MFYs to Infect Another State

[G-Fafif]

MLB having MFYs and White Sox play at the Field of Dreams in Dyersville, Ia., next season. Regular-season game a la Williamsport.

[bmfc1]

Maybe they'll go into a cornfield and disappear.

[Lefty Specialist]

It's not on the actual movie site. It's an 8000 seat baseball stadium built nearby.



Yankees-White Sox to Play Regular Season MLB Game at ‘Field of Dreams' Site in 2020

https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/yankees-white-sox-play-regular-131524840.html?.tsrc=fauxdalhttps://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/yankees-white-sox-play-regular-131524840.html?.tsrc=fauxdal



I was lucky enough to visit the place in 1992, before it got too crassly commercialized. This is just the culmination of that. Most of the cornfield will be flattened by an army of steamrollers.

[Edgy MD]

I don't know if it's going to be an annual game, but they could have the White Sox play the Reds, and so re-stage the 1919 World Series.



But it's curious and not a little hypocritical for MLB to market a game that pays tribute to a film and book that openly lobbied for the reinstatement of Joe Jackson and indicted the league offices for their exploitative and two-faced practices, when they still won't reconsider Jackson's case and still run the game on a plantation model.

[G-Fafif]

An A's-Red Sox game at Fenway would also pay homage to the film.

[Ceetar]

Yankees will play anywhere if you pay them enough.

[Guest 41Forever]

I've been to the movie site -- posing in a glorious FAFIF shirt -- and it's pretty awesome. Then again, unlike Jerry Blevins, I love the movie. We checked out some of the shooting locations in Galena, Ill., too!



Love that MLB is trying fun things like this.

[MFS62]

I think I'm gonna' fwow up.



Later

[Gwreck]

Lefty Specialist wrote: It's not on the actual movie site. It's an 8000 seat baseball stadium built nearby.

Well, that's stupid.



Would have watched if they were playing on the actual site. Now...eh. Whatever.

[metsmarathon]

they're missing out on the awesomeness of having the cornfield be the actual outfield wall. i'd even watch a yankee game to see that!