Hello and welcome to episode 792 of Effectively Wilds, the daily podcast from baseball

perspective presented by the play index at baseballreference.com.com. I am

better. I am Ben Lindbergh of 538. Join by a similar of baseball

perspective. Hello. Hey, how are you? Okay. I was watching childhood's end last

night. The mini series from the sci-fi channel adaptation of Arthur C. Clark

novel and there's one scene where the main character flashes back to three

days he spent in a honeymoon suite with his deceased wife who was not deceased

at the time in the four seasons hotel New York and he's reminiscing and he's

talking to the alien about this time and the alien points out that he had tickets

to see the Yankees play the twins. This was 2003 so he missed the Yankees

beating the twins 3-1 in the ALDS and that was it. That was the only baseball

reference in the show but little did I know baseball show opposite Ben the

opposite really well the the defining feature in that scene was the lack of

baseball that's true is it is there were baseball tickets they showed the

tickets and you know I think that this is a avoid this is a baseball avoid I think

this is this is very aggressively an anti baseball movie. Okay maybe I don't

know I think if you see a pen it on the wall and that's a baseball movie then

seeing a ticket to a baseball game even if it goes unused it's baseball. I hope

that it is I hope it came across at least to you that the the pen it example I

was tongue-in-cheat okay we got a lot of tweets about various penance showing up

all right I by the way I completely misremembered the Saturday night live

sketch like I there was I wasn't it was the deep what I took from it or what I

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