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Two[[Twenty Minutes Into the Future|At the turn of the millennium]] professional sports leagues are in decline due to increasing commercialisation and lack of passion for the games they play. One night at a party, two losers, Joe Coop and Doug Remer (Played by ''[[South Park]]'' creators [[Trey Parker and Matt Stone]]) invent a sport combining baseball and basketball, but requiring no real athletic skills. The sport becomes a big hit in their neighborhood, catching the eye of Billionaire Ted Demslow (Played by Ernest Borgnine), who offers to make it a national sport. Five years later, Coop, Remer and their friend Kenny Squeak "Little Bitch" Scolari are now professional players of the team known as the Milwaukee Beers. After Demslow dies, Coop owns the Beers and Baxter Cain, head of the rival team, the Dallas Felons, wants to change Baseketball's tradition and plots with Demslow's widow Yvette (Played by Jenny McCarthy) to destroy their chances of winning the Demslow Cup. Based on an actual game created by director [[David Zucker]].
 
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* [[Affectionate Parody]]: Inspirational sports movies.
* [[Analogy Backfire]]:
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{{quote|'''Coop:''' ''One day, I'm gonna be a big sports star!''}}
* [[Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking]]:
{{quote|''"Continued expansion diluted the talent pool, forcing [sports team] owners to recruit heavily from forcing prisons, mental institutions, and [[Place Worse Than Death|Texas]]"''.}}
* [[Ask a Stupid Question]]: Denslow's will involves an obviously rhetorical question, ''to which Coop responds.''
* [[Attention Deficit Ooh Shiny]]: Remer
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* [[Comically Missing the Point]]: Joey's first wishes include big game hunting a bald eagle or a giant panda, before choosing ''poisoning a reservoir and throwing flesh-eating fish into a public swimming pool.''
** Also, Squeak with his admiring fan. She can't be a dude - she's got the cutest little [[Disguised in Drag|Adam's apple]]!
* [[Distracted Byby Thethe Sexy]]: Played for laughs in the locker room. As a running joke based on a popular athlete stereotype, Coop and Remer have been shown to have [[Gag Penis|comically large dicks]] when changing in the Locker room. Baxter who was blackmailing Coop and Remer into losing the Demslow cup, [[Not Distracted by the Sexy|didn't seem to notice or care]] about it until after he reveals his evil plan, where he only glimpses them before leaving. Jenna on the other hand, while berating them for Remer's clothing being run by a sweatshop, goes on a [[Freudian Slippery Slope]] replacing every noun with a euphemism for penis. When she can't take it anymore she leaves.
* [[Doing It for the Art]]: Coop's philosophy while building the NBL; He wants to create an environment where passion for the sport, not franchising, is the main motivating factor for the players.
* [[Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep"]]: Squeak. His real first name is Kenny, but his teammates use his nickname so exclusively that it's assumed to be his given name.
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[[Category:BaseketballBASEketball]]
[[Category:Film]]
[[Category:Films of the 1990s]]
[[Category:Sports Stories]]