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Documentary in ESPN 30/30 style about a science that only artists understand. Good segments with modern guys and some of the retired knucklers. Biopic portions about Wakefield and Dickey (done before his Cy Young season) were excellent. Both come across as genuinely likeable. Lots of inside baseball stuff, probably a must watch for baseball fans. Non baseball fans not so much. Streaming on Netflix. Not a normal sports documentary, but very good.

Relatively interesting, but waaayyy too long. There was a New Yorker profile on R.A. Dickey a few weeks ago that hit the major points of that movie in a few short pages. I'd say that movie is for the baseball obsessive only.

Have this on tap for this weekend. Dickey gave a great interview on NPR several months ago about it.

I thought this was pretty kickass. A little insider knowledge for some people but well done. If you don't walk away from it thinking Wakefield is a total badass you might be un-redeemable.

Yeah, I saw it this weekend, and I really enjoyed it.

Watched it yesterday with my wife and daughter. Great doc and I fucking despise baseball.

Pretty big fan of all the 30/30 "movies" I've seen. Some really top-notch stuff made by real fans of the subject.

Blaidd Drwg wrote:Have this on tap for this weekend. Dickey gave a great interview on NPR several months ago about it.

“You need to find somebody in the minors who has all the intangibles, a great kid, just a little short on talent, not quite going to make it,” says Rick Waits, the Mariners’ pitching coach. “And you go to him and say: ‘You need one more pitch. Just an edge. And here it is.’ ”

“That,” Hector Santiago said when I related Waits’s explanation, “describes me to a T.”

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/07/13/magaz ... c=rss&_r=2
Strong article about a different but equally mythical pitch. Santiago was a 30th round pick and the definition of a 'never will be' who made it.

Did they have an aero engineering PhD talking? The aerodynamics of knuckleballs is interesting.

nafod wrote:Did they have an aero engineering PhD talking? The aerodynamics of knuckleballs is interesting.

If I remember correctly, no. I generally when they have someone who really understands and can explain the science, but in this case, IMHO, it would have taken away from the doc.