One of the things I'm always curious about leading up to the home opener is what songs the players will have played when they come to bat.  Here are some suggestions for the 8 regulars and the guy who would be starting the home opener if healthy.

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I, like any other true baseball fan who has seen Field of Dreams at least a dozen times, had always wanted to visit the actual movie site.  As you can see from the map below the field is located in Dyersville, Iowa which is in the middle of nowhere even by Midwest standards.

Click here to see a map of Butt F**k Nowhere, Iowa

Of course  for anyone who doesn't live in the Midwest traveling that far only to visit the movie site for a couple of hours is pretty crazy.  I had been waiting for years to have an excuse to visit the field and this year I finally had one; ASU football.  As it turns out my alma mater was playing UW in Madison, WI and after a quick Google Maps check I found that Madison is only a 2-2.5 hour drive from Dyersville.

I think most people would agree there is one person they would want to visit THE Field of Dreams with, their dad.  I was able to convince my dad to come to Madison with me and told him we would be seeing the ASU vs. UW game along with a Packers vs. Bills game at Lambeau on Sunday.  My goal was to get in the car on the Friday before the ASU game and just start driving, hoping that my dad wouldn't figure out we were driving to the movie site until we arrived.  I succeeded in keeping the secret until we had driven about an hour outside of Madison and starting seeing corn fields along with mileage signs to Iowa.  It didn't take long for him to figure it out from there.

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