"Major League" -- good movie. Not a great or classic movie in any sense, but for baseball fans, it doesn't get much better than a late-Saturday, darkened-living room viewing of "Major League," especially when one's favorite real-life baseball team is particularly horrendous. Afternoons like that are good for the soul. Baseball players agree. Emphatically. At least, that's the anecdotal lesson in this blog post by the Seattle PI's John Hickey:
There were literally 19 pairs of eyes transfixed on the screen as almost all other business in the clubhouse was put on hold. The players, most of whom have seen the movie dozen and dozens of times, knew all the dialog and talked along with each of the characters. Catcher Jamie Burke estimated he'd probably seen the movie 250 times, and said it and Bull Durham remain his two favorite baseball movies. Pitcher Jarrod Washburn, also one of those transfixed during the movie's finale said it was his favorite baseball movie, bar none.The standard-issue question here is whether or not "Bull Durham" is a better movie, which leads me to a confession: I've never seen it. I know, I know. I suck. I've never seen Back to the Future or any of the Indiana Jones movies, either, and I blame my parents and my millenial birthdate. Get off my case, OK?
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9-17-2008 @ 2:37PM
shonday said...
Wow, me too on all of those movies. Haven't seen em, don't plan to anytime soon, don't care.
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9-21-2008 @ 4:53PM
Barclay said...
thanks for enlightening us on your lack of caring. why do you think anyone cares about what you dont care about?
9-17-2008 @ 2:45PM
Pat Lackey said...
Bull Durham is a widely overrated chick-flick masquerading as a baseball movie with maybe too good quotes that make up for things. When it comes to baseball movies, there is Major League and then there's everything else.
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9-17-2008 @ 4:00PM
Tom Fornelli said...
Pat,
I think you forgot about Ed.
9-17-2008 @ 5:31PM
Bernie said...
Great movie! There's a very good chance that if you put Charlie, Wesley and Tom B in any movie it will be a good movie, they made Major League a great movie.
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9-18-2008 @ 12:42AM
ralphgmiami said...
Major Leagues is a good movie but not as good as the Billy Crystal directed movie 61*. It's the story about Mickey Mantle and Roger Maris in 1961 as they try to break Babe Ruth's single season record. 61*makes Major Leagues look like a minor league game in Albuquerque in an April sandstorm. Jane's rendition of Mickey Mantle is critically acclaimed as great. Old Yankee Stadium was in it's originally setting with the facade which is the way the new Yankee Stadium will look when it opens up in 2009. This is a must see movie for everyone regardless if you're a baseball fan or not. 61* also has humor as Mantle had a very colorful personality.
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9-21-2008 @ 4:55PM
Barclay said...
Were you paid to post that borderline fellatio of 61?