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Bob Uecker

Also referred to as Bob Euker, Bob Uker, Uker

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Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story The Rewatchables
Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story

Apex Mountain

Ben Stiller’s2004 clout; Christine Taylor; dodgeball; Talk Like a Pirate Day; announcers for a fictional sport

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Approx. transcript time · 01:08:58Read transcript
  • Stiller’s2004 stretch is affirmed because his clout got a first-time director’s dodgeball film made; Mary and Tropic Thunder are alternatives but the group returns to2004. — Craig Horlbeck
  • Vaughn is assigned to Wedding Crashers the following year, while Taylor is affirmed here. — Craig Horlbeck
  • The sport of dodgeball is emphatically affirmed for being revitalized by the film. — Craig Horlbeck
  • Stunt casting is proposed through Armstrong, Norris, Shatner and Hasselhoff, with amazement that these appearances fit a modest budget. — Craig Horlbeck
  • Talk Like a Pirate Day is affirmed for2004; pirates generally are debated against Pirates of the Caribbean and actual historical piracy. — Craig Horlbeck
  • Inflatable athletic cups are proposed and compared with Austin Powers’s different penis-enlarger prop. — Craig Horlbeck
  • Movie announcers are proposed against Bob Uecker in Major League; Cotton and Pepper are affirmed for a fictional, non-major-league sport. — Craig Horlbeck
  • Cash in suitcases is proposed through the deliberately unimpressive appearance of a hundred thousand dollars. — Craig Horlbeck
Major League The Rewatchables
Major League

The Neil McCauley “A Book about Metals” Award for Best Line from the Movie

Split: Lou Brown’s “win the whole fucking thing”; Pedro Cerrano’s “I do it myself”

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Approx. transcript time · 01:15:26Read transcript
  • Candidates include ‘This guy is dead. Cross him off,’ ‘hats for bats,’ ‘just a bit outside,’ and ‘How’s your wife and my kids?’ — Bill Simmons
  • The declaration 'fuck you, Joe Boo, I do it myself' is a finalist. — Bill Simmons
  • Jake Taylor's library question about the whale section in Moby Dick is nominated. — Rembert Browne
  • Willie Mays Hayes saying they should have gotten a live chicken is nominated. — Rembert Browne
  • Willie Mays Hayes calling his first steal a step toward the Hall of Fame is nominated. — Rembert Browne
  • The owner's 'I hate this fucking song' reaction to Wild Thing is nominated. — Rembert Browne
  • Bill Simmons chooses Lou Brown's 'win the whole fucking thing' line. — Bill Simmons
  • Rembert Browne says he loves 'hats for bats' but selects the Jobu line as his favorite. — Rembert Browne
Major League The Rewatchables
Major League

The Dion Waiters Award for Best Heat Check Performance

Clu Haywood, played by Pete Vuckovich

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Approx. transcript time · 00:56:53Read transcript
  • The owner and Bob Uker are proposed as candidates based on their limited time and impact. — Bill Simmons
  • Clu Haywood is proposed and accepted as the winner. — Rembert Browne
  • Bob Euker's unnamed broadcast partner is accepted as another candidate because of his weird facial reactions. — Bill Simmons
Major League The Rewatchables
Major League

What’s Aged the Worst?

Charlie Sheen’s later baggage is the named vote, with Jake Taylor’s stalking and Wesley Snipes’s running called honorable runners-up, before the hosts qualify the result as a nine-way tie for first. The almost entirely white setting, later Bob Uecker imitators, Snipes’s throwing and sequel distance, the Lynn-centered freeze-frame, the ‘off the reservation’ phrase, and Pedro Cerrano’s stereotyped characterization are also among the criticized elements.

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  • Charlie Sheen’s off-screen history changes how his performance and Wild Thing persona play now. — Bill Simmons
  • The team and stadium crowd are overwhelmingly white apart from Willie Mays Hayes and Serrano. — Bill Simmons
  • The future sports-movie imitators of Bob Euker never reproduce this unique success. — Bill Simmons
  • The movie uses conspicuous slow motion and editing to sell Willie Mays Hayes as exceptionally fast. — Bill Simmons
  • The writer-director says Wesley Snipes was such an unskilled baseball thrower that the movie omitted scenes of him throwing. — Bill Simmons
  • Wesley Snipes’s later distance from the movie and refusal to return for the sequel complicate the affection for Hayes. — Bill Simmons
  • Jake Taylor’s pursuit of Lynn repeatedly ignores her boundaries and reads as stalking. — Bill Simmons
  • The final freeze-frame centers Lynn in the pennant celebration even though the team barely knows her. — Bill Simmons
  • Serrano's shifting Haitian or Dominican identity, voodoo practice, tribal music, and speech pattern are criticized as a racial stereotype. — Rembert Browne
  • The home-run phrase 'off the reservation' is separately criticized as poorly aged. — Rembert Browne
  • The final call names Charlie Sheen, gives honorable-runner-up mentions to Jake’s stalking and Snipes’s running, then qualifies everything as a nine-way tie for first. — Bill Simmons
Major League The Rewatchables
Major League

What’s Aged the Best?

Bob Uecker’s Harry Doyle broadcasts

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Approx. transcript time · 00:30:27Read transcript
  • Having Jake Taylor win with a surprise bunt instead of a home run is introduced as an Aged Best answer. — Bill Simmons
  • The movie’s slow motion, especially Willie Mays Hayes running in pajamas during the opening, is offered as another Aged Best answer. — Rembert Browne
  • The opening credits’ documentary-like Cleveland images are praised for establishing the city and stakes. — Bill Simmons
  • Casting performers who look and move like baseball players helps the games feel credible. — Bill Simmons
  • Charlie Sheen’s youth and physical credibility as a pitcher hold up especially well. — Bill Simmons
  • Bob Euker as the lifelong local radio hack is praised throughout and is ultimately chosen as the winner. — Bill Simmons
  • The movie captures the day-to-day aspect, ebb and flow, and checkpoints of a baseball season. — Bill Simmons
  • The roster’s pre-Moneyball specialization, including speed, defense, and relief pitching, feels ahead of its time. — Bill Simmons
  • James Gammon’s Lou Brown is praised as a funny, credible manager rather than a sentimental caricature. — Bill Simmons
  • The film captures baseball's rule-bending, dugout drama, rituals, and superstitions. — Bill Simmons
  • Using the Yankees as the final villain restores their evil-empire role after a weaker decade. — Bill Simmons
  • The worst-to-first pennant story delivers the kind of baseball-movie magic the hosts want from the genre. — Rembert Browne
  • The grizzled manager's absurd hunch succeeds even though putting in Charlie Sheen should not work. — Rembert Browne
  • The Wild Thing sequence is credited with creating the closer-entrance-music tradition that followed. — Bill Simmons
  • The R rating, swearing, and adult jokes give the sports comedy an edge missing from safer versions. — Rembert Browne
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