Cool — 'The Rookie' is on ABC

[Oeditpus Rex]

The movie skipped some important parts from the book, but it's still a feel-gooder. :)

[reyd reid reed]

1. Always a favorite.

:hi:

[Oeditpus Rex]

4. Maybe it'll take my mind off Jonathan Fucking Broxton

x(

[reyd reid reed]

6. Tomorrow'll take care of that.

You'll find someone (or something) else to make you crazy.

[Oeditpus Rex]

7. The Dragon against Santana?

We ain't gonna score no runs. x(

[reyd reid reed]

10. He's a pitcher.

Means he throws the ball. In the direction of the plate.

He's good but he's human. He's 6-3 and his ERA's 3.41. He ain't unhittable.

[Oeditpus Rex]

12. Yeah, but

we don't score runs for the Dragon, as you found out on Tuesday.

[reyd reid reed]

13. So this time you will.

You'll see.

[Orrex]

2. The Charlie Sheen and Clint Eastwood film?

Raul Julia kicks ass! And how can you go wrong with Sonia Braga?

[Oeditpus Rex]

3. No, the Jim Morris biopic

Morris was a pitcher who blew out his arm in the minors, then came back to make the majors with Tampa Bay when he was 35, 10 years after "retiring."

[Orrex]

5. It would have been an even better film with Raul Julia

Too bad he had to go and die on us, and right after Street Fighter, no less!

[Oeditpus Rex]

8. How hard did he throw?

[Orrex]

9. He was good for 95 for three innings

But after that, he totally went to shit.

[Oeditpus Rex]

11. Figures

Ricans make crappy pitchers. Stick 'em all in the middle infield, I say.

[KitchenWitch]

14. I just got back from the Angel game and saw that it is on.

Angels did the whole bonus baseball thing tonight.

[Oeditpus Rex]

15. Least they won

Dodgers haven't done much of that lately. x(

[KitchenWitch]

16. Twins just dropped two to the f'in #%$kees

Tonight's was a bonus baseball game lost in the top of the 12th.

:banghead:

[KitchenWitch]

17. I love this part...

:cry:

:D

[Oeditpus Rex]

19. Me too

The whole movie's really about that one bit — when the manager tells him, and when he tells his wife and kid.

I just adore her reaction. :)

[SeattleGirl]

18. I love that movie.

Especially because it's about a real person.

[Oeditpus Rex]

20. If they made it up

it woulda been about a guy 73 or a kid 9. :D

[KitchenWitch]

21. Only thing I do not like about the movie is the exaggerated sound effect of him pitching the ball

The foley work was overdone.

[Oeditpus Rex]

22. I think they've done that in every baseball movie since 'Alibi Ike'

I hate it too. A good, tight fastball hisses a little bit, but it sure as hell doesn't go sssssssssSHOOOOM!

There's plenty o' stuff I don't like about the movie — mainly, that it completely skipped his first trip through the minors. I wouldn't expect them to go into any detail about it, but it needed at least a mention to explain the reason he was out of baseball for so long: he blew out his arm in the minors.

There're a lot of little things, too — you don't get an engraved name plate on a road locker, especially if you just came up; your name's written on a piece of tape. You don't get your mug shot on the message board when you just got to the show a few hours ago. And if you freeze-frame the DVD when he sticks the first news clipping about the high school team on the board, you notice the hed doesn't go with the story.

Also, Morris didn't strike out Clayton on three pitches; Clayton fouled off one. It seems like a little thing, but I bet it isn't to Royce Clayton, and it wouldn't have hurt the movie one damned bit to be factual about that.