Day 182: "Regardless of the verdict of juries... no player who throws a ball game...will ever play professional baseball again."

I again ask your forgiveness, gentle readers.  I am still in Vegas and am having difficulty completing my assigned task.  Today 9/2 I watched Eight Men Out.  Quite possibly one of the best baseball movies made, it chronicles with a bit of license, of course, the series of events surrounding the most infamous professional baseball teams in history: the 1919 Chicago White Sox.  This team is still considered to be one of the best ever, it is also the team that set the precedent of consequences of betting on baseball.  Several players were bribed by what was assumed to be the mob to throw the World Series.  The movie was great, showing the inside story of what went down, as well as how the sportswriters covering the Series eventually deduced what happened.

There is a galaxy of stars in this: John Cusack, Charlie Sheen, D.B. Sweeney, Clifton James, Michael Rooker, David Strathairn, and Christopher Lloyd only make up a fraction of the remarkable cast.  All of them do a phenomenal job bringing this sports tragedy to life from almost a century ago.

If you like baseball, sports movies, or just plain good films, watch this one.  Just for accuracy's sake, the World Series in 1919 was a best of nine, not seven, as it is today.  Thought I'd clear that up for you ahead of time.  8.5/10.

See you at a better time tomorrow, and GO WATCH A MOVIE!!