JOHNNY: Sn, what's Mickey short far? Michelle?
MICKEY: Heh. Mickey is short for Mickey.
As in Mickey Mantle, my father's favorite player.
JOHNNY: Aha.
Lucky it wasn't Yogi Berra.
[MICKEY CHUCKLES]
[CELL PHONE BEEPS]
MICKEY: Shit, I'm sorry.
Jealous boyfriend?
Na, this thing is all work, no play.
There's no available space for jealous boyfriends.
You want to tell me what's wrung with Gus?
You can trust me.
Okay?
When Gus scouted me, we spent a lat of time together.
Ta be honest, when I gut traded, I think it bothered him as much as it did me.
Actually, I remember him saying he had a daughter in college.
Yep.
He would say that she was smarter than me and him put together.
That's why when I met you, obviously, I thought Gus had another daughter.
[JOHNNY CHUCKLES]
Doesn't sound like my father. That sounds like a compliment.
Well, he said it.
Well, he never tells me anything.
Maybe he wants ta.
You know? Doesn't know haw. You might have to take the lead.
Trust me, I've tried. I'm dune.
[JOHNNY SIGHS]
As you know...
...ta hit the magical 300, you fail seven out of ten times.
You think you're pretty smart.
- Me? Na. - Yeah, you.
- What, is that a good thing? You like smart? - Well, you gotta have it here, and here.
Here and here?
Yes, here and here.
Oh, yeah. I'm pretty much what you're lacking for then.
[MAN PLAYING BLUES GUITAR AND SINGING]
I come home early in the evening
Lie around some time
Little girl's got everything I want
Looking and smelling so fine
It's a good night for dancing.
Yeah. Heh.
Yeah, we've done some dancing. Heh. If you can call it that.
Don't be shy.
Ahem. Well, you heard the man.
Make a move an me.
Okay, came an. Came an.
[CELL PHONE BEEPING]
I'm so sorry. I'm having a good time, but...
- What's wrung? - It's this thing, I just-
I need to go.
Wow. You were not kidding.
You really have no available space.
Is all this by design?
It is way tan late to get into that right now.
Yeah, okay.
I'll take you home.
[KNOCKING ON DOOR]
GUS: You trying to starve me to death?
Came an, let's go get something to eat.
You gut a man in there?
Yeah, Flanagan's in here. We're getting ready to get in the shower.
Nat so funny.
GUS: What the hell happened in here, anyway?
MICKEY: Work.
Okay. There you go. You're good.
You kids all right?
Yeah. Just fine.
You wouldn't happen to know what the state bird of New Jersey is, would you?
That'd be a trick question. There are no birds in New Jersey.
[LAUGHS]
That's good.
You're leaving a lat of good fund unattended there.
Dc you know what, um, therapy is?
What?
Therapy-
I've been going since college. It's a long time.
Just needed to talk to someone to help me deal with why you left me.
Did I say something wrung here?
I just needed ta, um, understand why after mam died...
...you took a 6-year-old to live with an uncle that she barely knew...
...and you left her there for a year and you didn't even call, not once.
We came here to watch baseball. We didn't came here ta--
Talk. I know.
Everything is okay as long as we don't talk.
But there's no TV and there's no game an, 50...
- It's just you and me. - I need a check here.
And then you did it again.
I had you until I was 13, until you sent me away to boarding school.
And then nothing.
You were gone.
Middle school, high school, college, nothing.
For a long time, I thought I had done something wrung...
...and that's why you left.
But then I figured out that's haw you wanted it, so I acted like it was okay...
...because I didn't want you to know haw bad it hurt.
This is not the time or place to talk about this.
Are you kidding?
There's never a time or place.
What are you doing, anyway? Why did you start all this?
You're amazing.
Give me a check.
Get me a goddamn check.
So I hear the old man has a girlfriend in North Carolina, a young one.
What the hell are you talking about?
Nelson says he's gut a pretty little baby helping him cut.
What's Matt Nelson doing in Gus's territory?
They sent him dawn there. Make sure everything's all right.
Confirm that Ba Gentry's our choice if he's available.
PETE: Listen.
That babe is Gus' daughter and she's not helping cut, she's visiting.
The hell's going an, Pete?
Can't have the daughter of one of our scouts impacting an important Braves decision.
You're a real team player, aren't you, Phillip?
It's just business. Don't take it so personal.
I'm not after your job because I want director of scouting.
I'm after your job because I want to be the G.M. You know how it is.
Get the hell out of my office.
[CELL PHONE BEEPS]
Nice shat.
- Uh, I gut the Landau research. - Oh.
While I agree with Mickey there's precedent, I don't think it's our strangest position.
I've outlined my approach a bit different.
I know you have a hard deadline for the presentation, so I'm here if you need me.
It's priority.
Why, I appreciate that, Todd.
N, uh...
won't go unnoticed.
ANNOUNCER: Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen...
...and welcome to Asheville's Zeb B. Vance Field...
...the site of the Mountain County Championship game...
...between your Swannanoa Grizzlies and the Devils of Morganton.
[FANS CHATTERING AND CHEERING]
BO: There you go, darling.
That'll be a collector's item so don't go selling that an the Internet.
ANNOUNCER: It's the two best teams in the Mountain County League...
Well, the last game.
- Hope it's a good one. - Yep.
UMPIRE: Play ball!
Pack up and get you back to Atlanta.
For sure.
There they are. My two favorite people in the entire state of North Carolina.
Well, good to see you.
Hey, did you get your work done?
Same of it.
Goad. I had a nice time.
Who knew I was such a clogger?
[CROWD CHEERING]
ANNOUNCER: Now batting, number three...
...Bo Gentry!
[BALL THUDS]
Off-speed. Right?
Do you mind getting your beak out of that thing? I'm blind, you know.
Gut it.
[AUDIENCE CHEERING]
Did you hear that?
Na, what?
- That was a breaking ball, right? - Yeah.
Ha. San of a bitch. Heh.
Can't handle a breaking ball.
Haw can you tell?
- Did you see a hitch in his swing? - Na.
If you can get dawn there next time he's up, I want you to keep an eye an him.
See haw he handles that breaking ball.
MANAGER: Come on, now. This is it. Let's bring this one home to Swannanaa.
Wilson.
You better get your skinny little ass an base.
I gut a chance to win this game in front cf all these scouts.
I'm visualizing mega endorsement deals.
Dc not mess this up.
I'll do my best, Ba.
Oh, dear Gad, let me get a hit.
ANNOUNCER: Now batting, number 12, Wyatt Wilson.
PLAYER 1: One pitch at a time.
PLAYER 2: You gut it, Wyatt!
[AUDIENCE GASPS]
UMPIRE: Take your base!
MAN: Came an, ump, what the heck's going an?
Guess you misunderstand me.
ANNOUNCER: Next up, Bo Gentry!
[CHEERING]
All right, let's see haw you handle the hank.
[CHEERING]
That's my bay! That's right!
[ALL CHEERING]
ANNOUNCER: And the Swannanoa Grizzlies...
...are the champions of the Mountain County League.
Congratulations to both teams for an exciting and excellent game.
You were right.
His hands drift.
Haw did you know that if you can't see him?
Because I've been in this business tan damn lung, that's why.
Na, it's more than that. Tell me.
[GROANS]
It's the sound you hear.
It's like a ball coming off the bat, or exploding into a glove.
It's a pure sound. You'll know it when you hear it.
MICKEY [OVER SPEAKER]: So, what do you think?
You make a number of key arguments. It's provoking.
Well, I'll be back tomorrow afternoon to present to the client.
Uh, no need to rush back. Uh, you can take off the rest of the week.
MICKEY: Excuse me?
Mickey, we didn't know haw serious this was going to be with your father.
Sc to ensure the firm's best interests were protected...
...we had Todd draft a resolution.
What?
He's gonna take the case from here, so, lack, enjoy a few more days.
- Came back rested. MICKEY: Rested?
This isn't a vacation. I've worked my ass off an this case.
Na one would dispute that.
You bring boat-licking Todd an and you don't tell me?
- Mickey, it's not personal. - Of course, it's personal.
WATSON: Todd's just being a team player. - Yeah, that's being a team player.
Haw does this affect my partnership?
Ta be determined.
A conversation we all want to continue. You're a quality associate.
New I'm a quality associate, I see. Um...
I've worked longer and harder than anyone in that office. I deserve this.
You'll have your time, Mickey. Just, uh, maybe not now.
All right, um...
I will see you all next week, rested and ready to work.
MICKEY: It's my problem.
I don't know why I give my bland, sweat and tears to those cold-blooded...
...backstabbing jerk-offs.
And for what?
I guess, you know, you want your name on the door.
MICKEY: Hmm.
[CHUCKLES]
Where'd you learn haw to drink, uh, fancy single-malt out of the battle?
- They teach you that at law school? - No.
My dad. Yet another brilliant gift he bestowed upon me.
[SINGING] You are my sunshine
My only sunshine
You make me happy When skies are gray
My dad used to sing that when, uh...
When we were law, and he would sing that and...
...it would help.
You have his voice.
[BOTH CHUCKLE]
What do you think, Flanagan, about your first pick?
Uh, I don't know. What do you think?
I just gut off the phone with Atlanta.
We're not gonna take him because he can't hit a curve.
The last homer he hit was off a curve.
Tell him.
His hands drift.
He can't get any punch into a breaking ball because his hands are just drifting.
Well, he still hit it cut.
Sisters of the Blind could hit it out with an aluminum bat.
From everything the Red Sax have heard...
...they think we're drafting the next Albert Pujols.
Well, just take my advice and be careful.
You're sure? Nat even as a project?
You'd waste a number one pick an a project?
If you wanna cover your ass, okay, but I sure as hell wouldn't do that.
It's not every day you get a number one pick.
That's true, but let me give you another piece of advice.
Don't be afraid to walk away.
Ga ahead and do what you like, Flanagan.
If he's available, he's not gonna be playing for the Braves, I'll tell you that.
Think he's right?
I don't know.
What's the matter with you? You okay?
Yeah. I'm just thinking, a lat, tan much.
- Tan much thinking. - Okay.
That's enough, we're gonna get out of here. Came an.
- Came an. - Where are we going?
You'll figure it out when we get there.
- Came an. - Dc I need my shoes?
You can bring them if you want.
[CRICKETS CHIRPING]
JOHNNY: You want something from him...
...that he just may not be able to give you.
Sc do yourself a favor, stop being pissed off about it.
What?
You're not so bad, Flanagan.
[CHUCKLES]
Wow.
That's all right. I'll wait.
Haw long?
As long as it takes.
What are you doing?
What am I doing? I'm taking my clothes off.
What?
[CHUCKLES]
Let's go.
You are crazy.
[MICKEY LAUGHS]
Aah! Ha, ha.
[CHUCKLES]
You coming in?
Oh, nu. Na, nu, nu, I don't think so. Heh.
Afraid you might forget about your job for a second and actually have some fun'?
Oh, thank you for the analysis. Haw much do I awe you?
That one was pro bane.
Oh, thanks.
Came an.
Live a little.
Na peeking.
[MICKEY CHUCKLES]
What're you staring at?
The paint jab an the car.
Oh, yeah, you like it?
Really hat paint jab.
- Yeah. - Really hat.
[MICKEY LAUGHS]
What? Oh, uh-ah. Here she goes.
MICKEY: Whoa!
MICKEY: Whew.
[LAUGHS]
Wow.
- A cannonball. - Yeah, you like that?
- Yeah, it's impressive. - Thank you.
Isn't this beautiful?
Yeah, it sure is.
Where are you going?
I'm keeping a safe distance.
You're good at that, you know?
Why don't you try stopping?
Here.
How's this?
It's safe.
- Yeah? - Yeah.
[JOHNNY CHUCKLES]
What about now?
Safe.
RED SOX GM: This makes me nervous, Johnny.
Are you sure they're passing? Haw well do you know Gus Label?
Trust me, we go back a long way. Okay? He's a friend.
EXECUTIVE: Three minutes to make the pick.
Lack, I could play this safe and tell you to take him.
But you don't want to do that. The kid's hands drift.
The truth is, I didn't even see it, Label did.
You better be sure you understand him correctly.
[SIGHS]
I'm sure.
ANNOUNCER: Welcome back to Major League Baseball's...
...live coverage of the first-year player draft.
This is the moment we've all been waiting for.
High school and college students from across the country have worked hard all year...
...and it all comes down to this.
Here we go.
ANNOUNCER: Okay, so it's time to find out. Let's head to the podium.
Oh, my Gad.
SELIG [ON TV]: Good evening.
With the first selection of the first year player draft...
...the Boston Red Sax select...
...Paulino Estrada, a right-handed pitcher from Arizona State University.
Yes! Came an, baby.
Gentry's curs, Red Sax pass!
ANNOUNCER: The Atlanta Braves have the next pick and they are now on the clock.
Congratulations.
The Red Sax. Sc stupid.
The Sax passed because Flanagan's smart, that's why.
Like I told you last night, kid can'! hit a curve ball.
You know how I feel about you, but God Almighty, if you're wrong...
Well, I'm not wrung. Kid's nothing but a dead-red hitter.
Oh, you can watch him if you want and see if he develops...
...but no more than that.
I'll see you back in Atlanta in a few days.
Don't sign him.
- What? - Gus is adamant. He can't hit the curve.
Oh, Christ! Haw long? Haw long are we gonna listen to this?
I don't give a damn. We've been tracking him. Matt says he can hit the crap out of anything.
This kid's a godsend.
- Pete? - I stand with Gus.
I say sign the pitcher from San Diego.
We are not passing an him, Vince.
Last time I checked, that's my decision.
Yes. No, I'm sorry. lt'sjust...
I've been following this kid...
...every game, every single at bat. PETE: Your computer's followed him.
When's the last time you stepped out of the office and saw a high school game?
Our pick's up in two minutes.
If I am wrung, if I'm wrung, you fire me.
But I am telling you right now:
Bo Gentry's the kind of five-tool player that changes the entire landscape of a franchise.
We draft this kid and we are competitive for the next five, 10 years.
Sorry, Pete.
- You better be right. - I'm right.
Definitely right.
Did it even occur to you that I might get fired?
- You just don't care. - What happened?
That's funny. Learn to walk away?
Isn't that what you said? Yeah, well, I did. I walked away.
I passed and you guys got Gentry. Congratulations.
Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.
You did the right thing, Flanagan. I guess the Braves don't give a crap what I think.
Honestly, Gus, save it.
Whoa, hold an. Johnny, it wasn't us.
- Really? - Really. It wasn't.
- It's the truth. - The truth? Oh, okay.
Well, the truth is, it's aver for me.
I had a real shat at the booth, and new it's gone.
Okay, well, that wasn't us.
You can drop the act, Mickey, I feel dumb enough already, okay?
You know, I should've known better.
A lawyer and a washed-up baseball player.
Lack, you have to believe me. Last night meant more to me than you know.
Get out of the way, Mickey.
This is a bad time to walk away now.
Move.
Na.
Move!
Let him go.
Well...
...I guess new I go into a life of retirement for all the good service I've given them.
Always use another watch.
I should've seen it earlier.
Na, it wasn't your fault.
Phillip Sanderson sent that guy up here to make sure I didn't screw it all up.
Well, things are definitely screwed up.
Sn, what do we do now?
Ga home.
Me, to a career ending, and you to a career that's just starting as a partner.
I don't think so.
What?
It was more important that I be here. It's, I--
- Na. - Na, it's all right.
- Na. - Na, I'll deal with it.
Na.
God, I worked my ass off so you could have more, and you...
You're gonna throw it away an coming to a garbage can like this?
- That's no life for a-- - For a girl.
That's no life for a kid of mine.
Living out of suitcases and visiting every shit-ball town in the area.
That's not what I wanted for my kid.
Well, I guess what I wanted didn't matter.
- You don't even like baseball. - I lave baseball.
You know I love it. I never wanted to be a lawyer.
I did that for you so that you would be happy with me...
...and that you would approve of me and then maybe you'd keep me around.
I did what I felt was right.
I just didn't want you to have life in the cheap seats.
They weren't the cheap seats.
Spending every waking moment with my dad watching baseball...
...eating fund that was no good for me.
Playing pool, staying up tan late, those were the best seats in the house...
...until you sent me away.
Well, I was just doing the best I know haw.
Only a coward leaves their kid.
You don't know half of what you think you do.
Okay, then tell me the other half.
Goddamn it, Dad, talk to me.
Dad...
...talk to me.
Please.
You remember years ago, dawn in Mobile, Alabama...
...they had the horse running around the field.
Yeah.
They used to keep that horse in a trailer dawn outside the bullpen gate.
Anyway, I was talking to this kid I had signed...
...telling him there's no place for him in the big leagues.
And all of a sudden I realized you were gone and I couldn't find you.
I was panicking.
I saw this shack there.
I went...
I went over and looked in...
...and there you were with this guy.
He had his hand dawn the back of your shirt.
I don't remember that.
Yeah. How could you? You were only 5 years old.
I sent you cut, and then I started beating the shit out of this guy.
I smashed his head against the wall and I started hitting him with everything I had
I strangled his ass
Finally, he passed cut.
Oh, my gash, Dad.
I kept waiting for the police to came and arrest me, but they never did.
That's when I sent you to your aunt and uncle's. I thought they'd take better care of you.
I thought I'd failed you.
Your mother had died a year before and I was a mess.
You have to understand that.
Can't you understand that you sending me away wasn't protecting me...
...it was rejecting me.
I've been working hard to not let anyone else get close enough to do that again.
And being alone really sucks.
Well...
...you might just have to give me a little slack on that, because...
...I just can't change.
You never tried.
I'm just a broken-dawn old man.
And you ought to get as far away from me as you can.
Can't you just do that?
Yeah.
I can do that.
[VACUUM CLEANER WHIRRING]
Grace?
Dc you know where he is?
Oh, he left. Checked out early this morning.
Thanks.
MICKEY [OVER PHONE]: Is he all right?
He said he wanted to take the bus.
What happened with you two?
Nothing.
[CLEARS THROAT]
It's all good.
Thanks, Pete.
[SOBBING]
[THUD]
I gotta stop.
Hi. I'm Mickey.
I've been watching, it's really impressive.
Thank you.
You're welcome. Mind if I try?
I can handle it, I think.
Are you crazy?
Probably.
Can I barrow your glove?
- Throw me that fastball. RIGO: Okay.
Is that your favorite pitch?
Sorry?
Can you throw a curve?
Yes.
- Show me. - Okay.
Oh, my Gad.
Dc it again.
What's your name?
Rigoberto. They call me Riga.
Rigo. You play in school, Rigo?
Na, ma'am. Never had the grades to suit my mam.
Kept getting B's in Chemistry.
Well, thank God for Chemistry. You gonna be around here for a bit?
Yes, ma'am.
Okay. Wait here, all right?
Mickey, I just can't do it. This isn't an open tryout.
I've seen him. I swear to you, he's the real thing.
PETE: There's no paperwork on the kid.
I just can't parade him out an the field and let him pitch.
I'm here because of you, Pete, okay, so I don't care what you have to do.
You gotta make this happen, okay? You awe me.
Well, you can take an early retirement, collect disability.
With the pension, you should be comfortable.
Save it. Being camfartable's overrated.
Thank Gad we sent Matt dawn there or we would have missed an this kid.
That kid can't hit a curve.
Gus, new that we're all aware of your condition...
...I can't help but ask, haw could you tell?
I heard it.
[PHILLIP LAUGHS]
You heard it?
- That's right. And Mickey saw it. - And Mickey saw it.
- This is getting interesting. - Damn right she saw it.
Let me just get this straight.
This year's pick was gonna be based an what you heard...
...and what your daughter, a girl, saw?
We need to go dawn to the field. Mickey's brought us something we gotta see.
Oh, bay, I can't wait to see what Mickey brought us.
- Hey, you watch yourself. - Let's go.
REPORTER 1: Hey, here he comes. REPORTER 2: Hey, Ba, haw about a shat?
REPORTER 1: Over here.
REPORTER 3: Everything okay? Ah, nice.
REPORTER 4: Hey, how's it going? BO: Shaw's about to start.
REPORTER 3: Great. Ga for it, kid.
[REPORTERS CHATTERING]
MAN 1: Oh, yeah.
MAN 2: Wow.
MAN 3: Whoa!
All right, let's show them what you gut.
[MEN CHEERING AND LAUGHING]
Oh, bay. He's gut a nice swing.
You gut this.
What the hell's going an?
- I heard it. - What?
The pure sound, I heard it.
Came an. What is this? We don't have all day.
Gentlemen, this is Rigoberto Sanchez.
Peanut Bay?
San of a bitch.
Is this a joke?
Y'all gonna waste my time an him?
- That's it. I've seen all I need to see. - Just hold your ass right there.
All right. This is gonna be ugly.
Start with the fastball.
You all right?
Yes, ma'am.
Nervous?
Na, ma'am. It's just a game.
[SIGHS]
You're right, Riga. It's just a game.
He looks like Sandy Koufax.
Yep, combined with Steve Carlton and Randy Johnson.
And that's not even his best pitch.
Show him a curve.
[CAMERAS SHUTTERS CLICKING]
Nobody saw this?
Gentry's gut potential, but using our number one pick?
Jesus Christ.
Gentry knows it's coming, he still can't hit it.
Shit!
Jesus Christ, who is this kid?
GUS: What do you say now, jackass?
That's known as trouble with the curve.
Well, there's no doubt that Rigo Sanchez should be offered a contract.
You think? Heh.
And he's gonna need an agent.
GUS: He's gut one.
Mickey.
She's a damn good lawyer and I'm sure she can whip up some papers...
-...make that young man some money. - Shit.
Or she could have your job...
...because you sure as hell don't know anything about the game.
And if I'd have been any help, she'd be managing her awn club now...
...because she knows more about baseball than anyone in this roam.
It's okay, Dad.
Na. It's in my bland and it's in your bland tan.
I want you to be happy, that's all.
Here's the reports from last night's game.
What about you, Gus?
Your contract's gonna be up. Are you interested in an extension?
I'll think about that.
- Anything you want. You name it. - I said, I'll think about it.
PETE: Unbelievable.
Billy Clark went five-for-five again.
He's been hitting close to 400 since his folks came to visit him.
Haw much did it cast this organization to put his parents up? That's what I want to know.
Phillip...
you're fired.
Vince, wait a-- Wait a sec. I'm sorry.
I know I missed with Gentry and I'm sorry about that, but this is real life.
- We're gonna go get a little lunch. - Yeah, I'm starving.
PHILLIP: I'll go to high school games. I like high school. I mean, I just bought a boat.
I've gut private school. I'll take you fishing.
GUS: Well...
...I think maybe, maybe I could change the way I do things.
You already have.
[CELL PHONE BEEPING]
What would they want now?
Hmm. Todd's presentation didn't go so well, so they're trying ta...
...push my, uh, partnership forward.
- So, what are you gonna do? - I'll think about it.
- Na, I mean-- - I said, I'll think about it.
[CHUCKLES]
Thank you.
JOHNNY: '11 World Series...
...Reggie hits three homers in one game.
Yeah.
Name the pitchers he tank deep.
You came all this way to ask me that?
Yeah.
Charlie Hough, Elias Sosa, Burt Hooton.
Is that it? Is that all you got?
Na.
I gut a lat more than that.
Well, lacks like I'll be taking the bus.
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