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2* When John and Frank talk on the radio for the first time, though neither of them knows it yet. Frank criticizes John for not loving baseball.
3--> '''Frank''': Let me tell you something. A thousand years from now, when school kids' study about America, they're gonna learn about three things. The Constitution, rock and roll, and baseball.
4* John's talk with the six-year-old Gordo.
5--> '''Gordo''': This is the Space Cowboy. I'm an intergalactic traveler from the Federation Planet Earth.
6** John then calls himself Santa Claus, [[SugarWiki/HeartwarmingMoments and offers the younger Gordo some advice]].
7--> '''John''': Now this is important, something you've got to remember for a long time: [[CallBack Yahoo]].
8--> '''Gordo''': What's that?
9--> '''John''': Well, it's a magic word. It's like, um... Like "Abra Kadabra", but even better. Try it out, kid. Yahoo.
10--> '''Gordo''': Yahoo.
11--> '''John''': You got it, space cowboy. Now go upstairs and write it down.
12--> '''Gordo''': You got it, mister, I mean, Santa Claus.
13** There's an extended version of this scene that's even funnier.
14* From the epilogue, Gordo's horror when his car is hit by a baseball as the neighborhood all gets together to play a game, and everyone else laughs over it.
15--> '''Gordo''': ''(after extracting the ball from his wrecked headlight)'' Thank you very much!
16* [[spoiler: Satch initially didn't believe Frank's story about [[MakesSenseInContext contacting his son from the future over his radio]]. So, Frank gives him a prediction of something that happened during a baseball game. When it does happen, his expression is both amazed and giddily amused by the accuracy of the prediction.]]
17** And poor Julia, [[spoiler: who has just received a wrongful accusation from Satch that her husband is the Nightingale Killer. Is confused by [[MoodWhiplash the same man acting strangely happy over a baseball game]].]]
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