Just would like to point out that Squints from the original 1993 The Sandlot is also in the 2007 straight-to-DVD movie The Sandlot 3: Heading Home. As Squints. Is this a bad career move?
Was there a career at all? He was on Boy Meets World for a few episodes in season 1, when the producers were trying to find a third friend for Cory & Shawn. Coincidentally, the other kid they tested was Yeah-Yeah. Obviously, neither survived beyond episode 6 of season 1.
Maybe the inclusion of Squints in The Sandlot 3 is to get people my age — who saw the original movie in theaters and still hail it as one of the greatest movies of all time — to watch it, just to see what he looks like. FYI, he looks the same. They put him in the same glasses and the same black hat with the elastic. It’s just now you can tell he has to shave. Which happens when you age beyond 10. But I suppose this worked on me, didn’t it? I refused to watch Sandlot 2 because they put a girl on the team. That would never happen. It was fine for The Mighty Ducks and The Little Giants, but the Sandlot kids wouldn’t have taken a girl. Save that for Tom Hanks & no crying in baseball, blah blah blah. But I watched The Sandlot 3 so i could see Squints — even though there’s a Final Four basketball game on right now. Also, I could not find a sufficient photo of current Squints on IMDB, so I forged ahead with the crappy-quality film that pits Luke Perry as an asshole ballplayer who gets knocked out, all the way back to the Sandlot. Where Squints Paladoris now coaches the Sandlot boys.
Nose a little bigger, voice a little deeper. A sad attempt to salvage something that can never be salvaged.
Stop trying to resurrect The Sandlot. It’s a legend. And as the Babe told Benny in his dream, “legends never die. Follow your heart, kid, and you’ll never go wrong.”
Appended: Squints and Benny (not played by Mike Vitar, which is a real shame) just made small talk about The Great Hambino, who evidently still wrestles. Benny also asked Squints how Wendy was doing. Said she was great, and they had 4 kids. As Sandloters know, that means there are five more on the way.
Shames me to think that there are children watching this movie will not understand these references.
