Previously on "Sports Night"...
I was just wondering if Dana would have a problem
if I took a f ew days off next week.
-- What's going on? -- Oh, it's nothing.
What's going on?
My par ents might be splitting up.
-- I knew I knew you. -- Yes.
-- You'r e Steve Sisco's wif e. -- Ex-wif e.
I've had experience with sportscasters.
-- What kind of experience? -- I was married to one.
-- Ah. -- Yes.
Kim: Five minutes to air.
First team in the studio, please.
Five minutes.
-- I'm pumped. -- Me too.
-- I'm pumped up. -- Ex cellent.
-- Ar en't you pumped? -- I am.
-- I'm r eady. -- Ex cellent.
Five minutes to air.
The best words in the English language.
-- Ar en't they? -- Yes.
They'r e the best words in the English language.
Cinq minutes avant d'etre en direct.
Those ar e the best words in the Fr ench language.
-- Yes. -- Oui.
Cinco minutos para salir al aire.
This is what I'm talking about.
-- Ther e's an internal clock. -- Ther e is.
-- It's like athletes. -- It's just like that.
-- When that gun goes off... -- When the bell rings...
-- It's game time, my f riend! -- You can take it to the bank!
The most beautif ul sound in the world.
Funf minuten bis sendungszeit.
-- Now you'r e just showing off. -- Yeah.
-- Good show, guys. -- Good show, Kim.
Did Orlando Rojas pitch this afternoon?
I do not know.
-- You don't know? -- I do not.
Natalie, did Orlando Rojas pitch this afternoon?
That's a good question.
Thank you very much.
Did he pitch this afternoon?
I do not know.
Thank God none of us work in sports.
Hey, neither of you have heard f rom Jer emy, have you?
-- Since he left? Nope. -- Yeah.
You haven't heard f rom him?
I heard f rom him the first night, but not the second night and not tonight.
Did you call his par ents' house?
-- I left a message. -- Maybe he's just busy.
Yeah.
Maybe he met another woman and f orgot all about you.
Maybe I'll jam a number-2 pencil up your nose.
Maybe he's just busy.
Maybe that's right.
Dave: 60 seconds to VTR.
-- Two minutes live. -- This is a heads-up.
We'r e two hours in f ront of Baja Calif ornia right now.
We'r e thr ee hours in f ront.
Baja Calif ornia isn't on daylight savings time.
Everybody in the country's on daylight savings time.
Baja Calif ornia isn't in this country.
Calif ornia isn't in this country?
Baja Calif ornia isn't in Calif ornia. It's in Mexico.
Baja Calif ornia is in Mexico?
-- Yeah. -- What kind of stupid-ass --
I'm just saying heads-up.
"Sports Night" is at r eady-1.
-- I'm pumped. -- 30 seconds to VTR.
Dave: Live in 90. -- I'm pumped.
Why wouldn't he call me?
His par ents ar e splitting up, Natalie.
He's got some stuff going on.
-- Yeah, but -- -- He'll be back tomorrow.
-- You know what you should do? -- Yeah... what?
-- Get pumped. -- Yeah.
I'm pumped.
Dave: Roll VTR. -- Dave, are you pumped?
-- What the hell is she -- -- She's pumped.
-- Ar e you pumped? -- I am.
Oh. That's gr eat.
Elliott...
did Orlando Rojas pitch this afternoon?
He's pitching tomorrow.
Did he pitch in the bullpen yesterday?
Yeah. Kelly was ther e, and she saw him throw.
How'd his f astball look?
Should be crossing the plate any minute now.
You guys ar e all set. Have a good show.
We will have a good show, Alyson, you know why?
'Cause you'r e pumped?
'Cause we'r e pumped.
Dan's pr etty ex cited.
Casey's speaking in tongues.
Alyson, did you know I speak f our languages?
You speak thr ee languages.
I speak f our languages.
You speak Fr ench, Spanish, and German.
I dabble in a little English.
What wer e we talking about?
I was hoping you'd know.
-- The point is we'r e pumped. -- Yes.
Do I have to keep standing her e?
-- No. Go get pumped. -- Okay.
You know what pumps me up?
I know you like grape jelly.
Orlando Rojas.
Orlando Rojas pumps me up.
It's just strange that he hasn't called me.
He's okay.
Dave: In 3... 2...
Good evening. From New York City,
I'm Dan Rydell alongside Casey McCall.
Those stories, plus we'll bring you the madness of March
and a mayday f rom Missouri.
We'll show you why McKenzie Blane f alls mainly on Tulane,
and we'll do other things that rhyme as well.
All that coming up after this.
You'r e watching "Sports Night" on CSC, so stick around.
Dave: We're out.
Dan: Orlando Rojas.
I don't know who that is.
Orlando Rojas the pitcher.
-- Oh, Orlando Rojas the pitcher. -- Yes.
I don't know who that is.
He's pitching this afternoon.
-- Orlando Rojas? -- Yes.
I don't know who that is.
That's hard to believe.
I took an elevator up 12 floors, Dan.
What did you want to tell me?
I wanted to tell you that
Orlando Rojas is pitching this afternoon.
You couldn't tell me that on the phone?
Well, you don't like it when I bother you at work.
Hey, is it okay if I hit you in the head with this big book?
-- That's Casey's. -- Oh.
Casey, is it okay if I hit Dan in the head
-- with this big book? Casey: Yep.
-- She doesn't know who Orlando Rojas is. -- He's a pitcher.
He's pitching this afternoon.
-- Orlando Rojas? -- You guys, seriously,
I'm just gonna sit down in the middle of the room and cry.
11 years ago, he pitched a perf ect game.
A perf ect game?
Yes, ma'am.
And a perf ect game is good?
Listen, I know ther e's a lot of jargon,
but some of these ar e pr etty self-explanatory.
I have to go back to my office.
How could you have been married to Steve Sisco all those years and know nothing about sports?
It wasn't "all those years," Dan. It was 2 1/2 years.
Yeah, but they wer e 2 1/2 Steve Sisco years.
That's like 25 r egular years.
You think Neil Armstrong's wif e is an expert in astropropulsion?
-- I think she's heard of the moon. -- Sports isn't what I do f or a living.
-- What do you do f or a living? -- What?
-- What do you do exactly? -- You know exactly what I do.
-- You'r e a market analyst. -- Yes.
-- What does that mean? -- I analyze the market.
-- Keep going. -- It's hard to understand, Dan.
I'm a very smart guy, Rebecca.
I analyze conditions and tr ends and make r ecommendations
to protect and improve this company's position
in the global financial community.
That's what I do.
-- You don't r eally know, do you? -- I do too know.
It was your husband's lif e. You never even had a passing inter est in it?
I'm just saying I know pr ecisely what I do f or a living, okay?
I happen to be a graduate of the Wharton School.
[ Chuckling ]
What?
Could you say that part again --
"I happen to be a graduate of the Wharton School"?
Have people ever tried to kill you?
Yeah, but I def end myself with my superior wit and guile.
I'm going back to my office.
-- Hey, guess what. -- [ Sighs ] What?
-- Orlando Rojas is pitching this afternoon. -- I heard.
-- Watch the game with me. -- Nope.
It'll be gr eat. I'll tape it. We can watch it later tonight.
-- No. -- Why?
'Cause you like me right now, and you love sports,
and I think when you see those two things in a room together at the same time,
I'm gonna look a little less like what you want.
I think you'r e wrong.
I have to go back to my office.
First of all, what makes you so sur e I like you right now?
Well, you f ollow me everywher e I go, and you ask me out all the time.
You'r e r eading way too much into that. See, you may have attended the Wharton School,
but I graduated f rom a little institution called Dartmouth,
and I took Psych 101,
and, on one or two occasions, I went to class,
so I know all about the likes of you, Miss Missy.
You built yourself a wall, a wall of pain,
a wall whose bricks ar e made of pain
and whose mortar is made of tears and whose --
What's the other one? Ther e's bricks and mortar --
-- That's it. -- Really?
-- Just bricks and mortar. -- Ther e isn't a third thing?
Nope.
Whatever. You've got a wall.
I'm going back to my world now.
I'm gonna tear that wall down, Rebecca, bit by little bit.
Okay. Bye.
I'm gonna tear it down...
f or I am Dan,
doer of good things wher e women ar e concerned.
[ Chuckles ]
How you all doin'?
We'r e just f riends.
Uh, that's Goodwin --
Jer emy Goodwin -- and I'm not looking f or topography,
just the general nautical make-up.
I need a chart.
You'r e back!
-- Yeah. -- Hey!
Hey. Right, no that ar ea's way too f ar north, though.
-- My man has come back to me! -- And what I need is a chart.
Did you get my "Welcome Back" card?
Right. That was r eally nice. Thanks.
I need a chart of that ar ea wher e the storm hit.
It says "Welcome Back" in big letters,
and then ther e's a drawing of me holding a sign that says "Welcome Back."
Uh, about 600 nautical miles f rom the start buoy.
So it's actually two cards.
Okay, would you call me at this number, please?
Ther e's also, as you can see, a box of Good & Plentys.
Thank you. Thank you.
-- You'r e back. -- I'm sorry I didn't call last night.
-- Or the night bef or e. -- Right, but --
Do you want to know how good I am?
I'm not even gonna ask why you didn't call.
Thank you, 'cause what I r eally gotta do right now --
Why the hell didn't you call?
You know, it was just one of those things.
I get it.
-- Do you? Thank you. -- Yeah.
Why the hell didn't you call?
-- Natalie. -- [ Telephone rings ]
Jer emy Goodwin.
Yeah, I need a chart.
Because I'm trying to figur e out how it happened.
It's the big box of Good & Plenty.
[ Sighs ]
[ Tapping ]
Ther e is a rundown meeting, right?
Yes.
'Cause it was kind of hard not to notice
that we'r e the only two people her e.
-- See, the thing about me is I'm well-rounded. -- Yes.
-- For instance, I speak many languages. -- Yes.
And I can juggle, play a little piano.
I need this meeting to get underway.
I want people to walk in the door right now.
[ Door opens ]
Look at that.
That's a power I didn't even know I had.
Good afternoon, everybody.
Will, you'r e sitting in Isaac's chair.
I thought Isaac wasn't her e.
You don't sit in Isaac's chair when Isaac isn't her e.
All right!
Let's go. No f oolin' around.
We've got nine items f or this meeting,
and we'r e just gonna go bam, bam, bam --
no interruptions. I think we can do it.
I'm f eeling r eally good about this meeting so f ar. I'm serious.
I'm getting a r eally good vibe f rom this meeting, so her e we go.
-- Ready, Elliott? [ Snaps fingers ] ltem one -- -- Dana...
-- Oh, this meeting sucks. -- Just one thing.
This is f or everybody.
I'm gonna be taping the Orioles game,
and I'm not gonna be watching it till the show comes down.
Under no circumstances do I want to know the outcome of the game or how Rojas pitched.
I want to shar e a sports experience with Rebecca,
and I don't want to know anything about this game.
That's a bit problematic.
-- Why? -- 'Cause I understand that it's our job
to get the inf ormation and r eport it to others.
I've got that all cover ed.
Can we get started?
First of all, you take the Orioles game.
Elliott, you r eroute the LC wir e
so that I'm not getting American League scor es in my office.
Kim, please pass this along to the staff
and have them establish a signal they can give me if I'm approaching danger.
Once the American League wrap-up starts,
I need to be outfitted with a blindf old and a Walkman,
and, just to be on the saf e side, Dana,
you better put a Hefty bag over the floor monitors.
Kill me. Kill me now.
Her e we go. Item one, Elliott.
-- Yes! -- I have something.
We print these rundowns --
tomorrow is the 10th anniversary of the wr eck of the Sword of Orion.
It happened during the Governor's Cup.
Jer emy, I didn't even see you ther e. When did you get back?
I took the train down this morning.
What's the Governor's Cup?
It's a sailboat race f rom New York to Nassau.
10 years ago, a 68-f oot merit-class yacht
called the Sword of Orion, which was f avor ed to win,
went massively and inexplicably off course
and into the path of winds gusting up to 90 miles per hour with 30-foot seas.
The tactician, who was the son of the boat's owner, was thrown overboard and drowned.
The rest of the crew was saved four days later.
I'd like to do a f eatur e.
I thought I could piece together what happened on the boat.
I'm gonna do interviews with f our of the cr ew members,
I've got two of the captain's logs as well as other support information.
What I'm having trouble with is getting the right charts.
I need the right charts and I need to learn how to r ead them.
I'm confident I can, that I can learn how to r ead them.
Anyway, I'd like to do a f eatur e, Dana.
I'm done. That's all I had to say.
I don't know if --
It's a good idea, Dana.
Okay. Yeah.
Keep Natalie posted.
Item one...
Yes, but I never said I was gonna watch it with you.
It seemed like you secr etly wanted to.
-- I didn't. -- Ther e was an understanding.
-- Ther e wasn't. -- Ther e was a tacit understanding.
-- Hey, Dan. -- Hey, Celia.
You're telling me you never watched a game with Steve Sisco?
Could you stop calling him Steve Sisco?
The way you use his f ull name drives me crazy.
In f act, everything you do drives me crazy.
-- Hey, Dan. -- Hey, Stuart.
How is it you've become buddies
with everyone who works down her e?
I have a way about me.
For you ar e Dan.
For I am.
Why is this game so important to you?
Orlando Rojas is pitching.
And he's r eally good?
We don't know yet.
He's been out f or two years after shoulder surgery and r ehab.
I've interviewed him a f ew times. You'd like him a lot.
And he's r eally one of the good guys.
-- What team does he play f or? -- The Orioles.
An oriole is a kind of bird.
Ther e's nothing about you I don't hate.
-- And yet you'r e mysteriously drawn to me. -- Yes.
Come to my office at midnight. I won't know anything about the game yet.
What happens if they win?
-- The Orioles? Nothing. -- Yes.
-- Nothing happens if they win the game? -- No.
They don't go to the championship?
No, actually, the season hasn't started yet.
It's what's called an exhibition game.
They play about 30 of them bef or e the season starts as a tuneup.
Then why does everyone car e who wins?
Nobody car es who wins, but if Orlando Rojas can put some innings together,
he may not get cut f rom the team as quickly as most people think he's gonna.
Ther e's r eally nothing like seeing a guy r ealize he's not done yet.
Usually it goes the other way.
Watch the game with me.
Dan, it's been a long week. I just don't think I can wait around till midnight.
I'm gonna get this stuff done and go home, probably take a bath, and go to sleep.
-- You sur e? -- Yeah.
Should I stop trying to sell you?
-- Yes. -- Really?
-- Yep. -- Okay.
Thanks.
Let me try to sell you.
Dan.
I knew that deep down you wanted me to try and sell you.
-- Hey, Dan. -- Hey, Phil. What do you say?
All right! Everybody, please, stop being f riendly to Dan!
Number one, ther e'll be pr etzels.
Jeremy: 400 miles into the race,
they were still all within sight of each other,
but on the fifth night, around sunset,
Southern Cross logged that they'd lost visual contact
with the Sword of Orion right around her e.
Two hours later,
Practical Knowledge had lost sight of them as well.
They tacked east working off a r eport
that called f or 40-knot winds out of the south-southwest.
They wer e right her e when all their onboard computers,
including the SatNav radar, malf unctioned.
And not only did they not know wher e they wer e,
they had no way of knowing that the call f or 40-knot winds was off by mor e than half.
So, it was a f ew minutes past midnight --
Hey, Jer emy, did, uh, something happen on this trip
you want to talk about? Something happen at home?
No. Just my par ents ar e getting divorced.
I know.
So, I mean, it is what it is.
Yeah.
Anyway, it was a f ew minutes past midnight
when the Sword of Orion turned again,
making a course f or 82 degr ees south,
and that was the last mistake they'd have a chance to make.
[ Telephone ringing ]
Uh, I'd like to audition these graphics in the 30s
and leave time f or any changes.
Would you put them up, Dave?
Yeah, I'll put them up on the monitor,
but I think you might want to let us do the talking.
Why?
You f righten the people in graphics.
-- No, I don't. -- Yes, you do.
The people in graphics ar e my f riends.
-- That's not quite right. -- I'm so nice to them.
That's one way of looking at it.
What's another way?
That oftentimes you expr ess your displeasur e with their work
in ways that make them want to take their own lives.
I absolutely do not.
Talk to us, let us talk to them.
-- I'm perf ectly nice. -- Dana.
-- Watch how nice I can be. -- Dana.
Fine. Show me 30. You'll see how nice I can be.
30's up.
Oh, that blows!
Yeah, she's not wild about it.
Back her e at 10:00.
Anyway, I wouldn't worry about it.
He's acting very strange today, Dana.
It's honestly not like him not to call me,
and he didn't r espond to the Good & Plenty,
and it was the big box of Good & Plenty,
and what's up with his obsession with this boat race?
-- I wouldn't call it an obsession. -- No, it is.
Is his f ather still living at home?
No, he's at a motel now.
Is Jer emy very close to his f ather?
Jer emy worships his f ather. He's the sweetest man.
It shouldn't be too hard to understand why Jer emy isn't in the best mood.
He's not telling me something.
-- Jer emy? -- Yeah.
Don't worry about it.
Yeah.
Hey...
The people in graphics ar e af raid of me?
Yeah.
Ex cellent.
These fingers wrap around these two seams.
It's called a 2-seam f astball.
Now, don't throw that until your arm is good and warm, Celia.
Don't be a hero.
I don't believe this.
Hey, Rebecca's back.
Who wants to show Rebecca what we've been working on?
This is my office. This is so totally my office.
You guys, I think Rebecca wants you to leave.
This is my office.
That's my desk.
This is my chair.
This is my job.
You look to me like somebody
who needs to learn the proper grip of a 2-seam f astball.
Dan, you see that I have work to do?
I see you have work to do, but I'm not entir ely convinced you know what it is.
-- Get out. -- You r eally won't watch a baseball game with me, huh?
Not tonight.
Really?
Yeah.
All right.
I'm not discouraged.
Good.
I am Dan.
Yes, you ar e.
See you Monday.
Yeah.
Listen to what Milton says in Paradise Lost --
he's basically saying that Orion becomes an instrument of divine wrath,
perf ectly controlled by God to thwart those who would defy him,
who "tr eadeth upon the waves of the sea."
Casey, did you get a 5-minute call?
-- Nope. -- Five minutes.
-- Really? -- Yeah.
-- It's 10 to 11:00. -- Right.
We still go on the air at 11:00, right?
-- Yes. -- So...
I want to talk to Jer emy.
No problem. Talk to me later, Jer emy.
-- Thanks. -- By the way...
this is the second time today I've been kicked out of a room,
and I go pleasantly and without incident.
Thank you.
Ther e's a lot of gr eat stuff on Orion --
the god and also the constellation.
You know, most people see only the belt,
which is f ormed by delta, epsilon, and zeta --
thr ee second-magnitude stars
that ar e spaced equally in a straight line.
Beneath the belt is a line of f ainter stars,
and, of these stars, theta isn't r eally a star at all.
It's actually the brightest part of the Orion nebula.
So this gr eat pink star in the sword of Orion
turns out to be something...
f ar mor e complicated and inter esting.
My f ather's been having an aff air with a woman f or 27 years.
Do you know her?
No.
How did your mom find out?
He told her.
You know...
I don't know how quickly I can get this piece done.
-- That's okay. -- It's worth it, I think,
to figur e out...
exactly how this boat that was supposed to win...
...met with this kind of disaster.
I'd like to look at a chart.
-- It's okay. -- I'm sorry I didn't call.
Don't think about that now.
[ Vehicle horns honking ]
Chris: 15 seconds back.
I'll tell you what else. I can cook --
not everything, but spaghetti I'm very good at, cupcakes.
-- What's Dan doing? -- Don't worry about it.
Dave: In 3... 2...
That was Connie Morton in Fort Lauderdale with the Orioles.
An auspicious outing f or Scott Erickson
and the lefty Orlando Rojas.
[ Thump ]
That's all f or us.
We'r e off tomorrow, but we'll be back Sunday
with the final-round coverage of the Battle Cr eek Invitational.
We'll see if Fuzzy Zoeller can close the gap.
You've been watching "Sports Night" on CSC.
Have a good night.
Good night, everybody.
Dave: Music. Will: Go.
-- Animation. Chris: Go.
We're out.
-- Good show. -- Good show, everybody.
-- That was a very nice show. Kim: We were pumped!
-- I could tell. -- It was a good show.
Yes. Would you tell graphics that the wise thing f or them to do
would be to leave the building right now very quickly?
Hey, Dana says you guys come on up f or a well-deserved pat on the back.
Her e it is.
-- Ah, thank you very much. -- Have a good night.
-- Take it easy. -- Good night, Elliott.
Listen, I'm gonna go talk to Jer emy,
but ar e you gonna watch the game in the office?
-- Yeah. -- I'll stop by.
[ Loudly ] I am now walking through the newsroom carrying the tape!
Please stop all conversations
r egarding Orlando Rojas and the Orioles game!
I r epeat, please stop all conversations
r egarding Orlando Rojas
and the Or--
He slipped on a tangerine peel in the locker room bef or e the game.
He twisted his ankle pr etty good.
Ar e you serious?
Boy, did you bite down hard on that one. [ Chuckles ]
That was nice.
You played a little joke.
Steve made it clear that he didn't want me in that world.
It was very important to him, and I --
He had a hard time mixing those things.
I had a hunch.
I want to tell you that I appr eciate
the extraordinary eff ort you went through today.
I want you to know I appr eciate it,
and it's hard because -- Well...
-- The wall of pain. -- Sur e.
With the bricks and the tears...
And the third thing. Yeah.
I'm gonna tear down that wall, Rebecca,
bit by little bit.
May take weeks, could take months,
but I'm gonna do it.
I'm hunkering down f or a long period of wall demolition --
just bit by little bit.
I expect the process to be ex cruciating,
but ultimately worth it.
I booked a suite at the St. Regis f or tonight.
Room service has a bottle of champagne chilling in the room right now.
Could I take you ther e, please?
Well, that'll speed things up considerably.
Follow me.
Okay.
And, Dan...
Yeah?
Take the tape.
The tape?
Take the tape.
'We come on the sloop John B'
-- 'my grandf ather and me' -- Ex cellent. [ Taps videotape ]
'Around Nassau town we did roam'
'Drinking all night'
'Got into a fight'
'Well, I feel so broke up'
'I want to go home'
'So hoist up the John B's sail'
'See how the mainsail sets'
'Call for the captain ashore'
'Let me go home'
'I wanna go home'
'Yeah, yeah'
[ Rock music plays ]