There has been a lot of discussion over the last 4 years about life near the U.S./ Mexico border and also the border wall surface, however there has been very little focus paid to the only specialist sports group that uses both sides of the boundary.
Director Andrew Glazer tells the tale of the a binational baseball group from the Mexican Baseball League called the Tecolotes de los Dos Laredos in his new Showtime Sports documentary “Bad Hombres,” which premieres Sunday, October 16 at 9pm EST. The project took Glazer on the journey of a lifetime as well as he is thrilled for viewers to learn what life is actually like at the boundary.
” Most of the people trying to come right into the U.S. are households as well as youngsters attempting to run away awful violence in Central America,” claimed Glazer, in a meeting with CBS Local’s DJ Sixsmith. “That story has actually been informed, so what I wanted to do was reveal individuals in a way that I believed would certainly be relatable to what life is like on the border. What life is like on those two sides and just how interconnected they are. The important things that struck me to be honest is that at first in Laredo, Texas was just how prevalent Spanish is talked.”
In his docudrama, Glazer checks out the lives of the players on the team and also exactly how their households deal with a timetable of over 120 video games in the Mexican Baseball League. While Glazer’s film dives into the political implications of having a baseball group in both Texas as well as Mexico, he says the players themselves mostly overlooked every one of the emotionally-charged unsupported claims about the boundary during the work of the season.
” Even though my movie has an overarching political message, the players are not discreetly or overtly political by any means,” said Glazer. “They are baseball gamers and also they are living their lives as well as a great deal of them are attempting to make it to the majors and also some of them were in the majors and also are currently finishing their professions. There wasn’t a whole lot of political conversations. Inherently, what made the team interesting is you had gamers from the U.S. that were Anglo-American players as well as Mexican American gamers that had a different viewpoint. You had Mexican gamers and also some Dominican gamers and also Cuban and people from anywhere else. There were different languages as well as different point of views. Seeing exactly how that created in time was rather fascinating.”
Watch “Bad Hombres” on Showtime and the Showtime Anytime app.