NIT Campout starts today...

...and I wouldn't go if you paid me. Two great lessons for me about the problems with pulling for NC State. Occasionally, the team's not going to show up (See BC). And, occasionally, they're going to tease you with heart and effort and then rip your heart out by collapsing in the last two minutes (See Clemson). If only I could just not care... Well, anyway, on to today's sports movie. We enter the top five with:

#5--Major League (1989)
This is probably the funniest start-to-finish sports movie I have ever watched. You have an ensemble cast just dying to make you laugh and they do, for the whole length of the movie. Released in a time when the Cleveland Indians were the laughing stock of Major League Baseball, it follows the attempts of a baseball owner to force attendance down to the point where she can get out of her lease with the city and move the team to Miami. She does this by putting together a team of has-been and never-were players in the hope that their losses will drop the bottom out of the crowds. When the players find out what she's up to, they muster the effort to win consistently, and as they do, hilarity ensues.

Memorable Quote (There are so many, but I had to pick one, so I picked this one in honor of Mike).

Jake Taylor: That's my wife...
Willie Mays Hayes: Does she know that?
Jake Taylor: Well, she would've been if I hadn't screwed it up... who's that guy she's with?
Willie Mays Hayes: I don't know. He's not wearing a nametag.
Rick Vaughn: Want me to drag him outta here, kick the shit out of him?

Today's musical selection:
Foreigner--Feels Like the First Time