Charlie Day stated that the “It is All the time Sunny” creators have been tentative to achieve out to Wade Boggs as a result of they have been not sure if he would love the episode premise and, if he did not, they must scrap it solely. “We reached out to him like, ‘Is he going to be okay with this?'” the “Horrible Bosses” star recounted on The Tonight Present. “And he was like, ‘I am going to do it.'”

Glenn Howerton “would not keep in mind precisely” how they bought the ball participant on board, nevertheless it in all probability had one thing to do with Rob McElhenney. “What normally occurs is that Rob reaches out to those folks, as a result of he is simply probably the most persuasive of us,” he admitted to Vice. “He is only a good salesman.”

Boggs’ household could have additionally performed an element in convincing him to make a cameo. “It is All the time Sunny” appeals largely to a youthful viewers, which implies that whereas older celebrities could not have heard of the sequence, they typically have kids within the goal demographic.

“Plenty of occasions, when one thing like that goes by it is as a result of, like, Wade Boggs’ children have been followers of the present,” Howerton defined. “I really feel like that is the way it’s been quite a bit for us. We are able to by no means get the particular person — nevertheless it’s at all times their child who’s like, ‘Dad, it’s a must to do that.'”

Whether or not it was McElhenney or a youthful Boggs relative that persuaded the baseball participant to take part,”It is All the time Sunny” followers, baseball followers, and beer lovers alike are perpetually indebted to them. It won’t be as thrilling as consuming 107 beers on an airplane in actual life, nevertheless it positive is enjoyable to observe.