83 - "Major League" (1989)

     One way you can tell I really like a movie, especially a comedy, is if I repeat the lines of the movie often. Major League is one of those movies and it's because of one reason: Bob Uecker!! Uecker absolutely steals the movie and gives one of the funniest supporting performances I have ever seen as the tv and radio announcer for the Cleveland Indians. Just a couple of examples of many classic lines in the film: "He leads the league in Saves, ERA and Hit Batsmen.This guy threw at his own kid in a father-son game."....."Hey, in case you haven't noticed folks. And judging by the attendance you haven't. The Indians have managed to win a game here or there and are threatening to climb out of the cellar." Uecker is wonderful but the rest of the cast comes through as well. Charlie Sheen, Tom Berenger and Wesley Snipes lead a ragtag bunch of rookies and washed up ballplayers who were assembled to finish last, but pull together to make a run at their hated rivals, the Yankees. There is a love story between Berenger and Rene Russo which feels out of place in the movie but those scenes don't appear too often and we stick to the baseball comedy for the most part and that is gold.