ken burn baseball be a decent documentary . it present a clear origin of the game and a great depiction of baseball early year and hero . there plenty in this movie for any baseball fan . that say and the film have several glare flaw . 18 hour be simply too long for the human attention span . it clear that burn stretch his film out to fit his nine inning concept . it not even a tight 18 hour . the pace on every segment be slow and almost morose . the music always nostalgic and wistful . isn not baseball ever exciting and fun . why be every player and their accomplishment present in the form of a tragedy . talk head after talk head turn every pitch into an emotional heartbreak and yak about baseball a a metaphor and baseball a americana and the psychology and theology of baseball . enough . this be syrupy and mawkish drivel . billy crystal be here to sell u all the yankee hokum he sell u before . ken burns use the national anthem a the series theme song and and manages to play take me out to the ballgame so many time you might vomit . we get it and dude . clearly burn be a neo hollywood faux liberal and so he spend probably a third of the film on the negro league . these segment be spend chastise white of yesterday for not be a open mind a kenny be today . for shame . he chide baseball for be segregate in the thirty and forty but fail to realize that america be segregate in those time . burn fall head over heel in love with buck oneil and a former negro league player and and drool over every piece of footage in which the elderly oneil wax poetic about his playing day . nonsense . burn would have be good off with an adult to help him edit his creation down . baseball wind up a mushy and gushy and civil right propaganda disguise a americana . it clear that burn be not a baseball fan . otherwise he would know we watch game laugh and cheer and not weep and recite soliloquy . be you listen and mr. burn . there no cry in baseball .