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Josh Wilker's The Bad News Bears In Breaking Training

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I was a child once and I probably still am considered one, but I have emerged out of the innocent stage of childhood, a period so dear to my heart. I believe that everything we are, everything will ever be is ingrained into this phase of our lives, which inevitably will mark us forever. Throughout the book Bad News Bears in Breaking Training wrote by Josh Wilker the reader gets an insight to the author’s childhood and the way he links it to the movie The Bad News Bears in Breaking Training produced by Leonard Goldberg. The movie focuses on a group of boys playing baseball in the Little League and their journey to Huston where they will be confronting with the Toros (another Little League team), their game being sponsored by a Budweiser promotion. …show more content…

They stumble and fall, yell and condemn the little boy for his stubbornness. He throws a white baseball base pillow to the corporate suits to scare them off and circles the filed in a zigzag motion to confuse these men that try to get him off the field. It seems as the Budweiser promotion needs to be inaugurated, so the baseball game must be called off in the 3rd inning. But, when did money shake a society in such a way that children cannot play their innocent games anymore. It takes a few good seconds until Mike Leak interferes and decides to move the entire Astrodome with a chant that will make the people indulge the kids to continue their game. “Let them play!”, and so the masses forcefully mandate the continuation of this game. Why was Tanner the only one to stand up and refuse to leave the field once the game was canceled? Because he was the kid not wanting to let go; he was there to play the game and he was going to play the way it is supposed to. He was maybe the most wholesome and devoted player of the Bears, described by Wilker as: “for him… baseball has always been everything… a matter of life and death” (58).When we were children we say and do things without planning them, we don’t mean to hurt no one, and that’s exactly Tanner’s situation; he is a kid who just wants to play, just like the rest of the team, but with a higher intensity. He doesn’t have an agenda as the one sitting behind the Budweiser commercials, he just wants to damn play! As a child nobody expects anything from you, but to have fun (at least that’s what I hope), so a child can surround himself with dreams that can mean everything for them in that period of time although as adults those moments might become insignificant, while their emotional value might forever stay the

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