Filed under: Cleveland Indians, Cleveland Indians groundscrew | Tags: Cleveland Indians, Major League, MLB
Remember last year’s bold preview? (Click here for it to pop up in a new window.)
As Yogi once said, it’s deja vu all over again.
Filed under: Cleveland Indians, Cleveland Indians groundscrew, Major League, Stephen Strasburg | Tags: baseball, Baseball movies, Cleveland Indians, Lou Brown, Major League, Major League movie, MLB, Stephen Strasburg, Strasburg, Washington Nationals
You all know about home-field advantage but I know how good these guys are.
They may not have liked my team, but after Stephen Strasburg‘s struggles on Sunday it’s readily apparent that they don’t like him, either.
— Lou Brown
Filed under: Major League | Tags: 2010 Cleveland Indians Season Preview, baseball, Clevland Indians, Indians, Major League, MLB
Filed under: Jake Taylor, Major League | Tags: baseball, Cleveland Indians, Indians, indians major league movie, Jake Taylor, Lynn Westland, Lynn Westland-Taylor, Major League, MLB, Rene Russo, Tom Berenger
You might have seen these on the Major League “Wild Thing Edition” DVD’s photo gallery but not even realized what they were.
But thanks to Mrs. Taylor’s scrapbook, we’ve gotten a look at a couple of scenes that were cut from the documentary on my 1988 Cleveland Indians — footage lost forever to the cutting room floor.
Above is a snapshot from Jake and Lynn‘s wedding at All Saints on Euclid after the season. Our team saluted the happy couple on their way out of the church. (Interesting note for the game-used baseball bat collectors — my team only used Louisville Sluggers in the movie but you can see some Rawlings bats above.)
Filed under: Baseball cards, Fleer, Major League, Major League II, Major League: Back to the Minors, Pedro Cerrano | Tags: 1989 Fleer, baseball, Baseball cards, Dennis Haysbert, Fleer, indians major league movie, Jobu, Lou Brown, Major League, MLB, Pedro Cerrano, Ricky Vaughn, Willie Mayes Hayes
Did you know Fleer pulled this card from its 1989 baseball card set while fixing the Billy Ripken error?
Pedro Cerrano appeared on card No. 402 until someone spotted him and replaced him with Dave Clark. It was a change that was so subtle it didn’t even require a change to the alphabetical order on the checklist.
(We heard that Fleer’s CEO just couldn’t allow the Tribe’s voodoo warrior on a card — he thought it gave off the wrong impression to youngsters. Little did he know what was on the knob of Ripken’s bat. But then that’s all just an urban myth, anyway … right?)
Filed under: Baseball cards, Major League, Ricky "Wild Thing" Vaughn, Upper Deck | Tags: 1989 Upper Deck, Baseball cards, Charlie Sheen, indians major league movie, Jobu, Ken Griffey Jr., Major League, MLB, Pedro Cerrano, Ricky "Wild Thing" Vaughn, Ricky Vaughn, Upper Deck, Wild Thing, Wild Thing glasses
Now that Upper Deck is effectively out of the market for Major League Baseball cards, it’s also out of the market for Major League baseball cards, too, and that got Lou Brown thinking about what went wrong along the way.
What if Upper Deck had gone with a different Star Rookie in its inaugural 1989 baseball card set instead of Ken Griffey Jr.? What if my man, Wild Thing had been there instead?
Things would have looked a lot different today. I’m telling you.
— Lou Brown
Filed under: Baseball cards, Major League, Major League II, Pedro Cerrano, Upper Deck | Tags: 1990 Upper Deck, 2010 Upper Deck, Baseball cards, Dennis Haysbert, indians major league movie, Jobu, Major League, Major League II, MLB, Pedro Cerrano, Upper Deck
Since Upper Deck has decided to go all renegade and use MLB logos on its 2010 baseball card set — a move that has the attention of Major League Baseball — I just want to know one thing …
Will any of the 1990 buyback cards inserted into packs look anything like this one?
I still haven’t found a Pedro Cerrano card in any of the backs I have purchased … what about you?
— Lou Brown
Filed under: "That bitch" Rachel Phelps, Baseball cards, Billy "Downtown" Anderson, Duke Temple, Gus Cantrell, Harry Doyle, Hog Ellis, Isuro "Taka" Tanaka, Juan Lopez, Major League: Back to the Minors, Pedro Cerrano, Pops Morgan, Roger Dorn, Rube Baker, Tanaka | Tags: baseball, Baseball movies, Corbin Bernsen, Dennis Haysbert, Gus Cantrell, Harry Doyle, indians major league movie, Jobu, Major League, Major League: Back to the Minors, MiLB, MLB, Pedro Cerrano, Roger Dorn, Scott Bakula
The off-season is like watching Major League: Back To The Minors — you just can’t wait for it to end.
Don’t get me wrong, it’s not the worst baseball movie I have ever seen — even if it takes the Major League name created by my boys, my Cleveland Indians, and stomps it into the ground complete with a bee sting in the ass.
From the mascot? We could only be so lucky — that’s one big bee. (And he’s got an attitude as you can see at left.)
It’s worth watching once, OK maybe twice, just so you can get the full impact of computer-generated baseballs — from the pitcher’s hand to the plate and off the bat and into the outfield — along with Ted McGinley.
The Ted McGinley.
(Can’t hate Scott Bakula, err Gus Cantrell … he’s all this movie’s got.)
If it had nothing to do with the Major League franchise, then some of the players might be acceptable, funny, characters. But what they did to Pedro Cerrano once again?
And how did Roger Dorn find all that money to buy the Minnesota Twins when “that bitch” Rachel Phelps took him to the cleaners when he owned the Tribe? And when did Harry Doyle lose his job in Cleveland?
Painful.
But at least there are baseball cards.
See them all below.
Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: baseball, Major League, MLB, sports movies
Things have been slow around here not because there’s not plenty of Major League goodness, but because I hate the off-season. While Major League is always in season, it’s just tougher to get into baseball mode when there’s, well, no baseball.
That said, I do have something in the works coming soon…
Until then, poke around on youhitlikeshit.com and you might find some cool stuff.
Filed under: Baseball cards, Jake Taylor, Topps | Tags: Baseball cards, Baseball movies, indians major league movie, Is that you, Jake Taylor, Major League, Matt Tolbert, Minnesota Twins, MLB, Tolbert, Topps
Sure, Major League was 20 years ago, but this Tolbert is the only Tolbert in MLB history.
Collectors tell me that the Rookie Card logo has resulted in some old rookies appearing on baseball cards these days, but this just might take the cake.
Maybe Jake Taylor was talking to his daddy… I just don’t know.
At least he’s not a Yankee.
— Lou Brown
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