn’t come from
it like came from the guy who wrote it
just came up with it it didn’t and but
it’s now everywhere you know someone
says L7 you know it and it’s just from
this movie so
L7 weenie I mean I’m into it I’m into it
Amanda you’re killing me Smalls is
you’re killing me from this because I
feel like I say oh you’re killing me
right now that is ubiquitous yeah
everyone’s always said that but like I
realize it’s probably from this movie
right you killing me it could be you’re
killing me Smalls is definitely from the
movie so well yeah obviously but like I
said you’re killing me all the times too
not without the smallest part yeah I
like it yeah there’s this there’s some
good there’s some good stuff here could
be could be I also thought the actors in
this like the kids I thought they were
all great it’s tough to have nine kids
and not have someone that like really
just blows but
I thought all the acting was was great
by them I was just at Earl James yeah
oh good God what have I what have I done
I sabotaged this podcast even the
baseball stuff though they can swing the
baseball bat they could throw I don’t
know if this was like Band of Brothers
where they made them go to like two
weeks of baseball boot camp beforehand
yeah but all the kids they sold it I
believed it I mean I’ve seen worst
sports playing in like Varsity Blues and
Friday Night Lights stuff like that than
I saw from these nine kids in The
Sandlot so literally the exact same love
all right I had to look up if Benny the
jet was like oh he must have like been a
real baseball player later on you know I
I look I don’t think he was but he
seemed like a natural athlete I thought
he was one of there’s a couple swings
that he takes they showed him like
running the base pass I was like oh he’s
actually pretty fast like he looks like
an actual athlete yeah I agree with that
the base running aspect him swinging the
bat I wasn’t at super impressed with
yeah I was as impressive as some of the
other kids including Smalls Smalls could
go back did you hear anything else for
love the Rotten Tomato variants 64 89
yeah you gotta lovely good variants and
by 64.89 I mean 64 critics 89 people
yeah uh what about hate hey I think you
kind of mentioned it too but there’s
some scenes like on First Watch I
probably liked them but they’re a little
long in the the tooth I think the chew
scene I was like oh I know it’s gonna
happen here and then that like lasted
for like five minutes I was like all
right like let’s let’s get this this
over with yeah it could have been 1090
could have been a 10 90 minutes I agree
with that uh so one of my hates I mean I
already went over Bill [ __ ] that guy I
also thought about your point there with
Bill is that his stepson deals his ball
but brings him a ball that’s valued
roughly probably 15 x yeah maybe 20x
yeah it’s like oh this ball you had was
like worth 50 000 it’s like oh here’s a
ball that I just got for free that’s
worth 250 000 or a million it’s like oh
yeah that you don’t ground someone for
that right yeah no for sure not it’s
like oh you took that you took this ball
it’s like well maybe if you told me who
Babe Ruth was I would have you have a
giant trophy room that’s about these
people and I’ve never even walked in
there with you yeah his mom had to tell
him who also didn’t even know that this
was a fresh baseball like they didn’t
take a moment to like rub some dirt on
it or anything get some New Jersey mud
in there the only hate I really had and
this is a little nitpicking but how does
nine make a full team to play baseball
they were like oh we got small so we
have nine now we can play it’s like I
understand how it allows them to play
against the baseball bike gang but how
do they play against themselves the kids
seemed that they can they can hit in the
Outfield obviously that’s why they lose
all those balls but even if they say
okay they’ll play two in the Outfield
once somebody gets on base it’s like
okay now what well I think it’s more
like batting practice than an actual
game right they’re able to with nine
they can do like a full Fielding drill
and then they can also hit with like
maybe not a second baseman I would say
yeah I guess so it checks out for me I I
wouldn’t have an issue they don’t play
you can’t play game though they’re
trying to play a game what is this oh
yeah you can’t play a game I mean I’m
sure they I’m sure they invented a game
I mean well did that back in the day
that’s fine yeah I guess you’d have
ghost Runners yeah yeah it’s like you’re
up until you get out like and so people
had to get the guy out and then you know
next up and then he keeps track of your
score it’s like every man for them oh
that’s interesting so if you hit a
single you have a ghost runner in first
and going bad three people on a team
each team and then you know everyone’s
working together against those three or
something like that you know some things
like that we could definitely do it okay
I take it back I love it no I’m just
kidding it’s still a little it’s a
little weird it’s pickup kid that’s why
it makes pickup great you can literally
invent your own rules there’s no
structure it’s whatever you’re right you
know what when you’re right you’re right
I’ll admit that I’m wrong okay I’m a
bigger man than me
Studio notes this movie The Sandlot was
directed and co-wrote by David Mickey
Evans he also wrote the movie Radio
Flyer I don’t know if you ever saw that
one Elijah Wood other than that he
didn’t really do anything besides a
bunch of other like crappy kids movies
at first I saw that he did I can’t
remember the freaking movie barely legal
no he did a movie called [ __ ] yes I
don’t even know what that means but
um oh you don’t know what the legal age
no I mean I don’t know the movies
they’re all legal to me I don’t even
know that movie would possibly be about
oh he did uh he wrote Ace Ventura I was
like Ace Ventura Pet Detective he wrote
he wrote and directed it but it was Ace
Ventura Pet Detective Junior whatever
right so which actually sounds terrible
and hilarious this movie made 34 million
off a 7 million dollar budget and also
an additional 76 million in VHS and DVD
sales I mean back in the day you could
just make so much money in the secondary
Market it’s crazy it was the first Home
Video in a slip case which is
interesting because you know everything
was in the uh clamshell boxes and this
was the first one that was in in the
slip case oh okay yeah yep uh there are
two sequels Sandlot two and Sandlot
heading home both look terrible I have
not seen either one I assume you haven’t
either no yeah yeah no thank you let’s
recast rewrite review like you said it’s
a
our review this week comes from Stephen
Hunter of the Baltimore Sun he says you
feel as if you’re being smothered in
Cotton Candy by a director obsessed with
infantility who cannot bear to face the
reality of childhood this guy has the
baseball bat so far up his ass buddy
relax it’s The Sandlot the reality of
childhood what what do you want this to
be I don’t like you want this to be the
girl in the red jacket from Schindler’s
List just like her story no it’s the
sand lot it’s about a bunch of boys
playing baseball like it’s not supposed
to be that big of a deal and even in
like I looked at the the review itself
it’s a really long review and I was okay
I gotta read this and he’s talking about
some guy who kind of created this kid
gang movies you know think like The
Little Rascals or something like that
and he says in his review he’s like
thank God this guy died in 19 92 so he
wasn’t around to see this come out I was
like what like really you wouldn’t want
him to live a couple more years he’s
rolling over and it’s great right now
because The Sandlot was a movie like
what you watched this Stephen what are
you talking about the Baltimore Sun
hasn’t looked this bad since that
reporter was fabricating stories in the
wire in my mind so Stephen get your [ __ ]
together terrible did you have any
recast or rewrites on this one I had a
review also from Gary Thompson the
Philadelphia Daily News the Santa is a
safe wholesome patriotic family picture
about baseball and if there’s an
original Scene It escaped my attention
two out of four it’s a kids movie like
what yeah it’s it’s kind of supposed to
be derivative like they’re all
derivative everything’s derivative
because of these aren’t supposed to be
this weekend of originality you know
they’re supposed to be there’s only kids
movies they’re supposed to be very
simplified encouraging messages and
funny whereas this is uh apparently not
yeah the other thing that there was a
lot of negative reviews I saw too were
like oh it’s this movie is like only for
like kids and like boys
but these same critics if you make a
movie that’s for everyone they’ll be
like really no message this is just like
a cookie cutter low-hanging fruit which
way do you want it can you can you make
a movie for a specific group of people
they can’t figure out which one they
want yeah I feel like there’s no problem
having an audience because I saw a lot
of that too this is just about boys it
has nothing to do with girls and I think
that’s a point it’s it’s factually
correct but I don’t think it means like
one that girls won’t necessarily like it
or relate to it and also there are lots
of movies about girls what I talk about
now and then that’s you know just about
these girls coming of age it’s a great
movie it’s it’s a really good kids movie
and I liked it I’m a boy like what’s the
problem is someone out there saying like
there’s too much girl stuff not enough
Devin Sawa it’s like relax
it is what it is there’s all these sorts
of movies out there just go and enjoy a
different movie
that was the same on holy smokes Keith
would you recommend I mean if you’re an
adult and and you haven’t seen it for me
probably not but a kid like heck yeah
what do you think yeah I think the
barometer I would use especially for
kids movies is when you’re with your
nieces and nephews and they put a movie
on how terrible is it if cylon’s on I’m
watching the whole thing I’m into it you
know like it’s not uh sit there roll my
eyes and be on my phone it’s like oh
this is a great like throwback that both
I and like my niece and nephews would
enjoy on a scale of kids movies I give
this a 3.5 stars or stars or buddies out
of four
um I think it’s very high up there I
think it’s super rewatchable I enjoyed
it and uh yeah I was enthralled the
whole time wow appreciate it that’s
that’s I didn’t necessarily think about
it like as a kid’s movie because like
all movies I I guess I didn’t think
about that aspect of it what would I put
it on an adult like Hey Joe Schmo has
never seen the movie when I give it um I
mean it’s not very oh I already just
mentioned it I would read that review
for him and say it’s a movie about to
hold some patriotic movie about baseball
with uh the main stars being kids do you
want to watch that and if they said yes
I would say well you and Earl James
Jones should have a little chat you know
we might never see you down yeah you’re
not gonna be like okay feel the dreams
the natural or The Sandlot you you pick
yeah I gave it I gave it I gave it two
and a half Stars AKA buddies uh I I like
it it wasn’t as good for me as it was
when I was a kid naturally well
obviously and I thought there was kind
of a lack of the plot moving along at
some points it’s just kind of like some
dead areas uh but but I enjoyed it it’s
like two and a half for me is is like
yes I like this movie you know it’s it’s
a positive two is like meh I wouldn’t
probably tell someone but I’m not upset
I watched it one and a half is like I
can’t believe I watched this and
anything less than that is like glad I
watched this because it’s terrible and I
want to tell everyone how terrible it is
I don’t like the expression for comedy
movies the like oh this scene didn’t
make the plot Move Along who cares as
long as you enjoy the scene if you’re
watching Austin Powers 90 of this the
scenes don’t move the plowder on but
that the movie’s the uh four out of four
yeah that’s that’s fair it’s just that I
didn’t enjoy the scenes give me that
okay don’t give me your don’t give me
your critic uh who’s your guy Stephen
whatever yeah don’t give me Stephen no
I’m saying both of those are true if
there’s a scene that moves the plot
along that’s unenjoyable I’m like okay I
get it and if there’s a scene that
doesn’t move the pot on but is enjoyable
I’m like I get it but if it’s neither
then I’m I’m out all right that’s fair I
think we judge it on a little bit
different scoring scale there but that’s
okay people can interpret out there I
also like that they’re super sweaty and
they know only Benny the jet wants to
play baseball and they’re like oh what
should we do and it’s not like go to the
pool and swim around they just say pool
Honeys
they’re just oh I rewinded that I didn’t
know what they’re saying yeah pool
Honeys that was pool Honeys okay they’re
just a bunch of thirsty dogs these kids
in more ways than one you were 13 at one
point kid you know I’m 35 and still
there still looking for pool honey so I
got my pool honey
um okay so we got coming up next we’re
gonna it’s Keith’s pick it’s Keith’s
pick and Keith is a huge rom-com guy so
number one rom-com what are we watching
hitch my number one rom-com we’ll see if
it gets gets the same love and attention
from from d-man but he I will convert
him and we he will become a rom-com guy
join us watch hitch I think we’re doing
that episode next and then we’re getting
back to the books with the third option
by Vince Flynn or another favorite
author yes
Flynn right in time for the weather
getting warm love to hear it oh yeah all
right well that was the Sandlot we’ll
catch you next time