Documentaries

Man, I need to watch that Pete Rose one. Saw the clip where they asked him at what point did he "cross over" and make the decision that it was now OK for him to bet on baseball, and he sort of low-key snapped on the interviewer. That is a bad person, and I have zero issue with keeping him out of the Hall.

Intrigued by the "murder of Steve McNair" one that's coming out soon. Fascinating story.

 

I'm excited about that one, too. If it's the same documentary, our paper made a quick $1,000 by licensing them a 30-year-old file photo that'll probably be on screen for about five seconds.

 

That's the normal progression for Pete:

1) I didn't do it (unconvincingly)
2) I didn't do it very much
3) Nobody told me it was wrong
4) everybody else does it
5) it's really not a big deal
6) it was a long time ago
7) OK, I did it, I did it a lot, but that's because I'm the Hit King, I do what I want

 

One of the greats.

The Art of Documentary No. 1

 

Coming soon:
8.) I actually did steroids but so did everyone else

 

I just watched the “Brats” doc, in which Andrew McCarthy spends 90 minutes asking people, “I was good, right? We were good?”

 

Watched the E60/ESPN+ doc on Armando Galarraga and the bungled perfect game. Well done, with a lot of talking heads -- including Jim Joyce himself, to his credit.

There was a good point by a professor at Monmouth U., who used the case as part of his curriculum. He compared it to George Brett's pine tar game and how that was eventually overturned by MLB a day or so later.

With the Brett overturn as precedent, should the same have happened with Galarraga?

 

Nope. The spirit of the rules at the time and then are still the spirit of the rules. Safe-out calls remain an ump's discretion. Replay fortunately as a large result of this kick has changed this.

 

American Son, latest 30 for 30, the Michael Chang story. Well told story about growing up Asian in US in 80’s and how we were looked upon as bookworms but not athletes.

 

Jim Henson would have had his first Muppets do a murder-suicide on air if it moved another case of coffee.

 

The Tigers still won that game. Unless they'd played the rest of it under protest and the blown call led to the Indians coming back to win, I can't see a reason why MLB would overturn it. History or not.

 

It’s so incredible to watch this stuff now.