Post by Philadelphia GM on Apr 19, 2012 20:38:49 GMT -6
Although the season is underway, if your favorite team is playing as bad as mine is, then you may be looking for other forms of baseball entertainment to reprieve you from the season already.
While watching the Reds get plowed by the Cards like a little kid in a Penn State lockerroom, I came up with an idea... Thus, the Baseball Movie Awards were born. The BMA's if you will.
If you love movies like I do, then I'm sure you especially love watching baseball movies (both the good and the bad). A good baseball movie is hard to come by though; much like finding a blood diamond. Unfortuanely, Hollywood is usually too busy pumping out Katherine Heigel movies like a Model-T factory to get around to making a good baseball flick. So when a good one comes along, it should be celebrated.
Therefore, I have taken it upon myself to create the world premiere of the BMA's. Please enjoy, and feel free to chime in with any disagreements, fun facts, or anectdotes. Now without further ado, the envelope please...
Best Movie About Randy Quad's Brother Playing Baseball
The Rookie
Best Movie about a Monkey Playing Baseball
Ed
Best Mustache in a Movie
Tom Sellick in Mr. Baseball
Best Movie That is Half-Inspired By Baseball
Winner - Baseketball
Runner Up - Stickball... A True Underdog Story
Best Announcer in a Movie
Winner - Bob Ueker in Major League
Runner-Up - Announcer from Little Big League
Best Animal in a Movie
Winner - The Beast in Sandlot
Runner Up - Air Bud in Air Bud 7th Inning Fetch
Also in Consideration - Ed - the monkey in Ed
Also in Consideration - Madonna in A League of Their Own
Best Guilty Pleasure Movie
Winner - Benchwarmers
Runner Up - Summer Catch
Also in Consideration - Fever Pitch
Best Male Lead Role
Winner - Kevin Costner (as Crash Davis in Bull Durham)
Runner Up - Tom Berenger (as Jake Taylor in Major League)
Also in Consideration - Tom Hanks (as Jimmy Dugan in A League of Their Own)
Also in Consideration - Robert Redford (as Roy Hobbs in The Natural)
Also in Consideration - Walter Matthau (as Morris Buttermaker in Bad News Bears)
Also in Consideration - Rosie O'Donnell (as Doris Murphy in A League of Their Own)
Best Supporting Role
Winner - Charlie Sheen (as Rick "Wild Thing" Vaughn in Major League)
Runner Up - Tim Robbins (as Ebby Calvin "Nuke" LaLoosh in Bull Durham)
Also in Consideration - Mike Vitar (as Benny "The Jet" Rodriguez in The Sandlot)
Also in Consideration - Danny Glover (as Coach George Knox in Angels in the Outfield)
Also in Consideration - Eric Bruskotter (as Rube Baker in Major League II)
Also in Consideration - Dewayne Warren (as G-Baby in Hardball)
Best Child Actor
Winner - Whole Cast of Sandlot
Runner Up - Billy Haywood in Little Big League
Runner Up - Henry Rowengartner in Rookie of the Year
Also in Consideraton - Kelly from Bad News Bears
Also in Consideration - JP and Roger, the orphans from Angels in the Outfield
Also in Consideration - G-Baby from Hardball
Also in Consideration - Stiwell the fat kid from A League of Their Own
Best Female Character
Winner - Jessica Biel in Summer Catch
Runner Up - Wendy Peffercorn from The Sandlot
Also in Consideration - Shelly Hogeboom from Little Big League
Also in Consideration - Maggie from Angels in the Outfield
Also in Consideration - Susan Sarandon in Bull Durham
Also in Consideration - Tatum O'Neal in Bad News Bears
Also in Consideration - Dottie Hinson in A League of Their Own
Best Nonrealistic Baseball-Themed TV Show
East Bound and Down
Best Baseball-Themed Cartoon Clip
South Park - Loser's Edge little league episode starring Randy Marsh
www.southparkstudios.com/clips/104435/fort-collins-cant-playmusic-montage
Least Realistic Baseball Movies Ever
Winner - Summer Catch
- Reasons: I don't know why I thought a movie starring Freddie Prinze Jr., Matthew Lillard, and Wilmer Valderama portraying the most promising
young baseball prospects in the country would be convincing. Although Brittney Murphy was very convincing as a person who is still alive.
Runner Up - A League of Their Own
- Reasons: You know why girls can't play a game of baseball? Because it's hard to fit 18 girls into one kitchen.
(And yes, I do know this movie is inspired by real events).
Also in Consideration - Field of Dreams
- Reasons: If you miraculously traveled back from the afterlife, would you really go to Iowa?
Also in Consideration - Angels in the Outfield
- Reasons: Ghosts don't like orphans.
Also in Consideration - Mr. 3000
- Reasons: Yet another movie about a dead person playing baseball.... Also, really, Bernie Mac and baseball? Was Andy Dick not available? Couldn't have casted a believable person Hollywood?
Also in Consideration - Hardball
- Reason: So you mean to tell me that Keanu Reeves is going to surf into the Chicago projects to coach baseball and he wasn't the one that got shot in the movie. C'mon Hollywood.
Also in Consideration - Major League III Back to the Minors
- Reason: Yeah, a pro team is going to have such an inferiority complex that it will challenge its minor league team to a game to prove that they are better.
Also in Consideration: The Natural
- Reason: Okay, let's say Roy Hobbs really is the best player ever, and he can really hit 600 foot bombs that smash into the lights.
Is that baseball really going to cause a firework display that would make Disney World green with envy? I think not.
Suprisingly left out: Little Big League. Yeah, it could happen.
Worst Baseball Movie Ever
Winner - Ed
- Reason: I can believe a monkey playing baseball, that's not the issue. But really? Joey from Friends? C'mon, that's a little far fetched, dontcha think?
Runner Up - The Scout
- Reasons: I'll give you three. Brendan Frasier, Brendan Frasier, and Brendan Frasier.
Also in Consideration: The Fan, Mr. 3000, Air Bud 7th Inning Fetch, and Bang the Drum Slowly.
And now, what we have all been waiting for. This award was very hard to choose from. There were so many good choices that it was hard to distinguish one as being better than any others. Nonetheless, here is my crack at the Best Baseball Movies of All Time.
Best Baseball Movie of All Time
1. Major League
2. Bull Durham
3. Moneyball
4. Major League 2
5. The Sandlot
6. Little Big League
7. Bad News Bears (1976)
8. Field of Dreams
9. A League of Their Own
10. Angels in the Outfield
11. Eight Men Out
12. The Natural
13. For The Love of the Game
14. Hardball
15. 61*
16. Cobb
17. The Rookie
18. The Babe
19. Bad News Bears (2005)
20. Summer Catch
While watching the Reds get plowed by the Cards like a little kid in a Penn State lockerroom, I came up with an idea... Thus, the Baseball Movie Awards were born. The BMA's if you will.
If you love movies like I do, then I'm sure you especially love watching baseball movies (both the good and the bad). A good baseball movie is hard to come by though; much like finding a blood diamond. Unfortuanely, Hollywood is usually too busy pumping out Katherine Heigel movies like a Model-T factory to get around to making a good baseball flick. So when a good one comes along, it should be celebrated.
Therefore, I have taken it upon myself to create the world premiere of the BMA's. Please enjoy, and feel free to chime in with any disagreements, fun facts, or anectdotes. Now without further ado, the envelope please...
Best Movie About Randy Quad's Brother Playing Baseball
The Rookie
Best Movie about a Monkey Playing Baseball
Ed
Best Mustache in a Movie
Tom Sellick in Mr. Baseball
Best Movie That is Half-Inspired By Baseball
Winner - Baseketball
Runner Up - Stickball... A True Underdog Story
Best Announcer in a Movie
Winner - Bob Ueker in Major League
Runner-Up - Announcer from Little Big League
Best Animal in a Movie
Winner - The Beast in Sandlot
Runner Up - Air Bud in Air Bud 7th Inning Fetch
Also in Consideration - Ed - the monkey in Ed
Also in Consideration - Madonna in A League of Their Own
Best Guilty Pleasure Movie
Winner - Benchwarmers
Runner Up - Summer Catch
Also in Consideration - Fever Pitch
Best Male Lead Role
Winner - Kevin Costner (as Crash Davis in Bull Durham)
Runner Up - Tom Berenger (as Jake Taylor in Major League)
Also in Consideration - Tom Hanks (as Jimmy Dugan in A League of Their Own)
Also in Consideration - Robert Redford (as Roy Hobbs in The Natural)
Also in Consideration - Walter Matthau (as Morris Buttermaker in Bad News Bears)
Also in Consideration - Rosie O'Donnell (as Doris Murphy in A League of Their Own)
Best Supporting Role
Winner - Charlie Sheen (as Rick "Wild Thing" Vaughn in Major League)
Runner Up - Tim Robbins (as Ebby Calvin "Nuke" LaLoosh in Bull Durham)
Also in Consideration - Mike Vitar (as Benny "The Jet" Rodriguez in The Sandlot)
Also in Consideration - Danny Glover (as Coach George Knox in Angels in the Outfield)
Also in Consideration - Eric Bruskotter (as Rube Baker in Major League II)
Also in Consideration - Dewayne Warren (as G-Baby in Hardball)
Best Child Actor
Winner - Whole Cast of Sandlot
Runner Up - Billy Haywood in Little Big League
Runner Up - Henry Rowengartner in Rookie of the Year
Also in Consideraton - Kelly from Bad News Bears
Also in Consideration - JP and Roger, the orphans from Angels in the Outfield
Also in Consideration - G-Baby from Hardball
Also in Consideration - Stiwell the fat kid from A League of Their Own
Best Female Character
Winner - Jessica Biel in Summer Catch
Runner Up - Wendy Peffercorn from The Sandlot
Also in Consideration - Shelly Hogeboom from Little Big League
Also in Consideration - Maggie from Angels in the Outfield
Also in Consideration - Susan Sarandon in Bull Durham
Also in Consideration - Tatum O'Neal in Bad News Bears
Also in Consideration - Dottie Hinson in A League of Their Own
Best Nonrealistic Baseball-Themed TV Show
East Bound and Down
Best Baseball-Themed Cartoon Clip
South Park - Loser's Edge little league episode starring Randy Marsh
www.southparkstudios.com/clips/104435/fort-collins-cant-playmusic-montage
Least Realistic Baseball Movies Ever
Winner - Summer Catch
- Reasons: I don't know why I thought a movie starring Freddie Prinze Jr., Matthew Lillard, and Wilmer Valderama portraying the most promising
young baseball prospects in the country would be convincing. Although Brittney Murphy was very convincing as a person who is still alive.
Runner Up - A League of Their Own
- Reasons: You know why girls can't play a game of baseball? Because it's hard to fit 18 girls into one kitchen.
(And yes, I do know this movie is inspired by real events).
Also in Consideration - Field of Dreams
- Reasons: If you miraculously traveled back from the afterlife, would you really go to Iowa?
Also in Consideration - Angels in the Outfield
- Reasons: Ghosts don't like orphans.
Also in Consideration - Mr. 3000
- Reasons: Yet another movie about a dead person playing baseball.... Also, really, Bernie Mac and baseball? Was Andy Dick not available? Couldn't have casted a believable person Hollywood?
Also in Consideration - Hardball
- Reason: So you mean to tell me that Keanu Reeves is going to surf into the Chicago projects to coach baseball and he wasn't the one that got shot in the movie. C'mon Hollywood.
Also in Consideration - Major League III Back to the Minors
- Reason: Yeah, a pro team is going to have such an inferiority complex that it will challenge its minor league team to a game to prove that they are better.
Also in Consideration: The Natural
- Reason: Okay, let's say Roy Hobbs really is the best player ever, and he can really hit 600 foot bombs that smash into the lights.
Is that baseball really going to cause a firework display that would make Disney World green with envy? I think not.
Suprisingly left out: Little Big League. Yeah, it could happen.
Worst Baseball Movie Ever
Winner - Ed
- Reason: I can believe a monkey playing baseball, that's not the issue. But really? Joey from Friends? C'mon, that's a little far fetched, dontcha think?
Runner Up - The Scout
- Reasons: I'll give you three. Brendan Frasier, Brendan Frasier, and Brendan Frasier.
Also in Consideration: The Fan, Mr. 3000, Air Bud 7th Inning Fetch, and Bang the Drum Slowly.
And now, what we have all been waiting for. This award was very hard to choose from. There were so many good choices that it was hard to distinguish one as being better than any others. Nonetheless, here is my crack at the Best Baseball Movies of All Time.
Best Baseball Movie of All Time
1. Major League
2. Bull Durham
3. Moneyball
4. Major League 2
5. The Sandlot
6. Little Big League
7. Bad News Bears (1976)
8. Field of Dreams
9. A League of Their Own
10. Angels in the Outfield
11. Eight Men Out
12. The Natural
13. For The Love of the Game
14. Hardball
15. 61*
16. Cobb
17. The Rookie
18. The Babe
19. Bad News Bears (2005)
20. Summer Catch
