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error? or am I taking this too seriously?

posted 19 years ago by postal1419
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I was watching this movie on tv the other day and I noticed something I thought to be a goof. When Henry first gets the cast on, the doctor tells him he must have it on until August.

When the four months is over (it's August remember), they show Henry getting the cast off and in the next scene Henry and his friends are at the Cubs game. While at the game, the scene cuts to the guys up in the office and they mention that in order to keep the team, the Cubs will need to sell out the rest of their games that season. At the same time, it has been said numerous times that the Cubs are just an awful team.

Soon later, Henry joins the team and they eventually win the World Series. Am I to believe that the Cubs made a miraculous comeback to make the playoffs in the last two months of the season, in which they were probably close to 20 games back? Or did the writers of this movie fail to plan out the proper timeline, in which Henry joined the team in early spring (many months after August)? If so, I feel they should have made any sort of attempt to show the time passing between Henry. Maybe I'm just being too critical. Either way, I enjoy the movie. Just curious, that's all.

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[–] TheBeardedWonder 19 years ago

They didn't win the world series. They won the division, which is before the playoffs I believe. But John Candy messes up and says whoever wins this goes ON TO the world series, which isn't true cause division is before the playoffs. So there ya go

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[–] postal1419 19 years ago

They won the world series...hence the ring on Henry's finger at the end of the movie. But that's not what I'm talking about anyways. I'm talking about how the Cubs signed Henry up, put him in the lineup in August and they made the playoffs even though they were the worst team in baseball up to that point. There wouldn't have been enough games left in the season to catch up and make the playoffs.

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[–] slimedevil4444 19 years ago

Well first of all,its pointless to ask questions like that about a movie in which a 12 year old kid gets an arm that throws that hard after falling on it....this movie is about fun and not logic....if I remember right,doesnt John Candy say something like if the Cubs win this game they will win the division and it would be the greatest baseball championship ever?....which leads me to think it was august and the Cubs made a miraculous comeback in a very short time....unbelievable of course but so was thw whole premise of the movie....just look at Daniel Stern as the idiotic pitching coach.

[–] morph1066 19 years ago

Well, Henry got his cast off mid August and the baseball season ends mid September. It's different nowadays b/c of interleague play and wild card, but back then the season ended mid September. So he was only a Cub for less than a month.

This is something I've also thought about over the years and have come to the conclusion that the characters were simply more dramatic about the Cubs sucking and the players like Chet Stetman being horrible. I mean the scenes that we see him pitch really weren't that bad a plays compared to others i've seen in real life. I'm assuming that they weren't in rock bottom like 30 games behind like you would see in the movie, "Major League"

[–] pacers3177-1 19 years ago

the funny thing about it is is that he says that it will be a "great" summer, yet he is in school the entire time

[–] psush_girl 13 years ago

some school districts start in august so that could be it. also, perhaps he and his friends were in summer school; his mom even tells chet stedman that henry has trouble finishing his homework. many school districts give kids the opportunity to attend summer school to bring up their grades.

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[–] Jerique 14 years ago

You do realize, beside the fact that Henry seems to join in late August, it shows that only Chet and Henry are playing. John Candy says, "Henry is about to get back-to-back saves." Well, Chet plays both times. It's impossible because of pitching rotation. And, by the looks of it, Henry starts out as a reliever and not in the starting rotation. Yet, somehow, Henry and Chet help get the team to the playoffs and then the team miraculously gets the World Series.

It's completely impossible for a team to come back winning 75% of their games after the All-Star game. As far as I know, no team has ever had that long of a win-streak.

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[–] phantomshark3 14 years ago

"Well, Chet plays both times."

No he doesn't. Chet started the first game, but was on the bench the second game (and was sent to the mound to talk to Henry).

[–] Dfrostelmo41 13 years ago

it is kinda funny that a "relief" pitcher turns the franchise around

[–] Strunkinator 12 years ago

Even though that was not the case in the MLB at the time, this movie played out as though baseball still had the old-fashioned league style - in which there are no playoffs, the whole league is all one division, and merely the first place team goes to the World Series.

How do you like that piece of satire?

[–] smeech8000 12 years ago

Yeah, you're taking it too seriously. I can't believe that in all the times I watched the film when I was younger I never questioned why Martinella left Henry in despite the fact that he had lost his arm.

I mean, when a kid starts throwing intentional walks and relying on the hidden ball trick to record outs... you gotta go to the bullpen! This is never even considered although it is most definitely a glaring plothole.

I still enjoy the movie though.

[–] patrickbohn 10 years ago

The movie's a kid's fantasy version of what baseball's like. You get to pitch by some miracle, you're awesome, the team wins, and you're the hero. I could list countless plot holes in the movie, but heck, when I was daydreaming about being a sports star, I wasn't exactly concerned with accuracy either.