Blue Chips 2 should have happened, either continuing Butch and Neon in the late 1990s or making Butch a coach in the late 2000s. — Bill Simmons
A present-day sequel with the former players hosting a podcast is proposed, with Tommy Alter imagined as Tony. — Van Lathan
Ricky’s constant sexual preoccupation inspires a deliberately crude hypothetical about increasingly adventurous behavior after a knee injury.
Ron Shelton directing could have made the good Friedkin film an all-time great basketball movie by adding fun and removing the self-righteous tone. — Van Lathan
Rejected roles, alternate endings, Milwaukee production logistics, baseball-player casting, injuries and stunts, Wild Thing history, sequel tensions, cast friendships, and Margaret Whitton’s dispute with Ron Shelton
An alternate ending exposed Rachel Phelps as secretly supporting the team, but test audiences preferred her as a straightforward villain. — Bill Simmons
Milwaukee stood in for Cleveland during filming, including County Stadium and local crowd scenes. — Bill Simmons
About 20,000 extras were recruited for the Yankee-game crowd scenes. — Bill Simmons
Dennis Haysbert recalled being emotionally overwhelmed when the team ran onto the field as the crowd roared. — Bill Simmons
A filming shoulder injury led Charlie Sheen to stop for cortisone shots and anti-inflammatories on the way to work. — Bill Simmons
Mitch Williams adopted Wild Thing with the Cubs, and the movie sequence is credited with creating the closer-entrance-music tradition. — Bill Simmons
Wesley Snipes complained about repeated sliding after getting strawberries, and Steve Yeager answered that he had done it for twenty years. — Bill Simmons
The fictional owner plans to move the team to Miami, and the discussion connects that premise to later Cleveland and Florida baseball history. — Bill Simmons
The hosts find Willie Mays Hayes’s wall of dirty black gloves creepy when imagining him bringing a date home. — Rembert Browne
A Jake-and-Lynn marriage scene intended to follow the Yankee game was filmed and deleted. — Bill Simmons
Dennis Haysbert's Yankee-game home run reportedly traveled 315 feet down the left-field line and hit the top of the wall. — Bill Simmons
The oral history says Sheen coordinated women flying into Milwaukee, and Sheen compared it with women passing each other on the road during Young Guns. — Bill Simmons
