Cinco de Luncho: Ranking the Best Baseball Movies Ever

Evan & Tiki

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🗓️ 8 April 2026

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Summary

A simple anniversary post sparks a full blown debate over the greatest baseball movies of all time. The conversation dives into nostalgia, rewatch value, and what truly makes a baseball film stand out, as the hosts build and challenge a definitive top five list filled with classics and controversial picks. The discussion then shifts to real life baseball with a quirky Mets storyline gaining traction. A surprising winning streak coincides with a new look from the manager, raising questions about superstition, fan culture, and how quickly narratives can take hold during a season. It is a mix of humor, hot takes, and the kind of arguments every sports fan loves.

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0:00.0	Well, let's empower Sean Morash because it's time to Cinco.
0:03.3	Sean Morash in the booth, somebody, hide the castle!
0:08.0	Hot-ticks flying phones ringing Evans yelling...
0:12.0	No!
0:13.0	Tiki's laughing chaos, cracking nobody's in control!
0:20.0	It's Cinco de Roncho.
0:22.2	Bam! Crunch!
0:23.8	Let's go!
0:28.3	Cinco de Locho is brought you by Helix Wireless,
0:31.5	connecting everything everywhere.
0:34.0	So yesterday I'm scrolling Twitter like I always do,
0:36.9	responding to the masses like I should never do. And I come across one tweet about the movie Major League. That it was the 37th anniversary of Major League being released. And I said, oh, that's cool. Wow, 37 years, what a great movie. About an hour later, I'm sitting on the toilet, scrolling Twitter again, and I see that it's the anniversary that the San Lot was released. And I said, hold on here. I just saw a Major League was released in this date. So I went back and I wanted to make sure I'm not just falling into a trap. Maybe I got caught in an algorithm. And unbelievably Tiki Barber on your birthday, both of those historically great baseball classics were released in different years on the same exact date. I did not know that.
1:11.7	I found that fascinating.
1:13.2	What year was the same lot?
1:15.2	93?
1:16.2	And I believe 89 for Major League.
1:17.7	Yeah.
1:19.5	That's insane.
1:20.4	So that's like my 14th birthday and then my birthday year I graduated from high school.
1:25.3	I don't want to be a bad guy.
1:26.4	Why?
1:27.0	It's really not that insane. They released it around opening day. That's what April 8th, April 7th, April 9th, 80s, 60s used to be. Now, I'm sure that's why, but you think about it, Evan, for like Block Possible baseball season, Memorial Day, Fourth of July, those are traditional movies. Really? I figured you'd release it around opening day.
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