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      • Kenny Powers is a fictional world famous baseball player in the HBO television comedy series Eastbound & Down, played by Danny McBride. [citation needed]
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  2. Kenny Powers is a fictional world famous baseball player in the HBO television comedy series Eastbound & Down, played by Danny McBride. [citation needed] He is portrayed as a once dominant baseball pitcher, whose poor work ethic, ego, and short temper jeopardized his professional career.

  3. Jun 20, 2024 · When the show debuted, its star and co-creator Danny McBride told NPR that Powers was more or less inspired by John Rocker, a real-life former MLB pitcher whose reputation nose-dived after a...

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  4. It stars McBride as Kenny Powers, a former professional baseball pitcher who, after a career downturn in the major leagues, is forced to return to his hometown middle school in Shelby, North Carolina, as a substitute physical education teacher.

  5. McBride wrote and starred in the HBO original comedy series Eastbound & Down (also a collaboration with Hill and Best), as Kenny Powers, a washed-up former major league baseball pitcher with anger management issues.

  6. Eastbound & Down | Danny McBride on Kenny Powers and Season 2 | Warner Bros. Entertainment. As a baseball star, Kenny Powers had it all: money, fame, obsessed fans. After substance...

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  7. Kenny Powers. Played by Danny Mcbride. When Kenny left Shelby County at the age of 19 to throw heat in the Big Leagues, the world was his oyster. But a few years of obnoxious behavior and sluggish pitch speeds landed him back in his hometown, teaching gym class and lusting after April, the one that got … ditched when Kenny went pro.

  8. Eastbound & Down: Created by Ben Best, Jody Hill, Danny McBride. With Danny McBride, Steve Little, Katy Mixon Greer, Elizabeth De Razzo. Many years after he turned his back on his hometown, a burned-out major league ballplayer returns to teach Physical Education at his old middle school.