As someone who works for 3 Major League Baseball teams, I can tell you that this movie is quoted about 5 times a game. One of my favorite movies of all time
“That’s not real.” Actually yes it is real. That is is how players and coaches communicate on the field to not let the other team know what is being said. Each hand gesture is a different word or phrase.
Probably half of the moves in the sequence are decoy signals that don't mean anything so that the other team can't figure out the ones that do mean something
One of the first couple of move is the sign to tell you what movement is the real sign....and yes, players are always saying mad shit to eachother in order to distract their opponents...most of the times it's just jokes or playful trash talk.
The signals can mean steal, hit and run, don't swing. For example a coach can throw a bunch of signals but when he touches the brim of his hat the next signals are the ones that matter. So he touches his brim then he'll touch his belt, that means bunt for example.
Even though this is about the Cleveland Indians it holds a special place in the hearts of Milwaukee Brewers fans. The games were filmed at Milwaukee County Stadium which was demolished to make room for the Brewers current stadium. The radio announcer in the movie is Bob Eucker. He is currently 88 years old and has been the radio announcer for the Brewers for the last 51 years.
@@vorlon1 Hi, thanks. It's a funny quirk, but if a word is misspelled but all the actual letters are included, most times the brain will give the word a pass. Anyways, I just copied and pasted Mr. Uecker's name in my comment. I miss seeing him on the Tonight Show.
You probably know Jake’s wife as Thor’s mom. Rene Russo was a fashion model who turned actress and is pretty darn good at it. She’s best known for Lethal Weapon 3 & 4, The Thomas Crown Affair, and a Kevin Costner movie you’d like called Tin Cup.
Tin Cup should be added to the list to see - it would be a hoot to see that reaction. Also, much overlooked but Big Trouble is hilarious and has a great cast! Brilliant writing.
Baseball is a perfect excuse to sit outside on a beautiful summer evening. Green grass, good food/beer, relaxed atmosphere. I love the game, but I really love the aesthetics of the entire experience!
Couldn't have said it any better. Even when I'm not at a game, just being in the backyard relaxing on a hammock drink in hand with the ballgame on the radio in the background. It's the soundtrack of summer.
I like the Minors. I went to a Black Sox game a long time ago, and it was a thoroughly miserable experience. The Minors games that I've been to have been a lot more fun.
@@markmac2206 well, my problem was that we paid a ton of money to sit in the nosebleed section, behind a massive concrete pillar, surrounded by seriously drunken assholes. When we went to get incredibly overpriced concessions, one of the drunken assholes puked in my seat. Compare that to the two Minor teams I've seen: Reasonably priced tickets that put you behind the dugout. Hot dogs that cost about like you think they should. No falling-down-drunk assholes (both games were filled with families). Just generally a hell of a lot of fun. Yes, the players were either wannabes or has-beens, but I could at least see the gameplay. It's the Minors for me!
That's because that's how Bob Uecker announces in real life. Aside from being drunk, there was no acting to that part. His announcing role was like announcing a regular game for him.
As a Cleveland sports fan, this has been a staple movie of my life 😂 Whenever I'm watching a game on tv, quotes from this movie always pop into my head.
@@taekwondotime Indians isn't even a racial slur. It's derived from Indigo or Indigenous. Indians themselves are more offended by Native American often times which is the pc terminology modern revisionists offer up as culturally sensitive. Furthermore, Blackhawk and Redskin were always way more racist and one of those teams still exists.
@@somethingsomething8931 I heard that; because of agricultural representation directly linked to spiritualism in the rain dances, stake burning for better buffalo hunts, and the peace pipe ceremonial smokes and all the other culturally relevant involvements of the people that were here first I'm sure they've stopped teaching about in grade school. Probably inhabitants south of what we call North America who witnessed their nuances first thought their "bizarre" behavior could only be described as offerings or praises to God; thus In Dios.
Yes- there are 162 games in a MLB season and yes- they do use a cryptic form of sign language to communicate to each other on the field. If you’ve seen enough baseball games, you’ll see it happening. It’s pretty cool!
And the final call is so damn ballsy. Jake calling for a squeeze bunt because the infield is deep, knowing that he's going to have to beat it out on his busted up old knees before Hays' speed even matters!
The one flaw in the movie that only just occurred to me watching this reaction is how warm Cleveland looks in the movie. Opening Day looks like it's in the middle of summer. Kind of almost takes you out of it. But not really.🤣
Yes Cassie, a Major League baseball season is 162 games long, lasting from late March thru very early October, which does not include the post season (playoffs and world series). Just FYI.
Back when _Major League_ came out the season only went to (early?) September. The World Series rarely hit the middle of October. November MLB baseball was unheard of until 2001.
What separates this movie from others is Charlie Sheen was actually throwing almost 90, and Dennis Haysbert was actually crushing home runs. It drives me nuts when a ball that wouldn't even make the outfield travels 500 feet in other movies.
I'm sure someone says it down below, but Sheen originally wanted to play baseball. I think he had an injury that kept him from continuing. Saw and interview with Sheen, I think on Actor's Studio. He said he'd always had the dream of hitting a home run in a major league stadium. They let him try some batting practice at the stadium, and the pitching coach was serving up some 70 mph meatballs. He said he actually crushed one, and in the interview, they cut to the video they had of his home run.
"Breaking Away" is a heart-warming coming-of-age film with cycling as its sports aspect. It also has commentary on townie/college-kid (poor/wealthy) life aspirations.
Yes there are 162 games in a season…and the reason the coach said to Hayes “nice catch..don’t ever F’n do it again”….bc of the way he caught the ball….holding his glove down by his waist…showboating.
Aside from the showboating, it's bad mechanics. You can easily lose sight of the ball when it's falling between your head and waist. Sounds strange, but it's true.
@@Rob-ji6cr Yeah. I played center field. One of my favorite player was Andrew Jones, who was an extreamely slick fielder. So naturally happened to me too. Embarassing. :)
Trivia: When director David S. Ward asked Bob Uecker to play Harry Doyle in the film, Ward had chosen Uecker because of his acting work in Miller Lite ads and on the sitcom Mr. Belvedere (1985). It wasn't until Ward met Uecker did he learn that Uecker had been, for nearly 20 years, the radio broadcaster for the Milwaukee Brewers. My walk to the mound song would be "The Final Countdown" by Europe. 👍
and still calling games today at the age of 88. Hope the Brew Crew can get him a world series victory soon! Also, the stadium used in the movie is Milwaukee County Stadium. Some good memories there.
Yes, all those face slaps and ear pulls are signs given to the runners and the hitters, so that's real haha. Most of the things that happen in this movie are very accurate to how baseball is. As a baseball guy myself (played from when I was a small child right into college), this movie is everything haha
The actual field used for the homes games was not Cleveland, they filmed it in Milwaukee Wi. It was the Brewers old stadium, Milwaukee County Stadium. Our High School baseball team quoted nearly everything from this film when we practiced. One kid actually brought a snake into camp and blessed his locker, he actually made the team. Also in our Varsity team photo our team captain is holding our version of Jobu. We snuck it into the photo, nothing but great memories for us old baseball players. This movie makes me happy.
This pitcher who played for the Braves back in the 90s, named John Smoltz, had a joke played on him for his walkout song. When he started walking to the mound, "Dancing Queen" starting playing which wasn't his walkout music, the stadium started laughing after seeing Smoltz laughing shaking his head
When he was on the Athletics, Josh Reddick would come out to the saxophone solo in Careless Whisper. Some guy on the Diamondbacks got his replaced with It’s Raining Men.
Nice piece of trivia: in the final game, Dennis Haysbert (Cerrano) did actually hit the ball over the fence. The shot of Cerrano connecting looks so good because he actually had gotten all of it. He didn't hit at as far as depicted but he did hit a homer.
@@cardiac19 oh absolutely. I just didn't want people to think Haysbert was able to do something (completely clearing those bleachers, possibly the entire park) not many professionals can pull off.
From an old baseball guy, love that you did this movie! Thank you. And you're totally right, guys who love baseball REALLY love baseball. This is a classic.
You should watch Cassie’s reaction to The Untouchables and when Sean Connery comes on she give a great “Suck it, Trebek” like celebrity jeopardy on SNL. Haven’t laughed that hard in a long time
Charlie Sheen won the Academy Award for Best Actor for that one. (Yes, really.). Charlie was also the protagonist of the movie "Wall Street", but his co-star Michael Douglas won the Oscar for that one. His career as a sitcom star (and a scandal) came later.
The part where they were at Spring Training was filmed in Tucson, AZ. The stadium is now used by the University of Arizona baseball team. A few years ago, they did a promo where they reenacted all the great scenes from this movie and it was awesome! lol
The reason Hays was trying to steal 2nd base with 2 outs was to take remove the possibility that either he or Taylor could be forced out. The further Hays moves towards 2nd base, is less distance he has to run to reach it when Jake bunts. But they weren't expecting the bunt, so all the players were playing deeper than normal, which forced the throw to 1st base to get Taylor was late in getting there. While this was going on, the Yankees thought Hays would hold up at 3rd base, but he didn't, so they had quickly throw home to try catch him. It was a gamble, and it worked.
Great explanation but if she doesn't watch baseball at all she prob knows nothing about what you're saying. Force outs need to be explained to baseball newbs as well as playing deep and everything.
Thanks for that. As a non-baseball expert I appreciate your clear breakdown and explanation of that particular sequence, as it's deepened my affection for the movie.
@@thickerconstrictor9037 It sounds like from the talk about baseball in this & other baseball films that she does watch some baseball even if there's not a major league team really near utah there's still college & high school teams the family probably watch.
Scoring from 2nd on a infield grounder has happened on rare occasions. One notable occurrence was in the 2010 AL playoffs where Elvis Andrus of the Rangers scored from 2nd on a groundout by Josh Hamilton. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-ICupRwu8gSE.html
This Clevelander is so proud to see us in a positive light and even though we’ve lost the Indians name, we can’t lose the memories. My song, btw, is “You’re The Best Around” by Joe Esposito. It’s also Daniel’s championship song in The Karate Kid.
I was there when they filmed this and it was late and I remember the girls in the crowd going absolutely insane when Charlie Sheen finally walked out and they played Wild Thing, everyone was exhausted and by the time they filmed that part everyone just got a boost and went berserk, especially the girls, what you saw in the film was real!!!!!!!
It just annoys e that in all the reactions I have seen for Major League they won't even play just a BIT of "WILD THING" THAT song is WHAT MAKES THAT WHOLE SCENE when RICK VAUGHN (Charlie Sheen) WALK OUT! I am a native Clevelander and am now 75 years old. The LAST time the INDIANS WON a WORLD SERIES was in 1948 when I was ONE YEAR OLD, so obviously I have NO MEMORY of it! The closest the INDIANS came was in 1995 when they were in the WORLD SERIES with the Atlanta Braves....we lost, I was HEATBROKEN and CRIED so hard. Then they made it to the Series in 1997 and LOST AGAIN! I don't think I will LIVE LONG ENOUGH to SEE them win a WORLD SERIES. That just UPSETS me!!
@@patticrichton1135 Awww Patti I totally agree with you hon, they should play a snippet of it, no one's gonna sue them!!!!!!! Sorry about your Indians love, I've got the Brewers so I totally understand!!!!!!!
@@patticrichton1135 Entirely possible she did it because she knew RU-vid would give her a copyright hit if she didn't muffle the song. But I agree the "Wild Thing" entrance is an iconic piece of cinema.
The movie was mainly filmed in Milwaukee, old County Stadium. The Yankee 1st baseman (Clu Haywood) was played by a former Brewer pitcher the 1982 Cy Young winner Pete Vuckovich.
Also, the "called shot" is a piece of MLB history. In the 1932 World Series Babe Ruth was being heckled by the Chicago Cubs fans, so he pointed to the bleachers in effect "calling his shot". There is some very low quality video that seems to back up that it really happened. He then proceeded to hit a home run in the general area where he had pointed. In this case, Jake does it as a distraction so they are caught off guard when he instead bunts and runs it out to first. It's a very cool misdirection play.
I have read accounts of people who were there at that game. Ruth NEVER "called his shot!" That was a question asked of him after the game by a reporter and Ruth just agreed because he was a whore for publicity. This is pure major league fiction. As for the low quality film--Ruth admitted that he just pointed at the Cubs dugout because they were razzing him.
Having lived just south of CLE my whole life I can tell you this movie and characters are still much loved , the actors much respected and always receive a warm welcome
Baseball scenes filmed at Milwaukee County Stadium. My friends were extras in the crowd. The announcer Bob Uecker in this movie is still the beloved Brewer radio announcer to this day.
Bob is a national treasure and one of the greatest of all time. And this is coming from someone who can’t stand the Brewers (not the teams fault, but the ownership).
“Why don’t they have him be the pitcher all the time?” Pitching is rough on your shoulder and arm. Starting pitchers need several days (usually 4) between starts to recover and pitch effectively again.
TBH I know very little about baseball but I'm not gonna miss an opportunity to learn: Is a big part of the larger strategy in baseball just about figuring out when and how you're going to sub pitchers? Which games and what innings? I see it sort of like F1 racers deciding when to change tires, but just because there's kind of a lack of good sports comparisons, in my mind 😂
@@TheGoIsWin21 Yeah, starters are typically expected to pitch at least 6 innings of a 9 inning game. After that the team brings in what they call a middle reliever for the 7th inning, a late reliever, or setup man, for the 8th, and the closer in the 9th. Of course this all depends on if they are winning or losing at the time, but yes there is a lot of strategy on which pitchers go out on a particular day. Relievers get more appearances throughout the year, but the starters usually get the most innings under their belt.
@@zacharyimerman5651 Well thanks a ton for taking the time to fill me in. I suspect I might find more joy in baseball as I mellow from my lunatic youth, so I'll remember your kindness
@@TheGoIsWin21 huge part of the strategy of baseball. It’s pretty rare for a starting pitcher to throw a “complete” game. The decision of when to go to a relief pitcher and who that will be is a major part of a manager’s job. Plus they have to identify ahead of time when that might become necessary, as pitchers require time to warm up and throw before entering a game. Much like a F1 car, if you choose to leave the tires on - or leave a pitcher in the game - for just a little too long, it can be disastrous.
I think a starter may do a complete game if he pitches a 'no hitter'. It means that he had got everyone out without giving up a base hit once once in the game. Even then, if he struck everyone out consecutively, that is still 27 full strength pitches. I don't know how many pitches starters are expected to do on an average per game though.
A couple of points: Bob Uecker (Harry Doyle) is a Hall of Fame announcer for the Milwaukee Brewers, and the stadium scenes were filmed at County Stadium in Milwaukee. County Stadium has since been replaced by Miller Park. One more Milwaukee connection: The Yankee first baseman was played by Pete Vuckovich, who was a pitcher for St Louis and later on Milwaukee. He won the Cy Young award in 1982 for the Brewers.
I am a 44 year old, lifelong Clevelander. Lifelong Indians fan, and they will ALWAYS be the Cleveland INDIANS to us. This movie came out in 1989, and at that point the Indians hadn’t finished higher than 3rd place in the old AL Eastern division since finishing 1 game out of first behind the Chicago White Sox in 1959 (they were an annual contender in the 1950s, they’d won the 1948 World Series and got swept in the 1954 Series). They were notoriously horrible for 30 years at that point. So when this movie came out, we all felt a sort of cathartic release. And then when the Indians finally did become real contenders throughout the 1990s in our new stadium at Jacobs Field in 1994, the movie felt like art imitating life. Kenny Lofton was Willy Mayes Hayes. Albert Belle was Pedro Cerrano. Even our manager Mike Hargrove had a little Lou Brown in him! Charlie Sheen himself threw out the first pitch of one of the 1995 World Series games in Cleveland in his full “Wild Thing” movie outfit. In fact Bob Euker himself broadcast many of the Indians 1995 playoff games on NBC in the booth with Bob Costas!! This movie is an absolutely iconic gem in the hearts of all real life Cleveland Indians fans!! Thank you for reacting to it!!
The actress who played the team owner is the late, great Margaret Whitton. She had a hell of a streak of high profile movies like 9 and a half weeks, the Secret of my Success, and this film! She was great at both comedy and drama. She was smart, classy, witty, and beautiful. Rest in peace, Ms. Whitton!
Margaret was always on the money in everything I've seen her in. Sad to hear she has passed. I can't believe no one has done The Secret of my success yet. That movie in 1987 outgrossed Predator, Robocop, Lethal Weapon and Dirty Dancing
"The Secret of My Success" that's it. I've been trying to figure out where I saw her before. I loved the movie. In fact, I'm going to watch it again, right now.
@@johnwjr7 Yeah, it's a nice 80's hidden gem. Another great 80's hidden gem most people haven't heard of is 'Gotcha'. Check that one out if you haven't
11:45 He can catch, just not like that as it's too risky and he might not be so lucky next time. The way the coach delivers that line is one of my favorite moments in this film. 😂🤣
That style of catching is called a "basket catch" and, as you say, is not as easy as the usual way of catching a ball - so coaches never teach kids to catch that way. But the basket catch was made famous by one of the all-time great players, "Say hey!" Willie Mays. Which is why Willie Mays Hayes uses it - as an homage to his namesake.
"THE INDIANS WIN IT! THE INDIANS WIN IT! OH MY GOD, THE INDIANS WIN IT!" Best call in a baseball movie ever. Loved this reaction, sports movies are so uplifting.
A notification popped up on my phone yesterday that the Yankees beat the Guardians. I wodndered why I was getting baseball scores and also who the **** are the Guardians? Oh....
and UNFORTUNATELY she cut that line out in her reaction. It's IS the BEST LINE In the movie, ESPECIALLY for us CLEVELANDERS and INDIANS FANS (Still the "INDIANS" for me, ALWAYS WILL BE. I CRIED at the end when he said it, the whole theater was packed and everyone was wearing their INDIANS gear, it was like being at a game!! I wasn't the ONLY one who shed tears....I was thinking I WANT TO EXPERIENCE THIS FOR REAL before I die!
This movie will always have a special place in my heart. I played baseball from the ages of 6-23 before I stopped playing competetively and was never top of any one position, but could play every position pretty well and often found myself as a backup pitcher too. Couldn't make the ball move much, but as a big kid I could sling consistent fastballs. When I got glasses at about 13, one of my coaches kept calling me wild thing because of the goofy unbreakable glasses I had for sports, and since my parents were big movie buffs they thought it was hilarious and howed me this movie. That season I even started a few games pitching and cut my hair just like Charlie Sheen's, it was one of the most fun seasons I ever played and we went almost undefeated all the way to the state championship before we got knocked out. I even named my first car Wild Thing after this movie, and it has a two-tone jagged paint job that kinda looks like Charlie's zigzag haircut lol.
Oh, and Westly Snipes character was Willie Mays Hayes. Willie Mays one of the greatest baseball players ever and probably Bobby Hayes the 1964 100 meter gold medal sprinter turned NFL wide receiver, was the Hayes inspiration.
ABSOLUTELY! Also, Chelcie Ross (Harris) is just one of those, "Hey! It's that one guy..." actors. He's a character actor. Somebody who's always in a smaller supporting role and just seeing them there brings a feeling of familiarity with the character they're playing. Even if you can't name them, or the movie you really remember them from, you can't shake that, "I KNOW that guy..." feeling and that's one of the little things to love about the movies in general. :)
And you would love it. Great movie. This was my first 'favorite sports movies'. It has been supplanted by others over the years, but it is still one of the best.
Highly recommend "A League of Their Own"! Tom Hanks, Geena Davis, and Lori Petty are great in this movie about the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League inaugural season in 1943.
@@tomvang3326 my bad. I swore she said she watched it at the beginning of this video. And I swore I watched her reaction. I think it’s the Mandela effect. But yes league of their own is one of my favs too
The games were filmed at Milwaukee County Stadium, they let the public fill the seats for the "Big Game". My buddy and I got to sit along the 3rd base line and we can be seen for about 1/2 a second. Every year my friends and i get together for a weekend of gaming and movies. This is one of the movies that is always in the lineup and we spend about 3-4 minutes finding the exact spot when we are on. It has became quite the in joke amongst us.
I've commented this a couple of other times but For the Love of the Game with Kevin Costner. It's a love story with baseball in it. You and Carly would love it. It's kind of like Rocky is a love story with boxing in it.
As part of Costner's baseball trilogy (with Bull Durham and Field of Dreams), For the Love of the Game is too often overlooked. I love the narrative style of alternating between the struggles on the mound and the struggles Costner's character is going through in the rest of his life.
I watched this movie at least a few times a year when I was growing up. "Juuust a bit outside" is my go to line whenever myself or someone else is way off target. It's really held up over time pretty well also. There are a few scenes I think would be written differently now but overall it holds up.
Bob Uecker, who played the announcer, played Major League Baseball. He wasn't great, but made a career out of brilliant humor about his mediocre career He was an announcer for several teams after his career was over and is in the Hall of Fame as an announcer.
I too have used that phrase in exactly the same way. Pretty satisfying when you get to use it correctly. It's even better when a couple people get it and a couple people don't.
I still like the line that I'm pretty sure was from the trailer and not in the movie.... "That ball wouldn't have been out in most parks" yeah name one "Yellowstone"
The first time I saw this movie, my roommate and I laughed the whole way through. And to the best of my knowledge, nobody had a walk on song before this movie happened!
Harry Doyle saying “some people say you can tell how the season is going to go by the first at bat” and the team looking bad before just sneaking in at the end, exactly how their first at bat went, is some of my favorite foreshadowing in any movie
Hyperbole: In rhetoric, an obvious exaggeration; an extravagant statement or assertion not intended to be understood literally. Synonyms See exaggeration.
When Willie Mays Hayes says plays like Mays we all know he's speaking of Willie Mays, but when he mentions runs like Hayes, some younger people might not know that he's talking about 'Bullet' Bob Hayes who was a wide receiver for the Dallas Cowboys in the 60s, and was considered the fastest man in the NFL during his era, and is considered an all time NFL great.
Hayes also won two gold medals at the 1964 Tokyo Olympics (100-meter dash, 4x100 relay), and thus is the only athlete to win both a gold medal and a Super Bowl ring. (Michael Carter won the silver medal in the shot put at the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics, and then 3 Super Bowls as a nose tackle with the San Francisco 49ers, but as the saying goes, "2nd place just means you're the best loser".)
Thank you so much for posting this! My favorite sports movie of all time…this perfectly captures baseball at its finest for me. I would have loved to have watched with you and answered many of your questions! Love your content, keep up the great work.
As spooge1 said, yes, Bob Uecker is the voice of Milwaukee Brewers baseball. Mr. "just a bit outside" or old Miller Lite commercials. BTW...that was the old Milwaukee County Stadium where the games in the movie were filmed. The old time clock on the scoreboard. WTMJ (W -The Milwaukee Journal). The movie was shot after a Brewers home game to get the crowd.
It’s my favorite sports movie, also try Hoosier’s, it’s based off a true story. The 1954 state championship, Milan Indian’a against the Muncie Central Bearcats.
Of Miracles and Men is so much better. Told from the Russian perspective, it shows the dedication of the players and brilliance of Anatoli Tarasov, the architect of the graceful style that the Russians brought to the NHL in the 90s. Their treatment in Lake Placid by the host country was disgraceful, and there were internecine conflicts long brewing. And in the fullness of time, we can see the Americans were plucky, but snotty, punks. The Russians were artists.
You should watch "The Natural". That's a great baseball movie as well! It stars Robert Redford, Kim Basinger, and Glenn Close among many other notable actors. Btw, I love your channel! 😎👍
Love your reactions!! It's like sitting across from a good friend while watching these! When the movie came out in 1989, the last time the Indians had won the division/league was in 1954, and in all of that time came in no better than 4th in a six (then seven) team division since 1968. They were a running gag in baseball for decades in how bad the team was. The funny thing is, within a few years, they built a powerhouse team that dominated the division - coming in first 5 out of 6 years starting in 1995. Granted, they still haven't won the World Series since 1948, though. Most famous walk up song (other than Wild Thing's): Mariano Rivera "Enter Sandman" My walk up song? Probably the Intro to Nightwish's "Ghost Love Score"
26:00 My walk to base song: "You Got the Touch" - Stan Bush It's from the 1986 animated Transformers: The Movie (As a kid when I would play Nintendo if I ever got stuck on a level on a particular game and I was frustrated because of it, I'd put this song on and it would focus me. In my head I'd imagine the video game characters hearing the song start and say "Oh sh!t! He means business now!")
The beginning part of the movie where they do spring training was filmed in my hometown of Tucson, Arizona. The Indians and cubs used to do spring training at Hi-Corbett field back in the 80s and 90s.
This one gets me by the feels every time. I stil remember Mister Loren Gartee who I took to the movie. He was my friend and didn't want to go. I don't think I've ever heard him laugh until he saw this movie. He was sucha baseball guy.
I saw this in the theatre’s when I was 5. I was born and raised in Cleveland. This movie holds a special place in my heart. Prolly seen it 200 times. The best. Glad you enjoyed. So glad you decided to do this movie
Jake's last hit wasn't a home run it was a bunt, Willy was just fast enough to reach home and score. Statistics wise, it was an RBI (run batted in) for Jake. Still I agree it was a great scene.
@@Cosmic86x what make that score great is most baseball movies end on a homerun or a strike out (depending on if the protaganist is batting or fielding) so having them do it that way was unique at the time i think. P.s. Fielding is when the team play defense
Love your reactions. You are so invested in the movie. Wesley Snipes as Willy Mays Hayes is gold - he got the action hero bug after this and decljned to reprise his role in the sequel. And got roasted in the script. Yes, catchers can use "chatter" to break the hitter's focus, but its not common simply because the mask now extends back more so its harder to move the jaw, thus hard to talk. Pitchers have very specific roles. Starters are the workhorses and usually rely on precision to make batters miss. There are usually 3-4 starters who rotate, not 2 as here. Middle Relievers step in when the starter gets tired, usually the 6th or 7th inning. The Closer, tge guy nicknamed "The Duke" here, is usually a power pitcher relying on pitching speed, but because they throw so hard, Closers are rarely, if ever, good for more than one inning, so they come on to get the last few outs to seal a win. Sometimes hard-throwing starters switch to closer as they reach the second stage of a pro career since they throw fewer pitches and put less stress on their arm. The pitch up and in on a batter, termed "chin music" is a dangerous pitch, and was Duke's way of expressing his opinion of Jake calling his shot (predicting a home run hit). It tends to lead to ill feelings, and is much rarer in the National League, where pitchers have to take turns at bat, and could get up-and-in pitches in response. The Cleveland team (they are not "Indians" now) and the Yankees are Anerican League, where another player takes the at-bat turn for a pitcher. Trivia: in a real game, after Cerrano's big hit, he would have been called out when he touched first base. A hitter-runner, which Cerrano is at that point, must discard the bat before reaching first, while Cerrano carries his all the way around.
If you're a fan of underdog stories you really should watch "Miracle" , it's a movie about the 1980 USA Olympic hockey team who beat the Russians. It has been considered one of if not the biggest upset in sports history. And the movie is fantastic. Loved the reaction to this, I'm a huge fan of this movie, and really looking forward to see you check out Bull Durham. That movie is hilarious
I second "Miracle." The younger generation has no idea about this movie or the story behind it. The Russians were considered an unbeatable titan of a team and everybody had gotten used to losing to them for years. Beating the Russians was impossible, until Herb Brooks assembled this team. He trained them to use new strategies and physically conditioned them to the highest level. Sadly Herb Brooks passed away during post production and never got to see his movie.
Fun fact: There was an alternate ending filmed where Rachel Phelps admits to Lou Brown that the threat to move the team to Miami was just a ruse to motivate them because they were on the verge of bankruptcy, and she couldn't afford to sign star players or maintain the basic amenities. They cut it from the final movie because test audiences preferred that she remain a villain.
Never forget the 1st time I saw this classic. My Dad won a trip off the local radio station to Wrigley to see 4 Cubs games. Stayed in a really nice hotel off Michigan Ave downtown and this premiered on HBO our 1st nite there. Wrigley hadnt put lights in yet in '89, and you just couldn't beat afternoon baseball. Twas great😊
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I’m a baseball coach and every year, during a rainy day and I’m making the kids do infield drills during a monsoon I always quote “A League Of Their Own”; “if it was easy then everyone would do it… that’s what makes this game great!”
In case you didn't notice Pedro Cerrano was played by Denis Haysbert aka god from Lucifer season 5 and 6 or President David Palmer from the tv series 24.
I know you mentioned ford vs Ferrari but you should checkout “Rush” with Chris Hemsworth directed by Ron Howard. Great movie as well. Love the channel keep it up 👍🏻
I'm a huge fan of this movie. It is a great romance movie and just a good movie for the feels. Before "For Love of the Game" came along, "The Natural" was my favorite. It is odd, I don't particularly like baseball, but enjoy many baseball movies .:P
Looking forward to this one. One of my favorite baseball movies. If you haven't seen Bull Durham, the Natural, and Pride of the Yankees, those would also be very good to view.
Also, the moview was mostly shot in Milwaukee. Games were shot at County Stadium (now torn down) in Milwaukee, and the Library scene was shot at the Milwaukee Public Library. My sister was one of the extras in the stands for the final game.
I was in the crowd for the final game, along with my mom and my brother. Can I find us? Nope, not even in Blu-ray. But I know we're there. And even if I wasn't there, I'd still love this hilarious movie, seeing the now-gone Milwaukee County Stadium (with local ads and stations plastered all over the place), seeing former Brewer (pitcher!) Pete Vuckovich (Clu Haywood with the Yankees in the movie), and long-time and still-current radio voice of the Brewers, Bob Uecker (the blu-ray has a great mini-feature on him with a bunch of hilarious ad-libs that didn't make it into the movie). I can almost smell the spilt beer. A blast. (Also was at Miller Park for a night of filming "Mr. 3000", but the less said about that one, the better...)
Born and raised Clevelander from 5 minutes from the stadium, I'm glad I found this video. This is mandatory view for NE Ohio residents and I'm glad it got a new viewer. You've got a new sub!
Looking forward to your reaction of "The Natural." Never really see anyone react to it and it is a great movie. I would also like to see you react to Ron Howard's "Cinderella Man," a super boxing movie with Russell Crowe.
My walk up song: "You're Going Down" by sick puppies. That song can pump me up for anything. It really surprised me when you said it was rated R. I remember watching that as a little kid...
Those "Do You Know Me?" commercials for American Express were a huge thing in the 1980s. They did dozens of them. The Cleveland Indians are currently the MLB team that's gone the longest without winning the World Series, which they last won in 1948. (And needed a special one-game playoff win against the Boston Red Sox to even reach.) In 1988, it was thought 40 years without a title was long enough to do such a movie. Now it's 73 years. (Yes, the Red Sox and both Chicago teams were suffering through even longer dry spells at that time, but still.) Renee Russo, who played Lynn, is perhaps best-known for a different sports movie, "Tin Cup". Kevin Costner plays golf. (And romances Renee, of course.). Also a lot of fun. Wesley Snipes (Willie Mays Hayes) went on to do two other sports movies, both with Woody Harrelson. "Wildcats", where Goldie Hawn coaches a football team, and "White Men Can't Jump", about basketball. (They also did another film together, "Money Train", but that was about the NYC subway system, not sports.) There was a cute exchange from the restaurant scene (after Ricky gives up his first long home run) that was in the TV ads, but was cut from the final film: JAKE: Cheer up, kid. There's a lot of parks that ball wouldn't have gone out of. RICKY: Name one. JAKE: Yellowstone. Chelcie Ross, who played Harris (the older pitcher) is a veteran character actor, but with a real star-making part, IMO. He currently has a recurring role on "Billions", the Showtime series.
But Boston and Chicago had teams that brought them titles. Cleveland had known nothing but losing since 1948. Never even got to a Super Bowl with either version of the Browns. The Cavs sucked for years, until LeBron got a team built around him there, then he bailed on them a second time, sending them right back to the basement. Even Detroit has had the Stanley Cup a few times. Cleveland though, minus a few years, has basically only ever known disappointment. Every time they think they finally find someone who can give them hope, that person either gets tired of losing and leaves, LeBron, or gets screwed over by the team front office, Baker Mayfield.
I always LOVED the scene where Wesley Snipes & Charlie Sheen clap at the guy pretending the hit a home run! Such a sweet, SIMPLE scene that shows the playful ribbing of TRUE friends.
There are so many baseball movies. “The Rookie,” which is based on a true story. “Rookie of the Year” which is a fun kids movie. If you like Kevin Costner, you’ll love “Bull Durham.” But he was also in “For the Love of the Game” which a pretty good baseball movie. There’s also a kid movies from the early-ish 90’s “Angels in the Outfield.” “Eight Men Out” is another one that’s based on a true story.
There was an excellent movie called Long Gone in the late 80s. Made For HBO, back when that was a fairly new concept. All about a minor league team decades ago. A real charmer, and a lot of good baseball going on.
Phil Haverland I didn’t mention The Natural, because Cassie said she’s already aware of it and was going to watch it later. I was trying list ones that she hadn’t mentioned.
