2008 Cubs Movie: "We Believe"

[Schwarber Fan]

MESA, Ariz. -- What a story it would be if the Cubs were to win the World Series this year, the 100th anniversary of the last time they celebrated a championship, which was in 1908. That's what documentary filmmaker John Scheinfeld is counting on.

 

Scheinfeld and a Chicago crew will follow the 2008 Cubs for a movie with a working title, "We Believe."

 

"It's not a history of the Cubs," Scheinfeld said Tuesday. "What we're doing is a film exploring the love affair between the great city, Chicago, and it's ball team, the Cubs -- what makes Chicago unique, the city, and what makes the people of Chicago unique and why they have supported this team so passionately for so long. We'll get into the psychology of that, the history of that.

 

http://mlb.mlb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20080311&content_id=2419286&vkey=spt2008news&fext=.jsp&c_id=mlb

 

Please be the year! :beg:

[Derwood]

it worked in Boston, right?

[Southpaw191679666239]

it worked in Boston, right?

 

Not the same. They were filming a movie (not a documentary), and when they had already wrapped, the Sox won. So they had decided to re-film the ending.

[David]

So this thing might actually wind up being pretty cool, huh?

[Mizzou]

I wish I could spend a summer making a movie about the Cubs.

[Careless]

it worked in Boston, right?

 

Not the same. They were filming a movie (not a documentary), and when they had already wrapped, the Sox won. So they had decided to re-film the ending.

The same. the movie you're thinking of (fever pitch) is not the documentary Derwood was thinking of (there were actually 2 that came out in 2004, so I don't know which Derwood was thinking of, but one was called "Still, We Believe").

[Hairyducked Idiot]

Right now, BP's projection formulas have us at about 75% chance to make the playoffs.

 

We'd be the better team in the first round of the playoffs, most likely, but after that it just depends. Our secret sauce of playoff success indicators looks pretty good: We have the best defensive efficiency of the league, good K rates on our pitchers and a shutdown, high-leverage reliever.

 

So I'll say a 75% chance of making the playoffs, 60% chance of winning in the first round, 55% of winning the NLCS and 50/50 in the World Series.

 

By this formula, we have a .... 12.375% chance of winning the world series. So the odds are 7:1 against this season ending happily. And roughly 1/4 of at least breaking the lesser streak of 63 years without a pennant.

 

This team has a good chance to cruise to a division title and challenge the '84 team's 96-win mark. Let's enjoy that instead of obsessing over how the playoff coinflips might bounce.

[TruffleShuffle]

if anybody wants to invest on something potentially awesome, the cubs' 2008 baseball reference page is available for $150. or nsbb can pool its resources and make sure that some schmuck like david l. fishman, m.d. doesn't get his hands on it.

[brinoch]

Let's just get into the playoffs. Once there, I think we can make some noise.

[CuseCubFan69]

Chicago and it's team, the Cubs? Oh boy, Ozzie is going to love that!

[chuckywang]

Chicago and it's team, the Cubs? Oh boy, Ozzie is going to love that!

 

Why? Is Ozzie a stickler for grammar?

[David]

OK, first, make sure you look at the dates on the rest of this thread before you start replying to it.

 

 

That disclaimer aside...

 

How amazingly awesome is the potential of this thing??

[Cynosure]

I'd buy it.

[Shilzzz]

i remember someone else making a documentary in 2003.

[David]

i remember someone else making a documentary in 2003.

 

Eric Karros?

[Shilzzz]

i remember someone else making a documentary in 2003.

 

Eric Karros?

 

pretty sure there was a regular dude who did a documentary following the team that entire year. white kid, black hair. can't remember much else.

[Shilzzz]

Matt Liston decided that quitting his job and making a documentary about his beloved Chicago Cubs in 2003 would break their “curse” and get them a World Series title for the first time since 1908. It didn’t quite work out that way for the North Siders and Liston, but he did make an enjoyable and memorable film in the process.

 

http://rksbaseballbookshelf.wordpress.com/category/documentary/Chasing October (2007)

[David]

I'm too lazy to look it up... was he actually granted access to the team or was it just him in the city following that season and stuff like that?

[Shilzzz]

idk. very little at imdb: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0997045/

[Andy]

I'm buying this movie regardless of what happens from here on out. There's too much Cubby goodness from this season that needs to be savored and resavored.

[daske17]

I could have sworn I heard that the Cubs organization also was filming some level of documentary on this year.

[chuckywang]

it worked in Boston, right?

 

Not the same. They were filming a movie (not a documentary), and when they had already wrapped, the Sox won. So they had decided to re-film the ending.

 

I would hope Boston would forget the movie Fever Pitch ever happened.

[chuckywang]

i remember someone else making a documentary in 2003.

 

Eric Karros?

 

pretty sure there was a regular dude who did a documentary following the team that entire year. white kid, black hair. can't remember much else.

 

Wasn't he the guy who ran onto the field a while back to attack a player?

 

Ah, here we go: Chasing October.

 

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0997045/

[Gmoney08]

i remember someone else making a documentary in 2003.

 

Eric Karros?

 

pretty sure there was a regular dude who did a documentary following the team that entire year. white kid, black hair. can't remember much else.

 

Wasn't he the guy who ran onto the field a while back to attack a player?

 

Ah, here we go: Chasing October.

 

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0997045/

 

I thought the guy who ran on the field was the "Its goona Happen" sign creator? Is he the same person as the documentary guy?

[Ding Dong Johnson]

if anybody wants to invest on something potentially awesome, the cubs' 2008 baseball reference page is available for $150. or nsbb can pool its resources and make sure that some schmuck like david l. fishman, m.d. doesn't get his hands on it.

way to get the train rolling...

http://www.tjbrown.com/