BY MICHAEL GOODPASTER
(FOUR) MONTY BREWSTER
The movie is “Brewster’s Millions” and it’s probably one of the most underrated comedies of all time. Pryor will always be acclaimed for his work with Gene Wilder. Hell, John Candy who plays the best friend won’t be remembered for this one either. The whole plot here is that Pryor plays a shitty minor league pitcher for the Hackensack Bulls. Candy is the catcher and they suck. They have a train track in the middle of their field and life is shit for them. One day Pryor gets a call that he has inherited a lot of money, but there is a catch! Point is, at the end he uses money to have his team play the Yankees. How bad ass is that? Wouldn’t YOU do that if you were in his shoes? Yeah, you would…
(THREE) HENRY ROWENGARTNER
The little kid from “Rookie of the Year” rocked. He had a screwed up surgery on his arm and was then “enhanced”. Obviously the kid over did the juice in his arm. Then the Chicago Cubs sign him to pitch against adults… and he hangs out with Gary Busey. What the hell? I loved this movie as a kid. In complete honesty as a kid this was probably my favorite baseball movie until I grew older and realized that the same kid got to sleep with hot(translation: young) Tara Reid in the American Pie movies. Again, John Candy is involved. Just saying.
(TWO) RICK “WILD THING” VAUGHN
If you don’t like Major League you’re not allowed to have testicles or a baseball hat of any kind. “Wild Thing” is one of the coolest characters of all time. Basically it’s Charlie Sheen playing baseball with a weird hair cut and a vision problem. He keeps the hair cut, gets a shitty leather jacket, and adds some nerdy glasses and BAM! He’s like the best pitcher of all time. It’s totally believable. I’m pretty sure the character is loosely based on Rollie Fingers…Yeah, Charlie Sheen is as popular as ever right now but I can’t list him as number one in good faith.
(ONE) KENNY POWERS
He’s not even in a movie, but a great TV show called “Eastbound and Down”. On the show we follow Danny McBride playing the greatest fictitious pitcher. He had a great debut in the pros, but his attitude and skills quickly went for the worse. He bounced around from a few teams before being out of baseball completely. The show follows his attempted rise back to the promise land. The character is like Walter Matthau from Bad News Bears on a coke binder at a Garth Brooks concert. That’s the best description I can make. The man is just bad ass. He’s vulgar and obscene, but still manages to make you cheer him on. I think Kenny Powers is on his way to becoming one of the most iconic sport characters ever. At least I’m hoping…
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