Monday Morning Mock Draft: Sue Me, I Like Baseball

I watched a lot of baseball this weekend.  The College World Series was good, mostly because Virginia wiped the floor with Duke.  I think that means they advance to Omaha for a 4-team final play-off, but I’m not really sure.

I also watched some professional games.  Turns out Bryce Harper is still alive and in Philadelphia.  Who knew?  And as I tap this out I have the Yankees-Red Sox game on.  It’s 2-2 in the 9th and painful to watch. Without Aaron Judge the Yankees would have a hard time with a good D-1 program, but fortunately they’re playing the Red Sox tonight,

And we’re going to extras.  Delightful.  At least with the new rules we’re still barely at the 2.5 hour mark.

Anyway, this week we’re drafting movies concerning baseball.  Ideally any picked move should center around baseball, but because I suspect that might limit the pool after a couple of rounds we’re going to expand it to any movie where something related to baseball plays a noticeable role.  As a for instance, if you wanted to draft ‘The Untouchables’ because at one point De Niro’s character takes a baseball bat to someone’s head, you go right ahead.  TV movies are OK, TV series are not.  Mini-series or specials are OK as long as it’s Ken Burns’s documentary about baseball, otherwise just stop being a dick and find a movie.

With the first pick I will not, surprisingly, take Kelly’s Heroes, much as I would like to keep beating that dead horse.  I spent a significant amount of time looking for any sign of baseball in the movie and came up empty.  Instead I will take what I think is the best baseball movie of all time

and also one of the best movies ever anyway, ‘A League of Their Own’

The rest of you are on the (pitch) clock