trouble with the storyline

Rating: 4/10 (2 January 2013)

I love baseball movies. And I loved this cast. And even the essential storyline sounded good - the father/daughter thing. But story twists in the last half-hour of the film really took the movie down fast.
The reason for Gus 'abandoning' Mickey came out of nowhere. And didn't really connect solidly with the storyline.
The entire final scene at the ballpark seemed like they just threw it together. Mickey able to bring in an unknown prospect? The next Albert Pujols whiffing away? The boardroom scene was downright silly. The last line, "I guess I'll take the bus," just capped off the disappointment.
They attempted to take the feeling of Bull Durham and the heroics of The Natural and put those into one movie. But the realism of both those films didn't make it to this film.