Silly Little Game

Another one from ESPN's "30 for 30" series. It documents the first ever fantasy baseball league. This film tells the story of a historic sports moment that is, frankly, not all that well documented. The characters who invented the league are colorful and funny. However, the filmmakers elected to stage re-enactments of the pivotal early days of the league. It's off-putting and made the thing feel like old school History Channel. Worse, they conspicously do stylish things like having the re-enactment actors mouth the words of the real person's interview as the audio overlaps. It was just too much cheese and the whole thing felt cheap and underproduced.