John Ashton's acting here is tremendous. He goes from thinking that he is going to school a little kid, to seeing Billy's baseball smarts, to arguing with him over strategy like Billy is an adult. I think Ashton is one of the more underrated character actors around
It's an underrated movie! It fits well with Rookie of The Year and Angels In The Outfield! It's every kid's dream and fantasy saying they can manage their team better than the adult coaches!
This movie has the best baseball footage ever filmed. Everyone on screen could actually play ball. From the Pro ballplayers to the Pro actors. Jonathan Silverman and Timothy Busfield played on a Hollywood team in a pretty serious hardball league, so that's why they look so natural next to the Big League guys. This movie was made for the smartest of sports fans. They don''t dumb things down a bit (well maybe Griffey Jr. pulling up at 2nd on the trick pick-off).
I was watching a bts thing for this movie and they went out of their way to hire as many actual mlb players they could within budget and for the actors they had them audition by playing baseball first. If they can play and act they were hired. Of the kids baseball movies I actually liked this one more than rookie of the year.
@@bluepotato9745 Yes. I saw that BTS bit too. This is my fave movie of all time. 1 amazing baseball movie 2 excellent coming of age movie. Rookie of the Year is cute, but not realistic. LBL is.
@@Utuubuploader2012Heard it in some Busfield interview in the mid 90's. Busfield pitched, on and off, for the semi-pro Sacramento Smokeys between 92 and 2000. As a starter he had a record of 30-12, playing against some of the nations top college and ex-pro players.
@@andrewomahony9260 The logic is that Billy knew by the fact that Jim Abbott was a starting pitcher and threw left-handed the Twins would use their normal batting order when facing a lefty.
@Mason Barto lol my pleasure man! It made sense what Billy was saying! imagine what a horrible management move lol. I get what Mack was trying to say but removing the meat of the lineup to get 1 run is not a great way to get the 1 run haha
@@mountiescorner Roger Ebert began his review of "Little Big League" by writing that the last thing he was expecting was that the movie would take baseball seriously, but it did. He wrote that it had the same feel for the game as movies like "Field of Dreams" and "Bull Durham."
@@ryanloftis1125 Was going to post this if someone else didn't. The front of the VHS cover has Siskel and Ebert giving it "two thumbs up" but I can't find their review of it.
Classic and in my opinion most realistic kids baseball movie. Rookie of the Year is fun but Little Big League is more down to earth. The reason I say it's realistic is because a kid like Billy maybe could manage if the opportunity presented itself. Why? Well, is grandpa owned the team and has been taking him.to games his while young life. He also quizzes Billy about everything baseball. Plus Billy has probably been to more games, seen more situations, and talked to more Major League players and coaches than most people.
@@patricklee4581 "Little Big League" is probably the better made movie, but "Rookie of the Year" is the more entertaining one. Does that make sense? "Little Big League" is without a doubt much smarter about baseball than "Rookie" (not to mention its chronology makes more sense).
@@ryanloftis1125 Rookie of the Year is only fun if you know absolutely nothing about baseball. As a baseball fan its one of the most idiotic movies I've ever seen.
@@martyklestadt6766 Maybe it was different back then but isn't the bench coach usually the manager's trusty sidekick? IOW, the one who'd take over if the manager said one too many wrong words to the umpire?
@@JohnSmith-zw8vp Yes, that's correct. If this (firing a manager during the season) had happened in reality, the bench coach would generally become interim manager for the rest of the season.
Egos and pride hurt their chances at making the playoffs. The players when Billy first became their manager and then Billy when Lou started dating his mom. Griffey wouldn’t have even had a shot of making this amazing catch at the end they didn’t get in their own way.
@@chadstearman perhaps u hated it when Griffey got into Cooperstown, u know u could at least respect his natural swing, he was a clean home run slugger at a time of when many big guys were using steroids and he deeply cared for his fans, fame never went 2 his head he was taught very well by his dad on how 2 be a team player!!!!!!!
More like every team in MLB in 2017-2018. They may not have used trash cans, but they all used SOMETHING to tell their hitters what pitch was coming in real time via electronic sign-stealing. It was a bad time for baseball--let's not forget how widespread the cheating was throughout MLB nor pretend that only one or two teams were doing it.
I don't necessarily think it's entirely Moneyball. It becomes a different situation with one out, or with a slower runner on first base. Also, with a righty on the mound, maybe Billy does have Lou bunt. If they bring in a lefty to pitch to Lonnie and Spencer, maybe it works out. Or perhaps you could send Scales and take that risk, where you don't have to bunt. That's how the 2004 Red Sox began their comeback, after all - Roberts was willing to gamble. And besides, when done correctly, the sacrifice bunt can be beautiful to watch. That's why I never embraced Moneyball - it exists too much in a vacuum.
I love this scene (though it's a little unrealistic for a 12-year old to be this emotionally stable/sharp). It shows how this movie doesn't pull any punches when it coms to understanding the complexity and logic of managing a baseball team
Happy 30th anniversary, Little Big League! I don't know if anyone cares enough about this movie to make a next-gen sequel but my idea was that Billy (or perhaps now Bill?) is obviously all grown up with a wife and daughter of his own (about same age as Billy in 1994) but her dad gets killed in a car wreck and inherits the team. But nobody except her dad would've ever guessed that not only did she inherit her dad's genius or strategy but she's also a moneyball freak too!
Ever since the logic turned from; Owners pay players to do well, instead of, owners pay teams to win, this logic makes sense. But do you pay the team to win or do you pay the 3, 4, and 5 hitters to hit?
When Billy acts like a grown up/jerk later to his friends by giving them a reality check about how hard it is managing MLB they need to remember this since they egged him fantasies of not only doing it but being a Day 1 success this is one step below being a TV guy becoming a manager lol
Bunting with your best hitter while your chances of scoring actually go down with a runner on 2nd and 1 out than they do with a runner on 1st and no outs. It's no wonder Mr. Gosling was willing to give Billy the job instead of Mack.
What's funny is that in today's MLB, a 12-year old probably could manage a team. There's no "situations and tendencies" anymore, they just plug everything into a computer and it spits out the answer.
Why didnt Billy just put Mack in charge from the start? He was bench coach at the time and 9 times out of 10 most in season interim manager hires are on staff. At the end he hired him anyway lol.
"Bunting doesn't work" Clearly... you've never seen what banging the ball into the Metrodome turf could do against defenses not used to fielding bunts that bounced like a tennis serve.
I wonder if whoever wrote this film ( a good one) got inspired by Jerry Jones who is owner, president and GM of the Cowboys. At least he knows he can't but honestly if he had football savy and knowledge he'd hire himself as head coach. Reminds me of that scenario with this movie of a owner (kid or otherwise) as a MLB manager.
Reminds me of Jerry Jones because he acts like a freakin child. He and Jimmy Johnson built the perfect team together but Jerry couldn't stand that Jimmy was getting all the credit. When you win back to back Super Bowls within 5 years of buying the team who gives a flying rip who gets more credit. It's not like they gave a damn bit of credit to Tom Landry and Tex Schram for already having Michael Irvin on the team, and everybody with half a brain knew Aikman was going to be their pick that year no matter who was doing the picking. I'm not saying the game hadn't passed Coach Landry and Tex by because it certainly had but no matter what Jimmy and Jerry decided they already had two of the three triplets in Dallas and let's not forget it was Landry and Tex that picked up Herschel Walker for a song and gave Jerry and Jimmy the big name star they needed to engineer the trade to Minnesota that brought all those draft picks and consequently Emmitt Smith to Dallas. And they were far from the only players that Tex and Landry put on the roster that won Super Bowl rings with Jerry and Jimmy. Now... I'm not implying that either Tex or Landry should get some major credit for what Jimmy and Jerry built but I am trying to show how stupid and childish it was for Jerry to squabble over that shit to the point where Jimmy wasn't coaching the team anymore. When you consider the fact that they only added one more Super Bowl ring after Jimmy left and how many seasons it's been since they've even gotten a chance to play for once and you also consider just how many coaches Jerry has been through since then you have to think the man's ego dug his own grave. Oh and just so we're clear Jimmy Johnson was being an idiot too since he proved pretty clearly since he left Dallas that Jerry must have had at least a little bit of influence in how that team was built since Jimmy hasn't done jack shit since then either.
Mack should have been fired on the spot after this, no? Even in the 90s, or any era for that matter, sacrifice bunting with your best hitter is bad baseball. Then he doubles down and suggests pinch hitting for their cleanup hitter. No good MLB major would be doing that unless they’re throwing the game on purpose. It’s hard to argue with Billy’s logic, even if it’s based in hypotheticals. However, if Scales is their fastest guy and leadoff hitter, how’s he on base with no one out when Lou is their three hitter? That likely means Scales is their two hitter instead for some reason. You probably wouldn’t want to try stealing a base with Lou up, so that’s why you have Scales hit leadoff so he can swipe a bag and you can avoid the double play entirely.
@@randymarsh6931 This is the 90s, it's way different vs. modern ball. Mac wanted to play small ball. There's different scenarios. Mac could be right going small, or Billy could be right. You can't predict baseball.
As much as I love this scene and this movie, one still has to suspend disbelief. Because if this situation happened in reality, with a manager getting fired during the season, what would actually happen is the bench coach would become the interim manager for the rest of the season. Then, after the season, the team would either promote him to full-time manager or hire a new manager. And, of course, this movie completely ignored the Ted Turner rule (owner cannot manage his team). But, again, it is a great movie. One of my favorite baseball movies.
I think they at least handwaved the Turner rule by specifically having the commissioner give his permission for Billy to take over ("it's OK with him if it's OK with you").
@@nmk537 Again, I think this movie just takes place in some alternate universe where there is no Ted Turner rule. Here, it couldn't just be waved off by the commissioner. In this movie, the commissioner gave permission because the manager in question was only twelve years old. And I don't think he ever really got permission. Billy Heywood played his mother against the commissioner, telling BOTH of them it was OK with the other if it was OK with them, but I don't think he ever directly asked his mother or the commissioner for permission. The GM was on the phone with the commissioner, and when the commissioner asked about Billy's mother, Billy told him to tell the commissioner that it was OK with her if it was OK with him. Then in the next scene, Billy told his mother that the commissioner said that it was OK with him if it was OK with her. Again, I think he played them off of each other and didn't actually ask either one!
Had I been faced with this situation, my answer would have been, "I should know this...my uncle's a painter."
Oh nice. He paints houses?
Why wouldn't you get a house that's already painted?
I thought it was maybe one of those trick questions, ever thought of that?
What color of paint?
Would it help to know that the horse's name is Friday?
John Ashton's acting here is tremendous. He goes from thinking that he is going to school a little kid, to seeing Billy's baseball smarts, to arguing with him over strategy like Billy is an adult. I think Ashton is one of the more underrated character actors around
He just passed away today. May the man rest.
Out of all the baseball kid movies, this one had the best baseball logic
Not even Money Ball?
@@mikenelson8377 Since when was Money Ball a kid movie?
Yeah and the baseball playing scenes actually looked good like they could really play. As opposed to a movie like Rookie of the year.
Even so. I would say its the best baseball movie.
@@BullyMaguire2311 rookie of the year was dogshit
& Today we've just learned the loss, John Ashton passed away at the age of 76.....rest easy.
Very sad day. His scenes will always live on.
I only started watching baseball this year and I’ve learned enough while watching to understand 90% of the situation.
It's an underrated movie! It fits well with Rookie of The Year and Angels In The Outfield! It's every kid's dream and fantasy saying they can manage their team better than the adult coaches!
It's the American League. They got the DH. How hard it could be? Lol
Ashley Chen GREAT LINE!
That's true. Statistically, half the teams that make the World Series are from the AL.
@@jph595 Good job counting
@@jph595 Thanks, Yogi Berra.
Yeah no double switching in the AL
Such an underrated baseball movie. Watched it last night for the first time in years and I forgot how much I loved it
This movie has the best baseball footage ever filmed. Everyone on screen could actually play ball. From the Pro ballplayers to the Pro actors. Jonathan Silverman and Timothy Busfield played on a Hollywood team in a pretty serious hardball league, so that's why they look so natural next to the Big League guys. This movie was made for the smartest of sports fans. They don''t dumb things down a bit (well maybe Griffey Jr. pulling up at 2nd on the trick pick-off).
Agreed. Usually I wouldn’t like that type of thing in a movie, but ken Griffey jr was so cool I liked seeing him show off 😆
I was watching a bts thing for this movie and they went out of their way to hire as many actual mlb players they could within budget and for the actors they had them audition by playing baseball first. If they can play and act they were hired. Of the kids baseball movies I actually liked this one more than rookie of the year.
@@bluepotato9745 Yes. I saw that BTS bit too. This is my fave movie of all time. 1 amazing baseball movie 2 excellent coming of age movie. Rookie of the Year is cute, but not realistic. LBL is.
Busfield and Silverman played in a rec league in Hollywood where did you hear that?
@@Utuubuploader2012Heard it in some Busfield interview in the mid 90's. Busfield pitched, on and off, for the semi-pro Sacramento Smokeys between 92 and 2000. As a starter he had a record of 30-12, playing against some of the nations top college and ex-pro players.
RIP John Ashton - a really good character actor for many decades.
My favorite clip of any baseball movie. Thanks for uploading it.
That’s why his grandpa trusted him!!!
This is the best scene in the whole movie, Mac had no idea what he was in for
Except Billy decided that Spencer was batting in that specific order, which Mac never specified :D
@@andrewomahony9260 The logic is that Billy knew by the fact that Jim Abbott was a starting pitcher and threw left-handed the Twins would use their normal batting order when facing a lefty.
@@SuperfanDKwatching this movie now as an adult, it’s a smart baseball movie
He tore that situation apart lol
"Now you taken the bat out of our 3, 4 & 5 hitters.. not exactly a great trip to the heart of our order"
😂
@Mason Barto lol my pleasure man! It made sense what Billy was saying! imagine what a horrible management move lol. I get what Mack was trying to say but removing the meat of the lineup to get 1 run is not a great way to get the 1 run haha
@@mountiescorner Roger Ebert began his review of "Little Big League" by writing that the last thing he was expecting was that the movie would take baseball seriously, but it did. He wrote that it had the same feel for the game as movies like "Field of Dreams" and "Bull Durham."
@@ryanloftis1125 Was going to post this if someone else didn't. The front of the VHS cover has Siskel and Ebert giving it "two thumbs up" but I can't find their review of it.
@@mountiescorner You can't go wrong with either one of the strategies. Mac, I'm guessing wanted to go small ball. Billy wanted to go long ball.
he also showed Billy he wasn't ready to be the manager himself.
Rest in peace, Mac
Classic and in my opinion most realistic kids baseball movie. Rookie of the Year is fun but Little Big League is more down to earth. The reason I say it's realistic is because a kid like Billy maybe could manage if the opportunity presented itself. Why? Well, is grandpa owned the team and has been taking him.to games his while young life. He also quizzes Billy about everything baseball. Plus Billy has probably been to more games, seen more situations, and talked to more Major League players and coaches than most people.
Rookie of the year so unrealistic. You lose your top 2 pitchers during the last game of the season yet somehow emerge as world series champs lol
@@patricklee4581 "Little Big League" is probably the better made movie, but "Rookie of the Year" is the more entertaining one. Does that make sense? "Little Big League" is without a doubt much smarter about baseball than "Rookie" (not to mention its chronology makes more sense).
@@ryanloftis1125 Rookie of the Year is only fun if you know absolutely nothing about baseball. As a baseball fan its one of the most idiotic movies I've ever seen.
Anyone with a computer and probability chart can manage these days.
randomly thought about this scene today 25 years after I saw it as a kid, YT never disappoints
Very underrated baseball movie
The movie is 26 years 1994 this movie is getting old
It should have been a much bigger hit. It didn't even make back its budget.
When I think of this movie three words come to mind: KEN GRIFFEY JUNIOR 😊
"What does he need me for?"
Well every hero has to have a trusty sidekick, silly!
Plus, Mac was the pitching coach. Team's gotta have a pitching coach.
@@martyklestadt6766 Maybe it was different back then but isn't the bench coach usually the manager's trusty sidekick? IOW, the one who'd take over if the manager said one too many wrong words to the umpire?
@@JohnSmith-zw8vp Yes, that's correct. If this (firing a manager during the season) had happened in reality, the bench coach would generally become interim manager for the rest of the season.
always loved this scene
Egos and pride hurt their chances at making the playoffs. The players when Billy first became their manager and then Billy when Lou started dating his mom. Griffey wouldn’t have even had a shot of making this amazing catch at the end they didn’t get in their own way.
I really like when this movie had real mlb players. That was so nice to see lots of real MLB players in that time.
Yet they couldn't get Kirby Puckett or any of the other real Twins for some reason...
@@JohnSmith-zw8vp well it was released before da players went on strike.
And because of this movie I still can’t stand Griffey to this day…
@@chadstearman perhaps u hated it when Griffey got into Cooperstown, u know u could at least respect his natural swing, he was a clean home run slugger at a time of when many big guys were using steroids and he deeply cared for his fans, fame never went 2 his head he was taught very well by his dad on how 2 be a team player!!!!!!!
@@bizzy24100 absolutely, I respect junior for not taking roids.
What color paint?
“Going out for milk and cookies after the game, sweetheart?” 😆
One of Dad's most classic scenes we all love❤🎬
Wait was your dad in this?
@@bassfunkmaster85Edward James Olmos
"Let Lou hit away, but use the trash can" - If the Astros were the subject of this movie
and they just lost the big game!!
LOL
Astros are never cheaters, they are a new dynasty of baseball.
More like every team in MLB in 2017-2018. They may not have used trash cans, but they all used SOMETHING to tell their hitters what pitch was coming in real time via electronic sign-stealing.
It was a bad time for baseball--let's not forget how widespread the cheating was throughout MLB nor pretend that only one or two teams were doing it.
Anthony Rizzo - "Somebody bang for me!"
Billy sounded completely competent and mack had no answer for him. Loved how unrealistic yet realistic this movie seemed to me as a kid lol
Moneyballing before it was cool
I don't necessarily think it's entirely Moneyball. It becomes a different situation with one out, or with a slower runner on first base. Also, with a righty on the mound, maybe Billy does have Lou bunt. If they bring in a lefty to pitch to Lonnie and Spencer, maybe it works out. Or perhaps you could send Scales and take that risk, where you don't have to bunt. That's how the 2004 Red Sox began their comeback, after all - Roberts was willing to gamble.
And besides, when done correctly, the sacrifice bunt can be beautiful to watch. That's why I never embraced Moneyball - it exists too much in a vacuum.
@@EricAKATheBelgianGuy Anyone else fall asleep after 'don't'?
Save that for the next-gen sequel if they ever think of making one.
RIP John Ashton
Rip John Ashton. Great job here
This situations and tendencies can actually have a lot of scenarios, you can do a hit and run with Scales and Lou.
That's what baseball is all about, situations and tendencies.
It's hard to be a manager of a team.
Im not a sports guy but this film proves a good movie is a good movie
This movie goes way harder then you would think
Rest in peace, John Ashton.
I love this scene (though it's a little unrealistic for a 12-year old to be this emotionally stable/sharp). It shows how this movie doesn't pull any punches when it coms to understanding the complexity and logic of managing a baseball team
Why not? A child prodigy can take many different forms.
Happy 30th anniversary, Little Big League! I don't know if anyone cares enough about this movie to make a next-gen sequel but my idea was that Billy (or perhaps now Bill?) is obviously all grown up with a wife and daughter of his own (about same age as Billy in 1994) but her dad gets killed in a car wreck and inherits the team. But nobody except her dad would've ever guessed that not only did she inherit her dad's genius or strategy but she's also a moneyball freak too!
dark af, bro
Ever since the logic turned from; Owners pay players to do well, instead of, owners pay teams to win, this logic makes sense. But do you pay the team to win or do you pay the 3, 4, and 5 hitters to hit?
When Billy acts like a grown up/jerk later to his friends by giving them a reality check about how hard it is managing MLB they need to remember this since they egged him fantasies of not only doing it but being a Day 1 success this is one step below being a TV guy becoming a manager lol
Exactly. The “friends” were insufferable. They should’ve been happy just to be Billy’s friend. Unreal!
Bunting with your best hitter while your chances of scoring actually go down with a runner on 2nd and 1 out than they do with a runner on 1st and no outs. It's no wonder Mr. Gosling was willing to give Billy the job instead of Mack.
Billy was practically raised in a baseball stadium.
Jimmy Dugan also hated that shit.
You mean Mr Gosling was convinced Billy was up to the job...Billy was the sole owner of the team, Billy was Mr Gosling's boss.
@@jph595 "You've got a squeeze bunt on with our best hitter?"
R.I.P. John Ashton
What's funny is that in today's MLB, a 12-year old probably could manage a team. There's no "situations and tendencies" anymore, they just plug everything into a computer and it spits out the answer.
That is true...mostly...but you can't just run it on full auto-pilot either. Observe:
ruclips.net/video/lkF-22xvgNU/видео.htmlsi=CULfWPQOeTy97lDW
Man… they really don’t make movies like this anymore
VHS / DVD sales used to power these movies to a profit. With that gone...
He can certainly out-manage Aaron Boone
Why didnt Billy just put Mack in charge from the start? He was bench coach at the time and 9 times out of 10 most in season interim manager hires are on staff. At the end he hired him anyway lol.
To quote pitch meeting "So the movie can happen." :D
@@MafiaGuido exactly. No movie w/o Billy. He was the main character and this movie is about a baseball team owned and coached by a kid.
This movie is about a baseball team owned and coached by a kid named Billy and not a guy named Mac. You just scrapped the whole movie.
Well sure, every hero needs a trusty sidekick!
Because he also thought that hiring Bobby Valentine would be a good move.
If this happened today:
“What do you do?”
“Whatever the analytics guys tell me to do.”
“Correct.”
End of scene.
0:19 spitting facts 😂😂
Both leagues got it now 😆
Whats he need me for lol
That kid so mastered the pissy face.
Thanks for upload
Oh yeah.....is that a spruce?
This is Mount St Helens
Anyone know where I can find 'Night Nurses from Jersey'? Lol
I've always wondered how that scene ended up in a kid's movie.
"Eleven times in three days? Must have been a good movie."
@@ryanloftis1125 Boys his age hiding a stack of Playboys had already been done for a few generations by this point. Nothing all that unusual really.
Sgt John Taggart
AKA President Gerald Ford!
Better than fever pitch
Bunting is almost always stupid. LOL
Sabering it up there Billy.
I assume you want to either a hit and run, but like Billy said, there's a possibility of a double play after Lonnie.
Why bunt when you can just hit dingers?
Bunting for a base hit isn't stupid. With the defense playing back it just might work.
"Bunting doesn't work"
Clearly... you've never seen what banging the ball into the Metrodome turf could do against defenses not used to fielding bunts that bounced like a tennis serve.
I wonder if whoever wrote this film ( a good one) got inspired by Jerry Jones who is owner, president and GM of the Cowboys. At least he knows he can't but honestly if he had football savy and knowledge he'd hire himself as head coach. Reminds me of that scenario with this movie of a owner (kid or otherwise) as a MLB manager.
So how come "America's Team" has not made even ONE NFC Championship Game appearance in over a quarter century?
Reminds me of Jerry Jones because he acts like a freakin child. He and Jimmy Johnson built the perfect team together but Jerry couldn't stand that Jimmy was getting all the credit. When you win back to back Super Bowls within 5 years of buying the team who gives a flying rip who gets more credit. It's not like they gave a damn bit of credit to Tom Landry and Tex Schram for already having Michael Irvin on the team, and everybody with half a brain knew Aikman was going to be their pick that year no matter who was doing the picking. I'm not saying the game hadn't passed Coach Landry and Tex by because it certainly had but no matter what Jimmy and Jerry decided they already had two of the three triplets in Dallas and let's not forget it was Landry and Tex that picked up Herschel Walker for a song and gave Jerry and Jimmy the big name star they needed to engineer the trade to Minnesota that brought all those draft picks and consequently Emmitt Smith to Dallas. And they were far from the only players that Tex and Landry put on the roster that won Super Bowl rings with Jerry and Jimmy. Now... I'm not implying that either Tex or Landry should get some major credit for what Jimmy and Jerry built but I am trying to show how stupid and childish it was for Jerry to squabble over that shit to the point where Jimmy wasn't coaching the team anymore. When you consider the fact that they only added one more Super Bowl ring after Jimmy left and how many seasons it's been since they've even gotten a chance to play for once and you also consider just how many coaches Jerry has been through since then you have to think the man's ego dug his own grave. Oh and just so we're clear Jimmy Johnson was being an idiot too since he proved pretty clearly since he left Dallas that Jerry must have had at least a little bit of influence in how that team was built since Jimmy hasn't done jack shit since then either.
Mack should have been fired on the spot after this, no? Even in the 90s, or any era for that matter, sacrifice bunting with your best hitter is bad baseball. Then he doubles down and suggests pinch hitting for their cleanup hitter. No good MLB major would be doing that unless they’re throwing the game on purpose. It’s hard to argue with Billy’s logic, even if it’s based in hypotheticals. However, if Scales is their fastest guy and leadoff hitter, how’s he on base with no one out when Lou is their three hitter? That likely means Scales is their two hitter instead for some reason. You probably wouldn’t want to try stealing a base with Lou up, so that’s why you have Scales hit leadoff so he can swipe a bag and you can avoid the double play entirely.
He suggested pinch hitting the 5, not cleanup. And Scales may have pinch ran of the 2 got on
@@TheIncredible2IC
Regardless it’s stupid. There was also no indication that Scales was a pinch runner, but I get what you’re saying.
@@randymarsh6931 This is the 90s, it's way different vs. modern ball.
Mac wanted to play small ball. There's different scenarios. Mac could be right going small, or Billy could be right. You can't predict baseball.
Mac was the pitching coach; you be a good pitching coach without knowing what tactical buttons to push offensively.
Can you re-upload this without the shitty popping audio?
Who is this
I don't believe they had an executive office like that at the Metrodome
As much as I love this scene and this movie, one still has to suspend disbelief.
Because if this situation happened in reality, with a manager getting fired during the season, what would actually happen is the bench coach would become the interim manager for the rest of the season. Then, after the season, the team would either promote him to full-time manager or hire a new manager.
And, of course, this movie completely ignored the Ted Turner rule (owner cannot manage his team).
But, again, it is a great movie. One of my favorite baseball movies.
I think they at least handwaved the Turner rule by specifically having the commissioner give his permission for Billy to take over ("it's OK with him if it's OK with you").
@@nmk537 Again, I think this movie just takes place in some alternate universe where there is no Ted Turner rule. Here, it couldn't just be waved off by the commissioner.
In this movie, the commissioner gave permission because the manager in question was only twelve years old.
And I don't think he ever really got permission. Billy Heywood played his mother against the commissioner, telling BOTH of them it was OK with the other if it was OK with them, but I don't think he ever directly asked his mother or the commissioner for permission.
The GM was on the phone with the commissioner, and when the commissioner asked about Billy's mother, Billy told him to tell the commissioner that it was OK with her if it was OK with him.
Then in the next scene, Billy told his mother that the commissioner said that it was OK with him if it was OK with her.
Again, I think he played them off of each other and didn't actually ask either one!
Jimmy Woods!!!
The kid to be awesome in video games.