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I won't even go to see it, but Disney has been promoting the heck out of this new crappy looking John Hamm movie where he's a sports agent who takes a chance on those two Indian pitchers who flamed out a few years ago. It's called "Million Dollar Arm." Basically, he's Jerry MacGuire, a down on his luck agent, and he's able to exploit two teenagers to save his career.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/ar ... ailer.html

What's the worst baseball movie you can remember?

Yeah that looks absolutely awful.

The Scout was pretty bad, not that it was meant to be a serious movie, but Brendan Fraser throwing a perfect game, striking out everyone on 3 pitches was just, ugh

"For Love of the Game" It's a chick flick, not a baseball movie.
I would nominate "Fever Pitch", but I would never watch that piece of shit. Jimmy Fallon can eat a dick.

Now I need to go home and watch Sandlot and the original Bad News Bears to get the thoughts of those other crappy movies out of my head.

If you fast forward through the chick flick parts of For Love of the Game it ain't too bad

Cardinals wrote:If you fast forward through the chick flick parts of For Love of the Game it ain't too bad

You could say something similar about the Star Wars Prequels or the travesty that is The Hobbit movies. Gotta judge what's there and what's there had me royally pissed off when I left the theater. And not just me, I knew other guys who went to see it and were pissed to find out they had been tricked into seeing a chick flick.

I'm going with "Trouble with the Curve." Absolute dreck. The only thing that kept me in my seat was the bucket of 6 beers I had in front of me.

A movie I loved as a kid was Little Big League. When I look back at it now, all I can think is that Billy Heywood cost the Twins the wild card for benching Lou Collins for banging his mom.

Cardinals wrote:A movie I loved as a kid was Little Big League. When I look back at it now, all I can think is that Billy Heywood cost the Twins the wild card for benching Lou Collins for banging his mom.

Haha...well, that does happen from time to time. Actually, they lost because Ken Griffey Jr. and The Big Unit were beasts. Such is life as a Minnesota Twin.

Tigers wrote:

Cardinals wrote:A movie I loved as a kid was Little Big League. When I look back at it now, all I can think is that Billy Heywood cost the Twins the wild card for benching Lou Collins for banging his mom.

Haha...well, that does happen from time to time. Actually, they lost because Ken Griffey Jr. and The Big Unit were beasts. Such is life as a Minnesota Twin.

Right Griffey made the greatest catch in baseball history to end that movie. However, if Lou isn't benched there's no wild card playoff game

Oh man, haven't seen Little Big League in forever. Rookie of the Year was another great crappy kids baseball movie.

All the sequals after the original Major League were pretty bad. Some say the first was bad, but that's bullcrap. Major League was awesome. "Ed", the movie with Joey from Friends and a chimp was terrible, but I liked it.

For Love of the Game might be a chick flick, but it's far less shitty than other chick flicks. Though it really bothers me that when they show him warming up in the bullpen his jersey doesn't have piping, but everybody else's does (or was it the other way around? It's been so long since I've seen it). Clear wardrobe error.

I enjoy Major League 2. Ed, I knew there was a movie with a chimp and couldn't think of it!

Never saw Ed, thankfully. Major League was awesome. 2 wasn't bad, never saw 3. Major League 3 is like every Rocky after 4. They peaked with the Russian and Tommy the Machine Gun through Rocky 425 must have been bad, though I refused to watch.

Trouble With the Curve was brutal. And I like all of Clint Eastwood, Amy Adams, John Goodman, and Justin Timberlake.

However, the worst baseball movie of all time is absolutely Summer Catch...except in the so unbelievably bad it was good way. It has the worst baseball scenes, the worst acting, and the worst plot. It also features the worst ending of a movie...ever.

"Let's be together!"

Orioles wrote:Oh man, haven't seen Little Big League in forever. Rookie of the Year was another great crappy kids baseball movie.

All the sequals after the original Major League were pretty bad. Some say the first was bad, but that's bullcrap. Major League was awesome. "Ed", the movie with Joey from Friends and a chimp was terrible, but I liked it.

For Love of the Game might be a chick flick, but it's far less shitty than other chick flicks. Though it really bothers me that when they show him warming up in the bullpen his jersey doesn't have piping, but everybody else's does (or was it the other way around? It's been so long since I've seen it). Clear wardrobe error.

Major League 2 wasn't too terrible. The first one was great, anyone who says otherwise is an idiot.

Major League
Field of Dreams
The Sandlot
Bad News Bears(orig)

That's my baseball movie fourpack of essentials. Nothing else I can think of has been worth watching more than once.

Padres wrote: Major League 2 wasn't too terrible. The first one was great, anyone who says otherwise is an idiot.

Major League
Field of Dreams
The Sandlot
Bad News Bears(orig)

That's my baseball movie fourpack of essentials. Nothing else I can think of has been worth watching more than once.

I'd have to give The Natural, Bull Durham and Eight Men Out some love, too, if we're talking about best. I really enjoyed 42 and *61. Both solid movies.

Tigers wrote:

Padres wrote: Major League 2 wasn't too terrible. The first one was great, anyone who says otherwise is an idiot.

Major League
Field of Dreams
The Sandlot
Bad News Bears(orig)

That's my baseball movie fourpack of essentials. Nothing else I can think of has been worth watching more than once.

I'd have to give The Natural, Bull Durham and Eight Men Out some love, too, if we're talking about best. I really enjoyed 42 and *61. Both solid movies.

The Natural and Bull Durham were definitely big misses on my part. Eight Men out was very good, but I never felt even a little bit of an urge to rewatch it.

Any love for A League of Their Own?

Good call on the Natural and Bull Durham.......both great movies. Sandlot and Bad News Bears were classics.

Orioles wrote:Any love for A League of Their Own?

Doesn't count as baseball when it's women.

Kidding of course. I'd put it up there with Bull Durham and the rest personally. Very rewatchable and always fun.

Might be women, but it should teach people that Softball should only be reserved for beer leagues. Women should play baseball too.

Air Bud: Seventh Inning Fetch

I saw Angels in the Outfield when I was like 10 and I remember liking it.

*61 might be my favorite baseball movie of all time. The movie is so great because Barry Pepper becomes Roger Maris and Thomas Jane becomes Mickey Mantle. It doesn't feel like you're watching actors. Jane has all of the Mantle roguish charm. "I like a girl with small hands, makes my dick look bigger."

Brewers wrote:Air Bud: Seventh Inning Fetch

Shawn can we get a like button?