Picking Nits
The hosts question Jake Taylor’s supposed catching greatness, his healthy-enough-to-bunt knees, player finances and roommates, his abrupt lack of sexual interest, bullpen-car travel, Tom Berenger’s intended appeal, Roger Dorn missing a TV camera, Vaughn’s accessibility to Dorn’s wife, and lineup continuity in the final game.
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- Jake Taylor is called a great catcher even though the movie offers little evidence of elite catching.
- Jake’s bad knees are emphasized, yet he can execute and run out the decisive bunt.
- The players’ salaries, housing, and roommate arrangements do not consistently fit their major-league status.
- Despite Jake Taylor’s stewardess and paternity-suit backstory, the hosts call him asexual because he never tries to hook up with anyone in the movie.
- The bullpen car’s slow road travel makes Jake’s arrival at Lynn’s house implausible.
- Tom Berenger is described as probably an ’80s rugged, handsome type.
- Roger Dorn somehow fails to notice the television camera crew filming him leave a hotel with another woman.
- The hosts cannot explain how Dorn’s wife finds Ricky Vaughn alone at an empty bar when he is famous and the team is about to play a playoff game.
- The final-game batting order and lineup continuity raise questions about who bats where and when.