Comedy film and TV producer Judd Apatow of “Knocked Up” and “Freaks and Geeks” fame missed no time at all in casting the Seattle Mariners for his next project when it became official this week that the team is the only Major League Baseball organization to have never gone all the way to the World Series.
“I’d explored the existential crises that befall so many unaccomplished 40-something adults, but never a 40-something-old sports team,” Apatow said in a press release. “There’s so much rich material to mine there, it’s really the kind of comedy that writes itself.”
Asked for comment, absolutely zero Mariners fans disputed the claim.
Apatow says he’d been mulling the project ever since a chance encounter with team manager Scott Servais at a Bulletproof Café in LA.
“He said something about how the World Series’ Commissioner’s Trophy is so heavy, like a bag of sand,” Apatow said. “I knew he was saying it just to try and fit in, but it just wasn’t working.”
At press time, Apatow said he was in negotiations to get the Mariners’ General Manager, Jerry Dipoto, played by Paul Rudd in the movie and in real life.
