SS - Nicky Rogan - Team#2_The Movies

Honestly, I don't even remember this movie, Game 6, very well. That Don Delillo wrote it was an intrigue, but critics were lukewarm. I went into it with low expectations, and watched a movie that didn't exceed them. What I recall of it involves manic middle-aged male reckless wandering, which is more likeably captured in Wonder Boys without the paranoiac gun-toting nemesis (although gun-toting itself is a component the two films share).

The great tragedy of Game 6 is, of course, that the Red Sox finally won, and they continue to win. Without the baseline tragic flaw to haunt the lost, tortured protagonist, he is simply a madman. Delillo wrote the script in the 90s, when Boston's century of near-miss water-boarding still retained its pathos. When the Red Sox won, however, the volumes of art and meditation devoted to their losing was washed away almost completely, at least as anything other than bare nostalgia. A Red Sox fan pining over constant loss is no longer loved and wept over for the losing's sake alone. He's got to do better now. The pity party is over.

Regarding the shortstop position, Nicky Rogan's manic self-destructive wiseacre melange would make for an unpredictable and therefore entertaining game, with the effect of a massive tanker ship thrashing about the harbor in a storm, with a pool toy for an anchor.

Lineup - The Movies

C - John Kinsella
1B - Jack Elliot
2B - Ken Burns
3B - Roger Dorn
SS - Nicky Rogan
LF - Terence Mann
CF -
RF -

SP -
RP -

Manager -