I can't believe The Benchwarmers featuring their most popular ESPN teammate did not make the web poll.

I believe Field of Dreams is one of the dumbest movies ever made.

Field of Dreams is not a baseball movie, its a drama surrounding a baseball movie.

That said, you have to watch it once a year.

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MUS, I love the new Avata AND the sig line.

Spaulding, I'm sorry that you have no soul.

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"Tubby? Oh yes, Tubby."

Thanks Scott! The sig's actually been there for a couple weeks, but no one notices unless you change everything.

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I'll watch "The Natural" if I want to get verklempt over a baseball movie. Suspension of disbelief fails to occur in Field of Dreams for me, making it more laughable than anything.

But you and suspend Disbelief when Roy Hobbs knocks the cover off the ball, breaks the scoreboard, and hits the top of a light tower? They're movies.

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"Tubby? Oh yes, Tubby."

I always liked "Long Gone" with local guy William Peterson. It also has a young, hot Virginia Madsen playing a character named Dixie Lee Boxx.

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The Field of Dreams is a great movie.

The "Field of Dreams" where the movie was shot in Dyersville, Iowa is the biggest waste of time this state has to offer, and that is really saying something.

Major League.

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I disagree. I took my dad there for his birthday one year and we "had a catch". One of the better times I've had with my dad, so Dyersville will always have a warm spot in my heart.

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Yeah I do, the lights exploding are more of a visual effect and knocking the cover off a baseball isn't impossible. Compare that to the Chicago Black Sox rising from the dead to play baseball in Iowa and I'll stand my my statement of suspension of disbelief. If the Black Sox ate the brains of the living, I'd find that enjoyable though.

Bull Durham is the best baseball movie.

"Get a hit, Crash."
"Shut up."

Side note, those Baseball Tonight commericals where they did the baseball movie scenes were outstanding.

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I can understand why you like it after reading that story.

However, when I went with my family, we just looked around and were like "ok...baseball diamond in the middle of a cornfield...never seen this before... "

i also liked "the scout" with albert brooks and brendan frasier.

love "bull durham".

and i agree: Paul, on your new Av, in my best Jim Rome: HILARIOUS!

Eight Men Out

i will forever hate "the scout," not only because its one of the most poorly executed movies ever made, but also because i was ignorant of its existence until i was a quarter of the way into writing a screenplay based on the premise of a scout's life. much different idea, but similar enough to make me hate the original for "doing it first" and doing it poorly.

"Talent for the Game" (Edward James Olmos) was also a pretty good flick.

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i totally understand as a writer. i'll never forgive the bastards who greenlit "watchman". that was supposed to be my break into screenwriting. and they're gonna fuck that movie up badly.

haha, oh man, i agree. only "comic" i ever got into (probably true for so many people) and i have a bad feeling about the adaptation.

1) Bull Durham... because the novels of Susan Sonntag ARE self-indulgent, over rated crap

2) Major League... because Jobu needs a refill

3) Bingo Long's Travelling All-Stars & Motor Kings... because No-Body hits the invite pitch

Joyce Carol Oates is a boring old biddy.

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It's a bird, it's a plane, it's a goddamn shame.

http://www.TheCommittedIndian.com/

The 1976 version of 'Bad news Bears"..

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"NEED a friend...Buy a dog"..

How about some love for "Brewster's Millions"?!?!?!

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too bad there arent anymore john candy baseball movies

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A good movie but just edged out of my top 3 by Bingo Long (also a Richard Pryor vehicle)

i love major league. it's just so damn funny.

"Want me to drag him outta here, kick the shit out of him?"

"You may run like Hayes. but you hit like shit."

"Oh, why don't you blow me ump?"

more quotes:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0097815/quotes

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I have to go with H. Teinowitz and his choice of the Bad News Bears. It perfectly encapsulates little league baseball.

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Back off, Warchild. Seriously.

He was also the play-by-play guy in "Rookie of the Year"

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An under the radar baseball movie was "Soul of the Game". I believe it was an HBO movie about the Negro Leagues with Delroy Lindo as Satchel Paige, Blair Underwood as Jackie Robinson, and some other dude as Josh Gibson. You should check it out.

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