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Best sports movies quotes

TheLoveOfSports.com ranks the top 15 best movie quotes.

13. Major League (1989) – (13a) – Willie: “Willie Mays Hayes here. I hit like Mayes, and I run like Hayes.” – Coach: “You may run like Hayes, but you hit like shit.” – (13b) – “Juuuuust a bit outside.” – (13c) – “Up your butt, Jobu.”

6. Bull Durham (1988) – (6a) “I believe Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone. I believe there ought to be a constitutional amendment outlawing Astroturf and the designated hitter. I believe in the sweet spot, soft-core pornography, opening your presents on Christmas morning rather than Christmas Eve and I believe in long, slow, deep, soft, wet kisses that last three days.” – (6b) – “Relax, all right? Don’t try to strike everybody out. Strikeouts are boring. Besides that, they’re fascist. Throw some groundballs. It’s more democratic.”

1. Caddyshack (1980) – (1a) – “I hear this place is restricted, Wang, so don’t tell ‘em you’re Jewish, OK? All right.” – (1b) – “You’ll get nothing and like it.” – (1c) – “This is a hybrid. This is a cross, ahhh, Bluegrass, Kentucky Bluegrass, Featherbed Bent and Northern California Sensemilia. The amazing stuff about this is, that you can play 36 holes on it in the afternoon, take it home and just get stoned to the bejeezus-belt that night on this stuff. Here, I’ve got pounds of this.” – (1d) – “This crowd has gone deathly silent, the Cinderella story, outta nowhere, a former greenskeeper, now – about to become the Masters champion. It looks like a mira….. It’s in the hole!”

Not that I have a problem with the lines they chose, but they went a little too mainstream in my opinion. For example, these lines in Major League were funnier to me than the ones they chose:

Harris: “You trying to tell me Jesus Christ can’t hit a curve ball?”

Lou Brown: “Nice catch Hayes – don’t ever fucking do it again.”

Taylor: “Who’s that guy she’s with?”
Vaughn: “You want me to drag him outta here – kick the shit out of him?”

Ballpark Rankings

SI.com had the fans rank all 30 MLB ballparks. Below are the top and bottom five based on overall ratings.

Top:

1. Cleveland Indians, Progressive Field
2. Milwaukee Brewers, Miller Park
3. Pittsburgh Pirates, PNC Park
4. Detroit Tigers, Comerica Park
5. St. Louis Cardinals, Busch Stadium III

Bottom:

26. Minnesota Twins, Metrodome
27. Texas Rangers, Rangers Park in Arlington
28. New York Mets, Shea Stadium
29. Washington Nationals, RFK Stadium
30. Florida Marlins, Dolphin Stadium

Of these, I’ve only been to Comerica and Dolphin Stadium and I must say – the fans have them right on both accounts. Comerica is absolutely beautiful and there isn’t really a bad seat in the house. Dolphin Stadium on the other hand, feels like you’re watching the game from the moon, which makes sense considering it’s a football stadium.

Father-son bonding: Dad accidentally gives 7-year old son alcohol at Tiger game

Sure it’s tough when your favorite team jumps out to an 11-15 start when they were considered heavy World Series contenders. But it’s no excuse to give your 7-year old son a Mike’s Hard Lemonade in efforts to numb the pain.

47 year old Tigers fan, Christopher Ratte lost custody of his son for a week because his 7 year old son was caught drinking a bottle of Mikes Hard Lemonade in the stands. Ratte’s son was thirsty towards the end of a game and asked for a bottle of lemonade and Ratte obliged but he unknowingly purchased his son a bottle of “hard lemonade”, not knowing that it contained any alcohol.

“I’d never drunk it, never purchased it, never heard of it,” Ratte of Ann Arbor told [the reporter] sheepishly last week. “And it’s certainly not what I expected when I ordered a lemonade for my 7-year-old.”

A security guard saw the boy drinking it, took the bottle away from the kid, scolded the parent, called the police over and took Ratte in for questioning for an hour while his son was taken to a hospital for observation. The child was then kept from Ratte and his wife for two days in foster care, then once released, it was another week before Ratte could go back to his house and be around his son.

This seemed like an honest mistake, but what’s truly appalling is that the father attempted to get the kid sauced at a Tiger game. At least do it at a Lions game – where people really need to be sauced to enjoy the action.

Mike Tyson’s Punch Out: The Movie

Okay, so this is more gaming and entertainment than sports, but anyone that played Mike Tyson’s Punch Out growing up on the original Nintendo will appreciate this. Asylum.com put together a list of actors to play each one of the characters in Punch Out and it’s hilarious.

Check out who plays Little Mac, Glass Joe and the rest of the characters here. Tell me some of these actors weren’t born to play these roles.

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