Gala opening of Inning by Inning

[accuratehorn]

Attended the opening of the Richard Linklater movie Inning by Inning, the documentary detailing the life and philosophy of Augie Garrido.
Loved the movie, although I thought it started a little slowly, but really enjoyed it after just a few minutes. Of course, being a UT baseball fan may have has something to do with my enjoyment of the film.
We looked for Joan Rivers and a red carpet, but for some reason, she did not appear. There were several TV cameras interviewing Augie out front of the Paramont prior to the opening. Ben Barnes announced the film's opening on the Paramont stage, and afterwards, a q & a session featured Augie and Linkletter discussing aspects of their lives and the details of editing down 650 hours of footage filmed.
The movie detailed Augie's life, and I learned a lot about the man I did not know-he knew by age 11 what he wanted his life's work to be, for example, and persisted despite negative opinions from his father and school guideance counselors.
He cut short a promising major league career to enter coaching, and began at the high school level.
There were many details of Garrido's early career at Fullerton, with interviews from players, coaches, friends, relatives, and of course, Kevin Costner.
But the most interesting aspect is Augie's philosophy of life, achievement, and baseball, which should be inspiring to Fullerton, Longhorn, and non-fans alike.
The movie will be shown on ESPN, around June 15, I believe, and I think you all would enjoy seeing it.
Many of the DischFalk regulars were in attendance, and the movie brought rounds of applause from the audience, as did the q & a session.

 

[Texanne]

Duh, I didn't even know such a film was being made. I eagerly await its premiere on ESPN.

 

[InRightField]

I think the original idea of the documentary was about following the team throughout an entire season. They were filming at virtually every game during the 2006 season. A lot of filming was done from the right field busses with many of us giving interviews about being UT baseball fans. Perhaps when the season ended prematurely in the regionals, they decided to just concentrate on Augie. If that is the case, I'm sure all our fantastic interviews made the cutting room floor

Considering some of the antics that were filmed, that is probably a good thing.

 

[marley]

It truly was a great evening. The documentary was wonderful, and so were Augie and Richard’s responses during the Q & A session that followed.

Since 1997 Longhorn fans have seen lots of bits and pieces of Augie's life, his personality, his philosophy of life, his interaction with his players and his coaching skills during games. I was fortunate to be able to watch Augie early in his college career and thought I knew a good deal about the man. The documentary filled in so much about him that I didn't know.

Inning By Inning put all of those bits and pieces together with multiple exclamation marks. The documentary showed (almost always in a baseball park setting) his practice regimen, his varied locker room talks (sometimes inspirational and sometimes angry as hell that the team wasn't focusing on the game), along with multiple interviews with many of his former players and coaches, baseball coaches from other universities, various athletic directors, and even major league officials. There were also many instances of Augie being interviewed.

All that new information from so many sources emphasized the uniqueness of the man as well as his approach to the game and life, and it clearly highlighted why he has been so successful as a college baseball coach.

Augie almost always uses positive reinforcement rather than punishment or negative reinforcement to teach his players the physical and mental skills they need to play the game. So his relatively rare and extremely passionate outbursts toward his players as a group make those times especially strong teaching moments. Seeing some of those in the film just further emphasized how much Augie wants his players to succeed. You've got to see those segments to understand the impact they have.

Overall, the documentary accomplished its goals very well of depicting Augie's passion for the game and his equal passion for using baseball as his tool to positively influence thousands of lives over the course of his long career.

Be sure to check out the broadcast on June 15th at 9 p.m. CST:

The Link

You'll be better for it.

 

[Orangeblood]

Anyone that thinks that Augie is EVER "going through the motions" toward retirement or doesn't really care about Texas should watch this.

 

[doylehargraves]

Nice photo from last night.

 

[accuratehorn]

Richard Linklater commented on how difficult the job of editing a documentary had been. It took a year and a half, and they had to cut it down from 650 hours. There wasn't much shown of any fans, and I'm sure many player interviews and other scenes were cut out, as well.
Did have a nice shot of Robert's orange pickup truck, though.

 

[RDGP65]

During the post screening interview Augie was talking about his coaching philosophies. He stopped for a moment and he said " You know my mother once said to me that there was a very thin line between my philosophies and ********."

Best laugh of the night especially if you have ever listened to his post game interviews.

 

[mharriss]

To echo Orangeblood - see this movie. His passion for the game in general and our team in particular will blow you away!!

 

[sua sponte]

Makes me appreciate AG all the more

 

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[Thorp]

Our young men that have had the finest opportunity to play under Augie are so much the better not only in baseball but the life skills that they have acquired. He is the Master.

 

[accuratehorn]

Yes, I should have mentioned the evening movie was the "family edition," which bleeped out some undoubtedly colorful language. Augie can show a temper on occasions.
I believe that ESPN, ESPN2, and ESPNU will all show the movie around June 15, so look for it there.
I would enjoy the DVD, for the bleeped out sections, and for the bonus footage. Could make a nice birthday gift for your favorite HornFan, (hint, hint, Ms.Accurate who sometimes lurks).