Michael Clare

And, you know, I was lucky enough to travel out there a bunch to work on the book and meet the guys and, and,

You know, when you're covering a firefighter beating Spain to get to the World Baseball Classic and their star catcher has to go home early because he's got work in the morning, he's out of vacation time, and then an electrical technician strikes out Otani.

I mean, it really kind of, their story is that, you know, that childhood joy of maybe I can do this too that you feel when you watch them.

Well, obviously, you're going to have Ryan Reynolds as Martin Czerwanka.

I think he has the gravitas and the humor.

Tom Hardy is Andre Satoria because an absolute chameleon.

But you know what?

I'll wait.

I'll let Hollywood, you know, make those calls.

You know, they want to come to me.

They want to make those decisions.

I won't get in the way of the director there.

Yeah, so the...

The Only Rules It Has to Work is one of my absolute favorites.

So start right there.

You want an underdog story and how do you build baseball in a different way?

That is the blueprint.

That is a phenomenal book.

The other book that I really, really drew inspiration from was Nine Innings by Daniel Okrent.

It's about a meaningless August baseball game between the Brewers and the Orioles.