if not for tire clichés and i do not think sayles would have have a script . make way for the clean sox . while ya get ta pitch them one at a time . spare me . seem like all he do for research on the era be view old hollywood baseball film and read anecdote about the black sox . another bad decision on the director part be act in his own film . his sarcastic singing in the train scene be the low part of the movie . the part about the selection of landis a baseball commissioner be a farce . could have be a great period piece about the time and america early infatuation with the pastime . instead and a cartoonish version of the story be present . sayles strike out .