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CHRIS IT IS JUST AMAZING OUT HERE. AS YOU SAID, THE GAME TIME DOESN’T ACTUALLY START FOR MORE THAN AN HOUR. BUT TAKE A LOOK BEHIND ME AT THE FIELD. IT IS JUST A MASS OF HUMANITY. EVER SINCE THE GROUNDS OPENED AT 3:00 THIS AFTERNOON. THE FANS STARTED ROLLING IN AND THE MOMENTS BEHIND ME HAVE NOT STOPPED. WE’VE SEEN PARENTS PLAYING CATCH WITH THEIR KIDS, FANS PLAYING CORNHOLE HERE ON THE SAME SITE WHERE THE MOVIE WAS FILMED AND GHOST PLAYERS POSING FOR THOUSANDS OF PICTURES OUT THERE. THEY ARE THE EXTRAS WHO ARE FIELD OF DREAMS AMBASSADORS. BUT THIS AFTERNOON WAS EVEN SPECIAL FOR THEM IN THIS MASSIVE CROWD HERE IN DYERSVILLE, ESPECIALLY ONE OF THE GHOST PLAYERS WHO CONVINCED THE TEAM SOME YOUNGER BLOOD WOULD BE GREAT. WE NEED TO KIND OF SOME NEW BLOOD. HE ASKED ABOUT IT AND THEN I ASKED THE BOSSES AND THEY’RE LIKE, WELL, WE REALLY LIKE THE FATHER AND SON THING. SO THEY TOOK HIM ON BOARD AND HE’S BEEN LIVING IT UP AND THAT’S ACTUALLY WHAT’S HAPPENED ALL OVER THESE FATHERS SON MOMENTS, THESE MOTHER DAUGHTER MOMENTS HERE ON THE FIELD OF DREAMS. EVERYBODY’S SOAKING IT UP. AND SCOTT REISER ALSO HAS BEEN TALKING WITH SOME PLAYERS. THEY’VE BEEN SOAKING THIS UP AS WELL. YOU KNOW, THESE GUYS ARE MILLIONAIRE ATHLETES AND THEN THEY COME HERE AND THEY’RE JUST LITTLE KIDS. AND YET IT’S SO FUN TO WATCH THE CUBS ARRIVE A COUPLE HOURS AGO AND WE BEGAN BY TAKING SOME TEA PICTURES OUT THERE, THE FIELD WHERE THE GAME IS GOING TO BE TONIGHT. AND THEN THEY WALK THROUGH THE CORN AND BAM, MAGICALLY TRANSPORTED TO, YES, THE FIELD OF DREAMS. IT WAS REALLY COOL TO SEE THESE GUYS HOLD UP THEIR PHONES, JUST LIKE THE FANS ARE DOING BEHIND US RIGHT NOW. EARLIER TODAY. THERE’S AN AWESOME SCENE, PLAYERS LOOKING AROUND, TAKING PICTURES, INTERACTING WITH SOME LUCKY PEOPLE THAT WERE HERE BEFORE THE GATES OPEN AT THREE E AND HAVE TOLD ME THIS MOMENT THAT THEY FOUND OUT ABOUT THIS GAME LAST YEAR COMING. THEY HAD A CIRCLED ON THE CALENDAR FOR ALMOST A YEAR. TWO TEAMS THAT AREN’T GOING TO MAKE THE PLAYOFFS. SO THIS IS A REALLY SPECIAL NIGHT FOR THEM. MANY OF THESE PLAYERS HAVE NEVER BEEN AROUND THIS MUCH CORN. MANY OF THEM LOVED THE MOVIE. AND NOW THEY ARE HERE WHERE IT ALL BEGAN. SO THIS STORY RINGS TRUE AND THE FAMILY CONNECTIONS AND TIES AND HOW THAT PLAYS IN BASEBALL IS SUCH A SUCH A POWERFUL STORY. IF YOU WILL. BROUGHT YOU BACK RIGHT TO THE MOVIE. THIS IS OBVIOUSLY A VERY LIKE PICTURESQUE FIELD. SO SEEING IT BEING HERE, IT’S IT’S YEAH, IT’S NOT REAL. SO IT’S LIKE IT’S CERTAINLY NOT IN THAT LITTLE BIT YOU HEARD IS WHEN YOU WALK FROM THE MOVIE SITE TO THE GAME FIELDS THROUGH THE CORE AND THEY HAVE LINES FROM THE MOVIE PLAYING OVER SPEAKERS. SO IT JUST HITS PEOPLE THAT DON’T EXPECT THAT. IT’S LIKE, OH MY GOSH, JUST ONE MORE AMAZING PART OF THE FULL EXPERIENCE. THESE FANS BEHIND US ARE STARTING TO MAKE THEIR WAY OVER TO THE BIG FIELD IN THE DISTANCE. WE’LL BE FOLLOWING THIS THROUGHOUT THE EVENING AND HOPE THAT THE GAM