“Practice like you Play”.  The bespectacled hurler who was allegedly drafted by the Toronto Blue Jays, Jay Niles was not somebody you wanted to party with, or even hang around really.  While that was true his desire to win and compete was admirable…and psychotic.

How did this movie not do better?

Considered the spiritual sequel to “Dazed and Confused”, Richard Linklater had a gem with this look at the first weekend of a college baseball team in Texas (where else?).  The focal point was freshman Pitcher, Jake Bradford, a hotshot Pitcher in High School, but in typical Linklater fashion, Baseball was not exactly forefront on his mind. 

Every team has a best player and with the Southeast Texas Cherokees College Baseball Team, it was Glen McReynolds, the probable future MLB player who was hyper-competitive.  As such, how can the best player from this team not be considered?

Are we at the stage where a woman is set to enter Major League Baseball?  Probably not, but Fox’s Pitch is a decent show, and if there were to be a women throwing in the Majors, don’t you think she would look a lot like Ginny Baker?