I love how Patrick just set himself free from "youtube rules". He is just making the videos however the hell he wants. I'm sure Kiki is very proud of you, my man.
Soccer was the only sport you didn't mention how easy it is to play on the street, like it's the one that's easier than basketball and baseball because you don't need baskets or bats, hell sometimes you don't even need a ball. I've seen kids on the street ball up all their socks into one big ball to play street soccer and put two rocks in a row to create a goal. Or crush up soda cans to form a puck and kick that around to play soccer. But I guess that culture exists more around the world than the US.
Here in Brazil we make goal posts using slippers. Normally in a informal game, there's no goal keeper so the width of the goal post is very narrow and players need to get close to attempt a goal kick.
@@robsonwaterkemper slippers, school bags, trash cans anything Here if we have an odd number of boys we play what is known as common goal games, one goal keeper standing in one goal and both teams are trying to score on the same goal
lool none of what you mentioned goes into making soccer better in movie form then baseball, also no Cricket is the easiest to play, You've obviously never been to India, You can go to the slums of Jharkhand next to abandoned coal mines and find kids playing cricket with a stick, trash rolled up into a ball and dirt marks as wickets, GTFO
@@debodatta7398 soccer you only need a ball no sticks no wickets, and to the uninitiated (like me) cricket and baseball aren't that different. still the whole video is more focused on the american experience in sports and informs the filmic value of the sport from that background
I recently had an epiphany about baseball when it took over my comedy radio station for the season again, and i'm predicting this might line up. The reason baseball has been able to endure for such a long time is that it is so well suited to be communicated over the radio. The game has a very limited number of game states, players have set positions where they can be, so you can tell someone everything happening in a game of baseball with no visuals easily.
Fun fact, one of the first literary mentions of baseball is Jane Austen's Northanger Abbey! It's in the first chapter, discussing Katherine's hobbies which includes playing baseball with her siblings. Just thought it was interesting.
Yeah, that line was pretty ironic. There were even two baseball scenes, IIRC, both of which use the classic baseball iconography to show how the world has changed: first popcorn at a New York Yankees game nowhere near New York; then kids breaking a window that’s straight above them on the other side of Cooper Station.
As a native Philadelphian, I'm pretty pissed that Patrick didn't spend all 46 minutes of this video talking about how the Eagles are the greatest team in sports history and Rocky is the greatest sports movie to ever exist. So pissed that I can't even finish my cheesesteak.
as a former philadelphian displaced to the pacific northwest, my cheesesteak meter has been desperately low for far too long... E - A - G - L - E - S etc etc
This largely covers why Bollywood cricket movies can also work so well. I love watching Lagaan and how it turns a 5 day marathon in the middle of the desert into an epic battle for human rights.
Came to comments to say the same thing! From a movie perspective, baseball and cricket are functionally the same - no visually obtrusive costumes (except for the batter i guess), easy to understand when someone has scored, team sport but with individual moments, big field, simple geography, etc. The only difference is the cultural relevance. For americans, cricket isn't all that important, so baseball is the best sport for hollywood movies. But for Indians, cricket is the biggest deal ever, so it's the best sport for Bollywood movies. It holds sort of the same cultural place too - it's played by people of all classes but especially by middle and lower classes, and it's historically been a way for lower class Indians to become incredibly visible and successful. It also has the added cultural context of having come to India from the British, but having been truly reclaimed and adopted by Indians. The cricket movie can be a beautiful nostalgic portrayal of a middle class Indian life across history, and it can also be a triumphant tale of sticking it to the man. But outside of South Asia, I don't think they make many cricket movies, because it just isn't as big of a deal to, say, Hollywood.
@@sundaesorceress The biggest problem with cricket movies is that the minor role of fielding in the game (sure you can catch a hit for an out, but it is rare) and the ability of the batter to choose not to run after hit reduces some tension that would otherwise be present.
As my friend said when I asked him why men like Field of Dreams so much, “Field of Dreams isn’t about baseball; it’s about your dad.” Also, that Twilight baseball scene is very influential. My husband was in France when that movie came out, and some French people asked if they could join his baseball game because “it was like Twilight.” That movie is singlehandedly teaching French teenagers about baseball. 🤣
When Patrick said that Twilight baseball scene was silly, what he really meant to say was that it fucking SLAPPED. Because it did 😤 All hail Twilight for educating French teenagers about baseball and Muse!
Field of Dreams even turns that inside out. Typically, the son is seeking for his father to accept him. Costner’s character by contract has essentially disowned his father ultimately telling him that amongst other things that he can’t respect him because his father’s boyhood hero was a cheater. Field of Dreams is about Costner’s character accepting his father, something he needs because he destroyed his relationship with his now dead father, so his father can in turn accept him. But then it is about so much more too like Moonlight Graham realizing he was a success because he had failed at baseball, Jones’ character realizing that there was still something important for him to do even though the world had ultimately ignored the hippies’ message, and that sometimes sacrificing to do something good for other people will be it’s own reward.
Everything you've said about baseball is true of cricket, from the mechanics -- balance between team and individual, showdown between batter/batsman and pitcher/bowler, beautiful open field, clear geography, tension and silence, great speed as well as long pauses, the drama of the home run/hit for six, the lack of a clock, and the tendency of games to end in one big epic flourish -- to the social aspects -- a two-hundred-year history in England, another century of colonialism and postcolonialism, incredibly high stakes (from West Indian rebel teams of black men touring apartheid South Africa to Indians rejecting colonial rule to Indians and Pakistanis using cricket as a kind of proxy war in the shadow of nuclear annihilation to Australians playing the game as payback on their former British overlords), and an indelible imprint on a far wider variety of peoples and cultures than any other sport (other than football/soccer). Cricket has it all! Patrick, it is time you watched a Bollywood classic called "Lagaan".
Except it's hard to make a tension-filled sports scene about a sport that takes several days to play and the winning margins can be in the hundreds. No one score is ever really that important. It's a game of trends and averages, not specific moments.
Riot Edits I’ve seen countless matches that have been settled by one or two runs also, especially in limited overs cricket. It’s just as easy to sensationalise as any other sport in that regard
@@lukeshannahan2099 Except limited overs doesn't have the hundreds of years of history that Akbar was talking about, so it kind of defeats the purpose.
Australian here, and was hoping someone would say that. I will add that a close-fought test match can be tenser than anything else I've seen in any sport - I can still remember being on the edge of my seat for the Australia vs West Indies test in Adelaide in 1992.
I'd actually love to see more cricket movies/TV shows (aside from the aforementioned Lagaan, the only non-documentary one I can think of off the top of my head is the miniseries Bodyline)
As a Brit who has never seen a baseball game in his life and has never grown up around Baseball and is not into any sport whatsoever, I absolutely adore Baseball movies and this captured why so well
I've got to say... you've finally done it. As someone who loves baseball, no, who lives baseball, and whose seen pretty much every baseball movie and documentary ever... I have to admit, this video brought a tear to my eye. You get it. You've got great videos, but there was something about this one that got to me. Keep up the diversity of the "content"! I love your superhero and SFF stuff, but you're other stuff is solid too.
Japanese manga also established something fascinating about baseball. They wanted to "capture the natural narrative weight of baseball, and set it to the aesthetic of the samurai films".
it could be nothing, or just bullying or whatever, but it's delightful because hanks doesn't play it as angry, but as genuinely baffled- it's not a command, he's saying it as one would say like 'there's no slam dunks in baseball'
I feel like my letterboxd account for my reviews and working out what Patrick's next video is going to be about, and it's pretty much a bang-on 50/50 split.
@@JamesLawner I mean he logged fourteen baseball movies within a two-week span, that's the part that caught my eye. I know not every log is for video purposes.
Something to add on with the homerun aspect - a homerun hit *sounds* different. Fly balls and in fielders just don't have that resonance. So the whole stadium can be not paying attention, and then there is that *crack* and everyone is riveted. LOVE baseball.
This man really forgot to mention when my boy buddy made the last out at first base, winning the world series in the movie Air Bud: Seventh Inning Fetch.
Yeah, seriously. Soccer managers are extreme micromanagers. Only until recently they've begun to do less with the rise of the Director of Football role.
@@XanderVJ One would think, but let’s look at a lot of countries. China - Maybe, but they also like basketball a fair bit. I’m not really sure which is bigger. India - Cricket Russia - Hockey Japan - Baseball South Korea - Baseball Philippines - Basketball Australia - Rugby/Australian Football New Zealand - Rugby Canada - Hockey Pakistan - Cricket South Africa - Rugby Pretty much every country in the Caribbean will be baseball, basketball, or cricket At any rate between those countries and the US you end up with somewhere between a quarter and a half of the world’s population don’t see it as their favorite though yes it does have a lot more countries than anyone else.
Yeah, as a soccer player for all of my youth, I have no idea what Ted Lasso is talking about.... the coach is constantly screaming instructions throughout the game lol
Really, really love seeing Sugar (2009) be brought up here. A woefully underseen masterpiece that deserves far more exposure. Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck are absolutely phenomenal filmmakers.
My dad is a boomer (in age, thankfully not in prevailing attitudes), his favourite movie of all time is Field of Dreams, and we've been making good use of lockdown together making our way through Ken Burns' Baseball over the past month... Don't think I was supposed to get misty-eyed at this video, but there you go
I've never seen Ted Lasso, but I already love it. "I got a lot less control, I just have to hope that the lessons have left an impact and that they make the right decisions when they get out there" HE SAYS TO HIS SON FROM ACROSS THE ATLANTIC! Holy shit, that's so good!
I rewatched it for the first time since I was a kid just a few months ago, it's not good but it's nowhere near as bad as I thought it would be. Solid c+ I'd say.
The only thing that I think you can add is that the shape of the baseball diamond, with its straight lines at right angles naturally draws the eye to the horizon line when filming the playing field from the POV of the batter or catcher. This allows not only the cinematographer to very easily form better shot compositions even if they’re not very talented (see something like Major League) but it draws the audience’s eyes to the horizon and background naturally while keeping the foreground in focus which imparts a lot of painterly artfulness. Quite literally, the baseball diamond is just more cinematic than other sports fields of play.
I've loved baseball (particularly the Chicago Cubs) my whole life, and baseball movies, like "Field of Dreams," "Bull Durham," and "A League of Their Own" are stone-cold classics. So glad that someone is giving the game its due.
In all honesty, the song "Take Me Out to the Ballgame!" is a great place to start. Doesn't cover all the bases, but there's a good reason it's played at almost every ball game.
“I swear guys, I’m not biased towards any sport” *proceeds to intermittently tell us reasons, why you are slightly biased towards baseball* Your points are still very valid though, great video :)
6:40...so in other words, this video should have been titled "Why Baseball is the Best Movie Sport if you arbitrarily exclude the actual best movie sport from the discussion".
Patrick, you've got to look at One Outs, the Japanese comic and TV adaptation. It uses baseball to talk about capitalism. It's the Death Note of baseball fiction. It's truly unusual and weirdly great.
Smart of you to immediately disqualify "Rocky" from this conversation, because it wins any discussion of "best sports movie" almost automatically. Great essay, as usual - given me some new incentive to finally check "The Natural" off my watch-list.
28:18 *Fear Strikes Out* isn’t just based on a true story-it’s based on the autobiography of Jimmy Piersall, who as a young Red Sox outfielder really did go from playing centerfield to shock therapy treatments when he suffered a few nervous breakdowns. Piersall was able to return to baseball and had a nice long successful career. Less well known is the story of another young Red Sox player a decade later: Tony Horton, who also suffered from severe confidence issues springing from childhood abuse from his father. Unfortunately, when Horton left baseball, he really did leave baseball. I mean, he became an odd recluse who refused to even talk about the fact that he used to play Major League Baseball. To my knowledge he’s now a 77 year old man. I hope he’s had a happier life than he did a baseball career.
Hey Patrick, I just want to say your video essays are some of the best on youtube. They are analytical without being boring and funny without being overbearing. You strike a very fine balance between examining lesser known films and the big blockbusters everyone knows. Most importantly to me is that you're never ashamed about what you like. You can appreciate a popcorn flick that might be chastised by pretentious film snobs as overrated, and you can take similarly take down highly praised independent movies. What I guess I'm trying to say is you are always authentic with what you like -- you can defend your opinions but also understand the alternate perspective. I don't know, your videos always reinvigorate my love for movies and make me appreciate aspects of the film industry I never thought I'd take a look at, whether it be Mamma Mia 2, some Turner Classic Movies, or some old boomer baseball movies. In an online landscape oversaturated with discussion and video essays of superhero movies and Chris Nolan, you decide to take a look at other aspects of Hollywood -- and as a dumbass wannabe movie maker, your videos remind me to branch outside of the "filmbro" zeitgeist (though you can still appreciate a nice Marvel movie or gush over Blade Runner 2049). You remind me to stay true to what I like, even if a bunch of people on letterboxd disagree with my opinion or if I'm straying away from the general consensus. Not to even mention the absurd rate at which you put out these videos. They've got insane production quality too. You make better videos than people with millions of more subscribers. Your videos deserve a million more views too. Alright, enough jerking off from me. Thanks.
I think that, from the perspective of someone who has loved baseball for most for their lives, that you have nailed why baseball means what it does to people. Its romantic and silly and truelly amrican in a way that Jzz and comics are american. I shed a tear when you mentioned the 4th of July scene in sanlot. That encapsulates what it reperesents in america, something increadably, if a bit nieavly hopeful.
I think you were mostly right between the "Urban Basketball VS Heartland Baseball", HOWEVER, I'd argue, if anything, Baseball works because is the happy middle between "Urban Basketball" and "Heartland Football". Baseball works for both, let's say, traditionalist stories about nostalgia, but it can also have its edge for subversive stories about injustices.
Except when he talks about Basketball. I think the bit where he talks about the myth of baseball and the nostalgia about it, it *can* be watchable. I know when the Rockies were making their run I took it in (being from Colorado). You just gotta be a hyper fan or you have to have that bit of nostalgia ticked off. Still my favorite sport to play. And still love the lore. Can get caught in baseball clip rabbit hole pretty easily even though I don't currently really watch any teams.
definitely. baseball movies are great because you feel like you’re playing. and baseball is definitely one of the most fun games to play. but also it’s torture to watch an actual game bc of those same reason
As a big soccer fan, i saw few films about it that I wouldn't have rather spend watching an actual game for 90 minutes. It gets better when it is about the culture more so than the game. Mike Bassett: England Manager does it well as a parody about the characters and the things that happen of the pitch. I agree that Baseball lends itself to cinema very well.
I’ve often thought that the dance between a batter and a pitcher, especially a movie character pitcher against the badguy batter (or vice versa) It’s a duel, like a cowboy western duel... And the catcher and pitcher talking is a lot like the commentary between two guys in a chess match
“patrick willems has totally fallen off with all that CHARL stuff” “so you don’t watch it anymore?” “oh no i watch every single frame everytime he drops something”
Even though I wish you'd have replaced the Charl content with some Angels In The Outfield content because what a weird ride that is, I think this is one of your best videos. Excellent job as always.
Watching this video made me think of all the times I used to watch baseball with my GP. I still try to keep up with the game, but it's not quite the same without him.
I once saw it on TV a long time ago and didn't remember the title. For some time it felt like this movie didn't exist to me, like it was some kind of fever dream, because without the title I couldn't really find it again and it was so weird! XD
I love baseball, and I watched this because I disagreed with the title (thinking that boxing is the most cinematic) but maybe the title should have said ´team sport´ .... anyhow, amazing points made, and it made me cry... I love baseball, and miss it....
"I'm getting emotional just talking about this", Pat says, as he talks about movies I've never seen, showing the clips of their cathartic climaxes, and I, too, feel tears well up and my throat close and wonder, "Why HAVE I never seen The Natural??"
I've been following this Charl storyline so much I've become ingrained. This is leading to such a climax I don't know if I can cope... Also Baseball films are great, I'm not a fan of Sports but can appreciate a good Baseball film from time to time.
The problem with baseball is that it also requires specialized gear and location. Also any film about baseball pretty much has to be set in the US or Japan. This is unlike basketball and soccer which can be set both in lavish arenas & back alleys opening up for more nuanced stories. I do agree however that films that focuses on soccer instead of using it as a vehicle for other types of stories usually suck. To bad there aren't more volleyball and tennis movies. Small teams, simple rules, and possibility for exciting moments where the server controls the start and stop of time.
@@AnEnemySpy456 And a large open area. If not you're just playing catch which is imo not the same. At least with football and baseball you can shot at a goal.
Hi Patrick. I found your channel during quarantine through your Heist Movies video and your Mission Impossible collab. I'm writing this because in the Ars Technica video you said you wondered if you were getting new viewers, and well, I'm one of them. Your videos are a definite highlight of my month. Keep doing you!
This may be the day that I start a Patick Wilems parody channel, beginning with a 46 second video called “Why Jousting is the Best Movie Sport” that’s just a cut of awesome moments from A Knight’s Tale.
I realize how old this video is, and I’m at the beginning of the actual video, and I’m already tearing up. I LOVE baseball. It’s in my DNA, and have studied and read everything about the game “Ken Burns’s baseball” Growing up near Cleveland has made my love of the game rough “thank god for Major League” My husband grew up close to Oakland and has always loved the A’s “Moneyball” and no one does a baseball movie like Kevin Costner “For love of the game, Bull Durham, and of course Field of dreams”. Honorable mention goes to Billy Krystal for *61
Excellent video. Got a lump in my throat just reliving a couple of the scenes in there. Ken Burns' doc is the pinnacle of baseball films. Superb chronicling.
Aussie rules has huge fights but rugby is the most violent by far, imagine the hits of American football but without any official breaks or timeouts, helmets or gear. Its basically a concussion and broken ear/nose simulator
@@Tom-eq7eh violent sports that beat out rugby: mma, boxing, kickboxing, shit I'll throw in cheerleading as a wild card for the rediculous amounts of injuries and the occasional deaths it gets. . But none of these apply to the movie format he described.
@@LSOP- ice hockey is played in padded armour. Aussie Rules is played in singlets and boxer shorts. It has players jumping onto the shoulders of opposing players to catch the ball. With falls of 5-6 feet on to the "grass". Plus all the punchups of hockey
Hobbs and his Wonderboy are every bit as iconic to me as Skywalker and his lightsaber. Small wonder he mentions The Natural at several points in the video. Actual sporting events bore me to tears, but I will watch that movie from start to finish whenever the opportunity presents.
You know your an amazing content creator when you can make a video about sports, when I HATE sports with a passion, and the video still rocks and keeps my attention!
Pretty much everything said about baseball can be said about cricket. One difference is the geography - one line of the pitch instead of four lines of a diamond. The other difference obviously being the lack of Americana. There are cricket films even if baseball films get more money. Badger's Green (1934) and Lagaan (2001) spring to mind.
There really should be more cricket films. Hollywood already see Asia ad their biggest source of money, so they make films specifically with Asia in mind. And cricket is HUGE in Asia. It seems like a no brainer to make a big cricket film
I like the point you make about how an individual shot in basketball loses its importance due to the amount of scoring that happens. What I think most Americans miss is that in soccer, the inverse happens. Because of how few goals are scored, their "worth" is amplified, making each individual goal in soccer more important than an individual bucket in basketball. And I know, different sports, different dynamics, different rules, but it's what makes soccer so appealing to so many. I think why soccer has taken so long to become popular in the States and Canada is because we've grown up with games where the scoring is stacked. Games where teams can score anywhere from 14 to 110 points (in football and basketball). It's a lot harder to be excited about a 2-1 game when you're used to 97-101 blowouts every night. Oh I also love this video.
Yeah, when I've had Americans tell me that "football is boring because scoring is so rare" I'm just thinking, wait, is the only bit you like about sports the scoring, you find all the rest of it boring? It just seems nuts to me Football (soccer) is designed in such a way that yeah, every individual goal is of huge importance and feels amazing if it's your team that scored. But the thing is, a 0-0 draw can be the most exciting games, even more exciting than say a 5-4 victory or something. Because you don't _need_ lots of scoring for a game of football to be entertaining. Seriously, some of the most exciting action filled matches in history were draws. Because fans of football actually love football, funny that... They don't just love the scoring, they love the whole sport If American football is so terrible that the only part of it you enjoy is the scoring, then why bother watching it? You clearly don't like the sport in that case, just the scoring, so stop watching the games and just watch highlights of just all the points scored in every game instead Also all these games have inflated scoring numbers anyway. Like in football, one goal equals 1 point. Very simple. But then you get other sports where scoring once will give you 6 points or something. So it's not even necessarily that the scoring is even that much higher than in football anyway, it's just that every score provides multiple points But anyway if you really just care about numbers, and want really high scores, start watching cricket. That has crazy high scoring numbers. You'll get a result like 435-522
Other than the terrifying scenes of Charl asking people if they want to live deliciously, I feel like you took this video essay straight from my head. I feel the exact same way about baseball movies and baseball
As a Braziliam viewer, most of your arguments dind't convince me - I think that when you say you "don't even care that much", you can't realize that if you're not USAmerican, you REALLY don't care. Even the geography is hard for me to get, it is not that simple for someone who didn't grow up with the sport. I can only talk about me, but i'm pretty sure many people in the rest of the world would agree. So, you made your case, I love the video, the Charl talking idea is great, the conflicts are clear and strong and the filmmaking is actually pretty solid - the opening with the screens is amazing, you guys made it look like a medium to big budget movie - BUT I still disagree. Ps: You should read sports manga (or anime, if you are not cool). It has very weird and over the top moves, is very aware about the Action aspect and, being longer, can explore more of the team and the rules - and this breaks the cultural barrier, cause you can actually learn the sport while you read it.
Finaly someone is answer this question that has perplexed me for years. I am a nerd, and as a nerd, sports is the most boring thing on the planet, But i fucking love movies about Baseball and Boxing, which Boxing is another Sport i feel is perfect for movies with like Rocky, The Fighter, and Million Doller baby being some favorite sports movies of all time as well P.S I don't consider Raging Bull a Sports movie, and neither does Scorsese as he stated specifically wanted to just focus Jack Lamtta's personal life not the boxing has he finds sports boring, and didn't want to make a Rocky knock off
What's being a nerd got to do with it? You realise that nerds are the biggest sports fans, right? It's an incredibly nerdy pursuit, with decades or centuries of lore to learn, hundreds of statistics to compare, tactical set ups to debate with other nerds, signings and trades to debate too, etc. It's like one huge DnD game played out in real life. It's essentially infinitely complex, especially with sports like football (soccer) where there's never been a collection of stats that can tell the whole story, it's not a game that can easily be boiled down into statistics, because there's way too many variables, and so it comes down to subjective opinion a lot of the time. Meaning it's exactly the same kinda argument as "who'd win in a fight, batman or wolverine?". And for people who can intuit reality better, with noticing all those little human variables that statistics can't display, and can do it better than anyone else, well they become coaches or scouts, or maybe just they win a lot of money playing fantasy football. It's such a valuable skill though. Every top club uses statistics heavily, but never 100% rely on them, they use human scouts before deciding to sign a player. Which just means that it's a really really fun nerdy debate, debating with other fans of the same club who your club should sign. And there's so many things like how one player can be the best player on earth at one club, but then they sign with a different club and their ability goes way way down (like Fernando Torres for example). That's why the debates are so fun. Nobody can really be proven right or wrong, until the club actually does sign the player and you see what actually happens There's pretty much no more nerdy a pursuit than sports. Is this some kinda American thing I'm too European to understand. Is America _actually_ like the movies, where there's nerds and jocks and the two groups never mix? I thought that was like a joke, or something. Your schools aren't _actually_ like that are they? God America is so _weird_ Like there's a huge difference between playing a sport and watching a sport. Sports nerds don't play the sports, they just obsess over the watching of them, they spend hours a day analysing them.
“Without goals there’s no drama” So, did none of the World Cup games you watched have good saves/easy shots sailing into the crowd/players making the wrong shoot or pass choice, etc, etc? Because there’s LOADS of things to create drama from in a soccer match that isn’t an actual goal!
The pitcher-batter standoff is the modern day gunslinger standoff. Those shots in old westers where you see shots of both participants their hands twitching ready to draw their guns.
@@marioricomeza2839 fair enough sorry, I wasn't aware. i am sure even some people in europe like baseball but it's pretty small crowd compared to other major sports (not a massive fan in general) still think best sports movie are actually about more than the sport of course...
Angels in the Outfield was a favourite of me and my sister when we were little. Even though it's basically "oh, it's okay to cheat except during the playoffs".
This was great. As a brit who has no interest in actual baseball as a sport, I have seen a LOT of baseball movies and, you're right, it's the sport built for cinema. Would love to see a video on Armando Ianucci (Creator of The Thick Of It & Veep etc) who last year released the greatest Dickens adaptation since David Lean's Great Expectations.
I'm super pumped you brought up sugar. I was convinced I was the only one who's seen that movie. But I'm dissapointed you didn't bring up Mr.3000. We've never met but I thought that would be your favorite baseball movie.
