darkknight1938 that line doesn’t make sense based of what Taylor said. “Would I bullshit you about something like that” then he responses with “you better.....” huh???
I think he meant to say. "You better NOT" but he accidentally left that part out. The director thought it was so funny so he said, let's keep it. I honestly feel that's what happened.
@@boosteddaily1294 interesting theory. Funny how 30 years later we are still trying to figure it out. I always thought it was a goof, and the director kept it anyways. Funny stuff.
Wesley Snipes was almost unknown when he was cast in Major League. Despite being very athletic, he wasn't that fast of a runner and had never played baseball before.
Matt I think John was making the point this was the first major film in which Wesley Snipes had a major supporting starring role. In "Wildcats" he was only in that film for a few minutes screen time.
FYI. Snipes was also a co-starring role in a surprise hit 'New Jack City" in 1991 playing a Harlem area Drug Lord. However technically the lead star of the movie was Mario Van Pebbles who also was the Director played the NYC Police Detective trying to bring Snipes charatcter down. "White Men Can't Jump" was the first Snipes got top billing.
I heard that he's not in it because he became a big movie star and thought he was too big for the movie. They take the piss out of him in the second movie
#2 not as good. Lamer characters. Less heart. Too bad. I wanted 2 or 3 movies where they did the obvious plot and won the Series. Instead, we got Major League: Back to the Minors.
With that kind of speed, all you need is for the defense to put on the exaggerated shift and bunt against it. He would have a double before anyone could get to the ball.
not really, its just nostalgia talking. They used the same scene of him fouling the ball, its just an example of how movies weren't as refined in detail as they are today. Idk why people say things like this, you can have your preferences but movies made today are just better.
outsideredge If he wants to make the team he better say he's 100 percent. Regardless of how he's actually feeling. Which is ironic and funny because he had just made sure he wasn't lying to him.
It sets the tone so well. You know the type of person who would pull that stunt in that situation as well and fail would set the coaches off! Perfect acting
I have always been a fast runner. I should have just shown up to a spring training session when they were doing running drills so they could get me a uniform.
Lol we would quote Lou Brown during the Reds games. I've never wanted a guy to succeed as badly as I wanted it for Billy Hamilton. And he was able to hang around MLB longer than I thought. But he couldn't hit and he never quite learned how to bunt.
I watched this movie in the theatre probably 10 or 11 times. Watched it at home another hundred or so. I have never noticed how long these guys were staring into the air for no reason at 2:10.
I used to sweat this movie so hard as a kid. In the late 80s/early 90s. You know...when baseball was fun and everyone collected baseball cards. Actually its still fun.
my last names Mays and my mom's maiden name was Hayes. When I left for the military I was always getting called Willie Mays Hayes and never got the reference.
Its a top 5 for me. I always have to choose between this and White men cant jump, and somedays its this one, and other days its the other one. They are both classics!
Tom Berenger and Charlie Sheen played in Platoon a totally different movie than Major League. Both are great films, one a dark serious brutally realistic Vietnam war film....and the other a funny layed back feel good baseball comedy. I just wanted to point that out because its interesting and cool how they both shifted from those two vastly different kind of movies and roles.
What Indians owner Rachel Phelps couldn't do in the movie, Washington Senators owner Bob Short succeeded which was run the team into the ground so they could move to Texas.
And again, executed to perfection by Jeffrey Loria of the, then, Montreal Expos so they could be taken over major league baseball and moved to Washington, DC. With Loria getting the, then, Florida Marlins, now Miami Marlins.
shepardbook You forgot that Loria tried to extort Montreal into building Labbat's Park when the city was closing schools and hospitals and had no money for it. So he traded it to MLB ownership in exchange for the Marlins. He did force Miami to build Marlins Park. Two years after the Expos moved to DC, they finally got a deep pocketed owner in local shopping center magnet Ted Lerner.
It was a joke IMO what Mr. Short did for DC. Should have just sold the team to a local Businessman i.e Abe Polin who later owned the NBA Bullets/Wizards and then NHL Expansion club the Capitals. Worse case scenario Short or another new Senators Owners could have just built a new 40,000-seat baseball only ballpark in say Arlington County Virginia or the Maryland area suburbs. And North Texas (Dallas area)gets a NL or AL expansion team.
Loria should be in jail in way he blackmailed and ran to the ground both the Expos and Marlins. Maybe the most crooked sports owner at least in modern North American sports history.
@@americangiant1003 Nah Bruce McNall all the way. John Candy (RIP) didnt even want anything to do with the Argos or the CFL anymore cause of him, and that's *before* all the counterfeiting
My favorite part in the entire movie is when that guy from the Yankees say Jesus Taylor, what are you doing back up here? Taylor responds, I couldn't cut it in the Mexican league lol.
Not only the best baseball movie ever, the best comedy ever. I'm 36 and have easily seen this movie 50 times. Every line is funny. Not a single joke falls flat. Plus there are a million quotable one liners that crack me up. "Jake's a professional baseball player for the Indians". "Here in Cleveland? I didn't know they still had a team". "Oh, ya. We got uniforms and every thing else. It's real great". "I've heard baseball players make very good salaries these days". "I make the league minimum". Awkward
@@iamthem.a.n.middleagednerd1053 that's about $167,600 in today's dollars. A very good living, but probably not enough to impress the rich people at the party.
It's funny.... Hayes is cut because he wasn't on the roster, nor was he properly invited to camp. So they ejected him. However, earlier in the movie the 3 guys at the diner were reading the spring training list of players and they say: "Ricky Vaughn...Willie Hayes? I never heard of most of em! Mitchell Friedman??" How could Willie Hayes name have been in the paper if he snuck his way into camp and they didnt know who he was??
Even though it's a Comedy-Drama I agree that Major League I and even ML2 are very underrated among the best 'reality' type sports-themed movies made at least in last 35-40 years. FYI. Remember the Titans is of course based on a true story at a High School football team in Northern Virginia (Washington DC suburbs)around 1970.
Get him a uniform.
Damn, what a great fucking voice. RIP James Gammon
Geoffrey Stowell well basically baseball uniforms are pajamas🙄depeding how hungover and yet wake up call for run timeimgs
Who used heart attack? Me 😂 r.i.p
"U wanna manage the Indians?"
"Weeelll, I dunno. Gotta guy on the other line about a setta white walls"
@@russmartin9549 one of the greatest lines in the whole movie! 😅😅😅
Siverado: You brought a posse to my best hideout and you ask me if I mind?
I love when he tries to bounce the bat and the assistant coach loses it LOL
Absolutely my favorite underappreciated gag in the entire movie.
Totally! Always makes me snicker!
Gets me every time. Lol. Hes like."This fuckin guy."
Haha! Same here. Tries to keep his cool but you know in his head he's just like, "FFS!!!!"
Classic!
when you only upgrade speed
TheyActually and contact
Lmao I can relate
In what
@@Moore44 MLB the Show
@MANCHESTER UNITED We didnt say anything bad about soccer wtf
I love the coach's response to Taylor: "You better, if you want to make this team". Lol
darkknight1938 that line doesn’t make sense based of what Taylor said. “Would I bullshit you about something like that” then he responses with “you better.....” huh???
weebabyshakeus basically he’s telling him that even f he doesn’t feel 100% confident, he better tell the coach he does otherwise he won’t play
I think he meant to say. "You better NOT" but he accidentally left that part out. The director thought it was so funny so he said, let's keep it. I honestly feel that's what happened.
He was trying to tell the catcher that he better bs him/suck up to him in order to play because he knows he's not at 100%
@@boosteddaily1294 interesting theory. Funny how 30 years later we are still trying to figure it out. I always thought it was a goof, and the director kept it anyways. Funny stuff.
Wesley Snipes was almost unknown when he was cast in Major League. Despite being very athletic, he wasn't that fast of a runner and had never played baseball before.
If you notice he never throws a baseball during the entire movie.
Matt I think John was making the point this was the first major film in which Wesley Snipes had a major supporting starring role. In "Wildcats" he was only in that film for a few minutes screen time.
didnt he play in white men cant jump
Yes he did. "White Men can't Jump" was the first movie in which Mr. Snipes was the lead star (along with Woody Harrleson) of a major film.
FYI. Snipes was also a co-starring role in a surprise hit 'New Jack City" in 1991 playing a Harlem area Drug Lord. However technically the lead star of the movie was Mario Van Pebbles who also was the Director played the NYC Police Detective trying to bring Snipes charatcter down.
"White Men Can't Jump" was the first Snipes got top billing.
My man, Hays, got out of bed, jumped the fence, got a late start behind the two racing and still won BAREFOOT! I love this movie
"Shit I Been Cut Already" 🤣🤣🤣🤣 Wesley Snipes Nailed Every Moment In This Movie I Hated The 2nd Movie Because He's Not In It.
J Ortiz95 he’s in it isn’t he?
No. Omar Epps is Willie Mays-Hayes in Major League 2
I heard that he's not in it because he became a big movie star and thought he was too big for the movie.
They take the piss out of him in the second movie
NaniGaming they couldn’t afford him lol
#2 not as good. Lamer characters. Less heart. Too bad. I wanted 2 or 3 movies where they did the obvious plot and won the Series. Instead, we got Major League: Back to the Minors.
I loved it when he pops it up during a spring training game and he drops and starts doing pushups.
Wesley running from the tax man
Greedy D 💀💀
Exactly Greedy D! LOL
Come on man 😂🤣😔
As he should.
Damn...
one of the best ensemble movies ever. the various story arcs are all done so well.
gotta remake it now with the guardians and an all transgender cast!!!
This movie is so good and still as funny as when it came out. The coaches are underrated.
Nice of Hall and Oates to come and run with Willie Mays Hayes
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
💀💀💀
Lmao
Burn.
😂😂😂😂😂
Wesley Snipes was a great choice for his character.
And Omar Epps sucked in the sequel
@@jonstefanik9400 I Was Disappointed Wesley Snipes Wasn't In The Sequel
@@rdg760jr2 Everyone was. Everyone with taste in movies I mean.
...or Jaleel White ...aka Urkel.
@@rdg760jr2 his cap shrunk
"You may run like Mayes but you hit like s***". Lmao
Hayes, as in 'Bullet' Bob...
The cable TV edit was "hit like his sister." I thought that was funnier
Honestly one of the best. That coach had the perfect deadpan delivery. What a classic movie!
“You should hit the ball on the ground and be legging them out.” I’ll take Things You’ll Never Hear a Hitting Coach Say Anymore for 500, please.
Underrated comment
Yeah he's got the launch angle about right. Out of the park or a strike out.
With that kind of speed, all you need is for the defense to put on the exaggerated shift and bunt against it. He would have a double before anyone could get to the ball.
What’s the movie called
@@r0cky178 Major League. They made a bunch of sequels.....that got progressively worse and worse.
Is it me or was that a decent throw to second? Come on short, dig it.
Ari lmao I was scrolling looking for someone to say this. Was that Dorn going to second for throw? Get in front of it man it’s right there!
wondersplaysgames he’s doing that ole bullshit again, he’s gonna owe some sit-ups
Ari he’s giving them that OOOOLAY bullshit
It was a solid throw
but he bounced it, and knowing how good Jake used to be, that is why he was upset
RIP Willie Mays Hayes
The music when Snipes is in the box, is calmingly funny to me.
This was a hell of a movie and sadly we won’t see something like it again.
I got good news for ya…
isn't there going to be a new one of these
not really, its just nostalgia talking. They used the same scene of him fouling the ball, its just an example of how movies weren't as refined in detail as they are today.
Idk why people say things like this, you can have your preferences but movies made today are just better.
Bill Durham is great baseball comedy. But I highly suggest doing a TH-cam search of Savannah Bananas. Banana Ball is the future!
@@gavin3895 🤣
I love these clips reminding me how funny this movie was. Good baseball , good cast, great comedy!
You may run like Mays but you hit like shit.
From the french version: "You may run like a gazelle, but you hit like a shoe sole". (Trust me, it rhymes in french) :D
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Ryan Wile 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Same here
I must have been watching the TV version, because I remember it as "You may run like Mays, but you hit like his sister..." Still funny.
Would I bullshit you about something like that???
You better , if you wanna make this team 😂😂
That line confuses me. Is he saying he better be 100%? Or that he better tell him what he wants to hear?
outsideredge If he wants to make the team he better say he's 100 percent. Regardless of how he's actually feeling. Which is ironic and funny because he had just made sure he wasn't lying to him.
SECOND BASE!.....shit.
1:19 That bat fail kills me every time. 🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣
It sets the tone so well. You know the type of person who would pull that stunt in that situation as well and fail would set the coaches off! Perfect acting
Wesley’s foul tips had me dying 🤣🤣
The push-ups too.
Those were pop-ups.
"Let me think it over will you, Charlie? I got a guy on the other line about some whitewalls. I'll talk you later." LOL
1:20 Leach's reaction when Hayes is jacking around and drops the bat...😂😂
80s sound editing and music could tell a story with such few words.
i love the scene where he hits a pop up in the game and instead of running to first, he just starts doing push ups over the plate LMFAO
I have always been a fast runner. I should have just shown up to a spring training session when they were doing running drills so they could get me a uniform.
That late 80s/early 90s groovy-funky bass music at 0:14 when the guy starts running
I love how he puts so much force into his swing, and all he produces are 10 foot pop ups
This movie was trying to be silly, like 'oh he's fast, let's give him a chance, lol' but now they actually do that.
Yes in NFL
@@ps-yk8su baseball too. There are players that pretty much only get in to pinch run for the slow designated hitters.
1:43 every team manager talking to billy Hamilton
For real, the only reason I'd use him is to pinch run
Lol we would quote Lou Brown during the Reds games. I've never wanted a guy to succeed as badly as I wanted it for Billy Hamilton. And he was able to hang around MLB longer than I thought. But he couldn't hit and he never quite learned how to bunt.
I watched this movie in the theatre probably 10 or 11 times. Watched it at home another hundred or so. I have never noticed how long these guys were staring into the air for no reason at 2:10.
Good catch. Wow
I used to sweat this movie so hard as a kid. In the late 80s/early 90s. You know...when baseball was fun and everyone collected baseball cards. Actually its still fun.
Lies again? MLS MLB
90's, god how I miss it.
It was fun, but the problem with “everyone” collecting baseball cards then is every card besides a few execeptions are worthless😂.
1:18 i've seen this movie a hundred times and this always makes me laugh.
Hayes doing his little shimmy.
It makes the women here in Cleveland laugh.
my last names Mays and my mom's maiden name was Hayes. When I left for the military I was always getting called Willie Mays Hayes and never got the reference.
I finally understand
Well, Say Hey!
Thank you for your service
Git gud
two great men. legends.
Willie mays Hayes is Kenny lofton
+nicky21111 Ya know, I used to think the same thing back in the day watching him play for the Braves and the Indians
Lmao the guy hitting at the end is literally the old version of Myles Straw
Wesley Snipes was great!
best baseball movie ever made, hands down - never should've made anymore after this classic.
1:30 the soundtrack to Major League is a classic and is a masterpiece
Who have the name???
Pleeassseeee
Burn on big river!
Name of the song please
Randy Newman. So many good songs. Pennies And Dreams is a masterpiece.
I love it when he pops one in the first game and just starts doing pushups
I didn't care much for this movie when it first came out but......I love it now. The baseball scenes are outrageously good.
Every time i see you hit one in the air, you owe me 20 push-ups. So funny
This is the type of coaching I grew up on and loved. Told the man you run like a hall of fame but you hit like 💩. Classic
Such a funny movie
Never gets old
Its a top 5 for me. I always have to choose between this and White men cant jump, and somedays its this one, and other days its the other one. They are both classics!
Crazy that James Gammon was only 49 here. Now a days people would probably guess he was in his late 60's.
I watched this movie almost every day as a kid. Wesley Snipes taught me how to run.
Tom Berenger and Charlie Sheen played in Platoon a totally different movie than Major League. Both are great films, one a dark serious brutally realistic Vietnam war film....and the other a funny layed back feel good baseball comedy. I just wanted to point that out because its interesting and cool how they both shifted from those two vastly different kind of movies and roles.
The dubbed line is pretty good too.
"You may run like Mays but you hit like his sister."
Best coach ever
1:30 is the music I hear in my head whenever I play baseball
By chance, do you know what that tune is called?
"How am I gonna hit the ball if i can't lift my arms!?" LOL!!
*"This guy here is **_dead!"_*
Some of these guys are movers?
Lol " then take him off the list"
@sisuphos that's her best line in the movie.
Anybody like to see teams cut players like that security grabbing the bed the player is in and taking them outside with their luggage next to them?
StripperTipper-405 you are illiterate because that’s a functional sentence
That's a run on sentence. Like that girl from band camp. - American pie.
Well, not to piss on the scene but they don't stay in dorms in spring training. In reality they simply wouldn't allow him onto the field.
Well, as you recall, it's not that he was "cut". He was never even invited.
What Indians owner Rachel Phelps couldn't do in the movie, Washington Senators owner Bob Short succeeded which was run the team into the ground so they could move to Texas.
And again, executed to perfection by Jeffrey Loria of the, then, Montreal Expos so they could be taken over major league baseball and moved to Washington, DC. With Loria getting the, then, Florida Marlins, now Miami Marlins.
shepardbook You forgot that Loria tried to extort Montreal into building Labbat's Park when the city was closing schools and hospitals and had no money for it. So he traded it to MLB ownership in exchange for the Marlins. He did force Miami to build Marlins Park.
Two years after the Expos moved to DC, they finally got a deep pocketed owner in local shopping center magnet Ted Lerner.
It was a joke IMO what Mr. Short did for DC. Should have just sold the team to a local Businessman i.e Abe Polin who later owned the NBA Bullets/Wizards and then NHL Expansion club the Capitals.
Worse case scenario Short or another new Senators Owners could have just built a new 40,000-seat baseball only ballpark in say Arlington County Virginia or the Maryland area suburbs. And North Texas (Dallas area)gets a NL or AL expansion team.
Loria should be in jail in way he blackmailed and ran to the ground both the Expos and Marlins. Maybe the most crooked sports owner at least in modern North American sports history.
@@americangiant1003 Nah Bruce McNall all the way. John Candy (RIP) didnt even want anything to do with the Argos or the CFL anymore cause of him, and that's *before* all the counterfeiting
1:42 my favourite line
0:16
Me: That’s Blade - runner 🧛🏾♂️⚔️🏃
🤪
Hayes' speed is even more impressive that he caught up then passed the two guys wearing cleats while he's barefoot.
that sign @2:05 says "KFC $500 chicken"
500$ that expensive
Watching this before they remove this movie for having the "Indians"
1:50 That’s My Favorite Part
God damn I love this movie
My favorite part in the entire movie is when that guy from the Yankees say Jesus Taylor, what are you doing back up here? Taylor responds, I couldn't cut it in the Mexican league lol.
Hell yeah 🤣🤣🤣🤣
"How's your wife and my kids?"
The Running Man
I forgot how much charisma Wesley snipes had 😂 dude was so great.
Hayes has the most stylish batting wind-up I've ever seen. Hilarious.
1:43 I remember that the censored-for-TV line was "You may run Mays, but you hit like his sister." I kinda liked that. :)
Not only the best baseball movie ever, the best comedy ever. I'm 36 and have easily seen this movie 50 times. Every line is funny. Not a single joke falls flat. Plus there are a million quotable one liners that crack me up.
"Jake's a professional baseball player for the Indians".
"Here in Cleveland? I didn't know they still had a team".
"Oh, ya. We got uniforms and every thing else. It's real great".
"I've heard baseball players make very good salaries these days".
"I make the league minimum".
Awkward
The league minimum was probably 50k in 1989. Still not too bad. Today it's probably $2M thanks to all the strikes and lockouts
@@ps-yk8su Good guess. I looked it up; $68,000 league minimum in '89
@@iamthem.a.n.middleagednerd1053 that's about $167,600 in today's dollars. A very good living, but probably not enough to impress the rich people at the party.
With that launch angle in 2017, Willie Mays Hayes woulda hit 30 dingers
JOEYdaMUSH at Fenway perhaps
1:21
That little turn by Leach is always funny. Hes an underrated part of this movie
Dude I laugh more at that then the actual bat flip try.. lol
Best sports movie ever!
It is today in 2022.
RIP James Gammon
Fun fact: Wesley Snipes is actually so slow in real life all his scenes were shot in slow motion to make him look fast.
Lol
He actually is really slow
I heard about that in a DVD special features.
This is by far my favorite baseball movie.
Only in Cleveland..... *manager sees guy running in pajamas* .....”Get him a uniform”
The music at 1:30 makes it that much more entertaining. Reminds me of “Benny Hill.”
It's funny.... Hayes is cut because he wasn't on the roster, nor was he properly invited to camp. So they ejected him.
However, earlier in the movie the 3 guys at the diner were reading the spring training list of players and they say:
"Ricky Vaughn...Willie Hayes? I never heard of most of em! Mitchell Friedman??"
How could Willie Hayes name have been in the paper if he snuck his way into camp and they didnt know who he was??
This guy's dead!
Old movies are the best.
Lmao, he’s fking hilarious! Shoutout to Wesley Mfking Snipes
'..get him a uniform..' I've said that many times in many softball and bowling leagues over the years.
You may run like Hays , but you hit like shit ! .....lol
Was just about to say this. Man this movie has so many great lines.
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I love this movie... no matter how many times I watch it 🙂
I dont care what anyone says, this is the best baseball movie of all time.
Chairman Meow No Question About It 10/10 ☆☆☆☆☆
This is one of the best movies ever.
This movie, Field Of Dreams, and Remember The Titans....best sports movies ever
Even though it's a Comedy-Drama I agree that Major League I and even ML2 are very underrated among the best 'reality' type sports-themed movies made at least in last 35-40 years.
FYI. Remember the Titans is of course based on a true story at a High School football team in Northern Virginia (Washington DC suburbs)around 1970.
42 is great
Bull Durham is a great baseball movie.
Slap shots
Miracle
The Cleveland who? It’s the guardians now. 🤦♂️
1:15 is one of my favorite movie scenes of all time. love that song too, though no one knows the name
The “you better if you want to make this team” is one of my favorites
He's the freeze
So this is what Staff Sergeant Barnes did before going to Vietnam lol
Wish you added the part where the security guards lifted the bed with Willie in it.
When willie mays hay is running, thats me when i see girls watching me in gym class.
Movie still makes me laugh 😂😂🤣🤣‼️ Classic
Major League 2 was missing something badly.
Wesley Snipes
Ok but I need to know the song when he starts swinging tho 1:29 😭🙏
It's groovy!
i want it too
That's Wesley Snipes!!
my favorite sports movie of all time
I gotta look for this next time im at disc traders I love this movie