Rookie of the Year
Hey, Do You Remember...?
Christopher Schrader
4.8 • 676 Ratings
🗓️ 13 November 2015
⏱️ 106 minutes
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Summary
As soon as our beloved Chicago Cubs found themselves squaring off against the New York Mets, Rookie of the Year was suddenly on everyone's mind again after 20+ years. Unfortunately for us, real life didn't play out exactly the same way as it did in the movie - but then there are a lot of elements to the film you just sorta have to go with.
Topics include: how inept all of us were at sports as kids, the bizarre (and frankly impossible) timeline of this story, some surprisingly mixed feelings about Daniel Stern's character and his decision to take a fairly large role in a movie he was also directing, the conflicting messages we're getting about the final game, and much much more!
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, do you remember Rookie of the Year? |
| 0:07.1 | Hello and welcome to Hey, do you remember, Hey Hey Do You Remember, a show where we reminisce about a movie or TV series we grew up with, then take off the rose tinted glasses to see how it holds up. |
| 0:32.0 | I'm Chris. |
| 0:32.7 | I'm Donna. |
| 0:33.5 | And I'm Carlos. |
| 0:34.5 | And today we're revisiting Rookie of the Year. |
| 0:53.3 | Thank you. and I'm Carlos. And today we're revisiting Rookie of the Year. 12-year-old Henry Rohingartner daydreams about pitching for the Chicago Cubs. |
| 0:57.6 | There's just one problem. |
| 0:59.1 | He stinks! |
| 1:00.4 | But when a freak accident grants him the ability to throw so damn super hard, |
| 1:04.7 | not only does Henry's dream inexplicably come true, |
| 1:07.9 | his unique gift also reinvigorates the team, leads to spikes in attendance, |
| 1:12.0 | and in what's arguably the most unrealistic aspect of a movie about a child pitching for a professional |
| 1:17.1 | baseball team, gives the Cubs a shot at winning the World Series. And timely, and that's why |
| 1:26.5 | we're here. That's why the timing of this one seemed appropriate. |
| 1:29.0 | So, Carlos, what do you remember about Rookie of the Year? |
| 1:33.1 | I remember seeing this at the Logan Theater. |
| 1:36.5 | It was one of, like, I went several times to see Rookie of the Year. |
| 1:40.6 | And then it lived on in my household many years after that. Like, I've seen |
| 1:46.1 | this movie 15 times at least. Oh, wow. Um, because it has everything that I was as a child. |
| 1:54.7 | That's not true. I was not, I didn't like baseball that much. Yeah, I didn't have a boat. Um, |
| 2:00.8 | but it was, it was in Chicago and I had been to Wrigley Field. And like baseball that much. Yeah, I didn't have a boat. |
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