re: The Sandlot has a 65% on rotten tomatoes

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A couple of things I didn't like about The Sandlot.

1. I think the kids trying to retrieve the ball from the Beast, with its size and ability ridiculously exaggerated at times, and the kids coming up with all sorts of contraptions to retrieve it got a little old.

2. The owner of the Beast just happens to have played with Babe Ruth (and apparently would have been better if not for a freak accident) and has a baseball signed by the 1927 Yankees.That's a hell of a coincidence.

3. Their futures got a little crazy. One kid makes the majors and another is the announcer (or whatever) for the team. The goofy kid with the glasses marries Peffercorn and knocks her up something like nine times.

Some of those things were pushed a little far, I think.

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This cannot be a serious take

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A couple of things I didn't like about The Sandlot.

1. I think the kids trying to retrieve the ball from the Beast, with its size and ability ridiculously exaggerated at times, and the kids coming up with all sorts of contraptions to retrieve it got a little old.

2. The owner of the Beast just happens to have played with Babe Ruth (and apparently would have been better if not for a freak accident) and has a baseball signed by the 1927 Yankees.That's a hell of a coincidence.

3. Their futures got a little crazy. One kid makes the majors and another is the announcer (or whatever) for the team. The goofy kid with the glasses marries Peffercorn and knocks her up something like nine times.

Some of those things were pushed a little far, I think.

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I say "For-ev-er" at least once a week. That alone should put it in the 90% stratosphere.

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We even had a random empty field in the middle of the neighborhood that we played football or baseball in every day after school.

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Yep, me too. We’d meet out there after every Packers game and re-create the highlights.

Same friends that we once tried Skoal with. I puked in the sink as someone else was puking in the bathroom.

And as for the geeky kid marrying Wendy P. The neighborhood hottie ending up fat with a bunch of kids, married to someone who was beneath her 15 year old self, and probably never leaving her hometown, is also not a very unrealistic outcome.