If You Miss Baseball, Grab A Kleenex, Watch This Video, And Get Chills Down To Your Groin
I just fainted.
This might be one of the greatest movie montages I’ve ever seen. At very least the greatest movie montage I’ve ever seen right now.
Maybe it’s the This Will Destroy You soundtrack?
Maybe it’s the fact that even Steve Nebraska (shout out Brendan Fraser!) made it in this montage?
Or maybe it’s just the fact that I freaking miss baseball more than I miss most things right now.
But this video hit hard (sorry for the pun). Actually, no, I’m not sorry for the pun. We’re without baseball right now, you can settle for a couple baseball puns. This video hit close to home (pun). It didn’t just tug at the heart strings, it Yanked them (pun). It squeezed (pun) every great moment out of every great baseball movie.
Mr. Baseball, Mr. 3000, freaking Wesley Snipes in The Fan. Like I said, this thing had just about any baseball movie you could think of. Well, all except one. I was really hoping to get a shot of G-Baby (R.I.P.) in this thing, or at least a shot of Keanu coaching. But like proper city funding, the Kekambas unfortunately missed out yet again.
But look, I don’t want to criticize a video that’s so perfect. That’s not fair (pun). Did I get chills watching this video? That’s not the question. The question is how many times did I get chills watching this video? And the answer is I haven’t stopped getting chills ten minutes after watching it. R.L. Stine couldn’t compete with the number of goosebumps this video gave me. Hell, I’m starting to get goosebumps just thinking about the goosebumps I got from this video.
The five biggest chill moments in this video ranked:
5. Lou Gehrig’s “luckiest man on the face of the earth” speech from Pride of the Yankees
4. Tom Hanks saying, “It’s supposed to be hard. If it wasn’t hard, everyone would do it… The hard is what makes it great.” Wow. Baseball isn’t the only thing that’s hard.
3. Vin Scully’s commentary from For The Love of The Game
2. Brad Pitt whispering, “It’s hard not to be romantic about baseball,” at the very end.
1. When the music cut off, and you heard the lone piano key that interluded into The Natural theme, these guys showed up at my door.
Because I died. The movie murdered me in that moment.
Because the theme from The Natural paired with images of multiple people hitting home runs, layered on top of the sounds of crowds cheering? My gosh. In fact, really, it was the crowds cheering that did me in. Just to hear a stadium erupt is something that I miss greatly. I constantly think to when this is all over, and the first time we get a stadium full of people again, there’s going to be a Mike Piazza home run moment that will help heal all of this.
Baseball please come back. I miss you.
Here’s the plan as of right now, but it will probably change like three more times this week alone. Plus, this was reported by Bob Nightengale, so take it with a grain of salt the size of that boulder from Raiders of the Lost Ark.
