Major League 2 is also a treasured repository of quotes for my brother and a few friends. I think we saw it young enough to not know it wasn’t good. To this day, every fly ball that comes off a Tigers opponent’s bat is “too high.”
I know that this sounds cliche because every few years it's "the kids are gonna save us", but I genuinely feel like society is starting to turn a little bit. Kids today are engaged in improving the world we live in. Directly.
Maybe it's because boomers are aging out, or social media has made it hard for the powers that be to control the narrative, or maybe it's a conflagration of all three of these.
I'm choosing to be hopeful today. Maybe that changes tomorrow, or even later today, but for now, I'm hopeful.
Why is it that sports movies about Cleveland teams offer such hope to the viewer? I agree with your entire premise and that's sort of why I think Ted Lasso was so successful. It looked reality in its face (albeit with some Hollywood magic) and made us believe and gave us someone to hope for and in a human-esque way where it wasn't some sort of "super" individual, but enough of reality that you could see or understand where Ted was with all his flaws and his belief that he could make a better place.
I think the best tweet I saw was about political reporters freaking out and someone said, "if you're a college sports fan this isn't new. we've all seen a mid-year head coach firing." And it made me laugh.
Major League 2 does a good many things wrong, but I appreciate a sports movie with relatively low stakes: they’re not winning the World Series or a galactic baseball game with humanity on the line (though it’s an obvious sequel opportunity for the Randy Quaid Cinematic Universe, merging the Major League and Independence Day plotlines)
Sports in general treat anything but a title as FAILURE and I miss good enough being good enough on occasion
I have never seen it and will never see it, and I'd like to pretend that's because I'm a learned cinephile and not because I was mad they changed from Cleveland to the Twins organization for that movie.
"Fuck those guys" can be an ethos.
seems like a good time for Jeff Rosenstock (there is never a bad time)
https://jeffrosenstock.bandcamp.com/track/graveyard-song
"expect the worst out of humanity and rarely will you be disappointed" tends to be my waking state.
[smacks you with ballcap]
My wife eloquently put the events of the last 24 hours as “it feels like Marty just grabbed the Grays Sports Almanac back from Biff”
I like this.
Graduated college in 2007 🙃🙃 if you graduated high school like 200-2005 you are not okay
it's wild when I occasionally see Gen Z memes about how "high school in 2003 looked so chill" like WHAT ON EARTH are you talking about
not that high school is chill now but anything post-Columbine is not to be nostalgized
Fun fact that you may or may not have known: the Cleveland Indians were one Game 7 rain delay away from winning the 2016 World Series.
Bonus fun fact: the Chicago Cubs won the 2016 World Series after being down three games to one against the AL's Cleveland Indians.
Roughly one week later, Donald Trump won the presidency. Is it fair to blame that on the Chicago Cubs? I say yes.
Im glad someone else looks at teams and wonder what their fans "sacrificed" for them to win a championship.
You have a disgusting sense of fun. You probably enjoy root canals.
Thanks for this one
Major League 2 is also a treasured repository of quotes for my brother and a few friends. I think we saw it young enough to not know it wasn’t good. To this day, every fly ball that comes off a Tigers opponent’s bat is “too high.”
I'm really proud of the youths of today.
I know that this sounds cliche because every few years it's "the kids are gonna save us", but I genuinely feel like society is starting to turn a little bit. Kids today are engaged in improving the world we live in. Directly.
Maybe it's because boomers are aging out, or social media has made it hard for the powers that be to control the narrative, or maybe it's a conflagration of all three of these.
I'm choosing to be hopeful today. Maybe that changes tomorrow, or even later today, but for now, I'm hopeful.
the kids are alright, agreed
Why is it that sports movies about Cleveland teams offer such hope to the viewer? I agree with your entire premise and that's sort of why I think Ted Lasso was so successful. It looked reality in its face (albeit with some Hollywood magic) and made us believe and gave us someone to hope for and in a human-esque way where it wasn't some sort of "super" individual, but enough of reality that you could see or understand where Ted was with all his flaws and his belief that he could make a better place.
I think the best tweet I saw was about political reporters freaking out and someone said, "if you're a college sports fan this isn't new. we've all seen a mid-year head coach firing." And it made me laugh.
Major League 2 does a good many things wrong, but I appreciate a sports movie with relatively low stakes: they’re not winning the World Series or a galactic baseball game with humanity on the line (though it’s an obvious sequel opportunity for the Randy Quaid Cinematic Universe, merging the Major League and Independence Day plotlines)
Sports in general treat anything but a title as FAILURE and I miss good enough being good enough on occasion
never seen Major League 2, but holy cow that is absolutely Baltimore
like Milwaukee County Stadium wasn't Cleveland Municipal, but they looked enough like each other that you could ignore it
Camden Yards does not look like Jacobs/Progressive Field
This optimism is how you end up with Major League 3: Bak(ula) to the Minors.
I have never seen it and will never see it, and I'd like to pretend that's because I'm a learned cinephile and not because I was mad they changed from Cleveland to the Twins organization for that movie.
see, my anecdotal experience is that I've seen WAY less Trump stuff this year.