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Defector Media’s David Roth joins the podcast from New York City to discuss The Fan, Tony Scott’s 1996 psychological thriller about a deranged San Francisco Giants fan and struggling knife salesman (Robert DeNiro) who develops an extremely unhealthy fixation on superstar slugger Bobby Rayburn (Wesley Snipes), a player experiencing his own parallel career crisis. It’s not a good movie but an extremely fun movie to talk about, since it has major tone problems and a storyline that in another pair of hands could have been a great dark satire about the dangers of sports fandom.

David and I also talk at length about the Toronto Blue Jays, a team that might even have a shot this year.

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Trailer for The Fan (Tony Scott, 1996)

Supercut of all the times De Niro says “Bobby!” in The Fan