During Tuesday night’s “Unobstructed Views” alternate Red Sox broadcast, host Jared Carrabis made quite the unorthodox pick for the best baseball movie ever.
During the broadcast, Carrabis and guest Sara Perlman Mancini were joined by 2013 Red Sox World Series champion Will Middlebrooks when the trio was asked which baseball movie was the best out of “Angels in the Outfield,” “Rookie of the Year” or “The Sandlot.”
Middlebrooks started the debate by saying “The Sandlot” is the Holy Grail of baseball movies, even though he likes “Major League” more. Carrabis went more outside the box.
“My take is that baseball doesn’t have great movies,” Carrabis said during the broadcast. “I’m just going to say it. I’m not even a big ‘Sandlot’ guy. I’m not an ‘Angels in the Outfield’ guy. I’m not a ‘Field of Dreams’ guy.”
When push came to shove, Middlebrooks told Carrabis he had to pick one film.
“Space Jam,” Carrabis said. “It was a baseball movie. … It’s a movie about a baseball player who gets abducted by aliens and has to play basketball and then gets returned to the baseball field, to baseball.”
Carrabis admitted he likes “Moneyball” but still found faults with the premise.
“You have to suspend reality if you’re watching it,” he explained. “Because none of it is true. … They had Mark Mulder and Barry Zito and Tim Hudson and Miguel Tejeda won the MVP even though he shouldn’t have, he did. That team was stacked, and they were just like, ‘Man, Scott Hatteberg really carried this team to the Promised Land playing first base as a catcher.
“I’m angry about it. I’ve been saving this take since (2011) when the movie came out.”
Do you agree with Carrabis that “Space Jam” is a baseball movie or that “Moneyball” didn’t paint the right picture for the Oakland Athletics 2002 season?
