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Dodger Thoughts reader Brian Greene, known to you commenters as BigCPA, passed along the following note late Thursday:
Tonight I made it to a screening of a documentary called Up for Grabs.
It was made by a first-time filmmaker and Stanford alum named Michael Wranovics. He also has a doc in progress about the Stanford hoops team. Anyway, I strongly recommend the movie to you and your readers. It opens today (Friday) in a few L.A. locations. I'd call it a Christopher Guest mockumentary except involving real people.
The story really hit home for me since I nearly caught the "Spiezio ball" in Game 6 of the 2002 WS. I was pictured on the front page of the OC Register in full color- and I camcordered the entire scene. Almost my 15 minutes of fame- maybe 2 minutes.
Actually, I would have enjoyed going to the screening myself if it weren't, as they said in The Hudsucker Proxy, "you know, for kids." The following appeared in the other e-mail I received about the film, from Michael Lindenberger of Crooked Hook Productions:
How's it going? Thought I'd send an email your way because I'm a co-producer of Up for Grabs, a feature-length film about the fight over the Barry Bonds 73rd home run ball. "Barry Bonds: I hate that son of a bitch!" you say? Well, it's not really a film about Bonds. Actually, Up for Grabs is a comedic, satirical documentary that follows the whole case and pokes fun at it.
Alex Belth posted about the film as well on The Griddle.
So, I didn't see it, but there you have it. The documentary opens today.
ball to Spiezio for one of his guitars.
Here's the OC Register front page for the curious. I'm the guy with the camcorder behind the guy taunting Reggie Sanders: http://tinyurl.com/b36g4
The expression on the Sanders-taunter's face is classic. Made me laugh.
Monday morning I'm listening to Kevin & Bean and the guy calls up to tell the whole story. The capper is his mug front/center on the front page of the OC Register. It's 2 days later but I never heard about it being a Plaschke subscriber. So I call him to congratulate him on his 15 minutes and he says "you better grab a copy- you're in there too!" Crazy chain of events.
I wonder how valuble the Bond's ball would be if Todd McFarlane hadn't paid nearly $3 million for McGwire's #70.
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