Trouble with the Curve (2012) - Does it hold up?

Photo by Jeffrey Mayer/WireImageTrouble with the Curve is not the worst movie I’ve watched for this series. Unfortunately, it’s much further from being the best than the worst. The movie doesn’t understand baseball any better than its hackneyed information-age antagonist, Phillip Sanderson (Matthew Lillard). That’s not unusual for a baseball movie; sadly, it also failed to understand such concepts as “people” and “being reasonable” either.

What is baseball?

The movie wants to present its central conflict as the old men who understand baseball in their bones versus the young guys who think that numbers are all that matter. This, of course, is a strawman argument from the get-go. I doubt there…