Eight Men Out

Eight Men Out

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[raterrizer]

Chalie Sheen, John Cusack and Christopher Lloyd this is an A + + movie and you guys and your movie get thumbs up and thankyou for your great work

[restlessr84]

My favorite line: "You have 8 guys who will throw the world series? I find that hard to believe."

"You never played for Charlie Comiskey."

[hulkyone]

@restlessr84 Not to be vain or anything, but my theory has good logic to it. Jackson was arguably the most valuable player in baseball at the time and Charles Comiskey was a known penny-pincher. Jackson could've wound up playing for good teams like the New York Yankees, Red Sox or the Detroit Tigers. Weaver was also quite innocent. Later in life, Weaver found an attorney in New York who guaranteed he would be taken off the banned list. However, his paperwork disappeared after he mailed it

[hulkyone]

@restlessr8 I think the film didn't portray the story completely accurate. I think that they should do a remake titled Six Men Out, Two Men In. They should show a more reasonable side of the story that suggests Cominsky wanted Jackson banned from baseball. When Jackson was banned from baseball, he couldn't threaten the White Sox by playing for another team or ask for a raise. The team's own attorney represented Jackson and also got the barely-literate Jackson to sign a confession waiver

[sacman1222]

Regardless of the verdict of juries, no player who throws a ball game, no player who undertakes or promises to throw a ball game, no player who sits in confidence with a bunch of crooked ballplayers and gamblers, where the ways and means of throwing a game are discussed and does not promptly tell his club about it, will ever play professional baseball

[luisisawesome22]

that was in out

[DisappearingBoy88]

Shame what happened to Jackson and Weaver. They both hit over .300 in the series and basically had their careers cut in half.

[billj35]

You are obviously a very well informed student of baseball history. Have a Happoy Holiday Season. Cy

[restlessr84]

Too tight a rein on spending, evidenced by cheating Eddie Cicotte out of a $10k bonus and making the players pay for things other teams provided (such as laundry and cheaper meal allowances). Dickie Kerr, I understand, later tried to leave the Sox for semi-pro baseball because semi-pro paid more than Comiskey did. (he was known to provide lavish spreads of food for the Chicago media at the baseball games). If Comiskey hadn't been a tightwad, the 1919 scandal would not have happened.

[billj35]

"Shoeless" Joe Jackson couldn't read or write and he was led to believe his"confession" was simply a staement. Ray "Cracker" Schalk never did approve of Elliot Asenoff's rendition. Judge Landis looked for a quick fix and got it. Charles Comiskey was a tough street wise businessman who held a tight rein on spending. A little Vig went a long way in those days,eh? bj

[billj35]

Kingnat2...I wonder if I got a chance to meet him. The set was totally interactive; John Mahoney and John Sayles and everyone else hung out on the field. On he w off et, I andothers would give extras a ride. A tribute to John Sayles and Midge Pillsbury and all the mucky mucks.