I don’t often do this, but stop reading this post.<\/p>\n
Stop and go to YouTube, because there’s something you must watch immediately.<\/p>\n
From the damn-I-wish-I’d-thought-of-that<\/em> series, there is\u00a0Last Comiskey<\/em><\/a>. It’s a behind-the-scenes look at the final season of Comiskey Park, home of the Chicago White Sox. It’s divided into three segments of about 35-40 minutes each, all available for free on YouTube.<\/p>\n That’s the greatest thing about\u00a0Last Comiskey<\/em>. It’s not put together by an army of producers and technicians employed by Netflix or Amazon or PBS. It’s basically some guy in his basement who had the idea one day to put a story together about the final year at Comiskey Park. An amateur version of\u00a0The Last Dance<\/a><\/em>, which featured the ’90s-era Chicago\u00a0Bulls<\/em>, this one goes to the South Side to follow the White Sox and their surprisingly successful 1990 season in which they were expected to finish dead last.<\/p>\n The brainchild of Chicago native Matt Flesch, it’s more or less scenes from his childhood. (I can relate.) A “passion project” that turned into something much bigger, I’d put it up there against Ken Burns,\u00a030 for 30<\/em>, or the most highbrow offering on the BBC. Damn it’s great, and even though most of the interviews are just straight up Zoom calls with celebrities in their pajamas it all plays. Seamlessly and professionally. Guy who never made a movie before in his life just decided one day he could do it. I aspire.<\/p>\n I can’t tell you anything else about Matt Flesch other than he’s my new hero.<\/p>\n But damn I wish I’d thought of this first.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I don’t often do this, but stop reading this post. Stop and go to YouTube, because there’s something you must watch immediately. From the damn-I-wish-I’d-thought-of-that series, there is\u00a0Last Comiskey. It’s a behind-the-scenes look at the final season of Comiskey Park, … Continue reading