Apex Mountain on The Rewatchables
66:31 – 71:27… switch we saw it at the Grantland party he could have just waved over any woman at the party and it was over anyone at the party yeah Picanets oh we gotta do Apex Mountain no one right? can I make the case for Vince Gully? you can I'm prepared to refute it go ahead I was ready for this I'm ready I'm not saying he's done some unbelievable baseball games incredible career yeah but all those baseball games have come and gone they're just buried either you know on MLB classic games or whatever this movie became the best ongoing evidence of how fucking awesome Vince Gully was it's just on cable all the time and be …
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yeah I think he can flip the switch we saw it at the Grantland party he could have just waved over any woman at the party and it was over anyone at the party yeah Picanets oh we gotta do Apex Mountain no one right? can I make the case for Vince Gully? you can I'm prepared to refute it go ahead I was ready for this I'm ready I'm not saying he's done some unbelievable baseball games incredible career yeah but all those baseball games have come and gone they're just buried either you know on MLB classic games or whatever this movie became the best ongoing evidence of how fucking awesome Vince Gully was it's just on cable all the time and be like oh man I love Vince Gully so I don't know if in the moment it was his Apex Mountain but it's become his Apex Mountain it's like the last document for how fucking awesome Vince Gully was because he doesn't announce anymore I think that while that is a compelling argument thank you I can refute it easily first of all as you yourself said nobody watched this movie right it made no money but it's been on cable forever and I'm sure nobody watches it when it's on cable because it's not very good no that's not true even though we love it no because it's always on cable and they wouldn't put it on cable unless people were watching it so I do think people are watching it they're just filling like a three hour time block but you can do that with any movie they put movies on that people watch Vin in addition to having such a long and storied career has enjoyed the modern media digital renaissance so he's been reborn in the internet age you can easily get a clip of him of any call any famous call their top ten list you're going to have a Twitter thread with all of his best calls an MLB playlist any of it you can get it all at any time you're going to see a highlight of a historic play you're going to hear him that's the voice they're going to choose so he is like actually one of the voices of baseball history in real life and as people move away from the game and away from caring about anything but either their own team or their own fantasy team a figure like Vin Scully becomes such a rare thing that why are you trying to sell me I'm Vin Scully I'm with you what does this have to do with Apex Mountain because he has the real moments that he has have more power than the bullshit in the movie what moment what moment though well 1999 he's at the peak of his powers he's still like he's aged into the old guy he's still way better than anyone who's doing it he's already called all these great games so if you're just a kid today you're probably going to say him like naming Kershaw's curveball public enemy number one something really hip and fun like that but here here are just a handful of some of the calls he's responsible for the Koufax perfect game Sandy Koufax whose name will always remind you of strikeouts did it with a flourish he struck out the last six consecutive batters when he wrote his name in capital letters in the record book the K stands out more than the OFax local game nobody saw it we didn't have a sports center back then Don Larson's perfect game in the 56 World Series I'll accept Don Larson do you know what he said about Yankee Stadium do you know how he described it he said it was shivering in its concrete foundation that is like biblical that's incredible he called Kirk Gibson's Dodgers 88 World Series game one home run in a year that has been so improbable the impossible when you say he called it he called it on the radio but it's his voice I know Hank Aaron breaking Babe Ruth's home run record if you're going baseball moment I think it's got it's got to be Gibson's Gibson's homer in game one incredible so he's responsible for some of the handful of most important moments in actual baseball history those have to matter more he's calling the Mickey Hart catch it was really great pick and nits Billy Stats 30 starts 8-11 355 ERA 211 innings pitched 98 walks 111 strikeouts I just can't figure out the ERA with the other totals there and also the 30 starts 211 innings but only two complete games is just mystifying the strikeout to walk ratio is the thing that I'm hung up on here so he's just 7 innings every game there's no 9 inning game and then he never gets shelled in a game it's just 7 innings it's very puzzling this goes back to my how the ringer should be a sports consultant for all sports movies where we could have been like hey man fix those numbers Tigers were 64-97 and yet J.K. Simmons is approaching this game like things might turn around if they get a win it's ridiculous ridiculous the high numbers on the Yankee jerseys ! oh yeah that's a good one it's like number 60 number 68 number 72 it's like terrible John C. Reilly running around the bases yeah
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