...In addition he hit the sportswriter, the public address announcer, the Bull mascot...twice...also new league records!
That's a great movie.
Yep. Bull Durham is one of my favourites...but it has a couple issues with inaccuracy, particularly this speech.
Oh here we go....can't you just enjoy a movie without picking it apart?
Where's the fun in that? Anyway...it's never specifically stated in the "feelm" exactly how many innings Ebby Calvin "Nuke" LaLoosh pitched in his Pro debut, but let's assume for the sake of argument that every single out that he recorded in the game was via strikeout. Since he set a new league record by striking out 18 batters, let's just say that he pitched 6 complete innings before turning the game over to the bullpen for the win.
Probably not realistic, but okay...where are you going with this?
It's also stated that he set a new league record by walking 18 batters. So, over the course of his 6 innings, he would have essentially walked the bases loaded while striking out the side in each inning (He also hit one batter), for a line of 6IP, 0H, 1ER (Nuke hit a batter in the first, so SOMEBODY would have had to score), 18BB, 18K 1HBP.
That's saying he didn't allow any hits...is that real?
I'm not sure...it's been a while since I've seen the movie, so I don't remember. But it makes my point easier.
This ought to be good...
So assuming that the other team never made contact, never fouled a pitch off, never got picked off base by the pitcher or the catcher...basically sat around and did nothing...and assuming that the wild pitches noted in the Sametime Status above were among the balls that led to a walk and nothing more, then Nuke would have thrown an astonishing 127 pitches in his "A"-Ball debut. This is ridiculous.
A pitcher that was as highly drafted and touted as "Nuke" LaLoosh would NEVER be allowed to throw that many pitches in a Bus League game...especially he's displaying such miserable control that he walks the bases loaded in every inning and hits the poor guy in the Bull suit twice. (Incidentally, the Bull gets beaned a third time later in the movie) Class A is for very young prospects, some of which have substantial upside to the organization (Roughly NONE of which get called directly to the Major Leagues, like Nuke did at the end of the film...By The Way...the previous sentence was a spoiler. If you haven't seen the movie, don't read it.) so I can't imagine any major league baseball organization allowing this kind of abuse to be piled onto a prized prospect with a million-dollar signing bonus and a Quadrophonic Blaupunkt.
So...despite that, it is a great movie. Here's a trailer, which does show the Bull getting cracked in the head by a Nuke LaLoosh pitch. Totally worth it.
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So, I was once watching Godzilla with my parents. My dad, who spent a substancial time in the airline industry, was enraged when the outside of a plane and the inside did not match. The seating configuration was not one offered for that particular model. He was ranting about it when I mentioned an important fact: the movie was about a giant nuclear lizard.
It's a fictional movie. Accept that and just eat your freakin' popcorn like everyone else.
Also, the line 6 0 1 1 18 18 1HBP gives him 3.00 WHIP, 1.5 ERA and 0.514 OPS against. The ERA and OPS look good but the peripherals are horrible which would tell us his outing was very lucky (not that we needed WHIP for that). Of course, we cannot calculate his BABIP (no balls put in play) and ERA+ (since we do not have numbers for his peers). I don't have to run the numbers, but I think his PECOTA would project him as an OK 4th or decent 5th starter
Evil Jeremy,
The film industry as a whole survives one one very basic findamental principle...the suspension of disbelief. You have to forget that nobody spoke English long ago in a galaxy far away. You have to forget that Ghosts don't actually slime people in grand ballrooms, and you have to forget that Danny Glover really isn't too old for this sh...stuff. If a film maker is successful at doing this, you can enjoy your movie.
If the film maker puts in a phone number starting with 555, or tells you that sunlight is made up of many atoms which can explode with a solaranite bomb, you instantly fall out of the fantasy world the film maker has created and the whole movie experience is lost.
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