“Matt Welch Strikes Out 'Field of Dreams'”

Taking aim at narcisstic Boomer nostalgia on the Gutting the Sacred Cow podcast

Gutting the Sacred Cow is a fine podcast in which co-host Kevin Gootee brings on a guest to talk smack about a beloved movie. Here’s the write-up of my attempt to take the 1989 magical-realist baseball picture Field of Dreams down a peg or three:

Is this heaven? No, it's Gutting the Sacred Cow's newest episode but it's pretty damn close. Writer and baseball aficionado Matt Welch thinks Field of Dreams is nostalgic nonsense and also believes this film is worse than Ray Liotta NOT hitting left-handed while portraying Shoeless Joe Jackson. Playing the Annie to KG's Ray Kinsella is Nick Whitmer, who appeared on The Natural episode. Let's see if James Earl Jones's baseball monologues, the tale of the disgraced 1919 Chicago Black Sox, and that ginger haired/beared brother-in-law are able to stand tall and face Matt's arrows.

The episode: