I did rather like "Annie" (Susan Sarandon) taking a distinctly more actively benevolent view of supporting her local baseball team. Each season, she selects one of the lads from the team to be her friend-with-benefits for the season - all in the hope that this will help stop them languishing at the bottom of the league tables. She has some provenance with this process as usually the lucky player goes on to play unexpectedly well so success might loom for either new boy "Ebby" (Tim Robbins) who has great speed with his pitching but his aim leaves a lot to be desired or for "Crash" (Kevin Costne…
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