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Major League
1989 · Film · 107 min
Directed by David S. Ward
When Rachel Phelps inherits the Cleveland Indians from her deceased husband, she's determined to move the team to a warmer climate—but only a losing season will make that possible, which should be easy given the misfits she's hired. Rachel is sure her dream will come true, but she underestimates their will to succeed.
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The United States charged a fictional mohawk-wearing character from the movie Major League, with election interference. It did so under a statute that never mentions “election interference.” In the leadup to the 2016 presidential election, “Ricky Vaughn” (in real life Doug Mackey) had about 58,000 Twitter followers (Account 1). Most, if not all his followers were either jobless idiots, trolls, or fellow meme-makers. In October 2016, his first account was suspended for violating Twitter rules. Mackey belonged to a chat group in which his fellow jerks speculated about how to post memes that would get the best reaction. With his first account banned, one of his “co-conspirators” gave Mackey an account with about 9,000 followers (Account 2). Mackey changed the avatar to the MAGA hat-wearing Ricky Vaughn avatar. It was from that account that Mackey posted a meme that resulted in his arrest for election interference. He wasn’t charged for four years. He won’t go to trial until six years after the fact. March 20, 2023.
Based on the Complaint’s allegations, Mackey seems to be motivated by equal parts of racism and attention-seeking. What is less clear is how a meme that, in my opinion, couldn’t motivate anyone with a working frontal lobe to “vote by text” could result in a charge of election interference.
Check out Youtube's Free with Ads movies. Seriously. They've got a good selection of great movies (especially comedies) from the 80s and 90s on there.
Naked Gun series, Oh Brother Where Art Thou?, Raising Arizona, Idiocracy, The Terminal, Major League, Top Secret!, Hot Shots!, Beavis and Butthead Do America, The Terminator, Delirious, Robin Hood Men in Tights, Captain Ron (crap, it's not free anymore), original Robocop, Secret of Nimh, Ghost, I'm Gonna Git You Sucka, Silence of the Lambs, Teen Wolf, to name a few.
It's a smaller selection and they don't seem to stay Free for more than a few months, so you have to keep checking it, but there's some good stuff on there.
> Why such a big issue now all of a sudden?
Statcast [0] + Tradition
In the past ten years major technological developments came online. Players for the first time could measure spin rate of baseballs and see how it affected pitches.
Players like Trevor Bauer started experimenting out at Driveline Baseball in Seattle. The innovations diffused and here we are.
Now tradition. Major League pitchers have a long tradition of using substances to help them pitch better. A much to young heymijo watched the 1989 movie Major League and was introduced to Eddie Harris, the crafty veteran pitcher. A scene from the movie:
< "What’s that shit on your chest?"
"Crisco. Bardol. Vagisil. Any one of them will give you another two to three inches drop on your curveball."
> Of course, if the umps are watching me close, I just put a little jalapeño inside my nose and get it running, and if I need to load the ball up a little, just wipe my nose.
Pitchers have been putting stuff on the ball for ages. It has been loosely enforced if at all up until now. Some substances are even legal, like the rosin bag.
So technology + tradition combined and we reached an inflection point.
Oh yeah, there's a new substance that came out called Spider-tack, which is taking sticky to the next level.
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Statcast
They don't have rights to stream any decent movies
That seems hyperbolic. Just browsing around (I decided to cap this at 5 minutes):
The Interview
Forrest Gump
Major League
Pirates of Carribean
Hot Fuzz
Armageddon
Kingpin
A League of Their Own
Inglorious Basterds
Scarface
Django Unchained
Legally Blonde
E.T.
Days of Thunder
The Princess Bride
Crocodile Dundee
Clear and Present Danger
V for Vendetta
Galaxy Quest
Running Man
Big Trouble in Little China
Talladega Nights
Kill Bill (1 and 2)
Star Trek Movies (including The Wrath of Kahn)
Tommy Boy
Team America World Police
Lilo & Stitch
Jay & Silent Bob Strike Back
Wayne's World
Clerks
Bill & Teds Excellent Adventure
Monetize? Maybe include a page of Charlie's best/worst films and some other great movies about crazy people. It won't make millions, but it might cover your bandwidth costs. Amazon referrals for Sheen classics like Ferris Beuller's Day Off, Men at Work and Major League, and movies about insanity like Taxi Driver and Apocalypse Now (w/ poppa Sheen).