If you build it.... He will come.

[Macanudo 13031]

On the MLB Channel right now:

My dad taught me how to hit to the cut off man, take a ball to the opposite field when at bat and just to have a catch with the old man (when he was much younger than I am now and I didnt appreciate it nearly as much as I should have.)

I miss you Dad.

[hundredTT 578]

I’m watching with my parents right now, and have always wanted to watch it. Visiting them and am drunk beyond belief, we are all confused if there are ghosts, or what. Somehow I always get to dunk to get this move. 

[Macanudo 13031]

Is this heaven?

No, it's Iowa.

[Macanudo 13031]

Ease his pain...

[Guest Lobo]

Damn you for bringing up this movie on a day like today.  Gets me choked up every time.

[Surly Bevo 25322]

There are rules here?  Oh no, There are no rules here.

[freyguy 4312]

[NorthLoop 14257]

None of us could stand the sonofabitch when we were still alive, so we told him to stick it!

[Macanudo 13031]

Hey Dad....

 

Wanna have a catch?

[MNLonghornFUKM 8867]

I’m watching with my parents right now, and have always wanted to watch it. Visiting them and am drunk beyond belief, we are all confused if there are ghosts, or what. Somehow I always get to dunk to get this move. 

The ghosts always fucked with 7 yr old me-“do they actually disappear like that if you go to the field??”


James Earl Jones is underrated as fuck. Dude hasn’t aged one bit and still has that voice. He needs to be cloned or preserved

[Cheeseweasel 26438]

14 hours ago, Macanudo said:

Hey Dad....

Wanna have a catch?

I'm not a guy who cries at movies, but this one get me every time.

[RPM 26411]

This might belong in the unpopular opinions thread, but I don't like the movie and I love baseball movies.

[Hate 20157]

I'm not a guy who cries at movies, but this one get me every time.

I lost my father when I was 1 year old, so this scene always gets to me as well. There isn’t a time that I’ve seen this that I haven’t teared up. It’s also why every single time my son wants to do something with me I do it regardless of what it is or how tired I may be.

[Red Five 41035]

55 minutes ago, RPM said:

This might belong in the unpopular opinions thread, but I don't like the movie and I love baseball movies.

I'm not sure I'd call it a baseball movie, tbh. 

[Bevo&Pevo 5305]

49 minutes ago, Hate said:

I lost my father when I was 1 year old, so this scene always gets to me as well. There isn’t a time that I’ve seen this that I haven’t teared up. It’s also why every single time my son wants to do something with me I do it regardless of what it is or how tired I may be.

I'm doing the opposite, every time my dad calls wants to go to whatever I make the time.  Once someone has passed there isn't any second chances.  He can be frustrating sometimes but I was too as a youngster, teenager, and college student.  It's just my turn.  

[landman 559]

55 minutes ago, RPM said:

This might belong in the unpopular opinions thread, but I don't like the movie and I love baseball movies.

Nothing about the second half of your sentence makes a bit of sense.

[RPM 26411]

9 minutes ago, landman said:

Nothing about the second half of your sentence makes a bit of sense.

Pride of The Yankees, 61*, Angels in the Outfield (the OG), Major League (the franchise, although it got progressively weaker), Bull Durham, The Final Season, League of Our Own, Hardball, Bad News Bears (franchise)...

This movie, not so much. I like For The Love of The Game better than this so you can take Costner bias out of it.

[BonzoMontreaux 1114]

My grandpa taught me how to hit, catch and throw.  I went and saw this about a year after he passed.  It took me a few minutes to collect myself before I could leave the theater.  

Leave not a kind word unspoken or a good intention undone.

[Wiler77 1582]

3 hours ago, Cheeseweasel said:

I'm not a guy who cries at movies, but this one get me every time.

Every. Fucking. Time.

When it was on the other day, I didn't discover it until about 3 minutes before this line.  Didn't matter, tears came.

My 9 year old boy asked me what's wrong, and I just said "nothing, wanna go do something outside together."

Then he told me to fuck off.

[Red Five 41035]

Trivia. Costner’s “hey, dad?” prior to wanna have a catch was added in later, after test audiences were pissed that there wasn’t an acknowledgement between the two that they knew they were father and son. Good call.

[AUS-97HORN 11850]

5 hours ago, BonzoMontreaux said:

My grandpa taught me how to hit, catch and throw.  I went and saw this about a year after he passed.  It took me a few minutes to collect myself before I could leave the theater.  

I had an almost identical reaction (entirely surprising) after my grandfather's passing when I re-watched Saving Private Ryan . The very end, when the old veteran Ryan collapses at Capt Miller's grave and begs his wife to tell him he had been a good man... I fucking lost it... hell Im tearing up just typing this.   

My Grandfather was a WW2 air combat vet. He never talked about his service. we only discovered at his funeral that he had been awarded a Bronze Star with V device- both his sons (Dad & Uncle) were officers in the Army and neither of them had any fucking idea their dad had a bronze star.  i'd seen SPR 7 years before and the scene didnt impact me that much.... but holy fuck i turned into a blubbery mess watching the collapse of that actor in front of the row of American gravestones in the cemetary absolutely kicked my feels into level eleventy billion.