Well, the info blurb about how the dancer wanted to move them to Miami made it sound interesting--Marlins Park is my favorite stadium, lol-- but actually, she ended up being an exec who probs couldn't dance if she got kidnapped by pirates, *but*, you know, considering how long ago this movie was made, I guess that I just should have expe... read more
"Yet another story of a team of misfits & losers banding together to form a winning world series team.
But what separates this one from the rest is that this is the only baseball movie franchise that exeplifies the idea of what a baseball movie should be by featuring Mr. Baseball himself, Bob Uecker.
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The new owner of the Cleveland Indians assembles a bunch of misfit players to achieve her goal. (Think Bad News Bears goes from Little League to Major League Baseball.)"
Well, the info blurb about how the dancer wanted to move them to Miami made it sound interesting--Marlins Park is my favorite stadium, lol-- but actually, she ended up being an exec who probs couldn't dance if she got kidnapped by pirates, *but*, you know, considering how long ago this movie was made, I guess that I just should have expected it to have been mediocre, in.... Certain ways, in general.... Yeah. (And, yeah, Taylor: I'm looking at you.)
But at least Willie Mays Hays did a little dance when he didn't get cut from the team, and Charlie Sheen--as *Wild Thing*-- upped the fun factor too.
"This is my kinda team."
And I really liked the vodoo guy, how could I ever forget him....