Oscar Worthy

The Mets have apparently gotten a jump on the 2011 Oscar season with some tear-jerking storylines of their own.

Take the whole Carlos Beltran giving center field to Angel Pagan thus ending the speculation on who would play where.  If that doesn’t have movie potential I don’t know what does.  Old veteran acknowledging his limitations and ceding center field to the protege who idolized him, all the while cementing a special friendship?  And Hollywood can play it up to reflect the media’s version of events painting Beltran as a selfish bastard who had a change of heart after a long walk on the beach.  (Because that’s how it usually happens, right?  After a beach walk?)

Benicio del Toro can play Beltran, and John Leguizamo can play Pagan.  And Ronald Lee Ermey makes a cameo as Terry Collins so he can go up to Jack Black and say “you know what makes me sad … YOU DO!”  (Did I mention that Jack Black is playing Oliver Perez?)

And speaking of Terry Collins, he’s getting a lot of credit for the way he’s handled the situation, making it easy for Beltran to make this decision on his own.  As I hear about Collins’ role in this, I can’t help but think that Snoop would have completely butchered this and pissed everyone off.

(Colin Firth would play Ryan Church in that flashback.)

Or if that movie doesn’t do it for you, how about Bobby Valentine … who gets fired from his job as the manager of a popular baseball team, then begins a ten-year long odyssey to buy part of the team from the very people that fired him, and then work with them in the same boardroom.  How hysterical would that be?  It sounds like one of those 80’s movies where six months passes by in a two minute musical montage.  But I suppose that if you throw in a tiger, a chicken, and Mike Tyson, it could be more like The Hangover.