Friday, July 26, 2013
IBB Bad News Bears
Poz does a retrospective of the movie, with a focus on the IBB.
I didn't remember they used the N-word.
I do remember the adult punching the child. But only on a rewatch did I remember how it was even worse than I remembered. It was not a "heat of the moment, oh my god he lost his mind", kind of punch (see Project X for an example of that). No, it was the father walking up, with purpose and intent, in full view of everyone else, in the middle of the diamond. And if that happened today, that dad would have been rushed and tackled by every other parent there. But then we would have missed out on the kid standing up to his father, which is glorious in its own right.
In the remake (which I guess one or two of you may have seen), can you describe the above two situations, if they occurred, and how they were portrayed?
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A Straight Arrow reader ?proposed that if a batter is issued a strike-less walk or a strike-less hit batter, that you get to put a runner on base, but it's not the batter. The batter stays to bat, with his count reset.
I LOVE the idea. First, we don't have to change the rules like we've talked in the past, like making the walk that forces all runners on base to move, etc. It's still the same: issue the strikeless walk (or hit batter), offense gets the runner.
Except they STILL have to face the batter. Wonderful, no?
Whoever proposed this, please take a bow. If more than one person suggested it, and I ignored you: sorry about that. I don't know why I didn't see this for the genius that it is.
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