Word: pitchers
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...shotgun-toting stoner who found the strength to embrace his new-found "thug life." And with the new HBO comedy series Eastbound & Down, set to premiere Sunday, Feb. 15, McBride has teamed up with executive producer Ferrell to tell the story of a washed-up baseball pitcher who can't come to grips with the fact that his days on the mound have been replaced by days at work as a substitute gym teacher. (See TIME's tribute to "stoner cinema...
...started getting passed around Hollywood, and that's how we met Will Ferrell and Adam McKay (director of Step Brothers), who were starting this new production company. They asked if we had anything else we were working on, so we told them this story about a disgraced Major League pitcher...
...Where did the idea come from? Did you have a particular pitcher in mind? Or were you more interested in a celebrity falling from grace? A few years ago, before Foot Fist Way, I moved out of L.A. and back to Virginia and I started bartending and substitute teaching. My first day of teaching, I suddenly had all these questions about whether I was giving up on my dream, and I started introducing myself on the first day of class and telling these ninth-graders that this wasn't my final stop, that I was just doing this to save...
...telling Jody and Ben about this experience, we started piecing the comedy together. Who would possibly hate this more than a failed relief pitcher - they're used to being on the mound, at the center of the whole entire game. They're used to having all that attention and now they're left with a bunch of students who could care less...
...worried at all that this pitcher-teacher is so miserable that he might turn people off? Why are so many of your characters so miserable? Creatively, I'm coming at these things from the standpoint that there are already so many stories about the good guys who are morally correct. I like trying to get my head around a character that's hard to swallow - someone who forces you to search your soul to understand what you're vibing on, and why you care about them. And with the TV show, we wanted to go against the standard sitcom, where...