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Le Batard & Friends Network

PTFO - The "Field of Dreams" That Hollywood Forgot

Le Batard & Friends Network

Dan Le Batard

Sports

4.88.2K Ratings

🗓️ 17 October 2023

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

Michael Schur is a legendary comedy writer who calls his TV reboot of the classic baseball film "the best thing I've ever written." (He's written for SNL, The Simpsons, The Office, Parks and Rec, Brooklyn Nine-Nine, The Good Place...) So why didn't his version of "Field of Dreams" ever get made? Also: what happened to the actual baseball field that he built, out there in the cornfields of Iowa? Sports-movie nostalgia has never felt quite so painful. Or surreal. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Welcome to Pablo Tore finds out I am Pablo Tore and today we're going to find out what this sound is if you build it you'll get screwed right after this ad

0:12.0

You're listening to Giraffe King's Network

0:15.0

Today I wanted to do a story that does a number of things it allows us to cover baseball I made the baseball postseason it's the ALCS and the NLCS both underway this week

0:36.0

But it's also a story about somebody that I consider like just a genuinely good friend that I am pretty sure you consider the opposite

0:44.0

Hollywood showrunner and comedy legend Mike sure

0:47.0

Oh, yeah, he's a legendary coward

0:49.0

He's on like my mountain rush more of cowards

0:51.0

He might be number one for me personally

0:52.0

So for people who don't know this Cortez the minister if you propaganda parakeet Cortez

0:57.0

That is his legend

0:58.0

Mike sure is a libertar shows like resident red socks baseball Celtics Boston Superfan which explains the antagonism

1:05.0

I heard he's been an actor like he's done like a bit part with a beard or something that's like his claim to fame or something

1:11.0

Yeah, exactly exactly just on the most popular television show of all time maybe the office

1:15.0

But Mike sure is also somebody who co-wrote co-found you to baseball blog fire Joe Morgan

1:21.0

It was there to criticize the old school baseball broadcasters and journalists during the mid 2000s by using statistical insights

1:27.0

Like moneyball stuff metrics math. I remember the block as a kid

1:32.0

They did you know big important things like fighting Bill Plashky

1:38.0

Very important. So Mike sure went on to do yet more important things

1:42.0

I mentioned the office he wrote for the office. He wrote for the Simpsons. He wrote for Saturday Night Live. He made Parks and Rec, Brooklyn 9 9 the good place

1:49.0

He's one of the most prolific accomplished writers in all of entertainment. I've literally never heard of any of those shows

1:55.0

Okay, so the good news for you in all of your ignorance is that we're not here to talk about any of those shows in specific

2:02.0

despite their fame and success because

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