Thursday, May 09, 2013
Glassey: Wannabe Scouts: Show Some Respect
(conorglassey.com)
Conor Glassey explains the difference between what writers do and what scouts do:
Read More...Yes, we often will write about players we’ve seen and we’ll tell you how fast a pitcher was throwing, what kind of offspeed pitches he throws, or how fast an outfielder got from home to first. That’s not scouting, that’s just reporting. Anybody can sit at a game and hold a radar gun or click a stopwatch.
However, there’s a growing number of people online who think the opposite. It’s baffling to me ...
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< 1 2Ben Davidson was a regular on "Ball Four."
Ah, yes. And Billie Jean King came on at the end of that one as well.
Jim Plunkett was on an episode as an Eskimo quarterback who was discovered by Oscar and then asked him to be his agent. Lot of jokes about turnig the thermostat down.
Karras was also on the Odd Couple. Billie Jean King did a cameo at the end of the Bobby Riggs episode (edit: beverage to TN).
and Ty Cobb would have made a great cameo somewhere. Maybe Father knows Best?
Not TV, but Cobb was briefly in the original "Angels in the Outfield."
Sparky Anderson was terrific on WKRP. Wade Boggs got pantsed on Cheers, and Luis Tiant did a mock commercial with Sam Malone.
As did Jim Bouton himself; of course, Bouton also had a decent sized role as Terry Lennox in Robery Altman's "The Long Goodbye".
I'd love to know the story behind that bit of casting, since Bouton hadn't acted in anything prior ...
"Punch Drunks" from the Three Stooges (1934). 50 seconds in you see Moe sitting at a table with three men. The mug saying "The only cut I got was this one over my eye" is "Slapsie" Maxie Rosenbloom, an elite lightheavyweight boxer and former champ (click the link to see his truly impressive career record). The fella sitting next to him is former heavyweight contender Frank Moran, who most famously fought Jack Johnson for the heavyweight title in 1914. Both men made a very nice career for themselves doing small roles like this in Hollywood - IMDB credits Moran with 150 appearances on-film, Maxie with 73.
He's perfect in North Dallas Forty.
"Every time I say it's a game, you say it's a business! And every time I say it's a business, you say it's a game!"
My favorite is Robin Roberts, who signs in with his real name, with the panel not wearing blindfolds. But his "line" is that he has a shrimp company, or something.
Also, I've linked to it in Branch Rickey threads before, but there's an episode with Rickey as the guest, touting his new Continental League.
Hm. I sure don't remember that, and there's nothing on the IMDB like that, although I am impressed by the specificity of your recall. Was it possibly a different show? I do remember the great Jack Soo as the Chinese wrestler Chuck Chin.
Altman loved casting non-actors. Huey Lewis was in "Short Cuts," there are several football players in "M*A*S*H," he used Lyle Lovett a lot, there are a bunch of musicians in "Nashville," and Andy Richter (!) is in "Dr. T and the Women."
Baer, of course, is notoriously and wrongly depicted as a sadist and all-around jerk in Ron Howard's otherwise commendable "Cinderella Man", but the real Madcap Maxie is the guy you see here, happy-go-lucky and surrounded by dames. I won't hold the pants against him since he probably didn't tailor them himself.
and Rosey Grier
Oh Lord, there went the brain cells: "Jim Plunkett" was actually actor Reni Santoni, who later went on to play "Poppy" in Seinfeld. He did bear a superficial resemblance to Plunkett:
Reni Santoni
Jim Plunkett
The day when I'm found shuffling along miles from my house in carpet slippers and robe just moved about five years closer.
The late and great. When I was at Michigan State there was a legend still current (from not that long before, looking back) that Bubba bought himself a Cadillac, painted the word "Bubba" on the side, and would drive it to campus in the morning and park it in the university president's reserved spot, or alternatively just leave it on the quad somewhere. A kinder and gentler college-sports-out-of-control world …
Dr J was in the Fish that Saved Pittsburgh. Ray Allen in He Got Game. Bernard King in Fast Break. (As was Michael Warren, who should be added to the Ed Marinaro post.)
Brian Bosworth was a minor action star, right?
One of my favorite cameos (after Kareem in Airplane) was Trammell and Whitaker in Magnum PI. It's very brief, Magnum runs into them in a bar.
I want to say he meant to see a game and couldn't due to his crime-solving adventures, but then runs into Trammell and Whitaker and his trip is salvaged, but honestly I can't remember and might be making all that up.
George Foreman on Sanford and Son. More mysteriously, Marvin Hagler once guested on Punky Brewster.
Doug English (another DT) was the eponymous character in "Big Bad John", also starring Jimmy Dean. The character is sort of based on the Jimmy Dean song.
I wonder how stuff like this happens.
One of the worst movies ever. I saw it a summer camp in 1989 and I'm upset about it.
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