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This performance is like when all the mutual are online at once

i’m going to be really honest with you guys i think the tendency to read the absolute worst possible intentions into every action you don’t agree with is getting too automatic and it’s eating you from the inside out

@nighthamcollege It's really interesting like... Even as a kid I always read the Blacksox scandal differently? One of my catchphrases has always been "Famous Son of a Bitch Charles Comiskey" and I didn't see Eight Men Out until like... 1996? Because it always seemed like desperate men doing desperate things, being taken advantage by sleazebags and given an outsized punishment, not to protect the "integrity of the game" but the ability to keep employees in line. Like I wasn't marching in Mayday as a yout but I couldn't help but notice that the most famous athletes in the country were getting paid in experience.

And! I could never get a read on what Shoeless Joe knew, and when he knew it, from any story I've read about the scandal. He's the most famous name but I'm not sure if he threw anything. His biggest crime was like... not snitching I believe?

It's such a great story and I'm glad it got Eight Men Out instead of like... a HBO movie from 2005 or something.

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According to Google, the Nesbit Motel of Dillsburg, Pennsylvania is permanently closed.

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I Love Trouble, Spanish lobby card. 1994 Submitted by @videorecord

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the third man (1949) gothic (1986) europa 41 (1952) besieged (1998) a private life (2025) the spiral staircase (1945) uzumaki (2000)

I also went through a list of American football movies, and that is a considerably easier list because half the movies look like this

Gotta get that average over 900 and today didn't help!

www.maptap.gg July 9 99🎯 98🎯 91👑 70😂 94🏅 Final score: 871

@nighthamcollege Christ you should see my face just thinking about it, I look like a Civil Rights leader photographed by Gordon Parks. Also like... I gotta imagine that there was more Black Sox conversations happening before like... 2005 then there are now. I grew up with +5 father figure types who'd look solemnly at the ground if Shoeless Joe Jackson's name was mentioned in conversation. "Best ballplayer there ever was, but he broke the one rule." *shakes head.

Also that movie is good. One of the best uses of golden hour lighting in film. It's both like, a relaxing memory of an afternoon baseball game from your childhood and a horrifying realization that night time is coming. Summer's almost over.

ballparksaroundtheworld

Ogren Park at Allegiance Field, Missoula, Montana, USA

Hey everybody its John Sayles wearing a shirt he got at K-Mart

#Youtube

@hughbot That makes sense! I wouldn't be surprised if that was apart of a retrospective on Kevin Costner though. I could only imagine Eight Men Out getting in with other Baseball movies or a serious retrospective of John Sayles work. He's got Matewan and Lonestar in there already so hope springs eternal.

@hughbot yo dawg, I don't know if there's any baseball movies in the CC which is YA KNOW kind of understandable. CC is going for more of an international flavor and a lot of World Baseball Classic teams have to fill out their rosters with guys from three different Orange counties. And, after a very thorough examination of every baseball movie ever made produced and released, ehhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh not a lot of good ones. I imagine the most popular baseball movie in countries that don't have much of a baseball presence is the Naked Fucking Gun.

I don't know how many baseball fans have even seen Eight Men Out, ya know? I'm just going by a representative sample of people at the baseball bar that destroyed my youth, where the topic of 'Best baseball movies ever made' was a constant topic of conversation. Even the people who knew about Eight Men Out, and liked Eight Men Out, aren't busting out Eight Men Out before Opening Day. Its a REAL bummer. A lot of Eight Men Out is a Kafka book. Shoeless Joe Jackson's arc is that he's a country bumpkin who doesn't understand what the fuck is going on.

GOD, I just remembered how that movie ends. Oh its fucking heartbreaking. "Those guys are all gone now." My heart aches!

So even if they start tossing in one or two it's going to be like the smiley happy worst to first ones, even if I think Eight Men Out fits more of a Criterion vibe than Movie Soma the Natural. That movie is about desperate hungry men doing anything for bread and being punished by a system that views them as property. That's like 60% of the Criterion Collection right there.

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Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978) dir. Philip Kaufman

OK, Bedtime for Bonzo. Before I leave, let me show you a tantalizing exchange from the Missing People in America community page.

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I think the story is that a Babe Ruth movie was in the 1940's equivalent of development hell. Babe wanted to star in it, because that guy was USDA certified Baltimore Ham, but like he also aged HARD. Then he started to get sick, and the studio realized they had to get the movie wrapped up quickly. It's like I tell people who complain about the state of modern filmmaking, there were hacks back then too! They were like "One kid, how about he saves TWO kids. And a DOG!"

OK, Wikipedia just answered the question, "Did Babe Ruth see this movie?" He did, kinda. He was actively dying, he attended the premier, his last public appearance, but was apparently so loaded up on drugs that he, according to his daughter, didn't realize what he was watching. Which is sad, cuz it would've been great watching him digest that version of his life. "I didn't fucking hit a dog, why is there a dog on the field? Why is that fucking kid on the field? What the fuck is this shit?"

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The Babe Ruth Story, as ludicrous as it is, still a better movie than The Babe, starring John Goodman. That movie was looooooooooooooooooooooong. Saw that in theaters, on a Sunday! I'm not sure if you've experienced the existential dread of seeing a bad movie the day before going back to school, but it's like you wasted precious TV and chilling time. And we had to wait for our parents to pick us up. FUUUUCK The Babe. I was angry at John Goodman for years.

I think the story is that a Babe Ruth movie was in the 1940's equivalent of development hell. Babe wanted to star in it, because that guy was USDA certified Baltimore Ham, but like he also aged HARD. Then he started to get sick, and the studio realized they had to get the movie wrapped up quickly. It's like I tell people who complain about the state of modern filmmaking, there were hacks back then too! They were like "One kid, how about he saves TWO kids. And a DOG!"

OK, Wikipedia just answered the question, "Did Babe Ruth see this movie?" He did, kinda. He was actively dying, he attended the premier, his last public appearance, but was apparently so loaded up on drugs that he, according to his daughter, didn't realize what he was watching. Which is sad, cuz it would've been great watching him digest that version of his life. "I didn't fucking hit a dog, why is there a dog on the field? Why is that fucking kid on the field? What the fuck is this shit?"

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