The Sultans of Swing (and podcasting) are traveling back to 1976, the year of the bi-centennial of the U.S.A. when nothing was more American than baseball! Jon and David take a hard look at THE BAD NEWS BEARS and examine the talents of Walter Matthau, Tatum O'Neal and Vic Morrow, the realism of kids playing terrible baseball, and the tension of adults trying to make children into winners. Plus, the critics' responses, the alternate ending, and the film's sprinklings of child endangerment and abuse, racism and vulgarity!
Listen, you didn't come into this life just to sit around on a dugout bench, did ya? It's THE BAD NEWS BEARS!
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