Nominate Players for Gaslamp Ball's All Fictional All-Star Team
by jbox on Jul 7, 2008 11:29 AM PDT
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PrintOkay I came up with this idea last night while watching the absolutely terrible movie For the Love the Game. It was on cable and I'd never seen it so I thought I'd take it in. I ended up fast forwarding through all the non-baseball related stuff, the dramatic pauses and most of the baseball related stuff. The movie went by really quick.
Here's the idea, we are going to create the first All Fictional All-Star team in time for the real All-Star game. What we need you to do is nominate fictional characters for each position and then vote on said nominations in later polls. We will not be accepting nominations of cartoon or comic characters, such as Charlie Brown, etc.
So I'll start with some nominations, but please nominate your own. If you like another readers nomination, then please recommend it. When you nominate please link the character name in case others don't know them.
Nominations:
Pitchers: Billy Chapel, Ebby Calvin 'Nuke' LaLoosh, Pitcher Youngberry, Rick 'Wild Thing' Vaughn, Prof. Vernon K. Simpson, Amanda Whurlitzer, Steve Nebraska, Henry Rowengartner, Jack 'Deuce' Cooper, Mel Clark, Miles Pennfield II, Ryan Dunne
Catchers: Crash Davis, Gus Sinski, Dottie Hinson, Jake Taylor, Hamilton 'Ham' Porter, Bruce Pearson
First Base: Clue Haywood, Lou Collins, Jack Elliot
Second Base: Marla Hooch
Third Base: Doris Murphy, Ed, Roger Dorn
Short Stop: Tanner Boyle
Outfield: Roy Hobbs, Willie Mays Hayes, Stan Ross, Bartholomew 'Bump' Bailey, Benjamin Franklin Rodriguez, Kelly Leak, Bobby Rayburn, Max 'Hammer' Dubois
Coaches: Pop Fisher, Red Blow, Jimmy Dugan, Jackie Robinson 'J.R.' Cooper, Coach Morris Buttermaker, Ron Stilanovich, Uchiyama, Lou Brown
Groupies: Annie Savoy, Millie, Lynn Wells, Jane Aubrey, Harriet Bird, Memo Paris, Tenley Parrish
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Dorn was a 3B
I’m nominating Amanda Wurlitzer as our starting pitching. NO ONE threw a curveball like she did.
by Winfield's Ghost on Jul 7, 2008 11:34 AM PDT reply actions
Her
and Tatum O’Neal. I don’t know if I could hit that curveball, but damn would I try.
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Dorn was a 3B
their catcher was Jake Taylor.
was Pedro Cerrano an OF
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1B
Haywood (the dude with the moustache on the Yankees in major league that always bombs Rick Vaughn)
sorry i’m all about Major League
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First of all
what the hell are women doing on this list?
Secondly,
I think Moonlight Graham should be a coach/trainer
Nope
The chimp was funny.
Nothing about A League of Their Own was.
by thenerdhater on Jul 7, 2008 11:47 AM PDT up reply actions
you don't think its funny...
when the annoying little boy gets hit in the face with a glove and falls down?
You know I could go for a sandwich, but uh, I'm not gonna open two jars. I can't be opening and closing all kinds of jars.
Never made it all the way thru the movie
Fat Tom Hanks, chicks playing baseball…Madonna AND Rosie O’Donnell??
No thank you
Batshiat crazy? You bet!
Or wait, does it count that he’s also Gary Busey?
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Do TV shows count?
Honorable mention for Ann Veal in Arrested Development. She’s a wall back there.
by California Penal on Jul 7, 2008 11:59 AM PDT reply actions 1 recs
You know General Omar Bradley?
There’s too close a resemblance!
by matthewverygood on Jul 7, 2008 12:24 PM PDT up reply actions
First Base - Lou Collins
from Little Big League
by matthewverygood on Jul 7, 2008 12:22 PM PDT reply actions
Couldn't Dottie Hinson pitch, too?
And what would we call sister RBIs if we had Kit, too?
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Dottie was just a catcher
The other pitchers on the Peaches were Ellen Sue and Betty Spaghetti
by matthewverygood on Jul 7, 2008 12:43 PM PDT up reply actions
I really wish I had a more photographic memory...
So I could get the rest of the positions, but Homer was a right fielder, and Mr. Burns was one hell of a manager…
Yeah, but they said no cartoon characters
which is total BS!
by matthewverygood on Jul 7, 2008 12:44 PM PDT up reply actions
All these posts
and nobody defends the movie against JBox’s acerbic claim?
At the risk of sounding like a run fairy, For the Love of the Game kicks total ass and JBox’s opinion should not be trusted.
Ehh
I somehow saw it in theaters, and about 3/4 of the way through, I realized I had been lured into a trap in which baseball was the delectable bait. I am a jaded movie-goer.
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There's no doubt
that it’s not strictly a baseball movie. But it’s still a very good movie and the way it addresses baseball is interesting and I think ultimately honest.
Phantom
You have to realize that for jbox “absolutely terrible movie” just means “no nudity”.
by Drama on Jul 7, 2008 12:47 PM PDT up reply actions 5 recs
I did really like
“deploy… the Mechanism.” The baseball parts were good.
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I second Jbox's opinion
I cannot tell you how much I hate For Love of the Game. It had so much potential and was a really good idea.
I signed up to see a movie about what a pitcher thinks about as he’s achieving greatness….....and that did not include flashing back to a stupid romantic flick and his whiny girl.
It was a marketing ploy that made me hate a movie more than I probably should. If it was sold as a romantic chick flick (which it is)..then I wouldn’t be so upset with it.
Make a baseball movie…not a chick movie…they don’t belong together….rawwwwwwwrrrrrrr!
Disagree completely
as they pretty effectively wove the implications of his relationship into his shot at the perfect game. It made his accomplishment that much more important, that in spite of all the things he’d been through, he was able to end his career with a perfect game.
I’ve got no idea how the movie was marketed as I didn’t discover it until only recently. It is most certainly a baseball movie. That would be like saying Field of Dreams isn’t a baseball movie since most of the movie is about him trying to reconcile with his father.
you've thought way too hard about a kevin costner movie
by Dex on Jul 7, 2008 2:17 PM PDT up reply actions
This is why I like Phantom so much.
“Disagree completely as they pretty effectively wove the implications of his relationship into his shot at the perfect game.”
This is fantastic on so many levels.
Scenario A)
You are married. You have to go see a movie with your wife. It’s the closest thing to compromise you’re going to get, and it might score you an extra at-bat when you get back to the clubhouse.
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It's the epitome of the compromise movie
but there is no way you can convince me that a dude on the mound, in the middle of a perfect game, is thinking about those things.
It’s so ridiculous.
I dunno
but if you believe what Bouton says in Ball Four, baseball players are easily distracted by the womens.
"How do you like to be kissed?"
LOL!
I guess I should have paid more attention to the trailer, as well.
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I dunno, dude
when we were at the brewery tour and the woman said “teabag” and you started giggling and giggling, it made me think back to when me and my friends were 10.
by Dex on Jul 7, 2008 2:19 PM PDT up reply actions
i loved For Love of the Game...
but that is my opnion not JBox’s… can’t really argue against that…
You know I could go for a sandwich, but uh, I'm not gonna open two jars. I can't be opening and closing all kinds of jars.
i don't remember the guy from Major League.
the only role player they ever really talk about in that movie is their Right Fielder “Tomlinson”
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Just curious if there were more
but I’m totally drawing a blank
by matthewverygood on Jul 7, 2008 1:28 PM PDT up reply actions
Couldn't resist
Chiming in.
Tony Danza, as Mel Clark, from Angels in the Outfield, as a starting pitcher.
No wonder nobody likes you, Tuttle... everything's a (Pujols) damn debate.
What's the criteria here?
and is there a write in ballot?
Because I would like to nominate… Jewel for SS!
Thanks,
Ilovejewel69247365
"Yesterday was yesterday. Today is today.
There is no tomorrow. Make it today."
This is the part where you get to nominate players
that we’ll vote in later, so this is your write in chance. Jewel? The yodeler?
It's my parents fault
"Yesterday was yesterday. Today is today.
There is no tomorrow. Make it today."
I haven't seen any of the movies you guys are talking about
But I’ve got enough sense (or enough vodka in me and on me) to know that Jewel is as good, if not better than half of the woman nominated. And she lives in Del Mar, no?
"Yesterday was yesterday. Today is today.
There is no tomorrow. Make it today."
Bruce Pearson
Bang the Drum Slowly, catcher.
No wonder nobody likes you, Tuttle... everything's a (Pujols) damn debate.
that's a good one
if you’re looking to suck all the joy completely out of the party.
by Dex on Jul 7, 2008 2:21 PM PDT up reply actions
Come on now
He played with more heart than anyone else! What more could you ask for?
No wonder nobody likes you, Tuttle... everything's a (Pujols) damn debate.
Did you all know...
That in the novel, For the Love of the Game, Billy Chapel pitched for a fictional National League squad from Atlanta? I don’t actually recall the name of the squad actually being mentioned, but according to wikipedia, it’s the Hawks. The Atlanta Hawks. I don’t know whether to be depressed, or try to find a joke in how mediocre both the baseball team or the basketball teams really are.
No wonder nobody likes you, Tuttle... everything's a (Pujols) damn debate.
Ha
Considering what the author typically wrote about (war), a sports book with Fabio on the cover would’ve been fascinating. But it actually looked like this:
Unless you saw the trade paperbacks today, that had Kevin Costner on the cover.
No wonder nobody likes you, Tuttle... everything's a (Pujols) damn debate.
From Publisher's Weekly
Reading this posthumously published baseball novel is best compared to watching a gifted young player whose promise slowly fades with every strikeout and weak groundball, despite occasional flashes of potential.
What current Padre is he talking about?
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hahahahaha
Busch Gardens, Williamsburg, Virginia. The maiden voyage of roller-coaster Apollo’s Chariot.
No wonder nobody likes you, Tuttle... everything's a (Pujols) damn debate.
I can't believe nobody suggested this one
Benny “the Jet” Rodriguez
Whatever position he actually played…
No wait, damn it, his actual full name was mentioned above. Oh well, I’m going to post it just for the lame resemblance to Jacoby Ellsbury that some may or may not have noticed.
No wonder nobody likes you, Tuttle... everything's a (Pujols) damn debate.
One of my college buddies
went to HS with Mike Vitar. Played football with him.
by matthewverygood on Jul 7, 2008 2:58 PM PDT up reply actions
crap
i forgot about the kid from hardball that wore the headphones. filthy stuff.
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here's why
The Dreyfus Affair: A Love Story
by Peter Lefcourt
1992
Buy The Dreyfus Affair
From HarperCollins: “Consider the possibilities: In the middle of a pennant race, a team’s star shortstop falls in love with his second baseman. Which is exactly what happens to Randy Dreyfus, the best-hitting, best-fielding, best-looking, and most happily married young shortstop in the major leagues. The Dreyfus Affair combines romance, comedy, social satire, and some of the finest baseball writing in years. The result is a rollicking, provocative odyssey through one unforgettable World Series championship.”
from “outsports”
gotta love the wonders of google.
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"Not that there's anything wrong with that..."
by matthewverygood on Jul 7, 2008 2:58 PM PDT up reply actions
I dunno, man...
in the middle of a pennant race? That’s just unacceptable.
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details details details
you KNOW they read this book to each other in the bathtub.
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We know Khalil is straight.
No self-respecting gay man would have a haircut that bad. It is so not fabulous.
no
that “based on a true story” they put in the beginning of the movie is just for fun
May you be mounted by a rabid dog. You're lower than rat excrement.
br.com
there’s a baseballreference.com page on him.
if it’s on the internet it must be true!
by penguinpatrol on Jul 7, 2008 3:21 PM PDT up reply actions
hmmm
Coach: Guffy McGovern from the original Angels in the Outfield (1951)
Catcher: Billy Brubaker from Summer Catch
i don’t think i saw those anywhere
You know I could go for a sandwich, but uh, I'm not gonna open two jars. I can't be opening and closing all kinds of jars.
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