This is a biopic of free thinking baseball pitcher Bill Lee (Josh Duhamel), who loved the game, but shared that love with pot and alcohol. His inability to follow authority cut his career short. He life is filled with wonderful baseball stories, none of which we saw because the film basically starts when he gets cut from the Montreal Expos.
I tried to get into the film, hoping they would have flashbacks, but alas, we only get to see Bill play in Senior League and pitch batting practice, which he messed up too. Now I love quirky ball players from Bill Lee, to Jay Johnstone, to John Kruk, to Wild Thing. Unfortunately we get to see the uninteresting stuff in Lee's life like losing at pool to a woman in a wheelchair. Bill gets blackballed from baseball which would have been a great story of managerial collusion, but as it was the story started at the end of his career when Bill's life got boring.
Guide: F-word. No sex or nudity.
I tried to get into the film, hoping they would have flashbacks, but alas, we only get to see Bill play in Senior League and pitch batting practice, which he messed up too. Now I love quirky ball players from Bill Lee, to Jay Johnstone, to John Kruk, to Wild Thing. Unfortunately we get to see the uninteresting stuff in Lee's life like losing at pool to a woman in a wheelchair. Bill gets blackballed from baseball which would have been a great story of managerial collusion, but as it was the story started at the end of his career when Bill's life got boring.
Guide: F-word. No sex or nudity.