So, instead it was a professional team IN New York City!
How about The Cutting Edge with the final big twirl/throw/spin/flip that would only be possible had a nearby naked singularity’s event horizon collided with a magnetic monopole during the tick.
Bend it like Bechham. No WAY those two were not a couple!
The Naked Gun: I don’t think Reggie Jackson is that good a shot. :rolleyes:
garygnu said:
Seems I misheard that segment of the program.
In “Pride of the Yankees” Lou Gehrig removes himself from a game, thus breaking his consecutive game played streak. Actually, no. Since he was already in the game, it counts as played. So this is incorrect. The real irony about the game that ended the streak was it was in Detroit and his predecessor at first base, Wally Pipp, just happened to be in the ballpark (he was living in Grand Rapids). And no, Wally Pipp wasn’t removed because of a headache. The Yankees in 1925 were struggling and manager Miller Huggins decide to play some kids.
“A League of Their Own” ends with the winning run scoring when the catcher hits the ground and the ball comes loose. It could be a bad umpire’s call but the rules state that this can not happen.
“Eight Men Out” has players from 1919 having fingers outside their gloves. This was not something players did back then. They also have the two games honest player Dickie Kerr won are strikeouts. Nope. Same thing with the Ronald Reagan film about Grover Cleveland Alexander “The Winning Team”.
“Grand Prix” has some awful low points totals for the four driver who enter the final race at Monza for the championship. I know it was practice back then to use the best results from about 5 races but still…
From what I remember about “Fear Strikes Out” about Jimmy Piersall (“I am sane and I have the papers from a mental institution to prove it”), the baseball players are wearing numbers in the 70s and 80s which very rarely happens in MLB.
The only pertinent rule (2.00: TAG) is that a tag occurs when the fielder touches a player with the ball securely and firmly in hand or glove. If it comes out as a result of a collision, the umpire can use that to mean that the possession wasn’t very firm. So: it may or may not have been a bad call.
I thought it was yet another remake of “The Longest Yard” but according to wiki:-
The movie is based on the 1961 Hungarian film drama Két félidő a pokolban (“Two half-times in Hell”), which was directed by Zoltán Fábri and won the critics’ award at the 1962 Boston Cinema Festival.[1]
The film was inspired by the true story of Dynamo Kyiv’s players, who defeated German soldiers while Ukraine was occupied by German troops in World War II. According to myth, as a result of their victory, the Ukrainians were all shot. The true story is considerably more complex, as the team played a series of matches against German teams, emerging victorious in all of them, before finally being sent to prison camps by the Gestapo. Most of the team were killed there, but a few survived.
I’m going to handwave on this one. They do a lot of montage in the movie, where they kick some ass, and I’m willing to pretend that wiffing on the curve was a tendency, not an absolute. He had good power for the year (and probably mashed a lot of hanging curves), but he also struck out a lot, and couldn’t handle a good breaking pitch. Until the last game.
What really doesn’t make sense in that game, though, is the Indian’s lineup. IIRC correctly, after Willie Mays Hayes beats out a hit, the catcher with the shifty knees comes up to the plate. What?! No way a batter with such bad wheels is that close to Hayes in the lineup!
Presumably, Hayes bats leadoff. The catcher is probably batting behind Cerrano, to give him some protection in the order. And doesn’t Corben Bernsen get out before Hayes bats, suggesting he’s at the bottom of the lineup?
Probably fair. He was likely a feared slugger with a a lot of HRs and a near record Strike out total.
I think this is true in a lot of baseball movies. The lineup reflects whatever drama is happening at the moment.
In the movie, they start showing the bottom of the 7th with one out, and Taylor (the catcher) at bat. He flies out. Then Dorn (Corben Bernsen) gets a single, then Cerrano hits the homer on the curveball to tie it at 2. The movie then jumps to the top of the 9th, for Vaughn’s strikeout, then goes to 1 out bottom of the ninth. We start seeing Tomlinson (who is an unknown character) fly out for the second out, followed by Hayes and Taylor to win the game. So the batting order is Hayes, Taylor, Dorn, Cerrano.
I just watched the ending of The Replacements. As Keanu Reeves would say “whoa”.
As I said, I missed most of the movie but the story seemed to that the NFL players had gone out on strike and a bunch of wannabees were brought in to play. Keanu Reeves played the quarterback who had never been good enough for the NFL before but finally got his shot.
This being a movie, Reeves’ team got their act together and was on the verge of making the playoffs and Reeves showed he could function as a quarterback. Then the strike ended and the regular players were going to come back. And the regular quarterback on Reeves’ team made a secret deal to come back a day early so he could play an extra game.
So the owner of the team puts the regular quarterback in the starting line-up for the last game. Okay, that’s realistic. But he doesn’t just bench Reeves; he cuts him from the team completely. Which makes a lot of sense because why would any owner want to have a second quarterback with proven ability sitting on his bench? It’s not like a starting quarterback has ever been injured or anything.
But it’s gametime and Reeves is watching the game on his TV. And the starter is a total dickhead who is losing the game due to his arrogance (like I said it’s a movie). So during the halftime, Reeves shows up in the locker room and the coach tells him to suit up and start in the second half.
So we have a guy who was able to walk into the stadium during halftime and then walk into a team’s locker room.
Then we have a coach who would decide to sit out his starting quarterback and replace him with a guy who’s no longer even on his team. I guess he keeps a few blank contracts in his office so he can sign up players in contingencies like this.
We have officials and an opposing team who would allow a team to bring a new player on to the team during a game.
And apparently those owner boxes don’t have any telephone connections down to the sidelines, because the owner never called down to the coach to inquire why the guy they cut that week was now playing,
All of this nonsense could have been easily avoided by a little realism. Any real team would have kept Reeves on its roster as a back-up so he would have been suited up and eligible to play in the second half if the coach had wanted (and assuming the owner was somehow unable to intervene). But I guess the movie people thought that wouldn’t be dramatic enough.
Was it clear that it wasn’t the beginning of the game? It’s been a while since I watched it, but I seem to be under the impression they had run out the batting list to the ump and Lou decided before he actually played he couldn’t do it anymore so they ran a new list out to the umps. Maybe I just made that assumption.
Forgetting the fact he’s playing with and against cartoon characters, the Looney Tunes/Michael Jordan film SPACE JAM drove me nuts because EVERY single point in the film was a slam dunk. Wouldn’t at least one shot have been from the field? And, yes I do feel silly I let that bother me in an otherwise terrible film.
I’m pretty sure some of the Toon Squad does field shooting - there are 2+ MJ layups, a jumper from just outside the paint, and a Pepe Le Pew tip-in in this clip.
But the Monstars are all incredibly tall and athletic, without necessarily great command of their powers, why would they not dunk over everyone? The shortest one is the second tallest player on the court.
Mine is the game influencing officials in “Remember the Titans” throwing a flag for a holding penalty against the Titans, blowing their whistle, then continuing to run with the play. AAAARGH! Blowing the whistle ends the play! Every new official learns to “throw and go”, an inadvertent whistle would let the Titans replay the down if they so chose. Stupid movie zebras.
Ok, then one jumper in the whole game and a couple layups. Still implausible a basketball game would be 98% dunks, even for cartoon characters.
But cartoon characters live on the Rule of Cool and MJ figures out it works for him on the last shot too. Of course they dunk!
For pure, unadulterated stupid, I present The Fan:
The stupidest part has to be the “climax”, in which Wesley Snipes has to hit a home run during a monsoon so that Robert DeNiro will release his kidnapped child. (See the ending of the trailer for the sea of umbrellas and the rain pouring down.) Because, as we all know, baseball games are played in all sorts of weather and are never, ever called on account of bad weather, like say, a monsoon.
Huh?
Good call, that was a real WTFer. I think I’d successfully blocked out this movie until you had to go and bring it up again.
***The Fan ***was stupid for a host of reasons.
ARE there sports fans out there who are insanely devoted to their favorite temas or athletes? Sure! Are there people with an unhealthy Red Sox or Phillies obsession? YES! Pittsburgh fans who over-identify with the Steelers? YES! Englishmen who are scarily passionate about soccer, or Canadians who are violently in love with their favorite hockey players? You bet! Are there New Yorkers who are insanely possessive of Derek Jeter, and would freak out if he left for LA as a free agent? Definitely. Are there Bronco fans with crazy man-crushes on John Elway? Absolutely.
But The Fan was set in San Francisco. NOBODY in San Francisco lives and dies with the Giants. And NOBODY in San Francisco or anywhere else would develop a mad emotional bond with a newly arrived free agent.
Hey, wait a minute! I obj…uh…yeah, you’re right.
Niners, maybe.