Little Big League

It would've slotted in at the Bad News Bears spot.

So it would've been Bad News Bears versus Little Big League.

Now-

It would've been Hardball versus Little Big League.

Sorry.

Thank you for correcting me.

Um, I'm just gonna say it.

Little Big League's not a good movie.

Yeah.

It's Little Big League, I think is that one.

Starring Porky.

We're actually gonna be covering that next on our geek history lesson, I understand.

Oh, dude.

But yeah, but when he was in Little Big League where he's, like, the co- or, like, the, the, the pitcher for the team.

It's kinda, like, right where you start to see it.

But before he became, like, the internet meme, it, he was actually pretty fucking good.

Why? Make your case.

Little Big League.

There is literally not another baseball movie that has that level of play.

Not another one.

And again, it's got Kevin Costner in it, who's probably the best actor baseball player out there that I can think of anyways.

Except for...

So, you know the guy that plays, I think, McGreevy in Little Big League?

Mm-hmm.

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Little Big League.

No, you're on the right track now though.

You're getting hot.

All Oscar-

... all Oscar nominated.

Like, all of those were right around the same time.

yeah across all genders and sexuality like you recognize

yeah so wildly hot so that alone makes it a great streaming movie because you're like oh they can actually show this because it's not actually sketchy she's just so hot but it's also it's funny like the gymnastics looks like surprisingly pretty good like they they shoot it in a way that hides the fact that they're actors doing shooting gymnastics um The same way Little Big League does baseball, where it just, like, it zooms in really hard.

Yeah.

And they got professional baseball players.

In his one All-Star plate appearance, he walked, and he played half his games at catcher, some at first, some at DH, and some in the outfield.

Then we get in June of that year, a cinematic classic, what may be the real highlight of Mickey Telton's career, the movie Little Big League.

In that movie, Mickey has a cameo as an opposing catcher.

He taunts a Twins player and says, going out for milk and cookies after the game, sweetheart.

Tony Denman was Scotty Lundegaard.

He was in Little Big League and Angus.

Steve Rivas, who passed in 2017, was Shep Proudfoot.

He was in Dances with Wolves and The Doors.