If you build it, he will come

Have you ever watched the movie Field of Dreams? I think amongst all movie genres, baseball movies tend to have strong moral and inspiring stories. Probably I get this impression from Field of Dreams.

If you have not watched it, please don't read on, as I strongly recommend it and I don't want to spoil it for you with what I'm going to say.

I don't remember much about the details, so the story I tell maybe skewed. Anyway, here's the gist of it.

This farmer had a farm and he was growing corn. For a few days he kept hearing a soft whispering voice: "If you build it, he will come." This part was pretty eery for me, but rest assured, this is not a ghost story. It is an uplifting, positive story about the great All-American sport, and a father/son's dream.

For a few days, the farmer got clues, and found that his true loved was baseball. So he spent a lot money, and perhaps borrowed money, to make part of the farm into a baseball field. Everyone around thought he was nuts, cause there was no baseball players around the town, and everybody around were too busy working. This guy not only destroyed his family farm, but also spent all his savings doing a deed that had no return. The farmer ignored all the criticism and laughter and kept on with his mission.

When the baseball field was built, sure enough, for a long long time, nobody showed any interest of using it, and the farmer waited and waited.

Finally one night, some baseball legends came out of the corn field and started playing games on the baseball field. The farmer's late father also walked out of the corn field and played catch with him.

These days I kept thinking about this movie, because "Salt Scrub" is like my "Field of Dreams".

I am correcting a few important details of the movie here today, 6/15.