Episodes
Thursday Apr 30, 2020
Air Bud & 50th Episode Awards!
Thursday Apr 30, 2020
Thursday Apr 30, 2020
This is our 50th episode of Scoring At The Movies and this time we're talking about a genius dog who seems to be able to read, pick locks and of course... play basketball!
This comedy for kids is jammed with dog-related hijinks (oh those jinks are so hi), but the flick would have been better if it had just stayed serious. It's not terrible, just not really a motion picture for 2 middle-aged dudes.
The real draw of this episode though is that at the 34-minute mark. We start talking about our Top 5 of the 50 episodes of the podcast to date. We also low light the worst movies we've covered, aka the "Toilet Bowl Awards". Get to it!
Pedantry Alert: Buddy the dog died before he could reprise his starring role in "Golden Receiver" the next year. Also, we reviewed Friday Night Lights in September, so it had been several months since the Toronto Raptors were in the midst of their successful playoff run last year.
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Thursday Apr 16, 2020
Ep. 49 - Cobb
Thursday Apr 16, 2020
Thursday Apr 16, 2020
Meet the abusive, racist, sexist baseball great Ty Cobb in Ron Shelton’s disappointing road movie: Cobb.
Shelton is one of the greatest directors of sports films, but this time his work just doesn’t sing like his best stuff does. Case in point: Tommy Lee Jones gives one of his best performances (think Sam Peckinpah), but Robert Wuhl is either miscast or just not up to being a leading man. It also doesn’t help that this unbearable version of the Georgia Peach has been debunked in the 26 years since the flick was released.
We tried to figure out if we can even trust any of Ty Cobb’s stories, but we also dug pretty deep into the intricacies of the Baseball Hall Of Fame and we even got into the Cobb v Ruth debate. Many tangents!
So let us fill nearly an hour of your COVID-affected day as Scoring At The Movies #49 unravels what works and what doesn’t in Shelton’s take on one of the absolute best in the history of the game of base and ball.
Pedantry Alert: Cobb is actually 6th on the career WAR leaderboard (Barry Bonds is 4th). Also, the fastest player ever according to Willie was Cool Papa Bell. Also also, Roy Campanella had to retire just before the Dodgers moved from Brooklyn to Los Angeles. Also also also, the 1908 Cubs actually hit .249 as a team, not .230. And finally, before Mariano Rivera & Derek Jeter’s recent inductions, the highest percentage of votes went to Ken Griffey Jr., Tom Seaver, Nolan Ryan and then Cal Ripken Jr. Baseball Reference links to: Cobb and Babe Ruth and Hall Of Fame induction years and WAR Leaders.
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Thursday Apr 02, 2020
Ep. 48 - Caddyshack
Thursday Apr 02, 2020
Thursday Apr 02, 2020
Famous sports comedies like The Longest Yard & Slap Shot have often failed to make us SATM’ers spend much time laughing out loud and—spoiler alert—Caddyshack did indeed fail us too.
Comedy often does not age well, even when you’ve got funny dudes like Bill Murray, Rodney Dangerfield and Chevy Chase heading up the cast (and really stealing the focus away from the caddies). There are some high points in Harold Ramis' first flick as a big-screen director, but this one is just a double bogey for us.
Anyway, this year’s Masters has been postponed and you’re probably not going to be allowed to golf anywhere at all for a while, so escape into a fantasy world by listening to the 48th edition of Scoring At The Movies for a tidy little 37 minutes.
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