“It assumes you’re going to stay with the game, even in its dreariest, dusty middle innings, when the handful of folks in the stands are slumped down on their spines waiting for something to happen, even a base on balls.” —The New Yorker’s Roger Angell, in praise of Bull Durham Buried in his great 1989 piece on sports movies, “No, But I Saw The Game,” the Roger Angell quote above—specifically the phrase “dusty middle innings”—is one I think about often, not least because it perfectly evokes why Bull Durham is the greatest sports movie ever made. I often think about those famous or once-famous athletes or celebrities who are living their lives between the highlight clips and the short, fickle swells of public attention. How do they go about their business? What happens on those long mid-season home stands in AAA, when even something wonderful—like, say, Crash Davis breaking the minor-league home-run record in Bull Durham—goes completely unacknowledged? All of which is to say I’ve been spending a lot of time thinking about Conan O’Brien lately—first by seeing the disappointing (yet revealing) new documentary Conan O’Brien Can’t Stop, then reading Bill Carter’s terrific book The War For Late Night, and… Read full this story
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