Mike Tollin

Why doesn't the commissioner get involved when I'm sitting in Philadelphia last year and it's 40 degrees and it's a blinding rainstorm and they're still playing?

I mean, you know, there's that famous movie, The Fan, that Tony Scott did, who's kind of a friend and I've talked to him about.

I know you're from England, mate, but, you know, we don't play baseball games in the rain except in the World Series when you have...

I'm not going to say that.

I know what you meant.

It's like there we are sitting there, and nobody at home knows what the rule is about whether the game's tied and whether it reverts back to the previous inning.

Well, it's back to the smoke from the boxing matches, right?

It's cinematic.

It's beautiful.

No, I'll tell you why.

But now we're in the computer-generated audience era where you just sort of put the tiles in and later the fans magically appeared.

It used to be these blow-up dolls, which were kind of cool because they ate less and they didn't have to go to the bathroom.

I didn't know that.

That was the middle step from real people who you have to pay to eat and they have to go to the bathroom and they sign sad cards and all.

Now you've got blow-up dolls.

Now you just do it.

The greatest thing.

But there was a filmmaker, who will go unnamed, who was from another country and was making a baseball movie and decided that the way the light was hitting the stadium, it would be more backlit and prettier if the guy ran from home plate to third base.

And could we do that?

Would that be okay with the audience?