well now. THATS what im talkin about.

Of course that is except for the asshats who watch that clip and discount it by saying that "Well, hell... everybody knows them female softball players are all lesbians!". ;)

P.S. It bears noting that I SUCK at softball!

An emotionally satisfying sports story with powerful music to drive the emotions home. But that's just it, it's a story, and we humans have been telling them since the beginning of time.

This short film represents our loftiest ideals, the highest, brightest, and greatest places of the human heart as experience through storytelling, and in this case, the artistic expressions of musical scores and film making at its artistic best.

Now, time for a reality check: Show this film to a room full of people, including Dick Cheney, who made a fortune on the recent wars, a few corporate CEO's including top Wall Street executives who made more than $3 Billion before the financial crisis, and the most powerful members of congress, the senate, along with the top PAC representatives, and the majority of them will be moved, will feel the magic and believe in the generosity of the human spirit.

And the majority of them will have no inkling, no clue, no idea, that their own greed is part of the problem. That their desire to be in the top 1% of the wealthiest Americans is not part of the problem. That their misuse of power is not part of the problem.

They will believe, just like you and me, that this story of hope and fairness and doing the right thing is about them, too.

We are doomed, brother, because the wealthy people who watch this don't care if they have all the money. They don't care because they are blinded by greed. The ballparks and college sports teams and way of life in small-town USA in slowly being destroyed by greedy politicians and wealthy people who never in their wildest dreams would consider their immoral role in the destruction of the American way of life.

That's the human condition and it will probably never change. Art like this, in most cases, does not imitate life.

good stuff!

Nom de Plume - yeah... I know.

Well, Nom sure knows how to deflate a story...but I hear him about how the greedy ones who are ruining this beautiful 'ol world couldn't care less about the rest of us. There is just too much evidence that that is true.

Tonight, at a film festival, I saw "9500 Liberty" - a film (with no distribution deal yet) about the illegal immigrant issue. It focused on one VA county, yet the story is about what's going on in our entire country. I know it's not about baseball, but it IS about hope.

Check youtube for 9500 Liberty. Shocking, and yet uplifting to see the voices raised for justice.

Thanks for the video - there is always hope. Namaste.

I'm showing this to my kid. Thanks