Major League

Its October ladies and gentlemen and you know what that means…. MLB playoffs are off and running.  Since my beloved Phillies are still alive I decided to dedicate this blog to an oldie but a goodie, classic baseball movie. 

Major League (1989) focuses on the Cleveland Indians baseball team.  When Rachel Phelps takes over as owner she has major plans to shake up the organization.  She starts to try and build a team that will fail so she can move the organization to Miami.  The new team’s motley crew consists of Billy Ray Vaughn (Charlie Sheen) aka “Wild Thing”, Willie Mays Hayes (Wesley Snipes), Cerrano, Jake Taylor, and Roger Dorn.  To everyone’s surprise this team of misfits starts winning games, which makes Phelps to start improvising by making them ride on old broken down buses and limiting there physicality’s.  Once the team is informed about Phelps plan to relocate, they realize there only chance to survive is to win the pennant.  The team then adopts an, us against the world mentality, and leads up to the climax of the movie when the Indians face off against the Yankee’s in a 1 game playoff for the pennant.

This is one of the funniest sport’s comedies around.  The film delivers such classic lines like “jusssst a bit outside,” “To high to high,” “Strike this mother f**ker out,” and “I hit like Mays and run like Hayes.”  The film has a fan pleasing plot with solid baseball acting by Charlie Sheen who actually appears to know how to throw a baseball which is rare in some sports movies.  This timeless underdog baseball film has plenty of laugh-out-loud moments.  So get in the mood for this years MLB playoffs by watching a classic and one of the best baseball films around, Major League