This movie is TERRIBLE, what a stinker!

Rating: Null/10 (15 September 1999)

I am amazed and horrified by the praise other IMDB users are heaping on this movie! This movie was just plain AWFUL (and this is coming from a baseball fanatic who LOVED "Field of Dreams" and "Bull Durham").
First off, any true fan of baseball will immediately notice the cheesy and totally unbelievable baseball sequences in the film. Shots of the crowd standing and cheering wildly when NOTHING is happening on the field, the SAME picture of Yankee Ricky Ledee on the scoreboard, no matter who is at bat, Costner's rediculous "conversations" with the opposing batters... come on, give me a break! And what was with that whole "Clear the mechanism" baloney? NOW THERE'S A CATCHPHRASE! Finally, they show a television scoreboard showing the tigers have no hits, followed immediately by Vin Scully announcing the Tigers have TWO hits! CONTINUITY, people!!
But aside from the baseball bloopers, I have never seen a romance with less chemistry than the one between Kevin ("Keanu Reeves school of wooden acting") Costner and Kelly ("at least I'm easy on the eyes") Preston. There was never any feeling that they had any sort of passion between them... it seemed like they hardly saw each other, and when they did, Preston babbled on annoyingly while Costner acted like a selfish loser. YAWN. And that montage where she supposedly "got to know" Costner by asking him inane questions like whether he liked dark meat or white? OH MAN, WAS THAT LAME!!
Finally, any movie that uses the ENTIRE Bob Seeger song "Against the Wind" during the film should immediately be put in the scmaltz hall of shame.