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I believe in the Church
of Baseball.
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I've tried all the major religions
and most of the minor ones.
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I've worshipped Buddha,
Allah, Brahma, Vishnu,
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Siva, trees, mushrooms
and Isadora Duncan.
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I know things.
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For instance, there are 108 beads
in a Catholic rosary
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and there are 108
stitches in a baseball.
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When I learned that,
I gave Jesus a chance.
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But it just didn't work out between us.
The Lord laid too much guilt on me.
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I prefer metaphysics to theology.
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You see, there's no guilt in baseball
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and it's never boring,
which makes it like sex.
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There's never been a ballplayer
who slept with me
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who didn't have
the best year of his career.
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Making love is like hitting a baseball,
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you just gotta relax and concentrate.
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Besides, I'd never sleep
with a player hitting under .250
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unless he had a lot of RBI's or was
a great glove man up the middle.
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You see, there's a certain amount
of life wisdom I give these boys.
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I can expand their minds.
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Sometimes when I've got
a ballplayer alone
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I'll just read Emily Dickinson
or Walt Whitman to him.
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And the guys are so sweet,
they always stay and listen.
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Of course, a guy will listen
to anything if he thinks it's foreplay.
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I make them feel confident,
and they make me feel safe
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and pretty.
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Of course, what I give them
lasts a lifetime.
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What they give me lasts 142 games.
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Sometimes it seems like a bad trade,
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but bad trades are part of baseball.
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Who can forget Frank Robinson
for Milt Pappas, for God's sake?
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It's a long season, and
you gotta trust it.
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I've tried them all, I really have.
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And the only church
that truly feeds the soul
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day in, day out, is the
Church of Baseball.
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[WHISTLES]
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Hey, Skip, that Max, hell of a guy.
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Where's Ebby?
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Ain't he warming up yet?
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No. His professional debut tonight,
and he forgets about it.
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Better find our "bonus baby."
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- Have you seen Ebby?
- No.
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[CHUCKLES]
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Ebby!
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[WOMAN GIGGLING]
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Jesus.
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Game starts in four minutes.
Why ain't you warm?
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I am warm.
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Jesus, Ebby, this is your
professional debut tonight.
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Million guys give their left nut
to be in your shoes.
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You're leaving your fastball in
the locker room for some piece of ass.
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Skip, it is me.
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I am not some, quote,
"piece of ass," unquote.
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Oh, Millie.
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Jeez, sorry. Didn't recognize you.
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Don't take this personal, Millie,
but if I catch you in here again
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you're banned from the ballpark.
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You can't ban me from the ballpark
'cause my daddy donated that scoreboard.
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And if you ban me,
he just might take that scoreboard away.
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What do we need a scoreboard for?
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We ain't scored any runs all year.
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Now you get your ass out there!
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Hey, boss, I got a question.
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What?
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You think I need a nickname?
I think I need a nickname.
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We were talking about it.
All the great ones have nicknames.
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Like "Oil Can," "Catfish."
What was the one you were...
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"Pokey."
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What do you think of "Pokey"?
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You got three minutes.
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Goddamn, son of a bitching,
motherfucking shithead!
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Time for another quickie.
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Jesus, you got a game to pitch.
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We got three minutes.
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[ROCKAROUND THE CLOCK
PLAYING ON P.A.]
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ANNOUNCER: Come on, folks.
Let's hear it for Max Patkin,
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the clown prince of baseball.
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You gonna sit there all day?
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And now, "The Greatest Show on Dirt,"
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your own Durham Bulls!
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[SPECTATORS CHEERING]
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I'm there. I'm ready.
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[TAKE ME OUT TO THE BALL GAME
PLAYING ON P.A.]
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MAN ON RADIO: And now
WRDU radio presents
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the voice of the Durham Bulls,
Teddy Garland.
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The Bulls off to a slow start,
having dropped their first three games.
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But hope to turn it around tonight
with the professional debut
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of heralded young pitcher,
Ebby Calvin LaLoosh.
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[MAN YELLING]
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Millie, you gotta stay
out of the clubhouse.
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You're gonna get everybody in trouble.
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I got lured.
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You did not get lured.
Women do not get lured.
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They are too strong and powerful for that.
Now say it,
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"I did not get lured.
I accept full responsibility for my actions."
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That's better. Okay. Now...
You got your radar ready?
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- Ready.
- Go to it.
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Stepping in for the Peninsula White Sox
is leadoff hitter Willie Foster.
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Word on LaLoosh is that
the good-looking, young pitcher
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has a major-league fastball, but
sometimes has problems with his control.
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[SPECTATORS CHEERING]
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[GLASS SHATTERING]
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Oh, my. Damn.
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One ball, no strike to Willie Foster.
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[MAN YELLING]
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No problem! No problem!
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Go get 'em, one, two, three, babe.
Get 'em, big guy.
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Ninety-five miles an hour.
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That's great. He looks just great.
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[FANS WHISTLING]
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[GROANS]
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[CROWD BOOING]
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ANNOUNCER: Stepping in for the Peninsula
White Sox, second baseman Allen Powley.
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What's it say?
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It says he's not bending his back
on his follow-through.
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Scotty, baby, take this to Ebby Calvin.
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All right, honey, let's get down to it.
How was Ebby Calvin LaLoosh?
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Well, he fucks like he pitches.
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Sort of all over the place.
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My!
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[GRUNTS]
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He walked 1 8.
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A new league record.
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- Struck out 1 8.
- Another new league record.
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In addition, he hit the sportswriter,
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the public address announcer,
the Bull mascot twice.
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Also, new league records.
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[SIGHS]
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But, Joe, this guy's
got some serious shit.
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- Yeah, serious shit. Yes.
- Yeah.
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[AIR HISSING]
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Who are you? Who's he?
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I'm "the player to be named later."
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Crash Davis? I'm Joe Riggins.
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And you, Larry Hockett,
should recognize me
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'cause five years ago
in the Texas League
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you were pitching for El Paso,
I was hitting clean-up for Shreveport.
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You hung a curveball
on an 0-2 pitch in a 3-2 game
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in the bottom of the eighth,
and I tattooed it
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over the Michelin tire
sign, beat you 4-3.
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I remember.
I should have thrown a slider.
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Damn, Crash, how you doing?
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I'm too old for this shit.
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Why the hell am I back in A ball?
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'Cause of Ebby Calvin LaLoosh.
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Big club's got 1 00 grand in him.
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He's got a million-dollar arm
with a five-cent head.
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Had a gun on him tonight.
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Last five pitches he threw
were faster than the first five.
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He's got the best young arm
I've seen in 30 years.
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You've been around.
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You're smart. You're a professional.
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We want you to mature the kid.
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We want you to room with him
on the road.
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Stay on his case all year.
He can go all the way.
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[SIGHS]
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Yeah? Where can I go?
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You can keep going to the ballpark
and keep getting paid to do it.
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Beats the hell out of working at Sears.
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Sears sucks, Crash.
I once worked there. Sold Lady Kenmores.
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Nasty... Nasty work.
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Even if it is the Carolina League
this is a chance to play every day.
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You don't want a player.
You want a stable pony.
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No.
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Well, my AAA contract gets bought out
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so I can hold the flavor-of-the-month's
dick in the bus leagues.
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Is that it? Fuck this fucking game!
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I fucking quit, all right? I quit.
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Who we play tomorrow?
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Winston-Salem. Batting practice, 11 :30.
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So, how's it feel to get
your first professional win?
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It feels out there. It's a major rush.
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I mean, it doesn't just feel out there,
it feels out there.
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Kind of radical in a kind
of tubular way, you know.
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But most of all, it's out there.
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This is hopeless.
This is utterly, fucking hopeless.
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[COUNTRY MUSIC
PLAYING ON STEREO]
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Hey, I'm Millie.
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- I'm Tony. I play second base.
- I know.
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Max, how do you just keep
coming back every year?
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'Cause I love the game, Annie.
I love it.
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- Here you go.
- We didn't order these, honey.
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- He did.
- Who?
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The guy in the booth.
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Who's that?
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That's Crash Davis.
Hey, Crash, come here.
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Come over here.
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He's kind of cute.
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MAX: [CHUCKLING] He's played
in more ballparks than I have.
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Hell of a guy.
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He's really different.
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I actually saw him read a book
without pictures once.
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[LAUGHING]
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- Hi, Max.
- How you doing, Crash?
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Come over and sit down.
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I'm Crash.
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Annie Savoy. Wanna dance?
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I don't dance.
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How embarrassing.
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What is that?
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- Who's he dancing with?
- All of them, I think.
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- You Annie Savoy?
- Uh-huh.
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Thanks for your note. You're right.
I wasn't bending my back.
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- You got a live arm there.
- Thanks.
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Ebby Calvin LaLoosh.
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You need a nickname, honey.
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You know, I've been
telling everybody that.
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[LAUGHS]
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- You wanna dance?
- Yeah.
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She's dancing with me.
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Afraid not, pal.
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You boys gonna fight over little old me?
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- No.
- Let's go.
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Step outside and party, man.
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Don't be such guys. Max, let's dance.
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You coming or not, homeboy?
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Let's go, man. Come on. We're waiting.
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- Let's go, homeboy.
- Come on, Ebby. There he is.
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[ALL CHATTERING]
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Look, I don't believe in fighting.
Let's just...
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[ALL MOCKING]
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That's really sweet. "I don't believe..."
Fuck you, you pussy.
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[MAN CLUCKING]
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All right. Take the first shot at me.
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No way, man. I don't hit no man first.
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All right, then.
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Hit me in the chest with that.
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[ALL MUMBLING]
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I'd kill you.
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Yeah? From what I hear,
you couldn't hit water
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if you fell out of a fucking boat.
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[MAN YELPS]
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[ALL LAUGHING]
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Throw it, man.
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Throw it, come on. Right in the chest.
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- No way.
- Come on, Meat.
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You're not gonna hit me
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'cause you're starting
to think about it already.
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Starting to think
how embarrassing it would be
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to miss in front of all these people,
how somebody might laugh.
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Come on, rook.
Show us that million-dollar arm
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'cause I got a good idea
about that five-cent head of yours.
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MAN 1 : Nail him, drop him.
MAN 2: Hit him, man! Hit him!
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Fuck!
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Ball four.
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Who the fuck are you, man?
247
00:16:40,150 --> 00:16:41,984
Good punch.
248
00:16:42,068 --> 00:16:43,986
I'm Crash Davis. I'm your new catcher
249
00:16:44,070 --> 00:16:48,115
and you just got lesson number one,
don't think.
250
00:16:48,408 --> 00:16:50,743
It can only hurt the ball club.
251
00:16:51,912 --> 00:16:52,912
[GROANS]
252
00:16:56,666 --> 00:16:59,168
Come inside, I'll buy you a drink.
253
00:16:59,502 --> 00:17:01,003
[PEOPLE CHATTERING]
254
00:17:06,051 --> 00:17:07,843
He's my new catcher.
255
00:17:19,272 --> 00:17:22,483
We fight, she gets the clown.
How's that happen?
256
00:17:23,026 --> 00:17:25,027
God, I like this song.
257
00:17:26,488 --> 00:17:27,738
[PEOPLE CLAPPING]
258
00:17:33,203 --> 00:17:34,203
[CHUCKLES]
259
00:17:36,831 --> 00:17:39,375
Did you boys stop fighting?
260
00:17:39,834 --> 00:17:41,543
Pals now?
261
00:17:41,586 --> 00:17:43,712
That's good.
262
00:17:43,797 --> 00:17:47,091
I love a little macho male bonding.
263
00:17:47,175 --> 00:17:49,134
I think it's sweet. I do.
264
00:17:49,219 --> 00:17:52,179
Even if it probably is latent
homosexuality being rechanneled.
265
00:17:52,222 --> 00:17:55,224
I'm all for rechanneling,
so who cares, right?
266
00:17:59,729 --> 00:18:01,981
Okay, shall we go to my place?
267
00:18:03,775 --> 00:18:07,861
- Which one of us?
- Both of you, of course.
268
00:18:42,689 --> 00:18:43,689
[SIGHS]
269
00:18:44,399 --> 00:18:46,275
These are the ground rules.
270
00:18:46,318 --> 00:18:47,985
I hook up with one guy a season.
271
00:18:48,069 --> 00:18:50,446
Usually takes me a couple weeks
to pick the guy.
272
00:18:50,488 --> 00:18:52,865
It's kind of my own spring training.
273
00:18:52,949 --> 00:18:57,620
Well, you two are the most promising
prospects of the season so far.
274
00:18:58,788 --> 00:19:01,498
So, I just thought we should kind of
get to know each other.
275
00:19:01,583 --> 00:19:05,127
Time-out. Why do you get to choose?
276
00:19:05,754 --> 00:19:07,963
- Why?
- Why do you get to choose?
277
00:19:08,048 --> 00:19:10,966
Why don't I get to choose?
Why doesn't he get to choose?
278
00:19:11,051 --> 00:19:14,970
Actually, nobody on this planet
ever really chooses each other.
279
00:19:15,263 --> 00:19:19,224
It's all a question of quantum physics,
molecular attraction and timing.
280
00:19:19,309 --> 00:19:23,145
There are laws we don't understand
that bring us together and tear us apart.
281
00:19:23,229 --> 00:19:25,731
It's like pheromones.
282
00:19:25,815 --> 00:19:28,609
You get three ants together,
they can't do dick.
283
00:19:28,693 --> 00:19:32,279
You get 300 million of them,
they can build a cathedral.
284
00:19:33,823 --> 00:19:34,990
[CHUCKLES]
285
00:19:35,200 --> 00:19:37,660
So is somebody gonna go to bed
with somebody or what?
286
00:19:37,744 --> 00:19:40,120
Honey, you are a regular
nuclear meltdown.
287
00:19:40,163 --> 00:19:41,997
You better cool off.
288
00:19:44,251 --> 00:19:46,460
Wait a minute. Where you going?
289
00:19:47,045 --> 00:19:50,130
After 12 years in the minor leagues,
I don't try out.
290
00:19:50,173 --> 00:19:51,924
Besides,
291
00:19:52,008 --> 00:19:55,970
I don't believe in quantum physics
when it comes to matters of the heart.
292
00:19:56,346 --> 00:19:58,597
What do you believe in, then?
293
00:19:59,099 --> 00:20:04,019
Well, I believe in the soul,
the cock, the pussy,
294
00:20:04,062 --> 00:20:06,146
the small of a woman's back,
295
00:20:06,189 --> 00:20:09,108
the hanging curveball,
high fiber, good Scotch,
296
00:20:09,192 --> 00:20:12,695
that the novels of Susan Sontag
are self-indulgent, overrated crap.
297
00:20:12,779 --> 00:20:14,863
I believe Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone.
298
00:20:14,948 --> 00:20:17,199
I believe there ought to be
a constitutional amendment
299
00:20:17,242 --> 00:20:19,535
outlawing AstroTurf
and the designated hitter.
300
00:20:19,619 --> 00:20:22,580
I believe in the sweet spot,
soft-core pornography,
301
00:20:22,664 --> 00:20:25,291
opening your presents Christmas morning
rather than Christmas Eve
302
00:20:25,375 --> 00:20:30,212
and I believe in long, slow, deep,
soft, wet kisses that last three days.
303
00:20:32,173 --> 00:20:33,966
Good night.
304
00:20:34,050 --> 00:20:35,342
Oh, my.
305
00:20:36,553 --> 00:20:37,595
Crash.
306
00:20:37,679 --> 00:20:40,264
Hey, Annie, what's all
this molecule stuff?
307
00:20:40,348 --> 00:20:41,599
ANNIE: Crash.
308
00:20:42,892 --> 00:20:45,644
Crash, wait! All's I want is a date.
309
00:20:45,729 --> 00:20:47,980
I'm not gonna fall in love
with you or nothing.
310
00:20:48,064 --> 00:20:51,609
I'm not interested in a woman
who's interested in that boy.
311
00:20:51,693 --> 00:20:52,860
Good night.
312
00:20:52,903 --> 00:20:55,321
- I'm not interested yet.
- Who you calling a boy?
313
00:20:55,405 --> 00:20:57,031
See you at the yard, Meat.
314
00:20:57,073 --> 00:21:00,242
Damn, nobody's ever said no
to a date with me before.
315
00:21:00,702 --> 00:21:02,536
He's crazy.
316
00:21:02,579 --> 00:21:04,163
I want you bad.
317
00:21:12,672 --> 00:21:15,049
Honey, hold on. Slow down.
318
00:21:15,383 --> 00:21:18,344
[GIGGLING] I wanna watch.
319
00:21:21,556 --> 00:21:23,599
Go ahead. Put it back on.
320
00:21:24,976 --> 00:21:27,478
Jesus, what kind of chick are you?
321
00:21:28,897 --> 00:21:32,274
When you know how to make love,
then you'll know how to pitch.
322
00:21:33,360 --> 00:21:35,110
I know how to pitch.
323
00:21:35,987 --> 00:21:37,488
Good.
324
00:21:37,614 --> 00:21:40,324
Now take it off slowly.
325
00:21:51,169 --> 00:21:52,169
[GIGGLES]
326
00:21:53,797 --> 00:21:55,172
That's nice.
327
00:22:02,138 --> 00:22:05,140
Oh, my, what a nice back.
328
00:22:06,810 --> 00:22:10,646
Honey. Sweetheart.
329
00:22:10,772 --> 00:22:13,357
Try taking off your
shoes and socks first.
330
00:22:13,441 --> 00:22:15,985
My socks? It's cold in here.
331
00:22:17,612 --> 00:22:18,654
What?
332
00:22:18,697 --> 00:22:21,657
You think Dwight Gooden
leaves his socks on?
333
00:22:53,565 --> 00:22:54,982
Ebby, honey.
334
00:22:57,611 --> 00:23:00,029
Have you ever been tied up in bed?
335
00:23:05,660 --> 00:23:07,202
[TRAIN HORN BLARING]
336
00:23:29,142 --> 00:23:30,392
[WHOOPING]
337
00:23:30,685 --> 00:23:32,937
Bring it on, baby!
338
00:23:33,021 --> 00:23:34,897
I heard about shit like this.
339
00:23:34,981 --> 00:23:36,899
You ever heard about Walt Whitman?
340
00:23:36,983 --> 00:23:38,609
Who does he play for?
341
00:23:38,693 --> 00:23:40,736
He sort of pitches for
the Cosmic All-Stars.
342
00:23:40,820 --> 00:23:43,072
- Never heard of him.
- Oh, good.
343
00:23:43,114 --> 00:23:44,406
Listen to this.
344
00:23:47,744 --> 00:23:49,912
"I sing the body electric
345
00:23:49,996 --> 00:23:53,874
"The armies of those I love engirth me
and I engirth them
346
00:23:54,417 --> 00:23:57,753
"They will not let me off
till I go with them, respond to them
347
00:23:57,837 --> 00:24:01,340
"And discorrupt them and charge them
full with the charge of the soul.
348
00:24:04,636 --> 00:24:09,473
"But the expression of a well-made man
appears not only in his face
349
00:24:09,683 --> 00:24:12,351
"it is in his limbs and joints also."
350
00:24:12,435 --> 00:24:13,936
- Excuse me.
- "It is..."
351
00:24:15,438 --> 00:24:17,606
Are we gonna fuck or what?
352
00:24:19,943 --> 00:24:24,863
"It is curiously in the joints
of his hips and wrists
353
00:24:25,115 --> 00:24:28,367
"love-flesh swelling and
deliciously aching.
354
00:24:28,451 --> 00:24:33,455
"Limitless limpid jets of love,
hot and enormous."
355
00:24:34,124 --> 00:24:35,666
[PLAYERS CHATTERING]
356
00:24:40,964 --> 00:24:44,300
Listen up, guys.
Can I have your attention a minute?
357
00:24:44,342 --> 00:24:46,677
I'm gonna be leading a daily chapel
service here in the locker room
358
00:24:46,761 --> 00:24:49,054
- at 3:00 in the afternoon.
- Amen, brother!
359
00:24:49,139 --> 00:24:52,308
Y'all are invited to stop on by
and worship before batting practice.
360
00:24:52,350 --> 00:24:55,185
Jimmy, God damn it.
Loosen up and get laid.
361
00:24:57,147 --> 00:25:02,860
I know y'all think I'm pretty square,
but I believe what I believe.
362
00:25:04,487 --> 00:25:05,821
[PLAYER WHISTLES]
363
00:25:06,156 --> 00:25:09,325
Jesus, Ebby, you look like
a truck ran over you.
364
00:25:10,160 --> 00:25:13,537
Nuke. Call me Nuke.
365
00:25:14,331 --> 00:25:16,832
Annie says it's my new nickname.
366
00:25:16,875 --> 00:25:19,501
Okay, Nuke. Go get 'em.
367
00:25:19,628 --> 00:25:21,795
Annie nailed you? Annie did?
368
00:25:21,838 --> 00:25:24,214
That's great. That means
you're gonna have a great year.
369
00:25:24,299 --> 00:25:28,677
Is she as good as they say?
370
00:25:30,388 --> 00:25:32,473
No, man, we didn't fuck.
371
00:25:33,850 --> 00:25:36,685
No, she read poetry to me all night.
372
00:25:36,895 --> 00:25:39,188
It's more tiring than fucking.
373
00:25:42,192 --> 00:25:43,192
[NUKE GROANS]
374
00:25:44,444 --> 00:25:46,612
"Limpid jets of love."
375
00:25:48,531 --> 00:25:52,576
Hey, Crash.
Does that mean what I think it means?
376
00:25:52,661 --> 00:25:54,203
"Limpid jets of love."
377
00:25:54,246 --> 00:25:56,872
Your shower shoes have fungus on them.
378
00:25:56,915 --> 00:26:01,168
You'll never make it to the bigs
with fungus on your shower shoes.
379
00:26:01,211 --> 00:26:03,837
Think classy, you'll be classy.
380
00:26:03,880 --> 00:26:05,589
If you win 20 in the Show
381
00:26:05,674 --> 00:26:08,217
you can let the fungus
grow back on your shower shoes
382
00:26:08,260 --> 00:26:10,511
and the press will
think you're colorful.
383
00:26:10,553 --> 00:26:15,516
Until you win 20 in the Show,
however, it means you're a slob.
384
00:26:20,397 --> 00:26:21,730
ANNOUNCER: Y'all don't forget
385
00:26:21,815 --> 00:26:24,942
Saturday is Bull Day
down at the Northgate Mall.
386
00:26:26,611 --> 00:26:27,695
Strike!
387
00:26:27,737 --> 00:26:30,781
Whoa, too bad, Butch. Too bad.
388
00:26:30,865 --> 00:26:31,907
[ORGAN MUSIC PLAYING ON P.A.]
389
00:26:32,158 --> 00:26:33,242
Charge!
390
00:26:35,370 --> 00:26:38,038
Not getting that cheese by me, Meat.
391
00:26:38,290 --> 00:26:42,501
And now batting for the Bulls,
number eight, Crash Davis.
392
00:26:44,713 --> 00:26:46,338
[CROWD CHEERING]
393
00:26:52,596 --> 00:26:53,929
Foul ball!
394
00:26:54,431 --> 00:26:56,599
God, stupid fuck, Crash.
395
00:26:56,683 --> 00:26:58,601
What'd you swing at a breaking ball for?
396
00:26:58,685 --> 00:26:59,977
Fuck me.
397
00:27:04,691 --> 00:27:07,067
You usually start me off with a hammer.
398
00:27:07,277 --> 00:27:11,238
CRASH: You're thinking too much, Crash.
Get out of your fucking head.
399
00:27:11,281 --> 00:27:13,073
Don't let him in your kitchen.
400
00:27:13,116 --> 00:27:16,827
Come on, Crash. Just relax.
You got it, honey.
401
00:27:16,912 --> 00:27:19,538
All right, here we go. Stay back. Relax.
402
00:27:19,623 --> 00:27:21,457
Quick bat. Quick bat.
403
00:27:22,459 --> 00:27:23,667
Foul ball!
404
00:27:28,173 --> 00:27:31,967
Throw that shit again, Meat.
Throw that weak-ass shit again.
405
00:27:32,719 --> 00:27:34,803
Okay, he's got vision there.
Get close, baby, you got it.
406
00:27:34,888 --> 00:27:36,722
One more, baby, one more.
You got him.
407
00:27:37,349 --> 00:27:40,142
All right, he's gonna
throw the deuce now.
408
00:27:40,185 --> 00:27:41,852
He's gotta waste one.
409
00:27:41,937 --> 00:27:45,522
Stay back and wipe
that silly grin off his face.
410
00:27:45,607 --> 00:27:48,234
Come on. Bring it. Bring it.
411
00:27:48,944 --> 00:27:50,069
Jesus Christ!
412
00:27:50,153 --> 00:27:52,154
What was that? What the hell was that?
413
00:27:52,239 --> 00:27:53,948
What goes around, comes around.
414
00:27:53,990 --> 00:27:55,866
Son of a bitch throws hard.
415
00:27:56,243 --> 00:27:57,243
[CHUCKLES]
416
00:27:57,994 --> 00:28:00,829
It's okay, Crash.
You take it easy, honey.
417
00:28:01,581 --> 00:28:02,957
BOY: Go, Crash!
418
00:28:03,208 --> 00:28:07,127
All right, one and two.
You can hit this shit. Relax.
419
00:28:07,170 --> 00:28:09,171
Annie. Annie.
420
00:28:09,756 --> 00:28:11,674
Annie. Who's this Annie?
421
00:28:11,883 --> 00:28:14,677
Jesus, get out of the box, you idiot.
Where's your head?
422
00:28:14,761 --> 00:28:16,512
Get the broad out of your head!
423
00:28:16,554 --> 00:28:18,180
- Time out!
- Time out!
424
00:28:19,307 --> 00:28:20,599
[PEOPLE YELLING]
425
00:28:21,184 --> 00:28:22,685
Give me a rag.
426
00:28:25,438 --> 00:28:27,231
Get a hit, Crash.
427
00:28:27,983 --> 00:28:29,149
Shut up.
428
00:28:30,527 --> 00:28:31,777
[CHUCKLES]
429
00:28:37,200 --> 00:28:39,785
All right, you've seen all his pitches.
430
00:28:39,995 --> 00:28:41,704
You've seen them all.
431
00:28:41,788 --> 00:28:46,125
Shorten up, Crash.
Bring me the gas, kid.
432
00:28:46,209 --> 00:28:49,128
Bring me the gas.
433
00:28:51,006 --> 00:28:53,048
Quick bat. Quick bat. Quick bat.
434
00:28:53,466 --> 00:28:54,717
UMPIRE: Strike!
435
00:29:00,056 --> 00:29:02,933
Scotty, baby, take this to Crash.
436
00:29:03,977 --> 00:29:07,313
ANNOUNCER: Folks,
we have a little lost girl up here.
437
00:29:07,397 --> 00:29:10,733
Says her name is Lana Ann Baker.
438
00:29:11,359 --> 00:29:13,402
- She'll be waiting...
- It's for Crash.
439
00:29:13,445 --> 00:29:15,279
...at the ticket box
for her daddy, Cedar Baker.
440
00:29:15,363 --> 00:29:17,573
- Cedar, come on and get your little girl.
- Crash.
441
00:29:17,616 --> 00:29:20,117
- What?
- From Annie.
442
00:29:20,201 --> 00:29:21,535
Read it.
443
00:29:25,248 --> 00:29:30,544
"Dear Crash, you have a lovely swing
but you're pulling your hips out too early.
444
00:29:30,587 --> 00:29:34,506
"I'd be happy to meet with you tomorrow
at the batting cage to discuss it."
445
00:29:34,591 --> 00:29:36,175
Signed, "Annie."
446
00:29:37,093 --> 00:29:39,762
If there's one chick who'd know
you were pulling your hips out early
447
00:29:39,846 --> 00:29:41,388
it'd be Annie.
448
00:29:49,898 --> 00:29:52,566
It's kind of a personal note, kid,
so don't read it.
449
00:29:52,609 --> 00:29:54,151
There you go.
450
00:30:02,702 --> 00:30:04,495
Here, Millie.
451
00:30:04,579 --> 00:30:06,080
What's it say?
452
00:30:07,290 --> 00:30:11,543
It says,
"I wanna make love to you. Crash."
453
00:30:12,045 --> 00:30:13,337
Oh, my.
454
00:30:19,219 --> 00:30:20,302
[BELL DINGS]
455
00:30:22,264 --> 00:30:24,723
- See my hips?
- Yep.
456
00:30:26,142 --> 00:30:29,687
And I think Susan Sontag is brilliant.
457
00:30:31,147 --> 00:30:33,691
Is this gonna happen? Us?
458
00:30:34,651 --> 00:30:35,651
[BELL DINGING]
459
00:30:35,986 --> 00:30:38,612
I'm committed to Nuke for the season.
460
00:30:41,116 --> 00:30:43,701
You had your chance the other day.
461
00:30:44,035 --> 00:30:45,578
What is it you see in this guy?
462
00:30:45,704 --> 00:30:49,290
He's a young, wild,
463
00:30:49,833 --> 00:30:51,625
dim pretty boy.
464
00:30:51,668 --> 00:30:54,795
Young men are uncomplicated.
465
00:30:54,838 --> 00:30:58,841
And he's not dim.
He's just inexperienced.
466
00:30:59,676 --> 00:31:04,805
It's my job to give him life wisdom and
help him get on to the major leagues.
467
00:31:04,848 --> 00:31:07,391
That's funny, that's my job, too.
468
00:31:08,184 --> 00:31:09,685
Damn!
469
00:31:11,563 --> 00:31:12,730
You're pulling your hips.
470
00:31:12,814 --> 00:31:16,734
I know.
I know, I know, but they're nice hips.
471
00:31:17,068 --> 00:31:19,403
- I looked up your records.
- You what?
472
00:31:19,487 --> 00:31:22,364
You hit 227 home runs in the minors.
473
00:31:22,699 --> 00:31:25,868
- That's not bad.
- Don't tell anybody.
474
00:31:25,952 --> 00:31:27,786
Why not? You hit 20 more this year
475
00:31:27,871 --> 00:31:29,830
you're gonna be the all-time
minor-league champ.
476
00:31:29,873 --> 00:31:31,457
The record's 246.
477
00:31:31,541 --> 00:31:37,671
Well, 247 home runs in the minor-leagues
would be a kind of dubious honor.
478
00:31:37,714 --> 00:31:40,382
I think it would be great.
The Sporting News should know about it.
479
00:31:40,467 --> 00:31:43,886
No. Just no. Please.
480
00:31:45,055 --> 00:31:46,388
Okay.
481
00:31:47,933 --> 00:31:51,852
Last chance, your place or mine?
482
00:31:52,145 --> 00:31:55,064
Despite my rejection
of most Judeo-Christian ethics
483
00:31:55,106 --> 00:31:58,943
I am, within the framework
of the baseball season, monogamous.
484
00:32:01,071 --> 00:32:02,738
- Give me a break.
- It's true.
485
00:32:02,781 --> 00:32:03,989
Stop it.
486
00:32:06,826 --> 00:32:09,245
Jeez, the fact is
487
00:32:09,287 --> 00:32:11,789
you're afraid of meeting a guy like me,
'cause it might be real
488
00:32:11,873 --> 00:32:15,793
so you sabotage it with some,
what is it, bullshit
489
00:32:15,877 --> 00:32:18,796
about commitment to a young boy
you can boss around.
490
00:32:18,880 --> 00:32:21,590
- That's a great deal.
- Nice.
491
00:32:21,675 --> 00:32:26,053
I know women like you.
492
00:32:26,513 --> 00:32:28,681
You're a regular patron saint, you know.
493
00:32:28,765 --> 00:32:31,934
Stray cats, lost causes
494
00:32:32,018 --> 00:32:35,479
or 6'3" homeless studs.
495
00:32:36,273 --> 00:32:38,774
Oh, Crash, you do make speeches.
496
00:32:41,319 --> 00:32:42,653
[ANNIE MOANING]
497
00:32:50,328 --> 00:32:51,328
ANNIE: My!
498
00:32:53,081 --> 00:32:54,081
[ANNIE SIGHS]
499
00:32:54,416 --> 00:32:56,584
Crash, that was fabulous.
500
00:32:58,587 --> 00:32:59,795
Crash?
501
00:33:00,964 --> 00:33:03,799
You mean Nuke. You said, "Crash."
502
00:33:05,510 --> 00:33:10,097
No, honey, I said, "Nuke."
503
00:33:10,140 --> 00:33:12,683
- You said, "Crash."
- Oh, no.
504
00:33:13,184 --> 00:33:15,311
Listen, sweetheart, you shouldn't
listen to what a woman says
505
00:33:15,395 --> 00:33:18,522
when she's in the throes of passion.
506
00:33:18,607 --> 00:33:20,816
They say the dandiest things.
507
00:33:20,859 --> 00:33:22,651
Yeah, you said, "Crash."
508
00:33:24,279 --> 00:33:25,654
Honey,
509
00:33:26,197 --> 00:33:28,657
would you rather I’d be making love
to him using your name
510
00:33:28,700 --> 00:33:32,328
or making love to you using his name?
511
00:33:32,412 --> 00:33:33,454
[CHUCKLING]
512
00:33:37,709 --> 00:33:39,835
Yeah, maybe you're right.
513
00:33:40,921 --> 00:33:41,921
[CHUCKLES]
514
00:33:42,923 --> 00:33:46,508
Welcome to the Eastern Seaboard
Tobacco Growers
515
00:33:46,593 --> 00:33:49,595
City Council Little
League Cash Drop Day.
516
00:33:49,679 --> 00:33:53,974
These young fellas, young men,
I should say, over here to my left...
517
00:33:54,017 --> 00:33:57,019
Hi, 1 8. Hi, 12.
518
00:33:57,103 --> 00:33:58,562
Hey, Dino.
519
00:34:03,276 --> 00:34:04,860
Hey, Millie.
520
00:34:08,240 --> 00:34:11,033
Hey. I'm Millie.
521
00:34:11,743 --> 00:34:13,202
I'm married.
522
00:34:14,037 --> 00:34:15,496
[PLAYERS CHATTERING]
523
00:34:20,627 --> 00:34:23,545
- What is that?
- Chicken bone cross.
524
00:34:24,464 --> 00:34:27,216
Takes the curse off the bat
that brings me hits.
525
00:34:27,550 --> 00:34:30,094
What are you, a goddamn witch?
526
00:34:30,220 --> 00:34:33,222
Yes, a switch-hitting witch.
527
00:34:34,808 --> 00:34:36,600
Will that work for me?
528
00:34:36,685 --> 00:34:38,686
If you believe in voodoo.
529
00:34:38,728 --> 00:34:41,522
Jose, I am zero for 16.
530
00:34:41,564 --> 00:34:43,774
A big fucking donut hole for 16.
531
00:34:43,858 --> 00:34:46,402
I can't remember the last time
I had a base hit.
532
00:34:46,444 --> 00:34:48,279
Come on, man.
Let me have some of that stuff.
533
00:34:48,363 --> 00:34:50,906
Man, that is not belief.
That's desperation.
534
00:34:50,991 --> 00:34:54,243
Jose, come on. Just touch my bat once.
535
00:34:55,745 --> 00:34:58,080
Come on, just once.
I won't bother you the rest of the day.
536
00:34:58,123 --> 00:35:00,082
I swear to God. Just touch the bat once.
537
00:35:00,166 --> 00:35:04,336
ANNOUNCER: Ladies and gentlemen,
five, four
538
00:35:04,421 --> 00:35:07,923
three, two, one.
539
00:35:07,966 --> 00:35:10,593
Let her go!
540
00:35:10,635 --> 00:35:13,721
One thousand big ones!
541
00:35:13,847 --> 00:35:15,264
[CROWD CHEERING]
542
00:35:15,348 --> 00:35:16,932
[ORGAN PLAYING]
543
00:35:24,357 --> 00:35:25,774
[PLAYERS CHATTERING]
544
00:35:27,235 --> 00:35:29,695
SPECTATOR 1 : That batter ain't nothing.
Come on, Nuke.
545
00:35:37,078 --> 00:35:38,787
[SPECTATORS GROAN]
546
00:35:40,290 --> 00:35:41,457
Cut it!
547
00:35:43,960 --> 00:35:45,169
Time-out.
548
00:35:45,253 --> 00:35:47,421
SPECTATOR 2: Let's play ball! Let's go!
549
00:35:47,964 --> 00:35:50,299
Stay there. Give me the ball.
550
00:35:51,301 --> 00:35:52,426
Hey.
551
00:35:53,803 --> 00:35:55,721
Relax, all right?
552
00:35:55,805 --> 00:35:58,307
Don't try to strike everybody out.
553
00:35:58,350 --> 00:36:01,644
Strike-outs are boring.
Besides that, they're fascist.
554
00:36:01,728 --> 00:36:03,812
Throw some ground balls.
555
00:36:03,855 --> 00:36:05,773
It's more democratic.
556
00:36:06,566 --> 00:36:08,609
What's this guy know, anyway?
557
00:36:08,652 --> 00:36:11,695
If he's so great, how come he's
been in the minors for 1 0 years?
558
00:36:11,780 --> 00:36:13,989
If he's so hot, how come
Annie wants me instead of him?
559
00:36:14,074 --> 00:36:15,115
Oh, hey.
560
00:36:15,158 --> 00:36:18,452
And another thing, Meat,
you don't know shit. All right?
561
00:36:18,495 --> 00:36:20,663
You wanna make it to the Show,
you'll listen to me.
562
00:36:20,747 --> 00:36:24,041
Annie only wants you
'cause she can boss you around. Got it?
563
00:36:25,168 --> 00:36:26,919
Relax. Let's have some fun out here.
564
00:36:27,003 --> 00:36:29,129
This game's fun, okay?
565
00:36:29,172 --> 00:36:31,257
Fun, God damn it.
566
00:36:31,341 --> 00:36:34,009
And don't hold the ball so hard, okay?
567
00:36:34,052 --> 00:36:37,012
It's an egg. Hold it like an egg.
568
00:36:38,014 --> 00:36:39,014
[CHUCKLES]
569
00:36:40,600 --> 00:36:44,687
What's he know about fun?
I'm young. I know about fun.
570
00:36:44,729 --> 00:36:47,523
Old man, he don't know
nothing about fun.
571
00:36:47,607 --> 00:36:49,858
All right. Nobody's gone out there.
572
00:36:52,571 --> 00:36:54,780
Why's he calling for a curveball?
573
00:36:55,699 --> 00:36:57,283
I wanna bring heat.
574
00:36:58,660 --> 00:37:01,704
Shake him off. Throw what you want.
575
00:37:06,334 --> 00:37:08,043
God damn it. Time-out.
576
00:37:08,128 --> 00:37:11,839
Hey, why you shaking me off?
577
00:37:12,841 --> 00:37:15,551
I wanna bring the heater.
Announce my presence with authority.
578
00:37:15,635 --> 00:37:18,053
- To announce your what?
- Announce my presence with authority.
579
00:37:18,096 --> 00:37:20,014
"To announce your fucking presence
with authority?"
580
00:37:20,056 --> 00:37:22,433
This guy's a first-ball fastball hitter,
he's looking for heat.
581
00:37:22,517 --> 00:37:24,977
Oh, yeah? So what. He ain't seen my heat.
582
00:37:27,814 --> 00:37:30,399
All right, Meat. Give him your heat.
583
00:37:32,777 --> 00:37:35,321
Why is he always calling me Meat?
584
00:37:35,405 --> 00:37:37,323
I'm the guy driving a Porsche.
585
00:37:38,742 --> 00:37:40,451
Fastball.
586
00:37:43,830 --> 00:37:47,207
Come on, Nuke. Settle down.
Settle down, boy. Take your time.
587
00:37:57,928 --> 00:38:01,680
ANNOUNCER: Home run for Burt Crook
of the Fayetteville Generals.
588
00:38:01,765 --> 00:38:04,683
What are you doing? What are you doing
standing here? I gave you a gift.
589
00:38:04,768 --> 00:38:07,770
You stand here showing up my pitcher?
Run, dummy!
590
00:38:10,690 --> 00:38:12,358
Give me the ball.
591
00:38:14,152 --> 00:38:17,696
Well, he really hit the shit
out of that one, didn't he?
592
00:38:18,240 --> 00:38:20,783
- I held it like an egg.
- And he scrambled the son of a bitch.
593
00:38:20,825 --> 00:38:22,534
Look at that. He hit the fucking bull.
594
00:38:22,619 --> 00:38:24,536
Guy gets a free steak.
595
00:38:26,456 --> 00:38:29,416
- You having fun yet?
- Oh, yeah, I'm having a blast, thanks.
596
00:38:29,459 --> 00:38:30,626
Good.
597
00:38:31,795 --> 00:38:34,630
Sucker teed off on that like he knew
I was gonna throw a fastball.
598
00:38:34,714 --> 00:38:37,299
- He did know.
- How?
599
00:38:37,884 --> 00:38:39,134
I told him.
600
00:38:40,553 --> 00:38:42,554
One down now!
601
00:38:42,806 --> 00:38:46,225
Come on, Nuke. You're the man.
No batter. Chuck hard, baby.
602
00:38:46,309 --> 00:38:50,938
Don't think, just throw.
603
00:39:00,407 --> 00:39:01,824
Strike!
604
00:39:03,243 --> 00:39:05,995
God, that was beautiful. What did I do?
605
00:39:06,371 --> 00:39:07,663
[CROWD CHEERING]
606
00:39:13,420 --> 00:39:15,754
Hang on, Millie. Here we go again.
607
00:39:38,987 --> 00:39:42,406
That's the first home run
of the year for Crash Davis.
608
00:39:42,490 --> 00:39:47,119
That brings the score up to
Fayetteville 14, Durham 2.
609
00:39:49,039 --> 00:39:50,873
Hell of a shot.
610
00:39:51,791 --> 00:39:53,709
Sorry it got wasted.
611
00:39:55,378 --> 00:39:57,838
I don't know what to do with these guys.
612
00:39:57,881 --> 00:40:01,634
I beg. I plead. I try to be a nice guy.
613
00:40:01,718 --> 00:40:03,761
- I'm a nice guy. But I don't...
- Scare 'em.
614
00:40:04,888 --> 00:40:06,889
They're kids. Scare 'em.
615
00:40:09,017 --> 00:40:10,643
That's what I’d do.
616
00:40:12,437 --> 00:40:13,646
Yeah.
617
00:40:15,065 --> 00:40:16,065
[CHUCKLES]
618
00:40:20,904 --> 00:40:22,571
[YELLING] Everybody into the shower!
619
00:40:22,656 --> 00:40:26,283
Anybody ain't in this shower
in ten seconds gonna get fined $1 00.
620
00:40:26,368 --> 00:40:28,369
- Larry.
- One Mississippi,
621
00:40:28,411 --> 00:40:30,287
two Mississippi, three Mississippi,
622
00:40:30,372 --> 00:40:33,082
- four Mississippi...
- Get in there! Hurry it up!
623
00:40:33,166 --> 00:40:37,753
...seven Mississippi, eight Mississippi,
nine Mississippi, ten Mississippi.
624
00:40:38,004 --> 00:40:43,175
You guys, you lollygag the ball
around the infield.
625
00:40:43,260 --> 00:40:45,803
You lollygag your way down to first.
626
00:40:46,096 --> 00:40:49,682
You lollygag in and out of the dugout.
627
00:40:49,766 --> 00:40:52,351
You know what that makes you? Larry.
628
00:40:52,435 --> 00:40:54,311
- Lollygaggers.
- Lollygaggers.
629
00:40:55,397 --> 00:40:58,023
- What's our record, Larry?
- Eight and 16.
630
00:40:58,108 --> 00:41:00,776
Eight and 16.
631
00:41:01,778 --> 00:41:04,113
- How'd we ever win eight?
- It's a miracle.
632
00:41:04,197 --> 00:41:05,656
It's a miracle.
633
00:41:06,950 --> 00:41:10,244
This is a simple game.
634
00:41:11,121 --> 00:41:13,581
You throw the ball.
635
00:41:13,957 --> 00:41:15,749
You hit the ball.
636
00:41:16,835 --> 00:41:18,794
You catch the ball.
637
00:41:19,462 --> 00:41:21,255
You got it?
638
00:41:22,340 --> 00:41:26,969
Now we have got a 12-day road trip
starting tomorrow.
639
00:41:29,431 --> 00:41:31,432
Bus leaves 6:00 in the morning.
640
00:41:32,809 --> 00:41:36,353
Goddamn, son of a bitching,
motherfucking shithead. God damn it!
641
00:41:40,317 --> 00:41:42,276
Yeah, Skipper, you wanted to see me?
642
00:41:42,319 --> 00:41:45,821
Yeah, Bobby. Shut the door.
643
00:41:55,624 --> 00:41:59,335
This is the toughest job a manager has.
644
00:42:00,170 --> 00:42:04,298
But the organization
has decided to make a change.
645
00:42:04,341 --> 00:42:06,383
They're releasing you
from your contract.
646
00:42:06,468 --> 00:42:10,304
Skip, I know I'm in a goddamn slump,
but I hit the ball hard today.
647
00:42:10,555 --> 00:42:13,849
Couple flares drop in for me,
I'm right back in the groove.
648
00:42:15,226 --> 00:42:16,894
Sorry.
649
00:42:26,988 --> 00:42:28,113
Let's go. Come on.
650
00:42:28,198 --> 00:42:30,366
Nuke, honey.
651
00:42:31,117 --> 00:42:35,120
Let's go. Come on. We got five hours.
Hurry up. Five hour drive coming up.
652
00:42:38,208 --> 00:42:41,210
Honey, I want you to wear these
when you're pitching on the road.
653
00:42:41,294 --> 00:42:43,170
- What are they?
- They're garters.
654
00:42:43,213 --> 00:42:44,713
They're gonna hug your waist and snuggle
655
00:42:44,756 --> 00:42:47,466
and kind of dangle off your thighs
and buns in such a wonderful way.
656
00:42:47,550 --> 00:42:49,218
It'll help you see things differently.
657
00:42:49,302 --> 00:42:51,553
Plus, it'll remind you of me,
which is a lot nicer
658
00:42:51,596 --> 00:42:54,265
than thinking about all
those nasty hitters.
659
00:42:54,349 --> 00:42:56,809
Jesus, Annie, I don't know.
660
00:42:56,893 --> 00:42:58,894
You've been pitching
out of the wrong side of your brain.
661
00:42:58,937 --> 00:43:01,438
This will help put things
on the right side.
662
00:43:01,523 --> 00:43:03,899
Big-league pitchers don't use these.
663
00:43:03,942 --> 00:43:06,277
They did when they were
in the Carolina League.
664
00:43:06,361 --> 00:43:09,697
Nuke. Nuke, excuse me.
Time to go to work.
665
00:43:09,739 --> 00:43:10,906
All right.
666
00:43:18,582 --> 00:43:20,708
Bye, y'all. Bye.
667
00:43:20,750 --> 00:43:22,126
Give me a break.
668
00:43:22,836 --> 00:43:25,462
Go get 'em, boys!
Hit them where they ain't.
669
00:43:44,524 --> 00:43:47,151
[SINGING TRY A LITTLE TENDERNESS]
670
00:44:07,797 --> 00:44:09,465
Stop it.
671
00:44:10,133 --> 00:44:11,634
Thank you.
672
00:44:11,718 --> 00:44:14,637
- What?
- It's not "woolly."
673
00:44:14,971 --> 00:44:17,181
Nobody gets "woolly."
Women get "weary."
674
00:44:17,265 --> 00:44:18,974
They don't get "woolly."
675
00:44:19,392 --> 00:44:21,727
Nobody's got "stress,"
they're wearing a "dress."
676
00:44:21,811 --> 00:44:24,772
God damn, I hate people
that get the words wrong.
677
00:44:26,816 --> 00:44:28,817
How come you don't like me?
678
00:44:28,944 --> 00:44:31,987
You don't respect yourself,
which is your problem.
679
00:44:33,740 --> 00:44:36,784
But you don't respect the game,
and that's my problem.
680
00:44:37,035 --> 00:44:39,662
- You got a gift.
- What do I got?
681
00:44:39,704 --> 00:44:42,164
You got a gift. When you were a baby,
the gods reached down
682
00:44:42,207 --> 00:44:44,416
and turned your right arm
into a thunderbolt.
683
00:44:44,501 --> 00:44:47,086
You got a Hall of Fame arm,
but you're pissing it away.
684
00:44:47,170 --> 00:44:49,797
I ain't pissing nothing away.
I got a Porsche already.
685
00:44:49,839 --> 00:44:52,299
I got a 911 with a
quadraphonic Blaupunkt.
686
00:44:52,342 --> 00:44:54,885
You don't need a quadraphonic Blaupunkt.
687
00:44:54,970 --> 00:44:56,887
What you need is a curveball.
688
00:44:57,013 --> 00:44:58,973
In the Show, everybody
can hit a fastball.
689
00:44:59,015 --> 00:45:01,016
How would you know?
690
00:45:01,434 --> 00:45:03,519
You've been in the majors?
691
00:45:04,396 --> 00:45:05,396
[SCOFFS]
692
00:45:07,023 --> 00:45:08,857
CRASH: Yeah, I've been in the majors.
693
00:45:08,900 --> 00:45:10,818
PLAYER 1 : You were? Yeah?
694
00:45:10,860 --> 00:45:12,903
PLAYER 2: You've been in the Show, man?
695
00:45:13,697 --> 00:45:15,656
Yeah, I was in the Show.
696
00:45:16,741 --> 00:45:19,451
I was in the Show for 21 days once.
697
00:45:21,746 --> 00:45:24,331
Twenty-one greatest days of my life.
698
00:45:25,125 --> 00:45:27,293
You know, you never handle your luggage
in the Show.
699
00:45:27,377 --> 00:45:29,295
Somebody else carries your bags.
700
00:45:29,379 --> 00:45:31,088
It's great.
701
00:45:31,172 --> 00:45:33,716
You hit white balls
for batting practice.
702
00:45:35,093 --> 00:45:36,885
Ballparks are like cathedrals.
703
00:45:39,556 --> 00:45:42,057
The hotels all have room service.
704
00:45:43,268 --> 00:45:46,478
The women all have long legs and brains.
705
00:45:49,482 --> 00:45:52,401
- They're really hot?
- Yeah, and so are the pitchers.
706
00:45:52,444 --> 00:45:54,987
They throw ungodly breaking stuff
in the Show.
707
00:45:55,071 --> 00:45:56,739
Exploding sliders.
708
00:45:59,492 --> 00:46:01,493
You could be one of those guys.
709
00:46:02,454 --> 00:46:05,623
Nuke could be one of those guys,
but you don't give a fuck, Meat.
710
00:46:05,707 --> 00:46:09,543
Listen, I am sick and fucking
tired of you calling me Meat.
711
00:46:10,921 --> 00:46:12,755
You wanna step outside?
712
00:46:12,797 --> 00:46:14,506
Yeah, I'll step outside.
713
00:46:14,591 --> 00:46:17,051
Hey, hey, hey! Come on, Crash!
714
00:46:17,093 --> 00:46:19,470
He was kidding. He was kidding.
715
00:46:21,765 --> 00:46:23,098
What's the problem?
716
00:46:23,141 --> 00:46:25,059
Crash, Crash. Nuke, what's happening?
717
00:46:25,101 --> 00:46:29,146
I was just gonna ask Crash to show me
how to throw a breaking ball.
718
00:46:29,230 --> 00:46:32,816
Good idea. Did anybody bring a ball?
719
00:47:06,393 --> 00:47:07,393
[CRACKS]
720
00:47:08,270 --> 00:47:09,270
[SOUND EFFECT OF
CROWD CHEERING PLAYING]
721
00:47:10,146 --> 00:47:11,689
Double off the wall by Higgins.
722
00:47:11,773 --> 00:47:13,357
Once again,
the Durham pitchers are unable
723
00:47:13,441 --> 00:47:14,733
to get the first out of the inning.
724
00:47:16,528 --> 00:47:17,528
[BAT CRACKS]
725
00:47:19,197 --> 00:47:20,906
[CROWD CHATTERING]
726
00:47:36,548 --> 00:47:39,174
ANNOUNCER: The Bulls will attempt to
end a six-game losing streak
727
00:47:39,259 --> 00:47:42,636
against the Greensboro Hornets
with Nuke LaLoosh on the hill.
728
00:47:52,772 --> 00:47:55,024
Base hit to center field off LaLoosh.
729
00:47:55,734 --> 00:47:56,859
[CROWD CHEERING]
730
00:48:01,656 --> 00:48:03,741
That closes the book on LaLoosh today.
731
00:48:03,825 --> 00:48:08,370
Five earned runs, five hits, five strikeouts,
five walks and five wild pitches.
732
00:48:09,247 --> 00:48:10,998
It's time to tell it
like it is, sports fans.
733
00:48:11,041 --> 00:48:14,543
And this is the most wretched
road trip I've seen in 20 years.
734
00:48:14,586 --> 00:48:17,379
And possibly the worst Durham team
in half a century.
735
00:48:17,672 --> 00:48:20,799
Is the modern-day athlete a pale
imitation of the great old warriors?
736
00:48:20,884 --> 00:48:23,052
Only Crash Davis stands out this year.
737
00:48:23,094 --> 00:48:25,262
Begging the question,
what are these boys thinking about?
738
00:48:25,347 --> 00:48:27,389
'Cause it sure ain't baseball.
739
00:48:32,646 --> 00:48:34,563
[PLAYERS CHATTERING]
740
00:48:45,575 --> 00:48:48,577
Hey, Mr. Hormone, check out this.
741
00:48:48,662 --> 00:48:51,914
Ice-skaters. God, look at them.
742
00:48:52,123 --> 00:48:54,083
Hey, fellas, that's what we need, man.
743
00:48:54,167 --> 00:48:56,919
One night with some of these skaters,
we can get right back on track.
744
00:48:57,003 --> 00:48:58,087
Yeah, right.
745
00:48:58,171 --> 00:49:00,589
Just need a night off
to end our losing streak.
746
00:49:00,632 --> 00:49:02,758
What we need is a rainout.
747
00:49:02,842 --> 00:49:04,426
I can get us a rainout.
748
00:49:04,469 --> 00:49:07,054
Man, there ain't been a cloud
in the sky in weeks.
749
00:49:08,848 --> 00:49:12,017
Hundred bucks says I can get us
a rainout for tomorrow.
750
00:49:17,857 --> 00:49:19,692
You're on.
751
00:49:25,282 --> 00:49:26,574
[DOG BARKING]
752
00:49:26,950 --> 00:49:29,660
PLAYER: I ain't paying for this.
Crash, pay for this.
753
00:49:29,744 --> 00:49:32,037
Shut up. You're gonna wake everybody up.
754
00:49:32,122 --> 00:49:34,164
Let the bonus baby pay for it.
755
00:49:34,624 --> 00:49:36,000
PLAYER: Whoa, whoa, whoa!
756
00:49:36,668 --> 00:49:38,210
Jesus, man.
757
00:49:40,630 --> 00:49:41,797
[GIGGLING]
758
00:49:50,015 --> 00:49:51,390
[PLAYERS CHATTERING]
759
00:49:56,313 --> 00:49:59,064
Crash, what are you doing?
760
00:50:08,325 --> 00:50:10,034
Oh, my goodness!
761
00:50:10,327 --> 00:50:11,327
[GIGGLING]
762
00:50:12,329 --> 00:50:15,039
We got ourselves a natural disaster.
763
00:50:15,498 --> 00:50:17,833
[I GOT LOADED PLAYING]
764
00:51:11,513 --> 00:51:13,013
[TRY A LITTLE TENDERNESS PLAYING]
765
00:51:55,181 --> 00:51:56,181
[GASPS]
766
00:51:57,892 --> 00:52:00,185
Hey, hey.
767
00:52:00,937 --> 00:52:02,563
- Wake up.
- Huh?
768
00:52:02,606 --> 00:52:04,607
You're awake.
769
00:52:04,649 --> 00:52:06,025
You're okay.
770
00:52:07,444 --> 00:52:09,111
You were dreaming.
771
00:52:11,406 --> 00:52:12,823
You're okay.
772
00:52:13,575 --> 00:52:15,951
I was playing damn near naked.
773
00:52:16,077 --> 00:52:18,913
- What?
- I was naked.
774
00:52:18,955 --> 00:52:20,581
Playing naked.
775
00:52:22,125 --> 00:52:23,417
I know.
776
00:52:24,294 --> 00:52:27,129
I know. I have that dream
all the time, too.
777
00:52:28,632 --> 00:52:30,341
We're almost home.
778
00:52:37,432 --> 00:52:39,516
PLAYER 1 : Watch your head.
779
00:52:39,601 --> 00:52:42,102
Here you go. Let me get that black bag.
780
00:52:42,145 --> 00:52:45,314
- PLAYER 2: I'm not your slave.
- No, that one over there.
781
00:52:45,815 --> 00:52:47,191
[ALL CHATTERING]
782
00:52:54,282 --> 00:52:55,366
Hi.
783
00:53:02,874 --> 00:53:03,874
Whoa!
784
00:53:13,593 --> 00:53:17,304
[YAWNS]
785
00:53:17,597 --> 00:53:19,181
God, I'm tired.
786
00:53:20,475 --> 00:53:22,017
What a trip.
787
00:53:22,936 --> 00:53:26,272
I was lousy. I was worse than lousy.
788
00:53:26,356 --> 00:53:30,901
I mean, every time I pitched,
it was like throwing gasoline on a fire.
789
00:53:31,444 --> 00:53:32,861
[IMITATES EXPLOSIONS]
790
00:53:35,657 --> 00:53:36,699
I mean, I...
791
00:53:36,783 --> 00:53:39,910
What is all this "I, I, I" stuff?
What about me?
792
00:53:39,995 --> 00:53:41,954
Aren't you glad to see me?
793
00:53:42,038 --> 00:53:44,081
Don't I look nice?
794
00:53:45,250 --> 00:53:47,585
You look great. I'm sorry.
795
00:53:47,669 --> 00:53:49,712
I'm just totally exhausted.
796
00:53:49,796 --> 00:53:53,048
Good. Physical exhaustion
can be spiritually fabulous.
797
00:53:53,925 --> 00:53:56,760
What you need is a good game of catch.
798
00:53:56,845 --> 00:53:58,220
- Catch?
- Mmm-hmm.
799
00:53:59,347 --> 00:54:02,057
Baby, come on. Fire one in here.
800
00:54:02,100 --> 00:54:04,560
This is ridiculous. I'm a professional.
801
00:54:04,644 --> 00:54:07,271
Will you just give it a try and lean in?
802
00:54:09,733 --> 00:54:10,900
Thank you.
803
00:54:12,068 --> 00:54:15,404
Now, I want you to breathe
through your eyelids.
804
00:54:15,447 --> 00:54:16,572
- My eyelids?
- Yeah.
805
00:54:16,615 --> 00:54:18,741
Like the lava lizards
of the Galápagos Islands.
806
00:54:18,783 --> 00:54:22,369
Some lizards have a parietal eye behind
their heads so they can see backwards.
807
00:54:22,412 --> 00:54:24,496
Haven't you ever noticed
how Fernando Valenzuela,
808
00:54:24,581 --> 00:54:27,458
he just doesn't even
look when he pitches?
809
00:54:27,542 --> 00:54:29,585
He's a Mayan Indian.
810
00:54:29,669 --> 00:54:31,879
Or an Aztec. I forget which one.
I get them confused.
811
00:54:31,922 --> 00:54:33,964
- So do I.
- Stand up for a second.
812
00:54:34,049 --> 00:54:35,966
I want you to be aware
of the chakra connection
813
00:54:36,051 --> 00:54:37,885
between your feet and your testicles.
814
00:54:37,928 --> 00:54:41,055
- Chakra.
- Your right leg and left testicle
815
00:54:41,097 --> 00:54:42,932
and your left leg and
your right testicle.
816
00:54:42,974 --> 00:54:45,601
- I like that.
- I bet you do.
817
00:54:45,644 --> 00:54:47,770
Give me the ball. Come on.
I'm tired of hearing this.
818
00:54:47,854 --> 00:54:49,772
Fire one in there. Come on.
819
00:54:50,607 --> 00:54:51,899
Okay.
820
00:54:54,611 --> 00:54:57,488
You're patronizing me,
and I will not be patronized.
821
00:54:57,572 --> 00:55:00,616
If I throw too hard,
I'm gonna hurt the girl.
822
00:55:00,700 --> 00:55:02,785
This girl has handled a lot of pitchers
823
00:55:02,869 --> 00:55:05,788
whose records are a lot better
than one and seven.
824
00:55:05,872 --> 00:55:09,291
- One and six. Give me the goddamn ball.
- Oh, sorry.
825
00:55:16,132 --> 00:55:16,882
[DOG BARKING]
826
00:55:17,175 --> 00:55:19,134
- How do you like that?
- That was much better.
827
00:55:19,469 --> 00:55:21,470
Did you see that?
Because your delivery was fully integrated
828
00:55:21,554 --> 00:55:24,348
because you weren't thinking about it,
'cause you were pissed off at me.
829
00:55:24,432 --> 00:55:27,059
Now, that's progress. Come on up here.
Get your butt up here.
830
00:55:27,143 --> 00:55:28,936
Let's bend over, and
I'm gonna show you...
831
00:55:28,979 --> 00:55:33,357
I give up. I give up. Let's go inside
and make love and fall asleep
832
00:55:33,441 --> 00:55:35,734
until it's time to go to the ballpark.
833
00:55:37,404 --> 00:55:41,490
Or we could just take
all that sexual energy
834
00:55:41,533 --> 00:55:44,660
and kind of hold onto it for a few hours
835
00:55:44,744 --> 00:55:48,163
and then rechannel it
into your pitching tonight.
836
00:55:50,667 --> 00:55:53,544
You're a powerful young thing,
Ebby Calvin.
837
00:55:56,548 --> 00:55:58,173
You want something
for that sore shoulder?
838
00:55:58,258 --> 00:56:00,843
Yeah, I want that shit
that don't smell bad.
839
00:56:00,885 --> 00:56:03,846
- It's on back order.
- Give him some of that shit.
840
00:56:05,432 --> 00:56:06,682
[PLAYERS CHATTERING]
841
00:56:15,692 --> 00:56:16,734
[EXCLAIMS]
842
00:56:17,027 --> 00:56:18,402
That's hot.
843
00:56:19,362 --> 00:56:21,655
No, I mean it, that's very hot.
844
00:56:23,408 --> 00:56:25,701
Annie says it'll keep
one side of my brain
845
00:56:25,744 --> 00:56:28,996
occupied while I'm on the mound,
thus keeping my brain slightly off-center
846
00:56:29,039 --> 00:56:32,041
which is where it should be
for artists and pitchers.
847
00:56:33,251 --> 00:56:34,376
Okay.
848
00:56:36,504 --> 00:56:40,716
She also said I should throw
whatever pitches you call for.
849
00:56:42,135 --> 00:56:44,178
Annie's a very smart lady.
850
00:56:47,557 --> 00:56:48,641
What?
851
00:56:51,853 --> 00:56:54,396
The rose goes in the front, big guy.
852
00:56:58,902 --> 00:57:03,364
ANNOUNCER: Now batting for the Salem
Bucks, the center fielder, Joe McCorkle.
853
00:57:03,740 --> 00:57:04,740
[MAN WHISTLES]
854
00:57:06,076 --> 00:57:08,327
This underwear feels kind of sexy.
855
00:57:09,537 --> 00:57:12,081
That don't make me queer, right? Right.
856
00:57:17,045 --> 00:57:18,921
Breaking ball.
857
00:57:23,468 --> 00:57:24,468
Yeah!
858
00:57:24,552 --> 00:57:27,012
All right! Good way to start, baby.
859
00:57:29,849 --> 00:57:31,892
I ain't queer. No, I ain't.
860
00:57:37,107 --> 00:57:38,649
Fastball.
861
00:57:40,777 --> 00:57:41,777
[GRUNTS]
862
00:57:42,237 --> 00:57:43,612
Strike!
863
00:57:44,573 --> 00:57:47,032
Ninety-six miles an hour. He looks good
864
00:57:47,117 --> 00:57:48,951
but why is he all twisting up like that?
865
00:57:49,035 --> 00:57:51,787
He's using his parietal eye,
just like Fernando.
866
00:57:52,747 --> 00:57:54,290
Whoo, that was a humdinger.
867
00:57:55,500 --> 00:57:56,625
Yeah.
868
00:57:58,795 --> 00:58:00,004
[CROWD WHISTLING]
869
00:58:00,589 --> 00:58:02,298
Fastball again? Why's he want the heat?
870
00:58:02,340 --> 00:58:04,758
I just threw heat. Don't think, Meat.
871
00:58:04,801 --> 00:58:06,844
Just give them the gas.
872
00:58:10,682 --> 00:58:11,890
Strike!
873
00:58:13,310 --> 00:58:16,061
Jesus, what's got into Nuke?
874
00:58:16,146 --> 00:58:17,563
He's wearing garters
875
00:58:17,647 --> 00:58:20,900
and he's breathing out of his eyelids
like a lava lizard.
876
00:58:21,026 --> 00:58:22,526
It's an old Mayan deal.
877
00:58:22,611 --> 00:58:24,486
- Aztec.
- Aztec deal.
878
00:58:25,947 --> 00:58:27,990
[MAN WHISTLING]
879
00:58:31,494 --> 00:58:33,787
Got it! I got it!
880
00:58:35,957 --> 00:58:38,042
Way to go. Hustle in!
881
00:58:41,004 --> 00:58:43,505
Have my mojo working.
882
00:58:43,590 --> 00:58:45,674
You know what a mojo is?
883
00:58:45,759 --> 00:58:47,343
- Sure.
- No, you don't.
884
00:58:48,094 --> 00:58:50,012
I was great, huh?
885
00:58:50,639 --> 00:58:53,349
Your fastball was up.
Your curveball's hanging.
886
00:58:53,391 --> 00:58:56,185
In the Show, they would have ripped you.
887
00:58:57,437 --> 00:58:59,396
Can't you even let me enjoy the moment?
888
00:58:59,481 --> 00:59:01,190
The moment's over.
889
00:59:02,776 --> 00:59:04,360
[ANNOUNCER CHATTERING ON PA]
890
00:59:04,527 --> 00:59:05,903
Come on, Crash.
891
00:59:05,987 --> 00:59:08,530
This guy starts me off
with a breaking ball
892
00:59:09,783 --> 00:59:11,617
I'm taking him downtown.
893
00:59:12,535 --> 00:59:14,370
[ALL EXCLAIMING]
894
00:59:17,999 --> 00:59:20,125
I dare you to throw me the hammer.
895
00:59:20,585 --> 00:59:22,044
You ain't that stupid.
896
00:59:22,087 --> 00:59:25,381
ANNOUNCER: Stepping up to the plate
for Durham, our own Crash Davis.
897
00:59:25,423 --> 00:59:27,549
Come on.
Put your hands together for Crash.
898
00:59:27,634 --> 00:59:28,884
Let's hear it!
899
00:59:31,972 --> 00:59:33,138
Let's go.
900
00:59:33,223 --> 00:59:36,725
CRASH: Come on, Meat.
Bring me that weak-ass shit.
901
00:59:36,768 --> 00:59:39,561
Bring it. Bring it. Bring it.
902
00:59:40,855 --> 00:59:42,439
[CROWD CHEERING]
903
00:59:44,568 --> 00:59:46,652
Oh, my.
904
00:59:55,078 --> 00:59:56,620
Two-nothing Bulls in the second.
905
00:59:56,705 --> 00:59:59,790
First time the Bulls have been
ahead in weeks, eh, Whitey?
906
00:59:59,874 --> 01:00:02,585
Let's see if the real
Nuke LaLoosh will show up.
907
01:00:03,920 --> 01:00:06,046
SPECTATOR: There you go! Dig in there!
908
01:00:06,881 --> 01:00:08,465
[PEOPLE CHATTERING]
909
01:00:15,432 --> 01:00:17,349
Back! Back! Back!
910
01:00:17,434 --> 01:00:19,351
Crash, you got room!
911
01:00:20,061 --> 01:00:21,604
You got room!
912
01:00:23,148 --> 01:00:24,773
[SPECTATORS CHEERING]
913
01:00:25,442 --> 01:00:27,026
All right, yeah!
914
01:00:28,820 --> 01:00:31,488
What are you doing out here?
I'm cruising, man.
915
01:00:31,990 --> 01:00:34,074
I want you to throw
the next one at the mascot.
916
01:00:34,117 --> 01:00:36,327
Why? I'm finally throwing it
where I want to throw it.
917
01:00:36,411 --> 01:00:38,495
Just throw it at the bull, all right?
918
01:00:38,580 --> 01:00:39,872
Trust me.
919
01:00:43,168 --> 01:00:44,710
He's the boss.
920
01:00:50,300 --> 01:00:51,467
A staggering start by LaLoosh.
921
01:00:51,509 --> 01:00:54,803
He's thrown five outs on nine pitches,
all of them strikes.
922
01:00:54,846 --> 01:00:57,556
He's got pinpoint control
here tonight, Bull fans.
923
01:00:57,641 --> 01:00:58,974
Here's the pitch.
924
01:01:01,645 --> 01:01:02,645
[GROANS]
925
01:01:04,314 --> 01:01:05,314
[CHUCKLES]
926
01:01:08,944 --> 01:01:10,110
This guy's crazy.
927
01:01:10,153 --> 01:01:13,197
Yep. I wouldn't dig in
there if I was you.
928
01:01:13,281 --> 01:01:15,282
Next one might be at your head.
929
01:01:16,493 --> 01:01:18,869
I don't know where it's gonna go.
930
01:01:18,954 --> 01:01:20,454
I swear to God.
931
01:01:21,122 --> 01:01:22,414
[CROWD YELLING]
932
01:01:24,542 --> 01:01:25,542
[CHUCKLES]
933
01:01:27,712 --> 01:01:29,338
[CHUCKLING]
934
01:01:36,429 --> 01:01:39,515
You're the man! You're the man!
Easy game!
935
01:01:42,352 --> 01:01:43,686
ANNOUNCER: Top of the ninth. Two outs.
936
01:01:43,770 --> 01:01:47,314
One out away from a stunning
two-hit shutout for LaLoosh.
937
01:01:48,275 --> 01:01:51,318
Bring it on, Meat. Don't let up.
938
01:01:51,361 --> 01:01:53,195
You own these guys.
939
01:01:54,531 --> 01:01:56,532
Dad would love a shutout.
940
01:02:01,371 --> 01:02:03,163
No. No, no.
941
01:02:05,000 --> 01:02:08,502
No, no, he's looking for heat.
942
01:02:08,545 --> 01:02:10,379
Let me give him the deuce.
943
01:02:11,047 --> 01:02:12,881
Play ball!
944
01:02:13,216 --> 01:02:16,051
Oh, no, he's shaking off the signs.
945
01:02:16,136 --> 01:02:17,469
Big mistake.
946
01:02:17,554 --> 01:02:19,930
This son of a bitch
is throwing a two-hit shutout.
947
01:02:20,015 --> 01:02:22,516
He's shaking me off.
You believe that shit?
948
01:02:24,227 --> 01:02:27,730
Charlie, here comes the deuce.
949
01:02:27,856 --> 01:02:30,399
And when you speak of me, speak well.
950
01:02:35,906 --> 01:02:38,741
- No, no. Serve it up.
- Yeah.
951
01:02:43,330 --> 01:02:44,455
[CROWD EXCLAIMS]
952
01:02:47,500 --> 01:02:49,418
ANNOUNCER: Home run.
953
01:02:50,086 --> 01:02:51,754
Give me the ball.
954
01:02:58,595 --> 01:03:00,596
You told him I was gonna
throw a deuce, right?
955
01:03:00,639 --> 01:03:01,847
Yep.
956
01:03:03,391 --> 01:03:06,018
Man, that ball got out
of here in a hurry.
957
01:03:07,270 --> 01:03:10,147
Anything that travels that far ought
to have a damn stewardess on it.
958
01:03:10,231 --> 01:03:11,857
Don't you think?
959
01:03:37,634 --> 01:03:38,968
[CHEERING]
960
01:03:48,311 --> 01:03:52,147
ANNIE: When Nuke started listening to
Crash, everything fell into place.
961
01:03:52,274 --> 01:03:55,401
He started throwing strikes,
and we started to win.
962
01:03:55,485 --> 01:03:57,861
But Nuke was still confused.
963
01:03:57,946 --> 01:03:59,822
He was so encouraged by his victory
964
01:03:59,906 --> 01:04:02,700
that he vowed not to have sex
until he lost.
965
01:04:02,784 --> 01:04:04,827
Unfortunately, however,
he kept on winning
966
01:04:04,869 --> 01:04:07,121
and for one extraordinary June and July
967
01:04:07,163 --> 01:04:12,918
the Durham Bulls began playing baseball
with joy and verve and poetry.
968
01:04:13,962 --> 01:04:17,381
The two sides of my own brain
were all jumbled up and cross-wired.
969
01:04:17,465 --> 01:04:19,425
While one side was being neglected
970
01:04:19,509 --> 01:04:23,178
the other was in paradise watching
our Bulls play like big-leaguers.
971
01:04:23,847 --> 01:04:27,182
We swept a four-game series at Kinston,
two games at Winston-Salem
972
01:04:27,267 --> 01:04:30,519
and kicked the holy shit
out of Greensboro in a three-game set.
973
01:04:30,604 --> 01:04:32,563
And Crash, who kept hitting dingers
974
01:04:32,647 --> 01:04:37,192
was approaching the minor-league record,
though I told nobody.
975
01:04:38,445 --> 01:04:43,532
After sweeping the July 4 doubleheader
the Durham Bulls were tied for first.
976
01:04:43,575 --> 01:04:48,078
Beautiful as the winning streak was,
I was getting damn lonely.
977
01:04:48,204 --> 01:04:50,080
Something had to be done.
978
01:04:50,165 --> 01:04:51,957
I needed a man.
979
01:04:52,083 --> 01:04:53,542
[ALL CHATTERING]
980
01:04:53,877 --> 01:04:55,336
[ROCK MUSIC PLAYING ON STEREO]
981
01:05:00,550 --> 01:05:02,092
Yeah!
982
01:05:02,177 --> 01:05:04,345
I love winning, man.
983
01:05:04,387 --> 01:05:06,722
I fucking love winning.
984
01:05:06,806 --> 01:05:10,267
You hear what I'm saying?
It's like better than losing.
985
01:05:11,728 --> 01:05:14,521
Teach me something new. I need to learn.
986
01:05:14,814 --> 01:05:16,565
Teach me something.
987
01:05:17,025 --> 01:05:18,734
CRASH: You got something to write with?
988
01:05:18,777 --> 01:05:20,694
Good. It's time to work
on your interviews.
989
01:05:20,737 --> 01:05:23,155
NUKE: My interviews? What do I gotta do?
990
01:05:23,240 --> 01:05:25,282
You have to learn your clichés.
991
01:05:25,367 --> 01:05:28,786
You're gonna have to study them,
you're gonna have to know them.
992
01:05:28,870 --> 01:05:31,580
They're your friends. Write this down.
993
01:05:32,707 --> 01:05:35,501
We gotta play 'em one day at a time.
994
01:05:35,585 --> 01:05:38,545
"Got to play..."
995
01:05:38,588 --> 01:05:40,256
- It's pretty boring.
- Of course it's boring.
996
01:05:40,340 --> 01:05:41,632
That's the point. Write it down.
997
01:05:41,716 --> 01:05:45,261
"One day at a time."
998
01:05:45,345 --> 01:05:48,097
I'm just happy to be here.
999
01:05:48,181 --> 01:05:50,599
Hope I can help the ball club.
1000
01:05:51,726 --> 01:05:53,686
I know. Write it down.
1001
01:05:54,604 --> 01:05:58,774
I just wanna give it my best shot.
1002
01:05:58,858 --> 01:06:03,112
And the good Lord willing,
things will work out.
1003
01:06:03,780 --> 01:06:07,116
"Good Lord willing
1004
01:06:07,409 --> 01:06:09,910
- "things will work out."
- Things will work out.
1005
01:06:09,953 --> 01:06:11,453
How's Annie?
1006
01:06:15,458 --> 01:06:17,835
She's getting pretty steamed, actually,
1007
01:06:17,919 --> 01:06:20,963
'cause I'm still rechanneling
my sexual energy.
1008
01:06:23,883 --> 01:06:26,051
I'm figuring I'm just gonna cave in
and sleep with her.
1009
01:06:26,136 --> 01:06:28,637
You know, to calm her down.
1010
01:06:29,139 --> 01:06:31,015
Are you out of your mind?
1011
01:06:31,099 --> 01:06:33,475
- I'm just... Talking about one time.
- Are you out of your mind?
1012
01:06:33,518 --> 01:06:36,562
If you give in now,
you might start losing.
1013
01:06:40,317 --> 01:06:43,986
Never fuck with a winning streak.
1014
01:06:46,865 --> 01:06:48,157
[HORN Honking]
1015
01:06:49,993 --> 01:06:51,452
Hi, boys.
1016
01:06:52,621 --> 01:06:54,830
Hi, darling. Get in here.
1017
01:06:54,873 --> 01:06:56,707
Hey, Jimmy!
1018
01:06:56,791 --> 01:06:58,250
Want a ride?
1019
01:06:59,878 --> 01:07:03,589
Have you accepted Jesus Christ
as your personal savior?
1020
01:07:03,840 --> 01:07:05,215
No.
1021
01:07:05,800 --> 01:07:08,010
Can I give you my testimony?
1022
01:07:08,929 --> 01:07:11,221
You can do anything you want.
1023
01:07:16,144 --> 01:07:17,353
Hop in.
1024
01:07:18,188 --> 01:07:19,563
[GIGGLES]
1025
01:07:21,566 --> 01:07:24,026
I am so proud of you guys.
1026
01:07:28,740 --> 01:07:32,201
- You want some more soup, honey?
- No, thanks. That was great.
1027
01:07:36,331 --> 01:07:39,416
How about a little back rub?
1028
01:07:39,501 --> 01:07:41,418
No, I'm okay.
1029
01:07:41,503 --> 01:07:43,712
I think I'll just take a little nap.
1030
01:07:44,047 --> 01:07:45,714
You want me to tuck you in?
1031
01:07:45,799 --> 01:07:48,133
Annie, you can't seduce me.
1032
01:07:49,678 --> 01:07:52,846
Sweetie, I'm not gonna
try to seduce you.
1033
01:07:55,934 --> 01:07:58,644
- What's that?
- That's my leg.
1034
01:07:58,728 --> 01:08:00,062
I know what it is.
1035
01:08:00,105 --> 01:08:02,189
I thought maybe we could work
on some fundamentals
1036
01:08:02,232 --> 01:08:06,819
since we're not gonna make love,
and improve your hand-eye coordination.
1037
01:08:06,903 --> 01:08:10,698
- My hand-eye coordination?
- Unsnap my stocking.
1038
01:08:12,158 --> 01:08:17,288
The other day,
Crash called a woman's...pussy...
1039
01:08:18,206 --> 01:08:21,834
You know how the hair is kind of
in a V-shape?
1040
01:08:22,586 --> 01:08:23,836
Yes, I do.
1041
01:08:23,920 --> 01:08:26,380
He called it the Bermuda Triangle.
1042
01:08:26,423 --> 01:08:29,592
He said a man could get lost in there
and never be heard from again.
1043
01:08:29,676 --> 01:08:33,679
- What a nasty thing to say.
- He didn't mean it nasty.
1044
01:08:35,056 --> 01:08:39,059
He said that getting lost and disappearing
from the face of the earth
1045
01:08:39,102 --> 01:08:42,980
was sometimes a good thing to do,
especially like that.
1046
01:08:43,064 --> 01:08:49,194
But he also said that there were times
for discipline and self-control.
1047
01:08:49,279 --> 01:08:51,196
And I think this is one of those times.
1048
01:08:51,281 --> 01:08:53,824
Crash is a very smart man.
1049
01:08:54,075 --> 01:08:56,285
Now, honey, let's give it a try.
1050
01:09:02,375 --> 01:09:04,460
Here, wait a minute. Watch. Watch.
1051
01:09:09,925 --> 01:09:11,634
Now you try. Go ahead.
1052
01:09:17,933 --> 01:09:18,933
Mmm-hmm.
1053
01:09:21,728 --> 01:09:23,395
Yep.
1054
01:09:23,813 --> 01:09:24,813
[MOANS]
1055
01:09:28,318 --> 01:09:29,568
You're playing with my mind.
1056
01:09:29,653 --> 01:09:31,195
I'm trying to play with your body.
1057
01:09:31,279 --> 01:09:32,821
I knew it. You're trying to seduce me.
1058
01:09:32,864 --> 01:09:34,865
Of course I'm trying to seduce you
for God's sake.
1059
01:09:34,950 --> 01:09:37,993
I'm doing a damn poor job of it.
Aren't I pretty?
1060
01:09:38,036 --> 01:09:40,037
God, I think you're real cute.
1061
01:09:40,121 --> 01:09:44,124
Cute? Baby ducks are cute. I hate cute!
1062
01:09:44,501 --> 01:09:47,544
I wanna be exotic and mysterious.
1063
01:09:47,629 --> 01:09:51,632
You are.
You're exotic and mysterious and cute.
1064
01:09:53,260 --> 01:09:54,802
That's why I better leave.
1065
01:09:54,844 --> 01:09:57,054
Nuke, you got it all wrong.
1066
01:09:57,138 --> 01:09:59,473
There's no relationship
between sex and baseball.
1067
01:09:59,516 --> 01:10:01,183
- Ask Crash.
- I did.
1068
01:10:01,268 --> 01:10:02,685
And what did he say?
1069
01:10:02,727 --> 01:10:05,688
He said, if I give into you,
I'll start losing again.
1070
01:10:06,273 --> 01:10:08,732
- He did?
- Yeah.
1071
01:10:09,442 --> 01:10:11,527
I'll be back when we lose.
1072
01:10:17,242 --> 01:10:18,576
Damn it!
1073
01:10:20,996 --> 01:10:22,246
[MUTTERING]
1074
01:10:32,757 --> 01:10:35,259
How dare you tell Nuke
to stay out of my bed.
1075
01:10:35,343 --> 01:10:38,137
You are messing with my private life!
1076
01:10:38,680 --> 01:10:40,723
Knock-knock, you know? Come in.
1077
01:10:40,765 --> 01:10:42,891
- Words like, thank you.
- You're confusing him.
1078
01:10:42,976 --> 01:10:44,727
- You're bending his mind all out of shape.
- I'm what?
1079
01:10:44,811 --> 01:10:46,145
You're confusing him!
1080
01:10:46,229 --> 01:10:47,563
I'm confusing him?
1081
01:10:47,647 --> 01:10:49,940
You got him breathing out
of the wrong goddamn eyelid.
1082
01:10:50,025 --> 01:10:52,234
You got him parading around
the locker room like a fruit.
1083
01:10:52,319 --> 01:10:55,279
That is a religious ritual
and it happens to be working,
1084
01:10:55,363 --> 01:10:56,405
if you don't mind my saying.
1085
01:10:56,448 --> 01:10:59,241
[STAMMERING] Wait a second.
Who dresses you?
1086
01:10:59,326 --> 01:11:00,743
- What?
- Who dresses you?
1087
01:11:00,827 --> 01:11:03,913
You think this is a little excessive
for the Carolina League?
1088
01:11:03,997 --> 01:11:07,541
"The road of excess leads to
the palace of wisdom." William Blake.
1089
01:11:07,584 --> 01:11:09,585
- William Blake?
- William Blake.
1090
01:11:09,669 --> 01:11:11,420
- William Blake?
- William Blake!
1091
01:11:11,463 --> 01:11:14,840
- What do you mean, "William Blake"?
- I mean, "William Blake."
1092
01:11:17,177 --> 01:11:20,304
Who are you? I mean, do you have a job?
1093
01:11:20,388 --> 01:11:23,515
I teach part-time
at Alamance Junior College,
1094
01:11:23,600 --> 01:11:26,352
English 1 01 and Beginning Composition.
1095
01:11:26,603 --> 01:11:29,396
You know, having a conversation
with you is like...
1096
01:11:29,439 --> 01:11:33,067
Is like a Martian talking to a fungo.
1097
01:11:33,109 --> 01:11:34,818
Oh, cute. That's really cute.
1098
01:11:34,903 --> 01:11:36,946
Just because sometimes
you manage to be clever
1099
01:11:36,988 --> 01:11:39,531
and have a nice smile,
does not mean you are not full of shit.
1100
01:11:39,616 --> 01:11:43,327
- What, I'm full of shit?
- You are full of shit.
1101
01:11:43,411 --> 01:11:45,955
- Nuke's chastity was your idea.
- I know! I'm telling you
1102
01:11:46,039 --> 01:11:47,790
- keep your hands out of this.
- I never told him
1103
01:11:47,832 --> 01:11:49,833
- to stay out of your bed.
- You most certainly did.
1104
01:11:49,918 --> 01:11:51,752
- I never told him to stay out of your bed.
- Yes, you did.
1105
01:11:51,795 --> 01:11:55,089
I told him that a player on a streak
has to respect the streak.
1106
01:11:55,131 --> 01:11:56,465
- Fine.
- You know why?
1107
01:11:56,508 --> 01:11:58,467
- 'Cause they don't happen very often.
- Right.
1108
01:11:58,551 --> 01:12:00,803
If you believe you're playing well
because you're getting laid
1109
01:12:00,887 --> 01:12:04,431
or because you're not getting laid,
or because you wear women's underwear
1110
01:12:04,474 --> 01:12:07,476
then you are, and you should know that.
1111
01:12:12,816 --> 01:12:15,776
Come on, Annie.
Think of something clever to say.
1112
01:12:17,279 --> 01:12:21,490
Something full of magic,
religion, bullshit.
1113
01:12:22,742 --> 01:12:24,493
Come on. Dazzle me.
1114
01:12:26,830 --> 01:12:28,831
I want you.
1115
01:12:29,416 --> 01:12:30,916
What?
1116
01:12:31,251 --> 01:12:34,253
- I said, "I want you."
- Stop it.
1117
01:12:40,343 --> 01:12:41,885
You're scared.
1118
01:12:47,100 --> 01:12:48,684
Maybe I am.
1119
01:12:49,603 --> 01:12:52,021
But I still think you should leave.
1120
01:12:55,025 --> 01:12:57,192
Okay. Well,
1121
01:12:57,611 --> 01:13:00,446
this is the damnedest season
I've ever seen.
1122
01:13:00,530 --> 01:13:03,782
I mean, the Durham Bulls can't lose,
and I can't get laid.
1123
01:13:06,411 --> 01:13:07,828
[ORGAN PLAYING CHARGE]
1124
01:13:09,539 --> 01:13:11,707
Come on.
Show them what you got, Super Nuke!
1125
01:13:11,791 --> 01:13:14,376
Show them there, Super Nuke!
Super Nuke!
1126
01:13:14,711 --> 01:13:18,714
LaLoosh. L-A-Loosh! Come on, LaLoosh!
L-A-Loosh! L-A-Loosh!
1127
01:13:19,758 --> 01:13:22,551
Just relax out there.
Don't aim the ball.
1128
01:13:25,472 --> 01:13:28,098
Nuke's overthrowing tonight.
Don't look loose.
1129
01:13:28,183 --> 01:13:30,351
Anything bothering him?
1130
01:13:30,560 --> 01:13:32,144
He says his chakras are jammed.
1131
01:13:32,228 --> 01:13:34,605
He's having trouble breathing
out of his left eyelid.
1132
01:13:34,689 --> 01:13:35,731
- Left eyelid?
- Right eyelid.
1133
01:13:35,774 --> 01:13:37,024
Right eyelid.
1134
01:13:37,734 --> 01:13:39,944
[MEN WHISTLING]
1135
01:13:41,029 --> 01:13:42,321
[CROWD GROANS]
1136
01:13:42,739 --> 01:13:45,074
- Give me the ball.
- Fuck!
1137
01:13:47,911 --> 01:13:48,994
Time out!
1138
01:13:49,079 --> 01:13:51,413
ANNOUNCER: Up to the plate,
Junior Chavley.
1139
01:13:51,498 --> 01:13:52,873
What's wrong?
1140
01:13:52,999 --> 01:13:55,251
I'm a little nervous. My old man's here.
1141
01:13:55,293 --> 01:13:57,628
Your dad's here? Where's he at?
1142
01:13:57,712 --> 01:14:00,673
He's right behind home plate.
Don't look. Don't look.
1143
01:14:03,510 --> 01:14:06,178
Look, he's waving.
Hey, he's just your old man.
1144
01:14:06,263 --> 01:14:07,805
He's as full of shit as anybody.
1145
01:14:07,889 --> 01:14:08,931
What's going on?
1146
01:14:09,015 --> 01:14:10,933
You breathing through
the wrong fucking eyelid again?
1147
01:14:11,017 --> 01:14:13,477
- Shut up.
- You guys hear about Jimmy and Millie?
1148
01:14:13,561 --> 01:14:16,605
They got engaged. Can you believe that?
1149
01:14:16,648 --> 01:14:19,650
Yeah? Wait till I tell him she's gone
down on half the Carolina League.
1150
01:14:19,734 --> 01:14:22,736
Anybody says anything bad about Millie,
I break his neck.
1151
01:14:22,779 --> 01:14:25,281
Excuse me, guys.
I've got a game to pitch here.
1152
01:14:26,783 --> 01:14:28,367
[SPEAKING SPANISH]
1153
01:14:28,618 --> 01:14:30,578
Hey, you guys. Don't throw me anything.
1154
01:14:30,620 --> 01:14:32,204
My girlfriend put a curse on my glove.
1155
01:14:32,289 --> 01:14:34,498
I'll take the hex off the fucking glove.
Give me the glove.
1156
01:14:34,583 --> 01:14:36,875
You gotta cut the head
off a live rooster.
1157
01:14:36,960 --> 01:14:39,086
SPECTATOR: Guys! Play ball!
1158
01:14:40,755 --> 01:14:43,132
What the hell's going on out there?
1159
01:14:43,216 --> 01:14:46,802
Looks like a convention.
Pretty soon they're gonna call the roll.
1160
01:14:47,804 --> 01:14:50,723
- Get your ass out there and check it out.
- You bet.
1161
01:14:54,352 --> 01:14:57,438
SPECTATOR 1 : Let's play some baseball!
SPECTATOR 2: Hurry up!
1162
01:14:58,565 --> 01:15:01,609
Excuse me.
What the hell's going on out here?
1163
01:15:01,651 --> 01:15:03,319
Well, Nuke's scared
1164
01:15:03,403 --> 01:15:06,113
'cause his eyelids are jammed
and his old man's here.
1165
01:15:06,156 --> 01:15:08,657
We need a live... Was it a live rooster?
1166
01:15:08,742 --> 01:15:11,160
We need a live rooster
to take the curse off Jose's glove
1167
01:15:11,244 --> 01:15:13,913
and nobody seems to know
what to get Millie or Jimmy
1168
01:15:13,997 --> 01:15:15,539
for their wedding present.
1169
01:15:15,624 --> 01:15:18,083
That about right?
We're dealing with a lot of shit.
1170
01:15:18,251 --> 01:15:19,418
[ALL AGREEING]
1171
01:15:21,004 --> 01:15:23,422
Okay, well,
candlesticks always make a nice gift.
1172
01:15:23,673 --> 01:15:25,215
Maybe you could find out
where she's registered.
1173
01:15:25,300 --> 01:15:27,843
Maybe a place setting
or a silverware pattern's good.
1174
01:15:27,886 --> 01:15:30,220
Okay, let's get to it. Go get 'em.
1175
01:15:31,181 --> 01:15:33,515
Come on. Get your ass in gear.
1176
01:15:37,270 --> 01:15:40,147
ANNOUNCER: LaLoosh looks in
for the sign. Here's the pitch.
1177
01:15:40,190 --> 01:15:42,983
Ball hit deep in the right
field, off the wall.
1178
01:15:43,026 --> 01:15:44,985
You should be at the game, Annie.
1179
01:15:45,028 --> 01:15:46,528
No, I'm fine.
1180
01:15:46,571 --> 01:15:49,198
Beautiful night for baseball here
in Durham.
1181
01:15:49,282 --> 01:15:50,532
And as the batter steps in...
1182
01:15:50,617 --> 01:15:54,787
How much time did you
and Jimmy spend together
1183
01:15:54,871 --> 01:15:57,039
before he proposed?
1184
01:15:57,082 --> 01:15:59,208
About five hours, I guess.
1185
01:15:59,292 --> 01:16:00,960
We both just knew.
1186
01:16:01,044 --> 01:16:03,045
Once again, he goes to the rosin bag.
1187
01:16:03,129 --> 01:16:04,338
Annie,
1188
01:16:05,340 --> 01:16:07,967
do you think I deserve to wear white?
1189
01:16:08,843 --> 01:16:10,552
Honey, we all deserve to wear white.
1190
01:16:10,595 --> 01:16:11,845
Ball two, in the dirt.
1191
01:16:11,888 --> 01:16:13,722
Come on, Nuke, go get them!
1192
01:16:14,224 --> 01:16:15,516
[SPECTATORS GROAN]
1193
01:16:16,017 --> 01:16:18,394
Shit! Piss! Fuck!
1194
01:16:19,562 --> 01:16:21,355
Bring it! Bring it! Bring it!
1195
01:16:21,398 --> 01:16:22,523
Come on!
1196
01:16:22,565 --> 01:16:24,191
He's coming. Go home! Home!
1197
01:16:24,234 --> 01:16:26,193
We got him! We got him!
1198
01:16:27,320 --> 01:16:30,489
- Safe!
- No, I got him!
1199
01:16:30,574 --> 01:16:32,491
- You missed him!
- I didn't miss him!
1200
01:16:32,576 --> 01:16:36,078
- Don't bump me!
- He still hasn't touched the plate!
1201
01:16:36,329 --> 01:16:38,581
He still ain't touched the plate!
1202
01:16:39,082 --> 01:16:42,626
Fuck it! It's a cocksucking call!
1203
01:16:42,711 --> 01:16:45,129
- Did you call me a cocksucker?
- No, l...
1204
01:16:45,213 --> 01:16:47,756
I said it was a cocksucking call!
You can't throw me for that.
1205
01:16:47,841 --> 01:16:49,967
- You can't run me for that.
- You missed the tag!
1206
01:16:50,051 --> 01:16:53,095
- You just spit on me!
- I did not spit on you!
1207
01:16:53,179 --> 01:16:56,265
You're in the wrong business!
You're Sears & Roebuck material!
1208
01:16:56,308 --> 01:16:58,809
You're pushing it, buddy!
You want me to run you out? I'll run you!
1209
01:16:58,893 --> 01:17:01,437
- You want me to call you a cocksucker?
- Go ahead. Try it.
1210
01:17:01,479 --> 01:17:04,899
Beg me! Pretty please, beg!
Pretty please, beg!
1211
01:17:04,941 --> 01:17:06,775
Call me a cocksucker,
and you're out of here!
1212
01:17:06,860 --> 01:17:08,277
You're a cocksucker.
1213
01:17:08,320 --> 01:17:10,029
- You're a cocksucker.
- You're out of here!
1214
01:17:10,113 --> 01:17:11,322
Shit!
1215
01:17:11,406 --> 01:17:14,241
- What the fuck is that?
- Holy shit!
1216
01:17:16,828 --> 01:17:18,495
[BOTH YELLING]
1217
01:17:19,289 --> 01:17:22,249
- He called me a cocksucker!
- He missed the tag!
1218
01:17:22,626 --> 01:17:24,585
ANNOUNCER: I've never seen
Crash so angry.
1219
01:17:24,628 --> 01:17:26,962
And frankly, sports fans,
he used a certain word
1220
01:17:27,047 --> 01:17:28,964
that's a no-no with umpires.
1221
01:17:31,301 --> 01:17:33,510
Crash must have called
the guy a cocksucker.
1222
01:17:33,637 --> 01:17:36,639
Mmm. God, he's so romantic.
1223
01:17:39,392 --> 01:17:42,436
ANNIE: When Crash got thrown out,
the game got out of hand.
1224
01:17:43,271 --> 01:17:46,649
Jose made three errors
with his cursed mitt.
1225
01:17:46,816 --> 01:17:50,069
Nuke never quite got in the groove,
though he didn't pitch bad
1226
01:17:50,153 --> 01:17:53,781
and the winning streak
came to an end with a 3-2 loss.
1227
01:17:54,241 --> 01:17:57,576
The good news was that a man
was about to come calling.
1228
01:17:57,827 --> 01:18:00,913
Bad news was it was the wrong guy.
1229
01:18:01,039 --> 01:18:04,166
[NON, JE NE REGRETTE RIEN PLAYING]
1230
01:18:21,351 --> 01:18:23,018
[KNOCKING ON DOOR]
1231
01:18:37,117 --> 01:18:38,492
Annie.
1232
01:18:41,371 --> 01:18:42,830
[KNOCKING CONTINUES]
1233
01:18:43,206 --> 01:18:44,498
Annie.
1234
01:18:46,960 --> 01:18:50,337
I know you're in there.
I can hear that crazy Mexican singer.
1235
01:18:56,219 --> 01:18:57,720
We lost.
1236
01:18:58,388 --> 01:18:59,722
It's okay.
1237
01:19:01,308 --> 01:19:04,226
Oh, Annie, I’d like you
to meet my father.
1238
01:19:04,269 --> 01:19:05,603
Oh, my!
1239
01:19:05,687 --> 01:19:08,314
Ebby's told me a lot about you.
1240
01:19:08,398 --> 01:19:12,693
Ebby tells me you taught him a lot
about discipline and self-control.
1241
01:19:12,736 --> 01:19:15,362
We were worried that he might
get involved in the wrong crowd.
1242
01:19:15,405 --> 01:19:17,573
We're so pleased
he met a Christian woman.
1243
01:19:17,616 --> 01:19:19,074
Praise the Lord.
1244
01:19:20,368 --> 01:19:21,410
[PHONE RINGING]
1245
01:19:21,494 --> 01:19:22,578
Excuse me.
1246
01:19:22,746 --> 01:19:24,038
Excuse me, Dad.
1247
01:19:27,125 --> 01:19:29,209
Hello? What?
1248
01:19:31,630 --> 01:19:34,840
- We got a lot of catching up to do.
- Your father is right there.
1249
01:19:34,925 --> 01:19:36,550
Crash tells me I gotta quit
worrying about him
1250
01:19:36,593 --> 01:19:39,303
so I think it's a good opportunity
to go for a quickie.
1251
01:19:39,387 --> 01:19:41,680
We gotta talk. We gotta...
1252
01:19:41,765 --> 01:19:43,265
Hello?
1253
01:19:43,767 --> 01:19:46,393
Yes, he most certainly is here.
1254
01:19:46,436 --> 01:19:48,354
It's Skip for you.
1255
01:19:49,898 --> 01:19:51,398
Hey, Skip, it's me.
1256
01:19:56,154 --> 01:19:57,279
What?
1257
01:19:59,699 --> 01:20:00,991
My God.
1258
01:20:02,285 --> 01:20:03,619
[EXCLAIMS]
1259
01:20:03,995 --> 01:20:05,162
Okay.
1260
01:20:06,206 --> 01:20:08,290
Yeah. All right.
1261
01:20:08,333 --> 01:20:10,167
What?
1262
01:20:10,293 --> 01:20:12,127
I'm going to the Show.
1263
01:20:13,004 --> 01:20:14,463
[EXCLAIMING]
1264
01:20:18,134 --> 01:20:19,510
Dad!
1265
01:20:19,594 --> 01:20:22,596
They're sending me up to the majors.
I leave first thing in the morning.
1266
01:20:22,639 --> 01:20:24,306
Can you believe it?
1267
01:20:26,184 --> 01:20:27,935
MR. LaLOOSH: Let's have
a quick word of prayer.
1268
01:20:27,978 --> 01:20:29,645
Oh, let's not.
1269
01:20:30,814 --> 01:20:32,648
I gotta find Crash.
Come on. I'll dump you off.
1270
01:20:32,691 --> 01:20:33,816
Wait.
1271
01:20:35,402 --> 01:20:38,028
Not so fast. He'll be right with you.
1272
01:20:38,113 --> 01:20:41,574
Come on, sweetie. I just want
to have you alone for a second
1273
01:20:41,658 --> 01:20:44,118
so we can say goodbye.
1274
01:20:44,160 --> 01:20:45,661
I'll be back.
1275
01:20:45,704 --> 01:20:48,205
When somebody leaves Durham,
they don't come back.
1276
01:20:48,290 --> 01:20:49,873
I mean, later.
1277
01:20:53,336 --> 01:20:54,336
Oh.
1278
01:21:00,719 --> 01:21:01,719
Huh.
1279
01:21:05,015 --> 01:21:08,434
Oh, God, Annie. Jeez.
1280
01:21:10,562 --> 01:21:14,607
- What do you have in there?
- Nothing.
1281
01:21:15,025 --> 01:21:17,568
You're not going to
be needing these anymore.
1282
01:21:17,736 --> 01:21:20,696
- I’d better take them.
- No, you're ready.
1283
01:21:20,906 --> 01:21:23,449
You think so?
You think I'm ready for this?
1284
01:21:24,659 --> 01:21:27,202
Ebby Calvin "Nuke" LaLoosh,
1285
01:21:30,373 --> 01:21:32,333
don't think too much.
1286
01:21:34,836 --> 01:21:36,295
I won't.
1287
01:21:40,091 --> 01:21:42,051
You know something, Annie.
1288
01:21:43,428 --> 01:21:46,221
You can't breathe through your eyelids.
1289
01:21:47,223 --> 01:21:49,058
Of course you can't breathe
through your eyelids.
1290
01:21:49,100 --> 01:21:52,227
Whoever told you such
a ridiculous thing?
1291
01:22:06,368 --> 01:22:08,244
Now, get. Come on.
1292
01:22:12,207 --> 01:22:14,124
Drive careful.
1293
01:22:16,628 --> 01:22:18,212
[SIGHS] Oh, my.
1294
01:22:34,437 --> 01:22:36,272
NUKE: Hey, there you are.
1295
01:22:37,065 --> 01:22:38,816
Crash.
1296
01:22:39,943 --> 01:22:43,362
Hey, Crash, guess what.
1297
01:22:44,656 --> 01:22:46,323
Guess what, man.
1298
01:22:48,118 --> 01:22:49,952
I'm going to the Show.
1299
01:22:51,288 --> 01:22:54,123
Big club's expanding its roster
to finish out the season.
1300
01:22:54,165 --> 01:22:55,291
Nice shot.
1301
01:22:55,375 --> 01:22:57,459
And I am going to the Show.
1302
01:22:58,712 --> 01:23:00,671
So why don't you go then?
1303
01:23:00,839 --> 01:23:02,756
Let's celebrate!
1304
01:23:04,301 --> 01:23:05,968
Congratulations.
1305
01:23:07,929 --> 01:23:09,597
Hope you end up on the cover
of Sports Illustrated
1306
01:23:09,639 --> 01:23:11,265
or maybe a cereal box.
1307
01:23:13,018 --> 01:23:15,102
What's your problem, man?
1308
01:23:15,645 --> 01:23:17,521
I'm trying to thank you.
Come on. Let's get out of this dump.
1309
01:23:17,606 --> 01:23:19,315
- I'll buy you a beer.
- Hey.
1310
01:23:19,524 --> 01:23:23,152
- You calling my place a dump?
- No, he's not. No, he's not.
1311
01:23:24,529 --> 01:23:26,155
- He's not. Are you?
- No.
1312
01:23:26,197 --> 01:23:27,489
He's not.
1313
01:23:27,532 --> 01:23:29,325
All right?
1314
01:23:29,409 --> 01:23:31,118
Nuke, do you know who this is?
1315
01:23:31,912 --> 01:23:33,662
This is Sandy Grimes.
1316
01:23:33,705 --> 01:23:37,291
Sandy Grimes hit .371
in Louisville in 1 967.
1317
01:23:37,334 --> 01:23:39,501
.376.
1318
01:23:39,544 --> 01:23:43,964
I'm sorry. He hit .376.
That's a career, man.
1319
01:23:46,676 --> 01:23:48,886
- In any league.
- Got that right.
1320
01:23:48,970 --> 01:23:52,765
Did you hear what I said?
I'm going to the Show.
1321
01:23:53,600 --> 01:23:57,102
You know what the difference
between hitting .250 and .300 is?
1322
01:23:58,355 --> 01:24:00,147
It's 25 hits.
1323
01:24:00,982 --> 01:24:05,194
Twenty-five hits
in 500 at-bats is 50 points. Okay?
1324
01:24:05,237 --> 01:24:07,988
There's six months in a season.
That's about 25 weeks.
1325
01:24:08,031 --> 01:24:11,367
That means if you get
just one extra flare a week. Just one.
1326
01:24:11,409 --> 01:24:13,869
A gork. You get a ground ball.
1327
01:24:13,912 --> 01:24:16,205
You get a ground ball with eyes.
1328
01:24:16,248 --> 01:24:18,540
You get a dying quail.
1329
01:24:20,126 --> 01:24:24,588
Just one more dying quail a week
and you're in Yankee Stadium.
1330
01:24:25,715 --> 01:24:28,884
You still don't know
what I'm talking about, do you?
1331
01:24:28,927 --> 01:24:30,886
Get the hell out of here.
1332
01:24:31,137 --> 01:24:32,680
All right.
1333
01:24:33,139 --> 01:24:34,765
Fuck.
1334
01:24:35,433 --> 01:24:36,976
Send you a postcard.
1335
01:24:37,060 --> 01:24:39,061
Send me a postcard? Hey, I made it.
1336
01:24:39,104 --> 01:24:40,562
You made it. You made shit.
1337
01:24:40,605 --> 01:24:42,606
Hey! Hey!
1338
01:24:43,233 --> 01:24:44,858
[MEN EXCLAIMING]
1339
01:24:45,735 --> 01:24:46,902
You crazy?
1340
01:24:46,945 --> 01:24:48,821
What the hell's wrong with you?
1341
01:24:48,905 --> 01:24:51,865
- I'll be all right.
- I'm talking about my mirror.
1342
01:24:53,326 --> 01:24:55,327
Shit, I'm sorry. Hey!
1343
01:24:55,412 --> 01:24:57,580
I'm not gonna fight you, man.
I'm not gonna fight you.
1344
01:24:57,664 --> 01:24:59,665
What do you mean,
you're not gonna fight me, you fuck?
1345
01:24:59,749 --> 01:25:01,959
- Fuck. Why am I a fuck?
- Why are you a fuck?
1346
01:25:02,043 --> 01:25:03,627
Because you got talent.
1347
01:25:03,878 --> 01:25:06,630
I got brains, but you got talent.
1348
01:25:07,799 --> 01:25:11,218
See this right arm?
Worth a million bucks a year.
1349
01:25:11,261 --> 01:25:14,013
All my limbs put together
aren't worth seven cents a pound.
1350
01:25:14,097 --> 01:25:15,931
What are you talking about?
You're a great catcher.
1351
01:25:15,974 --> 01:25:18,934
- I'm a great catcher?
- Yeah.
1352
01:25:19,311 --> 01:25:20,561
- Forget it.
- Hey.
1353
01:25:20,604 --> 01:25:22,605
- Fucking forget it.
- Hey, Meat.
1354
01:25:22,731 --> 01:25:24,440
[GROANING]
1355
01:25:25,817 --> 01:25:27,026
Damn!
1356
01:25:28,737 --> 01:25:30,821
I didn't mean to hit you, man.
1357
01:25:33,158 --> 01:25:35,367
You hurt my eye!
1358
01:25:35,702 --> 01:25:36,702
[GROANS]
1359
01:25:37,412 --> 01:25:39,038
Sorry.
1360
01:25:39,122 --> 01:25:47,546
Did you hit me with your right hand,
did you hit me with your left?
1361
01:25:47,631 --> 01:25:50,174
- My left.
- Good. That's good.
1362
01:25:50,258 --> 01:25:54,595
When you get in a fight with a drunk,
you don't hit him with your pitching hand.
1363
01:25:54,971 --> 01:25:58,098
God, I can't keep giving you
these free lessons.
1364
01:25:58,141 --> 01:26:00,643
So quit screwing around and help me up.
1365
01:26:07,317 --> 01:26:09,109
You look great, man.
1366
01:26:20,205 --> 01:26:22,122
Be careful with the bags.
1367
01:26:22,749 --> 01:26:25,125
We got a boy going to the Show.
1368
01:26:54,322 --> 01:26:56,240
Sorry about last night.
1369
01:27:00,245 --> 01:27:01,620
Forget it.
1370
01:27:05,083 --> 01:27:09,878
I have been known on occasion
to howl at the moon.
1371
01:27:11,673 --> 01:27:13,215
You understand?
1372
01:27:15,218 --> 01:27:16,218
Um...
1373
01:27:18,221 --> 01:27:19,722
No.
1374
01:27:20,390 --> 01:27:21,932
Well, you will.
1375
01:27:24,269 --> 01:27:25,686
Look, Nuke,
1376
01:27:26,146 --> 01:27:29,231
these big-league hitters are going
to light you up like a pinball machine
1377
01:27:29,274 --> 01:27:31,901
for a while, all right?
1378
01:27:31,943 --> 01:27:33,861
Don't worry about it.
1379
01:27:33,904 --> 01:27:37,573
You be cocky and arrogant,
even when you're getting beat.
1380
01:27:39,409 --> 01:27:40,910
That's the secret.
1381
01:27:43,079 --> 01:27:47,124
You gotta play this game
with fear and arrogance.
1382
01:27:49,085 --> 01:27:50,669
Fear and ignorance.
1383
01:27:52,088 --> 01:27:56,634
No, fear and arrogance,
you hayseed, not ignorance.
1384
01:27:56,718 --> 01:27:58,260
I know. I know.
1385
01:27:59,429 --> 01:28:01,931
I just like seeing you
get all worked up.
1386
01:28:08,229 --> 01:28:09,438
Listen.
1387
01:28:13,276 --> 01:28:14,485
Thanks.
1388
01:28:31,920 --> 01:28:33,128
Hey, Nuke.
1389
01:28:35,924 --> 01:28:37,299
Good luck.
1390
01:28:37,634 --> 01:28:40,636
You too, Meat.
1391
01:28:48,603 --> 01:28:50,479
[WEDDING MARCH
PLAYING ON ORGAN]
1392
01:29:00,949 --> 01:29:03,117
I now pronounce you husband and wife.
1393
01:29:03,159 --> 01:29:05,160
You may kiss the bride.
1394
01:29:37,903 --> 01:29:42,239
Jimmy, we all pitched in,
and we got you a little gift.
1395
01:29:42,324 --> 01:29:43,407
Tony.
1396
01:29:43,491 --> 01:29:46,660
Kind of a special wedding cake
from the Durham Bulls.
1397
01:29:48,038 --> 01:29:49,538
[ALL CHEERING]
1398
01:29:50,290 --> 01:29:52,207
Oh, my Lord!
1399
01:29:56,880 --> 01:29:58,672
Yeah, Skip?
1400
01:29:59,883 --> 01:30:01,800
You wanted to see me?
1401
01:30:02,552 --> 01:30:06,013
Crash, shut the door.
1402
01:30:10,977 --> 01:30:12,436
JIMMY: I wanna thank everyone!
1403
01:30:12,520 --> 01:30:14,271
PLAYER: Give me a piece of that!
1404
01:30:26,451 --> 01:30:29,411
This is the toughest job a manager has.
1405
01:30:32,749 --> 01:30:34,041
But...
1406
01:30:37,045 --> 01:30:39,546
The organization wants to make a change.
1407
01:30:40,757 --> 01:30:45,636
Now that Nuke's gone,
they wanna bring up some young catcher.
1408
01:30:45,720 --> 01:30:48,097
LARRY: Some kid hitting .300
in Bluefield.
1409
01:30:48,139 --> 01:30:50,057
He's probably a bust.
1410
01:30:50,850 --> 01:30:54,019
COACH: I put in a word for you
with the organization.
1411
01:30:54,104 --> 01:30:58,482
Told them I thought you might make
a fine minor-league manager someday.
1412
01:31:01,027 --> 01:31:05,531
There might be an opening
at Visalia next year.
1413
01:31:08,618 --> 01:31:10,661
You had a hell of a year, Crash.
1414
01:31:12,247 --> 01:31:13,455
But...
1415
01:31:14,624 --> 01:31:16,458
you know how it is.
1416
01:32:39,834 --> 01:32:41,752
I got released.
1417
01:32:42,837 --> 01:32:44,380
I heard already.
1418
01:34:00,957 --> 01:34:02,958
Oh, my.
1419
01:34:53,009 --> 01:34:54,551
[ANNIE MOANING]
1420
01:35:01,101 --> 01:35:03,560
I think probably with my love
for four-legged creatures
1421
01:35:03,645 --> 01:35:06,522
and hooves and everything,
that in another lifetime
1422
01:35:06,564 --> 01:35:09,358
I was probably Catherine the Great
or Francis of Assisi.
1423
01:35:09,401 --> 01:35:11,360
I'm not sure which one.
1424
01:35:12,654 --> 01:35:14,363
What do you think, honey?
1425
01:35:16,491 --> 01:35:20,911
How come in former lifetimes
everybody is somebody famous?
1426
01:35:26,376 --> 01:35:27,876
I mean...
1427
01:35:30,297 --> 01:35:33,382
How come nobody ever says
they were "Joe Schmoe"?
1428
01:35:33,466 --> 01:35:36,760
Because it doesn't work that way,
you fool.
1429
01:35:45,437 --> 01:35:47,354
God, you are gorgeous.
1430
01:35:50,066 --> 01:35:51,775
You wanna dance?
1431
01:36:07,083 --> 01:36:08,167
Yes.
1432
01:36:08,919 --> 01:36:10,336
I guess you do.
1433
01:36:15,759 --> 01:36:18,594
[SIXTY MINUTE MAN PLAYING]
1434
01:37:56,651 --> 01:38:14,752
[MEOWS]
1435
01:38:45,116 --> 01:38:47,368
ANNIE: Crash took off at dawn.
1436
01:38:47,410 --> 01:38:49,912
Said he heard there might be
an opening for a catcher in Asheville
1437
01:38:49,996 --> 01:38:51,997
in the South Atlantic League.
1438
01:38:52,958 --> 01:38:54,917
A woman should be
so strong and powerful
1439
01:38:54,960 --> 01:38:57,544
that she's not affected by such things.
1440
01:38:57,879 --> 01:39:00,089
I mean, it wasn't the first time
I went to bed with a guy
1441
01:39:00,173 --> 01:39:02,216
and woke up with a note.
1442
01:39:02,592 --> 01:39:05,261
At least the son of a bitch
left me breakfast.
1443
01:39:07,973 --> 01:39:12,101
You have to respect a ballplayer
who's just trying to finish the season.
1444
01:39:12,269 --> 01:39:14,520
At least, that's what I told myself.
1445
01:39:15,480 --> 01:39:18,732
Baseball may be a religion
full of magic, cosmic truth
1446
01:39:18,775 --> 01:39:21,902
and the fundamental ontological
riddles of our time,
1447
01:39:22,112 --> 01:39:24,113
but it's also a job.
1448
01:39:25,865 --> 01:39:29,118
CRASH: Come on, Meat.
Throw me that weak-ass shit.
1449
01:39:29,953 --> 01:39:32,496
Come on.
You ain't getting that cheese by me.
1450
01:39:32,706 --> 01:39:36,625
Bring it. Bring it. Bring it.
1451
01:39:37,669 --> 01:39:42,631
When Crash hit his 247th home run,
I knew the moment it happened.
1452
01:39:42,716 --> 01:39:44,633
But I'm sure nobody else did.
1453
01:39:45,051 --> 01:39:48,470
And The Sporting News
didn't say anything about it.
1454
01:39:49,848 --> 01:39:53,017
"Full many a flower is born
to blush unseen,
1455
01:39:53,101 --> 01:39:57,229
"And waste its sweetness
on the desert air." Thomas Gray.
1456
01:39:57,981 --> 01:40:01,317
Or William Cullen Bryant.
I don't know. I get 'em mixed up.
1457
01:40:01,651 --> 01:40:05,613
Anyway, my attempts at housekeeping
were feeble as usual.
1458
01:40:05,655 --> 01:40:08,407
I sometimes get easily distracted.
1459
01:40:08,783 --> 01:40:12,077
Funny thing was
I stopped worrying about Nuke.
1460
01:40:12,162 --> 01:40:14,705
Somehow I knew nothing would stop him.
1461
01:40:14,789 --> 01:40:18,876
The world is made for people
who aren't cursed with self-awareness.
1462
01:40:19,085 --> 01:40:22,087
Crash was right, Nuke had a gift.
1463
01:40:22,172 --> 01:40:26,133
I'm just happy to be here,
and I hope I can help the ball club.
1464
01:40:26,343 --> 01:40:28,218
You know, I just wanna
give it my best shot.
1465
01:40:28,303 --> 01:40:30,429
And the good Lord willing,
things will work out.
1466
01:40:30,513 --> 01:40:32,723
You know, you gotta play 'em
one day at a time, though.
1467
01:40:32,807 --> 01:40:34,934
Raye Anne, right?
That's a beautiful name.
1468
01:40:35,018 --> 01:40:38,270
Is that Greek? Raye Anne.
It's a beautiful name.
1469
01:40:38,355 --> 01:40:40,856
There's a great song by Motley Crue.
Do you know it?
1470
01:40:40,941 --> 01:40:43,275
"Raye Anne, she's a stay in." No?
1471
01:40:43,360 --> 01:40:45,444
Anyway, a good friend of mine
used to say,
1472
01:40:45,528 --> 01:40:47,404
"This is a very simple game.
1473
01:40:47,489 --> 01:40:50,032
"You throw the ball,
you catch the ball, you hit the ball.
1474
01:40:50,075 --> 01:40:53,285
"Sometimes you win, sometimes you lose.
1475
01:40:53,536 --> 01:40:56,080
"Sometimes it rains."
1476
01:40:56,498 --> 01:40:58,374
Think about that for a while.
1477
01:41:45,130 --> 01:41:47,339
Oh, my.
1478
01:42:30,926 --> 01:42:32,426
What happened?
1479
01:42:34,137 --> 01:42:35,304
I quit.
1480
01:42:37,974 --> 01:42:40,434
Hit my dinger and I hung them up.
1481
01:42:42,270 --> 01:42:43,979
[THUNDER RUMBLING]
1482
01:42:47,025 --> 01:42:48,984
I'm quitting too.
1483
01:42:49,027 --> 01:42:51,237
I mean, boys, not baseball.
1484
01:42:53,949 --> 01:42:58,160
There might be an opening for a manager
in Visalia next spring.
1485
01:43:02,582 --> 01:43:05,292
Think I could make it
to the Show as a manager?
1486
01:43:07,379 --> 01:43:12,925
You'd be great.
1487
01:43:14,719 --> 01:43:19,014
I mean, because you understand
about nonlinear thinking.
1488
01:43:19,057 --> 01:43:23,560
I mean, baseball seems like a linear game
with all those lines and box scores.
1489
01:43:23,645 --> 01:43:26,188
But the fact is, it's a spacious
non-time kind of time to it.
1490
01:43:26,231 --> 01:43:27,356
Annie.
1491
01:43:28,483 --> 01:43:29,650
What?
1492
01:43:30,235 --> 01:43:33,070
I got a lot of time to
hear your theories.
1493
01:43:33,613 --> 01:43:36,365
And I wanna hear every damn one of them,
1494
01:43:38,451 --> 01:43:41,954
but now I'm tired and I don't want
to think about baseball.
1495
01:43:42,038 --> 01:43:44,331
And I don't wanna think
about quantum physics.
1496
01:43:44,374 --> 01:43:46,792
And I don't wanna think about nothing.
1497
01:43:51,131 --> 01:43:52,756
I just wanna be.
1498
01:43:55,176 --> 01:43:57,094
I can do that, too.
1499
01:43:59,514 --> 01:44:04,059
Walt Whitman once said,
"I see great things in baseball.
1500
01:44:04,144 --> 01:44:07,187
"It's our game. The American game.
1501
01:44:07,230 --> 01:44:10,566
"It will repair our losses
and be a blessing to us."
1502
01:44:11,234 --> 01:44:12,735
You could look it up.
1503
01:44:13,653 --> 01:44:17,698
[LOVE AIN'T NO TRIPLE PLAY PLAYING]
1504
01:45:14,673 --> 01:45:17,383
[WOMAN LOVES A MAN PLAYING]