Mitch Albom Trashes Hall of Fame President's Sarandon Decision

Detroit Free Press ^ | April 12, 2003 | Mitch Albom

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There aren't many great movies about sports but there is one about baseball and it's called "Bull Durham." It was made in 1988 and people today still swear by it. It was funny and warm and acerbic and crazy, much like the game itself.

So beloved is this film, that the Baseball Hall of Fame had a 15th anniversary celebration scheduled for it later this month at Cooperstown, N.Y. I say "had" because the event was just canceled. The reason it was canceled was because the president of the Hall of Fame, a Michigan native named Dale Petroskey, didn't like the antiwar comments made by two of the film's stars, Tim Robbins and Susan Sarandon.

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Contact MITCH ALBOM at 313-223-4581 or albom@freepress.com.

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[the gillman@blacklagoon.com]

Come on, it had Kevin Costner in it. The talent-free zone around him extends for a hundred miles.

Any movie he was ever in could have been a great movie if they had found an actor instead of him.

[The G Man]

As Howie Carr would put it "Hey Mitch! Screw!!"

I wonder if Mitch was so outraged when baseball booted John Rocker for making controversial statements.

[Paleo Conservative]

Come on, it had Kevin Costner in it. The talent-free zone around him extends for a hundred miles.

Any movie he was ever in could have been a great movie if they had found an actor instead of him.

Perhaps it is fortunate Costner's character was deleted from "The Big Chill".

[Ole Okie]

In his early appearances, Jack Benny would come onstage and say, "My name is Jack Benny. There will be a short pause while you ask 'Who cares?'"

Apply the same question to Mitch Albom.

Who is Mitch Albom and why should I give a tinker's damn what Mitch Albom does or doesn't do in re: Hall of Fame?

Or what Mitch Albom thinks or does about any other thing in this present world?

Maybe Mitch Albom has published "Mitch Albom's General Theory of Relativity"? I missed it along the way.

[Bluntpoint]

Mitch Albom:

The poster boy for lesbian recruitment.

[the gillman@blacklagoon.com]

Guess so, I couldn't watch that movie. Kept wishing a plane would crash into the house and kill them all.

Come to think of it, he wouldn't have made that one any worse.

[madison10]

From a Michigander to the world: Mitch Albom is a liberal idiot.

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"liberal idiot"

In the future, please double check your work for redundancies.

[Samurai_Jack]

Believe it or not...

Mich Albom is the Liberals answer to Rush Limbaugh

[Bluntpoint]

So shreaks his 33 member fan member base.

[BRL]

Actually Mitch is a pretty good guy. I live in Columbus Ohio but I listen to his afternoon show out of Detroit on WJR (The Columbus talk radio is basically farts and boogers stuff -yuk yuk yuk).

He wrote a book called "Tuesdays with Maurry " which is pretty famous.

He is a well known sports writer, but his radio show is just light discussion of the topic of the day.

He is a tad liberal, but I like him overall.

[lilmsdangrus]

I was wondering if I was the only one who thought the same thing. Kevin Costner is as dry and stale to watch as day-old bread. And Mitch's writing is just about as important.

[the gillman@blacklagoon.com]

I've tried to watch some of his movies, like the aforementioned Bull(bleep) Durham, but I always seem to have paint drying in another room that is fascinating by comparison.

[sausageseller]

A TAD?

Not the Mitch Albom I listen to.

If anything a tad right every blue moon!

You need to make a conservative vs liberal issue list and start checking it off when you listen to him.

And when you post it on FR I will post "I told you so"!

[csvset]

Mitch Albom? Didn't MSNBC have his show on for awhile? I was channel surfing one day and saw his show. I thought it was a info-mercial. The guy is a wannabe.

[Snuffington]

There aren't many great movies about sports but there is one about baseball and it's called "Bull Durham." It was made in 1988 and people today still swear by it. It was funny and warm and acerbic and crazy, much like the game itself.

Albom is obviously confused. "Bull Durham" as the one great movie about baseball? It's not even in the top 5. Let me rattle off a few better ones: "The Natural," "Field of Dreams," "Major League," "The Bad News Bears" (seriously), "8 Men Out."

"Bull Durham" had a few funny scenes, and a few suggestions of kinky sex. It's major focus was the romance storyline, not baseball.

But obviously, now that two liberal icons have been insulted over it, we will now have to honor it as the greatest baseball movie of all time, which never got its respect due to the new McCarthyism. Bush will eventually be directly blamed of course.

[AmishDude]

Many sports commentators and journalists have gotten their panties in a wad over this. I wonder how they'd feel if Charlton Heston had done a baseball movie. Besides, they should be more upset at Tim Robbins who threatened to beat up a journalist for writing about an interview with his mother-in-law.

[LiberationIT]

If Mitch is a "tad" liberal, then the MOAB is a "tad" explosive.

Come on; Mitch is one of those holier, smarter, more caring than thou air heads, who is as opinionated as Michael Moore and just as devoid of any meaningful, workable solutions.

All criticism and no action; and totally unaware of it.