hey mister! can you spell "sh*t"

a few thoughts on sports movies:

there are not many good ones. by sport they are:

"hoosiers." it sucks that there is only one. never saw "glory road", so who knows?

no football movie is any good. "north dallas forty" and "the longest yard" are crap. you love "brian's song?"...you're gay.

"raging bull" and "rocky" are fantastic movies.

i love "tin cup." besides, i thought that was the f*****g big dog. oh, and i always thought "caddyshack" was way way way overrated.

hockey is irrelevant so, whatever.

"chariots of fire" is so awesome that it needs no description.

baseball has inspired the majority of worthy movies..."bull durham" is the best, i love "field of dreams" although it is schmaltzy with a capital "schmaltz," the same goes for "the natural." "the bad news bears" barely qualifies for this discussion, but i love it so it's in.

my favorite sports movie that gets almost no play is "eight men out." i remember when it was being filmed, gq did a big article and photo shoot about the movie and the book that inspired it. i couldn't wait. joe jackson is fascinating to me. he is without doubt one of the greatest ball players in the history of the sport, but he is left out of the hall because of the pedantic ramblings of a pontificating zealot. any story that touts his legend is alright by me. even better, the movie turned out great. it's on right now so i'm gonna go watch. later.