Bull Durham: Live blog...

4:10pm – And it begins...I'm a baseball fan, and the people that share my interest in baseball are surprised when I tell them I haven't seen this movie so I'm pretty pumped. I haven't seen a baseball movie I didn't like except for Major League baseball 2. What a let down that movie was...

4:12pm – I'm sure making love is a lot like playing baseball, Susan Sarandon...

4:13pm – “The only church that feeds the soul day-in and day-out is the church of baseball...”

4:15pm – Hey it's Tim Robbins!! This seems a little bit different than his character in Shawshank Redemption.

4:18pm – Who would have thought that his “pre-game warmup” would affect his control.

4:19pm – Kevin Costner! Prince of Thieves...I would love that Oscar Meyer inflatable

4:21pm – Considering his career now, I'm sure Kevin Costner would love being a Single-A player.

4:21pm – And he quits...movie's over

4:22pm – He's back! What a plot twist.

4:24pm – Tim Robbins is cracking me up, what a goon. He can dance, and he's picking a fight with Kevin Costner. I don't see anything wrong with this guy in the first 15 minutes of this movie.

4:26pm – Well I liked him until he got mind f'ed and knocked out by Kevin Costner. What a loser...my opinion of him has taken quite a drastic turn. 

4:28pm – Susan Sarandon, you slut.

4:30pm – Crash is just mind f'ing everyone!!

4:32pm – I wonder if Tim Robbins got his role in Shawshank Redemption from this movie.

4:35pm – Well that was...interesting.

4:35pm – Hey, it's Marty from Home Improvement. I loved that show. Oh Oh Oh Oh Oh! (that was my way of typing out the grunt that Tim Taylor did.)

4:37pm – I talk to myself like that all the time when I'm at the plate in church league softball. C'mon Crash stop thinking.

4:40pm – Ha! Crash, you are something else. Kudos to you for starting the popped-collar trend. Juicy J and the rest of the 3 6 Mafia should give you some props.

4:43pm – WHOA! Quite the transition from the batting cage to the bedroom! WHOA! It's Nuke...that was a little “curveball.” See what I did there...

4:44pm – I like Cerrano's spiritual antics over Jose's. Is there a guy that believes in voodoo on every baseball team. Will have to Wikipedia that after this movie.

4:44pm – I'm proud of the tobacco companies giving back to kids after the kids give so much to the tobacco industry.

4:47pm – Nuke needs to work on his coach-ability.

4:48pm – Steaks for everyone!!

4:49pm – How do you pitch from the mound and get that far away from the plate????

4:51pm – Dag gum lolligaggers...I'm reciting this speech verbatim to motivate Bench Mob for our upcoming season.

4:54pm – It's extremely weird seeing Tim Robbins and Susan Sarandon in their roles for this movie.

4:58pm – HA! I love this broadcasting...

5:00pm – Kevin Costner, you make these wild claims that you can cause a rain out?? There's only one weatherman, and his name is Nic Cage.

5:01pm – I will give you credit for being resourceful, however.

5:02pm – Nuke is such a head case...who dreams about stuff like that?? Well, apparently Crash does too...

5:06pm – Do all minor-league teams have a slut that sleeps with a promising prospect?? There are so many things I need to Wikipedia after this movie?

5:08pm – Maybe I should try to wear those girly, slutty whatever those things are when I'm on mound for the Bench Mob.

5:10pm – Man, I love baseball...

5:12pm – Haha, the manager chatter cracks me up every time.

5:15pm – Bulls are winning!! I have a feeling that slutty Annie is going to mess whole thing up...

5:17pm – Baseball is so superstitious, it's awesome. I guess since it's such a more mental game than physical, whatever will give the player consistency through a winning streak does actually make a difference. I type this out not to make a point, but to find something else to write about as Tim Robbins is getting seduced by Susan Sarandon.

5:22pm – Well Crash just reinforced my last point.

5:25pm – HA! Everyone meeting at the mound is awesome...

5:27pm – Shower beer!!

5:30pm – Heeeey Nuke gets called up! Good for him!

5:33pm – Uh oh, Crash is jealous...this is not going to end well.

5:35pm – Well that was anti-climatic.

5:35pm – Nevermind!!!

5:36pm – Wait, yeah that was anti-climatic.

5:38pm - “You got to play this game with fear and arrogance.” Makes no sense but I know exactly what that means. Being a marginal MLB player has to be so stressful...and awesome.

5:39pm – Marty gets married on the baseball field. That is so manly. Oh oh oh oh oh!

5:41pm – No way they're cutting Crash...you bastards!

5:43pm – Well, I guess I can understand him going to Annie's place after that just happened. I can also understand why he'd want to listen to slow, soft, sensual jazz music. That stuff is soothing...

5:44pm – This is getting kind of weird....

5:45pm – And boom goes the dynamite...

5:46pm – Don't cry over a gallon of spilled milk.

5:47pm – This music that they're playing doesn't really belong with the actions taking place right now....

5:50pm – Well looks like Annie has fallen for Crash, and she's over Nuke. Maybe she should go for someone will a less hazardous nickname.

5:53pm – This movie is all about using emotion to be successful in baseball, while Moneyball is about using science to be successful in baseball. It is from a different point of view as you're looking through the lens of a GM and a player, but nevertheless, both movies provide great approaches to the game.