Patrick Renna & Danielle Fishel on Dugout Dads, Reuniting The Sandlot Cast, and Why Nostalgia Can’t Be Recreated

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Dugout Dads reunites some familiar faces, but Patrick Renna and Danielle Fishel have no interest in trying to recreate The Sandlot or Boy Meets World . The longtime friends talk with Kyle Meredith about Renna turning the insanity of Little League parents into a new comedy series, bringing his Sandlot castmates back as fictionalized versions of themselves, and why Fishel sees the whole thing as “rebooting a cast” instead of rebooting a classic. They also get into Renna independently funding and building the series for YouTube, plans to expand it into a full season with more of a Curb Your Enthusiasm feel, and the cameos already lining up, including Creed Bratton, Michael Peña, and…