Hello, everyone, and welcome to ME Sports Reporters. I'm Josh Horton. With me is always
Danny Price, former ME baseball player, sports enthusiast. And to my left, the beautiful
Arthur Dowell, online sports editor and webmaster for Highlander News.net. Arthur, Mark Emmerd,
the NCAA president, likes to drop the hammer down on all these teams, you know, and it's
always met with high criticism. What's going on here with these, you know, these high-profile
division one programs, and why are they breaking the rules?
Well, it's simply they're breaking the rules because a lot of these players, they ultimately
have a goal to make it professionally after their playing days at such schools like Ohio
State, Auburn, UConn. And, you know, sometimes that gets to their head. They want to get
money before they go professional. And, you know, I'm sorry, but every division within
the CAA, division one to division three, they follow the same guidelines. You don't pay
your players. They're out there to be student athletes. And, you know, he wants to emphasize
that they're students, not professionals.
Danny, you feel the same way?
Yeah, I do. I mean, at the end of the day, there's a simple set of guidelines. The NCAA
lays out, I realize it's long and extensive. If you've ever seen the rulebook, it's pretty
out there.
Let's be honest, nobody reads rule books. But I mean, I get a housing manual for Mr.
Cordy. I haven't touched that.
But it's pretty straightforward. At the end of the day, you can't pay your players. There's
certain rules with recruiting. There's certain rules with practicing and gameplay and roster
size. Everybody can follow the easy ones, but it's the hard ones that people seem to
have trouble following. But they're pretty simple. If 90% of the schools can follow it,
why can't these last 10%?
I know you mentioned off-camera. And we like to bring our viewers off-camera sometimes.
But you talk about Roger Goodell, you know, being, you know, the guy in the NFL, the pretty
much the mean guy, you know, nobody likes him. But is Mark Emert becoming Roger Goodell?
I think they're kind of the same person. You could argue that they're alpha males and they
want to control the situation. But at the end of the day, somebody needs to bring the hammer
down. If somebody's breaking the rules, somebody has to be the bad guy that gets them in trouble.
Because if you just let everybody do what they want, then it's just going to get worse and
worse. It's going to escalate.
Arthur, Danny mentions a good point. Somebody's got to be the bad guy. I mean, we've all had
that teacher in high school, maybe that, you know, as a coach as well who says, oh, just
come in, show up, and you'll get an A. You know, is that, you know, it doesn't make us
a better student. And, you know, without those people to drop the hammer down on you, you
know, you don't get better. Does the NCAA get better because guys like Mark Emert are
dropping the hammer down on him or on these teams? Or is he just being a jerk?
No, he's absolutely doing the right thing. I mean, you have athletic directors for a
reason. You have head coaches for a reason. They're supposed to be the guys responsible
with that small, like, you know, school. And then on a bigger proportion, the president
of the NCAA overlooks everything. And if the head coach, you know, the athletic directors,
they're not willing to make these changes or moves, even presidents of the school, he's
got to put the hammer down and can't keep escalating while schools get away with paying
their athletes and other schools are doing it fair.
Going along with that, though, I think there's a problem here in that, in my opinion, I don't
think that schools like Penn State, these players that are there now should be punished
for something that happened 10, 15 years ago. There should be a line drawn like USC, Reggie
Bush broke the law, not, you know, the players that are there now.
And Pete Carroll.
Pete Carroll bolts to the NFL. He's got Russell Wilson. He's living the life.
Exactly. So why punish the kids that are there now? Why should they be punished for something
that somebody else did that graduated years before that? That's where I think the line
should be drawn. Does the punishment have to come down? Yes, absolutely. But punish
those involved. Don't punish the kids that come 10, 15 years later, like in Penn State,
because those kids really made a big sacrifice in going to Penn State. They did a good thing
by going to play for Bill O'Brien. And here they are. They can't compete for a championship
for four years. So for those freshmen, they're four years at Penn State, they can't compete.
Right. And you bring up with the Penn State. I mean, that's a case that's very, very rare.
And when you're at Penn State, you know, they can't punish these kids that are playing
now. But certain schools, if you're paying the athletes, yeah, the program should be
punished. I mean, yeah, and unfortunately it's for players that aren't even involved
with the program. But the schools such as Oregon right now, they're being investigated
on, you know, recruiting violations. Yeah, the team should be punished. But with Penn
State, no, because that's morally wrong. It wasn't with the team.
No, I agree. If it's in the present, then punish the team because one heartbeat, one
team, the whole, you know, everybody preaches being a team. So one person screws up than
everybody else. But in the case, like you said with Penn State, there has to be a line
drawn in terms of when you can punish somebody when you can.
Let's be honest. I mean, pretty much everybody's getting investigated. Yes. But you know, we
got to move on a little bit here. Kevin Ware, tough, tough injury, you know, in that Louisville
Duke game, and I believe it was what the elite eight to go to the final four. So Kevin Ware
goes down and obviously we'll spare you the details and we won't show you the replay.
But you know, talk about what an injury like Kevin Ware's does for a team like Louisville,
Louisville, excuse me, and what it did for a team like Duke who pretty much couldn't
get in and go into that game. It does help a team like Louisville because
it gave them that extra motivation they need. But let's not forget, they won, I think, close
to 15, 16 straight games, even dating back before then through to the championship game.
So they were already a hot team. So that's kind of like that thing that pushed them over
the edge. So for a team like Louisville, they probably didn't need the extra motivation,
but it certainly didn't hurt. Yeah. Louisville going in, they were the
number one overall seed, you know, with that kind of injury. I mean, let's take it to professional
here. Going back to last October, game one of the American League championship series,
Derek Jeter, ankle injury. He's been the backbone of the New York Yankees for the last 15 years,
him and Mariana Rivera. He goes down, they get swept by the Tigers. I mean, in Louisville's
case, I think they were just very talented on the court that they could have competed
without wear. And yeah, it definitely doesn't hurt. They could use that as the motivation,
but I don't think that they needed that to win the championship.
Like you said, I mean, Kevin Ware was the backup to guard. He said he was behind Russ
Smith. So when Russ Smith came out, Kevin Ware went in. But in the case of Derek Jeter,
he's your shortstop. He's your battery. He's your captain. It's tough to lose a guy like
that. You know, a guy that's going to be there every day, day in and day out, playing nine
innings a game. But there comes a time where like every team needs a type of motivation
and, you know, sometimes people use, you know, family issues or for coaches, you know, like
we saw in the Colts and Pagano when he went down, they used him as motivation and kind
of, you know, carried him and his message with the team. So, you know, there's a difference
between using somebody's motivation and losing a vital piece of your organization.
Yeah. And I'm glad that you brought the Colts up because, you know, when Pagano went down
with cancer, you know, battling that cancer and everything, he wasn't the one going on
the field. You know, it was Andrew Luck and the Colts. They were going out there and
they were making a statement themselves. So, in that situation, yeah, I think teams could
overcome some bad news, but, you know, other teams such as the New York Yankees, when it's
a vital part, who knows?
Here's my question though. In that game, in Louisville, Duke, in the Elite Eight, you
know, Kevin Ware was a guy on the court for an Elite game or an Elite, Elite Eight, well,
it's a tongue twister game, but what does that do to Duke? I mean, if you're a Duke
player, you saw that happen. You know, I mean, after you've seen an injury like that,
Louisville, you know, kind of has fate on their side.
It definitely shakes you up, just like if a batter gets hit in the head by a pitch, you
know, in a baseball game, how do you react after doing that? You know, you see somebody
almost feel bad for them, so you almost feel bad going out and playing hardest, even though
that is your job and that's what you have to do, but it just hurts momentum. You know,
if Duke was just starting to get something going, then all you have to, all of a sudden
you have a game pause of 10 minutes. How do you, you know, you start to get cold, how
do you react after that? And that's what, you know, you could argue hurt Duke more in
that game.
That, and that injury was just so gruesome. I think you used it as the backbone like
Louisville did, but you don't see those types of injuries every day.
Well, that's going to do it here. And the first segment for us, we'll be back with
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Welcome back to the ME Sports Reporters. Josh Wharton joined by Danny Price and Arthur
Dowell. Arthur, no, you got a chance to check out the newly renovated PNC field a couple
nights ago. What did you think?
Beautiful ballpark. I mean, wide open. You know, not like last time. They got rid of
the upper deck for the most part. They did keep a little bit of it, but you can walk
around the entire stadium and fantastic family atmosphere.
Now, when you walked in, did you say, oh, this is a minor league park or did you say,
oh, wow, this looks like a major league park?
I said this is beautiful, but I knew it was minor leagues at the time. But I mean, if
I walked in, I'd still think it's minor because it's still pretty small. You know, it's not
exactly Yankee Stadium, but you know, fantastic.
That brings us to our next topic is, you know, minor league baseball branding against MLB
branding. I mean, MLB is going to sell because of the product on the field. Minor league
baseball necessarily has to sell even more because the on the product or on the field
product isn't necessarily that great. So what did you see from PNC field that, you know,
was different than maybe you would have seen at Yankee Stadium?
It's definitely a community builder. You know, I mean, Yankee Stadium, it's the New York
Yankees. You know, I mean, demographically, people are fans of the New York Yankees even
in California. But for the Scranton Wilkesbury Rail Riders, they want to reach out to the
community, make it another alternative choice for families to go to, you know, summer night
games. You can't really beat a good baseball game.
And Dan, you're a sport management guy. I mean, I'm sure you talk about this in class
all the time. What is, what are the differences between a minor league baseball team and a
major league baseball team in terms of marketing?
In terms of marketing, it's all about selling the seats. You know, they have low prices,
you know, the rail riders, but you can get, you can go to a game for $7 a ticket, which
is pretty unbeatable. In my opinion, you know, you go see a baseball game. If you're a baseball
fanatic, any game will suffice for $7. Then you have different sales pitches that they
do. They have different nights, you know, thirsty Thursdays, where you get dollar
beers and dollar Pepsi's. You have fireworks on Fridays, you know, different giveaways.
That's what they're attracting. They're attracting families. You know, we heard pitches about,
you know, a family of four can go to a game, get a hot dog and a soda for $50. So that's
like a, it's like a, a staycation, as people would call it. So if you're a baseball fan,
there's absolutely nothing wrong with going to a minor league park. They're usually smaller.
You're closer to the field. It's more of a friendly atmosphere. You can go get some autographs,
watch some good baseball. And then, especially if somebody's there on like a rehab start,
you know, a pitcher from your major league club, that's even more enticing for people
to see.
And Arthur, what did you see there in between headings, even that maybe you don't see on
the major league level?
A lot of fun games set up for primarily kids. You know, they had the ball toss with the
truck going around the outfield. You get it and you get a prize. Even for like local stores,
such as price chopper, you know, shopping cart, you find three things in this giant
cart and you want a gift card. I mean, it's little things to keep people entertained when
they're not on the field. And that's fantastic for minor leagues.
And Danny, the big thing is to keep these people wanting to come back for more. You
don't want to be, you know, walking around as a, you know, a ticket rep and see a family
there with, you know, kids on an iPad, mom reading a book and dad watching the game because,
you know, you're only going to get dad and his buddy back for the next game. I mean,
is that something you notice too as a, you know, a sport management guy that you want
to get the whole family to come back to a minor league game, not just, you know, the
dad?
Yeah. And I think that's what the minor leagues promote more. You know, major leagues, they
promote their team. They promote winning, playoff push. But in the minor leagues, it's
a family friendly atmosphere. You know, they have kids zones where they can go and they
can, you know, hit a ball off a tee and play in the jungle gym for a while to keep the
kids entertained. They have fun games, you know, you see stuff during in between innings.
It makes people want to come back as a family.
Moving out of something not very family friendly, Mike Rice and Rutgers, Arthur, the very, very
angry man in Mike Rice just watching those videos is just, it's hard to stomach.
Yeah. I mean, I'm foul and wild to think that, you know, you go and play for this head coach
and he's kicking balls at you. He's saying homosexuality slurs at you. I mean, it's
not right. And, you know, I saw an interesting piece where if Twitter and Facebook were as
relevant in the 90s as it is today, what would be happening to Bob Knight at Indiana?
Exactly. I mean, how did Rutgers handle the situation?
Very poorly to say the least. When they saw that videotape, there's no absolutely no reason
that he should have gotten only a three game suspension and a $50,000 fine. That is egregious
to me to think about. So that handles it from the top down. Pernetti handled it poorly as
the athletic director and not even go as far as the president because as soon as the president
should have saw that, he should have been, you know, stepping in because that's his job.
He oversees all the school academics and athletics and that's part of the program.
Especially, you know, today's society where a video like that, it's bound to be leaked.
Yeah. I mean, it did take three months or so to leak, but, you know, once it leaked,
it made Rutgers look really bad. And then Pernetti went on, continues to go on
outside the lines and Jeremy Shapp was hosting and he kept grilling Pernetti, grilling Pernetti.
They had a panel of three other gentlemen that were reporters and he just did not handle,
you know, he handled it the best he could at the time, but handled it very poorly. Then
the firing of their graduate assistant coach, you know, granted his contract expired, whatever
you want to call it. But at the end of the day, he should have been fired off the bat
and he would have saved two jobs.
Do you feel the same way he should have been fired immediately?
Yes, definitely. And, you know, President Robert Barchee did not handle this properly.
And that's exactly why, you know, Emma has to come in and lay down the hammer, because
athletic directors and presidents of schools don't lay down the hammer themselves. Instead,
it has to go into the hands of the NCAA. And, you know, did you see Barchee's press conference
by any chance?
Yes, I did.
Unfathomable. You know, that makes me sick to my stomach even more than the video, the
fact that he...
Kind of made a whole joke out of the whole thing.
Yeah. He made a joke out of that. He made a joke out of Tyler Clemente, the kid who
jumped off the bridge in New York. And I mean, it's unbelievable. He should be gone himself
because he handled it poorly. And that press conference, he was very unprofessional.
And it's safe to say that Pernetti and the president of Rutgers both could have saved
their jobs as they just up and fired Rice right away. As soon as they saw that video,
just said, this is unacceptable, you know, you're being let go. And you could say that
that's the best they could have done. They couldn't control what went on in practice.
Supposedly Rice did different things and was like all encouraging and patting kids on the
back.
Yeah, for a couple of days.
Yeah, when Pernetti was there. When as soon as Pernetti stepped into the gym, Rice acted
like a totally different guy. So once Pernetti saw this, you know, granted, he might not
have seen something in person. But as soon as he saw this video, if he had just fired
him on the spot, he still would be the athletic director of Rutgers.
And here's the thing. I mean, we both know, you know, different basketball coaches, we
know styles of coaching, you know, just from seeing it, you know, different coaches, Jim
Bayhine, Mike Shefsky, all these guys coming out saying, you know, that it's unheard of
in the coaching profession, it makes the coaching profession look bad. I mean, there's a difference
between getting in someone's face and letting them know they did something wrong, then getting
in someone's face, pushing them and then throwing a ball at their head.
Yeah, absolutely. I mean, glad you brought up these couple guys. I mean, one made it
to the Final Four this year, another one, great resume, coached Team USA in the Olympics
and everything. You don't get these kind of results by being a jerk. You know, you don't
kick basketballs at people. You don't, you know, say any slurs at them. Your job as a
coach is to be a role model for these players. And you're supposed to be semi kind of like
a father figure. You know, you've heard Louisville say, we're a bunch of brothers out here. We
won. And your job as a coach is to be like that father figure role model for these kids.
Not what Rice was doing.
There's supposed to be somebody that you can also go to off the court. And if I'm playing
for Mike Rice at Rutgers, if I'm scared to death of him on the court, what am I going
to do if I need to go to his office and talk about something with school or with, you know,
anything? These guys go to their coaches as a second father. If they have family issues,
they're going to talk to them. And if I'm afraid I might get a ball thrown at my head
if I go into his office and I do something that might tick him off a little bit.
Yeah. And I'm more shocked that, you know, kids playing underneath him didn't get back
at him, you know, like push him around, throw basketball at him. I mean, I would if I was
playing.
They're all bigger than him anyway.
They're all bigger than him anyway.
I'd be so angry.
Yeah. Well, I mean, you heard it there. Mike Rice, not a very nice guy, not a very happy
guy, not a very fun guy to play for. Jim Bayhiem, a guy yelled at his team once all year and
he was pretty successful. We'll be back. We'll be back with more after this.
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Welcome back to the MU Sports Reporters. Our next topic in the show, a personal favorite
of mine, WrestleMania. Arthur, are you a big fan of professional wrestling?
Absolutely not.
Nor am I.
No, I'm not at all. But I know it brings a large amount of entertainment value to a
lot of fans. It's widely popular. It's been widely popular since the 90s and even earlier
than that. They just had it at MetLife Stadium, which is a pretty big venue even for wrestling.
And they packed the house, Danny.
They packed MetLife Stadium for fake wrestling.
I don't understand it. It is fake to me. It's kind of a joke to me. But at the end of the
day, people, it sells tickets and it puts people in the stands.
It's a bunch of oiled up dudes on steroids.
And people go watch this. Why do they do it, Danny? Why?
It just brings entertainment value to people and you can't argue with that. It sells tickets
so why wouldn't people do it?
Why? Why do they do it?
Because a little thing that you and I learned this semester, it's called neuro-marketing.
And, you know, it's violence. You know, people crave violence. People want to see them punch
each other in the face. They don't care if it's a set-up script. You know, sometimes
they even have pieces where these wrestlers go off the script and, you know, hit each
other with ladders and chairs. I mean, it's not my sort of thing. But people love violence.
And that's what sells.
What if it's not real violence? And they know it's not real violence, but they continue
to do it.
Video games aren't real violence. Call of Duty isn't real violence and it's one of the best
selling games in America. People just in this country love violence.
Yeah. I mean, you get people coming out. What was it? Stone Cold Steve Austin coming out
drinking the beer before he goes and punches people in the face. I mean, it's just entertainment
value. You don't see it in normal sports. You know, you're not going to see that with boxing.
So it's a different taste, I guess, to entertainment and violence.
There's really no entertainment to even compare to it. I mean, how did it evolve? I mean, through
the years, I mean, I never really watched wrestling. My mom, when I was a little kid, I wasn't
allowed to watch it. Unless I put it on mute. I could watch it on mute, but I still chose
not to watch it. But, you know, I couldn't understand what was so exciting about this.
I mean, why do so many people, I know this is a sports show and it's not a sport, but
I wouldn't go up to the rock and tell them it's not a sport.
Yeah, I don't know. I know I have family that do love it. I know a family that went to
MetLife Stadium for WrestleMania. I don't understand it really, but at the end of the
day, people love to watch people fighting. You know, that's the growth of MMA has come.
You could argue that it's been because of this. It's, you know, it's more entertaining than
boxing is now because people can kick and throw and, you know, body slam you. So it's
just one of those things where people just love violence. They love the idea of gore
and blood and all that kind of stuff. So it's huge entertainment value.
It's all about entertainment. I understand that. And, you know, you look at a sport like UFC
and notice I did say sport. I've covered these, you know, MMA events, these cage fights, they
have them at the Woodlands. This is real fighting. Real guys going out there and beating each
other in the face, in the head, kicking each other. It said, what has to be going through
your mind to be a participant in one of these sports? And I'm sorry, Jimmy Fisher, but
MMA is nuts.
Yeah, I mean, you know, you bring up Jimmy Fisher, I also have another best friend of ours
from home that does MMA. And I mean, it's just not for me in particular. I grew up
like you guys are not allowed to really watch WrestleMania. And, you know, I grew up
playing baseball and football. The hardest hitting sport was football for me. And, you
know, I mean, it's just, it grows because people want to see fights, I guess. You know,
backyard brawls, growing up, even if kids at sixth grade got in fights, it was a big deal
in the hallways. So it's a big deal when it comes up with money sellers here.
You agree there, people like the fights, like the backyard fights. I mean, I know you
probably stole your fair share of, you know, lunch money back in the day and had to beat
some little kids up because you're so tall and just decide to step on people.
What a bully.
But why? What do people get out of it?
Maybe it's just like a fantasy where they wish they could beat somebody up and instead
they watch somebody else beat it up. You know, MTV has a show, bully beat down where they
watch kids beat up the bullies from high school. So I think it's all like the same thing. It's
just, it's one of those things where people realize it's not something that I can do,
so I'm just going to watch other people do it.
Yeah, I agree. It's what you want. You crave it.
Well, wrestling got their three minutes of fame on the sports reporters and they'll probably
never get it again. But moving on to our, you know, a regular segment we have in the
show, it's written down as the goat, but we know it's not an animal. It's the greatest
of all time. And this week's topic, what is the greatest sports movie of all time?
Are you a Betty the Jet Rodriguez guy? Are you a Rick Vaughn guy? Or are you a somebody
else guy?
In terms of the greatest baseball movie of all time, I literally, before this show, sat
here and watched and just listed six of my favorite baseball movies out the top of my
thinking. And I think at the top...
So you started with the notebook?
Yes, yes.
Oh, sorry.
And I think I'm just going to have to go with the Sandlot. Came out the same year I was
born, been watching the same movies since I was little, and I own it and it's still,
I love it as if the first time I ever watched it. It's just one of those great movies that
kids and adults can relate to. It's about backyard baseball pretty much, you know, growing
up through the ranks and you see one kid succeed from out of nothing. And it's just one of
those all time great quotable movies.
How about you, Arthur? I know you're a big Yankee fan, so maybe Fever pitch?
Oh, you know, Fever pitch is a great movie though. I'm not going to lie.
Wow, glad we got this on tape.
Yeah, he's an Yankee fan, he agrees. It's a fantastic movie that brings in historical
series.
Through a sappy love story.
So you get your chick flick and baseball in the same movie.
I do, I do. But you know, I mean, you can't go wrong with the Sandlot, but my favorite
movie is a classic here called The Natural. I'm sure both of you have seen it. If not,
then please get off this set.
But you know, a fantastic drawn out movie. You know, I was reading an article that I
never actually realized that it was based off of semi-true parts in the movie. And you
can't beat it. I mean, the storyline is fantastic. And just taking out the lights.
Yeah.
You know, I mean, cinematography there.
I mean, we've all done that, literally. We've all hit the lights.
And it's the true underdog story at the end of the day, you know, somebody coming from
nowhere to make something of himself. Robert Redford is great in that movie.
Easily a classic. A lot of people don't like it though, because it's so boring, which
I don't understand.
A lot of people don't like baseball because it's so boring.
But if you know what I say, who cares?
Yeah, if you truly love it, it's a great baseball movie. But sometimes you just need that comedy
movie. So you got to love Major League, Angels in the Outfield. Some of these that take a
light twist to a serious game. And it makes them more enjoyable for families. Because
growing up, you know, even if it was the edited version of Major League, I still love it.
I own it again today. So it's just, you know, funny movies sometimes bring light to a
serious game.
And you know, these these movies like Major League are classics. I mean, I spend most
of my time during the summer, you know, in a minor league baseball clubhouse and that's
always on. Always. I mean, it's one of those movies you can watch over and over again
and still laugh. I mean, Mariano Rivera, the greatest closer in the league. Perhaps the
good though, the greatest fictional closer ever. Wild thing.
Yes. Wild thing. How can you beat that? You know, it's more for the fact that I am
blind. I dress up like wild thing for Halloween. But I mean, get those nice razor, you know,
cuts on the side of your head. Triangles.
I just don't want the grandpa style glasses that he wears. Have the lunges sticking out
because of how blind I am. But I mean, how you can't be comedies either. Quotes. I mean,
that's what it ideally comes down to is, you know, you sing the song Wild Thing or, you
know, you're killing me small. You know, just making all these quotes. You can't beat it.
But at the same time, you just baseball movies as a whole, you can't really beat them.
And, you know, you can kind of separate them into two genres. You know, the serious ones,
you know, in the field of the dreams, major league, or I'm sorry, major league field of
the dreams, you know, 61 is kind of a more serious baseball movie. And then you got the
funny ones, you know, you got the cut and the sandlot's pretty funny. Major league's pretty
funny. You know, just it seems like there's two different genres, but one we didn't talk
about yet and one that I love for love of the game. Billy Chapel goes out there against
the Yankees, throwing heat. He's like 90 years old and just fantastic. Cleaners the mechanism.
It's a great game. It's always on TV, it seems, like, right around baseball season.
You know, it's a great movie. So, you can't really go wrong with any of these movies,
but like you said, with the serious and the funny, it kind of gives everybody something
to watch. You know, if you don't like the funny ones, go for the serious ones. If you don't
like the serious ones, there's always a good twist to a funny one.
You feel the same way there?
Yeah, definitely. I mean, some of the movies that you, that's movies that you cannot beat
or those that even don't even come out in theaters, you really don't hear of such as
the final season. You know, it's has Sean Aston in it who's a pretty big actor.
He was most known for Rudy and we may get into that topic at a later date.
We do have like three shows left.
I mean, you have fantastic movies that never made the theaters. You just can't go wrong
with this genre of movies.
Yeah, you really can't. Baseball movies for you in terms of overall sports movies,
are they your favorite?
Yeah, I'd probably put them up there as number one just because there's the most of them.
You can always find a baseball movie. I'd probably go baseball one, golf two, football three
because that, you know, that in terms of selection, that's usually the most.
Yeah, I mean, I would switch golf and football just because, you know, I can relate more
understanding both baseball and football.
Well, that is going to do it for us today on the MU Sports Reporters.
And as Billy Chappell says, don't forget to clear the mechanism.
We'll be back next week.
