Dissect DJs - Major League (1989)

Episode Date: April 10, 2026

Baseball season is here so the Dissect DJs are coming into Spring Training gameday ready with another full movie breakdown, as we dissect the 1989 classic Major League!Is this baseball's funniest movie? Is it Charlie Sheen's greatest work? Is it the best team-building story ever? Is Rachel Phelps a precursor to modern sports ownership? What is Willie Mays Hayes whole deal? Why is Jake Taylor holding Lynn as the centerpiece of the team photo at the end? And is Harry Doyle the best announcer to ever do it? It all gets dissected in good ole' Cleveland NEXT!Full Video Episode on YouTube: https://youtu.be/FNTG2V19R3oListeners of this episode might also enjoy: Sports movies, podcasts, movie reaction podcast, Wesley Snipes, Tom Berringer, Corbin Bernsen, baseball movies, Cleveland Indians, Cleveland Guardians, comedy movies, podcast comedy, Wild Thing Ricky Vaughn, Ryan Castle, DJ JAG, 90s movies, 80s movies, throwback, film, MLB, New York Yankees, Cleveland, Ohio, video podcast, YouTube, TikTok, sports podcast, classic movie reviews.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

season and that means is time to talk some major league arguably the greatest baseball movie of all time but i will say it is definitely the funniest baseball movie of all time i'll give it to you love this movie been growing up with this movie but before we talk about the movie we are first the djs i'd like to spin it mix it throw it back and dissect it j castle djj Welcome back to another classic movie review. And we've been talking about this one for a while as it represents our tribe. The Cleveland Indians, as they're known in 1989 when this movie was filmed. But now they're the Cleveland Guardians.

And some of us in this room have an issue with that. I, for one, am a Cleveland baseball fan through and through. And I will say one of the immediate things that comes to mind as I'm watching this movie gets going. It's like, I love the representation of Cleveland. This is a Cleveland movie. We have so few little of those. And me coming from a family that is all Cleveland-based, I love seeing it. All the views of the Cuyahoga Falls Tower City, all the factories and everything.

At one point in the opening montage, there's a nun with a Cleveland Indian starter jacket. I love it because that is what the tribe is to Cleveland. And if you've been there and you see it, then you know it. That city loves its team. And I'm really happy that it was captured. this time that was like a very sad time for Cleveland baseball, which is why I think they use this team. And they go over it right away with all the newspaper clippings. Those are real like newspapers of like showing all the downfalls of the team had had. And at the time that this movie

was made, it was like they seemed as hopeless as ever. They were like coming off two decades straight of like being the worst team of the league. And they're like, I don't know how we're going to ever be good again. So let's make a movie about. And I think the guy who made it actually made it because he's a Cleveland fan. He's like, I wanted to make a movie where I saw the Indians win. And again, this is back in the days when they were able to use actual team names and like actual logos. And if you're not, if you don't have Mr. Lewis Soccale, Alexis. What are you trying to say? Louis Soccallexis, who was the Panopasca Indian and the Major League Baseball player who inspired the naming of the Cleveland Indians team.

He played for the Cleveland Spiders in 1897 to 1898 for one year. He's the reason. And if you don't have this guy representing your team, I'm not a fan. Chief Wahoo. This movie does it for us. It hits it right away. It hits it right. Randomly, it was one of those movies that my dad had when I was growing up.

And I was like, I don't know what this is. And they had a cool baseball as you see. And I was like, I don't look like a cool movie. So I used to watch this movie over and over and not knowing what it was. It was just baseball. And I thought it was funny as a kid. But I had no idea how funny it is. Like I watched it in 2026.

I always love the Major League logo when I was a kid because it's like, is that supposed to be like Charlie Sheen, like wild thing? As a baseball? Possibly. I think it is. He doesn't have a mohawk in the movie. He kind of does. He has a version of it.

I think he's supposed to be, like, who else in this movie would be... I mean, he represents that the most for sure. But I don't think it's him. I think it's just wild. The Mohawk baseball. It's got the, like, the things going on. I got the glasses, too. Is that like a flame cone out of the back?

Or is that like a ponytail? That's the feathers. Oh, the feathers. Yeah, yeah. And then he has the meta glasses randomly back in 89, which is crazy. But yes. Justin didn't bring today. I have them.

Oh, okay. I'm ready to pop my own. Okay. All right. Good. But yes, the movie just the movie cover, which I'm looking at which is behind us. Yeah, on the YouTube.

Check it out on the YouTube channel. There you go. Made me love this movie just from watching that. And then from that point, again, as a kid, it was a cool movie. I remember baseball. I was into baseball. Again, I didn't know anything about the humor. This movie is classic, man.

Oh, yeah. There are some parts, and I was laughing from beginning to end with it. There's so many parts of this movie that are hilarious. If you have not seen it, go watch it. It is a classic. I had not seen it in a while. I've seen this movie a bunch of times. but I don't even remember how many years it's been,

so I just watched it earlier today for the first time in a minute. And yeah, that first, like, 30 minutes really keeps, like 30 to 40 to even an hour, like really just keeps hitting you joke after joke. They hit you with quick liners, introduce you to each character. Everybody says something funny, and then it just boom, on to the next scene. Let's introduce the next guy. I think that this movie is such a good setting for a baseball movie. First of all, I love Cleveland, representing a city that, like, ready for a winner.

and then we immediately get into meeting all the characters. One of the reasons I wanted to do it, which by the way, right now is we're starting baseball season. This movie is the best like spring training movie, like just building a team that I think anybody's ever done. Yeah, absolutely. Let's get into it. Like at the beginning, the owner is clearly like, this team needs a tank. I'm moving this shit. Yeah, which I think makes more sense now than ever.

I feel like we've seen some of those. Like the Dallas Mavericks just had a new owner take over and then immediately traded Luca. And a lot of people looked into the backstory and saw that, like, she has ties to Vegas and, like, is maybe trying to move that. Trying to, like, tank the team and, like, move to Vegas. I think this is an actual, like, game plan that Rachel Phelps puts in a play that maybe there's some rich wife owners that side-eyeing. Possibly one of the best-looking owners in history of a baseball team. Let's be honest. Make a case.

Yeah, she's up there. So, yeah, she is immediately out the gate. This team needs the tank. I'm making them the worst. And so they put together a roster of has-been. and players nobody's ever heard of. Starting off with Jake Taylor in Mexico, which he looks like he was partying.

I love the immediate shot of how we meet Jake. I mean, like, whatever this guy was just doing, I'm in on. The night before, I want a visual of the night before. You know what I mean? Like Jake Taylor's party in the night before. He's in Mexico at like Casa de los Trejos or something, some shit like that, has a sombrero on in bed. Like, clearly they do all the things that are like this guy parties

and that random, like, girl's legs, like, in the back. Laying across him, he has a sombrero. He has to answer it. Phone rings, he answers it with the sombrero, which I love. This is Charlie Donovan, the new GM of the Cleveland Indians. Yeah. We'd love for you to come to spring training for a shot at this year's club. Is that you, Talbert?

What? This isn't very funny, you know. I'm hungover. My knees are killing me, and if you're going to pull this shit, at least you could have said you were from the Yankees. Is that you? you, Talbert. Yeah.

Could have at least said it was the Yankees. And then he hangs up the phone and they bring him on. And then they bring on the coach. And the coach is like selling tires. My favorite. That was my favorite because of when he calls him up and he's like, how did you like to manage the Indians? And he's like, uh, I don't know. I don't know.

I got another call there lying about some white walls. Yeah. I'll get back to you on that. Fire world. How would you like to manage the Indians this year? I don't know What do you mean you don't know This is a chance to manage in the big leagues

Let me think it over will you Charlie I got a guy on the other line About some white walls I'll talk to you later That guy's hilarious Lou That's one of those guys who are like I might even sure what I've seen I feel like I saw him in like a Superman movie

When I was a kid or something He was like the bad He's been in movies that I can't recall you Yeah yeah Such good casting through and through And then of course You got the guy who's like coming out of prison Mr. Wild thing

Introduced us to Charlie Sheen And he's like, I don't know if I'll be able to get out. If he'll be able to get there. How did he get in there? They were just talking about how he got out. First of all, they never, yeah. He's like, I don't know if I'll be there in time. Yeah.

And then suddenly he's just there. Which also then brings me, because speaking of backstory of like, how did that happen? And how did he end up here? We meet Willie Mays Hayes, who watching it closely on this watch. I'm like, what is Willie's backstory? Because he just shows up with like a car and a suit. and he's like We talk about the car really quick

Yeah, what was the car? Volkswagen buggy with a Roy's Rolls-Royce hood. The man had a custom made where he had a Roy's-Russ hood. Roy's... I can't say that word.

I think you hit it the first time. We know what you're talking about. Move on the front and a Volkswagen buggy, the rest of the car. Unique to say the least and like... Like, does this guy have money?

Where's he coming from? It's not money though. What's his back store? It's a Volkswagen with the same. Yeah, but you said it was custom. Yeah, I mean, did you see the other cars in this movie?

The cars in the 80s it has to be the shittiest decade of cars ever like every car in the movie that shitty car that Jake drives you know like yeah yeah he's in the whole time I think his was supposed to look busted up but like every car in this movie I'm like god what were we thinking what were the manufacturers on because it's not like we hadn't had nice cars in decades previous but the 80s was like here's a thought what have we made every car boring as fuck right go no sleek designs just a basic ass box little small circle lights like i like it that'll cut cost and then we'll just put the logo on the front and every car on the road will look exactly the same deal it go well go back to

willie may's heads yeah as a kid he was my favorite character yeah he has the most charisma most they put him in he's fast i was fast i was like this i love this guy and so they bring him in but yeah willie maize hayes so he just shows up and they're like who's this guy and he's like get ready for a hidden show and he's like Park a lot's over there. I do love, yeah, he drives his car right up to the field. Just unwilling confidence, like right out the game. So this guy strolls up, and they're like, oh, he's not on the list.

We cut to then, like, when they're in that, like, do they really expect all these major leaguers? They have them stationed in, like, what looks like a boot camp. Yeah, barracks. Bunk beds and shit. Are you kidding me? You're going to make these guys all, like, literally camp, like, a bunch of, like, seven-year-old campers?

I might have been the case in it. man, they might have done that. Now it's like they have hotel rooms. They're a sleek hotel. But no, man, there are bunk beds. You're roughing it out. And you guys are running 40s at the break of dawn. Nobody should be in a bunk bed after the age of like seven.

I feel like that once you hit like your eighth birthday, it's like your days of sleeping in a bunk bed are over. On top of that, it's a detachable. It's a detachable. Yeah, which you find. And then on top of that, not only do they have to sleep in like this boot camp center where they're all in bunk beds, but you got security guards that are then coming in a night with like a, flashlight and you're like here's the guy that wasn't on the list which detach him

put him out just outside yeah and then he wakes up outside and he's like oh shoot hard it got cut just immediately sprints and just runs pat like the two guys that were running were slow as fuck it wasn't even that impressive they were they were first of all they were using a gunshot to to release

how could we just go like they could be are they really yeah it was a gunshot there's no reason for gunshot in spring trade yeah everybody are like we can understand go go works and he didn't wake up according to the the movie. He didn't wake up to like the fourth gunshot. Also, why would they just leave him outside? Like, if you need, if you're trying to like arrest him or something, like put him in like

jail or something, put him in a, like, we're holding cell. Yeah, yeah. You got to go. Like, we're going to have a cop like take you out of here. If you're trespassing, you're out. But instead, like Castle said, he gets up, wakes up, and immediately in bare feet and his pajamas bust out and beats the two runners by a lot, right? And they show his speed and they're like, get him a uniform.

And he's got a uniform. and now Willie Mays becomes a starting center fielder and a lead off batter of the team for a major league team. What a way to enter a team. Right. But then we learn immediately, you might run like maze, but you hit like shit. How is that possible? Barely scurping the ball and everything like that. And it's just like, okay, so when I saw that, that was the point when I was like, what was

what was Willie Mays Hayes plan going into this like whole thing? So he didn't have an invite to camp. He just shows up and his rolls Royce and like gets on a suit. He's like, prepare to watch a hidden show. And they're like, I don't know, man. This guy's got something. He's got swag. I like the cut of his jib gets kicked out and immediately runs.

And he's like fast. And then we find out he can't hit. So you, in theory, we have no further backstory on where he came from. But we learned like he just showed up like that said, get ready to watch a hitting show. And then he can't hit. So what the fuck was that. I plan out what a wild plan. He had a good rhythm to it.

He was like, Oh, yeah, yeah, a little jiggle. Tries to hit the, I mean, you know a Little League. Like, we all tried that move, too, where you like hit the other end of the bat. Catch it. Yeah, you didn't catch it. Yeah, you didn't get it. It's hard to play.

It's a hard move to pull off. Then they got Serrano coming in, blasting balls into the trees or birds are coming in and hitting the billboard. Like, oh, my goodness, who is this guy? But then he's like, why didn't nobody else pick this guy up? First, curveball. Throw him some breaking balls. Which, immediately, this is the thing that moving. Anytime there was a movie like this, which I think this movie actually does about as well as anybody does.

It's like, we're putting a team together. Let's go out and find some ringers, you know? And this, as we learn, Rachel Phelps is trying to find some of the worst potential talent because she wants the team to sink so she can move the team to Miami. But anytime it's this rag-tag group of misfits, we're putting together a team, we just did little giants like a month or two ago. Similar situation. it's always the same kind of thing where it's like,

oh, look at this person. They're interesting because they can do this, but they suck at this. Except for little giants, actually, they all like pretty much sucked at everything. So that's not even a great example. But any, this is the blueprint of any movie that was like, oh, wow, they could do this. That has been bit for years and years. Willie Mays Hayes, fastest shit can't hit for shit. Charlie Sheen throws a fireball has no control.

Serrano can hit the last. lights out can't hit a breaking ball and we just go on and on and every player is like Jake Taylor he's a knees are gone he's he's a veteran he knows the game well but he actually has like no knees and he's basically like yeah he's a has which i'll bring back up at the end of the game because they decided to do something crazy i'm like really wild game we'll come back because the end i love the last 20 minutes of this movie and the final uh them in the single playoff game and a lot of the stories to go into that final player we almost forgot Dorn.

Oh, yeah. One of the key players of this movie, Roger Dorn, comes in on the Roy's Royce and a golfing bag and he does the points, swing. Don't you love? It was such an 80s movie trope that like if a guy shows up in white cashmere's sweater and like a real preppy look, you're immediately like, fuck you. I don't like this guy. It was like a blueprint of all 80s movies.

It was like, nope, this guy sucks. I don't want to like them. Too preppy. too into his own shit. But he does provide me with, I think, one of the funniest moments of the first quarter of the movie is when he goes up to the coach. And he's like, says right here, my contract,

I don't do calisthenics. So what do you think of that? And I didn't remember this part. And I had forgotten this happen. You forgot this part? But I immediately was like, oh, dude, please tell me he just fucking starts pissing on the contract. And it's right there in the middle of the field.

Coach Lew is just like So then they look at each other Yeah, as he's pissing The look at each other You only make more disrespectful That pissing on something That a guy just handed you to be like Why don't you take a look at that?

What do you think about that? It's to look him in the eye As you're pissing on him. He's like, he's like one of the years He's like Then it walks off About those sit-ups you want me to do? I got a right here in my contract says

I don't have to do any calisthenics I don't feel unnecessary So what do you think about that? Short piss, by the way. He didn't have to piss that bad. It wasn't that long, but he did what he needed to do on that. He didn't have to know that bad. He just had to make a point.

But Dorn comes in, again, the last 20 minutes. Anyway, we'll talk about it, last one of minutes. So we have our roster. We have our squad. Pre-training has completed. Well, first we got to do the whole, like, cut down, which there's no fucking way a major league team would cut players by way of, like, there's a red tag.

Like, what is this a game? Over your locker. Oh, there's a red tag. you might be that. That's how, oh, did you avoid it? Oh, but guess what? Some of our guys on the team just have red tags that can fuck you with you. And they're just gone.

By the way, they don't show any of that happening. There's nobody that got that. No, there's just one random player that, like, they never introduced who, like, opens his locker and you're like, I feel like this guy's not going to beg it. They never introduced us to Gelson or Gentry, whatever the fuck his name is. I have a feeling it's not going to go well for this guy. And he has this, like, dramatic turnaround. And we're just like, as the audience, you're like, who cares?

Of course, we don't know you. Get back to Willie. Get us to Willie Mays Hayes again or Wild Thing. And he does the one eye like, oh, yes, yes, yes. I always love that when he goes outside, starts dancing. That's what I mean. Wesley Snipes, he's so good of this role because of like that, like the same way when he first walks in and then he like turns around and his like suit. Like he has these motions that are like so funny.

The way he goes outside of like celebrates. He's like, ah. And it's crazy that he's also blade. I didn't really like. He looks small as like a baseball player. And then you see him, he's like a badass in blade. And then a white man can't jump. Wesley Snipes.

Oh, yeah. What's the word? Unheralded hero of that cinematic atmosphere. This is an actor that's like, I can't think of the word. Undapreciated actor. Thank you. I don't know.

He was like a big star back then. And you know what? This is the movie that actually set him off. Open him up. This was like his first big film. And if you notice, anybody you've ever seen Major League 2, there's one, blaring difference.

And you can't ignore. And that's how they just bring back Willie Mays Hayes. Just a different actor. No, it's Omar Ips. Omarips. That bothered me as a kid too because you were looking for Wesley.

It is. As a kid, I was like, who's this guy? It was very confusing. And it's one thing if you just can't get Willie Mays Hayes back, like the actor,

but like to just say as the same guy is always, it's an annoying movie. Like, don't bullshit. Yeah, just say it's somebody else. Don't gaslight me. Okay. I know Willie Mays Hayes.

That's not Willie Mays Hayes. But you know why he actually didn't join is because one of the actors, I can't remember, I heard this story once where one of the actors were like, oh, like, are you going to do Major League 2? And he responded to him like, you're seriously going to do that shit? Which is a disappointing thing to hear because, like I just said, this is the movie that put him on the map. And then he gets white man can't jump and he's Sidney Dean.

And he becomes like a star. And then, yeah, ends up being Blade. And like throughout the 90s, he's one of the biggest actors we have. He should have done it, man. But, like, you don't, hey, remember where you're from? Dude, you were Willie Mays Hayes before anybody. You're an Indian, man. You're an Indian.

And speaking of that, the real-life Willie Mays Hayes then came to life shortly thereafter with Kenny Lofton, my man. That was the, first of all, the 95 Indians are the reason that I really started loving baseball. Like, I was a little kid, and I remember, like, that team captivated me. I spent that whole summer. I can name a lot of them off, man. Alamar brothers, Justice. Carlos Baerga, right here. Tommy.

No, so you're a little bit all over the place. David Justice wasn't until 97, but Albert Bell was there. Well, that's three years. Jim Tomey was there. Paul Sereno, I'm Ramosel. Veskel. Okay, I'm close. Who's the pitcher?

Horch-Hiser. Orr-Hersheiser. I still have a Hershey's shirt. I kind of had. I miss one player. You're going to tuck shit. Whatever. Dennis Martinez.

I liked all those teams. Jose Mason. 95 to 97 was an Indian squad that made me fall in love them too. That team was so fucking awesome. That was when Marlins hit the anyways. Yeah, yeah, that was a tough one too. 95-97, two of my most memorable world series. That's why

This movie Stens out So what's interesting is like What this movie Kind of like presents as like It's a story So we got an owner who takes over Wants to move the team to Miami

And they're like Cleveland will be devastated If you leave the city of Cleveland And also Cleveland is desperate For the Indians to finally be good again After decades of being bad Within a few years We get an expansion team in Miami

The Florida Marlins We end up playing the Indians In the 97 World Series series, we get the Cleveland Browns actually leaving town in 94, 95, yeah, become the Baltimore Ravens. And then at that exact same time, the Cleveland Indians finally become a powerhouse and make it to the World Series against the Atlanta Braves. So this movie really unintentionally set into motion all these things that like they almost like predicted by like what was like on the mind of like Cleveland or the people around it or wanted to like detract from like what, you know,

anybody that was in power, basically Rachel Phelps is what became Art Modell, who was the owner of the Browns for like decades, and then burned a bridge with Cleveland that he never got back, you know, because he was like, I got to move the team, I don't want to make money. And then they end up winning a Super Bowl a few years ago.

Fuck the Ravens, man. We can agree on that, you know, yeah, yeah. Fuck the Ravens, I agree with you. By the way, this is, Cleveland Indians were the only team that Kassel and I both were, like, agreeant. We share, yeah, yeah. We both loved Indianians. Look it, I got, I brought,

not only did I bring my Carlos Baerga, a bobblehead, but I also brought this, this keychain. Keychain. I don't know what this is. I got it out of game once. I used to have a jersey. This is not, this is Cassinger. Either way, we have hats and jerseys.

I used to have multiple Indians hats. It's the only head I used to rock back in the day. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Multiple colors. I had a brown one. I had a black one. Anyway, this is our only team. And then when the Indians became the Guardians,

I cut from baseball. I'm out. I'm done because I used to love dressing up and becoming an Indian at Indian games. And he would. At the end became something that I shouldn't have been doing because I got hated on heavily for doing it. But it was a tradition for a long time. Like the people in the stands, and that's where I got it from, man.

Oh, my God. Yeah. So let me get to that in a second, but I want to discuss Justin's conduct when we would go to Go to Game. No, no, let me talk about it. I don't want to talk about it. That's PC. Well, no, okay, because let me make this point.

You see all the, like, at this time. This is where I got it from. All the fans in this movie are all like, they're wearing headdresses and they got drums. The commentator comes in with a full dress, man. He's like, it's time for the, who-hoo. And I'll just say this. it's so easy for people to like watch this movie now and be like oh that didn't age well right

and I'm just like no and I'm gonna say fuck you look thank you this is what the team was called this is what they had been for generations this is how their wardrobe this is how you support the team that's like how you dress to try to look back on that and be like oh those people should be embarrassed like no that's what the team was called that's how they supported it like it was a fun time look it was such an identity it was such an identity for the fans all we'll talk about we'll talk about I used to put it on an outfit underneath my outfit, right? So I dress up as a regular person. And the moment a home run or any run would happen.

And at one game, there nothing was happening. So I just did it on a base hit. And the end it would come out of me. I would have my feather. So he would start with like a jersey like this. And then if like somebody had home around, he would like undress, he'd take it off. And he would have his little Pokemon. Again, it's not.

Once again, it's not. Once again, I will have the video of him doing right here. Because then he would do the rain dance. The rest of the game. Put it on, man. No, it's on the screen already. It's right there. All right.

But then, yeah, the last. The last time, no, keep it going. Keep it going. No, take it off. It's done. So we would always do it at Anaheim games because they've played the Angels every year and that's, you know, it's a whole trip. It wasn't tradition for about five, six years.

Even though, by the way, the Jake is still my all-time favorite stadium. Jacob's Field, which now it is called Progressive Field, you know, they got this fucking insurance field. Yeah, this is the logo, fucking whatever. But that's still my all-time favorite stadium. But we'd always go to Indians games at Angel Stadium every year, and that's where he would do that. And the Angels fans are really nice people.

for the most part they were always cool with it they would just kind of laugh and take some pictures and stuff but the last one we went to yeah pretty much got cussed out yeah they were like hey you look stupid i just never read that and just is like i don't think people are into it this year they weren't into it man and last by the end of it they were over it and uh the world had changed and it was time for me to change as had the indians and they became the guardians but i don't think we need to look back the entire history of the indians and be like oh they should be embarrassed the whole the whole fun this was you had the people in the outfield you had the commentator Everybody was dressing as an Indian there.

It wasn't thought of as a negative thing. And so I didn't think it was a negative thing. And by the way, Harry Doyle, the announcer, who I would like to get into right now, he has so many comments where he's like how he refers to the fans. And my favorite one that he said was Willie Mays to lead it off for the wigwammers. Oh, man. Yeah, he had a couple of those. He called it like a feather heads.

He had like a new name for like the Indians fans like all the time. but I thought Wigwomers was the funniest one. Bottom of the first and Willie Mays Hayes deleted off for the Wigwaters. Hello again, everybody. Harry Doyle bidding you a big Wahu welcome from Municipal Stadium where tonight before a capacity crowd of 75,000 screaming featherheads, the Fighting Braves of the Cuyahoga will leave their TPs in search of Cleveland's first league championship in over 30 years. But yeah, Harry Doyle, that's another reason that we wanted to do this movie,

because Bob Yucer kills it. Absolutely the best baseball announcer in any movie form. Harry Doyle, such a hilarious character in this movie. He's everything you need from a baseball announcer. And by the way, he's like, it's a role that they tried to duplicate for years and years. Like John Candy was in Rookie of the Year trying to do it. Angel the Outfield had Ranch Wilder, who was actually sort of like a villain. But they always tried to, so many movies tried to do this where it was like,

the friendly announcer that you love that makes funny comments throughout, nobody did it better than Bob Euker as for Harry Doyle. Yeah, I just wanted to give him props, and he unfortunately passed away over the past years. So throw some of your favorite scenes right here. Throw some of your favorite ones over here. Go. Hello again, everybody.

Harry Doyle here welcoming all you friends of the feather to another season of Indians baseball. A lot of new faces in Chief Wahoos tribe this year as they take on the defending American League champs the New York Yankees. And hopefully we'll have some of the names that go with those faces before their first at bat. Just a reminder, fans about die-hard night coming up here at the stadium. Free admission to anyone who was actually alive the last time the Indians won a pennant.

Hey, give Rudy a credit for sacrificing his body on that rocket. That guy's got a family to think about. The Duke leads the league in saves, strikeouts per inning, and hit batsman. This guy threw at his own kid in a father's son game. Could we possibly get into the adultery that was happening in this movie? Is that something we're going to talk about? Yeah, let's do it. I didn't realize, because as a kid, you don't realize, you don't really pay attention to relationships.

But there is, I was going to say multiple, like there's more than three, but there's two huge cheating that are happening in this movie. You got Jake Taylor, who's the epitome of persistence. He's on one. He has his ex, and he sees her at a restaurant at first, and it does a, finds a way to get her. Which, by the way, this is another true. trope that exists in like 80s and 90s movies that I don't think kids nowadays or even like anybody nowadays could even like comprehend you get a phone call like a waiter just comes up and like oh man you have a phone call at the front desk and she's just kind of like casually

she's casually like oh okay like if you had a waiter tell you you have a call at the front desk now you'd immediately be like that's the most psychopathic shit I've ever heard call the police immediately what do you mean I got a call here she goes and answers and it's him at the restaurant I'm saying some, like creepy. He's a little bit of a creep, man. I've got to be honest, but he's persistent. He clearly has a decent relationship with her where he's able to do this. But really, throughout this movie, I'm like,

this man might be taking it over the line with what he's doing. It's a little bit stalkerish, a little bit over the top. He follows her at work. He follows her to her first house that she goes to, which ends up being her future fiancé. She follows her all the way to her own house. And just every time, just walks in. Just walks right in.

I would argue this movie spends a little bit too much time following that relationship bullshit. I was agreeing with that too, man. It became more of a love story than I remember. How about a little bit more

backstory on Willie Mays Hayes? How about what wild things doing? I thought that too. You know? I thought it was a little too much of a love story. What does Serrano do when he's not like

at his locker? Making like worshiping Jobu. I agree. I could use a little bit more time with the other guys instead of all this being like and then here's another scene of Jake being like,

oh, I found here. Although I do like the one when he's in the library and she, and he's like, you're still mad he didn't read Moby Dick. And he's like, I'll read it right now. Is this the whale section?

Or our favorite line we were talking about. Play it right here. I haven't seen you in three years. You never even wrote me a letter. Well, I'm sorry about that, but I wasn't exactly proud of my situation. Come on, you never thought about me at all while I was going? Jake Nutsal.

What about the three nights we spend on the beach in Vera Cruz? You ever have nights like that with Mr. Briefcase? What about the night you had in Detroit with Miss Fuel Injection? What was I supposed to do? She bet me 50 bucks. She had a better body than you, and I had to defend her on. What a bunch of books? Bullshit.

I have a much better body than she does. I can't believe he had the audacity to say. Oh, what was I supposed to do? She bet me 50 bucks. She had a better body than you, and I had to defend your honor. Who was the name of her? Miss fuel injection in Detroit.

I'm trying to even figure out, like, what that scenario was. So what is this Miss fuel injection? Is this like a stripper? Like, what is this? I don't know. It's a showgirl. There's something. He's trying to get her back and he hits her with that.

And he goes, I'll bet you 50 bucks I have a better body. You're like, deal. Don't worry, babe. I got you. Me and her are just going to go in the back real quick. I have to defend your honor. I'm going to see every inch of her body, and I will make a determination. I'm here to defend you, babe.

Love you. All right. Miss fuel injection. Let's see this. See it. Let's check out the rack. Straight up. What?

And again, like I said, goes later than sees her at a, I think, at a baseball game or something like that. A library. Also, yeah, yeah. But also when he gets the number, he's like, I'm not leaving her without your number. And she's literally out of date with her fiance. And she's like, all right, it's 5-5-5. And it's immediately, like, thought of you every time you would, like, bring up, calling right now, 5-55.

Like, why is 5-5 the three digits that's like, this number's clearly bullshit? Because it's immediately not a number. Yeah, yeah. He can't figure that shit out. And then has the all fucking nasty to walk in on this, like. Oh, yeah, it follows her home because Willie Mays. Willie Mays gives it that thing. Oh, yeah.

He's like, he's like, isn't that little childish? He goes, yeah. Hey, Jake, man, why don't you just go over there and see you? I mean, maybe she let you slide on a couple of these. Well, I would if I knew where she lived. That's easy. Just tailor her home from the library. What do you mean, sit in the car and wait for her to come out?

That's kind of juvenile, don't you think? Yeah. If it hits her? He's just like, yeah. Follows her home. And then he's, I can't, originally, when I first, I remember watching this and be like, wait, so he just followed her up and she went right into a, like, dinner? No, no, he goes and has a beer really quick. He thinks it's his.

Gets a little buzz. Which why? Why is the fiancé even, like, so insistent? And I'll be like, no, come in and have a drink. Oh, he's cocky. He thinks he got it. He wants to like, oh, he does say something about that. He's like, dangerous move, man.

He even makes a dick hell of like comment. He's like, I just wanted to see what you missed out on with Lynn. You know, he like says something like that to like or show you how she's living now or something. Man, dangerous move. Because you don't know if the past and it can bring up old flames. I don't know. I guess it's okay because you guys should be confident in your relationship and be able to do that. But I don't know, man.

Dangerous move on his part. And clearly by the end of this movie, not the smartest move to do. Well, that's seen as another. trope that these kind of movies love. They loved having that, like, stuffy dinner party with people. Random, like old people. And there's always that same, like, classical music song. It's always that like,

like, that's playing at every dinner party scene in the 80s. Always. Like, has anybody ever enjoyed that as a background song in any setting? Just like while you're, like, sitting there being like, so does anybody had tried her kish? You know, like whatever the hell? Yeah. And her baseball players make a good income nowadays.

depends on how good they are. Oh, how good are you? I make league minimum. Yeah. I do fuck with the fact that he like says that with confidence. Yeah, yeah, he's like, I'm not that good anybody. But again, she jumps in and he used to be one of the best players three years ago.

Yeah, and he shoots him, he's like looks like, fucking serious. And she hooks him up and it's just like dangerous move. And then he talks about the kid he's supposed to have. And Jake totally I fucks him or across the table. Yeah, yeah, yeah. baby. I heard that. And that's the other thing that these like...

These stuffy dinner parties like to do, or it's like on the surface, it's like a classy environment, but it's actually like a mega pissing match between this guy and that guy and they're just like staring at each other, like just things are getting a little bit more heated, you know? And then the epic walkout.

Yeah, he's like... Stay away from her. Suck my dick. I'll let you know if I land a job. I know you're very concerned. Yeah, well, I, uh, You just wanted Linda know what she would have had ahead of her. Stay away from her.

Suck my dick. And that's what I'm talking about in the humor of this movie. It's just like quick, like subtle, like they don't hit you over the head with these jokes. And then it just boom, onto the next. You know what I mean? Moves on, yeah. And then the final time that he finally goes to her, where he follows her home in the baseball, the ball.

Immediately when I saw that thing, when he follows her in like the pitching. I don't even know they still have those. Yeah, pitching cart. It's a baseball with this hat on. Which is awesome. Which, by the way, I was going to save this for like final notes, but I'm thinking of it now. So I'll do it. If you could have any piece of like memorabilia for this movie.

For sure that car. Would you rather have the cart or a jobo, you know? No, I'll give you the cart all day, every day. That cart is where it's at, man. I want that cart. I'll drive it around my neighborhood right now. Out here in Hermosa Beach, we have a lot of golf carts riding around. Oh, it would just be like, like, especially during, if they were like making a run in the World Series, I'd be like, yeah.

Wow. They just play a wild thing. why you're running. Yeah, that car was sick. The car is so sick. Follows her home. Follows her home and then just enters her house. Just goes on in again.

It goes on in. Up the stairs and he's like, oh, when did you move here or whatever? What's happening here? And she's moving out and he's like, oh. And then they end up. They're talking, as they're talking about like her wedding plans. Yeah. He's just moving on in.

And they end up going for it. Use your imagination. He pulls her dress off with his cleat and shit. It's like, oh, man, they're going for it. That was a sick move, though. Sick move, no, got to give it to him. He was like, I can. My Zipperies, like, I got my cleats on still as.

Just like, I want to hook? That's a veteran right there. Yeah, true. He's been doing this. This man has dealt with a stuck Zipperby. By the same way he got that girl in Mexico. Yeah, yeah, yeah. He's like, all right.

So, yeah, then they end up hooking up. And then, like, again, she's her fiance. She's like, this doesn't change anything. And then later, go ahead. Before that, that line, I had actually wrote down. We just put out our Top Gun episode recently, and I, listen to Bad Now, we recorded that a few years ago. But there's a case I want to make, and I keep making a top gun that like I don't understand why Charlie is so into like Maverick in that movie because everything

he does in that movie is like such a doucheery like none of this shit should work and I wrote down like Jake giving me Maverick vibes in this because like why are any of these moves other than like maybe the persistence why is any of this even working on Lynn and I wrote that as I was watching that scene but then she says at the end she's like this doesn't change anything we're always good at this and I was like he's got slown all right that's that's what it was that's why he's as well and he knows that

he's like I know where I got I know I know where I got that guy beat that guy's probably got more money he's probably got more classy friends but I know where I can knock this fool out of the park she's asking Moby Dick questions he's like answering it while he's trying to just make sure he read it

so they hook up and then he tries to go again just a boring ass book by the way and again barges in just walks into this random apartment and she's not there and it's like empty yeah that was the one when i was literally writing like i think we get it i think we get it i don't think like okay now you have to go follow it she just said she the last scene she had boxes and she's like i'm moving into his place you really had to follow it up with a whole other scene where he does like he was trying to get some more dude he does the will smith at the end of fresh prince walk and like just walks into an empty place like

hmm i guess she really did it like give me a scene of willie may's hayes doing some fun shit there they went a little too much in that scene yeah just on the At the end of the movie, when they win the playoff game, she's in the stands, and they end up being together. I have, even as a kid, I had huge problems with a final shot of this movie. Because it's like, this team who has been a rag-tag group of nobodies from the beginning, that then turn into potential champions, like, fighting for the World Series. They just won the one single playoff game against the Yankees who would come out to be like the- Was it just one playoff game?

Yeah, it was a single playoff game to get into the playoffs. Oh, to get into the playoffs, which I love the Yankees are the villains of this. movie great choice perfect use of major league teams thank you that now they they're fighting for their their playoff lives and come out win the big game and by the way that and then he spots lynn in the crowd right at the end of the game shows her ring shows it there which by the way i don't even know they never gave any indication that they had like problems and that that guy was bad for like a little bit of a smarmy rich guy but it seemed like that was like what she wanted to have in life at this point and he was providing he just wasn't smashing as well was smashing like

the Jake Taylor Hammer, you know? Like so many other movies would take short cuts there and be like a wedding crashers thing where he's like, dude, did you tap that bartender last night? He's like twice in my place. Then once again this morning, then lines like that and I'll just be like, I don't like this guy. It doesn't get that. It'll give you any of that reason. He's a good guy as far as they're concerned.

But no, she comes in. All of a sudden, the celebration, the whole team celebrating, she's the fucking centerpiece just being paraded on his shoulder. Everybody else gathers around. That's going to be on the front page of the newspaper. That's going to be what all the news channels. show and if I'm watching at home as a fan I'm like who the fuck is this man?

And imagine being the ex is like dude. What is he thinking? Are you serious? Dude, are you serious? We broke up 18 hours ago. Fuck you. I can't believe it. That's crazy. Man, that Jake Taylor hammer hits hard, man. But we ease it to the end. Let's rewind it back a little bit.

Yeah, bring it back and let's go into the other cheating scandal that happened this movie, which again, these are major leagues. They're major league baseball players. They do what they do. They're major league basketball things. If you're expecting anything else, you're expecting too much. This is how they roll. This is how they get down.

But what's his name, Dorn? What's his first name? Roger Dorn. Okay. First of all, out the gate, Roger Dorn is disrespectful completely to the wild thing. What was the wild thing's name? Ricky Vaughn. Ricky Vaughn.

Out the gate, Ratchie walks in, he's like, oh, look at this guy. Look at this guy. And just immediately. Look at the end of this guy. Who the fuck on these guys. Disrespects him at every point. And he never responds or does any kind of retaliation. He really doesn't.

Until he does too much where he puts the red tag in his locker. And that's the only time he goes, fuck this guy. He tackles him. But beyond that, it doesn't really do anything. Well, they are getting into the playoffs. They're happy as shit. And the wife just happens to be watching this program. She's excited for her husband.

She's excited for the team. But in the background, you got Dorn, Roger Dorn, walking out with some girl just like, Are you guys? Which, by the way, if I'm Dorn and I'm at the hotel and I'm with some floosy, do you not notice that they're doing a live hit on the news, like right in front of you. You don't think you're going to try to, you know, be a little bit more cavalier than that. You're not trying to, like, be a little bit more. Because even if she's not watching, there's family members and friends.

So many ways that could go out of. And he's obvious. And he does the point. Those are like, you guys are crazy. You guys are crazy. all right I'm going to take this home in the room and we're gonna smash and the wife sees that and she's like okay

now early in the movie I know what I need to do early in the movie she was she had coffee ready in under 30 seconds she looked like she was she was supportive and she was a great your wife at this point she turns it on okay she goes from the way the way she looks in that hotel where she's just all

like super like just you know just down the middle and then she's like turns it up to 10 where's the red dress with the hair and finds Mr. Vaughn at a bar where he's drinking because you just got taking out of the starting lineup, which I don't know why you're that sad. It's like, it's okay. You got slammed by this team all season. It's understandable.

Clue Haywood is two for two with two home runs against you. He's slamming. You can't fucking throw you into that. You're not good with this team. But he's drinking and she goes, you are the sexiest man I've ever seen. He's like, he's like, check please. Check. Check. Oh, it's like that. All right. Which I love a scene that does that. The classic Check. Check please. It's just an epic?

Check please is literally only used in universe for like a good like out in a movie scene. Like I never hear anybody like say it in real life. You never did that in real life? I guess you could. I think I did that once or twice in my series. It doesn't hit as well in real life. It's so much funnier when they say it in the movies. I don't know.

Maybe I didn't. By the way, who knows? Charlie Sheen in this movie like one of the things like he does in this movie that I think he does better than anybody. Nobody has a better combination of confused, but like steely intense look than Charlie Sheen does. Like his whole, he's always like looks like he's slightly confused, but he's like super intense.

Every movie, including this one and others. Like he just had, that's just his thing. Like there's that scene when Willie is like checking his locker to see if he got the red tag and he like pulls it open and he looks at, he looks at Ricky and Ricky's just kind of like, and it's like if you're trying to get a read like,

wait, so did I get it or not? He's not giving you anything because he's just like, oh no, I'm kind of stupid and a little confused, but I'm also like really intense and good looking, so I'm going to be good for this. So I can pull off this crazy haircut. The back cut. With the back cut with the phrase. So yeah. They modeled the logo after him.

I'm sitting on a, that's the only guy in the movie that has it. He looks close enough to it while. Although this movie really represents like Cleveland as like punk town a lot. Like in that last game when they're showing the bar, like what? That bar was wild. Wild bar. I don't know over there. Highcore punkers, too.

Not like, yeah, they don't just half-time their punkering is. They are full-time punkers. They kind of dealt with like, mash on stage of the 80s to like, you know, the sick or something. Like,

name of 80s punkers. Molly crew? Yeah, sure. They were even probably like too soft or whatever we were talking about. Yeah. No, I'm trying to go to the 80s.

It doesn't matter. It doesn't matter. It fucking, but like, but like, yeah, Charlie Sheen is like the best of that, which actually I think, this movie really makes Charlie Sheen.

scene, I think. Like, this set him up. This is one of his early movies. And, like, he plays the wild thing so well that really, like, set him off on a launching pad, which I watched entirely just seen documentary recently. The issue that happened in this guy's life is just anything, any fuck up he did just, like, falls into his place. Like, his very first movie role, he showed up to Ferris Bueller.

He was like an hour late because he was up all night. And it just looked like exactly what he wanted to do it? Yeah, yeah. And he's like, oh, it's trying to method act. And the director was just like, oh, it's fine. And then, like, this movie, like, he was fucked up. her out, like partying out. And they were all just like, yeah, yeah.

Yeah, yeah. He was like, oh, trying to get into character. I guess he and that manager, this will shock you. We're like partying together late. Like you imagine those guys having like a beard. Like a beard manager? Yeah, yeah. I imagine those guys having a lot of late night drinks to like four in the morning.

You know what I mean? Everybody just always let him get away with his bullshit because they're like, I don't know, I like his combination of confused and strict intensity look. But, yeah. That makes him the wild thing. So he, then as she leaves after they got done doing, doing her thing he finds out she walks out and then the catcher is there again and he's just like she's like by what's his name again was he living with jake taylor i think they were just roomies for that

thing but they had a refrigerator i don't know what was happening like they're like you guys can't afford your own place i don't know the major league like i know you make a league minimum but like it's still got to be like brady good there i think they were rooming together in the same hotel but it was a refrigerator there i can't yeah yeah but it looked like it was like a lived in jake taylor sits there she goes hey jake and she walks out and he's like oh yeah just laying all the seeds for like So he's like, too, I didn't know it was her, right? Yeah. Okay.

And then shoot to the game. She just before the game. She lets her husband know. She goes, I got something to tell you. And he's like, oh, shit. Dorn comes into this game, knowing that Vaughn had just slammed it out of his wife. And we're about to get into 20 minutes, but I'm going to get to a little early with this part. He absolutely plays a stellar damn near MVP status.

Dorn is the most locked in we see him over a two movies span. The rest of the movie, he's got like a cavalier. I don't give a fuck. I got my finances shit that I got. Which, by the way, when Jake goes to visit his house. Did you notice? Yeah, yeah. Did you notice what was on his TV?

It was like the most 90s fucking or 80s finance TV. It was just like some nerd talking and it said like finances on the TV. And he was like looking at it on that like 80s, the big ass 80s TV screen. I got a great finance guy you could talk. Yeah, yeah. Classic, man. So yeah, he comes to this game. You cannot get nothing past him at third.

They're down in the seventh. He hits a perfect single to get back on base. He's locked in. He comes firing into that game like Russell Westbrook And when like he's got like a game on the line And the media's been calling him out. You know how Westbrook just suddenly shows up all like Like he's pissed off.

Yeah, like he's pissed off. And like that's who Dorn is at this moment. And like he plays the best game of his life right then. Like maybe your wife should have been pulling this shit on you fucking years ago, you know? I can be an all star. Even to the point where Vaughn comes into the one time? You think I can't feel?

You think I can't feel? Watch this. Watch this. gonna hit balls i mean tell me i can't feel no wild thing comes in to pitch to the guy that's been slamming him the two home runs on him and he goes strike this fucking guy out like there's no drama no nothing we're in he's locked in by the way for years i realized as i watched this earlier i always watched this when it was on like cable or something and there's like two main scenes first of all there's a lot of like cussing in this movie that would just like surround out from the dugout when he like throws at jag and

he's like bring that shit to me You know. You know. Yeah, yeah. There's a lot of that that I always miss, but that scene always frustrated me before because he runs out to Ricky and he's just like, cut through the crap, ball. I only got one thing to say to you.

Strike this motherfucker out. Strike this motherfucker out. And he, like, gives him the ball back. And when you watch it on TV, he just goes, strike him out. And I was just like, I never realized that that wasn't what he said until I saw it earlier. I was like, oh, yeah. That's way more. That's exactly.

now. That's the steely-eyed lock-in door and I've been seen all day. I feel like he could have said a little bit better there. And the other one is when they take the Rachel Phelps cutout in the locker room and they start stripping off things, which, by the way, getting a whole cutout of, like, your owner in the locker room than days before internet? Epic. Tough task. Yeah, where was that laying out? Like, nowadays, it'd be easy. Like, just print it out and, like, get it on a cardboard.

How's the printer okay with it? Why was there just a cardboard cut? I guess she was like a Vegas showgirl before. Like, maybe they could have tracked that down. from Vegas. Hard lift to do though, but like, yeah, so they're stripping off like pieces of closing from her. And in the TV one, they take off the top one and they never showed it. They just go to the team like, oh.

And I always wondered like, wait, did they like, sure. Oh yeah, she fully had this. But no, they're like, they're like, yeah, they're like pasty things going on. And then at the end, finally he gets him back with it as they win, he gives him one punch in the face. Which by the way, nobody reacts around him at all. No, no, that's, well, everybody got to do. All these fans are around and he just comes up and he's like, ah, ah, and he's by.

And all the fans are still just like, yeah, but he picks it back up and they both celebrate together. It was like, I kind of deserved it. I was cheating, so I'll give you the one punch. You deserved it. I feel like that would have made the Sports Center highlights, you know. I think they would have- They definitely would have zoomed in. That would have been taking, nowadays, they'd be like leading off first take with that.

Like, did anybody see Roger Dore knock out his teammate? Should we be talking about this? Is there? Is there beef in the Indians locker room? Like, it would be a hotly discussed thing. But then they hug right after. So no, he picks them up. And he's like, no, we're good.

And none of the fans seem to care. Just to, like, go back a step. Getting into that game, I love the montage. Anytime, any movie that does, like, a montage should be like, like, there's that classic scene when Coach Lou tells him that, like, what the owner's up to, what Rachel's up to and how she wants them to all, like, suck. And, like, that's why she wants to move the team. And Jake lands that perfect line where he's just like, guess there's only one thing to do,

win the whole fucking thing. Yeah. Yes. I feel like a lot of players have used that over the years. And by the way, Rachel, just coming in the locker room, just feeling free to just, like, sexually harassed all the players. Slapping Serrano's ass. Just like, checking the cup of Vaughn. Knocking on Vaughn's dick like that.

Like, just walking in, having a field day. Coach doesn't care. His slong is out. He's just, I ain't going into a locker. He's just Donald ducking it. Yeah. That is the end of the cheating scenes. Okay.

So now we are going to get into these final 20 minutes. They've gone through the... What? I just want to say about the montage. Like, I love a good... All right, now we're turning around and winning montage. Here's what this movie's missing, though. This movie really could have used, like, just a few more bangers in it

because there's really, like, no music other than the wild thing, obviously. And then it's the same, like, Randy Newman's song always, like, about Cleveland, which I don't know how Randy Newman always has these movies where he has these songs that seem like they're so, like, perfectly built for the movie because he probably wrote him for him, I guess. Probably. He has this song, the whole, like, sad song about Cleveland that just keeps playing. It plays at the beginning. It plays throughout.

You know what it actually reminded me of? Remember when we did, I Love L.A., like, probably like a year and a half ago? Yes. The first, like, 30 seconds of I Love L.A. It's just this really sad, like, slow song before it's like, boom. Da, da, da, da, da, da, da, da, da, before it gets all fun. That's this song. That's, like, his version of I Love L.A.

is just the sad, slow part of I Love LA. That's his I Love Cleveland song. Gotcha. So other than that, though, the whole rest of this movie is just generic synth hype music, like, from the 80s. The whole montage and the game and all this, like, it's just very generic music. And I feel like this song, like, think about Little Big League in that movie. When they do their montage, they do the whole thing to run around Sue. How much more effective and exciting and fun was that montage compared to this movie?

That being said, let's get to the final game because I do think that this movie has a case to be made for like the best big game scene of any baseball movie. What do you think? I'm with you. I'm with you. Even even with it being zero, zero through six innings. That's how these games always go in the big games. There was some plays. There was a pickoff. Taylor throws a guy off at first.

Guns him down. Guns him down. Willie May's. Hays catches an almost home run over the fence, snags it. That's what he does. That's the Kenny Lofton in him, you know? Kenny Lofton before Lofton was a thing. I feel like there's another one I'm missing, but just just, just constant like, oh,

and the way they keep it going, it's like, oh, this is high energy. Yeah. The whole last 20 minutes you're into it. You're into it. And you know you're supposed to dislike the Yankees because they got guys like that Clue Haywood, like that's their big power hitter. Yeah. Every movie, especially in this era, has the bad.

guy team with the main bad guy hitter that they all have the same look they're big white guys with like a goate with a tobacco spitting tobacco out like remember that guy in like rookie the year that like giant guy in the meds who just like way what are you girl cried to your mom it's like this guy's brother yeah oh i forgot one of the scenes serrano continuously striking out swinging at curve balls and just yeah because job who's not working no was not working man so it ends up being the seventh inning here comes locked in dorn leading off with a single, you know. No, no, they went down by two with a,

I think it was a home run that happened in the inning before. And then right after that, the energy dies in this thing. They're like, oh, I'm sad. They're worried. It's dangerous. They're out two outs in the seventh. They're like, oh, my goodness, we're probably going to lose this thing. And as Castle was staying, Doran's comes to the plate.

Baseball teaches you you do not give up until there's three out tonight. Especially we're just down two out of nothing. You know what I mean? Yes, Doron comes up, it's two nothing's nothing. Yeah, I agree. Dorn comes up, hits a nice. All you need is one crack at a bat. Base sit down the left, gets on the first base and does his little clap, like,

where'd you get a bat from? Come on, baby. He's like for the big game, dude, I got a bat now. It's a perfect down to third base. This is like when we did any given Sunday, and all of a sudden you had a football helmet on for the big game discussion there. It's just how Justin does it. And then here comes Serrano.

Serrano, who's been striking out all game. And he's ready to ditch Jobu. You know, he's like, by the second strike, he's like, you know what? If you don't help me now, Jobu, I say, fuck you, Joe Bu, I do it myself. And Joe Bo's like, say no more. Look, I go to you. I stick up for you. You know, help me now.

I do it myself. Here's the pitch to Serrano. He swings and drives you to be playing. And by the way, he fucking cracks that pitch. I'm pretty sure he actually hit that ball out of the stadium. I think he went over the stadium. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah.

Dude, do you know who that actor is? Like, where you see him? men now. No. That's Dennis Haysbert. He's the guy who's always in those like one of those insurance company commercials. Oh yes, yes, yes. He always just comes in and he's like, are you in good hands? Yeah, that was the Allstate. Allstate. He found a second life career as just the Allstate guy. He was just like, Ruin Good Hounds and at Serrano, you know? Oh, man. And high energy, it's going. They get two outs and it's time. By the way, the pitcher, the old pitcher, pitcher, pitched nine innings. That's just how baseball was back in the day. They used to just throw.

Throw the starter out there until their arm was dangling by a lint. And so they were just noodle arm and they were like, all right. I could throw one more. And they were like, no, we'll get this one out for you. Throw whatever piece of junk I can at him. Yeah. I got one more. He was like, no, are you done?

That guy always bothered me as a kid. I was like, everybody else in this movie on the team looks so cool. This guy looks like he sucks. He looks like an older version of old Billy Bob Thornton. That's exactly what I thought. And then he also messed up with Jobu by taking Joe Boo's rum shot. No one drinks Joe Boo's boo. Drake it and then immediately gets slammed by a bat in the back of the head crazy.

Don't fuck what Joe was wrong. Surrano tried to tell him. So anyway, he pitches nine and two-thirds innings. Yeah. Take him out. It's time for Vaughn to come in. Vaughn comes in. Vaughn comes in.

What a shitty time to bring in Vaughn considering the fact that there's only one better left, and it's the guy who Harry Doyle says he's hit two home runs off him. Yeah, but he said he had a hunch. I know he hasn't done well against him, but I got a hunch. That used, that was managing back in the 80s. It was just like, I'm just going to play my hunch. Nowadays, they got all these, like, analytic teams. They got binders.

They got immediate, like, video to, like, show you. This is what this guy's doing. He's doing. They got some teams have a fucking literal cameraman in the outfield hitting trash cans. Fuck you, Astros. Yeah, Astros. Literally, like, yeah. You especially Astros.

But 80s management was just like, I'm playing my hunch. I got a feeling he's due. And throws a 97. Wait a second. A 99. You're glossing over the vein. Did this movie introduce closer and entrance themes. I think so.

Because Wild Thing comes out. Wild Thing as a song is perfect for an engine song specifically for that. Any song you're going to have is your entrance theme. It's all about how it kicks in. Is it going to do something that's going to get people hype? Like now, Edwin Diaz has the most famous one because he's got the trumpet that's like, like, like just something that immediately when they hear that, everybody hears it, they're like, oh, here we go. The wild thing, theme hits, he comes marching out of the dugout. It hits him with this.

And the crowd goes absolutely bonkers, everybody. And they all know it. Wow, Dad. And I love that scene, too. It captures Cleveland Municipal, where my mom worked in high school. And I went as just a little kid, I remember going there one time. Cleveland's sad stadium, which used to house both the Browns and the Indians. And I do love how this whole movie captures both.

ends of the spectrum of like when you come into a season and you because there's nothing sadder than a baseball stadium for a team that everybody just knows is going to be shit right away have you ever been on a baseball stadium when it's like empty and it's like opening week and then there's literally like a couple hundred fans and because those stadiums are so big and there's so many games nothing quite captures the sadness of like a struggling franchise like a baseball stadium when it's just like quiet there's like a few fans yeah you're like who you almost hear talking Yeah, you hear that one. You could call exactly where that one clap came from.

Yeah, yeah. And that's why somebody could all just be like, ain't shit, born! He's going to hear it, dude. You know what I mean? But then we do the full circle. And again, I love the Cleveland aspect of this movie. The way they're showing throughout the montage,

the fans keep getting more hyped. They're all talking about, I think they're pretty good now. You know, where they started with like, who the fuck are these guys? The four Indians that were there at the beginning that we were there, They were like too high. That's too high.

Yeah, my favorite line from this thing. Those four who were by themselves up there. They were there from day one. Day one. Those guys deserve season tickets next season. Anyway, they come back and they're just surrounded by everyone.

Yeah. Surrounded by their crowd. They're loving life. They always go back to like the Asian guys that work there. They're like speaking to like Japanese or something. And I love in when the wild thing and everybody's like singing, wild thing. And then when they show those guys,

they translate them. They put the captions on the screen for them too. It says wild things. But here he comes. Vaughn's ready to like unload. And I don't understand why. So now he's got Clue Haywood up. The guy who owns him,

why is Jake Taylor feel so confident to tell him what pitch is coming every time? Like, I don't know. That's such a solid game plan. That's the first of two questionable decisions that he would make in this game. But before I get to that, I want to just point out,

I never really fully put it together. But Hambino in Sandlot, another movie we've already covered, he learned from the under the tree of Jake Taylor when that earlier the game when he's like talking shit to the batter and he's like oh I'll get him he's like don't worry about that I'll get him to swing and it's like early in the movie where he talks about the woman yeah he's like what I understand

is why were her panties on his face oh you got a chance to be a hero on national television if you don't blow it by the way I saw your wife at the free lounge last night I'm the dancer you must be very very proud that guy she was with I mean I'm sure he's a close personal front and all But tell me, what was he doing wearing her panties on his head? Swung on and popped up. Oh, Rexie, I don't think this one's got the distance.

He does it actually way better than Hambino. As good as Hambino was at being the shit-talking catcher. Oh, I don't think this one's going to get enough here. But yes, man, you got him. It's so much more fierce when you're doing with the bat. I don't know where the bat came from, but I'm happy you have it. Those a 97-mile-hour pitch to start. Everybody's stoked.

Which really meant something in 1989. But now that's just like part for the course You better throw that Every motherfucker could throw it. Those a 99 for the second pitch And it's blowing past him They guys pissed They guys like I'm gonna get this motherfucker

He says I wonder So many pitches in my bag Which one should I throw now And then hits him with the fastball Keeps throwing the old number one down Flies in Flizen 101 miles an hour

Strikes out the guy that's hit him twice We are at the bottom of the night If there's one moment in this movie That absolutely I think like nails, excitement of October baseball when you get that like big out, big moment, like that how it feels is that moment when you get out of a gym, you lock them in, you got the bottom of the ninth coming up. The energy when you're in a stadium at that moment is palpable.

Yeah. I think it was bases loaded at that point. I think that's why they brought him in. That's right, because it was a guy at third and second. Yeah. And then they walked, he walked the guy to get him at first, bases loaded, two outs. And their best hitter comes up. You throw the guy that's been getting beat by him.

and he strikes you out. Oh, man. Injected into my blood. That's when baseball is just right at its best right there. You know, and you're like, let's go. We got him. And are you ready, Cleveland? We go to the Indian night.

Still tired at two. Can you believe this, Bonnie? So then they go to the bottom of the nine. Willie Mays Hayes gets up. Forget how they get two outs. They get two out somehow. Willie Mays Hayes is up. He gets on.

Gets a base hit. Steals first, still second. Of course. Smooth, close play. He's got 90 black gloves on the wall, which I'm sure doesn't look odd to anybody that walks. This guy fucking OJ. Still second. This guy Ojoying it over here?

Like, what's the deal with this guy's bedroom? And then you get Jake Taylor. Why would Jake Taylor be batting after Willie Bays, by the way? It must be consistent here. I don't know. He's got no knees. Like, why is he betting second of your lap? Nowadays, that's for the best.

A little weird, but he's there. Odd form of lineup outside of the fact that this is what the movie wants to have, like, from biggest start to next. star in the rotation. I forget what the first pitch is, but it's nothing the first pitch. Second pitch, he decides to tell. Oh, wait. I forgot that after they have like two outs and then he gets one, oh, the guy before

Willie Mays Hayes almost hits it to the wall. And then Harry Doyle's like, hey, he's got to waste no more time. He's going right to the Duke. And it's like, the Duke is your closer. Why did he not start the inning? He did waste time. He wasted a lot of time bringing in. And he said, boo.

And he says he leads the league and saves. and he threw at his own kid at a father's son game. So, yeah, you should have started the inning with him. Like, you know, you're lucky you got away with it. And actually, as soon as the Duke comes in, things just start going pair for them, to be honest. Immediately. Yeah. They got Jake Taylor comes up.

He gets a pitch, and then he points, does the point. He does the whole baby. He does a signal to those guys. He's like, oh, what a great idea. They love the bad. What a great idea. Yeah, that's a great. Which it wasn't.

It really wasn't a good idea. No, we'll tell you what it wasn't the second. But, yeah, movies back then really love doing the sign thing. I don't even know how much they do signs anymore. I feel like maybe I just don't know much about, like, actual playing baseball these days. But I feel like that was a thing back in the day. Willie Mays Hayes just real quick. Like, I got it.

Yeah, I read the sign. They all like that. So he's at second. He's leading off. And then, oh, yes. And then what happens? So now we got a runner at Willie Mays at second. Second.

Two outs. Jake Taylor does the point. He does the Babe Ruth. This has been done since 1935. And then it is why. The Duke, rightfully, gives him a little chin music. That's exactly what would happen. Which, by the way, shouldn't have Jake just took that and got hit?

I was if the strategy was we want to get two on because like the next guy's up. Which would be your third batter. Arguably, and you know like the guy who's pitching is a hot head, like the guy you throw at his own son and a father's son game. Like not a bad strategy to be like, watch this. I'm going to get on base and just point and then he's going to be like, oh fuck this guy. And then get hit and then just get take it. And they know he got two on. He moves.

Not a, if that was a strategy, not a bad strategy. But it's not the strategy. And then points again. She points it it again. Refusing to dust himself off. Refusing dusting. And then does what they had just called and decides to do the... No, I'm going to bunt.

Bunt. With bad knees. With his, like, no cartilage left in his knees. Like, the game plan with the whole season of line is our slowest runner to catch a with no one. Which does go to the third basement because he's ready back off. So I get that. If there's one thing, you're catching him off guard, I'll give him that.

But still, like, any Major League out field, infield is should be able to, like, feel that relatively easily. months and then he's struggling to first. I mean, he's just, that's the last run through first he's had in his whole career. Willie Mays decides to, it was already stealing third as the play is happening, rounds third. After stealing second on this crazy bunt by Jay Taylor, who has, again, we said no knees. Once again, total Kenny Lofton vibes. I've watched him do it when he steals that extra base at home.

One of my favorite Indians plays of all time. Ball gets away from the catcher against Seattle Mariners, 95 ALCS. He's like, no, fuck this. I'm going to grab. And he steals home. Only a fast guy's trying this, which he is. He's Willie Mace, right?

So Jake Taylor's running the first, struggling. Just, and the throw is late. And he immediately hits first and falls. And he's dead. And he's just done. Knees just go from under him. Yeah. First base realizes that Willie Maze is already halfway down the line,

throws it to home. Again, this is all happening in sequence, and you're on the edge of your seat watching this. Like, oh my God, this is the greatest. Great final sequence. This is the great movie ever. And Willie Mayes doesn't even get it with his foot or his lead hand. He waits for his back foot to slide.

The hook slide. The hook slide in his back foot slams. Save. End of season. Tribe are in the playoffs. And just like they predicted five years later, Tribe went on a run. And here's what I love about how this game handles like, though, the big game. They give you the two big moments, because it's all.

always like what would be better way to end the game like an intense moment where your pitcher does something maybe somebody hits a home run they gave you two big moments your big pitcher hits up their big hitter and then your other like main characters like team up to make like a crazy play happen that's a little a little trick playish and uh we get to finish with everybody gathering around lynn who nobody else on the team probably knows really no who else on the team even knows what she is they're like sure fuck it let's huddle around her is that the moby dick girl like yeah yeah he's that who he's reading Moby Dick for? I don't know.

Yeah, exactly. Great finish to the game. Great. And again, and you would agree, a single playoff game is almost as good as a game seven. Like one game playoff? One game playoff. Oh, it's thrilling. It's thrilling.

It's, it's, it only, the outcome is, whoever makes this gets into the playoffs. Epic. And you find out in Major League 2, which we may get into one of these years, not in the right away, but we may get into one of these steps. They don't actually win the World Series. They lose, I think, in the second round. That was their World Series. That was their world series.

And here's the thing with sports. Sometimes, like, you take those moments. It's really hard to win championships. Yes. You got to, like, just take those, like, great moments. I hate when sports fans are always just like, if you don't win the championship, the whole season's a bus. No, that was an epic win.

They gave you that moment. You're going to remember that moment for the- Indians lost the 95 World Series and 97 World Series. But those two series, especially the 95, because that one was first, really is, like, what made me a baseball fan in the first place? Because that whole series was thrilling. You know what I mean? So.

Were they going against Maddox and Glamvin and all that? Yeah. Yeah, that, and John Smolts, yeah. Wow, what a squad. That 95 Braves rotation was nasty pitching rotation. All right, so we're almost done. So this is when I like to clean off the note sheet. Where you go through my final notes that I might have missed.

Which player do you think could most likely fly as a real MLB player? Serrano. It's got to be Serrano, right? See the way that guy crushed the ball. Once he fix your out curveball, but he's slamming me. He's smashing. Yeah. In a four-way tournament, who wins the Indians,

from this movie, Angels from Angels in the Outfield, the Twins in Little Big League, or the kids from the Sandlot? Got to give to the... That twins team is pretty good. I would go to the Twins team, because those guys were actually, like, major league. A lot of them, like, actually had to be in that movie, you actually had to have a baseball background.

And they were never, like, a shitty team in that movie. All the other ones started from, like, this team actually sucks, except for the Sandlot. I'm giving it to the Indians because I'm an Indians fan. Let's go. That's ultimately who I'd end up pulling forward. That happened. Just a bit outside.

Just a bit outside. By the way, real quick, what I want to say is when Vaughn was pitching at the beginning, and they're like, all right, Vaughn, we heard you got along to see what you can do. You'll notice, real quick, you could probably pull a scene up. The sign that he's about to break on the pitch initially is on the coach's right-hand shoulder. And then when he pitches it, it just happens to be directly in the middle. Interesting. Crazy little fine to mess up.

I was like, wait a minute, what? Check that out while you're watching. Little mess up I found This is the second sports movie we've done Where a player randomly has a reptile in the locker room Because we also did any given Sunday Beastman had an alligator He just brought it out of nowhere

In this one Well Serrano has a snake And he's like putting it on us He was about to bring a chicken and kill a live chicken But instead Good call And that's another thing I want to bring in The marketing in this movie

They had KFC They stopped the entire movie to do a American Express scene. Has there ever been a better American Express commercial that? I don't think so, man. Like, it's so much better than having, like, Jennifer Gardner or whatever, do her thing that probably costs way more.

They should just use that commercial now, that exact video, and it would play. I think there was one other one I'm missing, but they, I think they got a lot of this movie paid for through advertisements. Never steal home without it. Well, when they're in the, uh, the practice league in the spring training, there's ads all over the wall.

You know what I mean? They did what they were doing. They found money through marketing initially. But the American Express thing is funny because it literally just stops the movie for about a minute. Hello. You know what? But since we haven't won a pennant in over 30 years, nobody recognizes us. Not even in our own hometown.

That's why we carry the American Express card. The matter how far out of first we are, it's cool. You know, it keeps us from getting shut out at our favorite hotels and restaurant-type places. So you're looking for some big league clock. apply for that little green home run heater. Look what it's done for us. People still don't recognize us, but... We're contenders now.

The American Express card. Don't steal home without it. Never steal home without it. The whole making the team take a charter blight from like the 70s should have just resulted in the biggest horrific accident in like sports history. The guy is taping the blade. He's taping up with like duct tape. It's like, all right, if you want to make.

make them like sleep on cots that's one thing but you're gonna you your plan is to just kill the whole team now that thing was like flying through a thunderstorm i looked it up it's from 1962 was that plane was from crazy yeah why did it already have the logo on it that looked like it had been in service for years like is that what they used to that was the world series team the last time the indians won back in like nineteen to forty nine that's when that plane was made yes yeah yeah oh and then when they're on the bus and they're like looking at the random like magazines they're talking good snapshot of what life was like before phones. Actually, you used to have to like come with like a magazine.

And like, is that one about detectives stuff? Hey, Vaughn, crime is punishment. This is a good one for you? Is that a mystery? Yeah. That's just how he used to do it, kids. He's just had to like read a fucking magazine. Yeah.

No scrolling. I'll trade you song of high waffle for the deer's league. Nah, I'm not in the song of high a waffle. Edgehead. I think I got one here that's right up your alley. Crime and punishment? You got a detective store? Here, get a couple scenes with you in the bat.

I look good over there. There you go. There you go. Even though you're not lefty, I like it. I know. Good play. Good call. There go, it looks good.

You got a good look to you. I bet you had a good baseball card when you were a kid, didn't you? They never did the baseball card. You never did the baseball card? No. They never did that. I always wanted to. And if I did, I was always like, you know, it would be cool.

Can they take us doing action shots? Because I always hated how any time it was picture day for like soccer or baseball or whatever, they'd be like, everybody was just this. Or like soccer. It was just me with the soccer ball. And everybody's picture was that. I was like, I want a picture of like me kicking a boot and a ball. They had me and a little dodger.

Can you get like a, yeah, a guy shot of like me like hitting a single like loined? Me and a little dodger, a big smile. Yeah, yeah. And then I showed in the back of my card. I gave me my stats and I was an angel fan apparently. And my favorite player of all time was my dad. Was he a player? I never seen my dad play baseball.

I don't know how I named that. Did he fill that up for you? Yeah, it might have been. It was actually your call. I don't think I knew a player at that point. I think that's what it was. I was seven and I was like, I don't really know any real players. So I'm just saying my dad and make him happy.

Love you, Dad. And then he maybe won't make me like... I think I said something about you in the last one. Clean shit up. I love you. And thank you. He would make you clean stuff up if like you weren't out playing. Yeah, but not anymore.

He was a great baseball player. All right. Cool. He was a great. All right. Okay. Last note. Oh, real quick with that, real quick with my dad.

Yeah. My dad made me a phenomenal baseball player because at the age of seven and he'll say this to this day, he should not have been doing this. He was throwing the ball from 20 feet away at full speed. Like my dad could play. You know, he know how to throw the ball. And I shit you not. He was lifting his leg and launching it at full speed.

And when I was six and seven and I was still catching and just throwing it right back. Like, I got you. But the fact that he was throwing 100, I don't know, not 100, but probably 60 mile an hour throws to his seven-year-old son. And I was snagging him. Kind of give me some credit. My battery's going to go out soon. Wanted you to be a champion? All right, last call.

The way the fans used to storm the field back then was nuts. Like everybody was on the field like immediately after the game. They used to just do that in the 70s. Isn't there a Yankee that ran off the field and started like bulldozing people? Okay, I watched that game on ESPN classics. It was so easy to see coming because like literally as the Latshouse were happening, the fans around Yankee Stadium were already like sitting on the wall, just like ready to jump in. Like they were so cavalier about it back then.

And then yeah, the fans stormed the field. And that was like their guy. He couldn't even finish the bases. Reggie Jackson, right? Yeah, it was like Thurman Munson or something. And he starts just being like, all right, fuck this. I'm out of here. It might have been Reggie Jackson.

I don't know. And then, like, yeah, they just had to bail on the game. Like, dangerous thing. You still see that with, like, college basketball sometimes today. Like, just the way fans storm the court, like, immediately after. Like, that's, I think that's an area where we could probably, like, get a little bit out of sports. But there is this one moment where this fucking dirt in that final moment, who's wearing the most insane horizontal striped colors set up with, like, bright red shorts. Who's just like this.

And he's just looking for somebody to high five. and like nobody this is my version of you pointing out the guy in the green at the end of Greece. Like I saw him and I was like, I was like lean out of Cappi or meeting it.

I was like, look at this guy. Yeah. Look at this guy. Look at this guy. Look at nobody wants to shake his hand. I think we've rounded the bases on our first ever baseball. Go Indians.

I miss you. Bring them back. I heard they might bring them back too, which would be epic. If they do, it would be awesome. Bring back the Indians and then awesome major.

league love you guys love that movie go see it it's hilarious especially if you haven't seen it a long time it's one of those movies you see again you're like oh my god this is epic so and remember don't fuck with Joe who's room next