they show it again on espn2 @ 11 iirc
― johnny crunch, Tuesday, 11 May 2010 21:12 (fourteen years ago) link
Pretty sure I saw Cube give a look of straight fear in one of cutaways. Davis is the scariest human lizard corpse I've ever seen.
― VegemiteGrrrl, Wednesday, 12 May 2010 04:59 (fourteen years ago) link
^ha just coming here 2 say that
― johnny crunch, Wednesday, 12 May 2010 15:04 (fourteen years ago) link
Oh hey, my cousin is one of the people who speaks in this episode.
― no turkey unless it's a club sandwich (polyphonic), Friday, 14 May 2010 05:14 (fourteen years ago) link
The OJ one was fucking incredible.
― no turkey unless it's a club sandwich (polyphonic), Tuesday, 22 June 2010 03:26 (thirteen years ago) link
yeah, really amazing. I couldn't watched five hours of that.
― jeff, Tuesday, 22 June 2010 03:35 (thirteen years ago) link
* could've
damn iPhone
Wow, "The Two Escobars"
I watched the World Cup game between Colombia and the US in '94, and it was kind of a big deal to me. The US team was staying in the hotel where my sister worked, so I met a bunch of those guys on that team. But meanwhile, in Colombia...
― no turkey unless it's a club sandwich (polyphonic), Sunday, 4 July 2010 06:39 (thirteen years ago) link
Just saw that one last night...blew my mind. So used to the meme of sports triumphing over struggle, and just seeing the way that played out...I can't stop thinking about it. I knew a little, but I never knew the full story of the team or Andres Escobar.
The OJ story was pretty incredible too.
This series...man, they should be getting a sackful of Emmys for some of these stories.
― VegemiteGrrrl, Wednesday, 7 July 2010 03:09 (thirteen years ago) link
yeah "two escobars" was absolutely fantastic
― the boy boy young messi (J0rdan S.), Wednesday, 7 July 2010 03:12 (thirteen years ago) link
zero emmy nominations
― balls, Thursday, 8 July 2010 23:37 (thirteen years ago) link
smh
― no turkey unless it's a club sandwich (polyphonic), Thursday, 8 July 2010 23:37 (thirteen years ago) link
wtf I hate the Emmys
― VegemiteGrrrl, Monday, 12 July 2010 18:18 (thirteen years ago) link
MJ one was cool
really interesting in the wake of the lebron thing tho
― J0rdan S., Wednesday, 25 August 2010 01:09 (thirteen years ago) link
yeah it was rad
― call all destroyer, Wednesday, 25 August 2010 01:15 (thirteen years ago) link
i like how everyone was like "yeah he would've made the majors"
― J0rdan S., Wednesday, 25 August 2010 01:18 (thirteen years ago) link
is this the one that just aired?
― Mordy, Wednesday, 25 August 2010 01:19 (thirteen years ago) link
yeah
― J0rdan S., Wednesday, 25 August 2010 01:20 (thirteen years ago) link
next week's looks great too, about the US team at the little league world series that beat some unbeatable taiwanese team
I really want to see it -- hopefully I'll catch it later this week
― Mordy, Wednesday, 25 August 2010 01:21 (thirteen years ago) link
yeah i had no idea he showed that much improvement. actually if you look at his stats from that year the one encouraging sign is that he walked quite a bit for someone who had never played.
― call all destroyer, Wednesday, 25 August 2010 01:24 (thirteen years ago) link
yeah i noticed that too
― J0rdan S., Wednesday, 25 August 2010 01:25 (thirteen years ago) link
you could just tell from the video clips -- i mean, obv it was selective but towards the end he was really staying back on the ball whereas in the beginning he was almost falling on his face
― J0rdan S., Wednesday, 25 August 2010 01:26 (thirteen years ago) link
Best ones so far for me have been the two escobars and run ricky run
― this isn't STRAWBERRY 0_o it's RAWBERRY (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 25 August 2010 05:34 (thirteen years ago) link
top 5 (nb I'm canadian and havent seen them all)
1. two escobars2. winning time3. the u4.. guru of go/ loyola5. allen iverson
― symsymsym, Wednesday, 25 August 2010 05:38 (thirteen years ago) link
yeah, winning time was also completely priceless
― this isn't STRAWBERRY 0_o it's RAWBERRY (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 25 August 2010 05:38 (thirteen years ago) link
two escobars was some real cinematic shit
― J0rdan S., Wednesday, 25 August 2010 05:47 (thirteen years ago) link
i'm biased for 'the u' so i'm gonna exclude that -- my top 5
1 iverson2 run ricky run3 two escobars4 winning time5 len bias
― J0rdan S., Wednesday, 25 August 2010 05:48 (thirteen years ago) link
its impossible to pick between 2 escobars and winning time - escobars was the most moving, but winning time was the most entertaining. the one i really want to find on torrents is the OJ/day in June movie.
― symsymsym, Wednesday, 25 August 2010 06:01 (thirteen years ago) link
yeah i never saw that one -- should be on dvd soon
― J0rdan S., Wednesday, 25 August 2010 06:01 (thirteen years ago) link
OJDay was pretty great; I remember that day really clearly. I was waiting tables in a restaurant and people were slipping me cash to keep them updated on the chase from the bar in the next room.
― this isn't STRAWBERRY 0_o it's RAWBERRY (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 25 August 2010 06:07 (thirteen years ago) link
as a vancouver canucks fan, i'm prob gonna have to skip past the ny rangers parade footage - watching mark messier's stupid face is just too painful
― symsymsym, Wednesday, 25 August 2010 06:11 (thirteen years ago) link
2 escobars is popping up in oct a couple times--check the schedule site
― call all destroyer, Wednesday, 25 August 2010 11:38 (thirteen years ago) link
another good one tonight
― J0rdan S., Wednesday, 1 September 2010 00:45 (thirteen years ago) link
your boy the ump had the eric gregg strike zone working in that last inning tho
― J0rdan S., Wednesday, 1 September 2010 00:46 (thirteen years ago) link
last 30 mins are better than i thought they would be
― J0rdan S., Wednesday, 1 September 2010 00:47 (thirteen years ago) link
not a huge fan of directors explicitly telling stories in docs tho
unless it's werner herzog
― J0rdan S., Wednesday, 1 September 2010 00:48 (thirteen years ago) link
god "one night in vegas" looks soooo fucking good
― J0rdan S., Wednesday, 1 September 2010 00:52 (thirteen years ago) link
I'm just glad his teammates didn't get all resentful and jealous. Or maybe they did at the time, and as adults realize they had no reason to.
Who the fuck spits at a 12 year old kid, though?
― Johnny Fever, Wednesday, 1 September 2010 00:53 (thirteen years ago) link
man, child athletics are worse than the real thing
― J0rdan S., Wednesday, 1 September 2010 00:53 (thirteen years ago) link
it's interesting to me how all the teammates talk about the game like it's in the present, using baseball cliches and what not
― J0rdan S., Wednesday, 1 September 2010 00:54 (thirteen years ago) link
this was really well done tho -- did a good job of making you ride the same roller coaster
― J0rdan S., Wednesday, 1 September 2010 00:57 (thirteen years ago) link
he sounds like john kruk!
― J0rdan S., Wednesday, 1 September 2010 00:58 (thirteen years ago) link
I kinda would have preferred like 45 minutes of the aftermath of the championship. I guess there wasn't nearly as much footage of all the ridiculous crap that happened to Cody Webster et al after they won, but that segment was just so sad and so fascinating. The prior 30 for 30s have spoiled me to the point where this and Jordan Rides the Bus both came off kind of like "Eh this was interesting but it could have been a little better than it was".
One Night in Vegas seems like it could go either way. I am afraid they will spend a ton of time being like "Tupac's death was a truly significant moment in American history because blah blah blah metaphor" instead of being more like June 17, 1994, and just letting the story and the footage do all the work.
― C-L, Wednesday, 1 September 2010 01:20 (thirteen years ago) link
one of the things i really like about these is that they're (with some exceptions) only an hour long so you can watch them every week w/o feeling like you're going to film class or something, but i'm sure that's prob a bit of problem for the directors
― J0rdan S., Wednesday, 1 September 2010 01:23 (thirteen years ago) link
Watching the Jordan ep finally...stupid Surewest guide kept lying to me.
I was never a huge Jordan fan, or baseball fan or anything but fuck that dude was everywhere back then, scary godlike to so many people...but I forgot how cool it is just to watch him move. Even when his swing is way off, just the...I dunno, beauty in his motion, the way he was *in* the moment of the swing...you forget that it wasn't just hype. Well, I forgot.
Getting the Little League ep tonight too, excited. Can't wait for Vegas.
― VegemiteGrrrl, Wednesday, 1 September 2010 02:36 (thirteen years ago) link
I was living in Alabama the whole time he was in Birmingham. My dad tried to get us tickets when the Barons came up to play the Stars in Huntsville, but there was no way in hell to get any. I'd already kind of cooled on baseball at that point, so I really didn't remember the whole "Jordan Plays Baseball" thing being such a joke, but I was also in a place where just about everyone wanted to see him be awesome...so maybe a lot of the national scorn never made it my direction.
― Johnny Fever, Wednesday, 1 September 2010 02:43 (thirteen years ago) link
Bob costas looked like an infant
this wuz the 1st one that struck me like some major studio biopic that rly ddnt need 2 b made
― johnny crunch, Wednesday, 1 September 2010 02:51 (thirteen years ago) link
The Jordan one was kind of a missed opportunity, I think. The story is great, but I didn't like the doc very much.
― no gut busting joke can change history (polyphonic), Wednesday, 1 September 2010 04:49 (thirteen years ago) link
jordan is such an impenetrable subject
― this isn't STRAWBERRY 0_o it's RAWBERRY (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 2 September 2010 03:00 (thirteen years ago) link