I have seen it, it is a very good drama but not great for a baseball fix. The cast is great though. A virtually unknown De Niro among many others. It really is worth a watch.
I’ll add the following movies to your list:
The Rookie (2002): It’s Disneyfied, but this based-on-a-true-story movie is well told. It’s in my top 5 of baseball movies.
Bad News Bears in Breaking Training (1977): This is the 2nd movie, where they get to play in the Astrodome. It’s not as good as the original, but it’s actually pretty damn close.
Moneyball: Honestly, I’ll watch anything with Philip Seymour Hoffman. I don’t know how they told that story of the Oakland As without even mentioning Miguel Tejada, but they did!
Trouble With the Curve: Just kidding - this movie is garbage.
Sugar (2008): A great story about a minor leaguer from Central America. Very good.
Didn’t they also neglect to mention that they had Zito, Hudson and Mulder? Maybe the best starting trio in MLB that season?
I would add Rookie of the Year to the if-you’re-desperate list. Under no circumstances would I rewatch Major League: Back to the Minors, though.
I agree on both.
And Little Big League.
Thank you for the baseball flicks.
I searched Netflix for the drum beater. Don’t have it. But they gave these selections:
Weeds on Fire. (Chinese)
Hope, one in a million
Screwball
Battered Bastards of Baseball
Haven’t seen any. How 'bout you players?
Battered Bastards of Baseball was interesting. Might give a good second tier baseball fix.
Screwball, I didn’t make it through. Wait, I’m thinking about a doc about Tim Wakefield, it looks like this is something else.
Especially for fans of Kurt Russell.
Besides Tejada and the big three starters, the book and movie barely mention Eric Chavez either. The five best players on the team that year by WAR, and by pretty much any other measure you;d care to name. But they didn’t fit the narrative…If I didn’t know better I’d think the A’s were successful that year because of Scott Hatteberg and Ricardo Rincon.
I think that is it. About a seller of PEDS.
There’s a whole section of the book where Beane brags about Chavez. People keep forgetting it’s there.
Having said that, Michael Lewis had a point to make, so of course he looked at the information that made it. Moneyball is NOT primarily a book about baseball. It is a business book about the phenomenon of mis-valuing of assets.
Well, better to decide now.
How short could a viable season be, anyway? Half? It’s hard to imagine starting in mid-August and then having a postseason after 40 games.
I think 80-100 games is enough. MLB will be inclined to do SOMETHING. Every game makes money.
The only significantly shortened season that MLB has had in its modern history (but which did feature a postseason) was 1981, due to a players’ strike in mid-season; that year, teams played just over 100 regular-season games. It led to a revised post-season format, in which the first round pitted the division leaders in the first half of the season against the leaders from the second half of the season.
We also had 1994, in which the players went on strike in mid-August, after ~115 games, but there was no postseason that year.
I should also note that, in 1918, the major leagues ended their seasons about a month early, due to the ongoing effects of World War I; teams played about 125 games that season, and there was a World Series. (Normal schedules in that era were 154 games.)
Then, in 1919, they played a slightly abbreviated schedule of 140 games.
With a shortened season, I am hoping for an adjustment.
Anyone know of anything?
Another question: I know it would depend on contract wording, but if a team signed someone for the 2020 season and it didn’t happen, would the contract roll over to the 2021 season? I’m thinking Mookie here. My feeling is that if he gets paid for not doing shit this year, he owes the Dodgers the 2021 season gratis.