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Movie about Torre year Yankees

posted 15 years ago by emtylover_tothemax
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Base it loosely on the Yankee years book. 1995 to 2009, depending on what happens this year.
Cast:
Joe Torre = Al Pacino
George Steinbrenner = James Gandolfini
Derek Jeter = Robert Ri'Chard
Alex Rodriguez = Mike Vitar
Roger Clemens = David Denman
Jorge Posada = John Turturro
David Wells = The big guy in Wolverine
Gary Sheffield = Omar Epps(character from Major League was pretty much him) or Brandon Adams from Mighty Ducks
Mariano Rivera = Flex Alexander
Paul O'Neill = Tate Donovan
Hideki Matsui = Takeshi Kaneshiro/Jin Chengwu
Johnny Damon = Mark Dacascos
Randy Johnson = Viggo Mortensen (mustache and long hair, brooding attitude)

[–] jokeboxhero 15 years ago

David Wells = The big guy in Wolverine

Anything with Kevin Durand is a must-see.

"Your son is a murderer"--Conan O'Brien.

[–] zerowing-1 13 years ago

As much as I like the idea of it, I'd have to say that any movie about a modern ballclub would have to stretch the truth in order to make things interesting. Modern ballplayers are pretty bland and colorless compared to past generations. The mid-1980s Mets were the last truly interestingly dysfunctional team. In fact, it was as if the 1977-78 Yankees had been reincarnated in the form of the 1986 Mets.

I think it was Ron Luciano who said that the modern baseball player is "as colorful as a ghost eating a mayonnaise-on-white-bread-sandwich in a snowstorm."

[–] jayhn1111 10 years ago

NOt enough time has passed by for people to get nostalgic about that era. Give it another 30 years.

[–] J_Ruby 8 years ago

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0128285/