https://staging2.theplaylist.net/steven-soderbergh-has-another-baseba-20091012/ Tue, 10 Nov 2020 17:03:27 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.5 https://staging2.theplaylist.net/steven-soderbergh-has-another-baseba-20091012/#comment-11498 Tue, 13 Oct 2009 00:40:36 +0000 http://theplaylist.wpengine.com/?p=5922#comment-11498 Dykstra is a GREAT fucking guess.

]]> https://staging2.theplaylist.net/steven-soderbergh-has-another-baseba-20091012/#comment-11496 Tue, 13 Oct 2009 00:34:20 +0000 http://theplaylist.wpengine.com/?p=5922#comment-11496 I'm guessing Lenny Dykstra, who went on to success in investments and then went bankrupt, among other indiscretions. Think he was living in his car at one point. But he's also a buffoon, which plays right into the Soderbergh wheelhouse.

]]> https://staging2.theplaylist.net/steven-soderbergh-has-another-baseba-20091012/#comment-11495 Tue, 13 Oct 2009 00:16:21 +0000 http://theplaylist.wpengine.com/?p=5922#comment-11495 The "famous person" angle is certainly intriguing. Timothy Busfeld as Mark McGwire?

]]> https://staging2.theplaylist.net/steven-soderbergh-has-another-baseba-20091012/#comment-11490 Mon, 12 Oct 2009 21:44:41 +0000 http://theplaylist.wpengine.com/?p=5922#comment-11490 Jim Bouton–average player who wrote the first baseball "tell-all" "Ball Four" (and was hated by the MLB and many players including Mickey Mantle because of it)? And also played Terry Lennox in The Long Goodbye AND invented Big League Chew? A possibility.

]]> https://staging2.theplaylist.net/steven-soderbergh-has-another-baseba-20091012/#comment-11478 Mon, 12 Oct 2009 18:02:55 +0000 http://theplaylist.wpengine.com/?p=5922#comment-11478 Didn't you mention David Justice as a possible cameo or supporting role for Moneyball when that was movie was still a possibiliyty?
I can see him being the baseball player Soderbergh is thinking of.

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