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Thursday Oct 17, 2019
Ep. 36 - Eight Men Out
Thursday Oct 17, 2019
Thursday Oct 17, 2019
Place your bets on the 36th edition of Scoring At The Movies. Or maybe just listen to it and don’t bet at all because gambling is what got these guys in trouble in the first place.
Eight Men Out is the authentic but somehow also fake-sounding dramatization of the fixed World Series from 100 years ago. Sometimes it feels just right and sometimes it feels like they want to jam all that old-timey straight down your piehole, whether you bushers want it jammed down there or not.
Chris sets the record straight about some of the facts of this era (especially about the Black Sox trial), while Ryan brings up an old pet peeve: the steroids v. gambling comparison. So get in your third-sacker stance (ugh) and hear our straight dope about John Sayles’ morose baseball picture.
Pedantry Alert: Bull Durham came out in mid-June 1988, so it was not REALLY released “in the spring”. Also, the 1920 White Sox roster was indeed mostly the same, but 1919 was the last season of Chick Gandil’s nine-year career. Also also, it’s more accurate to say that Babe Ruth hit more home runs by himself than most teams did in 1920 when he hit 54, not in 1919 when he hit 29.
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