30 for 30 running thread

[JackReacher]

Riveting television. And apparently, the first few minutes of part 3 are not for the faint of heart.

 

[Steak Snabler]

Anybody else watch "Doc and Darryl?"

For whatever reason, it seems like the 30 for 30s they do on baseball are never all that good (the Bartman one being a major exception).

I did enjoy the footage of their early lives, but I was disappointed they chose to focus entirely on drugs as the reason for Gooden's downfall. They never mentioned that he blew out his shoulder when he was 24.

It is interesting that Strawberry seems to have turned turned his life around, while Gooden appears to be a junkie who is barely keeping it together.

 

[JackReacher]

Pretty much that entire documentary was sad. Just sad. No feel-good happy endings. Just sad.

 

[Lugnuts]

Pretty much that entire documentary was sad. Just sad. No feel-good happy endings. Just sad.

Interesting considering Apatow is a comedy guy.

I appreciated the fact that it didn't have a Hollywood ending.

 

[exmediahack]

Anybody else watch "Doc and Darryl?"

For whatever reason, it seems like the 30 for 30s they do on baseball are never all that good (the Bartman one being a major exception).

I did enjoy the footage of their early lives, but I was disappointed they chose to focus entirely on drugs as the reason for Gooden's downfall. They never mentioned that he blew out his shoulder when he was 24.

It is interesting that Strawberry seems to have turned turned his life around, while Gooden appears to be a junkie who is barely keeping it together.

Gooden looks like a guy who is smoking crack every night. Yikes that was disturbing.

 

[playthrough]

Excellent new short, "Whatever the heck happened to Jai Alai":

What the heck Happened to Jai Alai - ESPN Films: 30 for 30

I loved me some Jai Alai in my Florida days. Sad to see it withering away (though no surprise, given the reasons in the film).

 

[Songbird]

Used to watch jai alai in Tijuana while drinking Carta Blanca. Pretty cool sport.

Last time it was "cool" was when it was part of the Miami Vice montage.

 

[ChrisLong]

There was a fronton at the MGM in Vegas back in the late 70s early 80s. That hotel is now Bally's.

 

[BTExpress]

Excellent new short, "Whatever the heck happened to Jai Alai":

What the heck Happened to Jai Alai - ESPN Films: 30 for 30

I loved me some Jai Alai in my Florida days. Sad to see it withering away (though no surprise, given the reasons in the film).

I was a Dania Jai-Alai degenerate for a couple of years in the late 80s. Only made it to the famous Miami one once. It was the first day of the player strike, and the frontons rushed in a bunch of replacements. I didn't know it at the time and couldn't figure out why all these supposedly spectacular Miami players were so awful.

 

[playthrough]

I think there's still Jai-Alai north of Ocala, smack in the middle of nowhere. I went there for a fix a few times. Poker keeps it afloat now, of course.

 

[exmediahack]

Used to watch jai alai in Tijuana while drinking Carta Blanca. Pretty cool sport.

Last time it was "cool" was when it was part of the Miami Vice montage.

Sports you can gamble on, beaches, Rolls Royce and a tight shot of tits.

The perfect montage.

 

[qtlaw]

Sports you can gamble on, beaches, Rolls Royce and a tight shot of tits.

The perfect montage.

You forgot linen sportcoats over t shirts and ESPADRILLES!! (Man those were good/fun times in the 80's)