Talk:Sam Malone

Spoilers

Are there not spoilers in this article? For instance, the collapse of Sam's relationship with Diane?

• Feel free to include them if you want to expand the article, but please include spoiler tags around any that you do add. Staxringold _talk^contribs 23:08, 5 June 2006 (UTC)

Cheers Fans Unite!

Certainly we can do better for Sam Malone than an article that is 80% about his pitching? Lunch with Jason 04:14, 8 June 2006 (UTC)

I removed the reference to his nickname "Mayday" as indicating that he caused his team problems; rather, the nickname "Mayday" indicates that he was called in to rescue the team when they were in distress. After all, Sam Malone was a relief pitcher. The evidence after watching all the episodes a number of times, is that he was a reasonably good pitcher until drinking got in the way. There are a couple of references such as "tape-measure home runs" hit off of him, but there are a larger number of positive references about his pitching, and the "tape-measure home runs" might have occurred while he was having a drinking problem. David / PlanetThoughts 10:24, 25 February 2017 (UTC)

Sam McDowell

Is there any reliable citation for the claim that Sam Malone's background was inspired by Sam McDowell of the Cleveland Indians? Sam Malone's alcoholic background was a part of the character from the writers' original conception of him. And in that original conception, they had Sam Malone as an ex-FOOTBALL player, not a baseball player. The show's creators are on record as having said many times that the only reason they had Sam Malone ultimately become a baseball player is because they decided that they liked Ted Danson for the role and they didn't think that his physical build looked like one of a football player. So, whatever parallels there might seem to be between the two, that simple fact would seem to argue pretty strongly against the idea that the writers used Sam McDowell as a specific model for Sam Malone.

Is there any interview or anything like that which can be cited where they address this issue one way or the other? 12.155.58.181 (talk) 23:20, 14 July 2008 (UTC)

Ironically...

Ironically, Ted Danson is a declared liberal himself.

It's not ironic that an actor portrays a character who is not similar to himself. That's his job. Any similarity between a character and the actor beyond (obviously) the physical is entirely coincidental. To say it's ironic that in a particular case coincidence did not operate is a tad weird. 192.91.173.36 (talk) 03:46, 7 July 2012 (UTC)

I've changed "ironically" to "nonetheless". --George Ho (talk) 04:42, 7 July 2012 (UTC)

Sports Illustrated

I just came across this Sports Illustrated piece that covers his "baseball career". Will integrate when I have time. – Muboshgu (talk) 19:32, 2 May 2016 (UTC)

Dodge Corvette

@173.12.24.210: Why against the inclusion of the red Dodge Corvette? Numerous episodes reveal that the character has one. --George Ho (talk) 17:16, 2 June 2016 (UTC)

Oh... I see. I thought it was Dodge, but it was the Chevrolet Corvette. George Ho (talk) 17:17, 2 June 2016 (UTC)