Baseketball

Joe "Coop" Cooper (Trey Parker) and Doug Remer (Matt Stone) are lifelong friends who invent a new driveway sport, BASEketball, which incorporates the rules and techniques of baseball and basketball, and the only defense is to humiliate or "psyche out" the opponent. After its popularity increases, wealthy businessman Ted Denslow (Ernest Borgnine) offers to buy Joe and Doug?s idea in order to create the National BASEketball League (NBL). Both accept the offer, and fame and fortune is what the future holds. Soon every

one is playing the new game, and Joe and Doug are now national sports figures. At their championship game, the Denslow Cup, the two meet Jenna Reed (Yasmine Bleeth), the director of the Dream Come True Foundation for terminally ill children. Joe and Doug both find Jenna attractive, and begin to fight for her attention. Things get more complicated when Denslow dies and leaves their team, the Milwaukee Beers, to Joe.

Not only are Doug and an old friend and teammate, Kenny "Squeak? Scolari (Dian Bachar), concerned about this, but Denslow's widow, Yvette (Jenny McCarthy), is understandably upset as well. She gets into cahoots, however, with Baxter Cain (Robert Vaughn), the owner of the Beers? rival, the Dallas Felons, who wants to change the league's structure to more closely resemble other professional sports where making money is the main objective. As Joe and Doug face the pressures of Baxter's offers, they must also deal with the fact that if they don't have a winning season, ownership of the team will transfer to Yvette who will surely go along with Baxter's plan.

The storyline in BASEketball is timely because the film was released in a period of sports history where national league sports were very popular, and all players compared salaries. This influenced teams to move from city to city and for players to be traded from team to team, therefore, losing the excitement and fun of the sport w

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