MAMEWorld Forums - The Loony Bin - Re: 2024 MLB season underway and the Bad News Bears

> I still remember seeing this movie at the theater back in the day. It is one of the best baseball movies ever
> made imo.

There was just something uniquely special about Bad News Bears and it was a simple movie to enjoy. The cast of characters, the dialogue script writing, the musical scores arrangements being timely placed during the movie.

When I saw the movie in Fox large size single screen theatre in 1976, it made the film all that much better. I am glad I had the opportunity to see film that way before theatre was remodeled in 1977 to have multiple miniature theatre screens which cheapened the film watching experience.

The Bad News Bears sequel was okay, but nowhere near as good.

> The MLB Network usually shows this movie just before Spring Training begins.

The film also used to be shown in first week of April on the Movies TV channel. but the channel stopped showing that film a few years ago.

> Your Pirates are looking good btw.

The NL central will be a challenge since all the teams in the division are in better shape compared to other divisions.

I am amazed the owner Nutting was willingly spending money and sign a couple free agents which have contributed along the way. The team still needs a better manager than Shelton. I wish Jim Leyland could replace Shelton while Jim was tossing the ceremonial pitch.

I am glad Jim Leyland will finally be in MLB hall of fame this year.