There’s no wrong way to celebrate Independence Day as long as you’re celebrating the United States of America… but let’s be real: some ways are cooler than others.
It looks like MLB may have just dropped one of its coolest collaborations yet, especially if you’re a sports fan, a fan of the baseball classic “The Sandlot,” or both.
And I’d like to think that most people fall into the “both” camp.
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MLB announced that a handful of drive-in theaters — yes, some of them still exist — will be playing the 1993 classic “The Sandlot.”
The film will be shown at drive-ins in Vineland, New Jersey; McHenry, Illinois; Blue Ridge, Georgia; and Paramount, California.
That’s awesome. A drive-in movie theater is such a great slice of Americana.
But, there’s more.
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In addition to some “Ballpark Bites” and food trucks, this is actually a double feature, as each theater’s hometown Big League team’s game that night will be shown at the drive-in.
And, if you still weren’t convinced that this is peak Independence Day for America’s big 2-5-0, how about some fireworks to top it all off?
Yeah, I thought so.
This. Is. Brilliant.
We need more of this. More sports should do drive-in double features of a classic flick and then a game.
If there’s not a place I can go next hockey season to see “Slap Shot,” “The Might Ducks,” or “D2: The Mighty Ducks,” and then see an NHL game, I will be very disappointed. Not in anyone in particular, just society at large.
I thought we were better than that.
At least on Independence Day this year, we most certainly are that good, and if you’re lucky enough to live near one of those theaters, I think it might be your patriotic duty to load the kids into the wood-paneled station wagon and go see this.
