Vote: Major League VS BASEketball
New Classics
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Bull Durham VS The Natural
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Comedy
Major League VS BASEketball
Mr. Baseball VS Mr. 3000
This is the final vote of the first round! Just in time for August we'll be able to move onto the second round, as the Twins try to make a final push to another division title.
I'm not sure we even really need to vote for this one, but we will anyway.
BASEketball (1998) - Starring Trey Parker and Matt Stone (of South Park fame, naturally), this is actually underrated as far as comedy goes. Basically, Joe and Doug are the same as they were in high school and are labelled losers at a party. In order to impress the jocks and a couple of girls they make up a game that they can win: because they're great shooting a basketball as long as they don't have to dribble, jump or move. H-O-R-S-E turns into baseball, with misses outs, etc. It catches on like wildfire, and a nation-wide league is formed. They guys become rich, they call the little dude bitch, and after making loads of money one of them starts to change. But can they hold it together long enough to beat the Dallas Felons in the finals, and keep them from selling out the game?
Major League (1989) - When the new owner of the Cleveland Indians decides she can make tons of money by selling off the franchise, she loads the team up with youngers and has-beens, in the hope of driving fans away a giving her the excuse she needs to make the sale. Things look bleak early, but the team and a grizzled manager come together to face their common enemy. Wild Thing gets glasses, Willy Mays Hayes steals like 70 bases in the last month of the season (seriously, how many gloves does he get there during the montage?), the veteran who wants to become an interior designer starts diving for balls, voodoo finally works and Tom Berenger proves once and for all that if you stalk a girl long enough she'll love you.
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Juuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuust a bit outside!
by Jesse on Jul 29, 2010 5:07 PM EDT up reply actions 1 recs
Tried for the corner and missed.
"Don't take life for granted, because tomorrow isn't promised to any one of us." -Kirby Puckett
Minnesota Twins 2010: GAME 163 OR BUST!!!
by less cowbell, more 'neau on Jul 29, 2010 6:12 PM EDT up reply actions
I really like BASEketball, it is very hilarious, but...
…as far as baseball movies go, Major League is the winner in this battle (and probably the next). I just picked up Major League on BlueRay at Target for about $10. Does it need to be on BlueRay? Probably not, but $10 for that movie in any format is a good price in my book :)
Let's Go Twins!
Minnesota Wild Off-season: In Fletch We Trust.
does it really look better on BR?
I’ve wonder what older movies look like on bluray… can you really tell the difference?
It is very sharp
The nice thing it does is fill my widescreen TV without distorting the characters. This is nice for older movies. Otherwise, the standard DVDs leave the letterbox—which isn’t necessarily bad depending on what aspect ratio the movie is best viewed..
Let's Go Twins!
Minnesota Wild Off-season: In Fletch We Trust.
Tough choice, but I had to go with BASEketball.
It’s more my style of comedy.
“Steeeeeve PERRY!”
“Dude, I thought we said no more Journey psyche-outs.”
“If you want unanimous consent, you’re going to have to get it from one of the other owners.”
“This sucks, dude. We win, and they still get the chicks.”
“I’m telling you, it’s jobs. First we get the jobs, then we get the khakis, then we get the chicks.”
"Steeeeeve PERRY!"
"Dude, I thought we said no more Journey psyche-outs."
I love that he sings a Steve Perry song right before that (‘Oh Sherrie’ I believe)
by DedicatedFollowerOfFashion on Jul 29, 2010 11:46 PM EDT up reply actions
Major Leauge
Best Baseball movie ever! I saw a guy in a Rick Vaughn jersey at Target field the last time the Indians were in town I would normally scoff at anybody supporting the visiting team, but this guy made me want to give him a high five. I can recite almost line for line with the actors as I watch it. My favorite quotes
1. “You Put Snot on the ball?”
2. “Come on Dorn get in front of the damn ball, dont give me this OLE b.s.”
3. “I look like a banker in this…… is that chilli dogs over there?”
4. This one is too long and vulgar to type but Vaughn’s rant after he thought he was being cut was awesome.
5. “welcome back to major leauge baseball (sort of).”
Doyle: And for the Indians, that’s one run on, let’s see…one hit? That’s all we had, one goddamn hit?
Monty: You can’t say “goddamn” on the air!
Doyle: Don’t worry; nobody’s listening anyway.
"Don't take life for granted, because tomorrow isn't promised to any one of us." -Kirby Puckett
Minnesota Twins 2010: GAME 163 OR BUST!!!
by less cowbell, more 'neau on Jul 29, 2010 6:11 PM EDT up reply actions
Major League, by like...a lot.
I laughed at BASEketball, but Major League is a classic baseball movie.
"All I want to do is beat the hair mannequin [Anthony LaPanta] this year"-Souhan
Major League is one of the five best BB movies
It has to win this one.
"You're thinking too much. Just have fun." -- Bennie "The Jet" Rodriguez in Sandlot
Major League is to baseball what Slapshot is to hockey
"Don't take life for granted, because tomorrow isn't promised to any one of us." -Kirby Puckett
Minnesota Twins 2010: GAME 163 OR BUST!!!
by less cowbell, more 'neau on Jul 29, 2010 6:11 PM EDT reply actions
Like Eddie Shore?
"What is best in life?"
"To crush your enemies, to see them driven before you, and to hear the lamentations of their women."
Tough matchup
I LOVE basketball. I’d put it in my top ten comedy’s of all time. The problem is that it is going up against the funniest damn sports movie EVER. I really don’t expect this juggernaut to have any difficulty advancing thru the rounds until it hits Bull Durham or The Sandlot. Even then, I still give it the favorite to win it all.
by PinkiePinkerton on Jul 29, 2010 6:13 PM EDT reply actions
Not even close
Major League by a mile. I’ll probably be voting for Major League throughout this whole contest since my AAU team had an unhealthy obsession with this movie.
Not to mention
my friends and I invented a way cooler version of Baseketball than the version they play in the movie. Hit the ball, and shoot the baskets to get the runners out.
damn. BASEketball should of gone up against something crappy like Angels in the Outfield because its going to get crushed in this poll
by DedicatedFollowerOfFashion on Jul 29, 2010 11:47 PM EDT reply actions
Just a bit outside!
Wasn’t she driving fans away so she could move the team to florida? Great movie, but BASEketball gets my vote.
So, if the Beers beat Detroit and Denver beats Atlanta in the American Southwestern Division East Northern, then Milwaukee goes to the Denslow Cup, unless Baltimore can upset Buffalo and Charlotte ties Toronto, then Oakland would play LA and Pittsburgh in a blind choice round robin. And if no clear winner emerges from all of this, the two-man sack race will be held on consecutive Sundays until a champion can be crowned.
BASEketball...
Are you kidding me? Trey Parker and Matt Stone at their best! Major League is a snoozefest compared to the classic BASEketball.
It’s just so satirical, and it’s all true!
I'm still a Minnesotan at heart...
Unfair matchup
First, because these two movies should meet in the FINALS.
Second, because this is a baseball site, of course Major League is going to win. BASEketball was a baseball movie about as much as Drew Butera is a major league hitter—sure I guess both statements are technically correct, but just barely.
by Eric J. Thompson on Aug 2, 2010 1:04 PM EDT reply actions

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