Two Guys Talking Sports Movies – WSBT Sports Radio

Charlie Sheen, Tom Berenger, Wesley Snipes, Rene Russo, Dennis Haysbert, Bob Uecker, that guy who played Dan Devine in “Rudy” (Chelcie Ross), and more…it’s Major League! Co-host Bobby Hensley makes his return from his tech-imposed sabbatical to join Sean Stires to discuss one of the funniest sports movies of all-time.

The latest Two Guys Talking Sports Movies Podcast is “The Rookie”. It’s the based on a true story movie about Jim Morris, who thought his baseball career was finished in the minor leagues due to arm injuries, but he makes an improbable comeback more than a decade later, when he’s teaching high school and coaching baseball. His newfound velocity takes him to a pro tryout and all the way to the big leagues.

Moneyball stars Brad Pitt as Oakland A’s general manager Billy Beane. It chronicles the early infusion of analytics and data into mainstream baseball. Pitt’s Beane went against baseball’s traditionalists in the early 2000s, but his practices have become the mainstream thinking two decades later. Moneyball was nominated for an Academy Award (as was Pitt) and co-stars Jonah Hill and Phillip Seymour Hoffman.

Sean Stires and guest co-host Vince DeDario discuss the 2005 romantic comedy/baseball fan movie Fever Pitch, starring Jimmy Fallon and Drew Barrymore. Fallon is an obsessed Boston Red Sox fan who has trouble balancing his love life with his lifelong passion. The movie is set in the 2004 season, when the Red Sox eventually broke the Curse of the Bambino.

Sean Stires and Bobby Hensley share the lists of their Top-5 All-Time favorite baseball movies.

Sean Stires and Bobby Hensley discuss the Will Ferrell soccer comedy Kicking and Screaming, co-starring Oscar winner Robert Duvall and former Chicago Bears coach Mike Ditka.

Hosts Sean Stires and Bobby Hensley discuss the all-time movie about youth baseball – The Bad News Bears. The classic stars Academy Award winner Walter Matthau and Tatum O’Neal. The 1976 hit spawned two sequels (The Bad News Bears in Breaking Training and The Bad News Bears Go to Japan) and a 2005 remake that starred Billy Bob Thornton.

Sean Stires and Bobby Hensley discuss Miracle – the true story of the 1980 U.S. Olympic hockey team’s improbable gold medal victory. They cover what’s true and what’s not, along with Kurt Russell’s performance as head coach Herb Brooks. As always, they discuss favorite lines and scenes and more.

Hosts Sean Stires and Bobby Hensley continue their discussion on the Rocky saga, with Rocky III from 1982. The movie takes the franchise in new directions, with introductions to Hulk Hogan, as Thunderlips, and Mr. T, as villain Clubber Lang.

Sean Stires and Bobby Hensley discuss the Adam Sandler hockey/golf comedy “Happy Gilmore”. The movie includes a cameo from Ben Stiller and an early career appearance from Julie Bowen, who would go on to star in the hit sitcom “Modern Family”.