Is Sandlot the greatest non-animated kids movie of all time? POOL HONEYS!!

I say yes. Let me say upfront that I am 26 and the timing is right for me. Also %75 of my time as a kid was playing baseball and sandlot ball; the other %25 being football. My buddies nickname was Benny the Jet because his name was Benjamen, and he was dark complected so.. yeah. He wasnt all that great though. Certainly couldnt bust the guts out of a baseball. Only a few guys in history have ever done that anyway. My nickname was "catch me if you can" bc I could fly. Not wanting to brag but I still can HEY O! But that was too long of a nickname so we went with "Bench" next because I played catcher ala Johnny Bench. But yelling Bench sounds like youre yelling bitch so that didnt work. Then my buddys dad started calling me Manhattan because my first name is Chase. Get it? Chase Manhattan. Sometimes people went with "the banker." Play on from the last one. Some of my friends currently call me "baby feet" because the bottom of my feet are soft as a babys butt. I never go barefooted, I hate it. Ive had a lot of nicknames over the years. What was I talking about?

Best ever? Yes.

Also... Narrator: "I followed them to the sandlot once after school. I'd never seen any place like it. It was like their own little baseball kingdom or something. It was the greatest place I'd ever seen anyway. But they were good, real good. And all I had was a plastic toy mitt that my grandmother gave me for my birthday when I was six. But when I finally got up enough guts to go out there and try and make friends, I found out that they never kept score, they never chose sides, they never even really stopped playing the game. It just went on forever. Every day they picked up where they left off the day before. It was like an endless dream game. There was only eight of them, so they didn't have a whole team. So even though I didn't know how to play, I figured I could be the ninth man and maybe just stand in the outfield somewhere and take up space. Of course, if I'd known what was gonna happen when I got there, I probably never would've gone. If it wasn't for Benny, I never would've made a single friend that summer, 'cause all the rest of those guys thought I was a lost cause. Even before we became friends, Benny and me were connected, connected for the one moment later that summer, when I'd get us all into the biggest pickle any of us had ever seen."



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