Lou Brown we hardley knew ye

[rowech]

Actor James Gammon dies at age 70 - USATODAY.com

[Sun Tzu]

"You may run like Hayes, but you hit like shit"

RIP coach.

[digamma]

Let me get back to ya, Jesus. I got a guy on the other line calling about some white walls.

[Logan]

"I'm offering you a chance to manage in the bigs!"

"Let me get back to you Charlie. I got a guy on the other line asking about some white walls."

[Logan]

Faster, but less accurate

[Logan]

Nice catch Hayes, don't ever fuckin do it again.

[rowech]

Better manager...Lou Brown or Pop Fisher?

[Sun Tzu]

Originally Posted by rowech

Better manager...Lou Brown or Pop Fisher?

I dunno, hard to say. Pop was much older and on the verge of retirement as it was.

"I shoulda been a farmer"

[larrymcg421]

I love Pop, but he clearly had more to work with than Lou.

[JediKooter]

Damn. One heck of a good character actor. Loved the grainy voice of his.

[larrymcg421]

I listened to the commentary for the Major League DVD and the director said he wrote the role specifically with James Gammon in mind.

[Bad-example]

Looks like a Cabin Boy/Major League kind of night.

[PurdueBrad]

Originally Posted by rowech

Better manager...Lou Brown or Pop Fisher?

Definitely Lou Brown. Pop Fisher was basically impotent as a manager, hence the Fisher King reference of the name. He had to be saved by others, where Lou Brown guided Rick Vaughn and company.

[lungs]

Forget about the curveball Ricky, give 'em the heater!

[Celeval]

If I could draw, the editorial cartoon for this would be a couple of angels standing with arms crossed, watching Gammon passing a line of anonymous souls. One leans over: "Get him a uniform."

[larrymcg421]

We're out of towels and I'm too old to go diving into lockers.

[Sun Tzu]

Originally Posted by PurdueBrad

Pop Fisher was basically impotent as a manager, hence the Fisher King reference of the name. He had to be saved by others, where Lou Brown guided Rick Vaughn and company.

Blasphemy. You try managing a team owned by the Judge that's stocked with players who can't field a ground ball. Not to mention the fact that his own daughter was bad luck incarnate. It's like Red said...

"Let me tell you something about Pop. He gave his heart and soul to the game...only to get it trampled on. I'd give my right arm to get him the pennant"

[chesapeake]

Pops' grudge with the Judge led him to bar Hobbs from even practicing with the team at first; if he doesn't do that, Hobbs gets in sooner and the Knights don't even need a playoff to win the pennant. And don't get me started about the Knights dropping 3 at the end of the season when they had it all seemingly sewn up.

Lou Brown all the way!

[Sun Tzu]

Hey hey, I'm not saying Pop was better, I'm just saying he wasn't completely incompetent as suggested in the earlier post.

[chesapeake]

Originally Posted by Sun Tzu

Hey hey, I'm not saying Pop was better, I'm just saying he wasn't completely incompetent as suggested in the earlier post.

OK. I'll give you 'not completely incompetent.' Only mostly so. Is there anyone out there that doesn't think the Knights are headed right back to last place with Hobbs's retirement?

[GreenMonster]

All right people, we got 10 minutes 'till game time, let's all gather 'round. I'm not much for giving inspirational addresses, but I'd just like to point out that every newspaper in the country has picked us to finish last. The local press seems to think that we'd save everyone the time and trouble if we just went out and shot ourselves. Me, I'm for wasting sportswriters' time. So I figured we ought to hang around for a while and see if we can give 'em all a nice big shitburger to eat!

RIP James Gammon.

[Sun Tzu]

Originally Posted by chesapeake

OK. I'll give you 'not completely incompetent.' Only mostly so. Is there anyone out there that doesn't think the Knights are headed right back to last place with Hobbs's retirement?

I agree that they may drop back into last place...maybe. Lets not forget that Roy Hobbs brought some certifiable magic to the team with the lightning bolt patch. I feel like a lot of people have forgotten the first 45 mins of the movie. It's like watching the goddamn Bad News Bears out there, terrible. They needed a shot in the arm (and apparently an act from god) and got it. Other than Bump Bailey, who is the right field equivalent of Terrell Owens, the team was filled with wash-ups and never-were's.

They were both good skippers, but they obviously had much different coaching styles. Lets not forget that The Natural was a very supernatural film, focusing on the magic and mystique of the game. Whereas Major League was a film about a band of misfits (who could actually play pretty damn well) that just needed a coach that could contain their outrageous attitudes.