Episode 29: Major League

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A washed up catcher, a convict with a hundred mile an hour fastball, and a baseball team that wasn't supposed to win anything.
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What if your owner wanted you to lose?
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What if the only thing holding a team together was spite and just enough talent to make everyone regret overlooking them?
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And what if a group of cast-offs, hasbens and never weres decide the best way to get even was to win the whole fucking thing?
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This is Major League, and we'll get into it on this episode of the Regular Guy Movie Show.
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Lights go down.
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Let's just play.
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Regular guys got something to say.
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The regular guy movie show talking.
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Welcome back to the Regular Guy Movie Show, where three grown-ass men revisit the movies that shaped our youth, convinced us that glasses can instantly turn you into an ace pitcher, and taught us that sometimes the greatest workplace motivational tool is a cardboard cutout of your bust and progressively fewer articles of clothing.
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I'm set that joining me as always are two guys I'd absolutely want in my clubhouse, Justin and Brian.
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Gentlemen, did you remember your Vaseline and Vagicil?
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Let's give them all a nice big shit burger to eat.
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Nice, nice.
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And you know when the umps are watching me close, I just put a little jalapeno up my nose.
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You put snot on the ball.
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Well, before we make our offerings to Joe Boo, let's take a moment and talk about what we're drinking tonight.
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You know, that has become one of my favorite songs.
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What a great song to hear on a Friday.
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Heck yeah.
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Happy Friday, gents.
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We are starting things off with a pick of Justin's Summer Ale.
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The Boston Beer Company.
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Yeah.
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The Summer Ale.
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So, um I was walking around the local grocery store.
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I didn't make it up to Fire Ducks today.
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Trying to pick something that uh related to the movie whatsoever, and I landed on the summer ale because baseball is primarily played in the summer.
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And the boys of summer! That's right.
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That's right.
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So it ties in.
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It does.
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And I have to say, I'm really enjoying this drink.
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It's a great beer.
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You know what it is?
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I don't think I've ever like I've had like the Boston Auger.
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Uh we've had uh the Octoberfest.
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Octoberfest.
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This is our go-to Oktoberfest.
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A great Oktoberfest.
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Super solid.
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I have not had the summer ale before.
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And what do you think?
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It's pretty darn tasty.
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This is a citrus wheat ale.
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It is.
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Which is a little bit on the the the multier, lighter side than what we usually drink.
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Maybe not used so much, Brian.
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It's not a joke to the nine.
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It's not a hazy APA.
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But I get the citrus notes come through.
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I mean it's very lemony, but it's not as citrusy as like a blue moon.
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No, it's not.
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It's in a wit, right?
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Uh but but i yeah, it's got some citrusy to it.
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It's still got that kind of weedy, smooth, malty mouthfeel, and it drinks really easy.
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Yeah, and at 5.3% alcohol, I should have brought in the other, like the full sick pack.
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Yeah, we should have done that.
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I do gotta drive home later, so let's let's let's put a pin in that.
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You know, depending on our other choices, we may circle back for the last uh the last three.
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That is true.
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We never know.
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We're not gonna leave anybody behind.
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No soldiers.
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If not tonight, we will get to them at some point.
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Or definitely.
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Absolutely.
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Well, we are talking about the movie Major League on this episode.
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Gentlemen, what what was your earliest memories of watching Major League?
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I saw Major League.
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This is the spring it came out.
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Yeah.
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In the movie theater.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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My my parents were originally from the Cleveland area.
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Okay.
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My my dad's a grew up an Indians fan.
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So this was uh I I was really surprised my parents took me to see an R-rated movie.
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Okay.
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But uh Yeah, I was uh I think eighth grade.
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All right, all right.
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Yeah, so I saw it there in the theater.
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So when this came out, I was seven.
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And I don't think this is one that my parents would have taken me to the theater for, nor had sat me down and watched at the house.
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Uh so I think this is another one of those movies that I I've seen over the years in bits and pieces, but I will, for the sake of the podcast, say I saw this movie for the first time all the way through yesterday.
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Nice.
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Now I did not see this in the theater, but I remember going to the movies and seeing the previews, the trailer for for Major League.
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Um, saw it, I don't I don't remember if we rented this because it just doesn't seem like a movie my parents would have been into.
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Uh-huh.
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But I did watch it many times on cable.
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It made the tours on, I'm sure TNT, TBS, Comedy Central.
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Yeah.
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All probably showed it at different times.
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Yep.
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And so I don't even know how many times I've watched it in full and also just in chunks here and there.
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But hadn't watched it in a number of years.
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And um I'm glad we I picked this movie for us to watch because you know, I wanted to see, I've started, I don't know why.
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I've had this kind of inkling in my mind about a few things about this movie, wondering, does that really hold up?
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And so I wanted to to have the chance to to watch it in total one more time and make that determination whether it holds up or not.
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Okay.
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I like it.
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I I think this is a great pick.
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Now, I've seen this movie a lot.
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Yeah.
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It's one of my wife's favorite movies.
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Well, you're also a a pretty pretty big baseball family.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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So, you know, it's on in the background a lot.
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You know, cleaning the house on a Sunday or something.
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It's just it's on a lot.
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It's one of those that if it's on TV, it's on your TV.
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And what's cool about it, it is it's supremely quotable.
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Absolutely.
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Definitely.
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I gotta ask not you so much, Justin, because I don't think you'll have any thoughts on this.
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But Brian.
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Was this the biggest baseball movie of your youth?
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Yes.
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Yeah?
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It was.
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For for different reasons.
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Um and I'll get to that later.
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But uh yeah, this was the baseball movie I grew up with.
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Because I mean I can think of the times that we were growing up.
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That there were there's really to me the big three.
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Maybe four.
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Um Major League, Sanlot, Sanlot, Field of Dreams, and Bull Durham.
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Yeah, maybe not Bull Durham so much as me growing up because that was pretty adult-y.
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Yeah.
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Um each of them had their appeal.
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You know, Major League was like the comedy, Sandlot was the nostalgia, Field of Dreams was almost fantasy, and Bull Durham was like the adult version.
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Right, right.
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I'd also throw in maybe the natural.
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I I could see the natural as well.
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Um and then later, you know, you had uh, you know, the Tom Hanks, Georgia Peaches, yeah, um League of The Own.
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League of their own.
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Yeah.
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And in the interim, there were, you know, Angels in the Outfield, the rookie.
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Um there were a lot of baseball movies, but I I kind of think Major League started the trend of, hey, we've got some marketable movies about baseball.
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Yeah.
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I I think also of all the ones we've talked about, Major League is the one that really put the most focus on the Major League player experience.
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Yeah.
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The rest of them is they're they're almost tall tales.
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They are.
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And this movie was more about baseball with characters than characters who played baseball.
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Yeah, big time.
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See, I would I think it's almost the opposite.
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I feel like you could say this was just a workplace comedy that just happened to take place in a baseball field.
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I I could see that too.
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I could see that too.
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Well, for those of you who have no idea what we're talking about, why don't we take a moment and enjoy a little story time with Brian?
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Tell us a story.
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Okay, Major League came out in 1989 and it was rated R.
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In a forgotten city.
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Beside the shores of a great lake stood an aging stadium where hope had long since packed its bags, where the banners overhead had faded from years of disappointment.
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The fans wanted to visit, not because they believed, but because they remembered what believing once felt like.
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Then came a new queen, or owner, whose heart covered coveted not glory, but escape.
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She expected her ragtag team to fail.
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Every stumble would bring her closer to abandoning her Cleveland kingdom forever.
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But legendary tales had little regard for careful plans.
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As the season progressed, strangers became brothers, pride awakened, laughter echoed, and victories, small at first, began to gather like stars in the sky.
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Soon the people who had forgotten how to cheer found themselves believing again.
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For in every forgotten kingdom there waits a band of unlikely heroes.
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And sometimes the greatest legends begin with a team everyone expected to lose.
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Yeah, that's a good one.
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Damn bad.
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How did this do in the box office, Brian?
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Okay, so a real modest production uh cost.
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The production budget was approximately$11 million.
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And uh its North American gross was right at about$50 million.
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So not bad.
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It made about four and a half times its budget, which, you know, if you make twice your budget, that's a that's a hit.
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Yeah, absolutely.
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So this uh and that's not even counting, you know, the the cable revenue, the home video revenue, the merchandise revenue, the soundtrack revenue.
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None of that was counted in these numbers.
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So yeah, it was a bona fide hit.
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Well, this is not our first movie from 1989 that we've talked about.
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Right.
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Um so but but Major League finished in 26th that year.
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Uh, and and just a refresher, if you don't remember our discussion from the Burbs episode, some of the other movies that came out that year included Batman, Indiana Jones, and The Last Crusade, Lethal Weapon 2, Look Who's Talking, Honey I Shrunk the Kids, Ghostbusters 2, Back to the Future Part 2, Dead Poet Society, Parenthood, and Turner and Hooch.
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Man.
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That's a heck of a year for movies.
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No doubt.
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Yeah, and and when this movie was released, it was released along the same time as Pet Cemetery, Lean on Me, uh, The Dream Team, and The Accidental Tourist.
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They were all in the theaters at the same time.
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I know a couple of those.
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Yeah, I think I've seen all of those.
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But what what really kind of hit home was, and this was a smart move, they released it in spring, right?
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Right before the season.
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There you go.
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Yeah.
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That's what I'm saying.
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So all those people waited a long winter, all those baseball fans, right?
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They got a little uh they got a movie of their own here.
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A little baseball fever.
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Heck yeah.
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I got the fever.
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The only uh prescription.
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More cowbell.
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Or baseball movies.
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Oh, that too.
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I was gonna say more fastballs.
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More fastballs.
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Well, how was this movie received, Justin?
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Uh, so Rotten Tomatoes has a certified fresh score of 83% based on 41 reviews from critics, and a popcorn meter of 84% based on over 50,000 viewer ratings.
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So they they aligned pretty close.
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They sure did.
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Yeah, solid B.
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Absolutely.
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So a couple of my favorite.
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Yeah, let's do it.
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Couple of my favorites here.
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From 2024, we had one that said over 35 years after its release, the hysterical major league remains one of the best baseball movies ever made.
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Nice.
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Not too shabby, that's a pretty good critique.
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2013.
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It has its moments, but it also has long, slow stretches where you feel like standing up and wandering around and maybe going out to hunt up a beer.
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That's fine for baseball, but not the way movies are supposed to work.
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Okay.
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So I kind of related to that one a little bit.
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Okay.
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The whole beer thing.
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We do a beer rating podcast.
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We do a beer rating.
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Right.
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So yeah, I uh it landed a bit.
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But yeah, I thought that was pretty interesting.
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That, you know, 83 from critics, 84 from uh from viewers, and yeah, that's that's it's pretty rare that they align so closely.
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Yeah, yeah.
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That might be the closest one we've had.
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Right.
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Yeah.
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Well, this movie was written and directed by the same person.
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Okay.
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Uh David S.
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Ward.
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Ah, David S.
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Ward.
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Yeah, I know.
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He I know he's a good friend of yours.
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He is, yeah.
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Well, Ward he wrote it because he was a lifelong baseball fan and specifically a lifelong Cleveland Indians fan.
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I call him D-Dub.
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D-Dub?
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Mm-hmm.
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So so he's used to being disappointed.
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Pretty much because uh yeah, he he really wanted to capture the frustration of rooting for a perpetually disappointing franchise.
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You know, Cleveland has a history of bad baseball teams.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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The losingest team in baseball history was a Cleveland team called the Cleveland Spiders.
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Spiders.
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Yeah, I think they won a whole season and won like eight games.
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How long was the season?
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I don't know.
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Yeah.
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A lot more than eight games.
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Damn.
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But this was way, way back.
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Probably shouldn't name your team the spiders.
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No.
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No, so when when the Cleveland Indians rebranded to the Guardians, the Spiders was one of the choices.
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Yeah.
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Mm-hmm.
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Just because of the history and the nostalgia of the team, but not because of their winning record.
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I think they chose correctly with the rebrand.
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Yeah, I think so too.
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Yeah, this this was not uh D-Dub's D dub uh first hit.
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Uh he actually uh won um the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay for the movie The Sting in 1973.
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The Sting was a great flick.
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I didn't see that one.
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Oh, you ought to.
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Could I?
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Yeah.
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His other writing credits are a little bit over the map.
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Um King Ralph.
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Didn't see that.
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Sleepless in Seattle?
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I didn't see that.
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And Flyboys.
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Didn't see that.
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Fly Boys from uh the book.
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Maybe.
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Yeah.
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Possibly.
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It sounds like that could be correct.
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He also wrote Major League 2.
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Uh directing-wise, uh, this was his second feature film as a director.
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Uh, in case you were curious, his very first film was Cannery Row in 1982.
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Um and despite limited directing experience, he managed to assemble a cast that really had a lot of chemistry, which is probably the movie's biggest strength.
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Big time.
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Uh the other thing that's notable about the the making of the movie is that much while many of the scenes were Cleveland, a lot of this was shot in Milwaukee.
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Yeah, most uh most of the baseball stuff was in Milwaukee.
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Interesting.
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They they had an empty stadium up there.
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Okay.
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Um, even though at the time they were in the same division, and so they were shooting by the Cleveland Indians in a rival stadium.
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You know, it used to be called Miliwaukee.
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Miliwake, that's right.
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You know, I wish that I knew that it was shot in Milwaukee so I could get that whole thing down from Wayne's World where Alice Cooper talked about Miliwake.
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Because that would have been that would have been podcast gold, but I don't know the whole thing.
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I believe the translation is the good land.
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Does this say anyone a party or what?
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What's interesting, the the baseball that was played um were real baseball players.
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A lot of them.
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All the extras on the field.
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That was the University of Arizona baseball team and some minor and major league players.
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Oh, no kidding.
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The most famous major league player in the movie was the first baseman named Terry Francona.
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Really?
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Yeah.
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Is that the guy with a handlebar mustache?
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No.
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No.
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Oh, the not the Yankees guy?
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No, not the Yankees.
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Okay.
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No.
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So that mustache was epic.
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It was epic.
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But interestingly, I don't use that word lightly.
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You know my rules.
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Oh, I do.
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Book of a thousand pages, movie of four hours, or are featuring Kevin Costner.
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So the fact I'm using about his mustache means something.
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That was a mustache of a thousand pages.
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That mustache was bass.
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So Terry Francone at the time of the movie when it was shot, was a baseball player for the Cleveland Indians.
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And he returned to Cleveland.
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He was the manager in 2016 when the Indians went to the World Series.
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Yeah, he was their manager.
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Nice.
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Yeah.
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So he played the first baseman in this movie for the Indians.
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Correct.
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Okay.
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Doesn't get a whole lot of screen time, but there's a few uh action shots where he's there.
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He's doing his thing.
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Yeah.
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Nice.
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Very nice.
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Well, let's talk about who else was in this movie.
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Justin, who you got?
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Oh, I got a big long list here, guys.
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Are you ready?
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I'm ready.
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I'm ready.
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Let's go.
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All right.
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First up on my list is Jake Taylor, played by Tom Baringer.
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Is that you, Talbert?
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What?
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This is very funny, you know.
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I'm hungover.
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My knees are killing me, and if you're gonna pull this shit, at least you could have said you were from the Yankees.
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I'm hungover.
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Jake is an aging catcher whose best years are behind him, brought in as a veteran presence on a team designed to fail.
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He's also trying to win back the love of his ex-girlfriend.
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Mm-hmm.
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I'm just gonna be open here.
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I'm very split on this character.
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Are you on the baseball front, on the team front, his big brothery kind of role, his tutelage he provides to the younger guys, him taking Ricky and Wheelie under his wing without even batting an eye.
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A plus.
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Yeah, he was a captain without being named the captain.
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His love interest aspect of this of this character gives me the goddamn ick.
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I could see that.
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For sure.
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I kind of see him as a guy who's trying to fix his past wrongs.
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Uh-huh.
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And from what I gather in the film, his wrongs were really wrong.
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I don't think he was trying to change his past wrongs at all.
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I think he was just trying to pick up and hope she forgot.
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Yeah.
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I could see that.
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For sure.
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Like, and he was he was pretty creepy the way he just kind of found her all the time.
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And then he followed her or like showed up inside of her apartment.
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Oh, how about the scene in the scene in the restaurant?
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Like, does nobody lock their doors?
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Right.
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Like, holy cow.
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And we'll get into all of that.
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We will.
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But yeah, I mean, I I think that there was something about he played the opposite end of the spectrum of so many of the characters in this movie.
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He was really, you had a bunch of up and comers, upstarts, and a bunch of washed-up retreads.
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Yeah.
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He was on the retread scale, not end of the scale.
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And I thought he played it really well.
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He kind of surprised me in this role.
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Like I didn't expect this guy with the busted up knees and like, you know, the to start the movie, he was in a sombrero, drunk, and passed out into bed.
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I didn't expect him to kind of lead the team the way he did.
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It was it was pretty impressive, the way that he like even like the chicken scene, you know, would get to it for sure.
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But like he was like the team dad.
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He was the dad.
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Yeah, yeah, for sure.
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Now, yeah, but you know, he was playing in the the Mexican league when he got the call.
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And I think he knew it was his last chance.
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And he wanted to make the most of it.
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He did a good job.
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Yeah.
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Now, Tom Berenger was probably the most known asset on this cast at this point.
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I I'd agree with that.
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Because he he had was coming off an o uh an Academy Award nomination for Platoon, and he really established a filmography of playing tough, rugged characters.
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Tell me about him.
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Well, he was uh in Sniper, Inception, Training Day, Um Gettysburg, The Big Chill.
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That one's not so gritty, but you know the uh the Hatfield McCoys.
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Yeah, yeah.
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He he was just you know, he just plays that kind of grisly guy with a thousand yard stare who will stab you sooner than he looks at you.
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The super serious guy.
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Yeah.
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So it must have been intensity.
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It must have been kind of weird then to see him like fantasize about you know the walk-off home run and you know, running the bases and you know that kind of thing.
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Whatever.
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Yeah, he showed some humanity when in his other roles he was less human and more killing machine.
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Yeah, right.
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I mean, heck, he was Lieutenant General James Longstreet.
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He was in Gettysburg.
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Longstreet.
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Not a whole lot of chuckles then.
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But there's some great soliloquies that Longstreet has in that movie.
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There are.
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Yeah.
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Many words.
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And marching.
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Yeah.
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Lots of lots of marching in that movie.
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The misty fields, the fog rolling through the hills of Gettysburg.
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Yeah.
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Had it been a different movie, had his name been Short Street.
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Perhaps.
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Who else we got?
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Next up on my list is Ricky Wild Thing Vaughn, played by Charlie Sheen.
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Kiss my ass! You're gone! You're full of shit! Fuck you! Get out of here, Ricky! Why don't you blow me, um?
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You're gone!
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So Ricky's a hard Throwing rookie pitcher with a cannon for an arm and almost no control over where the ball is going.
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His journey from reckless wild card to reliable closer forms the heart of the team's turnaround.
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I think he's he's one of the more exciting characters of the movie.
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Yeah, I think so.
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He is.
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I think he also had a really good arc.
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Yeah.
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For a comedy movie, I thought he had a really good arc.
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A comedy ensemble cast movie, he had a really good arc.
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He had a good arc.
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Yeah.
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And you know what's interesting?
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We'll talk about this as we get to more characters.
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I think a lot of characters had a definable arc in this movie.
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I thought that was pretty neat.
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It was it was neat to see the progression.
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Yeah.
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Of all of them.
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Because all of them were really splitting screen time.
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None of them got that much.
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Right.
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For them all to get a growth arc was some combination of good acting, good writing that we don't get in every movie.
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I I agree with that.
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I think I think it was very well written.
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To be able to do that, boy, that's complex.
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Yeah.
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Um there's, I think, one of the most definable moments for the movie, and I'll say one of the moments that that even today watching it gave me a bit of chills when when Vaughn comes out of the bullpen and wow thing plays, which is such a defining moment that's burned into just the zeitgeist of popular culture.
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Wasn't even planned.
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Oh, really?
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That was a post-production decision.
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An editor decided after getting so far in the movies, like, we kind of just coming out to really boring just rock music.
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It should be wild thing.
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And they stuck it in there and it became iconic.
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Now that almost didn't happen.
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That's that's awesome to know.
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I don't know this whatsoever, so I'm asking a genuine question.
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Like today's pitchers, when they come in, like closers and things like that, they all have music, they lower the lights, they have a light show, all that good stuff.
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Was that a thing before this movie?
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There was there was music being played when they'd come in.
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There was music.
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I I think I think before this, I mean, nowadays the players choose their music.
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Okay.
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You know, the hitters choose their walk-up songs, the the pitchers choose their warm-up songs.
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I don't know if it was a thing before that.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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I'm gonna have a lot of baseball questions.
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Oh, firewell.
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One of the most interesting jobs I ever had was game day production.
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I was actually the game day producer for the Peoria Chiefs, minor league baseball chief.
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That's awesome.
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And so um got to know players, got to know, you know, we we would be running, so I was overseeing like the the PA announcing, the the cameras, the replay, and all that stuff.
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But we'd also have to, you know, work with the players to get what their music is.
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And and we would have some players at the low A level would be like, if I get a hit on my first at bat, play keep playing this song.
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If I strike out, go to this song.
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If I strike out again, go to this song.
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Until I hit a hit, keep changing the songs.
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And it's like it put so much work on guys who are getting paid squat.
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Right.
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Right.
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It just goes to show the superstition of baseball.
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Exactly.
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Yeah.
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This was a fun story.
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So my my son got to play uh in his senior year, he got to play at Bush Stadium, uh, a high school game, and his head coach said you know, he was the closer.
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And the coach said, Nobody gets to walk out to an ACDC song unless they throw over 90.
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Ooh.
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And so you know, Evan came out to to a song, I don't even remember what it is, but but never came out to ACDC.
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Um, but during the year he his velocity increased.
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Yeah.
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And so John Ewett was running the running the board.
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Oh, no way.
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The U-Man?
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Yeah, the U-Man.
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Wow.
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And the head coach had talked to John Ewitt.
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There might be people who have no idea who John Ewitt is.
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For sure.
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So because they're going to be able to do that.
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Well he's he's the the announcer for the Cardinals baseball games.
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He's also a local disc jockey.
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If you don't know, Google it.
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Yeah.
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And so Evan comes into the game and he comes out of the bullpen and the lights go down.
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Ooh.
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And Hell's Bells is comes out to the bells ringing.
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And so Evan's excited, you know, he's getting in the game and and he's he trots through the outfield and he gets about to the shortstop position and he recognizes the song.
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Oh, nice.
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And then he just slow walks the rest of the way so he can hear it.
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He probably have to, because my guess is he had a half chub about midway through.
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Oh, with that song going on, yeah.
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That was cool.
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So that was a fun little entrance song.
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Oh, not only that, but the you mentioned.
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Okay, so I know we are way off track here, but now I can ask.
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If you could pick one song for walkout music to go to the plate, what would it be?
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To go to the plate?
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So so a hitting a hitting walk-up song is gonna be short.
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Yeah.
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Because they're not gonna play a whole lot of it.
00:26:52.079 --> 00:26:55.279
I'm thinking the beginning of right now from Van Halen.
00:26:55.759 --> 00:26:57.839
You know, the piano one thing the piano plan.
00:26:58.160 --> 00:26:58.559
Okay, yeah.
00:26:58.799 --> 00:26:59.200
All right.
00:26:59.440 --> 00:27:01.200
Yeah, that's I think what I'm going with.
00:27:01.440 --> 00:27:01.839
Alright.
00:27:02.400 --> 00:27:02.720
Okay.
00:27:03.200 --> 00:27:03.839
Alright.
00:27:05.519 --> 00:27:07.920
I'm gonna go all the small things.
00:27:10.480 --> 00:27:11.680
Um I'm just kidding.
00:27:11.759 --> 00:27:12.240
I don't know.
00:27:12.319 --> 00:27:13.680
I would have to think real hard about that.
00:27:13.920 --> 00:27:17.440
See, uh, for you, I would pick Seven Nation Army.
00:27:17.599 --> 00:27:18.319
Oh, that's a good one.
00:27:18.480 --> 00:27:19.440
Yeah, yeah, that is a good one.
00:27:19.599 --> 00:27:20.079
I like that.
00:27:20.240 --> 00:27:21.279
I think that suits you.
00:27:25.680 --> 00:27:26.079
I can see that.
00:27:26.720 --> 00:27:27.039
All right.
00:27:29.440 --> 00:27:33.359
I would go with the Aquabats super rad.
00:27:34.160 --> 00:27:44.240
Dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun.
00:27:44.720 --> 00:27:46.880
Ska that was nice, yeah.
00:27:47.200 --> 00:27:48.000
I could see you doing that.
00:27:48.240 --> 00:27:50.000
I'm my one man scorn horn section.
00:27:50.160 --> 00:27:50.720
Yeah, you are.
00:27:50.960 --> 00:27:52.000
I could see you doing that.
00:27:52.160 --> 00:27:53.599
I thought we were playing the CD.
00:27:53.839 --> 00:27:54.000
Really?
00:27:54.319 --> 00:27:55.519
I thought it was on the radio.
00:27:55.599 --> 00:27:57.359
I thought I thought it was coming over the speakers.
00:27:57.599 --> 00:27:58.640
I thought they were in the room.
00:27:58.799 --> 00:27:59.200
Yeah.
00:27:59.440 --> 00:28:00.079
Damn.
00:28:00.400 --> 00:28:01.279
Uh anyway.
00:28:01.519 --> 00:28:03.359
Charlie Sheen was in this movie.
00:28:03.440 --> 00:28:04.960
He was Ricky, uh, Ricky Vaughn.
00:28:05.039 --> 00:28:05.279
He turned out.
00:28:05.440 --> 00:28:06.400
Charlie Sheen was Ricky Vaughn.
00:28:06.640 --> 00:28:09.200
This, I think, arguably the role that turned Sheen into a household name.
00:28:09.359 --> 00:28:10.160
He was on the rise.
00:28:10.240 --> 00:28:10.400
Yeah.
00:28:10.559 --> 00:28:13.279
He had uh been in Platoon, he'd been in Wall Street.
00:28:13.359 --> 00:28:15.440
Both were very well-known, well-received movies.
00:28:15.680 --> 00:28:16.880
Platoon with Tom Barringer.
00:28:17.200 --> 00:28:17.680
Yeah.
00:28:17.920 --> 00:28:24.640
Um other roles, though, you might know him from Ferris Bueller's Day Off, where he made his film debut.
00:28:25.279 --> 00:28:28.240
Uh it was also in Young Guns with his brother Emilio Esteves.
00:28:28.559 --> 00:28:31.039
Emilio! Uh Hot Shots.
00:28:31.200 --> 00:28:33.599
And Hot Shots! Pardieu.
00:28:34.720 --> 00:28:35.680
And a bunch of other stuff.
00:28:35.920 --> 00:28:36.640
Two and a half men.
00:28:36.799 --> 00:28:37.680
Two and a half men.
00:28:37.759 --> 00:28:40.400
Then he went crazy for a while, and then he did anger management.
00:28:40.480 --> 00:28:45.039
And I'm not sure what he's up to now, but other than making documentaries about how he went crazy.
00:28:45.279 --> 00:28:47.359
I would assume probably still a little crazy.
00:28:47.599 --> 00:28:48.400
Probably.
00:28:49.200 --> 00:28:50.720
Drugs take their toll, man.
00:28:50.960 --> 00:28:52.400
Cool cane is a hell of a drug.
00:28:52.640 --> 00:28:53.119
That they do.
00:28:53.279 --> 00:28:55.839
Interestingly enough, uh, he was a pitcher in high school.
00:28:56.079 --> 00:28:56.400
Yeah.
00:28:56.880 --> 00:29:04.880
So they didn't he worked with uh a pitching instructor to tidy things up, but he was party most most of the way there with uh the action sequences.
00:29:05.119 --> 00:29:09.680
I thought especially when they were in like slow-mo that he looked pretty natural.
00:29:09.839 --> 00:29:11.359
Yeah, he looked pretty much throwing the ball.
00:29:11.599 --> 00:29:12.079
You know.
00:29:12.319 --> 00:29:13.519
Uh who else we got?
00:29:13.759 --> 00:29:18.480
Next up, I have Roger Dorn played by Corbin Burnson.
00:29:18.880 --> 00:29:20.240
Year after this, I go free agent.
00:29:20.319 --> 00:29:23.440
Plus, my agent and I got a couple of plans for life after baseball.
00:29:24.240 --> 00:29:25.119
Good for you.
00:29:25.279 --> 00:29:31.119
Roger is a veteran third baseman who would rather avoid getting hurt than die for a ground ball.
00:29:31.279 --> 00:29:36.960
Beneath the selfish exterior, however, there's still a competitor hiding inside.
00:29:39.599 --> 00:29:40.880
I'm disappointed.
00:29:42.880 --> 00:29:43.519
Why?
00:29:44.160 --> 00:29:44.720
Why?
00:29:44.960 --> 00:29:51.359
I you asked me to review your notes, uh huh, and I added in another line, and apparently you must have copied and pasted after I did that.
00:29:51.599 --> 00:29:54.000
Oh, you said it was good, so I just had to what I had made.
00:29:54.240 --> 00:29:54.319
Okay.
00:29:54.480 --> 00:29:55.920
Yeah, because you said what did you have added?
00:29:56.160 --> 00:30:00.559
He said that there was a competitive hide uh or competitive read that last sentence.
00:30:00.799 --> 00:30:06.240
Uh Beneath the selfish exterior, however, there's still a competitor hiding inside.
00:30:06.480 --> 00:30:09.920
That player's name is Gary, and his family misses him very much.
00:30:14.240 --> 00:30:14.720
Yeah.
00:30:15.920 --> 00:30:21.440
You gave me the green light, and I had already pasted it into my notes earlier.
00:30:22.079 --> 00:30:26.720
I was gonna like any changes that you made, I was gonna like, I was gonna change my original.
00:30:27.680 --> 00:30:30.240
I I just I just forgot I had done that till this moment.
00:30:30.319 --> 00:30:31.519
I'm like, oh damn it.
00:30:31.599 --> 00:30:32.559
Ah, Gary.
00:30:33.839 --> 00:30:35.920
He was a he was a character at the beginning of the movie.
00:30:36.000 --> 00:30:36.400
I hate it.
00:30:36.799 --> 00:30:39.039
Oh, he's the most unlikable player on this team.
00:30:39.359 --> 00:30:42.000
But he also had quite a redemption story.
00:30:42.240 --> 00:30:42.799
He did.
00:30:42.960 --> 00:30:53.119
And I it was it was one of those where it was like, well, I know we're gonna get into it, but it it was almost like it's your buddy.
00:30:53.359 --> 00:30:54.160
You know what I mean?
00:30:54.240 --> 00:30:57.680
Like your buddy will punch you in the face and then hug you.
00:30:57.839 --> 00:30:58.480
Yeah.
00:30:59.119 --> 00:31:00.240
Well, and for good reason.
00:31:00.319 --> 00:31:01.200
I mean, he deserved that.
00:31:01.440 --> 00:31:02.000
He sure did.
00:31:02.079 --> 00:31:02.559
Yeah, absolutely.
00:31:02.799 --> 00:31:03.920
Even though we didn't know.
00:31:04.160 --> 00:31:04.960
We'll get into that.
00:31:05.200 --> 00:31:10.240
Now he was uh Corbin Burnson was a very well-known actor for fans of television.
00:31:10.319 --> 00:31:11.839
He was uh on LA Law.
00:31:12.559 --> 00:31:21.359
Uh, but really, as far as his movie work, Major Leagues and Major League 2, I think, are the only movies I'm really aware of.
00:31:21.599 --> 00:31:23.119
Kiss, Kiss, Bang, Bang.
00:31:23.279 --> 00:31:25.039
I don't think I've seen that.
00:31:27.519 --> 00:31:28.480
I've not.
00:31:28.720 --> 00:31:31.440
It's also called Boom Boom.
00:31:32.160 --> 00:31:33.119
Oh, that one!
00:31:33.440 --> 00:31:34.079
That's the one.
00:31:34.319 --> 00:31:37.039
Yeah, now I totally rings a bell basically that way.
00:31:37.839 --> 00:31:40.000
Yeah, I watched that a billion times.
00:31:40.720 --> 00:31:42.160
All right, let's let's pick up the pace.
00:31:42.240 --> 00:31:43.039
So here else we got.
00:31:43.119 --> 00:31:47.279
Next up, I got Willie Mays Hayes, played by Wesley Snipes.
00:31:47.519 --> 00:31:48.000
Excuse me.
00:31:48.240 --> 00:31:50.400
Gotta take my first step toward the Hall of Fame.
00:31:51.440 --> 00:31:52.480
Hell yeah, Willie.
00:31:52.559 --> 00:31:56.960
Willie's a lightning fast outfielder who talks as fast as he runs.
00:31:57.200 --> 00:32:04.400
After showing up to spring training without an invitation, he earns a roster spot through hustle, speed, and pure confidence.
00:32:04.640 --> 00:32:09.839
Did you notice that all of Willie May's running scenes where he is super fast or shot in slow motion?
00:32:11.039 --> 00:32:12.480
And why is that?
00:32:12.720 --> 00:32:15.359
Because Wesley Snipes is not that fast of a runner.
00:32:15.680 --> 00:32:16.240
That's right.
00:32:16.559 --> 00:32:17.680
He was so slow.
00:32:17.920 --> 00:32:26.000
In fact, an interview with the two guys during spring training when he beats them in the 40 yard, uh-huh, they were like, we were like less than jogging.
00:32:27.839 --> 00:32:28.960
I'm a slow boy.
00:32:29.119 --> 00:32:31.039
Apparently, Wesley Snipes has no quicks.
00:32:31.359 --> 00:32:32.000
But it doesn't matter.
00:32:32.319 --> 00:32:33.039
It looks really cool.
00:32:33.200 --> 00:32:33.599
It looks good.
00:32:33.759 --> 00:32:34.000
It does.
00:32:34.640 --> 00:32:39.039
It looked convincing to me because I didn't know that and I just thought it was super fast.
00:32:39.200 --> 00:32:43.039
You know, as as a young, young, young actor in this movie, I thought he did a really good job.
00:32:43.279 --> 00:32:45.039
Well, this was his second major film role.
00:32:45.119 --> 00:32:47.680
His breakout came the previous year in the movie Colors.
00:32:48.000 --> 00:32:53.599
Mm-hmm with Robert Duvall and Sean Penn, uh, a gang war movie.
00:32:53.759 --> 00:32:58.079
Uh, and then uh, but Dan would become like one of the biggest action stars in the 90s.
00:32:58.160 --> 00:32:58.319
Yeah.
00:32:58.559 --> 00:33:07.599
When New Jack City, White Men Can't Jump, Demolition Man, and the Blade Trilogy, plus To Wong Fu, Thanks for Everything, Julie Newmar, a movie about drag queens.
00:33:07.759 --> 00:33:08.480
Drag queens.
00:33:08.559 --> 00:33:11.440
Oh, and don't forget, always bet on black.
00:33:11.519 --> 00:33:12.000
Yeah.
00:33:12.960 --> 00:33:13.920
Passenger 57.
00:33:14.000 --> 00:33:14.480
That's right.
00:33:14.720 --> 00:33:16.799
I really liked his character.
00:33:17.039 --> 00:33:19.119
In Too Wong Fu, Thanks for Everything, Julie Newmar?
00:33:19.359 --> 00:33:21.680
I didn't see that one, but in this one I really liked him.
00:33:21.839 --> 00:33:23.039
Well, who else we got?
00:33:23.200 --> 00:33:28.240
Next up, I have Pedro Serrano, played by Dennis Haysbert.
00:33:28.640 --> 00:33:29.599
Joe Buu.
00:33:29.759 --> 00:33:31.279
I used the me in esteem.
00:33:33.359 --> 00:33:34.079
El Poder.
00:33:37.039 --> 00:33:38.160
Hell yeah, Joe Boo.
00:33:38.319 --> 00:33:43.599
Pedro is a power-hitting slugger capable of launching home runs into another zip code.
00:33:43.759 --> 00:33:46.480
Unfortunately, he has one glaring weakness.
00:33:47.039 --> 00:33:48.079
Curveballs.
00:33:52.400 --> 00:33:57.920
Yeah, he I mean, he's probably one of the most quotable characters in the movie.
00:33:58.160 --> 00:33:59.279
Oh, I agree.
00:33:59.759 --> 00:34:03.279
And and you know what made the rounds after this movie came out?
00:34:03.599 --> 00:34:09.039
Actually, a little bit further than that in the early 2000s, that people just could not wrap their head around.
00:34:09.840 --> 00:34:11.760
This actor was also the Allstate guy.
00:34:11.920 --> 00:34:12.159
Yeah.
00:34:12.400 --> 00:34:13.119
Oh my God.
00:34:13.280 --> 00:34:15.199
I watched this with my wife.
00:34:18.239 --> 00:34:20.559
In fact, there was a night, it was the three of us were together.
00:34:20.639 --> 00:34:27.920
I think we were watching a blues game, and an Allstate commercial came on, and you looked at me and said, Can you believe that's Pedro Serrano?
00:34:28.000 --> 00:34:33.199
And I argued with you that there is no way until we IMDbeat it, and then I felt like an ass.
00:34:33.360 --> 00:34:34.000
That's so funny.
00:34:34.239 --> 00:34:38.400
You know, I it's it's really hard to make the distinction between the two.
00:34:38.639 --> 00:34:39.840
I'm gonna have to tell her.
00:34:39.920 --> 00:34:40.079
Yeah.
00:34:40.239 --> 00:34:42.079
I'm gonna tell her as soon as I get home.
00:34:42.239 --> 00:34:42.800
Yeah.
00:34:43.280 --> 00:34:45.599
I'm gonna wake her up and be like, listen, you were right.
00:34:46.400 --> 00:34:48.480
It's the Osdurk, it's the Allsday guy.
00:34:49.360 --> 00:34:50.400
What the fuck are you talking about?
00:34:50.559 --> 00:34:51.519
Who else we got?
00:34:51.679 --> 00:34:55.360
Next up, I have Lou Brown played by James Gammon.
00:34:55.599 --> 00:34:56.880
We're out of towns.
00:34:57.119 --> 00:34:59.599
I'm too old to go diving into lockers.
00:35:01.039 --> 00:35:07.599
Lou is a gruff minor league manager who gets promoted to lead baseball's biggest collection of misfits.
00:35:07.760 --> 00:35:12.880
His old school style and blunt honesty slowly turn the team into contenders.
00:35:13.440 --> 00:35:17.039
I would like this character to narrate my life.
00:35:17.199 --> 00:35:19.199
I liked his mustache a whole bunch.
00:35:21.440 --> 00:35:23.119
There's not much I did not like about this character.
00:35:23.519 --> 00:35:27.440
No, he's his gruff and grizzledness, but still with a heart.
00:35:27.519 --> 00:35:27.920
Yep.
00:35:28.079 --> 00:35:29.599
And a good mind.
00:35:30.239 --> 00:35:33.599
And, you know, he goes from selling white walls to, you know.
00:35:34.079 --> 00:35:34.800
Building a team.
00:35:35.039 --> 00:35:35.199
Yeah.
00:35:35.840 --> 00:35:39.440
And, you know, he is the true father figure of the team.
00:35:39.679 --> 00:35:45.119
Um, but the actor James Gammon, he's such a great character actor.
00:35:45.199 --> 00:35:47.440
He is he's one of those that guys.
00:35:47.519 --> 00:35:47.760
Yeah.
00:35:47.920 --> 00:35:55.920
You don't necessarily know his name, but when you see him, and more importantly, when you hear him, you know you've seen and heard him somewhere.
00:35:56.159 --> 00:36:03.599
And and he's in a bunch of them, and you can see why, but the dude's like this not a star, but he's a great piece of a Western movie.
00:36:03.760 --> 00:36:03.920
Yeah.
00:36:04.239 --> 00:36:04.800
Oh, big time.
00:36:04.960 --> 00:36:05.119
Yeah.
00:36:05.280 --> 00:36:11.599
What I love about him though, he has essentially the same delivery for everything.
00:36:11.679 --> 00:36:11.920
Yeah.
00:36:12.079 --> 00:36:13.519
And they all still work.
00:36:13.920 --> 00:36:21.280
Like he uses the same gruff Eeyore voice for this is my excited voice, and I'm really disappointed with your voice.
00:36:21.440 --> 00:36:27.119
It sounds the same, but I don't care because it's somehow he delivers it in a way that still works.
00:36:27.440 --> 00:36:34.400
My favorite was he was on the phone when he's asked to be the manager, and his first thing he says, Oh, I don't know.
00:36:37.199 --> 00:36:42.559
Can I can I do an early front runner for Bodicare for Lou Brown's mustache?
00:36:42.880 --> 00:36:44.800
You know, that that's not that's not a bad case.
00:36:45.039 --> 00:36:46.400
It was a great mustache.
00:36:46.559 --> 00:36:50.639
I still don't think it beat the Yankees' first basemans.
00:36:50.800 --> 00:36:51.119
Okay.
00:36:51.440 --> 00:36:52.960
All right, all right, I get you.
00:36:53.039 --> 00:36:54.559
But I'm I would like to see them.
00:36:54.719 --> 00:36:56.000
Let's have a mustache off.
00:36:56.239 --> 00:36:58.000
I would like to see that mustache off.
00:36:58.800 --> 00:37:00.079
Dueling stashes.
00:37:01.679 --> 00:37:02.960
All right, who else we got?
00:37:03.119 --> 00:37:06.800
All right, next up is Harry Doyle, played by Bob Eucher.
00:37:07.039 --> 00:37:11.119
Just a reminder, fans, about Die Hard Night coming up here at the stadium.
00:37:11.280 --> 00:37:16.480
Free admission to anyone who was actually alive the last time the Indians won a pennant.
00:37:18.000 --> 00:37:25.920
Harry's the team's sarcastic radio announcer whose play-by-play commentary provides some of the movie's funniest and most quotable moments.
00:37:26.480 --> 00:37:28.400
Bob Eucher is a national treasure.
00:37:28.559 --> 00:37:28.880
He is.
00:37:28.960 --> 00:37:30.079
And and rest his soul.
00:37:30.159 --> 00:37:31.360
He he passed away, what, last year?
00:37:31.519 --> 00:37:32.400
I believe that's correct.
00:37:32.559 --> 00:37:35.039
Yeah, he's he was a baseball announcer.
00:37:35.119 --> 00:37:37.760
So doing this gig was just him being him.
00:37:38.000 --> 00:37:38.159
Yeah.
00:37:38.239 --> 00:37:38.559
Yeah, yeah.
00:37:38.719 --> 00:37:39.599
Well, he I didn't know that.
00:37:39.840 --> 00:37:45.599
He spent six seasons in the major leagues as a player and actually won the 1964 World Series with the Cardinals.
00:37:45.679 --> 00:37:46.800
Yeah, he was a backup catcher.
00:37:46.960 --> 00:37:47.360
No way.
00:37:48.159 --> 00:37:52.880
And then became a legendary broadcaster for the Milwaukee Brewers or the Meaty Waquay.
00:37:54.159 --> 00:38:02.880
He was he was inducted into the uh Baseball Hall of Fame as an announcer, and his induction speech is one of the funniest speeches you will ever hear.
00:38:03.119 --> 00:38:03.599
Oh my gosh.
00:38:04.400 --> 00:38:04.960
It's amazing.
00:38:05.199 --> 00:38:06.239
I bet it is.
00:38:06.800 --> 00:38:11.599
Now, what I remember Bob Eucher from the most, though, he was a star of Mr.
00:38:11.679 --> 00:38:12.480
Belvedere.
00:38:12.559 --> 00:38:12.639
Yeah.
00:38:12.880 --> 00:38:14.159
The TV show in the 1980s.
00:38:14.320 --> 00:38:14.719
Uh-huh.
00:38:14.960 --> 00:38:15.679
Who was he?
00:38:15.840 --> 00:38:16.480
He was the dad.
00:38:16.719 --> 00:38:17.280
He was the dad.
00:38:17.440 --> 00:38:18.719
The dad from no way.
00:38:19.039 --> 00:38:19.280
Yeah.
00:38:19.440 --> 00:38:19.679
Really?
00:38:19.840 --> 00:38:20.159
Yeah.
00:38:20.400 --> 00:38:20.719
Wow.
00:38:20.800 --> 00:38:21.119
Okay.
00:38:21.280 --> 00:38:23.920
Now I I I've met I met Bob Eucher one time.
00:38:24.400 --> 00:38:27.199
So so years ago, I was a sports reporter.
00:38:27.360 --> 00:38:31.519
So I was at the Cardinals game the very first time.
00:38:31.599 --> 00:38:36.239
Because the Milwaukee had been playing in the American League, but then they re-divisioned and they brought him over to the National League.
00:38:36.639 --> 00:38:43.760
And so I was at the game for the Cardinals the first time the Milwaukee Brewers played there in a division, you know, matchup.
00:38:43.840 --> 00:38:44.159
Yeah.
00:38:44.480 --> 00:38:50.000
And I was in the press box just going to the buffet and grabbing some food before the game.
00:38:50.159 --> 00:38:52.639
And Bob Euchre kind of saddles up next to me.
00:38:52.719 --> 00:38:56.079
He's like, hey, young fella, how's the food here?
00:38:56.880 --> 00:39:01.199
And I'm like, this is a memory that's going to be ingrained in my brain for life.
00:39:01.440 --> 00:39:01.920
Absolutely.
00:39:02.000 --> 00:39:02.639
It's amazing.
00:39:02.880 --> 00:39:03.280
Most definitely.
00:39:03.599 --> 00:39:05.119
And who you see is who he is.
00:39:05.280 --> 00:39:05.440
Yeah.
00:39:06.000 --> 00:39:09.920
I mean, he I then can't say I had a full-blown conversation with him.
00:39:10.079 --> 00:39:15.679
Uh, but yeah, it was a one of those moments that just that this is that guy.
00:39:15.840 --> 00:39:25.360
So one of my favorite Euchre stories when he was the backup catcher for the Cardinals during batting practice, there was a band that was there getting ready to play the national anthem.
00:39:26.079 --> 00:39:33.599
And he took one of the giant sousaphones and ran around the outfield catching fly balls and the big bell of the sousaphone.
00:39:35.280 --> 00:39:36.480
That's amazing.
00:39:36.719 --> 00:39:37.519
Holy cow.
00:39:37.920 --> 00:39:41.679
And no, not a big actor, but certainly had some experience.
00:39:41.760 --> 00:39:42.000
Yeah.
00:39:42.159 --> 00:39:50.960
And I think he had so much comfort though with the microphone and ad-libbing on the play-by-play that a lot of the things that they put in the movie were not scripted.
00:39:51.119 --> 00:39:52.239
He just said.
00:39:52.480 --> 00:39:52.639
Yeah.
00:39:52.719 --> 00:39:55.519
And and the director told him, said, Hey, you you be you.
00:39:56.159 --> 00:39:58.239
And he just ad-libbed most of his lines.
00:39:58.400 --> 00:39:59.119
It was so good.
00:39:59.280 --> 00:39:59.519
Yeah.
00:39:59.760 --> 00:40:00.400
So good.
00:40:00.719 --> 00:40:02.000
Alright, who else we got?
00:40:02.159 --> 00:40:06.239
Next up is Rachel Phelps, played by Margaret Whitten.
00:40:06.559 --> 00:40:08.320
That ought to shut these people up.
00:40:10.800 --> 00:40:11.440
Fuck you.
00:40:12.239 --> 00:40:20.079
Rachel's the new owner of the Cleveland Indians, who intentionally assembles a terrible roster in hopes of moving the team to Miami.
00:40:22.239 --> 00:40:23.280
A very hateable character.
00:40:23.519 --> 00:40:24.639
And a stellar body.
00:40:24.880 --> 00:40:25.280
Yeah.
00:40:25.679 --> 00:40:26.159
Mm-hmm.
00:40:27.440 --> 00:40:30.480
This was one of the things that I wanted to reanalyze.
00:40:31.519 --> 00:40:37.840
Because after thinking things through, I've kinda decided that Rachel's not the villain we're made to think she is.
00:40:38.079 --> 00:40:39.280
Ooh, what you got?
00:40:39.519 --> 00:40:44.239
I think she's just a savvy businesswoman looking for a decent deal, and quite frankly, Cleveland has screwed her over.
00:40:44.639 --> 00:40:44.960
Okay.
00:40:46.079 --> 00:40:48.000
Yeah, there's there's credence to that.
00:40:48.239 --> 00:40:50.480
I I thought she was a little bit over over the top.
00:40:50.880 --> 00:40:52.000
Oh no, she's cartoonish.
00:40:52.159 --> 00:40:52.239
Yeah.
00:40:52.559 --> 00:40:55.519
But I think her motivations are sincere.
00:40:55.840 --> 00:40:57.760
It's funny, she wanted to move the team to Miami.
00:40:58.079 --> 00:40:59.199
Now there's already a team in Miami.
00:40:59.599 --> 00:41:01.039
Back then there was not a team in Miami.
00:41:01.199 --> 00:41:01.360
Yeah.
00:41:01.519 --> 00:41:03.199
So it actually made sense.
00:41:04.000 --> 00:41:09.599
But no, definitely they do everything we can to make her make us root against her.
00:41:09.760 --> 00:41:09.920
Right.
00:41:10.079 --> 00:41:10.320
For sure.
00:41:10.559 --> 00:41:11.840
And root for our heroes.
00:41:12.079 --> 00:41:13.199
Uh to thwart her.
00:41:14.000 --> 00:41:15.760
But yeah, I don't know.
00:41:15.920 --> 00:41:24.400
I mean, I think that she portra uh Rachel, I'm sorry, Margaret Witten, I think, portrays Rachel Phillips well.
00:41:24.960 --> 00:41:32.000
She gives her just enough vitriol and just enough Cruella de Vilness to make us not like her.
00:41:33.440 --> 00:41:37.599
And therefore forget about whatever common sense reasons she might actually have.
00:41:37.840 --> 00:41:38.159
Sure.
00:41:38.480 --> 00:41:40.079
I mean, she's gonna get a mansion.
00:41:41.360 --> 00:41:42.400
A brand new stadium.
00:41:42.639 --> 00:41:44.719
Isn't that what any person wants?
00:41:45.039 --> 00:41:45.920
I would take it.
00:41:47.119 --> 00:41:49.039
I'll be the villain of this movie.
00:41:49.280 --> 00:41:50.400
That's fine.
00:41:50.800 --> 00:41:51.199
I don't know.
00:41:51.280 --> 00:41:53.679
I kind of see her as the female version of Stan Cronky.
00:41:54.400 --> 00:41:56.000
I mean, I I believe me.
00:41:56.239 --> 00:41:56.800
100%.
00:41:57.280 --> 00:42:00.639
I I think historically, I've kind of felt because we being in St.
00:42:00.800 --> 00:42:05.119
Louis, we've we've felt this bitter pill of a team being moved on the football side multiple times.
00:42:05.519 --> 00:42:06.239
Absolutely.
00:42:06.960 --> 00:42:16.559
The difference is I think that with with Stan Cronkey, he was trying to move a team that had consistently sold out, that was making money.
00:42:16.800 --> 00:42:21.840
Um here, she basically says straight up, we haven't, we're losing money.
00:42:22.000 --> 00:42:26.239
We're not people aren't coming to the games, we're not putting a winning product on the field.
00:42:26.559 --> 00:42:30.639
That seems like a perfectly reasonable set of explanations of why you should move.
00:42:30.800 --> 00:42:36.800
Yeah, it's almost like Stan Kronke was doing the long play and Rachel Phelps was doing the short play.
00:42:37.599 --> 00:42:45.440
I don't know which play was which, but yeah, I don't I don't think I think other than the fact there are two people that wanted to move a team, I think the the parallels end there.
00:42:45.599 --> 00:42:52.159
You know, and I heard something on my favorite podcast, 101 Fast Lane.
00:42:52.559 --> 00:43:02.239
Uh they were talking about this the other day, and they said that a common misconception for fans is to believe that the owners are fans.
00:43:02.559 --> 00:43:02.880
Right.
00:43:03.039 --> 00:43:03.920
They're not, they're business.
00:43:04.719 --> 00:43:04.960
Absolutely.
00:43:05.360 --> 00:43:06.960
And they're gonna do business things.
00:43:07.119 --> 00:43:07.519
Right.
00:43:07.760 --> 00:43:10.960
And for us to believe that they're fans of the team.
00:43:11.440 --> 00:43:15.360
Well, and and and that doesn't mean that every owner's not, right?
00:43:15.440 --> 00:43:19.360
There's some people that are, but for the most part, they're business people.
00:43:19.440 --> 00:43:19.920
They don't care.
00:43:20.079 --> 00:43:23.039
Business 101 tells you location, location, location.
00:43:23.199 --> 00:43:28.239
And if you're losing, if you're losing money in your location, right, go to another location.
00:43:28.559 --> 00:43:30.880
Well, they're fans, they're just fans of the green.
00:43:31.039 --> 00:43:31.760
Fans of the money.
00:43:31.920 --> 00:43:32.239
Yeah.
00:43:32.480 --> 00:43:33.840
Different kind of fan, right?
00:43:34.320 --> 00:43:36.400
But I'm sure we'll get more into that as we go on.
00:43:36.559 --> 00:43:37.119
Oh, I'm sure.
00:43:37.280 --> 00:43:37.599
All right.
00:43:37.760 --> 00:43:38.719
Who else we got?
00:43:38.880 --> 00:43:42.159
Next up is Lynn Wells, played by Renee Russo.
00:43:42.880 --> 00:43:45.280
I stopped being an athlete three years ago, Jake.
00:43:45.360 --> 00:43:46.400
Books are my life now.
00:43:46.719 --> 00:43:47.119
Books.
00:43:47.280 --> 00:43:49.039
Books are her life, damn it.
00:43:49.280 --> 00:43:50.639
She's a librarian now.
00:43:50.960 --> 00:43:55.280
Lynn is Jake's former girlfriend, now engaged to another man.
00:43:55.519 --> 00:43:59.679
She finds herself forced to decide whether her future lies with her fiance.
00:44:00.719 --> 00:44:01.840
Or with Jake.
00:44:03.360 --> 00:44:05.440
I think she kind of made a bum choice here.
00:44:07.519 --> 00:44:12.719
Even though, even though her her fiance before Jake came in the picture was kind of a kind of a douche.
00:44:12.960 --> 00:44:14.000
Oh, he was such a douche.
00:44:14.159 --> 00:44:14.400
Yeah.
00:44:14.559 --> 00:44:22.880
And there was also there was a scene in the house where she said something, and the way he looked at her made her sit back.
00:44:23.199 --> 00:44:24.800
And I was like, oh, he beats her.
00:44:24.960 --> 00:44:25.199
Right.
00:44:25.360 --> 00:44:26.000
You know what I mean?
00:44:26.079 --> 00:44:26.960
Like, he's not an Olympic.
00:44:27.199 --> 00:44:28.400
At least at least brow beats.
00:44:28.559 --> 00:44:28.719
Right.
00:44:28.800 --> 00:44:29.119
Yeah.
00:44:29.360 --> 00:44:31.599
Like, and maybe, maybe physically punches her in the face.
00:44:31.760 --> 00:44:32.000
I don't know.
00:44:32.159 --> 00:44:32.559
I don't know.
00:44:32.639 --> 00:44:34.719
She was she was uh an Olympic swimmer.
00:44:35.039 --> 00:44:38.400
She was an alternate hundred meter medley.
00:44:38.880 --> 00:44:42.320
Other than Major League, you've probably seen Renee Russo in a few things.
00:44:42.400 --> 00:44:56.639
She was one of a really big star in the 90s with um appearances in Lethal Weapon 3, In The Line of Fire, Outbreak, Get Shorty, Tin Cup, Ransom, and uh a movie I really love, The Thomas Crown Affair.
00:44:56.880 --> 00:44:57.760
Oh, I love that movie too.
00:44:58.000 --> 00:44:59.039
She's been in some stuff.
00:44:59.199 --> 00:45:00.400
She's done a few things.
00:45:00.639 --> 00:45:05.679
And in the Thomas Crown Affair, there's two reasons why it's a great movie.
00:45:05.920 --> 00:45:06.800
What's that?
00:45:07.039 --> 00:45:08.800
The left boob and the right boob.
00:45:10.400 --> 00:45:11.280
She married them both.
00:45:11.599 --> 00:45:11.920
Mm-hmm.
00:45:12.079 --> 00:45:12.320
Okay.
00:45:12.559 --> 00:45:12.880
Alright.
00:45:13.039 --> 00:45:13.199
Alright.
00:45:14.880 --> 00:45:16.239
You really needed him to spell it out.
00:45:16.400 --> 00:45:17.039
Yeah, I did.
00:45:17.119 --> 00:45:18.159
I wasn't paying attention.
00:45:18.639 --> 00:45:19.280
Okay, there we go.
00:45:19.519 --> 00:45:20.400
B Double O B.
00:45:20.719 --> 00:45:22.800
I was thinking about my last but not least over here.
00:45:23.119 --> 00:45:24.400
Alright, who would that be?
00:45:24.639 --> 00:45:33.360
Last but absolutely not least on my list is crowd member number 1243, played by Brian Kuntz.
00:45:33.519 --> 00:45:34.719
Oh, that's me.
00:45:37.199 --> 00:45:38.719
There he is, I can hear him right there.
00:45:38.880 --> 00:45:39.199
Right there.
00:45:39.840 --> 00:45:40.239
Right there.
00:45:40.320 --> 00:45:41.599
I swear I saw him too.
00:45:41.760 --> 00:45:55.760
Brian is a 13-year-old baseball prodigy and self-appointed scout whose groundbreaking notebook, Why the Indians Don't Stink as Much as Everyone Thinks, was quietly circulated through the organization during the 1989 season.
00:45:56.000 --> 00:46:04.400
Many baseball historians believe several key roster decisions were inspired by observations he scribbled between bites of Stadium hot dog.
00:46:05.440 --> 00:46:06.320
Oh, that's awesome.
00:46:06.400 --> 00:46:07.599
Thanks for putting that in there.
00:46:07.920 --> 00:46:10.639
Now, we have a celebrity here.
00:46:10.719 --> 00:46:11.440
Well, I appreciate it.
00:46:11.679 --> 00:46:13.119
And you gotta tell the whole story now.
00:46:13.280 --> 00:46:13.840
I I will.
00:46:13.920 --> 00:46:14.880
I'll get to that later.
00:46:15.199 --> 00:46:18.320
We'll get to that's uh I've got a little bit of that in my closing thoughts.
00:46:18.800 --> 00:46:24.960
But I was I I was in the stadium when they shot the uh the scenes for this movie in Cleveland Stadium.
00:46:25.280 --> 00:46:28.480
So honestly, I think this character was a little overrated.
00:46:31.199 --> 00:46:37.760
I sensed a lot of pretension and a lot of angst, yeah, but I don't think it really came through on camera.
00:46:37.920 --> 00:46:38.719
It didn't land very well.
00:46:38.880 --> 00:46:39.519
No, it didn't.
00:46:39.599 --> 00:46:42.239
Um you know, at 13 tryhard.
00:46:42.559 --> 00:46:43.840
He was definitely try-harding.
00:46:43.920 --> 00:46:47.679
Yeah at 13 years of age, I really didn't have my whole acting chops yet.
00:46:47.920 --> 00:46:48.880
Were were you 13?
00:46:48.960 --> 00:46:53.360
Because I I had to I had to text your wife and ask, uh-huh, like how old?
00:46:53.519 --> 00:46:55.199
Like, let's put some days together here.
00:46:55.360 --> 00:46:59.280
And I said, Don't tell him about this because this is a surprise for the podcast.
00:46:59.519 --> 00:46:59.840
Nice.
00:46:59.920 --> 00:47:00.960
I'm pleasantly surprised.
00:47:01.119 --> 00:47:03.599
In fact, you can probably see me blushing.
00:47:04.480 --> 00:47:04.960
Thank you.
00:47:05.119 --> 00:47:05.679
That was awesome.
00:47:05.840 --> 00:47:09.360
If you put your cheeks right up to the microphone, everyone else will be able to see it too.
00:47:09.440 --> 00:47:10.079
You can hear the blush.
00:47:10.719 --> 00:47:11.039
Hear it.
00:47:11.119 --> 00:47:12.159
Listen, listen close.
00:47:12.400 --> 00:47:14.639
It it sounds like Rudolph snows.
00:47:15.119 --> 00:47:16.800
Wee wee-wee-wee-wee.
00:47:20.559 --> 00:47:30.480
Well, now that we've talked about quite the loaded cast, let's take a moment and talk about our second beer of the podcast.
00:47:32.400 --> 00:47:33.599
So, this is a pick of mine.
00:47:33.679 --> 00:47:37.760
This is Schlafley's Just a Bit Hazy IPA.
00:47:38.159 --> 00:47:39.760
And how does that relate to the movie?
00:47:39.920 --> 00:47:43.679
Well, in the movie, the announcer says, Just a bit outside.
00:47:45.119 --> 00:47:46.960
Well, this is just a bit hazy.
00:47:48.159 --> 00:47:48.800
Nice.
00:47:50.559 --> 00:47:51.519
Thoughts?
00:47:53.039 --> 00:47:54.000
I like it.
00:47:54.400 --> 00:47:58.320
You know, this is a hazy that I can get on board with.
00:47:58.880 --> 00:47:59.280
Really?
00:47:59.440 --> 00:48:01.360
It does not punch me in the taste buds.
00:48:02.000 --> 00:48:07.599
It's flavorful, it's refreshing, it's not desiccating my mouth.
00:48:07.920 --> 00:48:09.519
I would buy this and drink it again.
00:48:09.679 --> 00:48:10.079
Would you?
00:48:10.159 --> 00:48:10.480
I would.
00:48:10.559 --> 00:48:11.039
I like it.
00:48:11.199 --> 00:48:24.320
So, my first thoughts, first couple pulls of this, I thought this was gonna be a repeat of our last episode where I picked a hazy-ish beer that was more West Coast oriented, that you guys wouldn't really necessarily be into.
00:48:24.480 --> 00:48:24.880
Yeah.
00:48:25.119 --> 00:48:28.559
Because I don't get the hazy fruitiness.
00:48:28.800 --> 00:48:31.679
I do get a very enjoyable West Coast IPA.
00:48:32.400 --> 00:48:33.679
I do get that too.
00:48:33.760 --> 00:48:37.679
It's not as harsh as a West Coast normally is.
00:48:39.920 --> 00:48:43.519
But uh Yeah, it's not it.
00:48:43.599 --> 00:48:47.119
I wouldn't say this is a hazy, but it does say just a bit hazy.
00:48:47.440 --> 00:48:48.079
Just a bit.
00:48:48.400 --> 00:48:48.719
Hazy.
00:48:49.119 --> 00:48:51.599
It's not off-puttingly hazy.
00:48:51.840 --> 00:48:52.239
Damn.
00:48:52.480 --> 00:48:53.920
What are you doing?
00:48:54.800 --> 00:48:56.800
Don't bite my bee sting.
00:48:58.400 --> 00:49:00.320
Your cat's biting my bee sting.
00:49:00.480 --> 00:49:00.960
Oh, the cat.
00:49:01.039 --> 00:49:02.719
I thought I was biting your bee sting.
00:49:03.039 --> 00:49:03.440
What?
00:49:03.599 --> 00:49:05.599
This podcast took a very different turn.
00:49:07.119 --> 00:49:10.239
See, this is like some pernated rivalry territory.
00:49:11.840 --> 00:49:16.320
So no, I it's not it's not your traditional hazy.
00:49:17.760 --> 00:49:23.360
Stop it! But it is, it's I'm losing my train of thought.
00:49:23.440 --> 00:49:24.400
Jesus Christ.
00:49:24.639 --> 00:49:24.960
Okay.
00:49:25.360 --> 00:49:33.519
So it's not it's not as juicy and hazy as I would expect it to be, but it's definitely not a West Coast kind of IPA.
00:49:34.000 --> 00:49:36.400
Um it's tasty.
00:49:36.559 --> 00:49:37.360
Yeah, it's tasty.
00:49:37.440 --> 00:49:37.840
I like it.
00:49:38.079 --> 00:49:42.159
I get a little juicy, and I think that counteracts the the hoppiness a little bit.
00:49:42.400 --> 00:49:55.920
Like, I definitely get the juice, but the juice is more of an afternote, uh almost like waters down the the hoppiness to kind of balance it out, but not overtake it like we get with many traditional juicies.
00:49:56.239 --> 00:50:03.519
Um, so I I think this is a very drinkable, and uh thankfully, because it's a 16-ounce can, but also thankfully it's only 5% ABC.
00:50:04.400 --> 00:50:04.800
Exactly.
00:50:05.039 --> 00:50:05.679
I'm on board with this.
00:50:07.199 --> 00:50:08.639
I'm a whore for this hazy.
00:50:08.800 --> 00:50:09.039
Are you?
00:50:09.920 --> 00:50:10.320
Heck yeah.
00:50:10.480 --> 00:50:11.280
Look at me go.
00:50:11.440 --> 00:50:13.360
So we have two really good beers.
00:50:13.440 --> 00:50:13.599
Yeah.
00:50:13.840 --> 00:50:14.480
Back to back.
00:50:14.559 --> 00:50:15.840
This is gonna be a tough choice.
00:50:16.079 --> 00:50:17.760
Oh, I'll I'll ruin that.
00:50:18.159 --> 00:50:20.320
Just wait, I'll ruin that.
00:50:20.639 --> 00:50:23.760
Maybe we'll find out soon enough.
00:50:24.079 --> 00:50:31.679
But before we history, before we get to that, though, let's talk about the nitty-gritty of Major League.
00:50:31.840 --> 00:50:32.559
Let's get into it.
00:50:32.639 --> 00:50:33.760
I love nitty-gritties.
00:50:34.000 --> 00:50:39.599
Now, we've been talking a lot in our recent episodes about the opening title sequence.
00:50:39.760 --> 00:50:40.159
Yeah.
00:50:40.400 --> 00:50:43.599
Some have been good, some have been really shit.
00:50:43.840 --> 00:50:44.239
Uh-huh.
00:50:45.280 --> 00:50:52.960
What do you guys think about a montage of the city of Cleveland set to a Randy Newman song?
00:50:53.119 --> 00:50:54.400
Uh was it Randy Newman?
00:50:54.480 --> 00:50:55.199
Yeah, Randy Newman.
00:50:55.519 --> 00:50:57.760
My note says Randy Newman question mark.
00:50:57.840 --> 00:50:58.559
That yes.
00:50:58.800 --> 00:50:59.039
Okay.
00:50:59.519 --> 00:51:01.360
I don't miss the 80s.
00:51:01.679 --> 00:51:05.519
Long, long opening credit roll.
00:51:05.599 --> 00:51:06.320
I just don't.
00:51:06.559 --> 00:51:09.440
So so the name of the song is Burn On.
00:51:09.920 --> 00:51:10.559
Burn on.
00:51:10.719 --> 00:51:10.880
Yeah.
00:51:11.199 --> 00:51:17.119
Because the Cuyahoga River, which flows through Cleveland, caught fire multiple times.
00:51:17.360 --> 00:51:20.079
Oh about 14 times, in fact.
00:51:20.480 --> 00:51:20.800
Wow.
00:51:21.039 --> 00:51:23.360
Because it was so polluted.
00:51:23.599 --> 00:51:25.679
Cleveland sounds like a lovely place.
00:51:26.000 --> 00:51:28.159
It was a very industrial place.
00:51:29.360 --> 00:51:36.000
The largest river fire in 1952 caused over a million dollars in damage in 1952.
00:51:36.320 --> 00:51:38.000
So that's who knows how much now.
00:51:39.840 --> 00:51:40.480
That's a lot.
00:51:40.639 --> 00:51:48.320
Uh and the 1969 fire caught national attention and at least in part led to the creation of the Environmental Protection Agency.
00:51:48.800 --> 00:51:49.119
Okay.
00:51:49.360 --> 00:51:54.000
So we opened the movie with a song that's all about a river catching fire.
00:51:54.639 --> 00:51:55.440
By Randy Newman.
00:51:56.960 --> 00:51:58.320
Burn on, big river, burn on.
00:51:58.719 --> 00:52:00.320
So you gotta find me.
00:52:00.639 --> 00:52:02.079
Randy Newman makes it sound fun.
00:52:02.239 --> 00:52:02.559
He does.
00:52:02.800 --> 00:52:03.199
He sure is.
00:52:03.519 --> 00:52:04.800
But nostalgic in the same time.
00:52:06.000 --> 00:52:06.960
Big River.
00:52:07.599 --> 00:52:09.760
It's fun, nostalgic, and sweet.
00:52:10.000 --> 00:52:11.119
It's something.
00:52:11.360 --> 00:52:13.280
But no, I I hate.
00:52:13.920 --> 00:52:19.199
Hate like I don't need to see who like produced it in the beginning.
00:52:19.360 --> 00:52:22.320
I don't need to see who the cameraman was in the beginning.
00:52:22.400 --> 00:52:23.119
Like, you know what I mean?
00:52:23.199 --> 00:52:25.039
Like savor for the credit rule of the end.
00:52:25.280 --> 00:52:25.519
Right.
00:52:25.760 --> 00:52:28.320
A lot of these movies like big opening credits.
00:52:28.559 --> 00:52:28.960
They did.
00:52:29.199 --> 00:52:29.760
Holy cow.
00:52:29.920 --> 00:52:30.880
And they go on and on and on.
00:52:31.119 --> 00:52:34.719
Let's list everybody in the beginning and then we'll do it again at the end.
00:52:35.119 --> 00:52:41.119
But they they really did use this as an opportunity to do some scene setting to kind of at least do some of the homework on the front end.
00:52:41.199 --> 00:52:41.440
Yeah.
00:52:41.599 --> 00:52:44.559
So we get all the establishing shots of Cleveland.
00:52:44.639 --> 00:52:48.400
We see that it's an industrial, working, you know, rust belt kind of city.
00:52:48.639 --> 00:52:49.519
Blue collary.
00:52:49.679 --> 00:52:53.920
We see the Higbees building in the background of one shot, which I got a little titillated by.
00:52:54.159 --> 00:52:54.880
Ah, the Higbees.
00:52:55.119 --> 00:52:58.400
The Higbees building because a Christmas story was shot in Cleveland.
00:52:58.559 --> 00:53:00.320
Yep, and Higbees was the store for it.
00:53:00.400 --> 00:53:00.639
Yeah.
00:53:01.119 --> 00:53:09.199
Um, we then get all of a sudden a bunch of newspaper clippings that that show the history of the Cleveland Indians and how they have sucked.
00:53:09.440 --> 00:53:22.239
And then, you know, we go back to more shots of Cleveland, but then we get one more present-day newspaper shot about how the Cleveland Indians owner died and how the team is being taken over by his ex-showgirl widow.
00:53:22.400 --> 00:53:22.800
Yep.
00:53:23.039 --> 00:53:25.840
And so they've done the homework for us up front.
00:53:26.000 --> 00:53:34.079
We know that this is a city, we know they have a baseball team, we know they've sucked, we know the owner died, we know the widow is taken over, and she used to be a showgirl.
00:53:34.159 --> 00:53:34.719
Boom.
00:53:34.880 --> 00:53:35.679
All that's done.
00:53:35.760 --> 00:53:36.960
No one has to say a word.
00:53:37.280 --> 00:53:37.599
True.
00:53:37.840 --> 00:53:38.400
That was quick.
00:53:38.639 --> 00:53:50.719
So even though it has Randy Newman, who I just fucking hate, um, other than Toy Story, I could you could take every one of the songs that we put in a movie and just put them in a dumpster and set it all on fire.
00:53:50.800 --> 00:53:52.719
Or put in the Cuyahoga River and set it on fire.
00:53:53.440 --> 00:53:53.679
Yeah, yeah.
00:53:54.079 --> 00:53:54.719
Put it down the river.
00:53:54.880 --> 00:53:55.039
Yeah.
00:53:55.119 --> 00:53:55.760
It would burn there.
00:53:56.880 --> 00:53:58.000
Little Viking funeral.
00:53:59.840 --> 00:54:09.360
Uh anyway, we find out that Rachel Phelps has inherited the Cleveland Indians after her husband's death, and and she has a new plan to shake up the team.
00:54:09.840 --> 00:54:12.320
Spring training begins in two weeks.
00:54:12.639 --> 00:54:15.599
Here's a list of the players we'll be inviting to camp.
00:54:19.840 --> 00:54:24.880
I never heard of half of these guys, and the ones I do know are way past the prime.
00:54:25.039 --> 00:54:26.800
Most of these guys never had a prime.
00:54:26.960 --> 00:54:30.320
The facts are we lost our two best players to free agency.
00:54:30.559 --> 00:54:32.639
We haven't won a pennant in over 35 years.
00:54:32.719 --> 00:54:35.599
We haven't placed higher than fourth in the last 15.
00:54:36.079 --> 00:54:38.320
Obviously, it's time for some changes.
00:54:38.639 --> 00:54:40.079
This guy here is dead.
00:54:40.559 --> 00:54:42.159
Cross him off then.
00:54:42.719 --> 00:54:44.239
Cross him off then.
00:54:44.400 --> 00:54:46.480
I loved that part so much.
00:54:47.440 --> 00:54:49.119
Loved it so much I wrote it down.
00:54:49.280 --> 00:54:50.320
This guy here is dead.
00:54:50.400 --> 00:54:54.559
And I was actually looking at my notes and I'm like, where does that fit in?
00:54:54.800 --> 00:55:00.079
And then you played it and it was great because it just reminded me this guy here is dead.
00:55:01.199 --> 00:55:01.840
Amazing.
00:55:02.079 --> 00:55:10.159
I will say we don't, from what we know of this character at this point, of Rachel, I like the way she came into the room and took command.
00:55:10.400 --> 00:55:14.320
Oh, she owned it in a boardroom full of crusty white old dudes.
00:55:14.559 --> 00:55:15.360
Yeah, she did.
00:55:15.519 --> 00:55:16.159
Yep.
00:55:16.480 --> 00:55:20.239
And so at this point I'm thinking, girl power, rock on Rachel.
00:55:20.880 --> 00:55:26.000
Um we though very quickly learn more about her motivations.
00:55:26.239 --> 00:55:29.599
Because she confides to her general manager, Charlie Donovan.
00:55:30.000 --> 00:55:32.639
Did either of you recognize Charlie Donovan?
00:55:33.119 --> 00:55:34.320
Charles Sephers?
00:55:34.719 --> 00:55:35.599
That's right.
00:55:36.079 --> 00:55:36.400
No.
00:55:36.719 --> 00:55:39.280
Yeah, I recognize him, but I have no clue where from.
00:55:39.599 --> 00:55:44.639
You recognize him from Halloween, where he played Sheriff Brackett.
00:55:44.800 --> 00:55:48.000
Ah, the father of Annie Brackett.
00:55:48.559 --> 00:55:49.360
Gotcha.
00:55:51.760 --> 00:55:53.280
I know it's kids.
00:55:54.400 --> 00:55:57.199
They only took a mask, a knife, and some rope.
00:55:57.599 --> 00:55:58.400
Had to be kids.
00:55:58.480 --> 00:55:59.360
Who else would have done that?
00:55:59.519 --> 00:56:01.519
Who else would have stolen a knife and some rope?
00:56:02.159 --> 00:56:04.000
What kids are stealing a rope?
00:56:05.760 --> 00:56:07.039
Uh, anyway.
00:56:07.280 --> 00:56:15.679
Uh, but yeah, so she confides to uh Sheriff Brackett that that she secretly actually wants to move the team.
00:56:16.079 --> 00:56:19.840
I want to put together a team that'll help us relocate to Miami.
00:56:20.000 --> 00:56:21.039
What do you mean?
00:56:21.280 --> 00:56:23.119
Some of these guys are furniture movers?
00:56:23.360 --> 00:56:25.199
I'm serious about this, Charlie.
00:56:25.519 --> 00:56:26.320
It's no secret.
00:56:26.400 --> 00:56:27.760
I've never liked Cleveland much.
00:56:29.760 --> 00:56:33.119
Stadium's falling apart, we don't draw dick, the weather's lousy.
00:56:33.280 --> 00:56:36.559
Another couple years of this, and I'm gonna have to start feeding Chacha a real dog.
00:56:37.280 --> 00:56:41.519
You know, this charge you just can't up and move a team on a whim.
00:56:41.760 --> 00:56:43.440
It's hardly a whim.
00:56:44.400 --> 00:56:47.119
Miami's offered to build us a new stadium.
00:56:47.599 --> 00:56:57.679
62,000 capacity, 45 VIP boxes, and for me, a mansion in Boca Raton, plus free membership in the Palm Beach Apollo and Country Club.
00:56:57.920 --> 00:56:58.400
I get it.
00:56:58.880 --> 00:57:01.519
Now no other franchise in baseball can match that deal.
00:57:01.840 --> 00:57:03.519
The legal never let us leave Cleveland.
00:57:03.599 --> 00:57:04.480
We got a lease with the city.
00:57:05.280 --> 00:57:10.880
The lease says we have the right to move if the attendance falls below 800,000 for the year, paragraph 40, line 17.
00:57:11.280 --> 00:57:14.000
If we play bad enough, we should be able to come in under that.
00:57:14.320 --> 00:57:15.360
What are you saying?
00:57:15.679 --> 00:57:16.880
You want us to lose?
00:57:17.199 --> 00:57:17.519
No.
00:57:18.000 --> 00:57:19.440
We've been losing.
00:57:20.000 --> 00:57:23.840
What I want is for us to finish dead last.
00:57:25.039 --> 00:57:36.639
So we've had this discussion amongst the three of us about how difficult it would be to make professional athletes try to throw a season.
00:57:36.800 --> 00:57:36.960
Right.
00:57:37.440 --> 00:57:38.880
Like they're professional athletes.
00:57:39.119 --> 00:57:40.880
They're not going to just be like, you know what?
00:57:41.199 --> 00:57:41.360
Right.
00:57:41.440 --> 00:57:43.039
They've got professional pride to play for.
00:57:43.440 --> 00:57:44.480
We'll fuck this up on purpose.
00:57:44.719 --> 00:57:46.000
Like it's not gonna happen.
00:57:46.239 --> 00:57:46.480
Right?
00:57:46.719 --> 00:57:46.880
Right.
00:57:47.039 --> 00:57:48.480
So I get where she's coming from.
00:57:48.639 --> 00:57:53.440
You're gonna bring in this group of misfits where it's this like everyone sucks.
00:57:53.679 --> 00:57:55.199
They're a bunch of nobodies.
00:57:55.760 --> 00:58:01.599
But like as a group of professionals, they think they're professionals, they're not gonna just suck forever on purpose.
00:58:01.920 --> 00:58:02.239
No.
00:58:04.000 --> 00:58:12.000
And the fact of the matter is, even if you have a degree of talent, so much of baseball and and any sport really is just the breaks of the game.
00:58:12.079 --> 00:58:12.320
Yeah.
00:58:12.480 --> 00:58:15.679
You know, who gets hot at the right moment, what happens, anything could happen.
00:58:15.840 --> 00:58:17.119
That's why you play the games.
00:58:18.079 --> 00:58:22.639
If you can make it to the professional level, you're not terrible.
00:58:22.960 --> 00:58:26.400
Well, that's that's why most of the people on our list are not professional.
00:58:26.960 --> 00:58:28.320
One guy was dead.
00:58:29.599 --> 00:58:31.760
Now, but but cross him often.
00:58:33.199 --> 00:58:42.559
So to activate the escape clause in Elise, the the season-long attendance has to fall below 800,000.
00:58:43.440 --> 00:58:51.039
Now, just to add a little bit of perspective to that number, Major League Baseball teams play 81 regular season home games, right?
00:58:51.679 --> 00:58:59.840
So to finish below 800,000 in attendance, they'd have to average under 9,876 attendees per game.
00:59:01.199 --> 00:59:07.840
In the 80s, though, Cleveland Stadium had a seating capacity of over 70,000 people.
00:59:08.000 --> 00:59:10.159
In fact, 75,000, I believe.
00:59:10.320 --> 00:59:17.760
Uh, which would mean they would have to maintain attendance to only 14% of their actual capacity throughout the season to reach that goal.
00:59:18.000 --> 00:59:18.960
That's crazy.
00:59:19.280 --> 00:59:21.360
It was so big because it was also where the Browns played.
00:59:21.440 --> 00:59:22.480
It was also a football stadium.
00:59:23.039 --> 00:59:28.719
But as interesting and crazy as it is, they did it three times in real life in the 80s.
00:59:28.960 --> 00:59:29.599
Did they really?
00:59:29.760 --> 00:59:30.000
Yeah.
00:59:30.079 --> 00:59:30.400
Uh-huh.
00:59:30.639 --> 00:59:39.519
They they failed to meet this very low bar in 83, 84, and 85, averaging fewer than 9,876 attendees per game.
00:59:39.679 --> 00:59:41.039
So that's a real seasons.
00:59:41.360 --> 00:59:42.000
A real rule.
00:59:42.239 --> 00:59:43.280
I don't know if it's a real rule.
00:59:43.360 --> 00:59:47.360
Every contract, because teams do lease, they don't usually own the stadiums.
00:59:47.679 --> 00:59:51.119
The cities own the stadiums or someone else owns the stadiums and they lease it.
00:59:51.360 --> 00:59:54.320
But within those leases are escape clauses.
00:59:54.480 --> 00:59:55.920
That's what actually bit the the St.
00:59:56.079 --> 01:00:08.960
Louis Rams whenever Stan Crocky decided to move them to LA, is they had it built within their clause that the facility had be had to be within the top 20% of all facilities in National Football League.
01:00:09.199 --> 01:00:12.480
And there was no way the dome could be upgraded to that level.
01:00:12.559 --> 01:00:12.639
Right.
01:00:12.800 --> 01:00:22.800
And so he used that clause, even though the fact they had sold out every game for decades, because you have to sell out your game as an NFL team to get on on national TV.
01:00:23.360 --> 01:00:25.199
If you don't sell out your game, they don't put you on TV.
01:00:25.440 --> 01:00:25.679
Blackout.
01:00:25.840 --> 01:00:27.920
So they sold out to avoid the blackouts.
01:00:28.239 --> 01:00:32.639
So they were making money, but not as much money as he wanted to make in LA.
01:00:33.599 --> 01:00:35.199
This is where the difference is for me.
01:00:35.360 --> 01:00:40.480
She's owner a team that's not making money in a shitty stadium in Cleveland.
01:00:40.800 --> 01:00:44.239
So this is actually, to me, not a bad business choice.
01:00:44.880 --> 01:00:45.840
I get it.
01:00:46.159 --> 01:00:47.599
I do, I get it.
01:00:49.280 --> 01:00:59.760
But the part that doesn't like really sit well with me is she's just like, oh, I'm gonna throw these people out here, like these nobodies, and just thinks that they're gonna fail completely.
01:01:00.320 --> 01:01:07.440
How is this any different than than sports teams tanking the end of their season to get better draft picks?
01:01:07.679 --> 01:01:11.679
Well, you tank the end of the season, not the whole season starting is spring training.
01:01:11.920 --> 01:01:26.480
They have but every season, you know, you get to the end, you realize you're not gonna win it, you you trade off your best players, you play with with rookies and people you bring up for the minor leagues just to get through, knowing you're gonna lose the majority of your games, you tank it so you can build and be in a better spot.
01:01:26.639 --> 01:01:27.599
This is no different.
01:01:27.679 --> 01:01:31.039
You're tanking a longer span of time, but you know what, no one was coming to your games anyway.
01:01:31.119 --> 01:01:32.159
But here's the thing, though.
01:01:32.320 --> 01:01:39.920
Do you remember uh I don't remember what year it was, Connor Bedard when he was like in the draft, right?
01:01:40.000 --> 01:01:42.800
And he was gonna be first overall in the draft.
01:01:43.199 --> 01:01:44.960
Ended up going to Chicago, Chicago blue.
01:01:45.679 --> 01:01:47.519
There was a phrase suck hard for Badard.
01:01:48.639 --> 01:01:48.719
Yeah.
01:01:48.880 --> 01:01:49.280
Uh-huh.
01:01:49.760 --> 01:01:51.760
Now, that's what I'm saying, though.
01:01:51.840 --> 01:01:56.480
Like the blues were a professional or are a professional sports team.
01:01:56.960 --> 01:02:03.039
They're not going like you can't go to the players and say lose on purpose.
01:02:03.280 --> 01:02:09.119
Which is why I think what she's doing is honestly fairly humane.
01:02:09.360 --> 01:02:11.760
She's not going to players and saying lose on purpose.
01:02:11.840 --> 01:02:16.159
She's bringing up crappiest players she can find and saying, Do your best, boys, do your best.
01:02:16.239 --> 01:02:19.840
You're gonna lose knowing that best isn't thinking that best won't be enough.
01:02:20.079 --> 01:02:20.559
Right.
01:02:20.800 --> 01:02:26.800
And then she's gonna get rid of all those players to get new ones when she's in the new place.
01:02:27.039 --> 01:02:27.599
In Miami.
01:02:27.840 --> 01:02:28.079
Yeah.
01:02:30.159 --> 01:02:35.599
But honestly, you know, if they didn't do well, this this is this is if anything, this is the chance for them to prove themselves.
01:02:35.840 --> 01:02:37.519
I don't think she's a bad person.
01:02:37.760 --> 01:02:44.719
At this point, this is this is like the opposite argument of saying that uh Glinda the Good Witch and the Wizard of Oz was the actual villain.
01:02:45.920 --> 01:02:54.480
I mean, yeah, you can draw the lines, you can connect the dots, but it all boils down to she wants to take a beloved team away from its city.
01:02:54.639 --> 01:02:55.440
It's not that beloved.
01:02:55.679 --> 01:02:56.719
No one's been going.
01:02:57.280 --> 01:02:58.559
They still love their team.
01:02:58.880 --> 01:03:00.480
Well, then you know what?
01:03:00.559 --> 01:03:01.599
They should have gone more.
01:03:01.760 --> 01:03:02.400
Yeah.
01:03:03.519 --> 01:03:06.320
I don't subscribe to your theory, but I see where you're coming from.
01:03:06.559 --> 01:03:06.800
All right.
01:03:06.960 --> 01:03:08.320
I see where you're coming from.
01:03:08.559 --> 01:03:15.039
But ultimately, she orders general manager Charles Donovan to assemble the worst roster imaginable.
01:03:15.199 --> 01:03:20.320
And so from here, we we get the glimpses of what this worst team is going to be.
01:03:20.480 --> 01:03:26.320
We we see that he they've recruited career minor league skipper Lou Brown uh to be the team's manager.
01:03:26.400 --> 01:03:31.199
Uh veteran catcher Jake Taylor is brought back despite bad knees and playing in Mexico.
01:03:31.760 --> 01:03:36.000
Uh wild flamethrower Ricky Wild Thing Vaughn is signed straight out of prison.
01:03:36.239 --> 01:03:37.760
The California Penal League.
01:03:38.400 --> 01:03:43.599
Uh Pedro Serrano is a player who can crush fastballs but can't hit a curveball to save his life.
01:03:43.679 --> 01:03:46.000
Oh, and he also just happens to rely on Voodoo.
01:03:46.079 --> 01:03:46.320
Yep.
01:03:46.400 --> 01:03:47.679
Um from Cuba.
01:03:47.840 --> 01:03:55.119
We we got aging pitcher Eddie Harris, who survives by doctoring baseballs with Vaseline, Vagicil, Razor Blades, and Snot.
01:03:55.199 --> 01:03:55.679
Yep.
01:03:55.920 --> 01:04:00.480
Uh, and former star baseman Roger Dorn, who's talented but selfish.
01:04:00.639 --> 01:04:05.119
And, you know, he's he's just you know, he's out for for the dollar, and that's it.
01:04:05.360 --> 01:04:08.960
My favorite quote is I didn't know we had high-priced talent on this team.
01:04:09.199 --> 01:04:12.079
And then the guy says, Well, he's high priced.
01:04:15.039 --> 01:04:27.760
And so we we they after the the initial introductions, they are all congealed or can they brought together and they coagulate at spring training in Arizona, and we get the addition of one additional player.
01:04:28.400 --> 01:04:32.239
The addition of one additional player, man, the Department of Redundancy Department.
01:04:32.480 --> 01:04:37.920
Uh another player just happens to show up, speedster Willie Mays Hayes, who crashes camp.
01:04:38.079 --> 01:04:40.800
Um, not invited, just shows up.
01:04:40.960 --> 01:04:43.440
Um but he hits like Mays and he runs like Hayes.
01:04:43.599 --> 01:04:48.480
So he says, you know, so did you guys notice his car when he pulled up?
01:04:48.800 --> 01:04:49.920
That's what I'm ready to say.
01:04:50.079 --> 01:04:51.039
There's old spaghetti.
01:04:55.599 --> 01:04:59.280
Willie Mays Hayes is the perfect definition of fake it till you make it.
01:04:59.440 --> 01:05:00.000
Oh, heck yeah.
01:05:00.239 --> 01:05:06.159
The guy walked in with such swagger, and you know, he was yeah, the beetle with the Bentley grill.
01:05:06.400 --> 01:05:10.880
The wingtip shoes and and the hanky he was waving out the window.
01:05:11.599 --> 01:05:17.360
Now I had heard the hanky hang waving out the window was actually a production trick.
01:05:17.599 --> 01:05:18.159
Oh yeah?
01:05:18.320 --> 01:05:23.599
Because it's basically a warner of him backing out and Rick Vaughn pulling up in the motorcycle.
01:05:23.920 --> 01:05:29.519
So he was waving the hanky to alert the motorcycle driver to head on this way.
01:05:29.679 --> 01:05:30.400
Oh, that's cool.
01:05:30.639 --> 01:05:31.599
Oh, interesting.
01:05:31.840 --> 01:05:32.320
Yeah.
01:05:32.639 --> 01:05:32.960
Okay.
01:05:34.079 --> 01:05:36.559
I don't know if it's true or not, but that's what I'd heard.
01:05:36.719 --> 01:05:37.599
I'll believe you.
01:05:38.639 --> 01:05:45.440
But yeah, so we get this group that's coming together and we get to see what their problems are.
01:05:45.679 --> 01:05:48.960
You know, Vaughn throws 100 miles an hour but has no control.
01:05:49.199 --> 01:05:52.079
Hayes can't hit anything but pop flies.
01:05:52.559 --> 01:05:57.440
I actually, speaking of Hayes, I did like because he he just walked basically into camp without invitation.
01:05:57.519 --> 01:05:59.760
And while he's asleep, you know, they go to bed and they're bung.
01:06:00.239 --> 01:06:05.440
Rooms and in the middle of the night the security guys come in, it's like, oh, this is the guy that wasn't invited.
01:06:05.519 --> 01:06:11.039
They detach his bunk and walk him outside the camp, and Wheelie never wakes up until the next morning when drilling's going on.
01:06:11.280 --> 01:06:14.559
And when he wakes up, we wakes up in the morning, he says, What?
01:06:14.719 --> 01:06:16.400
I've been cut already.
01:06:17.840 --> 01:06:24.960
But but then but then jumps into a sprint drill and blows everyone away and instantly get him a uniform.
01:06:25.119 --> 01:06:25.280
Right.
01:06:25.519 --> 01:06:27.119
So a couple things on this.
01:06:27.840 --> 01:06:32.480
And Brian, I know you were part of the Cardinals organization here.
01:06:32.639 --> 01:06:36.000
Is training camp really like that with both beds in one room?
01:06:36.239 --> 01:06:36.480
No.
01:06:36.639 --> 01:06:37.519
No, that's not a thing.
01:06:37.760 --> 01:06:38.320
That's not a thing.
01:06:38.559 --> 01:06:38.800
Okay.
01:06:39.039 --> 01:06:41.599
The other thing, you said he threw 100 miles per hour.
01:06:41.840 --> 01:06:44.159
That first pitch, he threw 96.
01:06:44.320 --> 01:06:44.639
Yeah.
01:06:44.800 --> 01:06:46.159
And I know you're rounding up.
01:06:46.559 --> 01:06:56.480
But isn't it funny that 96 back in like 89 was a big deal, and now it's really not.
01:06:56.639 --> 01:06:56.880
Right.
01:06:57.039 --> 01:07:06.239
Like people are throwing 102, 103, 104, and it's like the flame goes across the screen, and it's like, ooh, 106, and you're like, oh my god, that's crazy.
01:07:06.559 --> 01:07:08.159
And they were like freaking out about it.
01:07:08.320 --> 01:07:08.880
Yeah, 96.
01:07:09.119 --> 01:07:11.760
Back then, 96 now, there's a reason for that.
01:07:12.239 --> 01:07:13.840
That's kind of technical and nerdy.
01:07:14.400 --> 01:07:22.800
Back then, they read the speed of the pitch about 20 feet from the pitcher.
01:07:23.360 --> 01:07:26.639
Now they rate the speed of the pitch as it leaves the pitcher's hand.
01:07:27.360 --> 01:07:31.199
So the natural deceleration of the ball as it would go to the plate.
01:07:31.599 --> 01:07:39.280
So they could have been throwing the same velocity, but where they're measuring the velocity from is different now.
01:07:40.320 --> 01:07:43.840
I will also tell you this is something I learned from my time working in minor league baseball.
01:07:44.239 --> 01:07:50.800
Um the accuracy of your radar gun really depends upon the angle at which you're shooting from where the pitcher is leaving.
01:07:50.960 --> 01:07:52.800
No, where the bells leave his hand.
01:07:52.960 --> 01:07:55.760
It's going to be most accurate when it's the dead-on angle.
01:07:56.000 --> 01:07:59.199
But there's not that many places you can always get a dead-on angle.
01:07:59.599 --> 01:08:06.480
Usually it's being shot at some kind of tangent, and the greater the tangent, the the or the higher the tangent, the lower the accuracy.
01:08:07.119 --> 01:08:09.760
And it can swing big directions either way.
01:08:10.000 --> 01:08:10.239
Sure.
01:08:10.800 --> 01:08:14.960
Yeah, so advances of technology have increased the velocity numbers.
01:08:15.119 --> 01:08:18.880
Not saying I I do believe they throw harder now than they used to.
01:08:19.119 --> 01:08:21.680
Because, you know, velocity, velocity, velocity is all they teach.
01:08:21.840 --> 01:08:22.079
Right.
01:08:22.319 --> 01:08:25.840
Um, so I do think they throw harder, but I don't think it's that much more.
01:08:26.000 --> 01:08:28.800
You can't tell me Nolan Ryan wasn't pushing gas.
01:08:29.279 --> 01:08:30.079
Oh, for sure.
01:08:30.319 --> 01:08:30.720
You know?
01:08:30.880 --> 01:08:32.159
So But I just thought it was fun.
01:08:32.319 --> 01:08:33.039
They were like, whoa.
01:08:33.359 --> 01:08:34.000
I know, I know.
01:08:34.079 --> 01:08:34.239
Yeah.
01:08:34.479 --> 01:08:36.720
Like mustache guy was like, whoa.
01:08:37.520 --> 01:08:41.039
You better teach this kid some control before he kills somebody.
01:08:41.359 --> 01:08:42.880
He broke a sign.
01:08:44.159 --> 01:08:44.960
Damn.
01:08:45.600 --> 01:08:46.880
It sounded fast.
01:08:48.479 --> 01:08:51.520
Yeah, but they all they all have other issues.
01:08:51.760 --> 01:08:53.920
Dorn won't dive for a ball.
01:08:54.159 --> 01:08:56.159
Taylor's knees are nearly shot.
01:08:56.319 --> 01:08:58.720
Uh Serrano can't hit a curveball.
01:08:58.960 --> 01:09:00.479
I cannot hit curveball.
01:09:00.720 --> 01:09:02.399
Straight ball, I hit it very much.
01:09:02.560 --> 01:09:03.039
Very much.
01:09:03.199 --> 01:09:03.520
Very much.
01:09:03.760 --> 01:09:04.720
Curveball.
01:09:05.119 --> 01:09:06.479
Bats are afraid.
01:09:07.760 --> 01:09:09.199
That's why you had hats for bats.
01:09:10.960 --> 01:09:12.640
Take the keep bats warm.
01:09:13.199 --> 01:09:16.479
I offer him cigar from Rome.
01:09:16.880 --> 01:09:17.279
Rome.
01:09:18.159 --> 01:09:19.119
He will come.
01:09:20.000 --> 01:09:25.359
You know, you might think about taking Jesus Christ as your savior instead of fooling around with all this stuff.
01:09:25.760 --> 01:09:26.720
Shit, Harris.
01:09:27.439 --> 01:09:27.760
Ah.
01:09:28.239 --> 01:09:29.920
Don't start a holy war here.
01:09:30.239 --> 01:09:30.800
Jesus.
01:09:31.920 --> 01:09:33.600
I like him very much.
01:09:34.000 --> 01:09:36.479
But he know help with curveballs.
01:09:36.880 --> 01:09:40.159
You're trying to say Jesus Christ can't hit a curveball?
01:09:43.600 --> 01:09:46.079
I I would I would say no.
01:09:46.399 --> 01:09:47.680
I would say no.
01:09:48.800 --> 01:09:50.399
He couldn't.
01:09:51.119 --> 01:09:53.920
I don't even know if I want to answer that question.
01:09:54.800 --> 01:09:56.319
The dude can walk on water.
01:09:56.399 --> 01:09:58.000
He can turn water into wine.
01:09:58.239 --> 01:10:00.720
I don't think he'd have trouble waiting back on the curveball.
01:10:01.039 --> 01:10:04.319
In the movies I've seen, he looks kind of like a weenie.
01:10:05.520 --> 01:10:07.119
Swinging him ish.
01:10:09.119 --> 01:10:17.279
Well, in the locker room, all the players are dreading the appearance of uh red cards in their lockers, which is a sign that they have been cut from the team.
01:10:17.680 --> 01:10:24.640
At one point, we see Serrano ward the evil spirits away using a big ass snake.
01:10:24.800 --> 01:10:25.359
Yeah.
01:10:25.680 --> 01:10:29.279
Now it has never bothered me until I watched this movie today.
01:10:30.159 --> 01:10:33.119
Where was that snake up until this moment?
01:10:33.439 --> 01:10:35.119
Because it wasn't in his locker.
01:10:35.760 --> 01:10:40.079
Was there just a giant friggin' python just roaming the clubhouse?
01:10:40.319 --> 01:10:45.760
Oh, he probably had it in like a rubber made crate with holes poked on the top.
01:10:46.079 --> 01:10:46.560
Oh basket.
01:10:47.359 --> 01:10:49.840
You know, like a basket with a like a little flute.
01:10:52.479 --> 01:10:53.039
I don't know.
01:10:53.199 --> 01:10:55.359
Maybe maybe just keeps them around.
01:10:56.479 --> 01:11:03.119
Um this though leads Willie Mays to uh do a simpler thing with the garter snake, which I thought was adorable.
01:11:03.439 --> 01:11:04.399
That was cute.
01:11:05.520 --> 01:11:13.840
Uh on the last day of cuts, um all the players are are dreading to check their lockers because they know this is it.
01:11:13.920 --> 01:11:15.039
They're either in or they're out.
01:11:15.119 --> 01:11:17.359
They're going to Cleveland or they're going who knows where.
01:11:17.600 --> 01:11:18.880
And Jake gives some great advice.
01:11:19.119 --> 01:11:22.399
And it's like, don't celebrate in front of guys who just died.
01:11:22.560 --> 01:11:22.880
Yep.
01:11:23.039 --> 01:11:30.159
And and so we see Willie, you know, he opens his locker, no tag, sees the red tag, or no name, still doesn't see a tag.
01:11:30.560 --> 01:11:35.760
And so he excuses himself quietly, walks out in front of the outside, and does a celebration dance.
01:11:35.920 --> 01:11:36.960
Does a little happy dance.
01:11:37.119 --> 01:11:38.159
Yeah, it was happy.
01:11:38.479 --> 01:11:40.640
And then we though have have Vaughn.
01:11:40.800 --> 01:11:49.680
You know, Rick Vaughn uh is standing at that locker, and and there are a few moments of this movie where the cinematography actually jumped out at me.
01:11:49.760 --> 01:11:52.640
And this was probably my favorite shot of the entire movie.
01:11:52.880 --> 01:11:53.600
When you open the locker.
01:11:53.920 --> 01:12:14.479
Because we get this first person view shot initially through the locker little air vents, where all we see, we see nothing but shadow, other than just through those vents, we see Ricky's face, and then we see the door open, and all we see just enough of a red blur in the left-hand corner to know there's something there without it being fully spelled out.
01:12:15.039 --> 01:12:18.720
But his face tells all the story we need.
01:12:20.239 --> 01:12:22.880
And then we get the aftermath.
01:12:23.039 --> 01:12:23.279
Yep.
01:12:24.000 --> 01:12:25.199
I got news for you, Mr.
01:12:25.279 --> 01:12:25.680
Brown.
01:12:25.840 --> 01:12:27.199
You haven't heard the last of me.
01:12:27.279 --> 01:12:31.119
You may think I'm shit now, but someday you're gonna be sorry that you cut me.
01:12:31.439 --> 01:12:37.439
I'm gonna catch on somewhere else, and every time that I pitch against you, I'm gonna stick it up, you fucking ass.
01:12:41.199 --> 01:12:43.439
I like that kind of spirit in a player.
01:12:43.760 --> 01:12:46.159
The only problem is I didn't cut you.
01:12:47.600 --> 01:12:50.239
I think someone's been having some fun with you.
01:12:54.079 --> 01:12:54.399
Nope.
01:12:54.479 --> 01:12:56.159
Now he's gonna go kick Dorne's ass.
01:12:56.880 --> 01:13:00.880
Now, he puts two and two together instantly.
01:13:01.119 --> 01:13:05.119
That it was must have been Dorne that pranked him and put the tag in his locker.
01:13:05.520 --> 01:13:11.359
But I don't think we were really given evidence up to this point to suggest it was Dorne that put the tag in his locker.
01:13:11.600 --> 01:13:13.359
Dorne's the one who called him Veg Head.
01:13:13.600 --> 01:13:19.439
He called him one name and questioned his stupid haircut when he walked into the locker room.
01:13:19.600 --> 01:13:22.159
But let's be honest, that haircut was fucking stupid.
01:13:22.319 --> 01:13:26.079
Well, he's the only player we've met to this point who you don't like.
01:13:26.319 --> 01:13:33.359
Yeah, I mean it was it was a jump for him to be like, oh, it had to be you, you know, like enough to punch a dude in the face.
01:13:33.600 --> 01:13:36.479
Like, that's a pretty that's a pretty good jump.
01:13:36.640 --> 01:13:40.560
But yeah, like you said, it he's the only guy that's caused any kind of conflict so far.
01:13:40.800 --> 01:13:41.680
What's wrong, rookie?
01:13:41.840 --> 01:13:42.720
Can't take a joke?
01:13:44.239 --> 01:13:50.159
Well, well, Taylor tells Vaughn to save his aggression for his opponents because he's got bigger things to do, more important things to do.
01:13:50.319 --> 01:13:51.279
Yeah, like what?
01:13:51.600 --> 01:13:53.439
Pack for Cleveland! Oh yeah.
01:13:56.479 --> 01:13:58.000
So they go to Cleveland.
01:13:58.239 --> 01:14:02.720
And while at dinner at a fancy restaurant, um my god.
01:14:03.039 --> 01:14:09.359
Okay, so so why were any of this them at this goddamn restaurant?
01:14:09.600 --> 01:14:10.239
To celebrate.
01:14:10.399 --> 01:14:10.640
Okay.
01:14:10.960 --> 01:14:12.479
The beginning of a season.
01:14:13.840 --> 01:14:16.000
Who picked this restaurant?
01:14:16.479 --> 01:14:17.840
Jake Taylor.
01:14:18.319 --> 01:14:19.600
It's a French restaurant.
01:14:20.000 --> 01:14:22.560
Apparently the menus aren't even in English.
01:14:23.439 --> 01:14:26.880
Jake Taylor knows enough about fancy French restaurants.
01:14:27.279 --> 01:14:28.880
Jake Taylor used to be an all-star.
01:14:29.119 --> 01:14:32.159
I think Jake Taylor just knew where his girlfriend wanted was gonna be.
01:14:32.319 --> 01:14:32.960
Yeah, it could be.
01:14:33.199 --> 01:14:33.760
I don't think so.
01:14:33.840 --> 01:14:38.079
I think this first introduction or first, you know, happenstance was pure coincidence.
01:14:38.239 --> 01:14:38.479
Yeah.
01:14:38.640 --> 01:14:38.960
Yeah.
01:14:40.239 --> 01:14:42.000
So I'm I'm gonna give benefit of the doubt here.
01:14:42.159 --> 01:14:45.760
And I'm gonna say Jake was just taking these two rookies under his wing.
01:14:45.920 --> 01:14:48.399
Because this is one of the things I do give Jake a lot of credit for.
01:14:48.560 --> 01:14:48.720
Sure.
01:14:49.279 --> 01:14:53.359
Um, and taking them out to say, hey, you've you are now a major league player.
01:14:53.439 --> 01:14:54.560
There are some perks of the game.
01:14:54.880 --> 01:14:55.920
Let's let's act like it.
01:14:56.239 --> 01:14:59.920
Let's act like people that make a decent living, and let's go have a good meal.
01:15:00.239 --> 01:15:02.319
God, I never understood that though.
01:15:02.479 --> 01:15:06.800
Like, I've never actually had French food, but none of it sounds appetizing.
01:15:07.119 --> 01:15:08.640
I've had it, it doesn't excite me.
01:15:08.800 --> 01:15:13.359
If if you were gonna tell me, like, well, let's go have a great meal, I'd be down for steakhouse.
01:15:13.600 --> 01:15:14.239
Right, steak.
01:15:14.319 --> 01:15:14.960
Give me some steak.
01:15:15.279 --> 01:15:16.880
I'd be down for a seafood restaurant.
01:15:17.119 --> 01:15:18.239
I wouldn't, but that's fine.
01:15:18.479 --> 01:15:20.399
You want to go for sushi, hibachi?
01:15:20.479 --> 01:15:28.239
There's lots of fine dining experiences that would excite me way more than a stuffy French restaurant where I can't understand the words on the menu.
01:15:28.479 --> 01:15:30.000
Yeah, I'm right there with you.
01:15:30.159 --> 01:15:33.119
And like, give me a goddamn pizza.
01:15:33.439 --> 01:15:34.319
You know what I mean?
01:15:34.479 --> 01:15:36.720
Like me and the buoys going out, the buoys.
01:15:37.119 --> 01:15:41.039
The last time I went to a fancy French restaurant, I went to chemo's.
01:15:41.199 --> 01:15:43.119
Oh, okay, which is downtown, top of the Met building.
01:15:44.159 --> 01:15:44.560
Good food.
01:15:44.800 --> 01:15:49.119
And uh I got scorching diarrhoea.
01:15:49.600 --> 01:15:51.199
I worked, I worked at Chemo's.
01:15:51.520 --> 01:15:52.239
Oh, did you really?
01:15:52.560 --> 01:15:53.119
A day.
01:15:53.199 --> 01:15:54.880
No, a day.
01:15:55.119 --> 01:15:56.560
So we got home.
01:15:57.359 --> 01:16:03.920
I took the babysitter home, and I'm driving back, and the the guts were bubbling.
01:16:04.319 --> 01:16:05.439
Would you make it?
01:16:06.319 --> 01:16:07.359
You have to make a stop.
01:16:07.520 --> 01:16:10.000
Let's just say I tucked my pants into my socks.
01:16:13.119 --> 01:16:15.840
Oh man Okay.
01:16:16.159 --> 01:16:18.399
I took my I took my suit off in the shower.
01:16:19.039 --> 01:16:23.359
To change the subject, I have a few more questions about this this dining experience.
01:16:23.520 --> 01:16:23.920
Uh-huh.
01:16:24.479 --> 01:16:33.439
If you notice Jake and Willie both seem to be drinking wine or champagne of some sort, it sure looks like Ricky's having a Coke.
01:16:33.680 --> 01:16:34.880
He is having a Coke.
01:16:35.119 --> 01:16:36.000
What's up with that?
01:16:36.239 --> 01:16:36.720
I don't know.
01:16:36.880 --> 01:16:38.079
Maybe he's not a drinker.
01:16:38.319 --> 01:16:39.600
We see him at a bar later.
01:16:39.840 --> 01:16:40.399
We do.
01:16:40.640 --> 01:16:46.159
I mean, you wouldn't just have even just a beer, and I know this is a fancy place, but you know, they don't have an Amstel light or something on tap.
01:16:46.479 --> 01:16:47.119
I don't know.
01:16:47.279 --> 01:16:48.560
I didn't see the menu.
01:16:48.640 --> 01:16:48.800
Oh.
01:16:49.119 --> 01:16:53.039
Maybe that showed his like they were trying to show his immaturity.
01:16:53.279 --> 01:16:54.720
Yeah, it's kind of what it felt like to me.
01:16:54.960 --> 01:17:00.479
Because the fact he was there with a leather jacket with the sleeves ripped off, no shirt underneath, and a tie.
01:17:00.640 --> 01:17:01.119
Oh, he had a shirt.
01:17:01.439 --> 01:17:03.920
Which he said, but he said, I feel like a banker.
01:17:04.079 --> 01:17:04.319
Right.
01:17:04.560 --> 01:17:06.239
He had a shirt on, but it was a mesh.
01:17:06.560 --> 01:17:07.039
Oh, there we go.
01:17:08.319 --> 01:17:12.720
A mesh sleeveless shirt, a sleeveless leather vest, and a tie.
01:17:13.279 --> 01:17:14.079
Because that's the dress code.
01:17:14.319 --> 01:17:15.279
The restaurant had a dress code.
01:17:15.760 --> 01:17:16.880
But he felt like a banker.
01:17:20.000 --> 01:17:22.720
That I don't think they need anything more to make him look immature.
01:17:23.119 --> 01:17:23.840
He could have had a beer.
01:17:24.079 --> 01:17:25.039
He could have had a beer.
01:17:25.279 --> 01:17:25.840
He could have.
01:17:26.079 --> 01:17:31.039
Or the same glass of champagne, mine, whatever the other guys are having.
01:17:31.520 --> 01:17:31.840
Yeah.
01:17:32.079 --> 01:17:36.399
I didn't really understand the the glass of soda either.
01:17:36.640 --> 01:17:37.359
But whatever.
01:17:37.520 --> 01:17:37.680
Yeah.
01:17:38.319 --> 01:17:39.439
It's not that big of a thing.
01:17:39.520 --> 01:17:40.720
I it just caught my eye.
01:17:41.119 --> 01:17:45.520
But while they're at the restaurant, uh Jake starts to get a little distracted.
01:17:45.680 --> 01:17:46.239
Yep.
01:17:46.800 --> 01:17:47.359
What is it?
01:17:47.920 --> 01:17:48.800
A chick?
01:17:49.279 --> 01:17:50.720
It's my wife.
01:17:51.199 --> 01:17:52.319
Does she know that?
01:17:52.960 --> 01:17:55.119
I mean, uh, she would have been if I hadn't messed it up.
01:17:55.199 --> 01:17:56.319
Who's that guy she's with?
01:17:56.479 --> 01:17:57.199
I don't know.
01:17:57.359 --> 01:17:58.720
He's not wearing a name tag.
01:17:58.960 --> 01:18:00.319
You want me to drag him out of here?
01:18:00.560 --> 01:18:01.680
Bit the shit out of him.
01:18:03.279 --> 01:18:06.960
I love some of those just slight lines that are just really throwaways.
01:18:07.039 --> 01:18:07.199
Yeah.
01:18:07.279 --> 01:18:07.920
It's like, I don't know.
01:18:08.079 --> 01:18:08.800
Doesn't have a name tag.
01:18:09.039 --> 01:18:09.199
Right.
01:18:09.439 --> 01:18:09.760
I don't know.
01:18:09.920 --> 01:18:11.920
You want me to take him outside and beat the shit out of him?
01:18:12.159 --> 01:18:13.119
Thanks, Ricky.
01:18:13.359 --> 01:18:13.920
All right, yeah.
01:18:14.000 --> 01:18:14.640
She's my wife.
01:18:14.800 --> 01:18:15.760
Does she know that?
01:18:16.960 --> 01:18:19.600
There was so much that was said in just those few words.
01:18:19.760 --> 01:18:25.279
The fact that he has apparently put so much value on this relationship beyond what it actually was.
01:18:25.520 --> 01:18:26.560
That doesn't exist anymore.
01:18:26.720 --> 01:18:30.640
Despite the fact we find out later he hasn't talked to her in three years.
01:18:30.880 --> 01:18:31.199
Right.
01:18:32.880 --> 01:18:36.319
But they're at the same restaurant at the same time right now.
01:18:36.399 --> 01:18:42.159
So he pulls a Ferris Bueller and calls the restaurant from the restaurant and calls her.
01:18:42.319 --> 01:18:48.159
And so they're talking at to each other from feet apart from each other until they realize they're both there.
01:18:48.239 --> 01:18:56.159
And so he just goes and talks until you know she's still trying to keep the facade up for her fiance who's sitting at the the booth.
01:18:56.319 --> 01:18:56.479
Yeah.
01:18:56.720 --> 01:18:58.880
But eventually he's like, I don't think he's gonna buy this anymore.
01:18:58.960 --> 01:18:59.439
I'm right here.
01:18:59.520 --> 01:19:18.800
So so then they're just talking, and then we learn, yeah, they were in a relationship and that you know he's been gone, and he basically bullies her into giving him her phone number, which eventually she does, and we learn later that number is not a real number.
01:19:18.960 --> 01:19:19.439
Yeah.
01:19:19.680 --> 01:19:22.560
Or it is a real number, but it's for a business which she does not work at.
01:19:22.800 --> 01:19:23.279
Sure.
01:19:24.960 --> 01:19:28.159
Five five five one two three five.
01:19:30.159 --> 01:19:30.479
I don't know.
01:19:30.640 --> 01:19:33.119
Well, what it was it with all the five five five numbers back then.
01:19:33.279 --> 01:19:34.640
Uh that's the Hollywood number.
01:19:34.880 --> 01:19:37.199
Because there were there were no five fives.
01:19:37.439 --> 01:19:37.600
Right.
01:19:37.840 --> 01:19:44.239
And so you could use a five, five number ad nauseum in TV and movies because it wouldn't actually be a real thing.
01:19:44.560 --> 01:19:48.319
But after you do it a couple times, everybody knows it's a fake phone number.
01:19:48.720 --> 01:19:51.119
I think it's just one of the things you just gloss over and accept.
01:19:51.520 --> 01:19:57.199
Except for now, more and more, you'll see movies use actual real numbers, but then use them for fun things.
01:19:57.359 --> 01:19:57.520
Right.
01:19:57.680 --> 01:20:02.239
Like if you call that number, it'll be uh some fake service related to the show or the movie.
01:20:02.640 --> 01:20:08.239
Or or, you know, a sounder from the movie, or hey, donate to this charity that supports the movie.
01:20:08.479 --> 01:20:14.800
Did you know that 8675309 is a real number in the 618 area code?
01:20:15.039 --> 01:20:15.439
Oh yeah?
01:20:15.600 --> 01:20:15.840
Yeah.
01:20:16.000 --> 01:20:17.119
How many times have you called it?
01:20:17.199 --> 01:20:18.800
Uh I did it a lot when I was a teenager.
01:20:18.960 --> 01:20:19.119
Nice.
01:20:19.439 --> 01:20:20.319
We should call it on air.
01:20:20.479 --> 01:20:24.399
And I asked for I asked for Jenny, and the guy got so pissed.
01:20:24.560 --> 01:20:27.199
Oh, he's never probably the 12th person that day.
01:20:27.439 --> 01:20:28.880
He's never he's never heard that before.
01:20:29.119 --> 01:20:30.640
Oh my god, he was so mad.
01:20:30.880 --> 01:20:33.359
What you need to do is do it with an Indian accent.
01:20:36.079 --> 01:20:39.680
Well, you know, nobody first of all, nobody has like a home phone.
01:20:40.239 --> 01:20:40.560
Right.
01:20:40.800 --> 01:20:43.600
So that was probably his home phone, I would assume.
01:20:43.840 --> 01:20:48.000
And then like if you get a call now from a number you don't know, you just don't answer.
01:20:48.319 --> 01:20:48.560
No.
01:20:48.640 --> 01:20:53.119
Hey, if if 867-5309 was available, would you want that number?
01:20:53.600 --> 01:20:54.239
Fuck no.
01:20:55.119 --> 01:20:58.000
I would probably like people would be like, oh, this is the greatest song.
01:20:58.079 --> 01:21:03.119
I just heard about this great song, and they'd be calling it, and I'd be like, I'd be like, yeah, no, I'm getting all these numbers.
01:21:03.359 --> 01:21:04.720
Like, no, I'm done with that.
01:21:04.960 --> 01:21:06.319
No, I wouldn't want that number.
01:21:07.279 --> 01:21:08.239
Well, back to the movie.
01:21:08.399 --> 01:21:09.520
Brian, you would take it.
01:21:09.680 --> 01:21:10.239
I would take it.
01:21:10.319 --> 01:21:10.960
You would have a good time.
01:21:11.359 --> 01:21:12.640
I would have a blast with that.
01:21:12.800 --> 01:21:13.840
Hey, it's Judy.
01:21:14.079 --> 01:21:14.720
Yeah.
01:21:15.840 --> 01:21:18.560
Things are getting underway with the start of the season.
01:21:18.720 --> 01:21:26.479
Um, Vaughn very quickly earns the nickname Wild Thing uh from fans because he just can't find the strike zone.
01:21:26.800 --> 01:21:32.159
Uh Jake does try to call in, but finds out the number she gave him was a phony.
01:21:32.399 --> 01:21:33.920
So what does he do next?
01:21:34.239 --> 01:21:37.119
I mean, just the most logical thing any person would do.
01:21:37.359 --> 01:21:40.560
Go to her place of work and confront her there.
01:21:40.880 --> 01:21:42.880
Yeah, that's not cool.
01:21:43.520 --> 01:22:01.920
Uh, while there, she finds out that she's now engaged, and instead of accepting that she's moved on and that maybe he just was a bad boyfriend, and he basically did ban uh run off and abandon her um after being a bad boyfriend, uh, and maybe realizing maybe she deserves better because she is smart, talented, and really, really hot.
01:22:02.239 --> 01:22:04.079
Tom and I are getting married in the fall.
01:22:05.680 --> 01:22:07.359
Oh, God, man, that's crazy.
01:22:07.439 --> 01:22:08.560
I had plans for us.
01:22:08.800 --> 01:22:09.279
Plans?
01:22:09.439 --> 01:22:09.760
Yeah.
01:22:10.079 --> 01:22:11.600
How can you say stuff like that?
01:22:11.760 --> 01:22:13.279
I haven't seen you in three years.
01:22:13.439 --> 01:22:14.720
You never even wrote me a letter.
01:22:15.039 --> 01:22:17.520
I'm sorry about that, but I wasn't exactly proud of my situation.
01:22:17.840 --> 01:22:19.600
Come on, you never thought about me at all while I was gone.
01:22:19.920 --> 01:22:23.279
Jake, not what about the three nights we spent on the beach of Veracruz?
01:22:23.359 --> 01:22:24.319
You ever had nights like that with Mr.
01:22:24.399 --> 01:22:24.800
Briefkin?
01:22:24.960 --> 01:22:27.279
What about the night you had in Detroit with Miss Fuel injection?
01:22:27.520 --> 01:22:28.159
What was I supposed to do?
01:22:28.239 --> 01:22:31.199
She got me 50 bucks, she had a better body than you, and I had to defend her.
01:22:32.880 --> 01:22:34.640
I have a much better body than she does.
01:22:36.000 --> 01:22:37.520
Little out of the library lady.
01:22:37.600 --> 01:22:38.000
Uh oh.
01:22:39.039 --> 01:22:40.479
Everyone's looking.
01:22:41.119 --> 01:22:42.079
She's right.
01:22:42.399 --> 01:22:43.119
She's right.
01:22:44.800 --> 01:22:45.279
Yeah.
01:22:45.520 --> 01:22:48.399
Uh after this though, we do get a bit of a time jump.
01:22:48.560 --> 01:22:54.800
Um, I appreciate how this movie handled some passage of time.
01:22:55.039 --> 01:22:57.760
Yeah, it moved forward pretty quickly instead of just dragging.
01:22:58.319 --> 01:22:59.680
And I like the way they did it.
01:22:59.760 --> 01:23:04.560
You know, we would see like these cutaways to people in the town talking about the team.
01:23:04.640 --> 01:23:11.039
It'd be you would see the the diehard Indian fans with their you know face paint and and feathers in the head.
01:23:11.359 --> 01:23:12.399
Or Indians hard hat.
01:23:12.560 --> 01:23:20.960
Yeah, we would see guy construction workers, and we'd always see the grounds crew speaking in Japanese, and you know the ground crew.
01:23:21.199 --> 01:23:21.680
Yeah.
01:23:22.560 --> 01:23:30.159
I first of all, I would love to be a member of the ground crew for like a major league baseball stadium.
01:23:30.399 --> 01:23:31.760
Like that'd be a ton of fun, I bet.
01:23:32.000 --> 01:23:32.960
Oh, it's a ton of work.
01:23:33.279 --> 01:23:36.399
But why did they make them Japanese?
01:23:37.199 --> 01:23:39.840
Like, what significance did that have in this movie?
01:23:40.319 --> 01:23:44.479
Have you ever seen a Japanese garden and how beautiful they are?
01:23:44.880 --> 01:23:46.800
And meticulously manicured.
01:23:47.039 --> 01:23:47.600
Yeah, sure.
01:23:47.840 --> 01:23:50.319
I think they would be great taking care of a ball field.
01:23:50.560 --> 01:23:52.079
Do you think that's what this was in this movie?
01:23:52.399 --> 01:23:53.600
I have no idea.
01:23:54.560 --> 01:23:56.319
I think it was just comedy fodder.
01:23:56.640 --> 01:24:00.800
And I and I know that there's no connection between these two, but you know what my mind went to?
01:24:00.880 --> 01:24:01.119
Uh-huh.
01:24:01.199 --> 01:24:02.239
Cannibal the musical.
01:24:02.319 --> 01:24:04.960
And I've I don't think you've watched it, but I've talked to you guys about it before.
01:24:05.279 --> 01:24:05.920
I have not, yeah.
01:24:06.239 --> 01:24:16.239
Where all the the chief of the Indian tribe and all the Indians are all played by Japanese people, and they all have the teepees, all have the rising sun painted on them.
01:24:16.640 --> 01:24:23.600
And so it felt like it just felt like very home to me that you have the grounds crew of the Indians being played by Japanese people.
01:24:23.840 --> 01:24:24.960
And there's only two of them.
01:24:25.359 --> 01:24:28.800
Well, I mean, they're just the guys painting the lines around home plate.
01:24:29.600 --> 01:24:31.199
Or chalking the lines.
01:24:31.520 --> 01:24:33.119
I d I just didn't get it.
01:24:33.279 --> 01:24:34.319
I thought maybe there was a lot of things.
01:24:36.720 --> 01:24:37.359
Don't think much about it.
01:24:37.600 --> 01:24:39.279
Maybe it was a funny thing that I missed.
01:24:39.359 --> 01:24:39.920
I didn't know.
01:24:40.079 --> 01:24:40.560
I didn't know.
01:24:40.720 --> 01:24:41.760
I didn't know what the reference was.
01:24:41.840 --> 01:24:43.119
Yeah, no inside joke there.
01:24:43.199 --> 01:24:45.760
I think it was just meant to be some diversity and some funny.
01:24:46.319 --> 01:24:50.000
But but these quick cut conversations serve as a nice breakage of time.
01:24:50.079 --> 01:24:54.960
And at this point, we found out we are now about a quarter of the way through the season.
01:24:55.199 --> 01:24:57.680
And the team is now 15 and 24.
01:24:57.840 --> 01:24:58.239
Yep.
01:24:58.800 --> 01:25:04.000
And while the team's bad, as far as Rachel's concerned, they're not bad enough.
01:25:04.319 --> 01:25:06.479
This team is showing signs of improvement.
01:25:06.640 --> 01:25:09.119
I didn't think we'd win 15 games all year.
01:25:09.279 --> 01:25:09.840
Any ideas?
01:25:10.079 --> 01:25:11.199
On how we can get worse?
01:25:12.800 --> 01:25:15.119
How about a series of fines for good play?
01:25:15.439 --> 01:25:19.520
Maybe a$30,000 bonus for the guy or at least valuable player.
01:25:21.680 --> 01:25:27.600
Maybe the problem is we're coddling these guys too much.
01:25:28.399 --> 01:25:29.039
Yeah.
01:25:30.239 --> 01:25:32.720
And so cuts cuts her buttons.
01:25:32.960 --> 01:25:34.079
She cuts some costs.
01:25:34.319 --> 01:25:34.640
Yep.
01:25:34.880 --> 01:25:43.359
Including she initially replaced the team jet with a rundown prop plane with a duct tape propeller, which then gets replaced with an old bus later in the movie.
01:25:43.600 --> 01:25:49.199
Uh she doesn't fix the whirlpool anymore, and she, you know, cuts whatever player other player menis she can.
01:25:49.439 --> 01:25:50.239
No hot water.
01:25:50.399 --> 01:25:50.720
Yeah.
01:25:50.960 --> 01:25:51.279
Right.
01:25:51.520 --> 01:25:52.479
No towels.
01:25:53.760 --> 01:25:55.279
But the cups still work.
01:25:55.920 --> 01:25:57.840
She didn't do a tap on those.
01:25:58.800 --> 01:26:04.560
Uh while they're sitting on the tarmac at one point waiting for the propeller to be duct taped together.
01:26:04.720 --> 01:26:08.479
Uh Jake gets some relationship advice from Willie.
01:26:08.720 --> 01:26:15.439
Probably not the best to follow, but he does it anyway, that he should just follow Lynn home from work to find out where she lives.
01:26:15.680 --> 01:26:16.239
Of course.
01:26:16.399 --> 01:26:17.600
That's not creepy at all.
01:26:17.840 --> 01:26:18.560
Not at all.
01:26:18.880 --> 01:26:22.880
Because that's absolutely perfectly normal and healthy thing to do in a relationship.
01:26:23.119 --> 01:26:24.720
And also follow people home.
01:26:25.039 --> 01:26:26.079
Also, what he did.
01:26:26.239 --> 01:26:27.199
That is what he did.
01:26:27.439 --> 01:26:28.560
But she didn't go home.
01:26:28.720 --> 01:26:29.279
She did not.
01:26:29.920 --> 01:26:37.520
Because he quickly realized this isn't her home, but her fiance who's in the middle of entertaining a pack of stuffy douchebags and their stuck-up trophy spouses.
01:26:37.760 --> 01:26:38.239
Yep.
01:26:40.399 --> 01:26:47.039
The fiance's response though to Jake's showing up felt a little bit odd.
01:26:47.359 --> 01:26:50.880
Because he doesn't say, Hey, what are you doing here?
01:26:51.039 --> 01:26:52.159
This is my private residence.
01:26:52.239 --> 01:26:52.960
Get the fuck out.
01:26:53.119 --> 01:26:53.600
Right.
01:26:53.840 --> 01:26:55.920
He says, Come on in, Jake.
01:26:56.239 --> 01:26:57.199
Have a seat.
01:26:57.439 --> 01:26:58.880
He wants to make a fool out of me.
01:26:59.119 --> 01:26:59.359
He does.
01:26:59.840 --> 01:27:00.399
He absolutely does.
01:27:00.720 --> 01:27:01.680
He wants to embarrass him.
01:27:02.399 --> 01:27:07.039
And and things get real awkward real fast.
01:27:07.359 --> 01:27:07.920
It is sure.
01:27:08.479 --> 01:27:12.000
Jake, uh, what are you gonna do when your career's over?
01:27:12.159 --> 01:27:14.960
I mean, you can't play baseball forever, can you?
01:27:15.039 --> 01:27:17.600
Yeah, something will something'll come up.
01:27:18.880 --> 01:27:19.760
Will it?
01:27:20.000 --> 01:27:20.800
Will it?
01:27:23.039 --> 01:27:29.039
Well, I thought I'd go to Hawaii, have a couple of kids to grow up to be Olympic champions.
01:27:29.840 --> 01:27:30.159
Really?
01:27:30.800 --> 01:27:32.319
Yeah, uh what event?
01:27:32.399 --> 01:27:32.960
Here we go.
01:27:33.199 --> 01:27:34.159
Swimming.
01:27:35.439 --> 01:27:37.279
A 200-meter individual medley.
01:27:37.520 --> 01:27:39.520
I figure it ought to be real big by then.
01:27:39.840 --> 01:27:41.279
You got the girl picked up?
01:27:41.600 --> 01:27:44.720
I did, but I wasn't smart enough to hold on to her.
01:27:47.279 --> 01:27:50.239
Uh you used to be an athlete, didn't you, Lynn?
01:27:50.319 --> 01:27:50.720
Uh oh.
01:27:50.960 --> 01:27:51.439
Yeah.
01:27:51.680 --> 01:27:52.000
Yeah.
01:27:52.319 --> 01:27:54.159
Uh, what did you do?
01:27:56.000 --> 01:27:58.079
200 meter individual medley.
01:27:59.279 --> 01:28:00.720
It just Got weird.
01:28:00.880 --> 01:28:01.119
Yeah.
01:28:03.039 --> 01:28:05.199
Putting two and two together.
01:28:07.039 --> 01:28:09.439
You're not here to talk about books.
01:28:09.840 --> 01:28:10.159
No.
01:28:11.359 --> 01:28:13.279
You're here because you want to fuck her.
01:28:13.600 --> 01:28:19.359
One of my favorite parts of this though was when he was like, Oh, she he's a he's a baseball player.
01:28:19.439 --> 01:28:21.439
And he's like, Yeah, baseball player.
01:28:22.239 --> 01:28:23.920
The guy was like, How much do you make?
01:28:24.239 --> 01:28:26.399
He's like, League minimum, and he's like, mm.
01:28:26.800 --> 01:28:29.199
He's like, Yeah, we got uniforms and everything.
01:28:30.000 --> 01:28:31.680
I didn't know Cleveland even had a team.
01:28:32.319 --> 01:28:33.760
Yeah, we've got uniforms and everything.
01:28:33.920 --> 01:28:38.159
But you notice when he says league minimum, she comes to his defense.
01:28:38.399 --> 01:28:38.880
She did, yeah.
01:28:39.039 --> 01:28:40.479
And says that he was an all-star.
01:28:42.159 --> 01:28:44.720
So that means there's something there.
01:28:44.880 --> 01:28:47.760
She knew that her fiance was trying to embarrass him.
01:28:47.840 --> 01:28:48.000
Yeah.
01:28:48.239 --> 01:28:49.920
And she was coming to his defense.
01:28:50.159 --> 01:28:55.199
And that was the point where I saw the fiance give her that look like, I'm going to smack you later.
01:28:55.359 --> 01:28:55.600
Right.
01:28:55.840 --> 01:28:56.800
If you don't shut your mouth.
01:28:56.880 --> 01:28:58.560
And I was like, ooh, that guy's not a good guy.
01:28:58.640 --> 01:28:58.800
Right.
01:28:59.039 --> 01:28:59.680
He's not a good guy.
01:28:59.840 --> 01:29:01.840
Well, he Jake's like, you know what?
01:29:02.479 --> 01:29:03.760
I'm going to head out.
01:29:03.920 --> 01:29:08.239
And so he he's heading to the door, and the fiance walks him there.
01:29:08.319 --> 01:29:12.880
And they they have some final words before Jake leaves.
01:29:13.199 --> 01:29:14.239
Stay away from her.
01:29:14.560 --> 01:29:16.000
Suck my dick.
01:29:18.880 --> 01:29:19.840
Well said.
01:29:21.279 --> 01:29:33.920
Lou back in the ballpark is about to send Vaughn down to the minors because while he's got one hell of an arm, he just has some control issues and realizes that maybe some time down in the minors would do him good.
01:29:34.079 --> 01:29:36.560
It's done good for a lot of players, including Ryan over there.
01:29:36.640 --> 01:29:41.199
And he sees, you know, Vaughn look over and squint, like, who are you talking about?
01:29:41.600 --> 01:29:46.000
And instantly, somehow, Lou figures out that Vaughn doesn't see very well.
01:29:46.239 --> 01:29:46.880
Right.
01:29:48.000 --> 01:29:52.319
How has it taken this long for anyone to put two and two together on that?
01:29:52.720 --> 01:29:58.560
You would think the penal system in California would have figured out his eyesight was not good.
01:29:59.279 --> 01:30:04.560
I mean, so I I do a lot of I work with a lot of nonprofit organizations.
01:30:05.119 --> 01:30:10.720
And one of the ones I do a lot of work with is this uh Delta Gamma Center for Children with Visual Impairments.
01:30:10.880 --> 01:30:31.760
And so they go into school, uh preschools and child care centers and do instant vision testing, where they have this little camera kind of thing that basically can look right into the eye and on the within seconds see if there's issues like lazy eye or other problems that they could cause issues with vision in early childhood because it's earlier to treat easier to treat things when kids are young than when they're older.
01:30:32.079 --> 01:30:40.800
And the problem is because kids, if they have vision issues and they're growing up, they just assume everyone sees like that.
01:30:41.199 --> 01:30:48.079
The whole they just assume the world is blurry because they've never really felt or experienced it crisp and clear.
01:30:48.239 --> 01:30:48.399
Right.
01:30:48.720 --> 01:30:51.760
They can't see clearly now because the rain's not gone.
01:30:53.520 --> 01:30:55.199
There are many obstacles in their way.
01:30:55.359 --> 01:30:55.680
Right.
01:30:55.920 --> 01:30:58.479
Because they can't see them because they're too damn blurry.
01:30:58.640 --> 01:30:59.279
Right.
01:30:59.760 --> 01:31:04.079
Now, Rick, though, I mean, he's a grown adult at this point.
01:31:04.239 --> 01:31:04.640
Yep.
01:31:05.199 --> 01:31:16.479
I feel like at some point along the way, if he hasn't actually had a vision test, he would have put two and two together that everything is a blur more than a few feet away from me.
01:31:16.720 --> 01:31:18.000
Is this normal?
01:31:18.880 --> 01:31:26.479
Or no other coach or anyone else, no teacher, no parent, nobody has said, You're having clearly you're having issues seeing.
01:31:26.560 --> 01:31:27.279
How is he drive?
01:31:27.359 --> 01:31:28.399
How does he do anything?
01:31:28.560 --> 01:31:31.520
He would have had to pass a vision test to get his driver's license.
01:31:31.840 --> 01:31:33.279
He didn't have a driver's license.
01:31:33.439 --> 01:31:35.760
Well, yeah, we only see him uh riding on the back of the motion.
01:31:35.920 --> 01:31:36.800
We never actually see him drive him.
01:31:37.359 --> 01:31:39.119
I guess I'm just he does say he stole a car.
01:31:39.199 --> 01:31:41.920
Maybe that's what he got busted for, because he trashed it because he couldn't drive.
01:31:42.239 --> 01:31:44.960
Maybe he only drove it like three feet and he hit a wall or something.
01:31:45.199 --> 01:31:45.520
Could be.
01:31:45.680 --> 01:31:46.000
Right.
01:31:46.319 --> 01:31:51.520
But it is surprising regardless of somehow he made it to this point in his life without anyone putting two and two together on this.
01:31:51.840 --> 01:31:54.640
Nobody knows he has pres presbyopia.
01:31:55.520 --> 01:31:56.000
A what?
01:31:57.920 --> 01:31:59.520
Or myopia, one of the two.
01:32:01.039 --> 01:32:01.279
Yeah.
01:32:01.520 --> 01:32:03.119
Nearsighted big words.
01:32:04.079 --> 01:32:05.920
Or what's the other one called?
01:32:06.319 --> 01:32:07.760
Presbyopia and myopia.
01:32:08.000 --> 01:32:08.960
Myopia is nearsighted.
01:32:09.119 --> 01:32:09.199
Right.
01:32:09.439 --> 01:32:10.800
Presbyopia is harshted.
01:32:11.039 --> 01:32:22.239
So here's the thing, and I'm thinking about this now because I I grew up in a family that loved me enough to take me to the doctor and get me glasses, right?
01:32:23.119 --> 01:32:24.399
But that makes me wonder.
01:32:24.479 --> 01:32:30.640
Like, if you grew up in a family that didn't give a shit about you, your blurry vision is just normal.
01:32:31.199 --> 01:32:32.000
You'd never know.
01:32:32.239 --> 01:32:33.600
You would have no clue.
01:32:34.800 --> 01:32:38.800
At some point, someone has loved Ricky enough to get him to baseball games.
01:32:41.199 --> 01:32:42.079
Ah, you're right.
01:32:42.560 --> 01:32:44.399
Maybe as he aged it got worse.
01:32:44.640 --> 01:32:45.840
Maybe it's a progressive issue.
01:32:46.079 --> 01:32:54.239
But that's again, but this is where if he had crisp, clear vision up to a certain point in his life, he definitely would have known something's different.
01:32:54.479 --> 01:33:00.159
I think this is splitting a bit of a hair and falls under the umbrella of because movie.
01:33:00.319 --> 01:33:01.359
Yeah, I get it.
01:33:01.920 --> 01:33:03.279
Movie, movie.
01:33:03.760 --> 01:33:08.399
Anyway, so yeah, they get him new glasses, and then lo and behold, he can pitch better now.
01:33:08.560 --> 01:33:09.199
Oh, he's great.
01:33:09.600 --> 01:33:13.520
How about he puts Lou Brown's glasses on to make the next start?
01:33:13.760 --> 01:33:19.359
And Willie Mays Hayes says something about his glasses that's absolutely hilarious.
01:33:19.760 --> 01:33:24.800
He says something like, uh, yeah, after after the game, I'm gonna go get a pair of my glasses, you know.
01:33:24.960 --> 01:33:27.680
And Lou Brown says, Well, seeing is the most important thing.
01:33:27.840 --> 01:33:31.920
And Willie Mays looks at him in those glasses and goes, Ain't that important.
01:33:35.199 --> 01:33:38.079
It's better to look cool than look like that.
01:33:38.319 --> 01:33:38.880
Right?
01:33:39.600 --> 01:33:44.159
After this, we get we get some more cutaways because so we can see how the team's improving.
01:33:44.239 --> 01:33:49.520
And and these this particular set of cutaways featured an appearance by an actor I recognized.
01:33:49.760 --> 01:33:50.560
Who is that?
01:33:50.800 --> 01:33:56.079
Uh the janitor from the TV show Scrubs, played by Neil Flynn.
01:33:56.399 --> 01:33:57.840
Oh, I know who you're talking about.
01:33:58.000 --> 01:34:04.800
He was in this this particular set of uh this particular montage as the you know these guys ain't so fucking bad.
01:34:04.960 --> 01:34:06.239
Yeah, that was that guy.
01:34:06.319 --> 01:34:07.840
Yeah, he's the guy the guy in the bar.
01:34:08.000 --> 01:34:10.960
No, he's the guy with uh he was like a construction guy with a bunch of chains.
01:34:11.199 --> 01:34:11.840
Yeah, okay.
01:34:12.800 --> 01:34:17.439
Who later up later on ends up at the bar maybe and hugs the guy in the mohawk.
01:34:17.600 --> 01:34:20.239
Oh same guy, okay bringing them all together.
01:34:20.479 --> 01:34:24.560
Yeah, love, love, we'll keep it together.
01:34:25.439 --> 01:34:34.479
Uh Jake is doing more stalkery things because uh he happens to see Lynn in the stands at a game.
01:34:34.800 --> 01:34:37.680
She just went to a game to watch him.
01:34:37.920 --> 01:34:40.159
And uh he follows her out of the ballpark.
01:34:40.239 --> 01:34:43.039
Now, the geometry of how this works is beyond me.
01:34:43.119 --> 01:34:47.520
I don't know how he made it from the field to the back gate where she just happened to also be parked.
01:34:47.760 --> 01:34:50.239
Another great idea from Willie Mays Hayes.
01:34:50.479 --> 01:34:51.600
Yeah, just follow her home.
01:34:51.760 --> 01:34:52.560
Take the bullpen car.
01:34:52.720 --> 01:34:54.079
No, no, no, that was the security guard.
01:34:54.159 --> 01:34:57.920
So he goes up to security guards, like, I need to get a car really fast.
01:34:58.079 --> 01:35:00.720
I'm parked on the other side, and the security guard's like, oh, take the bullpen car.
01:35:01.039 --> 01:35:01.680
That's right, that's right.
01:35:01.840 --> 01:35:04.560
Now I had no idea what a bullpen car was.
01:35:04.800 --> 01:35:06.720
Yeah, so what is he talking about?
01:35:07.039 --> 01:35:10.560
It's essentially just a glorified golf cart.
01:35:11.279 --> 01:35:11.920
It sure is.
01:35:12.079 --> 01:35:15.920
But whenever they used to take pictures from the bullpen to the mount.
01:35:16.159 --> 01:35:22.319
Whenever he pulled that thing up to her apartment, I was like, oh fuck yeah, I'd drive that bullpen car.
01:35:22.880 --> 01:35:23.199
Okay.
01:35:24.079 --> 01:35:26.880
And I know I'm I'm I'm nitpicking here.
01:35:27.680 --> 01:35:33.840
How did he keep first off, she was already in the car pulling out while he was running to get the bullpen car.
01:35:34.000 --> 01:35:36.720
The bullpen car cannot be driving as fast as a normal automobile.
01:35:36.800 --> 01:35:47.600
Now I know it's probably stop and go traffic, but how did he keep up enough to be able to actually see because she's parked, and then we see him come over the hill in the with the lights on from the distance.
01:35:47.760 --> 01:35:51.039
Well, you're in a golf cart, so probably you could take some sidewalks.
01:35:51.279 --> 01:35:51.439
Right.
01:35:51.600 --> 01:35:53.199
But how did he know where to go?
01:35:53.680 --> 01:35:55.520
I'm just saying, how could he have kept up?
01:35:55.920 --> 01:35:56.960
Love, man.
01:35:58.239 --> 01:35:59.840
Love was his GPS.
01:36:00.319 --> 01:36:00.720
All right.
01:36:03.279 --> 01:36:16.000
There's so much of this movie I can go along freely and willingly with, but this Jake Lynn love story pushes my suspension of disbelief beyond my breaking point.
01:36:16.239 --> 01:36:16.560
I get it.
01:36:16.960 --> 01:36:17.279
I really do.
01:36:17.840 --> 01:36:19.119
It does get a little creepy.
01:36:19.279 --> 01:36:20.720
It doesn't make any sense either.
01:36:20.800 --> 01:36:21.920
You're 100% right.
01:36:22.239 --> 01:36:27.760
Like, how, like, if she was gone and you're in a golf cart, how are you gonna find her?
01:36:27.920 --> 01:36:39.119
You're not, you don't know where she lives, but he does, and then he doesn't ring a doorbell, he doesn't knock on the door, he just lets himself on in.
01:36:39.279 --> 01:36:41.359
Intruder alert, intruder alert, listen.
01:36:41.600 --> 01:36:43.279
Like you said, who doesn't lock the door?
01:36:43.520 --> 01:36:45.760
Listen, he's motherfucking Jake Taylor.
01:36:45.920 --> 01:36:48.399
And so, yeah, he just lets himself in.
01:36:48.640 --> 01:36:49.600
He's gonna go in.
01:36:49.840 --> 01:36:51.279
Former all-star Jake Taylor.
01:36:51.520 --> 01:36:52.640
Walks on in.
01:36:54.960 --> 01:37:02.079
Lynn tells him that you know she's moved on, and that, you know, quite frankly, he wasn't a very good boyfriend when they were together.
01:37:02.239 --> 01:37:02.640
Right.
01:37:02.800 --> 01:37:05.359
And that it's time to turn the page.
01:37:05.680 --> 01:37:07.119
But let's fuck first.
01:37:07.439 --> 01:37:09.039
And then they do it anyway.
01:37:09.279 --> 01:37:09.760
Yeah.
01:37:10.239 --> 01:37:11.680
Well, she gives him some hitting advice.
01:37:11.920 --> 01:37:14.880
Well, sometimes you gotta like You need to open your stance because they're pitching you inside.
01:37:15.039 --> 01:37:15.920
Sometimes you gotta fucking.
01:37:16.159 --> 01:37:19.279
And he did can he did say that he read Moby Dick.
01:37:19.680 --> 01:37:20.399
The comic book.
01:37:20.720 --> 01:37:21.840
No, she he didn't say that.
01:37:22.319 --> 01:37:23.359
She said I read Moby Dick.
01:37:23.520 --> 01:37:23.840
The comic book.
01:37:24.000 --> 01:37:26.319
Yeah, and she was asking him questions about it to make sure he was right.
01:37:26.560 --> 01:37:27.520
Who saved Quequeg?
01:37:27.760 --> 01:37:28.640
I guess he got it though.
01:37:28.800 --> 01:37:30.079
Or who saved Ishmael?
01:37:30.720 --> 01:37:30.960
No one.
01:37:31.039 --> 01:37:32.079
It was Queequeg's coffee.
01:37:33.279 --> 01:37:33.920
Yeah.
01:37:34.720 --> 01:37:36.399
And then she got so hot.
01:37:36.640 --> 01:37:37.119
He did.
01:37:37.520 --> 01:37:39.039
She loves books.
01:37:39.359 --> 01:37:41.359
Those those librarians love the oh man.
01:37:41.680 --> 01:37:42.960
Love the uh the lit.
01:37:43.119 --> 01:37:44.159
The classics.
01:37:44.640 --> 01:37:46.560
Lit rhymes with lit.
01:37:46.880 --> 01:37:48.000
Oh, you had to go with that.
01:37:48.239 --> 01:37:50.319
Nothing gets them hot and wet like Herman Melville.
01:37:52.000 --> 01:37:53.199
Must have been a sperm whale.
01:37:53.359 --> 01:37:54.880
It was a big white dick.
01:37:55.760 --> 01:37:56.479
Moby.
01:37:57.680 --> 01:37:58.399
Moving on.
01:37:59.359 --> 01:38:00.880
It's my great white whale.
01:38:01.039 --> 01:38:02.720
So we get further into the season.
01:38:02.800 --> 01:38:06.880
We are now at the point of about oh, two-thirds through.
01:38:06.960 --> 01:38:09.119
They're at 6061 for the season.
01:38:09.279 --> 01:38:09.680
Yeah.
01:38:09.920 --> 01:38:11.359
One game under 500.
01:38:11.439 --> 01:38:15.680
Not a bad mark for them to be at for the way they were put together.
01:38:15.840 --> 01:38:16.399
Right.
01:38:16.640 --> 01:38:30.319
Um, Charlie Donovan, uh the GM went on the road with the team, which is a bit of a surprise to Lou, but um he does reveal Rachel's relocation plan.
01:38:31.600 --> 01:38:34.720
You know, Charlie got so much shit.
01:38:35.439 --> 01:38:36.800
And I felt bad for Charlie.
01:38:37.039 --> 01:38:37.439
I did too.
01:38:37.520 --> 01:38:38.319
I I like the guy.
01:38:38.560 --> 01:38:39.119
I did too.
01:38:39.279 --> 01:38:42.000
Like he's a GM and he wants his team to win.
01:38:42.159 --> 01:38:42.319
Right.
01:38:42.479 --> 01:38:43.359
That's all he wanted.
01:38:43.840 --> 01:38:44.720
I felt bad for him.
01:38:44.800 --> 01:38:47.600
I'm glad that he had it like later on here.
01:38:47.760 --> 01:38:48.079
Yeah.
01:38:48.239 --> 01:38:51.439
He's got a little bit of a Yeah, little thing.
01:38:51.520 --> 01:38:52.800
Yeah, coming up.
01:38:53.039 --> 01:38:56.000
Well, well, Lou does not keep this information to himself.
01:38:56.159 --> 01:39:05.680
He calls a whole team meeting and everyone's sitting around while Lou basically lets the players know what's going to happen and that regardless of the outcome of the season, most likely, they're going to be released.
01:39:05.760 --> 01:39:09.039
If this plan succeeds, they're going to move to Florida and dump us all and get new players.
01:39:09.199 --> 01:39:11.600
If it fails, they're going to dump us all and get worse players.
01:39:11.760 --> 01:39:12.079
Right.
01:39:12.319 --> 01:39:16.800
So we got a pretty shitty row to hoe no matter what.
01:39:16.960 --> 01:39:20.560
Uh and so Jake basically puts it out there that we only have really one choice.
01:39:20.880 --> 01:39:23.279
Well, then I guess there's only one thing left to do.
01:39:24.560 --> 01:39:25.279
What's that?
01:39:27.199 --> 01:39:29.680
Win the whole fucking thing.
01:39:29.840 --> 01:39:30.560
Hell yeah.
01:39:30.800 --> 01:39:33.840
And rather than quit, the team unites with a single goal.
01:39:34.000 --> 01:39:36.319
Win the division and ruin Rachel's plans.
01:39:36.560 --> 01:39:37.600
Win the whole fucking thing.
01:39:37.680 --> 01:39:37.840
Yeah.
01:39:38.079 --> 01:39:44.800
Now, now their their motivations here are, I think, a little bit off target.
01:39:45.920 --> 01:39:49.199
Winning the whole fucking thing isn't going to thwart Rachel.
01:39:49.359 --> 01:39:50.960
No, they're all playing for their own careers.
01:39:51.119 --> 01:39:54.640
If this is the case, you're looking at this like, okay, we have one shot to play this together.
01:39:54.800 --> 01:39:56.000
We have to win the whole thing.
01:39:56.079 --> 01:39:57.039
You're playing it for you.
01:39:57.119 --> 01:40:00.880
This isn't to beat Rachel, because honestly, you could defeat Rachel way before you get to that goal.
01:40:01.039 --> 01:40:01.680
Right.
01:40:01.920 --> 01:40:05.359
Um at 1661, she's already pretty much defeated for the season.
01:40:05.840 --> 01:40:08.800
Well, I mean, we don't know exactly what attendance has been up to this point.
01:40:08.960 --> 01:40:09.359
Right.
01:40:09.600 --> 01:40:14.960
But, you know, you're you're yeah, you're 120 games in, you got 40 some games to go.
01:40:15.199 --> 01:40:20.399
Um, you know, with decent run down stretch really wouldn't take much.
01:40:20.640 --> 01:40:21.199
Right.
01:40:22.319 --> 01:40:25.279
Regardless, yeah, they're their time together is limited.
01:40:25.359 --> 01:40:26.479
And so, yeah, this is our shot.
01:40:26.560 --> 01:40:27.760
They're our one opportunity.
01:40:27.920 --> 01:40:30.800
This is this is MM mom spaghetti territory.
01:40:31.920 --> 01:40:33.920
And so they're gonna make a run for it.
01:40:34.880 --> 01:40:38.319
Um for inspiration to help track their progress.
01:40:38.800 --> 01:40:41.279
They bring out a cardboard cutout of the owner.
01:40:41.760 --> 01:40:49.680
Because Lou makes it clear that basically, if you know, breaking down the math, we need 32 wins.
01:40:49.840 --> 01:40:56.800
Now, at this point, we if there's 1661s, 121 games played, that means they're gonna have to go 32 and nine.
01:40:56.880 --> 01:40:57.520
Yeah.
01:40:58.000 --> 01:41:00.640
And they'll back half back chunk of the season.
01:41:00.800 --> 01:41:01.439
That's a run.
01:41:01.920 --> 01:41:03.359
That's a hell of a run.
01:41:03.600 --> 01:41:04.479
Holy cow.
01:41:04.960 --> 01:41:15.840
Uh but then we get a montage of fans, American Express commercials, old men playing checkers and wild thing t-shirts, Willie tackling bat and gloves to the wall.
01:41:16.079 --> 01:41:17.119
Um, let me say it again.
01:41:17.279 --> 01:41:19.920
Willie tacking batting gloves to the wall.
01:41:20.159 --> 01:41:26.079
Uh, newspaper headlines, clothing being torn off the cutout, and lots of satty faces from Rachel.
01:41:26.239 --> 01:41:26.560
Right.
01:41:26.720 --> 01:41:27.439
She's pissy.
01:41:27.520 --> 01:41:30.560
So we don't know exactly how they're doing, but apparently they're doing quite well.
01:41:30.880 --> 01:41:32.399
The town would like.
01:41:32.720 --> 01:41:33.680
The town is a buzz.
01:41:33.920 --> 01:41:34.720
They are a buzz.
01:41:34.800 --> 01:41:35.119
Yeah.
01:41:35.359 --> 01:41:36.560
Ooh, we got a team.
01:41:36.720 --> 01:41:39.279
There's a statue with uh an Indian's hat on it.
01:41:39.520 --> 01:41:39.840
Yeah.
01:41:40.079 --> 01:41:41.840
There's people are talking now.
01:41:41.920 --> 01:41:43.119
Oh, they're getting into it.
01:41:43.279 --> 01:41:43.600
Yeah.
01:41:43.840 --> 01:41:44.640
They're pumped.
01:41:44.960 --> 01:41:52.479
They have caught fire and they've battled into first place, and they finish tied with their rivals, the Yankees.
01:41:52.640 --> 01:41:52.800
Yep.
01:41:52.960 --> 01:41:53.359
Fucking yeah.
01:41:53.600 --> 01:41:55.199
At the top of the American League East.
01:41:55.760 --> 01:42:02.000
And really comes down to a one-game playoff to decide who wins the division.
01:42:02.239 --> 01:42:05.439
Is there anything worse than the Yanks?
01:42:08.319 --> 01:42:08.640
No.
01:42:11.520 --> 01:42:16.479
The evil Empire, the New York Yankees, Evil Empire.
01:42:16.800 --> 01:42:18.399
George Steinbrenner and his wallet.
01:42:20.800 --> 01:42:23.039
Who's your favorite little rascal?
01:42:24.720 --> 01:42:25.359
Alfalfa.
01:42:25.840 --> 01:42:27.039
Or Spanky.
01:42:29.279 --> 01:42:34.640
Um, but the team is is all excited.
01:42:34.720 --> 01:42:53.279
They're celebrating, they're coming down to the end, the town's a buzz, there are news reports, and just like so many movies have done prior to this one that we've talked about, we get this tropey moment where Roger Dorn's wife just happens to have the TV on at just the right time.
01:42:53.520 --> 01:42:55.439
She's watching the post-game celebration.
01:42:55.680 --> 01:43:02.319
And catches a shot in of Roger in the background covorting with another woman.
01:43:02.479 --> 01:43:03.119
Yeah.
01:43:03.600 --> 01:43:09.279
And like you may have heard before, hell hath no fury like a woman scorned.
01:43:09.520 --> 01:43:10.399
I have heard that.
01:43:10.560 --> 01:43:11.439
I've heard that as well.
01:43:11.600 --> 01:43:13.359
It's a theory I kind of subscribe to.
01:43:14.159 --> 01:43:17.279
Apparently, there's nothing worse than a scorned dorn.
01:43:17.439 --> 01:43:18.239
A dorns scorn.
01:43:19.520 --> 01:43:20.960
Dorn scorn is the worst kind.
01:43:21.119 --> 01:43:22.399
That was not, you put that together well.
01:43:24.399 --> 01:43:26.239
What is the one from Mallrad's, though?
01:43:26.399 --> 01:43:28.000
You need a lawyer for that.
01:43:28.560 --> 01:43:31.600
Hell hath no fear like a woman scorned for Sega.
01:43:34.479 --> 01:43:35.920
But it's the wheel.
01:43:39.760 --> 01:43:45.760
Vaughn finds out on the bus ride back to Cleveland that he's not going to be pitching the big game.
01:43:45.840 --> 01:43:56.479
That that Louis decides that Harris has a better record, and even though it's Ricky's turn of the rotation, you know, we're going to go with Harris, the the crafty vagisil flinging veteran.
01:43:56.800 --> 01:43:56.960
Yeah.
01:43:57.119 --> 01:43:59.680
Well, and there's one hitter that's just owned Ricky.
01:43:59.840 --> 01:44:00.159
Yeah.
01:44:00.800 --> 01:44:03.520
The dude with the badass handlebar.
01:44:03.760 --> 01:44:04.960
Yeah, Clue Hayward.
01:44:05.039 --> 01:44:05.199
Yeah.
01:44:05.439 --> 01:44:06.159
What a name, Clue.
01:44:06.399 --> 01:44:07.359
Clue Haywood.
01:44:07.680 --> 01:44:08.000
Yeah.
01:44:08.159 --> 01:44:08.720
Clue?
01:44:09.359 --> 01:44:10.079
Clue Haywood.
01:44:10.399 --> 01:44:10.720
Clue.
01:44:11.039 --> 01:44:13.520
You want an interesting fun fact about Clue Haywood?
01:44:13.600 --> 01:44:14.239
I would love one.
01:44:14.399 --> 01:44:14.640
Okay.
01:44:14.880 --> 01:44:21.359
Clue Haywood was played by former Major League All-Star Pete Vukovich.
01:44:21.680 --> 01:44:22.319
Vukovich.
01:44:22.640 --> 01:44:26.079
Now Pete Vukovich was a pitcher.
01:44:27.039 --> 01:44:31.039
He was a pitcher for Milwaukee, who actually won the Cy Young Award.
01:44:31.279 --> 01:44:31.520
Wow.
01:44:31.760 --> 01:44:32.159
That way.
01:44:32.399 --> 01:44:32.800
Yep.
01:44:33.520 --> 01:44:36.239
In 1982, the year the Cardinals beat them in the World Series.
01:44:36.560 --> 01:44:38.159
That's a beefy dude for a pitcher.
01:44:38.239 --> 01:44:38.399
Yep.
01:44:38.479 --> 01:44:42.399
He was a three-time All-Star and Cy Young Award winner, pitcher for the Milwaukee Brewers.
01:44:42.479 --> 01:44:44.399
And now that's David Wells territory.
01:44:44.640 --> 01:44:45.359
But beefier.
01:44:45.760 --> 01:44:48.560
That is the guy who had the big handlebar.
01:44:48.960 --> 01:44:50.319
Handlebar mustache, right?
01:44:50.479 --> 01:44:50.640
Yeah.
01:44:50.800 --> 01:44:53.920
We're talking like all the way down to the chin.
01:44:54.079 --> 01:44:54.319
Yeah.
01:44:54.479 --> 01:44:54.800
Okay.
01:44:55.119 --> 01:44:55.840
He was a pitcher?
01:44:56.000 --> 01:44:56.560
No, yeah, yeah.
01:44:56.640 --> 01:44:58.560
He in real life he was a pitcher, not a hitter.
01:44:58.720 --> 01:44:58.960
Wow.
01:44:59.119 --> 01:45:00.000
Yeah, isn't that crazy?
01:45:00.159 --> 01:45:00.640
That is crazy.
01:45:01.359 --> 01:45:02.159
Pete Bukowich.
01:45:02.479 --> 01:45:05.680
I bet that felt real good for him to play a guy who could hit a home run.
01:45:05.760 --> 01:45:06.000
Yeah.
01:45:06.159 --> 01:45:07.840
Oh, I bet that was nice.
01:45:08.479 --> 01:45:13.439
Well, that was before the uh DH.
01:45:13.920 --> 01:45:14.800
Well, no, no, no, no.
01:45:15.279 --> 01:45:16.640
So this was That's the American League.
01:45:16.960 --> 01:45:20.960
Well, he was the Milwaukee was in the American League at that time, so it would have been a designated hitter.
01:45:21.359 --> 01:45:23.279
Yeah, so he never had enough bat in the majors.
01:45:23.520 --> 01:45:23.840
Really?
01:45:24.000 --> 01:45:24.239
Yeah.
01:45:24.319 --> 01:45:24.479
Okay.
01:45:24.800 --> 01:45:28.239
But they cast him as like the big Yankee home run hitter.
01:45:28.399 --> 01:45:28.880
That's hilarious.
01:45:29.039 --> 01:45:30.159
And I thought it was hilarious too.
01:45:30.239 --> 01:45:31.920
I thought that was a fun little nugget.
01:45:33.760 --> 01:45:44.800
So while Vaughn is drinking himself at a silly at a bar because, you know, mourning his loss of the opportunity to play against the Yankees in the big game.
01:45:45.039 --> 01:45:46.000
He's the sandstark.
01:45:46.720 --> 01:45:51.039
He's approached by a rather fetching woman in a red dress.
01:45:51.279 --> 01:45:52.239
Oh, very fetching.
01:45:52.399 --> 01:45:55.039
Who who says she doesn't chase baseball players.
01:45:55.279 --> 01:45:56.000
Then why are you here?
01:45:56.239 --> 01:46:01.359
Because you're the sexiest man I've ever seen in my whole life, and you look like you need a friend.
01:46:01.840 --> 01:46:03.039
Um check.
01:46:05.680 --> 01:46:10.560
And so we cut from the bar to Ricky's up bedroom.
01:46:10.720 --> 01:46:10.960
Yeah.
01:46:11.119 --> 01:46:12.319
Uh post Coitus.
01:46:12.640 --> 01:46:15.359
Yep, where he in the morning, where he lives with Jake Taylor.
01:46:15.520 --> 01:46:22.399
And we find out with his conversation with the woman in red that her name is Suzanne Dorn.
01:46:23.279 --> 01:46:25.680
Right the wife of Roger Dorn.
01:46:25.920 --> 01:46:26.239
Uh-oh.
01:46:26.880 --> 01:46:28.880
The third baseman of the team he plays on.
01:46:29.119 --> 01:46:34.000
She was getting back at him for cavortin' with that lady in the post-game celebration.
01:46:34.239 --> 01:46:40.239
And so then she walks out of the room, and Jake sees her walk out of the room because Jake knows who Suzanne is.
01:46:40.560 --> 01:46:47.439
Because one scene we didn't talk about, Jake does go to Roger's house and threatens to cut his throat if he ever blows a play again.
01:46:47.600 --> 01:46:47.760
Right.
01:46:47.920 --> 01:46:54.399
Uh so he's met Suzanne, so he knows who she is, and he knows that she just fucked Ricky and that shit's gonna go down.
01:46:54.640 --> 01:46:55.279
Yep.
01:46:55.920 --> 01:46:56.800
Oh boy.
01:46:57.039 --> 01:46:59.039
Now he tried to protect him too.
01:46:59.199 --> 01:47:01.039
Yeah, that was pretty cunning on her part.
01:47:01.199 --> 01:47:01.359
Yeah.
01:47:01.600 --> 01:47:05.279
I I got I have to ask a question about their living arrangement.
01:47:05.359 --> 01:47:05.760
Uh-huh.
01:47:06.399 --> 01:47:12.159
Um, because it really seems like they're living almost in a dormitory.
01:47:13.199 --> 01:47:14.720
I thought it was like an apartment.
01:47:15.039 --> 01:47:15.359
Okay.
01:47:16.960 --> 01:47:23.680
Now, we learned from the conversation that Jake had at the dinner party that he crashed that he makes league minimum.
01:47:23.840 --> 01:47:24.159
Sure.
01:47:24.399 --> 01:47:27.359
I assume most of the guys in the team are making league minimum.
01:47:27.439 --> 01:47:27.840
Uh-huh.
01:47:28.159 --> 01:47:33.920
League minimum in 1989 when the movie came out was$62,000 a year.
01:47:34.159 --> 01:47:34.479
Okay.
01:47:34.720 --> 01:47:39.600
Now that's the equivalent of$183,000 today.
01:47:40.960 --> 01:47:42.800
These guys were not poor.
01:47:43.279 --> 01:47:46.880
They might not have been superstars, but they weren't doing bad.
01:47:47.119 --> 01:47:47.439
Yeah.
01:47:48.000 --> 01:47:51.199
Why are they living like like it's in squalor?
01:47:51.439 --> 01:47:53.920
Well, it wasn't really squalor, they were living like frat boys.
01:47:54.319 --> 01:47:54.560
Okay.
01:47:55.680 --> 01:47:57.119
Maybe he had past debts.
01:47:57.520 --> 01:47:58.079
Alright.
01:47:58.640 --> 01:47:59.520
Maybe.
01:48:00.159 --> 01:48:02.560
Because they were only making like a minimum.
01:48:02.960 --> 01:48:09.359
They were just compiling together and just being like, hey, let's save some cash because we never know what's going to happen after this season.
01:48:09.680 --> 01:48:17.119
But okay, so we we see and it didn't bother me, I guess, when I saw the scene of just Ricky and and Jake sharing a room.
01:48:17.279 --> 01:48:21.520
Because I I I also know sometimes professional athletes, a veteran, will take a rookie under their wing.
01:48:21.600 --> 01:48:21.680
Right.
01:48:21.840 --> 01:48:26.800
And we'll kind of, or sometimes even players, when they come to a new town, they'll stay with a veteran in their house.
01:48:27.039 --> 01:48:27.760
Like a host player.
01:48:28.079 --> 01:48:28.319
Exactly.
01:48:28.479 --> 01:48:29.840
So I kind of thought it was that situation.
01:48:29.920 --> 01:48:38.479
But then the next scene we get, all the players are heading to the game, and Willie's like, hey, Jake, just you know, Serrano wants to sacrifice a live chicken.
01:48:38.640 --> 01:48:40.000
They're not walking into the stadium.
01:48:40.079 --> 01:48:44.399
They're walking out of their apartment building or whatever it might be.
01:48:44.560 --> 01:48:47.520
They all all these players live in the same building.
01:48:47.760 --> 01:48:49.680
No, I thought I thought that scene was in the stadium.
01:48:49.840 --> 01:48:50.479
I don't think so.
01:48:50.720 --> 01:48:52.560
Yeah, taking the stairwell down to the locker room.
01:48:52.720 --> 01:48:56.880
I thought they were taking the stairwell down to you know, head to the stadium.
01:48:57.119 --> 01:48:58.159
No, I thought they were already the same.
01:48:58.399 --> 01:48:59.760
Okay, well, maybe I'm wrong then.
01:49:00.479 --> 01:49:02.720
But still, you would think they would have better living quarters.
01:49:02.960 --> 01:49:03.600
Yeah.
01:49:04.079 --> 01:49:09.920
Because, you know, the median individual income at that time was 18,000.
01:49:10.000 --> 01:49:14.319
So they're making three times what the average American did at that point.
01:49:14.640 --> 01:49:20.880
So but you gotta think about it too, is like they like okay, so even what's his name?
01:49:21.039 --> 01:49:27.199
Uh Jake Taylor was pulled from Mexico to Cleveland.
01:49:27.279 --> 01:49:27.520
Yeah.
01:49:27.760 --> 01:49:30.479
Where's the first place you're gonna like you're not gonna like buy a mansion?
01:49:30.800 --> 01:49:35.439
No, not saying you can buy a mansion, but like but you're you're certain you can get an apartment.
01:49:35.600 --> 01:49:35.840
Yeah.
01:49:36.000 --> 01:49:38.079
You know, like I mean, I I could see that.
01:49:38.159 --> 01:49:45.119
Like, and I could also see like especially knowing that you may not even make the team.
01:49:45.199 --> 01:49:47.199
Like you're just invited to spring training, right?
01:49:47.680 --> 01:49:51.119
You have no idea, like, okay, well I made it, so I'm gonna get this apartment.
01:49:51.439 --> 01:49:55.520
I don't know where I'm gonna be next to your I'm not gonna buy something extravagant.
01:49:55.600 --> 01:49:56.159
I could see that.
01:49:56.239 --> 01:49:59.760
I could see 'em all living in kind of kind of s squalor, like.
01:50:00.159 --> 01:50:00.960
your first year.
01:50:01.119 --> 01:50:06.800
You know, if you got something better, like an extension or something, I could see maybe throwing down some deeper roots.
01:50:07.359 --> 01:50:16.159
Now I know from experience at the minor league level where players were at that when I was working at that at the low A, players are only making like 12 grand a year.
01:50:16.319 --> 01:50:16.560
Right.
01:50:16.800 --> 01:50:20.319
So you would have a situation where you have four players sharing an apartment.
01:50:22.159 --> 01:50:22.560
Yeah.
01:50:22.800 --> 01:50:25.119
I'm glad Major League Baseball changed that rule.
01:50:25.359 --> 01:50:27.760
That now they have to provide housing for their players.
01:50:28.399 --> 01:50:29.359
That's a big step.
01:50:30.079 --> 01:50:35.600
Because you would have, like you said, four guys living in a two-room apartment sleeping on air mattresses in the living room.
01:50:36.159 --> 01:50:39.600
And then expected to go perform like a professional athlete.
01:50:41.039 --> 01:50:41.680
That sucks.
01:50:41.920 --> 01:50:42.960
Yeah, that does sucks.
01:50:43.199 --> 01:50:53.439
Yeah so now the they changed the rules where Major League Baseball has to provide housing and I think it's one or two meals a day.
01:50:53.840 --> 01:50:57.039
Because a lot of these guys couldn't even pay for food.
01:50:57.920 --> 01:51:00.239
Yeah you would get a per diem.
01:51:00.319 --> 01:51:00.560
Yeah.
01:51:00.880 --> 01:51:05.840
And it wasn't even necessarily that big but some guys they would just pool that together and just go buy a bunch of ramen.
01:51:06.000 --> 01:51:06.319
Right.
01:51:06.560 --> 01:51:06.960
That's off.
01:51:07.199 --> 01:51:17.199
And that whatever extra was on top of it, that was just added income that they could use for but I've got to but I've got to go execute as a professional athlete on ramen and try and air mattresses.
01:51:17.520 --> 01:51:19.199
And try to make it up to the next level.
01:51:19.359 --> 01:51:19.600
Right.
01:51:19.840 --> 01:51:21.760
And you're not there's no protein.
01:51:21.920 --> 01:51:22.239
Yeah.
01:51:22.479 --> 01:51:24.319
There's nothing to fuel yourself.
01:51:24.640 --> 01:51:25.520
No nutritionist.
01:51:26.000 --> 01:51:27.600
No that's awful.
01:51:27.920 --> 01:51:29.279
But now it's now it's better.
01:51:29.840 --> 01:51:30.640
A little bit different.
01:51:31.600 --> 01:51:39.199
Well as for the game um this is the big game the playoff this is gonna decide all the marbles for the division.
01:51:39.439 --> 01:51:39.600
Right.
01:51:39.680 --> 01:51:42.000
This is this decides who makes the playoffs.
01:51:42.159 --> 01:51:49.760
And we get a lot of action and I think overall the the the cinematography of the baseball through this whole sequence is pretty dang good.
01:51:49.920 --> 01:51:50.479
It is pretty good.
01:51:50.640 --> 01:51:51.840
And so is the music in the background.
01:51:52.000 --> 01:52:02.000
Yeah it builds Teddy high as the mood yeah um as far as the action goes we Eddie Harris he he gives up two runs late in the game and we're we're battling through it's pretty close.
01:52:03.840 --> 01:52:07.600
But they're down to nothing until Dorn can get gets on base.
01:52:07.920 --> 01:52:13.920
You know and I have to I have to give kudos here to the crowd.
01:52:15.520 --> 01:52:21.119
Yeah I think during this game I think the crowd was like they were extra into it?
01:52:21.359 --> 01:52:22.319
The 12th man.
01:52:22.560 --> 01:52:22.880
Yeah.
01:52:23.119 --> 01:52:25.199
Was this this was this what you were there for?
01:52:25.359 --> 01:52:33.439
Yeah this is what I was there for so how tell us more about how did you end up being what did you have to go through a process?
01:52:33.680 --> 01:52:44.239
Yeah okay so it was the Cleveland Indians and to get these crowd shots they needed to sell out the game and they weren't going to sell it out.
01:52:44.560 --> 01:52:49.439
So what they did was they opened the stadium for this game and said every seat is free.
01:52:49.680 --> 01:52:52.399
We're not gonna charge admission first come first serve.
01:52:52.640 --> 01:52:57.920
Whenever you get there, you pick where you want to sit so we got there at about two in the afternoon for a night game.
01:52:58.239 --> 01:53:06.560
We had a little cooler and picnic and everything and we sat about eight rows behind the the Indians dugout um and just hung out.
01:53:06.800 --> 01:53:21.840
And then the game started and they would play half an inning and then in between innings there was an elongated pause and they would have directions on the big screen that would flash up it's amazing and uh I actually I actually met Tom Berenger.
01:53:22.079 --> 01:53:26.479
Wow I had uh I had an Indian's hat and Tom Berenger signed my hat.
01:53:26.800 --> 01:53:32.399
No way Yeah yeah I had no frickin' clue who he was I was I was 13 I don't I don't know this guy.
01:53:32.640 --> 01:53:34.560
Do you still have you hadn't watched Platoon at that point?
01:53:34.720 --> 01:53:36.159
Was that you hadn't watched Platoon?
01:53:36.319 --> 01:53:38.319
No I had not watched Platoon at 13.
01:53:38.800 --> 01:53:40.880
Yeah it's somewhere I've got it somewhere.
01:53:41.119 --> 01:53:54.720
Um but yeah and then they would play the the other half inning and then they would take a break and put instructions on the screen and play fun music and So when you say play were they actually just playing the game out like a normal game?
01:53:54.880 --> 01:53:56.399
Yeah they play the game like a normal game.
01:53:56.720 --> 01:54:13.600
But then you know in between innings they would have uh the actors come out and do a few things like some of the some of the real dramatic shots like Jake Taylor running to first and you know that he didn't do that.
01:54:13.920 --> 01:54:21.359
That was shot elsewhere but they had um you know Charlie Sheen would would walk in through the bullpen that that happened like four innings in a row.
01:54:21.520 --> 01:54:29.920
Yeah you know in between they would have him walk in from the bullpen um and they'd tell the crowd to go crazy and cheer and jump around and stuff.
01:54:30.159 --> 01:54:34.720
Um yeah and they played the entire game like the game took forever now I bet.
01:54:34.960 --> 01:54:41.520
But uh did you sit there and go wow dang you make my heart sick.
01:54:42.079 --> 01:54:44.720
I I don't know if they played that song to be honest with you.
01:54:44.960 --> 01:54:49.520
No can't no they because they wouldn't have because like I said that was a decision made in editing posts.
01:54:49.760 --> 01:54:58.079
Oh right right yeah it was just probably some I honestly I doubt they would have played music at all because they want to just capture the the intake of the sound of the crowd.
01:54:58.640 --> 01:55:08.079
Okay alright yeah and so there there is a shot in the movie where people in the crowd are singing wild things but that that wasn't at Cleveland Stadium.
01:55:08.560 --> 01:55:11.359
They did that and posted another podcast probably a second unit.
01:55:11.520 --> 01:55:12.000
Right.
01:55:12.239 --> 01:55:17.600
Um so yeah or used it something else and then they're like you know what it would work better at the end if we add the music to it.
01:55:17.680 --> 01:55:18.000
Right.
01:55:18.239 --> 01:55:25.760
So you know they would just have us cheer real loud or you know act like your favorite team just scored the last run to win the World Series.
01:55:25.920 --> 01:55:30.800
Three, two, one, go and everyone's it's amazing.
01:55:30.960 --> 01:55:31.439
It was fun.
01:55:31.600 --> 01:55:34.079
What a fun thing to be a part of right especially when you're 13.
01:55:34.159 --> 01:55:34.640
It was cool.
01:55:34.960 --> 01:55:42.239
I I've never been an extra but I have had the chance to watch a movie being shot before uh that kind of scale.
01:55:42.479 --> 01:55:43.920
Oddly also in Cleveland.
01:55:44.079 --> 01:55:53.199
Oh interesting so I was in Cleveland for a work thing many many years ago when they were shooting scenes for the first Avengers movie.
01:55:53.439 --> 01:55:58.640
I didn't know they shot that thing they shot a lot of it in Cleveland because it doubled for New York and a few other places.
01:55:58.960 --> 01:56:18.079
So so there we we got I don't know why but the guy the people I I went to this I I was working my co-workers that I traveled with to this thing for this event we the decision was made instead of taking a bus or taking a cab from the airport to the hotel let's take the train or take the transit system.
01:56:18.239 --> 01:56:34.000
Oh no and so we did that and I don't care it was fine I take transits all the time doesn't bother me but where we got off then we had a nice long walk to where our hotel was which again I don't mind but as we're walking along I look over to the left and I see a car that looks like it has European license plates on it.
01:56:34.399 --> 01:57:01.119
Then I look over to the left and I see this giant truck this big big rigs parked along the road that has a Marvel sticker Marvel studio sticker or magnet on the door and then I look over to the left again and I see people running out of this this building screaming and then I hear a director calling and so they were shooting scenes so so if you've ever watched the Avengers there's a movie where look a scene where Loki comes in and attacks an opera house.
01:57:01.279 --> 01:57:08.880
Uh-huh I watched them shoot that over the outs the exteriors of the reaction shots I I stood there and watched for three straight hours.
01:57:09.199 --> 01:57:16.079
Oh it's it's engrossing isn't it and and the amount of time and I'm sure that what you saw worked a lot faster than a Marvel set.
01:57:16.239 --> 01:57:16.479
Yeah.
01:57:16.720 --> 01:57:20.560
But I sat there for three hours I think I only saw them run the scene four times.
01:57:20.960 --> 01:57:27.119
Wow and then the next day I actually found where the I actually did a little bit of research and and found where they were shooting some other things.
01:57:27.279 --> 01:57:34.800
I actually got to watch um from a distance where they were shooting like an Avengers battle in the streets with cars flipping.
01:57:34.960 --> 01:57:35.760
Oh that's cool.
01:57:36.079 --> 01:57:40.000
So that was cool also again yeah yeah so Cleveland they shoot some stuff there.
01:57:40.239 --> 01:57:47.119
Yeah yeah plenty of plenty space available a river on fire and film production and Marvel movies.
01:57:47.359 --> 01:58:13.439
Yeah okay I do have to say in the recent decade they've really done a lot to clean that Cleveland's a pretty nice town it is a pretty clear I enjoy going to Cleveland they've got the they've got a place called the Flats which is like um you know shops and restaurants and all that stuff they built the new stadium and they built the new basketball arena I mean Drew Carey would tell you that Cleveland rocked that's it does rock.
01:58:13.680 --> 01:58:16.000
He has said that the rock and roll hall of fame is there.
01:58:16.319 --> 01:58:38.239
Many times and brewed beer there too Buzzbeer which the coffee beer I think they they're ahead of the time they absolutely were definitely now I do like their competitor you remember their fake competitor that came along and made cat beer chino I thought that was a much better name than Buzzbeer but uh you know whatever.
01:58:38.560 --> 01:59:39.840
Anyway back to the movie uh Roger Dorn gets on base uh which then brings Serrano to the plate and he he's struggling still with the curveball uh swings and misses on a couple but then you know he he has a brief conversation with Joe Boo's tough not your boo Tick up for you no help me now I do it myself anyway so I mean so then in the um oh we're sorry so Pedro finally conquers his weakness of hitting a curveball and if you notice the pitcher doesn't throw a curveball yeah the pitcher throws a fastball I don't know why he doesn't throw a curveball maybe it's his own ego I'm gonna get him out with a fastball right button but they they tell us a curve it's a curveball and I'm not gonna question it because movie and there's so many other things I've had to question at a greater level I'm gonna let this one slide.
01:59:40.000 --> 01:59:46.399
Okay um and ultimately drives in uh two runs between him and Dorn and so now it's tied up now it's tied.
01:59:46.560 --> 01:59:51.439
Did you notice that Serrano carried his bat around the bases?
01:59:51.680 --> 02:00:07.760
I was so I was so worried when I was a kid when I was 13 14 and saw this movie when it came out I thought they're gonna call him out for carrying his bat around the bases he carried it all the way around because in the league I played if you carried your bat around the bases they would call you out.
02:00:08.000 --> 02:00:25.520
That's a no no and so I thought being an idiot they're gonna call him out they didn't well um at the top of the ninth inning with the bases loaded um and slugger clue haywood Mr.
02:00:25.600 --> 02:00:59.520
mustache himself at the plate yeah Lou decides maybe it's time to pull Harris because he he's just out of gas and so instead he brings in Vaughn yeah um the crowd goes nuts they did wild thing as he struts to the mound from the bullpen wild thing playing added in post bringing it all home adding a just a shit ton of energy to the moment but before this when Lou Brown came out to the mound and said get me Vaughn Jake Taylor's like wait what are you sure?
02:01:00.079 --> 02:01:09.520
Because he knows I got a feeling he's due that he knows that Vaughn just banged Dorne's wire he's got that extra juice flowing.
02:01:09.680 --> 02:02:29.039
Uh-huh so he doesn't want Ricky in the game because he doesn't want that uh interaction and then Ricky comes in the game gets on the mound and Dorne is too Dorne comes straight to the mound and goes to the mound and it looks like a confrontation's about to to go down but instead um we get this cut through the crap ball I only got one thing to say to you strike this motherfucker out yay rose before hose right there that's right yeah that is right well Vaughn strikes Haywood out on three blazing fastballs topping out at 101 miles an hour but the game isn't over it's still tight we're going to the bottom the bottom of the ninth uh we're I like how your voice just went like radio broadcaster baseball game guy bottom of the ninth and we're back things are getting tight here at Cleveland Stadium folks let me puke my boost it's the bottom of the ninth and Wheelie Mays Hayes reached an unfield single and he's getting ready to steal second base with Jake Taylor at the plate.
02:02:29.199 --> 02:02:53.279
Yeah Brian where's your colors I bought a hundred of these one for each base I'm gonna steal uh Jake after a long series of signals back and forth from the from Lou to the base coach to Jake and back they've they've got a plan.
02:02:53.439 --> 02:04:49.680
They do and uh Jake appears to be calling his shot by pointing to center field but instead of the point in celebration again and the team celebrates like they just won the World Series even though they haven't they've only won the division but that's something it is I mean they were supposed I mean they it's a dead last like we we get shots of the owner's box where Rachel is looking super satty faced but but but Donovan is is clapping and excited and she shoots him a dirty look and he just gives her big raspberry in response and goes back to clapping.
02:04:49.840 --> 02:04:54.800
Uh-huh that's where I was happy that Charlie stood up for himself a little bit like that.
02:04:55.039 --> 02:04:58.960
You know I I do wonder why is she even unhappy at this point.
02:04:59.199 --> 02:05:03.600
She's making money she's made more money this season than she probably ever has.
02:05:04.720 --> 02:05:08.560
She sold more tickets this season she than they have in years.
02:05:08.880 --> 02:05:11.600
She has spent squat to make that happen.
02:05:11.840 --> 02:06:06.399
Right there's no budget she she wants that uh that place down in Boca Ratan she does hell yeah well she probably made enough money this season to go do that sell the team sell the team yeah you had a profitable team you could definitely do that now you you've got you know a chance in fact that is what happens in the sequel she does sell the team but to Dorn to Dorn who in turn sells it back to her but Jesus I didn't even know there's a sequel yeah there's there's a sequel there's three yeah no there's usually one and two and then I think they do have in the universe of of major league sequels but it's back to the minors back to the minors where they now play for the Minnesota Twins and they're coached by Scott Baccula yes Okie dokie all of that we're not gonna happens we're not gonna go there.
02:06:06.560 --> 02:06:13.279
No Serrano's still on the team though he's like the only one is he really I believe so he's like fuck it I'm I'm messing with it.
02:06:13.359 --> 02:06:16.800
Also in the sequel Willie Mays Hayes is no longer played by Wesley Snipes.
02:06:16.960 --> 02:06:40.159
No he was played by Omar Epps yeah oh he got he got phased out well I guess got too big he got too big for the movies but Rune Russo is in the second one and so is Jake much I don't think but yeah Jake Taylor she's in there just for a minute yeah yeah who she's sad I I think that honestly it worked out all right.
02:06:40.239 --> 02:06:46.720
I mean she's been made the villain but I I think while it didn't go to plan it could have been a lot worse.
02:06:46.960 --> 02:06:48.000
Sure she's gonna be alright.
02:06:48.159 --> 02:06:58.319
Yeah I'm not worried for her I just feel a little sad for her yeah uh Dorn how why why do you feel sad for her?
02:06:58.640 --> 02:07:16.000
Because you know honestly again I think that she inherited a bad situation she thought she had found a way to make it better uh and then it just didn't work out and that's okay that's life her plan didn't work out but she still made a ton of money.
02:07:16.159 --> 02:07:20.640
I know that's just it I don't feel that bad I'm not sad for her one bit.
02:07:20.800 --> 02:07:34.880
Um just because her plan didn't come to fruition but it will later I suppose I I think we could have got at least a begrudging clap or something at this point like alright you guys you got me but no instead we just go down with just sucking a bitter pill.
02:07:34.960 --> 02:07:35.119
Right.
02:07:35.279 --> 02:07:37.119
She went and she walked away.
02:07:37.279 --> 02:07:37.840
Yep.
02:07:39.680 --> 02:07:44.159
Dorne has his moment to punch Vaughn in the face.
02:07:44.319 --> 02:07:59.840
Yeah so so Dorn finds Vaughn in the middle of the celebration and remember Vaughn just poked his wife right not knowing it was his wife and he goes up to him in the middle of the celebration and just cold cocks him.
02:08:00.239 --> 02:08:04.239
Yeah he helps him up and helps him up celebrate and they hug.
02:08:04.479 --> 02:08:07.760
That's just what dudes do that's what brothers do just dudes being dudes.
02:08:08.079 --> 02:08:27.199
They hug and they punch boys being boys I got mine but I love you brother you got your ears I got mine and we're square because because apparently again Jake has just this radar that he can just sense Lynn in a crowd of thousands happens to see her in the in the stands it's it's called true love.
02:08:28.399 --> 02:08:36.319
Bullshit um and she holds up her hand to reveals I don't have a ring anymore I'm no longer engaged.
02:08:36.560 --> 02:08:38.159
She broke up with a douchebag fiance.
02:08:38.560 --> 02:08:46.239
And so then Jake lifts her up and brings her on the field and they smooch and they're happy and in love and blah blah blah.
02:08:46.479 --> 02:08:54.960
And then well that's the movie yeah that's the movie that's the movie.
02:08:55.119 --> 02:08:55.439
Yeah.
02:08:55.680 --> 02:09:07.520
Now that we've gone through all the ebbs and flows of Major League let's take a moment and talk about our third beer of the podcast.
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Oh here's that crazy music and let me introduce you to a crazy beer.
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Tell us about your beer this was Brian's choice for the episode.
02:09:17.359 --> 02:09:20.720
I love your emphasis on Brian's stories.
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Brian tell us all about the beer you brought from Mill Pond Brewing a local brewer from Milstadt Illinois.
02:09:30.399 --> 02:10:58.880
Uh-huh so this one went with the movie for all those Cardinal fans out there you remember when Ozzy Smith hit the home run against the Dodgers and uh Jack Buck had the legendary call Smith Quark's one down the line go crazy folks go crazy well this beer is called Goza crazy folks it sure is and it's a goza beer uh which I bought it because of the name I thought it was awesome there's baseball stitching on the can it really fit the baseball theme of the movie for this beer's terrible tell us what a goza is Brian it's a sour beer it sure is it's a distinct historically German sour wheat beer traditionally characterized by a slightly tart fruity flavor an herbal touch of coriander and a crisp salty finish I will fight back on the slightly tart it is way tart now I did not know what a goza was when I bought this uh I never would have I have an inherent disdain for all sour beers uh yeah I think sour beers taste like licking the sweat off of a fat guy's hairy back now in the case of this beer I'm gonna say you took that sweat and filtered it through some ground up sweet tarts.
02:10:59.119 --> 02:11:06.399
Ooh I'm gonna take it a little bit further yeah those ground up sweet tarts were in that fat hairy guy's butt crack.
02:11:07.520 --> 02:11:09.279
Is that where the skunkiness comes from?
02:11:09.439 --> 02:11:20.479
That's where the skunkiness comes from so you know Mill Pond I'm sure you guys make some decent beers this being a sour goes against every fiber of my being and taste buds.
02:11:20.640 --> 02:11:22.800
This beer was absolutely terrible.
02:11:23.119 --> 02:12:02.880
This was a beer that got poured out on the rocks in your front yard this this goza crazy folks awesome name fit the theme so well awful beer awful awful beer I remember the first time we were at the Breeze fall festival uh homebrew festival and the first time we encountered a goza uh we didn't know even know how to pronounce it and we walked up and we were like ooh a goze what's that and we got chastised it's a goza goza The it's the director of beer.
02:12:03.359 --> 02:12:04.079
It sure is.
02:12:04.239 --> 02:12:14.159
It is pretentious, it is awful, it is one of those beers that I can't imagine anyone actually liking in real life.
02:12:14.880 --> 02:12:18.159
It's one of those beers that it's cool to like.
02:12:18.560 --> 02:12:24.399
I the only positive thing I can say about this particular beer is it is cider-y.
02:12:24.880 --> 02:12:36.880
So if you were really into super tart ciders, you could probably transition it into this more than you could many other beer varietals.
02:12:37.279 --> 02:12:39.920
If you like the aftertaste of vomit.
02:12:40.159 --> 02:12:40.479
Yeah.
02:12:40.640 --> 02:12:42.399
Well, yeah, it is it is vomitous.
02:12:42.800 --> 02:12:44.479
We all have our things.
02:12:44.960 --> 02:12:49.760
If you like it whenever you throw up and then you like can like you've got to swallow it.
02:12:50.000 --> 02:12:52.800
It's kind of like the Mikelo Golden Light.
02:12:53.119 --> 02:12:57.680
If it looks the same going in as it does coming out, it's a health food.
02:12:57.840 --> 02:13:03.199
If it tastes the same coming up as it did going down, maybe it's healthy.
02:13:03.520 --> 02:13:05.199
Uh I gotta disagree.
02:13:06.880 --> 02:13:09.039
This beer tastes like a verp.
02:13:09.119 --> 02:13:13.039
Or no, it tastes like you threw up and decided not to brush your teeth afterwards.
02:13:13.199 --> 02:13:13.439
Yeah.
02:13:13.600 --> 02:13:14.159
Big time.
02:13:14.239 --> 02:13:14.479
Yeah.
02:13:14.640 --> 02:13:15.600
I'm right there with you.
02:13:15.760 --> 02:13:25.680
You know when you get you like throw up and you're trying not to throw up more, so you swallow over and over and over and over and over and over, just trying to keep it down, but you have that taste in your mouth.
02:13:25.840 --> 02:13:26.880
That's what that is.
02:13:27.439 --> 02:13:33.119
Yeah, I I kind of felt that way on the last episode during the six degrees of Kevin Bacon sec.
02:13:34.880 --> 02:13:36.479
That was our fault, Justin.
02:13:36.640 --> 02:13:37.359
That was our fault.
02:13:37.600 --> 02:13:38.640
We were really bad.
02:13:38.880 --> 02:13:44.159
Well, and do you know how you know a sour is made by purposely introducing bacteria into the patch?
02:13:44.319 --> 02:13:46.239
Oh, it sours the batch.
02:13:46.319 --> 02:13:50.000
But I think the origin of sours was a mistake.
02:13:50.319 --> 02:13:53.199
And whoever did it was like, well, we can't afford to throw this out.
02:13:53.520 --> 02:13:56.800
Let's just call it a sour beer and mass market it.
02:13:56.960 --> 02:13:58.479
Let's poison the masses.
02:13:58.720 --> 02:13:59.039
Yeah.
02:13:59.279 --> 02:14:02.880
And so I yeah, I don't think this is something people enjoy.
02:14:03.039 --> 02:14:05.039
I think this is people something people say they enjoy.
02:14:05.279 --> 02:14:13.119
I'm not gonna say that people don't enjoy it, because there's people who enjoy all kinds of weird shit in this world that I would never want to imbibe myself.
02:14:13.840 --> 02:14:17.840
So if you enjoy a goza, good on you.
02:14:18.159 --> 02:14:20.560
For me, it's fucking garbage.
02:14:20.720 --> 02:14:22.000
Yeah, I'm right there with you.
02:14:22.159 --> 02:14:25.680
If any one of you ever bring one again, I'm gonna punch him in the nutsack.
02:14:25.840 --> 02:14:28.479
I would I I would deserve a punch in the nut.
02:14:28.560 --> 02:14:29.760
I almost deserve one now.
02:14:29.920 --> 02:14:34.000
Give me give me the watermelon wine coolers any day.
02:14:34.159 --> 02:14:38.479
Hey, but I do have to say, goza crazy, folks.
02:14:38.800 --> 02:14:39.359
Good name.
02:14:39.520 --> 02:14:41.920
It is a good name, and I get why you picked it.
02:14:42.079 --> 02:14:43.920
Yeah, that's the only reason.
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And to be honest, I learned something tonight.
02:14:47.279 --> 02:14:54.800
To be honest, like for the story itself, kudos to Millpon for also using Cardinal Hops.
02:14:54.880 --> 02:14:55.359
Oh, yeah.
02:14:55.520 --> 02:14:56.000
Nice touch.
02:14:56.239 --> 02:14:58.159
Oh, that's a well, that's a that's a cool tie-in.
02:14:58.319 --> 02:14:59.359
It's a great tie-in.
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Just an awful beer.
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I it is not off.
02:15:03.760 --> 02:15:10.319
This might be the first time on our show, and now we have like 3,000 episodes that we did not finish a beer.
02:15:10.479 --> 02:15:11.039
29.
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20, you are close.
02:15:14.880 --> 02:15:17.359
Uh this the first time we did not finish a beer.
02:15:17.520 --> 02:15:18.479
Yeah, we did not.
02:15:18.720 --> 02:15:20.319
We finished the barley wine.
02:15:20.399 --> 02:15:20.720
Yeah.
02:15:20.880 --> 02:15:27.039
I mean, I if I had to, like if I was a gun to my head, I could finish this, but I would rather not.
02:15:27.199 --> 02:15:28.960
It was a I would rather move on.
02:15:29.199 --> 02:15:31.600
It was a 16-ounce can, too.
02:15:31.680 --> 02:15:34.640
Like, if it was like a two-ounce can, I would have finished it.
02:15:36.239 --> 02:15:37.840
But anyway, I think that's a great idea, Seth.
02:15:38.239 --> 02:15:38.640
Let's move on.
02:15:38.800 --> 02:15:40.159
Let's move on.
02:15:40.720 --> 02:15:43.680
So we're gonna move on to some magic wands.
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Gentlemen, if you could wave your magic wand and change one thing and one thing only about Major League to make it a better movie, what would it be?
02:15:55.039 --> 02:15:55.920
You want me to go?
02:15:56.079 --> 02:15:57.039
Yeah, I want you to go.
02:15:57.199 --> 02:15:57.520
Okay.
02:15:57.760 --> 02:16:01.439
Because I kind of had a hard time with this, because it was pretty fun movie.
02:16:01.680 --> 02:16:02.239
Pretty good movie.
02:16:02.399 --> 02:16:02.720
Yeah.
02:16:02.960 --> 02:16:10.159
My only thing that I had was to give Willie Mays Hayes a little more to do in the third act.
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I thought he was just like this huge personality.
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And the time that he just burst out into training camp, earned his place.
02:16:21.199 --> 02:16:29.439
But once Ricky's redemption art kicks in and Jake's romance takes the center stage, he just kind of fades into the background.
02:16:29.760 --> 02:16:31.760
He gets his moments in the big game.
02:16:32.000 --> 02:16:35.360
In the big game with stealing bases and working his way around for a run.
02:16:35.600 --> 02:16:36.639
But man, you're right.
02:16:36.879 --> 02:16:37.520
I could have used his.
02:16:38.000 --> 02:16:42.639
He is a feature of the American Express phony commercial in the middle of the movie.
02:16:42.879 --> 02:16:43.040
Right.
02:16:43.600 --> 02:16:46.639
But yeah, he's kind of, I guess his story this thing.
02:16:46.959 --> 02:16:49.440
He was real big and then all of a sudden he was real small.
02:16:49.680 --> 02:16:50.079
Right, right.
02:16:50.239 --> 02:16:51.360
Then he kind of faded away.
02:16:51.600 --> 02:16:55.440
I would have liked to see the consistency of him being real big the entire time.
02:16:55.680 --> 02:16:55.920
Sure.
02:16:56.079 --> 02:16:57.360
He was a personality fit.
02:16:58.159 --> 02:17:00.559
He's the personality higher, right?
02:17:01.120 --> 02:17:08.319
Well, for me, I think we need to either drop the Jake Lynn romance or make it something less stalkery and creepy.
02:17:08.479 --> 02:17:10.319
You know, I'm with you on that.
02:17:10.559 --> 02:17:12.000
Because I I don't know.
02:17:12.239 --> 02:17:14.799
But then are we kind of getting into the like Bull Durham?
02:17:15.280 --> 02:17:15.680
I don't know.
02:17:15.840 --> 02:17:27.360
Because the thing is, the idea of pursue here until she gives in may have flown in 1989, but today it kind of feels sad and a little scary.
02:17:27.680 --> 02:17:40.159
Uh he interrupts her date, he harasses her at work, he follows her home twice, he walks in uninvited three times, he was a bad boyfriend in the past, and he's an obsessive stalker today.
02:17:40.399 --> 02:17:46.319
Now, Lynn is a smart woman and quite frankly, sexy as hell.
02:17:46.639 --> 02:17:47.600
Yeah, she's a hottie.
02:17:48.000 --> 02:17:49.680
She can do better.
02:17:49.920 --> 02:17:56.399
And the fact that she eventually just swoons because he wears her down doesn't feel like romance to me.
02:17:56.639 --> 02:17:58.799
It kind of feels like Stockholm Syndrome.
02:18:00.079 --> 02:18:00.799
I can see that.
02:18:00.959 --> 02:18:03.280
You know, which ties into my magic wand.
02:18:03.920 --> 02:18:10.239
I, if I could change one thing for the movie, I would have her pursuing him instead of him pursuing her.
02:18:10.479 --> 02:18:12.000
Ooh, what a tweeze.
02:18:13.280 --> 02:18:16.399
You know, he's he's a major league ball player, he's back in town.
02:18:16.639 --> 02:18:17.280
Yeah.
02:18:17.760 --> 02:18:21.520
And and she's, you know, got the starry eyes for her ex-boyfriend.
02:18:21.920 --> 02:18:23.680
She never stopped loving him.
02:18:23.840 --> 02:18:25.200
He just moved to Mexico.
02:18:25.440 --> 02:18:25.840
Right.
02:18:26.639 --> 02:18:26.799
Right.
02:18:26.959 --> 02:18:28.639
So I think that kind of softens it up.
02:18:28.719 --> 02:18:34.719
And and I think some of the behavior, if the roles were reversed, is a little less creepy.
02:18:35.760 --> 02:18:38.399
It can be a little fatal attraction, though, even if you flip it.
02:18:38.639 --> 02:18:42.479
Yeah, but I don't I don't think it really got to that extent.
02:18:42.799 --> 02:18:45.360
But um, you know, I would soften that.
02:18:45.600 --> 02:18:51.600
But then again, I I think having her pursue him would have been a really neat uh spot line.
02:18:51.920 --> 02:18:53.200
Well guys, what do you say?
02:18:53.280 --> 02:18:54.399
We change some gears, okay?
02:18:54.559 --> 02:18:57.440
And do something, I don't know, maybe just a little bit silly.
02:18:58.000 --> 02:18:59.040
Oh, I like silly stuff.
02:18:59.280 --> 02:19:00.639
It's silly with my belly.
02:19:00.879 --> 02:19:01.440
Like Zoom.
02:19:01.840 --> 02:19:06.079
Got a robot on the mound, got a big foot playing first.
02:19:06.479 --> 02:19:10.959
Got a surfer in the outfield, though he might be the worst.
02:19:11.440 --> 02:19:16.239
Got a vampire calling signals, got a cowboy stealing home.
02:19:16.639 --> 02:19:20.719
If Hollywood made baseball, this is how it'd be done.
02:19:20.879 --> 02:19:22.799
It's movie league baseball.
02:19:23.280 --> 02:19:25.760
With the lineup don't make sense.
02:19:32.879 --> 02:19:35.360
We'll find somewhere they belong.
02:19:41.600 --> 02:19:50.159
Well, have you ever wondered what it would be like if you took a bunch of movie characters and threw them together on a baseball team just to see what happened?
02:19:50.399 --> 02:19:51.440
Yeah, me neither.
02:19:52.000 --> 02:19:53.920
But that's exactly what we're gonna do today.
02:19:54.239 --> 02:19:54.559
Okay.
02:19:55.120 --> 02:19:59.600
Now we're not trying to build the best team or even a good team.
02:19:59.840 --> 02:20:01.840
We're just gonna build a team.
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A team.
02:20:02.799 --> 02:20:03.520
A team.
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Not an A-team.
02:20:04.959 --> 02:20:17.520
Now, if I have learned if I have learned anything over the course of 29 podcast episodes with you two, it's that I should never put too much faith in your pop culture knowledge.
02:20:17.680 --> 02:20:18.639
Yes, perfect.
02:20:18.879 --> 02:20:22.159
100% to give you guys a fighting chance.
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I've compiled a list of candidates pulled exclusively from the movies we've reviewed on this show.
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Okay.
02:20:29.680 --> 02:20:29.920
All right.
02:20:30.639 --> 02:20:34.319
So if you don't know these characters, that's on you.
02:20:34.479 --> 02:20:34.719
Okay.
02:20:35.040 --> 02:20:36.000
We should know some of these people.
02:20:36.239 --> 02:20:37.840
It should be on me.
02:20:38.239 --> 02:20:45.600
Inside my hat is one character from every movie we've covered on the regular guy movie show.
02:20:45.920 --> 02:20:46.079
Okay.
02:20:46.319 --> 02:20:47.680
29 characters in there.
02:20:47.840 --> 02:20:50.159
Well, we had a couple episodes where we just uh shot the shit.
02:20:50.239 --> 02:20:51.520
So 27 characters.
02:20:52.000 --> 02:20:52.319
27.
02:20:52.559 --> 02:20:52.799
All right.
02:20:52.879 --> 02:20:53.280
All right.
02:20:53.520 --> 02:20:58.159
Uh some of them you desperately, definitely want on your team.
02:20:58.239 --> 02:20:58.639
Uh-huh.
02:20:58.799 --> 02:21:03.440
Others you'll probably definitely hope not to have to deal with.
02:21:03.680 --> 02:21:04.000
Okay.
02:21:04.799 --> 02:21:07.680
I'm gonna draw the names one at a time.
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And as each character is revealed, you'll have to immediately assign them to a position on your team.
02:21:14.319 --> 02:21:14.639
Okay.
02:21:15.120 --> 02:21:18.079
Once a position is filled, it's locked.
02:21:18.319 --> 02:21:24.559
No substitutions, no traits, no moving people around because a better option came out later.
02:21:24.799 --> 02:21:25.280
Dang it.
02:21:25.440 --> 02:21:25.760
Okay.
02:21:26.159 --> 02:21:34.879
By the end, whether you've assembled a championship caliber roster or the cinematic equivalent of the 62 Mets is entirely up to you.
02:21:36.159 --> 02:21:48.559
Now, the positions you're gonna need to fill are the following pitcher, catcher, first base, second base, third base, shortstop, left field, center field, right field, designated hitter, and manager.
02:21:48.959 --> 02:21:51.840
So you each are gonna pick your own team.
02:21:52.079 --> 02:21:53.680
And so who wants to go first?
02:21:54.000 --> 02:22:08.479
Actually, tell you what, before I do that, before I start pulling names, I'm gonna give you each the opportunity to pick one player from major league and put him at any position you want, but you can't pick the same player.
02:22:08.719 --> 02:22:09.040
Okay.
02:22:09.200 --> 02:22:09.520
Okay.
02:22:10.479 --> 02:22:12.559
Justin, you can go ahead and go first.
02:22:12.959 --> 02:22:14.079
Lou Brown.
02:22:14.559 --> 02:22:15.760
Oh, he's gonna be your manager.
02:22:16.000 --> 02:22:16.399
He's my manager.
02:22:16.639 --> 02:22:18.000
Oh, you're not gonna put him in center field?
02:22:18.719 --> 02:22:18.959
Okay.
02:22:20.399 --> 02:22:20.719
Alright.
02:22:20.879 --> 02:22:23.040
Brian, who are you picking off the Indians?
02:22:23.440 --> 02:22:24.399
I guess it didn't have to be the Indians.
02:22:24.559 --> 02:22:26.559
Who are you picking from the Major League roster?
02:22:26.879 --> 02:22:29.440
I'm taking uh Wheelie May's Hayes for center field.
02:22:29.600 --> 02:22:29.920
Okay.
02:22:30.399 --> 02:22:31.120
Put him down.
02:22:31.600 --> 02:22:32.479
Not a bad choice.
02:22:32.719 --> 02:22:37.040
Now that means you each have ten positions still to fill.
02:22:37.520 --> 02:22:40.719
Justin, are you ready for your first player?
02:22:41.520 --> 02:22:44.399
Are you just picking him or I'm gonna pull him from the hat.
02:22:44.559 --> 02:22:45.280
And then I gotta choose.
02:22:45.680 --> 02:22:46.959
You gotta tell where you're gonna put him.
02:22:47.120 --> 02:22:47.440
Okay.
02:22:47.920 --> 02:22:48.479
I'm ready.
02:22:48.719 --> 02:22:54.559
Alright, your first player, Justin, is from Flash Gordon.
02:22:54.799 --> 02:22:56.079
Flash Gordon.
02:22:56.559 --> 02:22:57.200
Ooh.
02:22:58.319 --> 02:22:59.200
That's a good pick.
02:22:59.360 --> 02:23:00.239
I'll pick that guy.
02:23:00.479 --> 02:23:02.399
I think I'm gonna put him in my DH.
02:23:03.280 --> 02:23:04.879
Not a bad pick at all.
02:23:05.200 --> 02:23:06.079
Flash.
02:23:06.399 --> 02:23:07.360
Gordon.
02:23:08.799 --> 02:23:09.840
Alright, Brian.
02:23:10.239 --> 02:23:11.360
He could probably hit a ball.
02:23:11.760 --> 02:23:13.600
I mean, I think stands a decent chance.
02:23:13.680 --> 02:23:14.239
He's a quarterback.
02:23:14.319 --> 02:23:16.239
I'd have put him at pitcher because of his arm strength.
02:23:16.719 --> 02:23:17.040
Ooh.
02:23:18.799 --> 02:23:21.440
Brian from UHF, Stanley Spadowski.
02:23:21.760 --> 02:23:23.280
Stanley Spadowski.
02:23:24.159 --> 02:23:25.840
Oh, let's see.
02:23:26.879 --> 02:23:28.479
Stanley Spadowski.
02:23:28.799 --> 02:23:29.600
Oh, that's been true.
02:23:29.840 --> 02:23:30.479
He's wiry.
02:23:30.639 --> 02:23:31.280
He is wiry.
02:23:31.360 --> 02:23:32.239
He's kind of a spazz.
02:23:32.559 --> 02:23:34.319
I can see him being a decent pitcher.
02:23:34.479 --> 02:23:34.719
No.
02:23:35.360 --> 02:23:36.639
He swings a mop really well.
02:23:36.879 --> 02:23:38.399
DH would be a possibility.
02:23:38.639 --> 02:23:39.760
He could be a shortstop.
02:23:40.319 --> 02:23:41.040
He's a tall guy.
02:23:41.120 --> 02:23:41.280
Yeah.
02:23:41.440 --> 02:23:42.639
I'm going to put him at first base.
02:23:42.959 --> 02:23:43.280
Okay.
02:23:44.559 --> 02:23:45.520
Spadowski.
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Sounds like that.
02:23:47.600 --> 02:23:48.319
Justin.
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Back to you.
02:23:50.319 --> 02:23:51.520
I hate that movie.
02:23:51.680 --> 02:23:52.719
I know you do.
02:23:53.040 --> 02:23:54.639
Your next pick is.
02:23:55.840 --> 02:23:57.680
Oh, from Liar Liar.
02:23:57.760 --> 02:24:00.159
You get Jerry the Milktoast fiance.
02:24:00.879 --> 02:24:02.000
Oh, yeah.
02:24:03.920 --> 02:24:04.719
Alright.
02:24:05.040 --> 02:24:10.000
So he's going to be my right fielder.
02:24:10.159 --> 02:24:11.680
Yeah, I would swear I would put him.
02:24:11.840 --> 02:24:12.719
What was his name?
02:24:12.959 --> 02:24:13.440
Jerry.
02:24:13.680 --> 02:24:14.319
Jerry.
02:24:15.600 --> 02:24:17.120
Jerry Milktoast.
02:24:17.440 --> 02:24:18.799
This is what I'm going to put down.
02:24:18.959 --> 02:24:20.799
Hey, good job, champ.
02:24:21.440 --> 02:24:22.000
Way to go, pal.
02:24:22.479 --> 02:24:23.040
Way to go, buddy.
02:24:23.280 --> 02:24:23.680
All right, Brian.
02:24:24.959 --> 02:24:25.280
I'm ready.
02:24:25.440 --> 02:24:29.040
From Fast Times of Richmond High, you get Brad Hamilton.
02:24:29.440 --> 02:24:31.120
Brad Hamilton.
02:24:32.399 --> 02:24:33.840
Good old Brad.
02:24:34.159 --> 02:24:35.920
He's going to be your left out.
02:24:36.159 --> 02:24:36.799
Yeah.
02:24:38.159 --> 02:24:40.239
He is a bodic reward winner.
02:24:40.559 --> 02:24:41.440
That's very true.
02:24:41.760 --> 02:24:43.120
The weakest one ever.
02:24:43.360 --> 02:24:45.200
I'm going left field for Brad Hamilton.
02:24:45.600 --> 02:24:46.319
Left field?
02:24:46.479 --> 02:24:46.799
Yep.
02:24:46.959 --> 02:24:48.639
You put a lot of confidence in him.
02:24:48.879 --> 02:24:51.120
Well, you want your strongest arm in right.
02:24:51.840 --> 02:24:53.360
If you're facing a heavy right-handed hitting.
02:24:53.840 --> 02:24:55.040
Oh, Justin.
02:24:55.440 --> 02:24:56.159
What a pick.
02:24:56.319 --> 02:24:59.440
From Gremlins, Lynn fucking Peltzer.
02:24:59.760 --> 02:25:00.399
Oh shit.
02:25:00.559 --> 02:25:02.000
Oh, Lynn Peltzer.
02:25:02.799 --> 02:25:04.799
Oh, where do I want to put you?
02:25:05.040 --> 02:25:06.559
I'm going to put you.
02:25:07.520 --> 02:25:09.280
She's going to be my catcher.
02:25:10.079 --> 02:25:11.360
I like it.
02:25:12.000 --> 02:25:13.600
General of the field.
02:25:15.360 --> 02:25:16.000
Absolutely.
02:25:16.159 --> 02:25:17.280
She's calling that game.
02:25:17.440 --> 02:25:19.040
You just want to see her squat squat.
02:25:19.280 --> 02:25:20.079
I want to see her squat.
02:25:20.319 --> 02:25:24.479
And I want to see her jump up and kill people like from Robocop.
02:25:24.719 --> 02:25:25.120
Uh-huh.
02:25:25.440 --> 02:25:26.319
Robocop.
02:25:27.760 --> 02:25:29.600
Dude, this is awesome.
02:25:29.840 --> 02:25:31.680
That's probably the best pick.
02:25:33.040 --> 02:25:35.200
After you choose yours, I'll tell you where I would have put mine.
02:25:35.360 --> 02:25:37.920
I think that arm is a fucking candidate.
02:25:38.319 --> 02:25:38.639
Oh yeah.
02:25:38.719 --> 02:25:39.200
He's my pitcher.
02:25:39.360 --> 02:25:40.639
That's where I was going to put him.
02:25:40.799 --> 02:25:41.280
Yep.
02:25:41.600 --> 02:25:42.399
Robocop.
02:25:42.879 --> 02:25:43.520
That's a good one.
02:25:43.760 --> 02:25:47.280
So it would be a shame in a DH league not to see him at the plate.
02:25:48.239 --> 02:25:49.840
His accuracy, though.
02:25:50.079 --> 02:25:50.399
Yeah.
02:25:50.959 --> 02:25:51.520
Pinpoint.
02:25:51.760 --> 02:25:52.799
Laser accuracy.
02:25:53.200 --> 02:25:53.680
That's money.
02:25:53.840 --> 02:25:55.680
Well, he killed his kid playing catch with him.
02:25:55.840 --> 02:25:56.239
He did.
02:25:56.319 --> 02:25:56.799
Yeah.
02:25:57.200 --> 02:25:58.239
Kid couldn't hang.
02:25:58.879 --> 02:26:01.280
He was throwing coach pitch and he killed all the kids.
02:26:01.520 --> 02:26:04.159
That's why they burned the picture.
02:26:04.319 --> 02:26:04.959
Yeah.
02:26:05.760 --> 02:26:11.360
All right, Justin, from Romancing the Stone, you get General Zolo.
02:26:14.239 --> 02:26:15.440
General Zolo.
02:26:15.760 --> 02:26:17.920
I should have saved that for my manager.
02:26:19.200 --> 02:26:25.600
I think General Zolo is gonna be my left field John Wilder.
02:26:30.000 --> 02:26:33.200
Well, he was awfully pretty handy with some driftwood at the end of the movie, too.
02:26:33.680 --> 02:26:34.959
But he only has one hand.
02:26:35.280 --> 02:26:35.680
I know.
02:26:35.920 --> 02:26:38.239
He's like that no harm second baseman.
02:26:38.879 --> 02:26:42.399
He's not caught up Brian ever.
02:26:42.879 --> 02:26:45.600
From Pretty Woman, Vivian Ward.
02:26:46.159 --> 02:26:46.559
Ooh.
02:26:46.799 --> 02:26:47.760
Vivian Ward.
02:26:47.840 --> 02:26:50.719
Man, if there was a pinch runner, I'd put her in as pinch runner.
02:26:50.959 --> 02:26:54.319
Um, Vivian Ward's gonna be my second baseman.
02:26:55.600 --> 02:26:56.079
Vivi.
02:26:57.120 --> 02:26:59.440
She might need to change into some more sensible shoes.
02:26:59.600 --> 02:26:59.840
Yeah.
02:27:00.000 --> 02:27:00.399
Oh, yeah.
02:27:00.639 --> 02:27:02.000
You can't wear those goofy boots.
02:27:02.159 --> 02:27:03.440
You know, she's gonna have good range.
02:27:03.520 --> 02:27:05.520
She's gonna have a weak arm, so I put her at second.
02:27:05.840 --> 02:27:06.159
Makes sense.
02:27:06.399 --> 02:27:07.040
It's a good way to go.
02:27:08.079 --> 02:27:08.479
All right.
02:27:08.959 --> 02:27:11.440
Justin from The Last Starfighter.
02:27:12.000 --> 02:27:12.479
Grig.
02:27:13.040 --> 02:27:14.000
Oh, that's a good one.
02:27:14.319 --> 02:27:14.799
Grig.
02:27:15.200 --> 02:27:15.680
Alright.
02:27:15.920 --> 02:27:21.920
So Grig is gonna be the captain of my outfield and center field.
02:27:23.280 --> 02:27:25.280
You know, he's like 800 years old, right?
02:27:25.440 --> 02:27:26.799
Yeah, but man, he's an alien.
02:27:26.879 --> 02:27:28.399
Yeah, guanas move fast when they got.
02:27:30.000 --> 02:27:35.840
Though, you know, being at center field with all that heat, though, his body temperature regulation is gonna have some issues.
02:27:36.319 --> 02:27:36.479
Right.
02:27:36.959 --> 02:27:39.280
He's gonna well, he has like eight eyelids.
02:27:41.360 --> 02:27:41.840
All right.
02:27:42.000 --> 02:27:44.000
I think kind of in the same vein.
02:27:44.159 --> 02:27:47.920
Uh, Brian from Fire in the Sky, you get the turtle-faced alien.
02:27:48.639 --> 02:27:50.719
Oh, the turtle-faced alien.
02:27:53.600 --> 02:27:55.760
Does it really say turtle-faced alien?
02:27:56.000 --> 02:27:56.399
It does.
02:27:56.479 --> 02:27:57.200
That's what I wrote.
02:27:57.360 --> 02:27:58.879
Oh my god, that's fucking hilarious.
02:27:59.040 --> 02:27:59.920
Turtle face alien.
02:28:00.000 --> 02:28:00.959
He's my manager.
02:28:01.200 --> 02:28:01.440
Yeah?
02:28:01.600 --> 02:28:02.879
Yeah, turtle-faced alien.
02:28:03.040 --> 02:28:04.559
That's that's actually a pretty smart play.
02:28:04.799 --> 02:28:06.719
You could see in the souls of people.
02:28:08.000 --> 02:28:09.840
All right, Justin, back to you.
02:28:10.639 --> 02:28:14.159
I say this just as you're taking a swig of your backup replacement beer.
02:28:14.239 --> 02:28:14.479
Yeah.
02:28:14.719 --> 02:28:16.000
Yeah, we're back to the summer ale.
02:28:16.159 --> 02:28:16.319
Thank you.
02:28:17.600 --> 02:28:18.559
Oh my gosh.
02:28:18.719 --> 02:28:20.159
Brian, you're gonna be so pissed.
02:28:20.399 --> 02:28:23.360
Justin, you get from twins Julius Benedict.
02:28:23.600 --> 02:28:24.799
Oh man.
02:28:26.399 --> 02:28:27.280
He's so big.
02:28:27.360 --> 02:28:28.719
He's gonna be my first baseman.
02:28:28.799 --> 02:28:29.760
Yeah, good call there.
02:28:30.000 --> 02:28:30.639
Julius.
02:28:30.879 --> 02:28:37.040
I'd have gone first base for DH, but you already filled your DH with uh uh with your should have been pitcher.
02:28:37.360 --> 02:28:37.600
Okay.
02:28:38.079 --> 02:28:38.559
Flash.
02:28:39.120 --> 02:28:41.200
I think this would be a very versatile player, Brian.
02:28:41.280 --> 02:28:41.440
Okay.
02:28:41.600 --> 02:28:44.079
From Orgasmo, Choda Boy.
02:28:44.239 --> 02:28:46.000
Oh, love Choda Boy.
02:28:46.799 --> 02:28:47.760
He's got some hustle.
02:28:47.920 --> 02:28:49.280
Yep, Choda Boy's innovative.
02:28:49.440 --> 02:28:50.159
He's my shortstop.
02:28:50.399 --> 02:28:52.319
I was gonna say he would be a good shortstop.
02:28:52.559 --> 02:28:53.680
He's my David Eckstein.
02:28:53.920 --> 02:28:54.559
Heck yeah.
02:28:54.799 --> 02:28:57.280
He's gonna throw the balls to first base.
02:28:58.559 --> 02:29:00.799
Can you just imagine the bats that he would bring to the plate?
02:29:00.959 --> 02:29:02.799
Oh just all big diltos.
02:29:03.520 --> 02:29:04.479
They're all veiny.
02:29:05.280 --> 02:29:06.239
My bats are being.
02:29:06.639 --> 02:29:07.440
Oh, Justin.
02:29:07.600 --> 02:29:09.520
Like this pick was made just for you.
02:29:09.760 --> 02:29:12.079
From Rad, we get Crew Jones.
02:29:15.600 --> 02:29:17.760
Crew, I'm gonna put him at second base.
02:29:19.200 --> 02:29:20.479
Crew Jones.
02:29:20.879 --> 02:29:22.479
Because is he on his bicycle?
02:29:22.639 --> 02:29:24.879
There's just not a lot going on in second base.
02:29:26.959 --> 02:29:28.079
Alright, Brian.
02:29:28.319 --> 02:29:28.879
Yes.
02:29:29.600 --> 02:29:30.719
From Halloween.
02:29:30.959 --> 02:29:31.280
Uh-huh.
02:29:31.520 --> 02:29:32.399
Michael Myers.
02:29:32.719 --> 02:29:34.159
Ooh, Michael Myers.
02:29:35.280 --> 02:29:36.559
Make a good catcher.
02:29:38.239 --> 02:29:39.760
His catcher spot's open.
02:29:40.000 --> 02:29:40.319
It is?
02:29:40.479 --> 02:29:42.000
I'm thinking either catcher or DH.
02:29:42.159 --> 02:29:42.479
I see.
02:29:42.559 --> 02:29:43.600
I think third base.
02:29:43.840 --> 02:29:44.479
Yeah.
02:29:47.360 --> 02:29:49.360
I think he's got the arm strength to get it there.
02:29:49.600 --> 02:29:50.399
He does.
02:29:50.719 --> 02:29:52.639
And he's got hella range.
02:29:52.879 --> 02:29:53.280
He's strong.
02:29:54.479 --> 02:29:55.840
Yeah, let's go third base with Michael Myers.
02:29:56.000 --> 02:29:57.600
I think he'd do well in the hotbox.
02:29:58.000 --> 02:30:00.639
Although if he was the catcher, he'd sure intimidate the hitters.
02:30:00.799 --> 02:30:01.440
Oh, fuck it.
02:30:02.879 --> 02:30:04.639
He'd just like cut them in their ankles.
02:30:05.920 --> 02:30:07.360
Alright, Justin.
02:30:08.479 --> 02:30:12.319
From Dirty Dancing, where are you going to put Baby Houseman?
02:30:12.799 --> 02:30:13.440
Oh gross.
02:30:13.840 --> 02:30:14.559
Baby!
02:30:14.799 --> 02:30:16.319
You're not going to put her in the corner.
02:30:16.479 --> 02:30:20.719
You've got a pitching slot available, third base, shortstop.
02:30:20.799 --> 02:30:21.280
And that's it.
02:30:21.600 --> 02:30:22.000
You know what?
02:30:22.079 --> 02:30:25.120
I am going to put her in the corner and I'm going to put her at third base.
02:30:25.600 --> 02:30:26.559
Oh man.
02:30:29.120 --> 02:30:31.040
I don't have like she's not my shortstopst.
02:30:32.239 --> 02:30:33.120
She's not my shortstop.
02:30:33.440 --> 02:30:34.959
Nobody puts baby at the corners.
02:30:35.040 --> 02:30:36.639
She is definitely not a pitcher.
02:30:36.799 --> 02:30:36.959
No.
02:30:37.440 --> 02:30:38.559
She couldn't even carry the water.
02:30:38.959 --> 02:30:44.159
We got three spots to fill, and one of them is gonna go to from Harry and the Hendersons.
02:30:44.639 --> 02:30:45.280
Harry.
02:30:45.520 --> 02:30:46.159
Oh shit.
02:30:46.399 --> 02:30:47.520
Harry's my DH.
02:30:48.000 --> 02:30:50.159
Oh, he could smack a ball.
02:30:50.479 --> 02:30:51.760
Harry Henderson.
02:30:52.079 --> 02:30:53.280
Nice call.
02:30:53.760 --> 02:30:54.719
Justin.
02:30:55.040 --> 02:30:56.399
Pat and cleanup.
02:30:56.639 --> 02:30:57.360
Damn.
02:30:57.600 --> 02:30:59.120
From Poltergeist.
02:30:59.840 --> 02:31:00.559
Tangina!
02:31:02.159 --> 02:31:03.520
Son of a bitch.
02:31:05.280 --> 02:31:06.239
God damn it.
02:31:06.479 --> 02:31:08.879
All I have left is pitcher and shortstop.
02:31:09.120 --> 02:31:09.840
Yeah, you do.
02:31:10.000 --> 02:31:10.959
That's awful.
02:31:11.200 --> 02:31:12.559
That is awful.
02:31:14.959 --> 02:31:18.399
I'm gonna put it in his channel shortstop, I guess.
02:31:18.719 --> 02:31:19.840
Tangina.
02:31:20.719 --> 02:31:22.000
Limited range.
02:31:22.719 --> 02:31:25.920
But this inning is clear.
02:31:26.079 --> 02:31:26.879
Yeah, it is.
02:31:26.959 --> 02:31:29.040
I mean, maybe she could do some stuff with her mind.
02:31:29.200 --> 02:31:29.680
I don't know.
02:31:29.840 --> 02:31:30.079
I don't know.
02:31:30.479 --> 02:31:32.479
Brian from the Blair Witch project.
02:31:32.559 --> 02:31:34.319
We're gonna put Heather Donahue.
02:31:34.479 --> 02:31:36.479
Heather Donahue's going in.
02:31:37.440 --> 02:31:39.360
Is she a catcher or your right fielder?
02:31:39.520 --> 02:31:41.200
Oh, I'm debating.
02:31:41.760 --> 02:31:43.120
I'm putting right field.
02:31:43.360 --> 02:31:43.680
Okay.
02:31:46.079 --> 02:31:50.079
Heather Donahue, because I don't want to hear her talking.
02:31:50.879 --> 02:31:52.799
I want her as far away as possible.
02:31:53.040 --> 02:31:53.520
Ooh.
02:31:53.840 --> 02:31:56.000
Justin from the Burbs.
02:31:56.639 --> 02:31:57.920
Art Wein Gardener.
02:31:58.079 --> 02:32:00.639
You only got one spot left, so he is gonna be your pitcher.
02:32:00.879 --> 02:32:02.159
Art's my pitcher.
02:32:03.520 --> 02:32:05.440
I don't know if that's a good or a bad thing.
02:32:05.600 --> 02:32:06.879
Well, he'll have the outfit.
02:32:07.120 --> 02:32:07.600
He will.
02:32:07.680 --> 02:32:07.920
Yeah.
02:32:08.079 --> 02:32:08.639
He can do that.
02:32:08.799 --> 02:32:12.719
And Brian, your catcher will be drum roll.
02:32:12.959 --> 02:32:14.159
From second hand lions.
02:32:14.399 --> 02:32:14.799
Yeah.
02:32:15.040 --> 02:32:16.159
Hub McCann.
02:32:16.639 --> 02:32:17.360
Perfect.
02:32:17.600 --> 02:32:18.319
Not bad.
02:32:18.559 --> 02:32:20.319
That's exactly where I would put Hub.
02:32:20.639 --> 02:32:21.280
That's so funny.
02:32:21.440 --> 02:32:24.879
I thought you were gonna say the kid, and that would have been hilarious.
02:32:25.280 --> 02:32:25.600
Okay.
02:32:26.079 --> 02:32:40.879
Now, to give your team a fighting chance, I'm gonna let you, if you choose to do so, pick one player from your roster, and I will offer you a trade.
02:32:41.200 --> 02:32:41.520
Okay.
02:32:42.479 --> 02:32:48.799
Whatever these two are in my hand, I will give you for considerations in cash.
02:32:49.040 --> 02:32:49.360
Okay.
02:32:49.760 --> 02:32:50.239
Alright.
02:32:51.440 --> 02:32:54.239
Players to be named later, so on and so forth.
02:32:54.479 --> 02:32:55.680
So who you want to swap?
02:32:55.920 --> 02:32:57.200
Do you want to swap number one?
02:32:57.360 --> 02:32:59.040
Justin, do you want to swap a player?
02:32:59.360 --> 02:32:59.760
I do.
02:33:00.079 --> 02:33:00.399
Okay?
02:33:00.799 --> 02:33:02.159
Pick left or right.
02:33:03.200 --> 02:33:04.159
Who are you trading first?
02:33:04.319 --> 02:33:05.440
Okay, who you trading?
02:33:06.559 --> 02:33:07.520
Tangina.
02:33:11.040 --> 02:33:14.319
Yeah, I'm gonna I want to get rid of Tangina in my shortstop.
02:33:14.479 --> 02:33:14.799
Okay.
02:33:15.280 --> 02:33:16.479
Alright, you gotta pick.
02:33:16.639 --> 02:33:17.920
Left or right hand.
02:33:18.319 --> 02:33:19.680
Uh right.
02:33:20.879 --> 02:33:21.840
Who you got?
02:33:22.159 --> 02:33:23.280
Right as Might.
02:33:23.520 --> 02:33:24.479
Oh, let's go.
02:33:24.719 --> 02:33:25.680
Let's go.
02:33:27.440 --> 02:33:28.159
Who'd you get?
02:33:28.399 --> 02:33:30.639
I have Pony Boy Curtis.
02:33:31.040 --> 02:33:31.600
You know what?
02:33:31.680 --> 02:33:32.079
I'll take it.
02:33:32.319 --> 02:33:32.719
I'll take it.
02:33:32.799 --> 02:33:33.040
He's back.
02:33:33.280 --> 02:33:34.559
That is an upgrade at shortstop.
02:33:36.399 --> 02:33:38.559
And Pony Boy is in.
02:33:38.799 --> 02:33:42.959
Alright, Brian, do you want to rake make a trade?
02:33:43.520 --> 02:33:46.159
I will trade my second baseman, Vivian Ward.
02:33:46.319 --> 02:33:46.639
Okay.
02:33:47.280 --> 02:33:48.000
Left or right.
02:33:48.079 --> 02:33:48.959
Oh, so give her the choice.
02:33:49.760 --> 02:33:50.799
You got more tickets.
02:33:51.040 --> 02:33:51.760
I'm almost done.
02:33:51.920 --> 02:33:54.639
This is the last thing we'll do before we move on.
02:33:54.879 --> 02:33:56.319
Can we not trade more?
02:33:57.680 --> 02:33:59.440
I guess we I've got.
02:34:00.239 --> 02:34:01.680
Well, there will be four more after this.
02:34:01.760 --> 02:34:04.479
So if you want, we can keep, but honestly, I'd like to, you know, move out.
02:34:05.760 --> 02:34:07.280
I will take your left hand.
02:34:07.520 --> 02:34:07.840
Okay.
02:34:09.040 --> 02:34:09.680
Uh-oh.
02:34:10.639 --> 02:34:11.920
He's passing me the script.
02:34:12.159 --> 02:34:12.799
Who you got?
02:34:13.040 --> 02:34:20.319
So my second baseman is going to be from Empire Records.
02:34:20.719 --> 02:34:24.239
Mark! Mark! I'll take that.
02:34:25.280 --> 02:34:26.639
That's an upgrade from Vivian.
02:34:26.959 --> 02:34:27.440
Is it?
02:34:27.680 --> 02:34:28.000
Yeah.
02:34:28.479 --> 02:34:30.639
Alright, he's not gonna see a thing.
02:34:31.840 --> 02:34:33.280
So dude's tripping.
02:34:33.600 --> 02:34:37.200
Just to recap for those who haven't been keeping score on your own.
02:34:37.440 --> 02:34:50.399
Uh Brian has Robocop, Hub, Stanley, Mark, Michael Myers, Choda Boy, Brad, Willie Mays Hayes, Heather, Harry, and the Turtle Faced Alien.
02:34:50.559 --> 02:34:50.959
Yep.
02:34:51.120 --> 02:34:51.600
I like it.
02:34:51.680 --> 02:34:52.799
That's a good lineup right there.
02:34:53.040 --> 02:35:10.639
Justin has Art Weingartner, Lynn Peltzer, Julius, Crew Jones, Baby Houseman, Pony Boy, Zolo, Grig, Jerry, Flash Gordon, and Lou Brown.
02:35:10.959 --> 02:35:15.040
Man, I'm kind of like baby's a pretty weak link there.
02:35:15.680 --> 02:35:23.680
Let me ask you guys, which two players on each of your teams absolutely cannot coexist in the same clubhouse?
02:35:24.159 --> 02:35:25.680
Who are your problem children?
02:35:27.600 --> 02:35:30.959
Stanley Spadowski and Michael Myers.
02:35:31.600 --> 02:35:33.840
Oh yeah, I can see that there being some issues.
02:35:34.239 --> 02:35:39.120
So I have General Zolo, who's not gonna get along with anybody.
02:35:39.440 --> 02:35:40.559
He's got one arm.
02:35:41.120 --> 02:35:41.760
One hand.
02:35:44.559 --> 02:35:47.600
But I think he's gonna really, really fight.
02:35:52.319 --> 02:35:54.399
Oh, he's gonna fight with Art.
02:35:55.600 --> 02:35:56.479
You're probably not wrong.
02:35:56.799 --> 02:35:58.319
Him and Art aren't gonna get along.
02:35:58.799 --> 02:36:02.239
Which of your players becomes the unquestioned team captain?
02:36:03.600 --> 02:36:04.479
Pope McCann.
02:36:04.879 --> 02:36:05.520
Damn straight.
02:36:05.760 --> 02:36:07.200
Julius Benedict.
02:36:08.239 --> 02:36:08.719
Ow.
02:36:08.879 --> 02:36:11.600
I I mean Only if you read the manual.
02:36:12.319 --> 02:36:14.399
I think you got some good leadership on your team.
02:36:15.120 --> 02:36:16.799
Lynn Peltzer would be talent captain.
02:36:17.120 --> 02:36:18.079
A little bit lacking.
02:36:19.600 --> 02:36:20.959
I'm gonna stick with Julius.
02:36:21.120 --> 02:36:21.280
Okay.
02:36:21.360 --> 02:36:22.159
He's gonna he's a good idea.
02:36:22.319 --> 02:36:23.840
And Greg would be a great leader.
02:36:24.079 --> 02:36:25.680
He's gonna turn it around for everybody.
02:36:26.000 --> 02:36:26.319
Flash.
02:36:27.120 --> 02:36:28.319
Flash led the Jets.
02:36:28.719 --> 02:36:29.200
Right?
02:36:29.440 --> 02:36:31.360
But but Julius is so positive.
02:36:31.520 --> 02:36:31.840
Okay.
02:36:32.000 --> 02:36:33.360
You need that positivity.
02:36:33.760 --> 02:36:36.719
Which of your players is the practical joker in the clubhouse?
02:36:37.040 --> 02:36:37.440
Art.
02:36:37.680 --> 02:36:38.079
Yeah.
02:36:41.920 --> 02:36:42.239
Okay.
02:36:42.639 --> 02:36:45.680
Who is the first player to demand a trade?
02:36:47.040 --> 02:36:49.600
Heather Donahue, because she just bitches a lot.
02:36:49.920 --> 02:36:51.360
Jerry Milktoast.
02:36:52.959 --> 02:36:56.479
Which player is secretly the glue that holds the team together?
02:36:56.959 --> 02:36:57.760
Secretly?
02:36:57.920 --> 02:36:58.159
Yeah.
02:36:58.319 --> 02:36:59.600
Oh, that's Pony Boy.
02:37:00.159 --> 02:37:00.879
Yeah, right.
02:37:01.200 --> 02:37:01.680
I could see that.
02:37:01.840 --> 02:37:03.200
Pony Boy's gonna hold them all.
02:37:03.360 --> 02:37:05.440
He's gonna be like, hey guys, it's okay.
02:37:05.680 --> 02:37:07.120
I replaced Angina.
02:37:08.639 --> 02:37:09.680
And I'm here.
02:37:10.479 --> 02:37:12.079
But the locker room was so clear before.
02:37:12.239 --> 02:37:13.840
We're all playing together.
02:37:14.239 --> 02:37:17.600
For me, I think the glue of this team is Chota Boy.
02:37:17.840 --> 02:37:18.639
Chotaboy.
02:37:18.799 --> 02:37:19.200
I see it.
02:37:19.920 --> 02:37:23.840
Now I could also see with Pony Boy, though, he'd be looking at the division between the two teams.
02:37:23.920 --> 02:37:26.000
So why's it always gotta be this team and that team?
02:37:26.079 --> 02:37:27.440
Why can't we just be people?
02:37:27.680 --> 02:37:29.920
Let's read Gone with the Wind, man.
02:37:31.200 --> 02:37:34.159
Who accidentally says something that gets them canceled?
02:37:34.399 --> 02:37:35.680
Flash Gordon.
02:37:39.200 --> 02:37:39.760
Mark.
02:37:40.559 --> 02:37:41.840
Mark Empire Records.
02:37:42.239 --> 02:37:42.399
Okay.
02:37:42.719 --> 02:37:45.600
And who lands the biggest endorsement deal?
02:37:45.920 --> 02:37:47.440
Oh, Lynn Peltzer.
02:37:49.360 --> 02:37:51.920
I think Harry from Harry and the Hendersons.
02:37:52.799 --> 02:37:53.040
Ooh.
02:37:53.520 --> 02:37:56.159
I think he gets the biggest, yeah, the biggest endorsement deal.
02:37:56.399 --> 02:37:57.360
Even over Robocop.
02:37:57.440 --> 02:37:58.879
It was between he and Robocop.
02:37:59.120 --> 02:38:00.239
The squatch soap.
02:38:00.399 --> 02:38:01.200
But yes.
02:38:01.840 --> 02:38:02.959
The squatch.
02:38:03.120 --> 02:38:03.440
Yeah.
02:38:03.680 --> 02:38:05.280
He's got an endorsement built in.
02:38:05.760 --> 02:38:06.879
He's got one already.
02:38:08.719 --> 02:38:17.760
Now, if your team experience or team's experience was turned into a movie, what would it be called?
02:38:18.959 --> 02:38:19.600
Hmm.
02:38:20.559 --> 02:38:21.840
Major losers.
02:38:26.559 --> 02:38:27.200
Let's see.
02:38:28.399 --> 02:38:29.520
The misfits.
02:38:30.159 --> 02:38:31.120
The misfits.
02:38:31.200 --> 02:38:31.520
Okay.
02:38:31.680 --> 02:38:32.079
Alright.
02:38:32.239 --> 02:38:32.639
Alright.
02:38:32.879 --> 02:38:36.159
Well, in case you're curious, here are the players that you missed out on.
02:38:36.319 --> 02:38:36.559
Okay.
02:38:36.799 --> 02:38:38.879
From Parenthood, we have Gil Buckman.
02:38:39.120 --> 02:38:39.440
Alright.
02:38:40.479 --> 02:38:42.799
You could have also got from Mr.
02:38:42.959 --> 02:38:43.360
Mom.
02:38:44.159 --> 02:38:45.360
Carolyn Butler.
02:38:46.479 --> 02:38:48.319
She's my cheerleader.
02:38:48.799 --> 02:38:51.120
You could have had good panties.
02:38:51.360 --> 02:38:54.000
From Speed, Howard Payne.
02:38:54.719 --> 02:38:55.440
Been a great manager.
02:38:55.680 --> 02:38:56.559
Yeah, he would have been.
02:38:56.879 --> 02:38:59.040
He would have blown up the opposition.
02:38:59.920 --> 02:39:02.479
Or from Uncle Buck, Buck Russell.
02:39:03.120 --> 02:39:04.319
But you didn't get any of those.
02:39:04.399 --> 02:39:05.120
You got what you got.
02:39:05.440 --> 02:39:06.159
Buck could have been a big thing.
02:39:06.399 --> 02:39:07.600
And there we have it.
02:39:07.680 --> 02:39:19.040
Somehow we've managed to assemble a baseball team, or two teams rather, featuring heroes, villains, monsters, psychopaths, and at least one person who probably should not be allowed within 500 feet of a little league field.
02:39:19.360 --> 02:39:20.639
Would they win the World Series?
02:39:20.879 --> 02:39:21.520
Michael Myers?
02:39:21.920 --> 02:39:22.239
No.
02:39:22.799 --> 02:39:26.479
Would they make for the greatest post-game press conference in sports history?
02:39:26.719 --> 02:39:27.520
Absolutely.
02:39:27.760 --> 02:39:34.959
Now, before our owner decides to trade half this roster for a new stadium in Miami, let's get back to our talk about Major League.
02:39:35.280 --> 02:39:37.200
It's Movie League Baseball.
02:39:37.440 --> 02:39:40.000
With the lineup don't make sense.
02:39:45.280 --> 02:39:47.040
Don't drop another names out.
02:39:47.200 --> 02:39:49.680
We'll find somewhere they belong.
02:39:50.319 --> 02:39:54.159
Movie League Baseball, play ball and play along.
02:39:56.079 --> 02:39:57.840
Hey, I think that was a lot of fun, Seth.
02:39:58.000 --> 02:39:58.959
Well, I'm glad you enjoyed it.
02:39:59.040 --> 02:40:00.559
And that was a catchy tune.
02:40:00.799 --> 02:40:12.479
Yeah, I wanted to get something that was similar to Randy Newman, but apparently when you type into the AI, give me a Randy Newman style song, it does not like that.
02:40:12.639 --> 02:40:12.959
Oh.
02:40:13.280 --> 02:40:17.520
So I I found this very similar to uh oh, what's that one song?
02:40:17.920 --> 02:40:18.879
The Cheapseats?
02:40:19.040 --> 02:40:19.520
Oh, okay.
02:40:19.680 --> 02:40:19.920
Yeah.
02:40:20.079 --> 02:40:20.239
Yeah.
02:40:20.479 --> 02:40:20.959
I like that.
02:40:21.120 --> 02:40:22.079
Well, I appreciate that.
02:40:22.159 --> 02:40:22.559
Uh-huh.
02:40:22.719 --> 02:40:26.159
Anyway, what do you say we move on and pick some poison?
02:40:26.399 --> 02:40:27.360
Ooh, I like poison.
02:40:27.760 --> 02:40:29.600
I mean, I not think poison.
02:40:30.079 --> 02:40:31.920
Let's start things off with films from the same year.
02:40:32.079 --> 02:40:35.360
Would you rather watch Major League or Field of Dreams?
02:40:35.920 --> 02:40:37.760
I'm gonna go Major League.
02:40:38.399 --> 02:40:43.680
You know, I saw Field of Dreams for the first time about two years ago.
02:40:44.000 --> 02:40:45.520
I've avoided it.
02:40:46.079 --> 02:40:52.000
Because of Kevin Costner and the hubbub around it, you know, when people make a big deal out of things, I tend to want to avoid it.
02:40:52.239 --> 02:40:53.040
Pick your poison, Brian.
02:40:53.120 --> 02:40:53.440
Come on.
02:40:53.680 --> 02:40:55.840
What's up, major league?
02:40:56.879 --> 02:40:58.879
Major League or Batman?
02:40:59.360 --> 02:41:00.639
Which Batman?
02:41:00.879 --> 02:41:01.680
The first one.
02:41:02.000 --> 02:41:02.559
Major League.
02:41:02.799 --> 02:41:03.760
Major League.
02:41:04.000 --> 02:41:06.639
Uh yeah, Major League.
02:41:06.799 --> 02:41:09.280
Major League or Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade.
02:41:09.520 --> 02:41:10.000
Indiana Jones.
02:41:12.399 --> 02:41:13.040
Agreed.
02:41:13.360 --> 02:41:15.920
Major League or Honey, I shrunk the kids.
02:41:16.159 --> 02:41:17.280
Ooh, I'm gonna go honey.
02:41:17.360 --> 02:41:18.159
I'm gonna go Major League.
02:41:18.399 --> 02:41:19.040
I'll go Major League.
02:41:19.280 --> 02:41:20.239
Give me some honey.
02:41:20.559 --> 02:41:23.920
Major League or Back to the Future Part 2.
02:41:24.639 --> 02:41:25.760
Oh, I'll go two.
02:41:26.159 --> 02:41:27.360
As long as it's not three.
02:41:27.520 --> 02:41:29.840
If you'd have said one, I'd have gone back to the future.
02:41:30.000 --> 02:41:31.440
But two, I'm going Major League.
02:41:31.520 --> 02:41:33.840
Yeah, I think two might have been my least favorite of the three.
02:41:34.079 --> 02:41:35.120
So I'm gonna go Major League.
02:41:35.360 --> 02:41:37.680
You liked three, where they went to the Wild West.
02:41:38.159 --> 02:41:38.799
It was better than two.
02:41:40.159 --> 02:41:45.120
Two is terrible, too, but I think I like three because of Mary Steenbergen.
02:41:45.440 --> 02:41:46.159
Oh, gross.
02:41:46.239 --> 02:41:46.559
Oh yeah.
02:41:46.799 --> 02:41:47.440
I don't care.
02:41:47.600 --> 02:41:48.399
That's so stupid.
02:41:48.479 --> 02:41:49.440
That's like the worst one.
02:41:49.600 --> 02:41:49.840
Yeah, yeah.
02:41:50.000 --> 02:41:51.840
Let's make a time machine out of a train.
02:41:52.079 --> 02:41:55.200
Alright, let's talk about some movies from the baseball movie Hall of Fame.
02:41:55.440 --> 02:41:57.600
Major League or Bull Durham.
02:41:58.239 --> 02:42:00.079
I've never seen Bull Durham, really.
02:42:00.239 --> 02:42:01.360
Oh, this is getting hard.
02:42:01.680 --> 02:42:03.280
I mean, Susan Sarandon.
02:42:03.440 --> 02:42:03.760
Yeah.
02:42:03.920 --> 02:42:07.040
I really like Duke Lelouch.
02:42:07.120 --> 02:42:07.440
Yeah.
02:42:07.680 --> 02:42:08.719
Duke Lelouche.
02:42:08.959 --> 02:42:09.360
Mm-hmm.
02:42:09.840 --> 02:42:12.159
Ah, Bull Durham, just but not really.
02:42:12.479 --> 02:42:13.360
I think I'll stick Major League.
02:42:13.680 --> 02:42:14.719
I'm gonna stick Major League, too.
02:42:14.799 --> 02:42:14.959
Okay.
02:42:15.200 --> 02:42:17.200
Major League or the Sandlot.
02:42:17.520 --> 02:42:19.280
I'm gonna go Sandlot, Sandlot.
02:42:19.600 --> 02:42:19.840
Yeah.
02:42:20.879 --> 02:42:21.360
Sandlot.
02:42:21.520 --> 02:42:22.719
Sandlot's great.
02:42:23.440 --> 02:42:24.239
Smoors.
02:42:25.120 --> 02:42:27.680
How can I have more if I haven't had any yet?
02:42:28.479 --> 02:42:31.120
Major League versus a League of Their Own.
02:42:31.360 --> 02:42:32.159
Major League.
02:42:32.319 --> 02:42:34.239
I think I'm gonna go League of their own.
02:42:36.000 --> 02:42:38.719
I'm gonna go Major League on that one.
02:42:39.120 --> 02:42:41.520
Major League or Moneyball.
02:42:42.639 --> 02:42:44.639
I'm gonna go Moneyball because I've not seen it.
02:42:44.879 --> 02:42:45.760
Moneyball's good.
02:42:45.840 --> 02:42:47.120
I read the book first.
02:42:49.200 --> 02:42:53.360
Uh and I I kinda I like yeah, because the it's historically fairly accurate.
02:42:53.440 --> 02:42:54.239
I'm gonna go money ball.
02:42:54.479 --> 02:42:55.600
I like Moneyball.
02:42:55.920 --> 02:42:59.040
Um sports comedy movies outside of baseball.
02:42:59.200 --> 02:43:01.680
Would you rather watch Major League or Happy Gilmore?
02:43:01.920 --> 02:43:02.959
Oh, I'm gonna go happy.
02:43:03.120 --> 02:43:03.440
Happy.
02:43:03.520 --> 02:43:04.799
I'm gonna go Major League.
02:43:05.120 --> 02:43:07.280
Major League or Dodgeball.
02:43:07.840 --> 02:43:08.559
Major League.
02:43:08.799 --> 02:43:09.360
Major League.
02:43:09.680 --> 02:43:10.799
Major League for me too.
02:43:10.959 --> 02:43:12.879
Major League or Talladega Knights.
02:43:12.959 --> 02:43:14.000
Oh, I'm going Taladega.
02:43:14.159 --> 02:43:14.639
Talladega.
02:43:14.879 --> 02:43:16.000
I'm going Major League.
02:43:16.239 --> 02:43:18.799
Major League or Caddyshack.
02:43:20.399 --> 02:43:27.040
You know, I know there's a lot of like people that are like super like Caddyshack is the best movie ever.
02:43:27.200 --> 02:43:29.360
I'm still I'm gonna go, I'm gonna watch it again.
02:43:29.520 --> 02:43:30.559
I'm gonna go Major League.
02:43:30.719 --> 02:43:32.000
I'll go Major League.
02:43:32.319 --> 02:43:34.559
Major League or Slapshot.
02:43:34.799 --> 02:43:35.680
Slapshot.
02:43:35.840 --> 02:43:36.399
Slapshot.
02:43:36.639 --> 02:43:38.000
Slapshot's got more boobs.
02:43:38.239 --> 02:43:38.479
I do.
02:43:39.120 --> 02:43:40.079
Rousey's moms.
02:43:41.840 --> 02:43:44.959
And some underdog movies just to wrap things up.
02:43:45.040 --> 02:43:47.600
Would you rather watch Major League or Rocky?
02:43:48.239 --> 02:43:48.959
Major League.
02:43:49.200 --> 02:43:49.840
Rocky.
02:43:50.000 --> 02:43:53.040
Oh, Adrian.
02:43:53.440 --> 02:43:53.680
Oh.
02:43:54.559 --> 02:43:56.159
They're so different.
02:43:57.520 --> 02:43:59.360
I think I'm gonna go Major League though.
02:43:59.520 --> 02:43:59.840
Okay.
02:44:00.159 --> 02:44:02.159
Major League or Hoosiers.
02:44:02.719 --> 02:44:05.680
I've not seen Hoosiers, so I'm gonna go Hoosiers.
02:44:06.479 --> 02:44:08.479
I think Major League's more entertaining.
02:44:08.639 --> 02:44:10.079
Hoosers drags a lot.
02:44:10.399 --> 02:44:11.360
That's my thought exactly.
02:44:11.440 --> 02:44:12.479
I'm gonna go Major League.
02:44:12.879 --> 02:44:13.200
Okay.
02:44:13.680 --> 02:44:15.920
Major League versus Miracle.
02:44:18.239 --> 02:44:19.920
Not seen it, so I'll do it.
02:44:20.079 --> 02:44:21.600
Oh, that's tough.
02:44:21.920 --> 02:44:22.639
Yeah.
02:44:24.159 --> 02:44:26.159
Uh I'm gonna go Miracle.
02:44:26.399 --> 02:44:28.079
I think we're gonna go Major League.
02:44:28.319 --> 02:44:31.440
Because I think there are better underdog hockey movies.
02:44:31.680 --> 02:44:32.159
Yeah.
02:44:32.399 --> 02:44:35.200
Uh Major League versus Cool Runnings.
02:44:36.399 --> 02:44:37.920
I'm gonna go cool runnings.
02:44:38.319 --> 02:44:40.000
I'm gonna go cool runnings just for John Candy.
02:44:40.559 --> 02:44:43.200
I was gonna say, in spite of John Candy, I'm still gonna go Major.
02:44:44.000 --> 02:44:44.959
Love you, John.
02:44:45.280 --> 02:44:48.319
Major League versus the Mighty Ducks.
02:44:48.559 --> 02:44:50.479
Ooh, I'm gonna go Mighty Ducks.
02:44:51.120 --> 02:44:51.680
Really?
02:44:52.000 --> 02:44:52.319
Yeah.
02:44:52.479 --> 02:44:52.639
Yeah.
02:44:53.040 --> 02:44:53.600
Go Major League.
02:44:53.840 --> 02:44:55.680
That was nostalgic for me as a kid.
02:44:55.920 --> 02:44:56.479
I can see that.
02:44:56.639 --> 02:44:57.760
Yeah, I'm with you.
02:44:57.920 --> 02:45:02.079
I think uh to wrap things up, I'm gonna go with the Mighty Ducks.
02:45:02.319 --> 02:45:04.799
And so that we've picked our poison.
02:45:04.879 --> 02:45:05.120
All right.
02:45:06.000 --> 02:45:10.159
But now it's time to pick the winner of the Bodaker Award.
02:45:11.920 --> 02:45:15.760
Pirates Bodaker, you are under arrest.
02:45:16.000 --> 02:45:18.159
You have the right to remain silent.
02:45:19.120 --> 02:45:19.920
Fuck you.
02:45:20.559 --> 02:45:21.840
Guns, guns, guns.
02:45:21.920 --> 02:45:23.360
It's time to choose.
02:45:23.600 --> 02:45:27.360
Who stole the seed and live the fuse the fact?
02:45:28.239 --> 02:45:30.799
What's up to make the buttico?
02:45:34.399 --> 02:45:36.959
You fly bobby.
02:45:41.760 --> 02:45:42.959
But a winner.
02:45:43.200 --> 02:45:44.479
Pure dynamite.
02:45:45.440 --> 02:45:57.120
Well, if you're new to the show, each episode we choose one worthy recipient to receive this prestigious recognition in honor of one of our favorite cinematic characters, Clarence Bodaker from Robocom.
02:45:57.440 --> 02:46:05.520
It's not an award for the best actor or whoever was on the screen the most, but the character who we think brought the most to the movie.
02:46:05.840 --> 02:46:10.639
Justin, who is your choice for this episode's Bodtiker Award?
02:46:10.959 --> 02:46:17.040
I nominate Ricky Wild Thing Vaughn.
02:46:17.280 --> 02:46:17.600
Oh.
02:46:19.680 --> 02:46:22.959
For me, it was his arc.
02:46:23.440 --> 02:46:24.719
That's what did it for me.
02:46:25.360 --> 02:46:36.319
He goes from this immature punk who couldn't find the strike zone to a picture that everyone wanted on the mound in the biggest moment.
02:46:36.959 --> 02:46:48.079
And my favorite part about him is the filmmakers gave just enough wild thing to always leave me wanting more instead of wearing out the gimmick.
02:46:48.799 --> 02:46:49.600
I can see that.
02:46:50.000 --> 02:46:51.520
But they didn't overuse it.
02:46:51.680 --> 02:46:51.920
Yeah.
02:46:52.239 --> 02:47:00.639
And I thought that was really kind of a a special point for him being the main character of the movie.
02:47:00.879 --> 02:47:01.120
Sure.
02:47:01.440 --> 02:47:02.000
Or one of.
02:47:02.559 --> 02:47:03.360
Sure, I can see that.
02:47:05.760 --> 02:47:07.920
Alright, so I like to rank.
02:47:08.559 --> 02:47:11.200
And in third place, I've got Joe Boo.
02:47:13.600 --> 02:47:20.000
And I I think if we could ever find one, I think a Joe Boo bobblehead to join our collection would be awesome.
02:47:20.159 --> 02:47:20.799
Yeah, it would be.
02:47:21.040 --> 02:47:25.200
But he's not a Bodiker Award winner yet, as we know.
02:47:25.680 --> 02:47:28.239
So second place, man, I love Lou Brown.
02:47:28.319 --> 02:47:29.040
I love that voice.
02:47:29.200 --> 02:47:31.040
I love his steady presence through the movie.
02:47:31.360 --> 02:47:33.040
I thought he was a great character.
02:47:33.360 --> 02:47:39.360
But hands down, head and shoulder, this character bridges every scene.
02:47:39.520 --> 02:47:40.719
He carries the humor.
02:47:40.959 --> 02:47:42.719
He becomes the voice of the movie.
02:47:42.959 --> 02:47:44.799
He's frickin' hilarious.
02:47:45.360 --> 02:47:50.879
Because without the booth, you don't just lose the jokes, you lose the heartbeat of the movie.
02:47:51.200 --> 02:47:52.479
I'm going Harry Doyle.
02:47:52.799 --> 02:47:53.360
I almost went there.
02:47:54.000 --> 02:47:54.559
I thought about that one.
02:47:54.719 --> 02:47:55.200
That's a good pick.
02:47:55.440 --> 02:47:56.399
I almost went there.
02:47:56.719 --> 02:48:00.879
Well, my nominee goes to Lou Brown.
02:48:01.120 --> 02:48:01.360
Oh.
02:48:02.000 --> 02:48:07.760
Because first off, I just love James Gannon's performance.
02:48:08.079 --> 02:48:15.440
He's got that gravelly voice that sounds like he's been chewing on cigars and sunflower seeds for 40 straight years.
02:48:15.680 --> 02:48:19.600
And every line he delivers still feels authentic.
02:48:20.000 --> 02:48:24.000
Nothing about him feels like an actor playing a baseball manager.
02:48:24.319 --> 02:48:26.799
He is a baseball manager.
02:48:27.200 --> 02:48:29.520
What I love most though is his attitude.
02:48:29.680 --> 02:48:31.600
He doesn't take any crap from anybody.
02:48:31.760 --> 02:48:33.760
Roger Dorn waves his contract around.
02:48:33.920 --> 02:48:34.879
Lou takes a piss on it.
02:48:35.520 --> 02:48:35.760
Literally.
02:48:35.920 --> 02:48:36.479
Yeah, I love that.
02:48:36.639 --> 02:48:39.280
Players loafing through drills, drop and give me 20.
02:48:39.440 --> 02:48:41.280
Nobody gets special treatment.
02:48:41.520 --> 02:48:44.719
But here's the thing: his toughness never comes from ego.
02:48:44.799 --> 02:48:46.319
It's grounded in heart.
02:48:46.639 --> 02:48:49.280
He genuinely wants these guys to succeed.
02:48:49.440 --> 02:48:53.200
And by the end of the movie, they're not just a collection of misfits anymore.
02:48:53.360 --> 02:48:54.319
They're a team.
02:48:54.479 --> 02:48:57.280
And Lou Brown is the reason why.
02:48:58.479 --> 02:49:00.479
We have a three-way tie.
02:49:02.000 --> 02:49:02.639
We do.
02:49:03.520 --> 02:49:04.399
We do.
02:49:05.200 --> 02:49:13.760
Okay, so if you Brian, if you couldn't put your person, which of the other two would you throw your vote to?
02:49:14.079 --> 02:49:16.879
If I couldn't pick mine, I would pick Lou Brown.
02:49:17.120 --> 02:49:17.440
Okay.
02:49:17.920 --> 02:49:22.319
But like I said, I I think Harry Doyle's head and shoulders the best character.
02:49:22.799 --> 02:49:26.399
See, I if I I couldn't pick Lou Brown, I would pick Harry Doyle.
02:49:26.559 --> 02:49:27.200
Yeah.
02:49:27.520 --> 02:49:28.079
My God.
02:49:28.319 --> 02:49:29.920
Justin, if you couldn't pick Ricky Wilder.
02:49:30.159 --> 02:49:31.360
It comes down to Justin.
02:49:31.600 --> 02:49:32.879
It comes to me.
02:49:33.200 --> 02:49:38.079
Well, I already told you that Harry Doyle was in consideration.
02:49:39.520 --> 02:49:41.280
So I guess I gotta go Harry Doyle.
02:49:41.440 --> 02:49:46.319
Alright, and with that, it might not be unanimous, but it's definitive.
02:49:46.559 --> 02:49:49.920
Harry Doyle is the winner of this episode's Bodiker Award.
02:49:50.079 --> 02:49:51.120
Here we do it.
02:49:53.040 --> 02:49:54.479
Bitches leave.
02:49:55.120 --> 02:50:03.200
Well, now that we've picked our favorite character, it's time to pick our favorite beer of the episode.
02:50:04.079 --> 02:50:04.799
Alright.
02:50:04.959 --> 02:50:06.799
Well, we already know Brian lost.
02:50:06.959 --> 02:50:07.840
Yes, I did.
02:50:08.079 --> 02:50:09.120
And that'll be the first thing.
02:50:09.360 --> 02:50:10.159
I'll go first.
02:50:10.559 --> 02:50:13.600
I will put the Mill Pond brewing guzz.
02:50:15.120 --> 02:50:17.440
Crazy, folks, in last place.
02:50:17.920 --> 02:50:18.799
Sours.
02:50:20.479 --> 02:50:21.760
Sours are terrible.
02:50:21.920 --> 02:50:22.399
Yep.
02:50:22.639 --> 02:50:26.479
In second place, I'm gonna go with the uh Sam Adam Summer Ale.
02:50:27.840 --> 02:50:35.840
And in first place, I'm gonna go with the somewhat hazy IPA.
02:50:36.559 --> 02:50:39.520
The uh just a bit hazy.
02:50:40.239 --> 02:50:44.319
I it's hard for me to find one that I like, and I really like that one.
02:50:44.479 --> 02:50:44.799
Alright.
02:50:44.959 --> 02:50:46.479
So that's why I put it first.
02:50:48.639 --> 02:50:49.920
I'm I'm close.
02:50:50.079 --> 02:50:50.479
Yeah?
02:50:50.639 --> 02:50:51.280
I'm close.
02:50:51.440 --> 02:50:52.959
I bet you got the same third place.
02:50:53.200 --> 02:50:53.840
I do.
02:50:55.840 --> 02:50:58.799
Your goosa is grossa.
02:51:02.000 --> 02:51:02.799
You're so puny.
02:51:03.040 --> 02:51:03.520
You're right.
02:51:03.680 --> 02:51:05.600
So that's gonna be my third.
02:51:05.920 --> 02:51:09.280
I'm gonna go with the just a bit hazy.
02:51:09.760 --> 02:51:12.639
Second, it was not my favorite hazy.
02:51:15.840 --> 02:51:17.520
It probably wasn't hazy enough for you.
02:51:17.760 --> 02:51:19.520
It wasn't just a bit hazy.
02:51:20.159 --> 02:51:23.840
If I don't know that I like I don't know that I would buy it again.
02:51:24.079 --> 02:51:26.159
Or I don't know that I would go and buy it.
02:51:27.200 --> 02:51:28.399
The summer meal though?
02:51:28.719 --> 02:51:31.360
I could drink this often.
02:51:32.079 --> 02:51:32.879
I can do that.
02:51:33.200 --> 02:51:39.040
Summer, and then we're gonna lozen hazy summer meal.
02:51:39.920 --> 02:51:43.440
I also will put the goza dead last.
02:51:44.879 --> 02:51:45.920
How dare do you?
02:51:46.239 --> 02:51:48.399
Although I think it has the best name.
02:51:49.040 --> 02:51:49.440
It does.
02:51:49.520 --> 02:51:49.760
Yeah.
02:51:49.920 --> 02:51:51.120
It was the most relevant name.
02:51:51.280 --> 02:51:52.799
But we don't make votes on names.
02:51:52.879 --> 02:51:54.399
No, but the most terrible beer.
02:51:54.559 --> 02:51:58.719
So that leaves the summer ale and just a bit hazy.
02:51:59.040 --> 02:51:59.280
Yep.
02:51:59.360 --> 02:52:00.719
Yo, you're the deciding vote.
02:52:01.040 --> 02:52:03.840
I really like both.
02:52:05.040 --> 02:52:12.639
But I as drinkable as the summer ale is, it's not as distinct.
02:52:12.879 --> 02:52:14.799
I feel like it's it's something.
02:52:15.360 --> 02:52:19.280
It's a little vanilla ice cream in the ways of a citrus sweet.
02:52:19.440 --> 02:52:20.000
It's not.
02:52:20.239 --> 02:52:21.040
I don't know.
02:52:21.280 --> 02:52:22.399
Um, it's good.
02:52:22.559 --> 02:52:23.440
It's very good.
02:52:23.680 --> 02:52:25.200
But it's not for dripple.
02:52:25.360 --> 02:52:26.159
Exactly.
02:52:26.719 --> 02:52:28.399
I'm gonna put that at number two.
02:52:28.799 --> 02:52:32.239
Don't get me wrong, I would gladly drink that on any day.
02:52:32.399 --> 02:52:32.719
Yeah.
02:52:32.959 --> 02:52:39.760
Um, but I thought the Just a Bit Hazy was a little bit more interesting and beer to me.
02:52:40.000 --> 02:52:40.879
Just a bit above.
02:52:41.280 --> 02:52:42.239
Just a bit.
02:52:42.719 --> 02:52:43.920
Just a bit above.
02:52:44.559 --> 02:52:45.360
And so with that.
02:52:47.040 --> 02:52:50.399
That means Seth I picked the best beer.
02:52:53.360 --> 02:52:56.479
I'm trying to get to let that go to my head, but hey Justin.
02:52:56.639 --> 02:52:59.200
Hey guys, hey guys, did you did you guys hear I picked the best beer?
02:52:59.280 --> 02:53:00.479
Hey, hey, hey Justin.
02:53:00.639 --> 02:53:01.440
I picked the best beer.
02:53:01.520 --> 02:53:02.959
Did you hear Seth voted for his own beer?
02:53:03.440 --> 02:53:05.280
I did, but I was for my beer.
02:53:07.040 --> 02:53:09.280
I wasn't dare gonna vote for my beer.
02:53:09.440 --> 02:53:10.319
Oh my god, no.
02:53:10.479 --> 02:53:10.799
No.
02:53:11.120 --> 02:53:11.280
No.
02:53:11.920 --> 02:53:12.719
No no no no.
02:53:13.760 --> 02:53:15.040
I wouldn't drink it on a bet.
02:53:15.920 --> 02:53:16.959
I don't blame you.
02:53:17.040 --> 02:53:17.280
Yeah.
02:53:17.520 --> 02:53:18.799
Well, now that that's out of the way.
02:53:19.040 --> 02:53:19.840
Not one bet.
02:53:20.399 --> 02:53:23.440
Let's uh let's get into some final thoughts.
02:53:23.680 --> 02:53:24.959
Let's do a final thought.
02:53:25.360 --> 02:53:26.319
Brian, you want to kick it off?
02:53:26.479 --> 02:53:27.920
Sure, I'll kick it off.
02:53:28.719 --> 02:53:30.559
I love this movie.
02:53:31.120 --> 02:53:33.280
And I love it for three main reasons.
02:53:33.440 --> 02:53:35.440
First, I love baseball.
02:53:35.760 --> 02:53:41.280
It's been a part of my personal life, part of my working life, and it's a huge part of my family life.
02:53:42.000 --> 02:53:47.120
Second, I actually have, like we talked about before, I've got a personal connection to it.
02:53:47.200 --> 02:53:50.079
I was at Cleveland Stadium when they filled some of the crowd scenes.
02:53:50.239 --> 02:53:54.319
I went with my Aunt Becky, my Uncle Bill, and my cousins Joe and Jeremy.
02:53:54.559 --> 02:53:56.959
It was the summer between my seventh and eighth grade.
02:53:57.760 --> 02:54:03.680
I've never been able to spot myself on screen, but I was there, in that crowd, in that atmosphere.
02:54:04.399 --> 02:54:10.879
And when I think about it now, that kind of fits the movie perfectly because Major League isn't really about individual moments.
02:54:11.360 --> 02:54:13.120
It's about being part of something bigger.
02:54:13.520 --> 02:54:15.680
You know, a group nobody expected to matter.
02:54:16.159 --> 02:54:18.479
Finding a way to come together to change a story.
02:54:18.959 --> 02:54:23.680
So even if I can't see myself in the film, I know I was in the building when the story was being told.
02:54:24.079 --> 02:54:25.040
And I think that's cool.
02:54:25.360 --> 02:54:25.840
That is cool.
02:54:26.159 --> 02:54:29.600
And lastly, the movie's just fun.
02:54:31.520 --> 02:54:33.840
So I like this movie.
02:54:33.920 --> 02:54:35.200
I think it's a fun movie.
02:54:35.520 --> 02:54:36.799
I think it's hilarious.
02:54:37.040 --> 02:54:41.280
I think it would be even more hilarious with a slight buzz.
02:54:41.840 --> 02:54:49.760
Uh so since our rating scale is how many beers for peak enjoyment, man, I enjoy this movie with zero beers.
02:54:50.079 --> 02:54:56.399
But if I think if I had three, and and a slight buzz going, oh, I'd love it even more.
02:54:56.639 --> 02:54:58.959
So I'm gonna go uh with a three beer rating on this.
02:54:59.200 --> 02:55:00.079
Right there with you.
02:55:01.680 --> 02:55:03.440
So I'm gonna jump in here.
02:55:03.920 --> 02:55:06.719
Because mine's gonna be pretty short.
02:55:07.280 --> 02:55:09.200
There's not a lot to complain about.
02:55:09.920 --> 02:55:11.840
I really like this movie.
02:55:12.559 --> 02:55:18.959
It's another one of those movies that isn't trying to win an Oscar, it just wants to be a hilarious underdog baseball movie.
02:55:19.360 --> 02:55:20.479
And it succeeded.
02:55:21.280 --> 02:55:23.600
It did exactly what a comedy should do.
02:55:23.760 --> 02:55:29.120
It was funny, a bit inappropriate, and kept me engaged from start to finish.
02:55:30.079 --> 02:55:39.520
The overall look and feel is unapologetically eighties, but I can't really hold that against it, considering it was made in the eighties.
02:55:44.079 --> 02:55:52.719
Aside from a middle section that dragged just a bit, I can absolutely see why this movie was such a hit and why it's still so well loved today.
02:55:53.360 --> 02:55:55.120
I'd definitely watch it again.
02:55:56.159 --> 02:55:59.360
In fact, next time I might enjoy it with a few beers.
02:56:00.479 --> 02:56:06.799
Not because the movie needs them, but because I enjoy the way Three Beers makes me feel.
02:56:07.760 --> 02:56:08.239
Love it.
02:56:08.399 --> 02:56:08.639
Love it.
02:56:08.719 --> 02:56:10.000
I'm right there with you.
02:56:11.200 --> 02:56:15.280
Well, I gotta say that overall I thought Major League is a pretty fun movie.
02:56:15.440 --> 02:56:15.680
Yeah.
02:56:16.319 --> 02:56:18.799
Characters are instantly identifiable.
02:56:18.959 --> 02:56:27.440
The team is easy to root for, and and while the movie gets cartoonish from time to time, it never completely loses its footing.
02:56:27.840 --> 02:56:34.399
There's still enough humanity underneath all the jokes that you buy into this group of misfits becoming a family.
02:56:34.639 --> 02:56:38.159
And that's really why this movie works.
02:56:38.639 --> 02:56:44.799
Now, it's not perfect, and I'm not honestly sure I could say that the movie fully holds up.
02:56:44.959 --> 02:56:48.079
The Jake and Lynn romance hasn't aged particularly well.
02:56:48.159 --> 02:56:53.680
And by today's standard, some of Jake's persistence comes across as less charming and more creepy.
02:56:54.000 --> 02:57:03.760
And Rachel Phelps, also an interesting case, she's absolutely the villain of the movie, but if you really stop and think about it, her motivations really aren't that evil.
02:57:03.920 --> 02:57:09.840
She's just a business owner trying to relocate a struggling franchise for what she believes is a better opportunity.
02:57:10.079 --> 02:57:15.440
If anything, it's the city of Cleveland that's the true villain of this movie.
02:57:15.680 --> 02:57:24.079
Maybe if you had spent more time watching baseball and less time extinguishing river fires, she wouldn't have to move to Florida.
02:57:24.319 --> 02:57:27.200
Seriously, get with it, Cleveland.
02:57:27.520 --> 02:57:31.360
Now that said, Major League is a funny movie.
02:57:31.600 --> 02:57:37.600
Packed with memorable characters and one of the most entertaining underdog stories ever put on film.
02:57:38.239 --> 02:57:41.920
In fact, I it it ranks right up there with a little engine that could.
02:57:43.200 --> 02:57:51.360
It knows exactly what kind of movie it wants to be, even when it's wrong, and it never overstays its welcome.
02:57:51.520 --> 02:57:58.079
And for me, Major League, like you two, is a three beer movie.
02:57:59.040 --> 02:58:00.479
The math is gonna be hard on this one.
02:58:00.559 --> 02:58:01.440
Yeah, uh let's see.
02:58:01.680 --> 02:58:02.799
Three plus three plus three.
02:58:03.040 --> 02:58:03.680
Where's that put it?
02:58:04.079 --> 02:58:04.799
Divide by three.
02:58:05.040 --> 02:58:06.319
Carry the eighteen.
02:58:07.280 --> 02:58:08.799
Three squared divide by seven.
02:58:09.040 --> 02:58:09.680
Three squared.
02:58:10.079 --> 02:58:12.719
Three times the square root of twelve.
02:58:13.360 --> 02:58:16.000
Three point one power four.
02:58:16.879 --> 02:58:18.079
And then carry the eight.
02:58:18.319 --> 02:58:19.520
What's the fifth value of pi?
02:58:20.000 --> 02:58:22.479
Oh man, that's like three point one point one five.
02:58:22.879 --> 02:58:24.719
Like, how many do you go on that pie?
02:58:24.959 --> 02:58:26.559
Like, it can go on forever.
02:58:26.799 --> 02:58:27.600
It's infinity.
02:58:27.760 --> 02:58:30.079
Well, as it turns out, uh, average score of three.
02:58:30.239 --> 02:58:30.479
Wow.
02:58:30.639 --> 02:58:31.760
Oh, thanks for doing the math.
02:58:31.840 --> 02:58:32.559
Yeah, man.
02:58:32.799 --> 02:58:38.239
That puts it tied for third place in the movies we've watched to date with speed.
02:58:38.719 --> 02:58:39.120
Nice.
02:58:39.360 --> 02:58:39.760
Not bad.
02:58:39.920 --> 02:58:46.959
So that puts it a third of a beer behind Parenthood and a third of a beer ahead of Romancing the Stone.
02:58:47.200 --> 02:58:47.680
Ah, nice.
02:58:48.159 --> 02:58:48.719
Nice fit.
02:58:48.959 --> 02:58:49.520
Very nice.
02:58:49.840 --> 02:58:50.319
Very good.
02:58:50.559 --> 02:59:00.879
My question, though, is how many beers do you need for the little engine that could all the beers?
02:59:01.360 --> 02:59:02.159
Zero motherfucker.
02:59:02.479 --> 02:59:05.440
Zero best children's movie.
02:59:06.319 --> 02:59:09.840
We didn't touch on it much, but I want to give a shout out to the soundtrack.
02:59:10.079 --> 02:59:10.479
Yeah.
02:59:10.719 --> 02:59:15.120
I I thought the other than the I mean, it's not soundtrack.
02:59:15.200 --> 02:59:29.680
The the opening song by Randy Newman, I swear to God, if if I am ever, if a foreign agent ever takes me hostage and needs to torture information out of me, put Randy Newman on a loop, I swear to God, I will tell you anything.
02:59:30.000 --> 02:59:30.559
Alright.
02:59:30.719 --> 02:59:31.280
That's good to know.
02:59:32.879 --> 02:59:35.440
Why was he so popular in the I don't know?
02:59:36.000 --> 02:59:36.799
Holy cow.
02:59:37.120 --> 02:59:39.760
He was like the cartoon of music makers.
02:59:40.239 --> 02:59:40.559
He was.
02:59:40.719 --> 02:59:40.879
Yeah.
02:59:41.040 --> 02:59:41.760
It's cartoon.
02:59:41.920 --> 02:59:42.239
Still is.
02:59:42.319 --> 02:59:43.200
He's he's the cartoony guy.
02:59:43.440 --> 02:59:47.360
Did you ever see the family guy episode where they they joke around about Randy Newman?
02:59:47.520 --> 02:59:50.639
He's like there and he's just singing songs about the things he sees.
02:59:50.879 --> 02:59:52.000
Big old dog.
02:59:52.559 --> 02:59:53.040
Uh-huh.
02:59:53.200 --> 02:59:53.440
Yeah.
02:59:53.600 --> 02:59:54.239
Oh, yeah.
02:59:55.360 --> 03:00:01.200
I thought the music behind the scenes was pretty good, especially during the baseball scenes and the climactic moments.
03:00:01.440 --> 03:00:04.239
And set tones that built momentum and added energy.
03:00:04.479 --> 03:00:05.280
Yeah, I agree.
03:00:05.680 --> 03:00:06.239
Good score.
03:00:06.399 --> 03:00:07.040
That's pretty good.
03:00:07.280 --> 03:00:10.639
All right, now that we have all our ratings squared away.
03:00:10.799 --> 03:00:10.959
Yeah.
03:00:11.360 --> 03:00:14.639
Let's let's take a moment and let's just say David S.
03:00:14.799 --> 03:00:23.520
Warder or our good buddy D Dubs reached out and said, hey, regular guys, think about making a sequel to this movie.
03:00:23.600 --> 03:00:30.559
And let's just also forget that any sequels ever were made to this movie, and whatever we come up with is what the actual sequel will be.
03:00:30.799 --> 03:00:31.680
I think that's a great idea.
03:00:31.840 --> 03:00:32.959
It's a smart choice, D dub.
03:00:33.200 --> 03:00:34.879
Now I I don't know if you guys heard.
03:00:35.040 --> 03:00:36.639
You but I had the best beer.
03:00:36.799 --> 03:00:36.959
You did.
03:00:37.840 --> 03:00:39.520
I won I won the episode.
03:00:39.680 --> 03:00:42.159
So I'm going to start this off.
03:00:42.239 --> 03:00:42.559
Wait, wait.
03:00:43.760 --> 03:00:45.360
He said he won the episode.
03:00:46.000 --> 03:00:46.879
The entire episode.
03:00:47.040 --> 03:00:47.920
Oh, I win Seth.
03:00:48.239 --> 03:00:48.719
I won life.
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Seth won the I won life.
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Forget forget our baseball teams.
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Well, did we built?
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Did you hear Seth's hatch?
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Did you hear who was on your team, Justin?
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But you won that part, maybe.
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Yeah, you didn't.
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You didn't win shit tonight.
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Anywho.
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Fuck.
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All right.
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Here's my thought.
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Seth won't have to be a little bit more.
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So the Indians just had one hell of a underdog story, rags to riches kind of moment.
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Yeah.
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They won the American League East Division title.
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My thought is there should be a documentary documenting the lives and the people to see how this has changed their lives.
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This instant fandom, this instant stardom, these unknowns and hasbens.
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How has this changed your life?
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So I want, instead of a standard typical narrative movie, I kind of want a real players of Cleveland documentary show.
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Okay, kind of following him in the offseason.
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Yeah.
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After this uh semi-successful season.
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Exactly.
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Okay.
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Yeah.
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So let's get to know these people we don't know.
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Lessback?
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Yeah.
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Kinda, yeah.
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Yeah.
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Okay.
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Less baseball and more human interest.
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Sure.
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Okay.
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Would this be a mockumentary?
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Yes.
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Definitely.
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Okay.
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I'm on board.
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I'm on board.
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I'd love a good mockumentary.
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Okay, so so to do this, we'll kind of have to go through some of the key players here.
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I I think Serrano starts like a voodoo church.
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Mm-hmm.
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Slash fried chicken restaurant.
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Yeah.
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Uh-huh.
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He did get into that.
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Yeah.
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Uh Ricky Vaughn is back in jail.
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Maybe he becomes an optometrist.
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Helping young his place for better.
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Maybe he becomes a fashion eyewear model.
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Oh, that's a good one.
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He didn't have a need.
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For emo he's crossbone in there.
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I like it.
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What does Roger Dorn do?
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Dorne.
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He just sells real estate.
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Does he become a marriage counselor?
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To the stars.
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I think we catch him in mid-divorce as Suzanne is basically robbing him blind.
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Oh.
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Suzanne sleeps with like half the team.
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Oh, yeah.
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Oh, yeah.
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Even the married guys.
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She's a non-stop sleeping machine.
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Suzanne just has a calendar, you know, that she's made herself of naked pictures from the baseball team that she just puts on the on like the refrigerator.
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She rotates.
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Yeah.
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When she leaves Serrano's chicken place, she's walking funny.
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I've been eating a lot of chicken this month.
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That bat doesn't need to be warmed up anymore.
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Was Lou Brown go back to the tire joint?
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Or what does Lou Brown do?
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He's got to call back that guy that you eat the white walls.
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Right.
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I don't know.
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Like maybe he's he's pulling double duty.
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Like he's got to be back, right?
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Yeah.
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He's got to be back in the show.
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You gotta have Lou Brown.
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I don't know.
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I guess it depends.
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Did they move the team to Miami?
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Do they stay?
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I think they stay.
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I assume they had to stay, because really where they were at in the season, they only need to have 10 sellout sellout games to avoid it.
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Or 20 half.
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They had games to do that.
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They would have definitely done that.
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Sure.
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So they didn't move.
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What about the owner?
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What does she do in the offseason?
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OnlyFans.
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Oh, nice.
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That's a good one.
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Yeah.
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Man, she could supplement that income that she's looking for.
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She could get that mansion eventually.
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Yeah.
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I would think that she probably would get out of the business, right?
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Maybe they have a new owner.
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Who's the new owner?
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Well, in the in the real sequel that was made, Dorne is, but I don't want to go there in the in our sequel.
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There's gotta be a funnier.
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Funnier owner.
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Okay, how about since Seth's Vincent Benedict.
03:04:52.159 --> 03:05:03.040
Since Seth thinks she's since Seth thinks she's the victim, not the villain, maybe this success of the team really heightened the value.
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Mm-hmm.
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And she sells and makes a ton of money.
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And you see her on uh the veranda of her Boca Ratan mansion, and she's just so happy not to be involved with baseball anymore.
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I could see it.
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Yeah.
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I could see it.
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What about Jake Taylor?
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Prison.
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Jake Taylor has two broken knees and he's in a wheelchair.
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Yeah, it's not far from it.
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His ball stomped in by Lynn's high heels.
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Maybe, maybe Lynn rated testicles.
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Maybe Lynn leaves him at the altar.
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Ooh.
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I could uh And she's she's actually a lesbian.
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She leaves him at the altar for her one of her bridesmates.
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I could see Jake Taylor in a wheelchair on the side of the road selling tamales out of the back of his trunk.
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Could that bridesmaid be Suzanne?
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Because that would really fulfill a childhood fantasy of mine.
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Suzanne?
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Oh yeah.
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Oh that's that's a nice that's a nice story.
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Yeah, Suzanne ran through the baseball team and still unfulfilled.
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Couldn't get Jake, but she got Lynn instead.
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Yeah.
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Ow ow.
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So they're they're living together off uh, you know, with half a dorm's money, you know, in the Caribbean somewhere.
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Uh-huh.
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On on a forever honeymoon.
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And then pirates strike.
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Son of a bitch.
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The Pittsburgh Pirates.
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They come there and they space.
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Yeah.
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And they both run through another team.
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There we go.
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What about what about Harry Doyle?
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Harry Doyle mimics real life, and he gets voted into the Baseball Hall of Fame as an announcer.
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Oh.
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I like that.
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Or maybe he just drinks himself to death.
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That works too.
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But I think, either way, that's gonna do it for this episode of the Regular Guy Movie Show.
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We survive wild pitches, voodoo-fueled home run swings, scantily clad cardboard cutouts, bad knees, bruised bodies, and more slow-mo running and tobacco spitting than you could shake a bat at.
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The regular guy movie show talking flicks.
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Here we go.
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So why was other than the language why was this movie rated R?
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Well the language by itself would have done it.
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You're only allowed so many fucks.
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Right.
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I guess that's about it.
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Yeah, I think that's about it too.
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There was no nudity, nothing overly sexual.
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Right.
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Just a lot of cousins.
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Well, you know, in a locker room, that's kind of what happens.
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Honestly, it felt pretty tame from my locker room experiences.
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Right.
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Right.
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Funny story, I I was playing ball and and and we played and and we won a game in the bottom of the ninth, and actually in the top of the ninth, and the bottom of the ninth got hairy.
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We were the the road team and I got home late.
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My mom asked me how the game went, and I told her, and and I said, and for that, you know, the bases were loaded, two out, and there was a ground ball up the middle.
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And I said, and Luis Aliseya just fucking dove.
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And I'm talking to my mom.
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And I froze.
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I froze.
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It's like late road trip.
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I get home at like two in the morning.
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And there's an uncomfortable pause.
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My mom looks at me and she goes, Well, what the fuck happened?
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That's awesome.
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And so I told her the rest of the story, and then afterwards, she's like, Hey, I know how the boys in the locker room talk.
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Just try a little harder not to bring that home.
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That's amazing.
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Your mom's a wonderful woman.
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She's awesome.