Should I begin today's look at the Top 100 with a confession that I don't even like baseball? I can appreciate the sport. Heck, I can appreciate just about any sport, I just choose not to watch most of them. Baseball tops that list. And no, golf and tennis are not sports, they are pastimes.
Perhaps if baseball was simply as entertaining as it seems to be in the movies, I would be more interested.
I do know, that baseball movies are vastly more entertaining than just about any game I've ever watched.
So moving on to today's movie, we start with one of baseball's best: Major League.
The tale of the beleaguered Cleveland Indians, who are so bad, they're Cleveland. Well, apparently they have been so bad for so long, that the newly appointed owner can get out of their lease and move the team to a bigger market if they continue to be a lousy team.
Soooo...
She works long and hard to ensure that she gets her way, and cuts costs, players and does whatever it takes to make the team as awful as possible.
But a funny thing happens on the way to the ballpark...
With an on-field lineup of Tom Berenger, Corbin Bernsen, Charlie Sheen, and Wesley Snipes among the starting lineup, it's one classic gag after another as the team goes from bad, to awful, to wait just a minute...they're winning!
Despite, and to spite, everything that the owner throws their way... the Indians start to mesh into a real team and begin to thwart the plans of their evil owner.
The sequels never quite recapture the charm and magic of the original, but they are all worth a spin. You've definitely seen worse.
Especially if you've sat through any real baseball game.
Zing!!
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