Katie, Casey saw all the games, knew the players by their first name, told the empire he was wrong all along, good and strong.

So welcome to the second part of Take Me Into the Ball Games discussion of Spaceman.

If you missed our introduction to the film, Overgrade of the 20 to 80

scouting scale, discussion of baseball accuracy and some other tools, go ahead and check out

part one of this podcast because right now you are listening to Part 2. Yeah, what's up,

gerbil squad? Yes, you would understand that reference if you listen to Part 2. Yeah, what's up, Gerbil Squad?

Yes, you would understand that reference if you listen to Part 1.

You'd, like, sort of understand it.

I think, you know what, I got it, because I listened to Part 1.

I was, sorry, this feels like it's worth mentioning.

It just popped into my head.

And it comes from gerbils, actually.

And I was reading something written by a guy who had done some research on, like, different versions of the kind of like idiom or phrase of like, the lights are on, but nobody's home. or like, you know, one beer short of a six-pack or whatever.

And apparently there was some Scandinavian one.

I want to say it's Swedish, but I'm not entirely sure that the translation of it was, the wheel is spinning, but the hamster is dead.

Oh my gosh. Oh my gosh. Isn't that incredible? It's incredible and also sad and terrible.

Like, I wonder what would happen if I said it at like a social event, sort of like it was a thing that we all knew.

You know, like, I don't know. I mean, it would probably be very contextual.

I invite you to try. Okay. Challenge accepted.

I'm also going to invite you to talk about our next tool for evaluating Spaceman, which is storytelling.

Oh, it's, you know, I'm going to quote a very wise person who said,

this is tough because...

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