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  • rival.
    rival. Chicago Posts: 7,775
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  • PJ_Soul
    PJ_Soul Vancouver, BC Posts: 51,030
    I'm surprised there isn't more love for Eight Men Out.
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  • peacefrompaul
    peacefrompaul Posts: 25,293
    PJ_Soul wrote:
    I'm surprised there isn't more love for Eight Men Out.

    What?
  • catefrances
    catefrances Posts: 29,003
    PJ_Soul wrote:
    I'm surprised there isn't more love for Eight Men Out.


    we want to feel good watching baseball movies and the black sox aren't exactly a glowing endorsement for the American game are they?
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  • peacefrompaul
    peacefrompaul Posts: 25,293
    catefrances wrote:
    PJ_Soul wrote:
    I'm surprised there isn't more love for Eight Men Out.


    we want to feel good watching baseball movies and the black sox aren't exactly a glowing endorsement for the American game are they?

    Oh that movie
  • catefrances
    catefrances Posts: 29,003
    peacefrompaul wrote:
    catefrances wrote:
    PJ_Soul wrote:
    I'm surprised there isn't more love for Eight Men Out.


    we want to feel good watching baseball movies and the black sox aren't exactly a glowing endorsement for the American game are they?

    Oh that movie


    yeah that one. I love baseball movies.
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  • The Juggler
    The Juggler Posts: 49,599
    PJ_Soul wrote:
    dankind wrote:
    JK_Livin wrote:
    What do you mean it's too high?

    It's an apropos quote from Major League. I edited the post to include the full quotation and added quotation marks.

    Sorry, I'm not one who believes that baseball is some sort of magical ceremony with called shots, shattered lights (spoiler alert: the book ends differently) and ghosts in fucking cornfields that help you resolve your daddy issues. It's a game, which should be fun. Major League is fun.

    So maybe I meant too highfalutin/highbrow.
    Yeah, no need to get highbrow with baseball movies. Major League is an entertaining baseball movie, and is fun, and I love that Ken Griffey Jr. and all those other players are in it. But there is nothing wrong with romanticizing the game with ghosts and smashed lights either. Yes baseball is supposed to be fun. Bit it's also supposed to give people a sense of magic. All's fair in baseball movies!

    griffey was not in major league......you're thinking of little big league, i believe.

    major league, the natural, and bull durham--in no particular order are the best.
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  • The Juggler
    The Juggler Posts: 49,599
    JK_Livin wrote:
    dankind wrote:
    MayDay10 wrote:
    Major League...no Its an OK lighthearted movie, but its like saying The Mighty Ducks is the best hockey movie.

    The Natural IMO



    I was very disappointed with Cobb as well.
    Not to mention it was a fabricated and "enhanced" version of that slimeball Al Stump's already fabricated version of Ty Cobb.

    Too high!

    What do you mean it's too high?

    at the phils game last weekend, my wife goes "too high" in response to a fly out to right. i gave her the "what do you mean too high?"


    ...she failed to grasp the reference which she inadvertently, ironically, started.
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  • eeriepadave
    eeriepadave West Chester, PA Posts: 43,801
    Can someone answer me a question about the movie "The Sandlot"?

    So in the movie a grownup Small's is the narrator, right?   Towards the end of the movie you find out what happened to everyone and Small's becomes the broadcaster for the Dodgers.  They're two different people and their voices sound nothing alike!  Why didn't they use the same person? :confused:
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  • HesCalledDyer
    HesCalledDyer Maryland Posts: 16,501
    How did I miss this topic for 4 years?

    Field of Dreams. It's my favorite movie of all time, baseball or not. 

    I love most baseball movies, honestly. Bull Durham, A League of Their Own, Bad News Bears, The Sandlot, Major League, Mr. 3000, The Benchwarmers, Little Big League, The Natural, Rookie of the Year, For Love of the Game, Brewster's Millions, Eight Men Out, Sugar, The Babe, Bang the Drum Slowly, and on and on.
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  • brianlux
    brianlux Moving through All Kinds of Terrain. Posts: 43,846
    edited September 2017
    HesCalledDyer said:
    How did I miss this topic for 4 years?

    Field of Dreams. It's my favorite movie of all time, baseball or not. 

    I love most baseball movies, honestly. Bull Durham, A League of Their Own, Bad News Bears, The Sandlot, Major League, Mr. 3000, The Benchwarmers, Little Big League, The Natural, Rookie of the Year, For Love of the Game, Brewster's Millions, Eight Men Out, Sugar, The Babe, Bang the Drum Slowly, and on and on.
    Field of Dreams is one of my favorites too.  The first time I saw it was very emotional for me around some issues with my pop.  Great film!

    We just saw 42 the other night and really, really liked it!

    Bull Durham and Major League also a couple of favorites.
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  • Cliffy6745
    Cliffy6745 Posts: 34,075
    HesCalledDyer said:
    How did I miss this topic for 4 years?

    Field of Dreams. It's my favorite movie of all time, baseball or not. 

    I love most baseball movies, honestly. Bull Durham, A League of Their Own, Bad News Bears, The Sandlot, Major League, Mr. 3000, The Benchwarmers, Little Big League, The Natural, Rookie of the Year, For Love of the Game, Brewster's Millions, Eight Men Out, Sugar, The Babe, Bang the Drum Slowly, and on and on.
    Dude, you snuck sugar in here. That is an awesome movie and very real
  • tempo_n_groove
    tempo_n_groove Posts: 42,243
    Fear Strikes Out, Pride of the Yankees, Cobb, Soul of the Game, The Bingo Long Traveling All Stars and Motor Kings.  Man y'all missed some good ones...

    Did anyone mention 8 Men Out? 
  • eeriepadave
    eeriepadave West Chester, PA Posts: 43,801
    tempo_n_groove said:


    Did anyone mention 8 Men Out? 
    http://community.pearljam.com/discussion/comment/5059214/#Comment_5059214

    i'm also gonna go with Fever Pitch (starring Jimmy Fallon and Drew Barrymore).  It was a pretty good romantic comedy.

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  • eeriepadave
    eeriepadave West Chester, PA Posts: 43,801
    HesCalledDyer said:
    How did I miss this topic for 4 years?

    Field of Dreams. It's my favorite movie of all time, baseball or not. 

    I love most baseball movies, honestly. Bull Durham, A League of Their Own, Bad News Bears, The Sandlot, Major League, Mr. 3000, The Benchwarmers, Little Big League, The Natural, Rookie of the Year, For Love of the Game, Brewster's Millions, Eight Men Out, Sugar, The Babe, Bang the Drum Slowly, and on and on.
    The Benchwarmers?  :rofl:
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    4/29/16- Philly, PA
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  • tempo_n_groove
    tempo_n_groove Posts: 42,243
    eeriepadave said:
    tempo_n_groove said:


    Did anyone mention 8 Men Out? 
    http://community.pearljam.com/discussion/comment/5059214/#Comment_5059214

    i'm also gonna go with Fever Pitch (starring Jimmy Fallon and Drew Barrymore).  It was a pretty good romantic comedy.

    Went back and read the thread so Cobb and 8 Men were mentioned but all the others weren't.  Everyone needs to go and check them out, hell, Pride of The Yankees has Babe Ruth in it and Fear Strikes Out was filmed DURING Jimmy Piersall's playing career.
  • HesCalledDyer
    HesCalledDyer Maryland Posts: 16,501
    eeriepadave said:
    HesCalledDyer said:
    How did I miss this topic for 4 years?

    Field of Dreams. It's my favorite movie of all time, baseball or not. 

    I love most baseball movies, honestly. Bull Durham, A League of Their Own, Bad News Bears, The Sandlot, Major League, Mr. 3000, The Benchwarmers, Little Big League, The Natural, Rookie of the Year, For Love of the Game, Brewster's Millions, Eight Men Out, Sugar, The Babe, Bang the Drum Slowly, and on and on.
    The Benchwarmers?  :rofl:
    Hilarious and hugely under-appreciated.
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  • HesCalledDyer
    HesCalledDyer Maryland Posts: 16,501
    The Battered Bastards of Baseball is an excellent documentary on Netflix. 
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  • dankind
    dankind Posts: 20,841
    edited September 2017
    I reluctantly took my daughter to see The Sandlot this summer. (She wouldn't take no for an answer.)

    It sucks as much now as it did when it came out, especially for a young girl. Misogynistic shit movie.

    But at least it led to some good discussions about how girls are perceived to be weak by boys and how that poisoned idea perpetuates throughout our society as a whole, taking the decade of the film's setting into account and driving home how relatively nothing has changed and how a lot has only gotten worse.

    Even more than last season, when she was dubbed "The Enforcer" by her coach, she has something to prove on the ice this season. Watch out!
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  • Cliffy6745
    Cliffy6745 Posts: 34,075
    Wait....say whhhhhhhhhhhaaaaaaaat?!?!?!

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