Effectively Wild Episode 1518: The Field of Dreams Debate
Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast
Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley
4.7 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 24 March 2020
⏱️ 71 minutes
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Summary
Ben Lindbergh and Sam Miller revisit Sam’s tradition of viewing the beloved and despised 1989 film Field of Dreams on the eve of Opening Day (or in this case, what would have been Opening Day) and examine how their perceptions of the movie have evolved, what makes Field of Dreams the most divisive baseball movie, the many aspects of the movie that make little sense, and its redeeming qualities.
Audio intro: James Horner, "The Place Where Dreams Come True"
Audio outro: James Horner, "End Credits"
Link to Ebert’s Field of Dreams review
Link to Goldman on Field of Dreams
Link to Calcaterra on Field of Dreams
Link to Posnanski on Field of Dreams
Link to Offerman on Field of Dreams
Link to research on the legend of Shoeless Joe
Link to research on Jackson’s attempted reinstatement
Link to research on Black Sox batting
Link to research on Weaver’s case
Link to Emma Span article
Link to order The MVP Machine
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| 0:00.0 | music |
| 0:30.0 | music |
| 0:34.5 | Good morning and welcome to episode 1518 of Effectively Wild |
| 0:39.4 | baseball podcast |
| 0:41.0 | bandwrafs.com |
| 0:42.7 | brought to you by our Patreon supporters |
| 0:45.5 | I'm Sam Miller of ESPN |
| 0:47.5 | along with Ben Lundberg of the Ringer |
| 0:49.2 | Hello Ben |
| 0:50.1 | Hello |
| 0:50.6 | How are you holding up? |
| 0:52.3 | I'm doing alright |
| 0:53.6 | You have to ask |
| 0:55.5 | we have to start every conversation that way these days |
| 0:58.1 | I know because I'm doing it myself |
| 0:59.8 | Yeah |
| 1:00.8 | Yeah, you want to hear how the Peru thing ended up? |
| 1:03.1 | Yes please |
| 1:04.1 | Alright, I know that these stories are very common |
| 1:07.0 | This is not a special story but the suspense |
| 1:10.1 | and the ending to me make it worth telling so alright |
| 1:13.1 | So the background is that our friends |
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