MOVIE REVIEW | Major League (1989)

This is a baseball movie that really made the story of the Cleveland Indians, the lowest-ranked team in the league, winning the division title (as you know, it's not a true story). Not the top, but there are a lot of stars - Tom Berenger, Charlie Sheen, Rene Russo, and even Wesley Snipes. Since this is a baseball movie, the theme songs are (1) baseball, (2) friendship, and (3) love . Other baseball movies that I will introduce later - Moneyball (2011) or For Love of the Game (1999), or Field of Dreams (1989) or Trouble with the Curve (2012) - have a deep meaning, but this one doesn't. not. However, I will briefly introduce the particularly affectionate and touching parts with video and explanation.

Cleveland, who has nothing to boast about. Fortunately, the professional baseball team has kept their pride until now, but in recent years they have been struggling. In addition to this, the sudden death of the owner brings the Cleveland Indians to a new owner. Its owner is Rachel Phelps , the wife of the deceased . The former showgirl has no interest in baseball and is only interested in moving the club to Florida. The intention is to deliberately put the team last in the league by composing the new team roster as well.

The team gathered in this way, the seniors who passed the prime, the players with average skill but avoidance by the clubs because of their physicality, the car thief who came out of prison, the Cuban baseball player who can't bend the curve, the player who has little experience in baseball and has quick feet Etc - The bottom one appears to have been booked before the start of the season.

Among these cluttered groups is a player named Jake Taylor. He used to be a top catcher, but is on the verge of giving up his career due to a ruptured knee. His relationship with Lynn (Rene Russo: my crush back in the 90s), who even thought about getting married, ended because of his total mistakes, so we haven't seen each other for a long time. However, he happens to see her in a restaurant, and he wants to regain his former glory and love. As he begins to work to make the team better, he also ponders whether he will ever find his old lover again. He seeks advice from his teammate, and then follows up and tries to meet Lynn where he lives.

His efforts to find his lost love like this can be felt in the video below. In the background, Bill Medley's Mosts of All You plays an instrumental version. It's a very nice and sad song with lyrics:

Woke up one day, what did I find?

Holes in my pockets, memories on my mind

So many things I lost on the way

But most of all you

Pennies and dreams carelessly spent

Pieces of time and who knows where they went

Is there a chance to pick up the pieces

And try for it all again

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The team, which was still at the bottom, rises to the middle ranks thanks to the coach's leadership, the efforts of the old players, and the passion of the young and pure players. When the team performs unexpectedly, the owner gets impatient. So one action reduces or cuts off supplies and services supplied to the team. The club, which has not already invested in it, is reducing even the remaining ones. - Manager Lou is angry that he does not shower with cold water, not hot water, and goes out naked to protest. But the owner who was standing right there - even here, he only speaks contempt for the whole team.

Even if they're in the middle, it seems inevitable that the team will move to Florida next year, and everyone agrees that the only way is to get first place in the division. Everyone who has become one in this way makes a new resolution again, and after that, they run on a winning streak and rise rapidly. Eventually, they will get to the point where they will play the final game of the season (to determine first place) against the New York Yankees.

Below is a video of the entire team running from the dugout to the ground for the final match. This video seems to give goosebumps to those who like baseball.

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In the tight match 0-0, Yankees took the lead by two points in the second half of the match. However, at the end of the 8th, a two-run home run by Serrano, a Cuban who believes in Voodoo, tied the match.

Indians hit with a counterattack from Yankees in the early ninth inning - Contrary to expectations, manager Lou sends team ace The Wild Thing to a relief pitcher. The stadium quickly becomes a melting pot of cheers.

The game reached the end of the ninth with Rick The Wild Thing's save. With a runner at second base, team captain Jake comes up with a clever idea. The gesture that Babe Ruth of the New York Yankees made in the past was shown to the Yankees on the Indians home ground.

It's as if he's about to hit a home run over there - but he makes a surprise attack and ends the game with a second base runner coming home.

The cheers begin and the crowd goes wild. Meanwhile, Jake finds Lynn standing on a stand - her hand is no longer with the engagement ring the other man gave her. From this point on, Bill Medley's song plays again in the background, the screen slowly fades out and the movie ends.

Below is the final scene of this touching scene. This is a famous scene that reminds us that baseball was such a beautiful sport:

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The final scenes of Pre-2000 (after 1970, but particularly between 1980 and 1995) or many of the few 2000s films move me every time I see them. So does this movie. When I see old movies, my heart is sad because (1) the joy of living in those times and the fact that it is a time that I can never go back to, and (2) that I can't get the same impressions at all in reality now. because of that

Maybe I'll see you in my dreams... Christopher Columbus said this?

"And the sea will grant each man new hope

as sleep brings dreams of home"