There is a good idea for a plot here and if IMDB data is accurat they had almost twice the budget than the first Major League. So was this so awful because of the director? It appears that way because he's only directed two duds in his career. They had enough good actors and members from the original to make this a funny movie. Bob Ueker is always great and Scott Bakula is a solid actor too but in the end the writing and the direction just wasn't there. They mailed it in n the last movie making it an embarrassment. Too bad, they had more than enough to work with here.