Wednesday, April 4th 2012

6:00am
Movie: "The Rookie" (2002)
Dennis Quaid, Rachel Griffiths
A Texas baseball coach makes the major league after agreeing to try out if his high school team made the playoffs.

8:00am
Movie: "The Bad News Bears" (1976)
Walter Matthau, Tatum O'Neal
An aging, down-on-his-luck ex-minor leaguer coaches a team of misfits in an ultra-competitive California little league.


10:00am
Movie: "The Bad News Bears in Breaking Training" (1977)
A troubled, rebellious teen drives his rambunctious baseball team out to Houston where they play an exhibition game and the boy meets his estranged father, and hires him as the teams coach.


noon
Movie: "The Bad News Bears Goes to Japan" (1978)
Tony Curtis, Jackie Earle Haley
In this third film version of the Bad News Bears series, Tony Curtis plays a small time promotor/hustler who takes the pint-sized baseball team to Japan for a match against the country's best little league baseball team which sparks off a series of adventures and mishaps the boys come into.

1:30pm
Movie: "Major League" (1989)
Tom Berenger, Charlie Sheen
The new owner of the Cleveland Indians puts together a purposely horrible team so they'll lose and she can move the team. But when the plot is uncovered, they start winning just to spite her.

3:30pm
Movie: "Major League II" (1994)
Tom Berenger, Charlie Sheen
The Indians are now a World Series contender. But last year's hunger is now replaced with complacency, and bad decisions by the new owner threaten to tear the team apart.

5:30pm
WKRP in Cincinnati 2.03 - "Baseball" (1979)
Les, while never being able to participate in sports as a child, has dreams of greatness on the baseball diamond. He accepts a challenge from rival station WPIG for WKRP to play them in a softball game. Rivalries and hatred between the two stations rear their ugly heads.

6:00pm
MLB Baseball
April 4th 2012
St. Louis Cardinals  4  @ 1  Miami Marlins

9:30pm
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation 12.19 - "Split Decisions" (2012)
When A man is shot at a casino, the team shuts the building down to look for the killer.

10:30pm
Criminal Minds 7.19 - "Heathridge Manor" (2012)
The BAU travels to Oregon when a series of murders appear to be ritualistic.


11:30pm
King 2.06 - "Freddy Boise" (2012)
King and the MCTF must race to find a stolen heart that mining baron Freddy Boise was waiting for.

12:30am
Chuck 3.16 - "Chuck Versus the Tooth" (2010)
When Chuck has a series of disturbing dreams about Beethoven and Zamibia just as the Zamibian President is about to visit a Beethoven concert, he thinks the Ring may be trying to kill the President. General Beckman thinks otherwise and sends Chuck to see a CIA therapist. Meanwhile, Devon and Ellie are back at home after Devon's supposed Malaria infection, and Anna Wu shows up unexpectedly at the Buy More.

1:30am
The West Wing 6.16 - "Drought Conditions" (2005)
A new candidate for president, Senator Rafferty, has garnered much media attention with a ground-breaking speech about health care. But her words contain interesting echoes of President Bartlet's original health plan, which is known only to White House insiders, and reporter Greg Brock suspects that Rafferty is being secretly supported by the incumbent. Meanwhile, Toby is more than usually morose after the death of his brother. A bill to combat drought conditions in the western U.S. gives C.J. problems, particularly in dealing with lobbyist Clifford Calley. And Charlie tells Kate Harper that a man from his gym asked if she was dating anyone.

2:30am
NHL Hockey
Apr 4th 2012
Detroit Red Wings 3  @ 2  St. Louis Blues (SO)

4:30am
Bay City Blues 1.01 - "Pilot" (1983)
Manager Joe Rohner, like his players on the minor-league Bay City (California) Bluebirds, dreams of baseball's big leagues; team owner Ray Holtz dreams of profits; and the lonely banker's wife Sunny dreams of Rohner. In this debut episode, two players and their wives finds that pressures on the field spill over into the domestic life they share under the same roof.

5:30am
According to Jim 4.21 - "Kentucky Fried Beltzman" (2005)
Jim is shocked to learn that his recently deceased friend will be buried with a rare baseball card he stole from Jim.

6:00am