BASEketball

Published in The Athletes
September 5, 2013

Joe Cooper

Technically the lead character in BASEketball, Joe Cooper (Trey Parker of South Park fame) brought us a fictitious sport for discussion for our Fictitious Hall. Of the two slackers (the other of course being South Park co-creator Matt Stone), “Coop” was the dependable one and the heart of his team (the Milwaukee Beers) and the new found league (the National BASEketball League). He may have sacrificed a few of the laughs in the movie to his partner, but he broke out the Cartman voice, so there are bonus points there. Besides, he brought home the Denslow Cup at the end, AKA: his league championship. Should not the hero win the trophy at the end?

Published in The Athletes
August 26, 2013

Doug Remer

As we discuss all of the Fictitious Athletes, we have a candidate from a fictitious sport. Matt Stone and Trey Parker gave us BASEketball, the hybrid of HORSE, Baseball, Basketball and trash talking; all in a post Generation X Slacker world. Stone played Doug Remer, slacker turned athlete, and the kind of guy you wanted to hang around with in high school. He was a bit of the sidekick in the film, but his mini transformation to sports diva was equal part satire and hilarity. That may be good enough for a lot of people.