Running 2017 MLB regular season thread

Remember, board: I'm the problem.

 

Nah, but I heard you were fucking nuts.

 

Actually, in this case JC was the problem. But like him, you'd rather blame me for shit somebody else started. He made a bad joke that completely mischaracterized one side of that debate, so I responded in kind (Yes, I am acknowledging that my joke wasn't very good, either).

 

Don't sell yourself short, Bucky. Plenty of people are laughing.

 

Major League 2 might be the worst movie ever made.

 

I take it you've never seen "Major League: Back to the Minors"

 

"Major League: Back to the Minors," wasn't too bad, especially Jansen Daggett, the actress who played Scott Bakula's wife.

 

I never realized she was in that. My frame of reference for her is "Friday the 13th Part VIII."

My biggest quibble with "Back to the Minors" are that:
1) They portray a Triple-A team for a supposedly championship team (in the film) as a bunch of incompetent stumblebums, when there should be some top prospects there
and
2) That the Buzz, the Twins' Triple-A affiliate that would presumably be in a fairly large city, plays on a high school field. Could never get over that.

 

The Major League series wasn't great with the details. I caught the end of Major League 2 today. In the big game at the end, the Indians' starting pitcher gave up five runs, but still managed to stay in the game until there were two outs in the ninth. At that point, the fans claim there is nobody but Vaughn in the pen. So they had only two pitchers available for that game?

 

What also bugs me about ML2 is how Vaughn supposedly had this ex-girlfriend who was working with the impoverished kids. This wasn't even in the plot in the first film, and besides, Vaughn cheated on her with Dorn's wife anyways.

 

I was watching the original today for the first time in a while and noticed that even in that one they only seemed to have two or three pitchers (Harris and Vaughn, and I think Uecker mentioned one other during one of the early game scenes).
In the playoff game against the Yankees they let the ancient Eddie Harris pitch into the ninth in a tie game, despite him being on short rest (they call out that it was supposed to be Vaughn's day to pitch).

Also noticed that the Yankees' catcher was wearing No. 32, which had been retired five years before the movie came out.
Also found it interesting that their shortstop in the movie wore No. 2.

 

Agree with all of your points, but I usually just watch for fun and try not to get too analytical. And, the bench coach for the Twins is a friend of mine, Kenny Medlock. He is the same guy who got into the heated argument with Brad Pitt in "Moneyball." He played the Grady Fuson roll to Billy Beane. Medlock has been in most of those baseball-oriented movies over the years -- Brewer's Millions, Angels in the Outfield, etc. He once asked me if I saw the editing error in one of them. "I singled to center and threw myself out at home."