Play catch vs. Have a Catch

[ANNASDAD]

Always been...........Anna, let’s go throw!

 

[Comocoach]

Always been...........Anna, let’s go throw!

DD says, "I need to throw." I asked her today if she wanted to go throw. But, when she was just starting ball, it was " Do you want to play catch?"



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[cleareyesfullheart]

From Long Island... it is have a catch... along with hero for a sandwich on roll and soda... live in upstate NY now and they say play catch and call it a sub.
My feeling is the play in play catch insulates keeping score or competing. Most of the time when we have a catch we are not playing or competing.

 

[Rolling Hard]

I never have had a have a catch.

 

[Greatdaytobeawildcat]

From Long Island... it is have a catch... along with hero for a sandwich on roll and soda... live in upstate NY now and they say play catch and call it a sub.

I'm from the part of CT that will go to NY when it's sold for parts after the state goes bankrupt, and we have a catch.

As for long sandwiches - while we mostly eat grinders, there is a "wedge" sub-culture.

 

[_MIA_]

As for long sandwiches - while we mostly eat grinders, there is a "wedge" sub-culture.

Yum, grinders (we called them that in Southern MA too..)

 

[FP26]

"Play catch" in my neck of the woods. DD's college team has several players from the Long Island area, so the phrases are something they talk about at practice...

 

[uncdrew]

Only in Field of Dreams have I ever heard the term "Have a catch." I am a native Illinoian. We play catch.

Because of that movie, I now say "have a catch".

 

[uncdrew]

all these years later, "have a catch" is the most discordant phrase ever uttered in any movie, particularly one about baseball. it completely ruined what, up to the point at which it was uttered, was a movie I found to be both moving and entertaining. I still can't believe that, at some point in the movie making process (when the scene was being shot, post-production, final edits, etc.) someone didn't jump up and say, "have a catch? What in God's name are you talking about?" The phrase always should have been "wanna play catch?" Hard stop, no arguments permitted. Field of Dreams is the first and only time I heard the alternative, and I hope I never do again. I can still feel the shock and disappointment.

"There were a few issues. First, Costner and Brown talked and suggested to the director that no one says, “Want to have a catch?” at least where they grew up. You said, “play catch.” Robinson, who was from New York, where they said “have a catch,” shot them down. "

Thirty years later, ‘Field of Dreams’ dad is still answering ‘Wanna have a catch?’

Meet Dwier Brown, whose six minutes of screen time with Kevin Costner became the role of a lifetime.

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Fine decision by Robinson, creating buzz for the movie for eternity.

 

[Vertigo]

Born and raised in North Jersey - I’d go “play catch” with my dad and “go down the shore” for the summer. I also eat Taylor ham, put my clothes in “draws” not drawers, and color with “crowns” not crayons. I could also tell you where every single place is that Tony Soprano drives past in the opening credits of the Sopranos.