Place your bets on the 36th edition of Scoring At The Movies. Or maybe just listen to it and don’t bet at all because gambling is what got these guys in trouble in the first place.
Eight Men Out is the authentic but somehow also fake-sounding dramatization of the fixed World Series from 100 years ago. Sometimes it feels just right and sometimes it feels like they want to jam all that old-timey straight down your piehole, whether you bushers want it jammed down there or not.
Chris sets the record straight about some of the facts of this era (especially about the Black Sox trial), while Ryan brings up an old pet peeve: the steroids v. gambling comparison. So get in your third-sacker stance (ugh) and hear our straight dope about John Sayles’ morose baseball picture.
Pedantry Alert: Bull Durham came out in mid-June 1988, so it was not REALLY released “in the spring”. Also, the 1920 White Sox roster was indeed mostly the same, but 1919 was the last season of Chick Gandil’s nine-year career. Also also, it’s more accurate to say that Babe Ruth hit more home runs by himself than most teams did in 1920 when he hit 54, not in 1919 when he hit 29.
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Ep. 91 - The Peanut Butter Falcon
Ep. 90 - The Way Back
Ep. 89 - Ali
Ep. 88 - Ace Ventura: Pet Detective
Ep. 87 - 61*
Ep. 86 - Battle of the Sexes
Ep. 85 - The Waterboy
Ep. 84 - The Running Man
Ep. 83 - Snatch
Ep. 82 - Without Limits
Ep. 81 - Ford v Ferrari
Ep. 80 - Lucas
Ep. 79 - Enter the Dragon
Ep. 78 - The Damned United
Ep. 77 - The Legend of Bagger Vance
Ep. 76 - Necessary Roughness
Ep. 75 - 42
Ep. 74 - Hardball
Ep. 73 - Glory Road
Ep. 72 - Fighting with my Family
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