gehringer_2 Posted May 5 Posted May 5 (edited) 34 minutes ago, chasfh said: Aw man, you got halfway through the post strong and then you dropped the ball. 😉😁 Field of Dreams is the odd duck though. It isn't really a sports movie. It's 'about' baseball's place in culture, but it's not directly about a baseball player or players or a team or playing baseball. The movie's protagonist is not a baseball player. Baseball is the framework for the movie's ruminations about a lot of other things to hang on. 'The Natural' was a beautiful film, well made in many ways but in the end I didn't thinnk the movie sold its plot premises as believable. Maybe they worked better in the book - which I didn't read. Or maybe Redford was just miscast. He certainly had the physical part - over which such a big deal was made at the time, but he's not the actor to make you believe in a character with the flaws of Roy Hobbes. Edited May 5 by gehringer_2 1 Quote
1984Echoes Posted May 5 Posted May 5 (edited) 7 hours ago, RandyMarsh said: Love to see Keith get hot! 7 hours ago, chasfh said: Colt Bomb! Maybe he's starting to come around ... ? Last five games Keith is: Hitting .286 OBP of .444 SLG of .929 OPS of 1.373 Yep! Hope his bat has turned back on and he'll be productive in the lineup for the rest of the season... He did the same thing last year... Edited May 5 by 1984Echoes Quote
Tiger337 Posted May 5 Posted May 5 14 minutes ago, gehringer_2 said: Field of Dreams is the odd duck though. It isn't really a sports movie. It's 'about' baseball's place in culture, but it's not directly about a baseball player or players or a team or playing baseball. The movie's protagonist is not a baseball player. Baseball is the framework for the movie's ruminations about a lot of other things to hang on. 'The Natural' was a beautiful film, well made in many ways but in the end I didn't thinnk the movie sold its plot premises as believable. Maybe they worked better in the book - which I didn't read. Or maybe Redford was just miscast. He certainly had the physical part - over which such a big deal was made at the time, but he's not the actor to make you believe in a character with the flaws of Roy Hobbes. I did not care for Field of Dreams. I did like The Natural. It was unrealistic, but what baseball movie isn't urealistic to an avid fan? I thought it was entertaining and had some beautiful scenes Quote
gehringer_2 Posted May 5 Posted May 5 3 minutes ago, 1984Echoes said: Last five games Keith is: Hitting .286 OBP of .444 SLP of .929 OPS of 1.373 Yep! Hope his bat has turned back on and he'll be productive in the lineup for the rest of the season... He did the same thing last year... If Keith has fixed himself, that's probably means the axe for Malloy, because to keep a productive Torkelson, Keith and Torres in the lineup together most nights means one of them will have DH tied down most nights. Malloy can play OF, but with Vierling back there will be even less reason to want him to. Quote
1984Echoes Posted May 5 Posted May 5 6 minutes ago, gehringer_2 said: If Keith has fixed himself, that's probably means the axe for Malloy, because to keep a productive Torkelson, Keith and Torres in the lineup together most nights means one of them will have DH tied down most nights. Malloy can play OF, but with Vierling back there will be even less reason to want him to. And I'm perfectly fine with that! Quote
Tiger337 Posted May 5 Posted May 5 The Tigers haven't had this much offensive depth since the mid 1980s. 1 Quote
IdahoBert Posted May 5 Posted May 5 5 hours ago, gehringer_2 said: Field of Dreams is the odd duck though. It isn't really a sports movie. It's 'about' baseball's place in culture, but it's not directly about a baseball player or players or a team or playing baseball. The movie's protagonist is not a baseball player. Baseball is the framework for the movie's ruminations about a lot of other things to hang on. This is very insightful, thank you. Quote
romad1 Posted May 5 Posted May 5 (edited) Underrated "B" movie about baseball is the HBO movie "Long Gone" with William Pederson, Dermot Mulroney and Virginia Madsen. Also features Lary Riley who was notable as being the baseball playing murder victim in the film version of "A Soldiers Story". It also features William Gibson and Teller (from Penn and Teller) as the owners of the minor league team. It has substantially a similar plot to "The Natural" combined with "Bull Durham" where you have an aging ball player considering his end-of-career options and a game fixing scheme he needs to play along with. As usual with baseball movies the light wins out over the darkness, because that's baseball man. Edited May 5 by romad1 Quote
romad1 Posted May 5 Posted May 5 That Jack Flaherty is the weak spot in our rotation...is a weird story. Do the god botherers on the team not like that all the gays on social media think he's dreamy? 1 Quote
CMRivdogs Posted May 5 Posted May 5 Bull Durham is probably at the top of my baseball movie list. Kinsella’s novels are among my favorite baseball reading I need to watch Bang the Drum Slowly sometime soon 2 Quote
gehringer_2 Posted May 5 Posted May 5 (edited) 1 hour ago, CMRivdogs said: Bull Durham is probably at the top of my baseball movie list. Kinsella’s novels are among my favorite baseball reading I need to watch Bang the Drum Slowly sometime soon I haven't seen the DiNiro film but Paul Newman and Albert Salmi did a fine B&W production of BTDS way back in 1956 that I saw rebroadcast once - maybe late 60' or so. I've never seen it rebroadcast since. Don't know in particular about this one but a lot of stage dramas done as live TV specials back in the day were kinescoped (prior to video tape) and many have been lost. Edited May 5 by gehringer_2 Quote
CMRivdogs Posted May 5 Posted May 5 (edited) 12 minutes ago, gehringer_2 said: I haven't seen the DiNiro film but Paul Newman and Albert Salmi did a fine B&W production of BTDS way back in 1956 that I saw rebroadcast once - maybe late 60' or so. I've never seen it rebroadcast since. Don't know in particular about this one but a lot of stage dramas done as live TV specials back in the day were kinescoped (prior to video tape) and were never transferred to archive quality film base or tape and so are just lost. I went looking for it out of curiosity, that’s the one I remember (CBS Playhouse?) edit It was the US Steel Hour and it is on YouTube The movie is available to rent on Amazon, I believe. Unfortunately there is no Kindle version of the book. May have to check the local library Edited May 5 by CMRivdogs Quote
romad1 Posted May 5 Posted May 5 2 hours ago, romad1 said: That Jack Flaherty is the weak spot in our rotation...is a weird story. Do the god botherers on the team not like that all the gays on social media think he's dreamy? OLD METRIC WARNING: he's 1-4 with an ERA of almost 4! that's weak sauce on this team. Quote
chasfh Posted May 5 Posted May 5 3 hours ago, romad1 said: Underrated "B" movie about baseball is the HBO movie "Long Gone" with William Pederson, Dermot Mulroney and Virginia Madsen. Also features Lary Riley who was notable as being the baseball playing murder victim in the film version of "A Soldiers Story". It also features William Gibson and Teller (from Penn and Teller) as the owners of the minor league team. Point of order: Lary Riley's CJ Memphis was not the murder victim. That was Adolph Caesar's Sergeant Waters. CJ was the guy who Waters goaded into hitting him, then CJ was sent to the brig where he committed suicide, to Waters' delight. Waters got murdered by private "Pete" Peterson (a movie breakout role for Denzel) in part because Pete hated Waters for what he did to CJ. "A Soldier's Story" is one of my all-time favorite movies. I could watch it over and over. I have, in fact, had "A Soldier's Story" sitting on my DirecTV DVR fro something like five years just so I can flip over and watch it anytime I want. 1 Quote
romad1 Posted May 5 Posted May 5 6 minutes ago, chasfh said: Point of order: Lary Riley's CJ Memphis was not the murder victim. That was Adolph Caesar's Sergeant Waters. CJ was the guy who Waters goaded into hitting him, then CJ was sent to the brig where he committed suicide, to Waters' delight. Waters got murdered by private "Pete" Peterson (a movie breakout role for Denzel) in part because Pete hated Waters for what he did to CJ. "A Soldier's Story" is one of my all-time favorite movies. I could watch it over and over. I have, in fact, had "A Soldier's Story" sitting on my DirecTV DVR fro something like five years just so I can flip over and watch it anytime I want. correct...it is an all time favorite. I mangled that CJ was a suicide. Denzel Washington was sort of a stand-in for the earlier, Jackie Robinson who got court martialed and was more of a hot-head than he was when he became a MLB color-barrier breaker. Adolph Caeser was damn good in that role. Quote
papalawrence Posted May 5 Posted May 5 I like Field of Dreams and have a digital copy. My son and I have visited the movie site in Iowa twice and even pilfered a couple ear of corn from the outfield. Has anyone mentioned Bang the Drum Slowly? Sort of Brian's Song-esque and from the same era. One of Deniro's early films. I also like For the Love of the Game. Some guy took some of the stats mentioned in the film and made up a record for Billy Chapel: https://lividsquid316.wordpress.com/2010/07/12/billy-chapels-career-statistics/#:~:text=Also%2C I made sure his,1.15 WHIP (learn how to Quote
romad1 Posted May 5 Posted May 5 3 minutes ago, papalawrence said: I like Field of Dreams and have a digital copy. My son and I have visited the movie site in Iowa twice and even pilfered a couple ear of corn from the outfield. Has anyone mentioned Bang the Drum Slowly? Sort of Brian's Song-esque and from the same era. One of Deniro's early films. I also like For the Love of the Game. Some guy took some of the stats mentioned in the film and made up a record for Billy Chapel: https://lividsquid316.wordpress.com/2010/07/12/billy-chapels-career-statistics/#:~:text=Also%2C I made sure his,1.15 WHIP (learn how to Bang the Drum Slowly is quite good. For the Love of the Game is a personal favorite for when the Tigers are bad. 1 Quote
oblong Posted May 5 Posted May 5 The backlack against Field of Dreams bugs me. It's like suddenly they thought they were being clever by pointing out the 'flaws'. Bashing it became the cool thing to do. "Hey, look how smart I am!" 1 Quote
Tiger337 Posted May 5 Posted May 5 27 minutes ago, oblong said: The backlack against Field of Dreams bugs me. It's like suddenly they thought they were being clever by pointing out the 'flaws'. Bashing it became the cool thing to do. "Hey, look how smart I am!" That sounds like something Old Timey would say. 1 Quote
gehringer_2 Posted May 5 Posted May 5 47 minutes ago, oblong said: The backlack against Field of Dreams bugs me. It's like suddenly they thought they were being clever by pointing out the 'flaws'. Bashing it became the cool thing to do. "Hey, look how smart I am!" Maybe just the 'Costner effect'. A lot of his projects seem to be polarizing. Quote
Sports_Freak Posted May 5 Posted May 5 Off days are horrible, but more bearable after a victory. I'm so old, I remember when we had off day threads...😅 Quote
gehringer_2 Posted May 5 Posted May 5 1 minute ago, Sports_Freak said: I'm so old, I remember when we had off day threads. aka Street clothes. 1 Quote
romad1 Posted May 5 Posted May 5 SO, because it is an off day I'm going to share the glove I designed and ordered for myself on Rico Gloves website as part of my winning an auction at my softball program's spring celebration. I chose the livery aka color scheme from the TACP beret flash which combines blue for the Air Force, Green for the Army units we support and red for the firepower we coordinate. My son called the glove heinous. Before too long it will be covered in dirt and unrecognizable. 1 Quote
Motor City Sonics Posted May 5 Posted May 5 18 hours ago, chasfh said: When was the last time the Tigers has two hitters with five or more RBI in a game, as Sweeney (six) and Carpenter (five) do? May 4, 2025. DUH ! Quote
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