Sports Briefs: I Have a Dream

Brad: If you build it, they will come . . . No, not a baseball field--a Country Kitchen Buffet. If you build one, Joe and his cronies from the AARP will come to eat. It is their powersource, and if we cut them off from it, we shall achieve victory! Who's with me?

Joe: I can tell you took a beaning or two too many as a kid.  

Chris: "Field of Dreams," now there's a picture that gives new meaning to a "ghost runner."

Ralphie: Never saw it.

Joe: Maybe it's time for you to move on to kickball. Few movies can get to Old Joe. The ending of "Field of Dreams," however, gets me every time. Who says, "Wanna HAVE a catch?" besides that twit Costner? You play catch, darn it. The other part that gets me is that I probably played with some of those guys. I'm still peeved that Tris Speaker never made the Iowa Cornfield circuit team. He could run circles around Shoeless Joe Jackson.

Ralphie: How exciting are the baseball games at the retirement home?

Brad: "Field of Dreams" is a classic baseball movie. Wasn't it made around the time of "A League of Their Own"?

Chris: Remember how long it took Tom Hanks to relieve himself in that movie? That was a bad influence on me. When I first saw that movie in junior high, I tried to avoid the loo for as long as possible, in order to recreate that scene. Anyway, "A League of Their Own" was made approximately that long after "Field of Dreams."

Brad: Sweet enough. I prefer "A League of Their Own," but I do love "Field of Dreams." It has a good ole American theme. Especially because in Suffield, I lived in a little ranch house surrounded by cornfield after cornfield. I once tried to make a baseball field out of a neighbor's cornfield, but my mom put a stop to that. Can't anger Ohio corn farmers.

Joe: It should be mandatory for every red-blooded American kid to play organized baseball.

Ralphie: I haven't. Does playing at the playground count?