Chicago White Sox: An idea for the Field of Dreams Game

As of now, the Chicago White Sox are still scheduled to play the New York Yankees at the Field of Dreams movie site. Here’s an idea on how that should go down.

If you build it, they will come. If they’re permitted to, of course.

Though there was much hype surrounding the 2020 Chicago White Sox season, there’s now a legitimate possibility that there won’t be a single Sox game played in the first year of the decade.

The South Siders entered the year and decade as playoff contenders but much like the ’94 Sox in the strike-shortened season, they may not even get a chance at postseason baseball.

We won’t go into detail as basically everything on your timeline, your television and your mind at all times is nothing but the effects of COVID-19 on sports and literally every single aspect of life.

But in addition to the meaningful baseball arriving in Bridgeport for the first time in nearly a decade, Sox fans were also excited at the opportunity to watch their team play in heaven. No, not the other side of the Pearly Gates, and not the intersection of 35th and Shields.

Iowa.

For the first time ever, Major League Baseball is coming to Dyersville, Iowa. The tiny Northeast Iowa town of just over 4,000 people has etched itself deep into the hearts of baseball fans around the world for its part in the Academy Award nominated baseball motion picture Field of Dreams.

The film includes fictional portrayals of members of the 1919 Black Sox, most notably Shoeless Joe Jackson, and includes one of the most iconic scenes in movie history.

You know, the one where James Earl Jones talks about how baseball is part of our nation’s history and its future?

"This field, this game, is a part of our past, Ray. It reminds us of all that once was good, and that could be again."

That line hits harder than Luis Robert right now.

We don’t know if there will be baseball played this year. And if there is, there may not be any folks allowed in the stands. On Wednesday, Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti stated that people should prepare for the reality of social gatherings being prohibited until 2021.

So what does that mean, as Major League Baseball constructs an 8,000 capacity stadium adjacent to the field used in the movie? What should be done if we do get to bask in the glory of our national pastime this season?

Here’s an idea. Play the game in Dyersville anyways.

Baseball has proposed a wild concept of playing every game this season under quarantine in Arizona.

If that’s the case, then bring the Yankees and White Sox up to Dyersville for their much-anticipated game (keeping six feet of distance between each other, of course).

You could even have the players take separate cars and recreate the iconic aerial shot of the line of vehicles en route to the field.

Wouldn’t that be a sight? Just picture Brett Gardner yelling at Tim Anderson over the last parking spot while Giancarlo Stanton laughs and backs his car into the furthest parking spot possible so that he doesn’t ding it with a foul ball.

MLB wouldn’t even need to finish the other field and stadium. Instead, just use the bleachers erected in the movie that still remain on the first base side today.

And the crowd?

James Earl Jones, Kevin Costner and Amy Madigan. And no one else.

Of course, we’ll need Mr. Jones to recite his legendary speech.

It’s just the medicine that this country needs after this……whatever the hell we’re calling this.

Of course, anything could change between now and August and there’s still a possibility that baseball won’t be played until next year.

But let’s not think that way. Even if the hope is false, we need something to be excited about.

A live rendition of Field of Dreams could be just the ticket.

Just, please don’t let anyone choke on a hot dog in this version.