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Yeah, Tanner's a shortstop.

I'll take the Rockfish and Reds.

And David makes a play more or less at shortstop while Doc gives his benediction.

Oh, right, work.

For Mookie-Buckner content, how about Game Six?

Bryce Harper with two homers in his first two 2013 at-bats.

Awesome Rey-O opening day flashback.

I never even knew cows had gills.

Byrd was looking more like a fisherman than a ballplayer there. Volquez gets him chasing two balls out of the zone and then hangs one over the plate for him, and it's 3-1 Mets.

Yup. Frank Stallone.

Running catch by Duda with men on base. Well done, Moose.

Ruben ripped a shot into the leftfield corner. Buck scored from first, heaving around third, but sent by Teufel anyhow with two out and the pitcher due up. As he slid in, Ruben went to third on the throw.

Buckie with the first hit.

I was under the impression that you put no stock in the draft.

I don't know who you're addressing, but any sarcasm I offer is not for you but for folks rubbing Willets nose in his team.

Fman99 wrote: I've never really been able to stand Bull Durham. I'm not much of a Kevin Costner fan, outside of A Perfect World, and I find the dialogue of this movie to just ring false. I consistently see it at the top of baseball movie lists and I don't get it, sorry. Yeah, I'm there also. The funny thing is that what folks credit it with is the exact opposite --- that it's really authentic. It seems so self-consciously authentic to me so as to be the opposite. Our ears are clearly hearing different things.

Representing in Baltimore.

June 1971, Rich Puig goes number 14 to the New York Mets. Other good players were available, but the team was hell bent on settling their third base problem once and for all. Numbers 29 and 30, respectively, were George Brett and Mike Schmidt. All the dudes taken in that first round while the two greatest thirdbasemen ever cooled their heels. Pick #GuyTeamPos.Source1Danny GoodwinChicago White SoxCPeoria Central (Peoria,IL)2Jay FranklinSan Diego PadresPJames Madison (Vienna,VA)3Tommy BiancoMilwaukee BrewersSSSewanhaka (Elmont,NY)4Condredge HollowayMontreal ExposSSLee (Huntsville,AL)5Roy BranchKansas City RoyalsPWilliam Beaumont (St. Louis,MO)6Roy ThomasPhiladelphia PhilliesPLompoc (Lompoc,CA)7Roger QuirogaWashington Senators IIPBall (Galveston,TX)8Ed KurpielSt. Louis Cardinals1B-OFArchbishop Molloy (Jamaica,NY)9David SloanCleveland IndiansPSanta Clara (Santa Clara,CA)10Taylor DuncanAtlanta BravesSSGrant (Sacramento,CA)11Tom VeryzerDetroit TigersSSIslip (Islip,NY)12Neil RasmussenHouston AstrosSSArcadia (Arcadia,CA)13Frank TananaCalifornia AngelsPDetroit Catholic Central (Novi,MI)14Rich PuigNew York Mets2BHillsborough (Tampa,FL)15Jim RiceBoston Red SoxOFT.L. Hanna (Anderson,SC)16Jeff WehmeierChicago CubsPBrebeuf Jesuit Prep (Indianapolis,IN)17Sugar Bear DanielsOakland AthleticsPMacKenzie (Detroit,MI)18Frank RiccelliSan Francisco GiantsPChristian Brothers Academ (Syracuse,NY)19Terry WhitfieldNew York YankeesOFPalo Verde Valley (Blythe,CA)20Rick RhodenLos Angeles DodgersPAtlantic Community (Delray Beach,FL)21Dale SoderholmMinnesota TwinsSSCoral Park (Miami,FL)22Craig ReynoldsPittsburgh PiratesSSReagan (Houston,TX)23Randy SteinBaltimore OriolesPGanesha (Pomona,CA)24Mike MileyCincinnati RedsSSEast Jefferson (Metairie,LA)25Bill SharpChicago White SoxOFOhio State University26Bill BoyntonSan Diego PadresPSpringfield (Skowhegan,ME)27Larry AndersonMilwaukee BrewersPEl Rancho (Pico Rivera,CA)28Dan WarthenMontreal ExposPNorth (Omaha,NE)29George BrettKansas City RoyalsSSEl Segundo (El Segundo,CA)30Mike SchmidtPhiladelphia PhilliesSSOhio University

I didn't mean to say a baseball movie has the have a climactic game. I mean to say that a climax taking place within a game is an element of what qualifies a film as a baseball movie --- but not that it's a necessary element.

Naked Gun almost qualifies, as the climax is during a baseball game --- a key defining element of "sports movie" to me is whether the climax takes place on the playing field --- but I'd say no, as the protagonist wasn't a player.

Know what else is a good baseball movie, guys? He's Just Not That into You. You should catch it together. /Grabs crotch. /Spits contempuously. /Goes home to lonely apartment and pops open a can of Chef-Boyardee.

Vic Sage wrote: Not only is FEVER PITCH a charming romantic comedy, it's the only baseball movie that i can recall which speaks exclusively from the fan's point of view. Hey, to each her own, but just remember that this post will be reviewed when your man card is up for renewal.

If there's anything I'm less inclined to be charitable toward than Billy Crystal, director, it's Billy Crystal, director and Yankee fan. But *61 got it done, and I'd put it ahead of Fever Pitch and A League of Their Own, unless we're not counting movies that didn't get a theatrical release. (Ranking should be settled by votes, I think.)

Fever Pitch seemed pretty disposable. Top Portrayals of Babe Ruth: Babe Ruth: The Pride of the Yankees Joe Don Baker: The Natural (billed as "The Whammer") Wiliam Bendix: The Babe Ruth Story John Goodman: The Babe Art LaFleur: The Sandlot

What's amazing is how fast everything goes from being a church of hope to an asylum of the depraved. One paragraph from [list:1phekllz]"The bottom of the eighth inning was one of those beautiful baseball moments.... It was loud, World Series loud, and everyone was following the counts and it was great. ..." [/list:u:1phekllz] to [list:1phekllz]"A guy was wearing a Yankee jacket and a funny guy started giving him the business from a few rows away. "Yankees suck dick!" the guy shouted. The usher told him to can the profanity. And the guy said, "I said a bad thing. I'm sorry." Then he said things that were almost profane but not quite after that. Another guy started yelling at Rickey in the on deck circle. "You're old, Rickey! You can't do it anymore. Hall of Famers don't run, right, Rickey? Hall of Famers don't run!" Rickey shook his head and smiled. It got uglier thought when another heckler called him "boy." I wanted to kill that guy.[/list:u:1phekllz] I dunno how everything glorious and transcendent about the culture can constantly be teetering over a volcano of hateful madness like that, but it is. I don't know if it's always been that way, or if it's moreso in Queens than in other places. But if you think about it long enough, it's kind of terrifying.