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The Sandlot

Probably Unanswerable Questions

Smalls's ball versus Cameron's Ferrari; Benny's missing stardom; Benny's big-league career; Smalls in the Dodgers booth; Benny and 1980s cocaine; Ham's wrestling career

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  • Smalls ruining the ball was foolish, not hostile, unlike Cameron wrecking his father's Ferrari in Ferris Bueller.
  • One participant has never seen Ferris Bueller's Day Off and is assigned it as homework.
  • Why Benny's actor did not become a star: perhaps he lost the magic or did not want it; he became a firefighter, and everyone is lost in Ham's shadow like Joe Pesci in Goodfellas.
  • Benny enters the majors in the early 1970s as a speedy outfielder; 'the Jet's lost a step' implies a roughly 15-year career; comps are 2011 Jacoby Ellsbury or a pre-injury 'Grady Seismore' (as transcribed) with 20-homer, 30-steal potential. — Mallory Rubin
  • A pinch runner described as old is confusing; the Keith Hernandez-style mustache suggests a long career.
  • A Brady Anderson comp is raised and rebuffed as pure Baltimore history; a .290, 13-homer, 29-steal line with a couple of Gold Gloves is offered.
  • The Sandlot wiki says Benny went on to manage the Dodgers, prompting a joke about adding fan fiction.
  • Smalls calling games in Chavez Ravine raises what happened to 'Ben' (as transcribed) in that scenario; the easy fix was to make Smalls the partner of 'Vince Gully' (as transcribed).
  • Smalls's first name is Scotty.
  • The fifth-grade line makes the kids about 10 or 11, so Benny reaches the league around 1973 and is an all-star by the late 1970s.
  • On whether Benny was caught up in 1980s baseball cocaine, one says yes because of the mustache; another says no, because baseball was his pure ambition and he was the square.
  • A rebuttal says Benny had a human side, did cocaine, cleaned up and joined the 1988 champion Dodgers, per the Sandlot wiki as a joke.
  • Ham's wrestling career: at least an Intercontinental champion, perhaps high on a WrestleMania card but not the main event.