You’ll never make it to the bigs with fungus on your shower shoes
Conor · October 7, 2008 at 10:51 pm · Filed Under Mariners
This is a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad idea. (Hat tip to Gaslamp Ball)
Discussion topics…
• What’s your favorite baseball movie?
• If this comes out, will you see it?
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every one knows Fever pitch is a football movie.
hmm. or Nuke & Annie aren’t married in the sequel.
Field of Dreams and Bull Durham aren’t just good “baseball” movies, they’re just good movies period. Those two have always ranked way up there for me.
Major League, honestly, strikes me as an oddly Moneyball 2.0 / sabermetric movie. Dumpster diving for freely available talent, snatching up good veterans that had upside or at least one more good year in them, etc.
You had your strikeout pitcher (Vaughn), a groundball machine (Harris), a superior on-base guy who played amazing defense at a key position(Hayes), a strong power hitter (and international signee, Cerano), and two slick fielding defenders with decent enough bats that their overall value in runs was positive (Dorn and Taylor). Also, do you remember any bullpen arms? No? Why? Because they were all replacement parts! No “closer” to speak of, just a bunch of arms that were found in the minors or on the trash heap that could get one to three outs when needed. In fact, the team with the “closer” (New York) lost! Even if you assume the rest of the team is replacement level, you have several positive marginal win players putting the team over.
USSM had an article once about Bugs Bunny, I’d like to see a couple where they analyze these “teams” in movies.
I love Field of Dreams, but the fact that the movie has Liotta batting righty when Jackson is a lefty really deters me from making it my #1.
But I wish there were some better baseball movies. I often apply Rudy to baseball, especially when Rudy’s father first goes to a ND football game and says when he comes out of the tunnel, “this is the most beautiful thing these eyes have ever seen.” I get that feeling a lot at Safeco.
Wow.. Little Big League. I’m glad someone brought that up; I forgot all about that movie. Brings back memories.. probably haven’t seen it in 10-15 years or so. How old is that movie, anyway?
Bull Durham, as with most movies, was filled with filming errors. A lot of them are listed here. Some of my favorites that I actually knew about from watching the movie a million times:
In the first game of the movie, two batters are introduced with “Now batting for the Peninsula White Sox” but they are wearing the uniform of the Hagerstown Suns.
When Annie and “Nuke” are in her kitchen during the “seduction” scene, she has stockings on in all of the close-up shots, but bare legs in the long shots.
After Nuke hits the mascot and Crash tells the nervous batter, “I don’t know where it’s gonna go – I swear to God,” Nuke throws a fastball for strike one, yet the batter is rung up for a strikeout.
Came out in 1994
The top 10 Sports movies of all time were rated in June 2010 by the American Film Institute. Bull Durham was the 2nd baseball movie listed at # 5. Pride of the Yankees was #3.
I’m a little younger so growing up I had a few baseball movies that I always watched
Sandlot
Angels in the Outfield
Little Big League
Rookie of the Year
I watched Field of Dreams again recently and was surprised at how awful it is. But then again my worldview has changed pretty significantly since I first saw it.
A League of Their Own is fantastic.