The "Field of Dreams" That Hollywood Forgot

Pablo Torre Finds Out

Pablo Torre, Le Batard & Friends

Sports

4.8 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 17 October 2023

⏱️ 51 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 Torrey finds out. I am Pablo Torrey and today we're going to find out what this sound is.
0:06.0	If you build it, you'll get screwed.
0:09.0	Right after this ad.
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0:57.9	baseball. Amid the baseball post-season, it's the ALS and the NLCS both
1:02.3	underway this week.
1:03.4	But it's also a story about somebody that I consider like just a genuinely good friend
1:08.8	that I am pretty sure you consider the opposite.
1:11.6	Hollywood showrunner and a comedy legend Mike Schur.
1:15.0	Oh, yeah, he's a legendary coward.
1:17.0	He's on like my mountain rushmore of cowards.
1:19.0	He might be number one for me personally.
1:21.0	So for people who don't know this, Cortez, the minister of he propaganda, Parakeet Cortez, that is his legend.
1:26.5	Mike Schur is a lebitard show's like resident Red Sox, baseball, Celtics, Boston super-fan, which explains the antagonism.
1:33.6	I heard he's been an actor like he's done like a bit part with a beard or something
1:37.4	that's like his claim to fame or something.
1:38.9	Yeah exactly exactly just on the most popular television show of all time maybe the office but
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