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You're cheatin'.

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Girls don't know spit
about baseball.

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Crippled as you are, you can't
make no full body rotation.

4
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If you ain't cheatin',
then how did you--

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I just can.

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-That's a homer.
-Nuh-uh.

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Boy, I know what
a homer looks like.

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It don't count unless
you're battin' in the majors.

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Majors? Boy, you're never gonna
play one inning in the majors.

10
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Never say never.

11
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You really believe?

12
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-Cross your heart
and hope to die?
-That's a heathen vow.

13
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Still think I'm cheatin'?

14
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I think you're crazy.

15
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But you are my boyfriend.

16
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See you later, alligator.

17
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Don't even think
of gettin' sweet on her!

18
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She's Earl Shantz's.

19
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Man drinks like a steer
on a tank at noon,

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and is mean enough to steal the
pennies off a dead man's eyes.

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Connie?

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Come here.

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We don't speak ill
of our neighbors.

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I'm just looking out for Rickey.

25
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Well, Rickey's got to learn
to look out for himself.

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He's playing the game of love.

27
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And that's run by women
and lost by men.

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So I want you both to interpret
Ephesians 4:25 tonight.

29
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You know that?

30
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"Speak truth, each one of you,
with his neighbor,

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for we are members
of one another."

32
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That's real good.

33
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You go on and get in the car.

34
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Come on. Connie,
you can help me lock up, okay?

35
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How does he do that?

36
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Honey, Rickey's got a gift.

37
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"Give me a man that
we may fight together."

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- Amen.
 -Those are the words of the giant Philistine, Goliath,

39
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taunting the armies of Israel,

40
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and no one would come out
and fight him, no one but David.

41
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And how did David smite Goliath?

42
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-A stone!
-Amen, brother Hill.

43
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A stone!

44
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A stone, it says right here
in verse 41st Samuel.

45
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And so David stopped by a brook

46
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and chose him
five smooth stones.

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Well, why didn't David
gather the largest stone,

48
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or the most jagged stone?

49
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David knew jagged rocks
got a will of their own!

50
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Things can veer off and
shimmy all over creation.

51
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-He made a savvy bet!
-Savvy indeed.

52
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But maybe we ought to
let some other members

53
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of the congregation
voice their response.

54
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So, I say this:
what shapes a stone?

55
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God's water shapes a stone.

56
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And we, as Christians,
as children of God,

57
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we are being constantly shaped.

58
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And after we're baptized,
we are sent out into the world

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as His messengers,
and we fly straight and true

60
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- to the very snout of Satan,
so that we...

61
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...can fight our own Goliath,
and--

62
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You know, I myself
have been afraid to say this,

63
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but I'm just gonna say it.

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Sister Babbit.

65
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Brother Shantz...

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You uplift me with your presence
here today. You do.

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May I kindly ask you
to refrain from smoking

68
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and from chewing and dipping
during Sunday services?

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I work six days on a live well,
ready to burst into
fire and brimstone any time.

70
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Now, if you knew a thing
about wildcattin',

71
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you'd appreciate that I get
exactly zero smoke breaks.

72
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But can't you see
how you and Sister Babbit

73
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are defiling
His glorious sanctuary

74
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with your spit

75
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and with your ashes
all over His floor?

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It's a weakness born of man.

77
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Oh, I see the weakness.

78
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High and mighty man
collects $50 a month

79
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to preach to some decent,
hardscrabble folk

80
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he's never even stepped off
the pulpit to get to know.

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We hardly got
a pleasure in life.

82
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I expect the Almighty can see
His way around our frailties.

83
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I am your pastor.

84
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So it is my place--
in fact, it's my duty--

85
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to preserve the sanctity
of God's house.

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Ain't about to allow
some holier-than-thou preacher

87
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to toss me a few crumbs
over a damn smoke!

88
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And I am not gonna
let the Lord's house

89
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look and smell
like Satan's saloon!

90
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Mrs. Babbit.

91
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Wouldn't they ask you to
pour oil on troubled waters?

92
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-Do you wanna clean tobacco
juice off the church floor?
-No.

93
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-I'm gonna... close up.
-Okay.

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-We missin' it?
-Not if we get there
in three minutes.

95
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Let's go!

96
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You're his wife. You should
talk some sense to him.

97
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I'm tryin', Mama.

98
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Where are them three off to?

99
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Oh...

100
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they're just being children.

101
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Seems unfair. We paid admission
for peace and quiet.

102
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They're the preacher's kids.
Ain't got a nickel
to rub together.

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<i>Meanwhile,</i>
<i>Richardson scores.</i>

104
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<i>One strike on Mantle.</i>
<i>And there it goes,</i>

105
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<i>over the right field fence.</i>

106
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Gonna feel so charitable
when they bust your window?

107
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- That's gonna be you one day.
- Thanks.

108
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Come on!

109
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Doc says you get
those braces off next year.

110
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They were supposed to
take them off last year.

111
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Bring it on. I'll knock it out
just like Mantle.

112
00:11:06,867 --> 00:11:09,837
Greetings out there in TV land!

113
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We're back at the 50-yard line.

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-The what?
-Well, I hate baseball.

115
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Nobody takes it easy on you
in the majors.

116
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Put some fire on it.

117
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Koufax warms his arm here
at the Yankee Stadium.

118
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Tie game, bottom of the ninth.

119
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At bat, Rickey Hill.

120
00:11:35,796 --> 00:11:37,932
Koufax hurls a surprise slider.

121
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Hill swings,
swats a long fly ball!

122
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Might be... could be... it is!

123
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Hill's third moon shot tonight.

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The faster it comes in,

125
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the faster it goes out.

126
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Oh, my gosh! What did you do?

127
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Let's go!

128
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Let's get out of here!

129
00:12:19,574 --> 00:12:21,976
-What are you doing?
-What Daddy taught.

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Whatever you done,
take responsibility for it.

131
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You hit this rock?

132
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Sorry, Mister.
I'll get a job to pay for it.

133
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Now, hold up. You tellin' me...

134
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that you hit this rock
over them trees

135
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and into my windshield
with that lousy stick?

136
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That's a couple hundred feet,
easy.

137
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And you done it
wearing them things?

138
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Imagine that.

139
00:13:03,551 --> 00:13:05,152
You know what a prodigy is?

140
00:13:06,453 --> 00:13:09,423
-No, sir.
-Well, look it up.

141
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When you get
them legs healed up,

142
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I'm gonna be the first guy
at the gate to buy a ticket.

143
00:13:13,927 --> 00:13:16,330
-But I owe you.
-Forget the windshield.

144
00:13:16,363 --> 00:13:19,567
I got two yards across the state
full of more old windshields

145
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than I can ever pawn off
in a lifetime.

146
00:13:23,237 --> 00:13:24,305
But miracles...

147
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them I'm a little shy on.

148
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I want you to do it again.

149
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Show me.

150
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Now, go on.

151
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Well, I'll be.

152
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We receive your bounty,
Lord,

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00:14:00,675 --> 00:14:05,946
to better fortify our bodies and
minds so that we may serve you.

154
00:14:05,979 --> 00:14:08,583
We pray in the name
of your son, Jesus.

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00:14:08,616 --> 00:14:10,851
- Amen.
- Amen.

156
00:14:16,190 --> 00:14:19,594
It's a mite hard to muster
when He provideth so little.

157
00:14:20,528 --> 00:14:23,364
Y'all see Daddy peg down
that old crow Spit-And-Chew
this morning?

158
00:14:23,397 --> 00:14:26,233
Along with some
ticked-off church folk,

159
00:14:26,266 --> 00:14:31,105
grousin' how your daddy has
a bent for bitin' the hand
that barely feeds his family.

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Fifty dollars a month.

161
00:14:33,708 --> 00:14:35,342
Your children are starving.

162
00:14:35,376 --> 00:14:38,178
You know, sometimes,
Lilian, doing God's work

163
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takes the sacrifice
of the Apostles.

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00:14:40,648 --> 00:14:43,050
None of the Apostles
had bad bones.

165
00:14:43,083 --> 00:14:46,387
That's enough.
Do you hear me? Enough.

166
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You can shut me down.

167
00:14:49,123 --> 00:14:51,492
How you gonna quiet the voice
in your head,

168
00:14:51,526 --> 00:14:56,130
saying that you starved
that boy down to nothing
and put him in a wheelchair?

169
00:14:56,163 --> 00:14:58,600
Most devout man I know.

170
00:14:58,633 --> 00:15:00,467
Your eyes are so busy
studying heaven,

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you don't see the misery you're
putting your family through!

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00:15:03,437 --> 00:15:07,374
I am not going to apologize
for my devotion to God.

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00:15:07,408 --> 00:15:09,243
Mama, stop.

174
00:15:09,276 --> 00:15:12,079
You see that woman?
That's your daughter.

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00:15:12,112 --> 00:15:15,717
She's got faith. You never
hear one complaint out of her.

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00:15:15,750 --> 00:15:19,019
She's got faith. You...

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It's all I got.

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00:15:21,723 --> 00:15:24,358
And it sustains me.

179
00:15:24,391 --> 00:15:26,226
But I live here on Earth.

180
00:15:26,260 --> 00:15:31,098
And your son needs doctorin',
and that takes money.

181
00:15:31,131 --> 00:15:33,434
You can see he's already
outgrown them braces.

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00:15:33,467 --> 00:15:36,437
He ain't gonna get no better
without new ones.

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New ones?

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00:15:42,042 --> 00:15:44,746
Rickey,
the doctor believes that...

185
00:15:44,779 --> 00:15:46,413
Can I be excused?

186
00:15:46,447 --> 00:15:48,048
Yes, son.

187
00:15:56,490 --> 00:15:58,225
You satisfied, Lilian?

188
00:15:59,259 --> 00:16:01,428
Here, son. Have my cornbread.

189
00:16:05,499 --> 00:16:07,234
"...very great."

190
00:16:10,370 --> 00:16:11,606
You know what?

191
00:16:11,639 --> 00:16:13,440
I got a little
something for you.

192
00:16:18,813 --> 00:16:22,449
- How'd you get these?
- Saved up.
Three months.

193
00:16:24,786 --> 00:16:26,386
Mickey Mantle!

194
00:16:26,420 --> 00:16:28,121
What's going on in here?

195
00:16:29,389 --> 00:16:31,759
You're supposed to be
reading your Bible verses.

196
00:16:31,793 --> 00:16:33,227
Robert?

197
00:16:33,260 --> 00:16:36,129
What you hidin'?
Hand me your Bible.

198
00:16:36,831 --> 00:16:38,499
Hand me your Bible, Robert.

199
00:16:45,405 --> 00:16:46,641
Baseball cards.

200
00:16:46,674 --> 00:16:49,309
I don't approve of this.

201
00:16:49,343 --> 00:16:52,647
This sells the worship
of false idols.

202
00:16:52,680 --> 00:16:54,816
No. They-- they sell gum.

203
00:16:54,849 --> 00:16:56,383
You think I'm kidding?

204
00:16:56,416 --> 00:16:59,152
-Hmm? Is that what you think?
-N-No, sir.

205
00:16:59,186 --> 00:17:00,788
Robert, are these yours?

206
00:17:00,822 --> 00:17:02,422
Yes-- yes, sir.

207
00:17:02,456 --> 00:17:05,560
Robert, you are
your younger brother's keeper.

208
00:17:05,593 --> 00:17:10,397
And you are responsible
for what you put in his mind.

209
00:17:10,430 --> 00:17:12,099
You hear me?

210
00:17:12,132 --> 00:17:14,401
I know. It's just that...

211
00:17:14,434 --> 00:17:18,438
- Rickey loves baseball, and I--
- He's not
gonna play baseball.

212
00:17:21,475 --> 00:17:25,847
Rickey, now, I've seen you
out there behind the church,
swinging that stick.

213
00:17:25,880 --> 00:17:29,684
And you'd be out there
all day long if you could,

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00:17:29,717 --> 00:17:31,451
even when you're suffering pain.

215
00:17:32,854 --> 00:17:34,656
But you can't play baseball.

216
00:17:34,689 --> 00:17:36,824
You can't even run.

217
00:17:36,858 --> 00:17:39,393
And if you try,
you're gonna get ridiculed,

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00:17:39,426 --> 00:17:42,564
you're gonna get made fun of,
and you're gonna wind up

219
00:17:42,597 --> 00:17:45,465
with an injury that
you'll never get over.

220
00:17:46,466 --> 00:17:48,736
-My legs?
-No, son.

221
00:17:48,770 --> 00:17:50,705
I'm talking about your spirit.

222
00:17:50,738 --> 00:17:53,841
Now, listen. You're special.

223
00:17:53,875 --> 00:17:55,843
You got the heart of a lion.

224
00:17:55,877 --> 00:17:59,313
But you got the soul
of a tender lamb.

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00:17:59,914 --> 00:18:02,617
And I wanna protect that.

226
00:18:03,618 --> 00:18:07,387
If you're not playing baseball,
you got your time all freed up

227
00:18:07,421 --> 00:18:13,193
to pursue a higher calling,
preaching God's word.

228
00:18:13,226 --> 00:18:16,129
Where your earthly legs
have failed you,

229
00:18:16,163 --> 00:18:19,834
God's gonna give you
wings to fly.

230
00:18:19,867 --> 00:18:22,302
You understand me,
don't you, son?

231
00:18:24,739 --> 00:18:26,139
That's my boy.

232
00:18:26,874 --> 00:18:28,275
Love you.

233
00:18:32,880 --> 00:18:35,683
Read your verses. I'm listening.

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00:18:47,528 --> 00:18:52,265
"Those that wait upon the Lord
shall renew their strength."

235
00:18:52,299 --> 00:18:55,402
"They shall run
and not be weary."

236
00:19:21,328 --> 00:19:23,196
What's going on here, Earl?

237
00:19:24,331 --> 00:19:26,668
Seems like the flock
and the shepherd have...

238
00:19:27,769 --> 00:19:28,970
hit an impasse.

239
00:19:29,003 --> 00:19:31,238
Is that right?

240
00:19:31,271 --> 00:19:33,340
Some of us are
sure gonna miss you.

241
00:19:34,776 --> 00:19:37,945
-But we just got here.
-And we just kicked you out!

242
00:19:37,979 --> 00:19:40,548
Now, be quick.
We need that house back.

243
00:19:41,916 --> 00:19:43,718
Well, don't you worry.

244
00:19:45,318 --> 00:19:47,320
We don't stay
where we're not wanted.

245
00:19:48,022 --> 00:19:49,691
We'll be gone by morning.

246
00:19:55,029 --> 00:19:57,765
-Helen!
-You ought to be ashamed.

247
00:19:57,799 --> 00:20:00,434
Oh, shi-- Shoot.

248
00:20:00,467 --> 00:20:02,837
-Shoot.
-My husband is a fine man.

249
00:20:02,870 --> 00:20:05,405
He's good, righteous,

250
00:20:05,439 --> 00:20:08,475
and given his life and
happiness to serve the Lord.

251
00:20:09,309 --> 00:20:11,445
He placed you all
above his own children.

252
00:20:11,478 --> 00:20:14,247
How do you repay
such selfless devotion?

253
00:20:14,281 --> 00:20:15,983
You run him out
of his own church

254
00:20:16,017 --> 00:20:19,554
and put his kids on the street.

255
00:20:20,588 --> 00:20:21,889
Why?

256
00:20:21,923 --> 00:20:23,858
'Cause your pastor
asked you to behave

257
00:20:23,891 --> 00:20:27,360
like the God-fearing people
he believed you were?

258
00:20:27,929 --> 00:20:30,297
"Decent, hardscrabble folk."

259
00:20:30,898 --> 00:20:32,332
No.

260
00:20:34,301 --> 00:20:37,505
You do not deserve James Hill.

261
00:20:51,652 --> 00:20:54,522
-Helen, I--
-We're gonna be fine.

262
00:21:00,427 --> 00:21:02,395
I wish you were staying.

263
00:21:02,429 --> 00:21:04,766
I wish we weren't going.

264
00:21:04,799 --> 00:21:08,268
Am I ever gonna see
my only-ever boyfriend again?

265
00:21:09,804 --> 00:21:11,338
I don't know.

266
00:21:12,339 --> 00:21:13,775
I'll miss you.

267
00:21:13,808 --> 00:21:15,777
Later, gator.

268
00:22:01,522 --> 00:22:03,124
Is that Earl?

269
00:22:03,157 --> 00:22:05,492
He's drunk, Daddy.

270
00:22:05,526 --> 00:22:07,662
He's gonna
kill somebody.

271
00:22:13,668 --> 00:22:14,702
Earl.

272
00:22:15,870 --> 00:22:17,104
Earl.

273
00:22:17,138 --> 00:22:20,007
You're drunk.
You shouldn't be driving.

274
00:22:20,041 --> 00:22:23,744
And you shouldn't be
acting like you still
got weight in this town.

275
00:22:25,079 --> 00:22:27,648
Don't let
the screen door hit ya!

276
00:22:33,788 --> 00:22:35,455
I can't let you drive.

277
00:22:35,488 --> 00:22:36,824
Rickey!

278
00:22:40,460 --> 00:22:43,164
Fine. Have it your way.

279
00:22:43,197 --> 00:22:45,700
He's just trying
to save your neck!

280
00:22:46,767 --> 00:22:48,102
My neck? My neck?

281
00:22:48,135 --> 00:22:49,537
Hey!

282
00:22:52,106 --> 00:22:53,908
Don't you touch my boy.

283
00:22:53,941 --> 00:22:55,776
You stay away from my kid.

284
00:23:03,017 --> 00:23:04,785
Daddy's a badass.

285
00:23:06,854 --> 00:23:08,421
Get in the car.

286
00:23:09,657 --> 00:23:11,893
What were you doing?

287
00:23:11,926 --> 00:23:13,861
Come on, Earl. Stand up.

288
00:23:15,162 --> 00:23:17,765
-You think you're
better than me?
-Nope.

289
00:23:17,798 --> 00:23:21,035
I'm sure you'd kick my butt if
you weren't so drunk. Watch it.

290
00:23:21,068 --> 00:23:24,171
You think you're better than me
'cause you can read that book.

291
00:23:24,205 --> 00:23:26,040
Just get in the house.

292
00:23:26,073 --> 00:23:28,643
Earl, get in the house.

293
00:23:36,217 --> 00:23:37,818
My fault.

294
00:23:40,087 --> 00:23:42,657
What were y'all
quarreling about?

295
00:23:42,690 --> 00:23:45,526
You.

296
00:23:45,559 --> 00:23:48,461
He's dangerous when
he gets like this.

297
00:23:48,495 --> 00:23:50,497
And he's like this
more and more.

298
00:23:50,531 --> 00:23:52,465
Thank you, Pastor.

299
00:23:53,768 --> 00:23:55,937
Just save it for Sheriff Dalton.

300
00:23:55,970 --> 00:24:00,074
I imagine he's gonna be
making a visit here shortly.

301
00:24:02,843 --> 00:24:03,778
Hey, Pastor.

302
00:24:05,846 --> 00:24:08,115
You gave it your best,
the only way you know.

303
00:24:08,950 --> 00:24:11,819
Won't a soul appreciate that
till you're gone.

304
00:24:11,852 --> 00:24:12,987
Thank you.

305
00:24:13,955 --> 00:24:15,256
God bless you.

306
00:26:18,913 --> 00:26:21,949
Jesus. Jesus, help me, Jesus.

307
00:26:21,982 --> 00:26:24,151
I'm at the end of my rope.
Please help me.

308
00:26:25,820 --> 00:26:27,922
With you,
all things are possible, Lord.

309
00:26:27,955 --> 00:26:29,356
Please...

310
00:26:29,390 --> 00:26:31,659
give me a sign.

311
00:26:31,692 --> 00:26:34,028
Please give me a sign.

312
00:26:47,842 --> 00:26:51,846
God dang! God-- God!

313
00:26:51,879 --> 00:26:53,747
God! God!

314
00:27:00,955 --> 00:27:02,123
You okay, Daddy?

315
00:27:03,257 --> 00:27:04,892
I'm just tired, son.

316
00:27:05,759 --> 00:27:07,895
James.

317
00:27:09,296 --> 00:27:10,831
We're out of gas.

318
00:27:10,865 --> 00:27:13,000
All right, well,
someone's gonna come along.

319
00:27:13,033 --> 00:27:17,037
Let's just--
Meanwhile, let's, you know,
get the spare put on.

320
00:27:17,071 --> 00:27:18,439
We ain't got no spare.

321
00:27:18,472 --> 00:27:21,175
Daddy,
I patched it up yesterday.

322
00:27:21,208 --> 00:27:23,777
I traded it for gas last night.

323
00:27:27,414 --> 00:27:29,083
And you done right.

324
00:27:29,116 --> 00:27:33,687
That's how hardscrabble folk
get by, minute to minute.

325
00:27:33,721 --> 00:27:37,291
Makin' tough calls
in a mean world.

326
00:27:37,324 --> 00:27:40,161
Doin' their damnedest.
Times come,

327
00:27:40,194 --> 00:27:44,131
it don't matter how well
you mean or how hard you try.

328
00:27:45,099 --> 00:27:46,267
It don't work.

329
00:27:46,300 --> 00:27:49,069
And that's no man's fault.

330
00:27:49,904 --> 00:27:52,139
Well, it can't get
much worse than this, huh?

331
00:28:04,185 --> 00:28:09,456
We gotta be
the unluckiest family
in all of Texas.

332
00:28:09,490 --> 00:28:11,959
Probably Oklahoma, too.

333
00:28:29,443 --> 00:28:32,947
Well, look at this.

334
00:28:32,980 --> 00:28:37,785
Only the Master Painter could
paint a picture such as this.

335
00:28:43,924 --> 00:28:44,959
Oh!

336
00:28:49,897 --> 00:28:51,498
Let's get in the car.

337
00:28:55,302 --> 00:28:58,872
Come on, Rickey!

338
00:29:15,289 --> 00:29:17,391
Y'all need a ride?

339
00:29:17,424 --> 00:29:19,326
Yes!

340
00:29:19,360 --> 00:29:21,095
Well, come on!

341
00:29:54,428 --> 00:29:56,330
I never seen one in color.

342
00:29:56,363 --> 00:29:58,832
Back up. You'll go blind.

343
00:30:03,571 --> 00:30:05,306
Fine ice cream, Miss Flora.

344
00:30:05,339 --> 00:30:08,510
-Pleased you're
enjoying it, sir.
-"Sir"?

345
00:30:08,543 --> 00:30:13,447
If she knew you--
If you knew Rickey,
you wouldn't call him "sir."

346
00:30:13,480 --> 00:30:16,317
Oh, I expect I know him.

347
00:30:16,350 --> 00:30:18,152
If you say so.

348
00:30:20,354 --> 00:30:23,490
Mrs. Linda,
you sure have a beautiful home.

349
00:30:23,525 --> 00:30:25,859
It's brought us a lot of joy.

350
00:30:25,893 --> 00:30:27,529
I need to get you more to eat.

351
00:30:27,562 --> 00:30:30,164
Oh. No, no.

352
00:30:30,197 --> 00:30:33,200
If I had another bite,
I think I'd bust a gut.

353
00:30:33,233 --> 00:30:35,035
Thank you.

354
00:30:35,069 --> 00:30:37,471
I don't know how we'll ever
thank you for your help.

355
00:30:37,505 --> 00:30:38,906
We sure needed it.

356
00:30:39,940 --> 00:30:42,076
Well, now,
there-- there might be a way.

357
00:30:42,109 --> 00:30:45,145
But this j-- I don't know.
This job, it's just
probably beneath

358
00:30:45,179 --> 00:30:48,115
a man of your education
and experience.

359
00:30:48,148 --> 00:30:50,317
Oh, no. No.
No, you'd be surprised.

360
00:30:50,351 --> 00:30:54,955
My brother Dennis
over Bowie City way
tells me First Baptist

361
00:30:54,988 --> 00:30:58,492
been looking for a new pastor
goin' on a year now.

362
00:30:58,526 --> 00:31:00,494
But, uh, no takers.

363
00:31:00,528 --> 00:31:03,964
-Well, that's a crying shame.
-Well, you ain't
seen Bowie City.

364
00:31:03,997 --> 00:31:06,166
"One-horse town"
is overselling it.

365
00:31:06,200 --> 00:31:08,302
It ain't got a window
to throw it out of.

366
00:31:09,436 --> 00:31:11,338
But they're good people.

367
00:31:11,372 --> 00:31:12,339
There's a rectory.

368
00:31:13,541 --> 00:31:16,544
A mite modest. I suppose
it ain't for you, but--

369
00:31:16,578 --> 00:31:18,112
-We'll take it.
-Yes, we will.

370
00:31:18,145 --> 00:31:20,981
- Mm-hmm.
- Brother Josh...

371
00:31:21,014 --> 00:31:24,686
it was not by accident
that you found us on the road.

372
00:31:24,719 --> 00:31:28,590
When the good Lord shuts
a door, he opens a window.

373
00:31:28,623 --> 00:31:33,994
-But don't y'all wanna
hear more about this--
-Only amen. Can I get an amen?

374
00:31:34,027 --> 00:31:36,564
Amen!

375
00:31:36,598 --> 00:31:39,667
<i>Roger, and lift-off.</i>

376
00:31:39,701 --> 00:31:42,269
<i>And the clock is operating.</i>
<i>Sigma Seven...</i>

377
00:31:42,302 --> 00:31:44,138
Lift-off!

378
00:31:45,707 --> 00:31:47,542
Th-- those kids.

379
00:31:47,575 --> 00:31:50,344
They get really excited.

380
00:31:57,284 --> 00:31:58,485
There!

381
00:31:58,520 --> 00:32:01,121
- Where?
- There!

382
00:32:03,123 --> 00:32:05,459
Mission Control
reports that the craft

383
00:32:05,492 --> 00:32:09,196
has left Earth's atmosphere,
as we get closer and closer.

384
00:32:09,229 --> 00:32:12,466
As man again sails the heavens.

385
00:32:15,335 --> 00:32:16,437
I see it!

386
00:32:17,337 --> 00:32:18,439
Big as day!

387
00:32:23,343 --> 00:32:24,978
Let's head inside.

388
00:32:29,082 --> 00:32:30,350
You comin', Daddy?

389
00:32:32,219 --> 00:32:34,154
Oh, you go ahead, son.

390
00:32:35,155 --> 00:32:37,559
I'm gonna visit a spell
with the heaven I know.

391
00:33:00,314 --> 00:33:02,717
Howdy, Pastor.
How you doin'?

392
00:33:02,750 --> 00:33:04,519
Welcome to home, sweet home.

393
00:33:04,552 --> 00:33:06,588
Try "dump, sweet dump."

394
00:33:06,621 --> 00:33:08,288
-Ow!
-James Hill.

395
00:33:08,322 --> 00:33:10,758
Nice to meet you.
Brother's told me all about you.

396
00:33:10,792 --> 00:33:12,727
Yeah, your brother
was real nice to us.

397
00:33:12,760 --> 00:33:14,629
-Dennis, right?
-That's right.

398
00:33:14,662 --> 00:33:16,798
Appealing to the eye she ain't,

399
00:33:16,831 --> 00:33:20,067
but come monsoons,
tornadoes, and flash floods,

400
00:33:20,100 --> 00:33:22,035
she'll leave you high and dry.

401
00:33:22,069 --> 00:33:23,805
I'm already feelin' just that.

402
00:33:23,838 --> 00:33:26,708
-What's that?
-Used to be a mortuary.

403
00:33:26,741 --> 00:33:30,645
Wait till you see the church.
You're gonna love the church.

404
00:33:30,678 --> 00:33:32,279
Where's the church?

405
00:33:32,312 --> 00:33:34,381
The church is just
on down the road here.

406
00:33:34,414 --> 00:33:38,520
Y'all wanna go see the church
first or go inside?

407
00:33:40,320 --> 00:33:42,322
I guess we're gonna
see the church first.

408
00:33:42,356 --> 00:33:44,358
-They're gonna love the church.
-Yeah.

409
00:33:49,429 --> 00:33:51,231
Here she is!

410
00:33:55,335 --> 00:33:57,672
Now y'all see what I was sayin'?

411
00:33:57,705 --> 00:33:59,239
Plenty of room.

412
00:34:00,608 --> 00:34:04,211
It's got... possibilities.

413
00:34:04,244 --> 00:34:06,313
I love it in here!

414
00:34:08,115 --> 00:34:09,684
I can run in here!

415
00:34:09,717 --> 00:34:12,219
Boy's got a heck
of a lot of energy.

416
00:34:14,589 --> 00:34:17,525
Yeah,
and a mind to confound Solomon.

417
00:34:20,127 --> 00:34:21,829
When do I start?

418
00:35:00,768 --> 00:35:02,804
Man up, J-bird.

419
00:35:02,837 --> 00:35:04,706
We're just gettin' started.

420
00:35:15,617 --> 00:35:17,184
You need two more?

421
00:35:17,217 --> 00:35:19,621
- Him and who else?
- I'll hit off him.

422
00:35:19,654 --> 00:35:21,556
With all that crap on your legs?

423
00:35:21,589 --> 00:35:25,760
My dad is a pastor, and he calls
them "corrective restraints."

424
00:35:25,793 --> 00:35:27,494
Hey!
Don't get all Bible camp on me.

425
00:35:27,528 --> 00:35:29,764
I ain't playin' with
no-- no robot boy.

426
00:35:29,797 --> 00:35:33,367
-Put the non-gimp in left.
-He don't play, I don't play.

427
00:35:33,400 --> 00:35:36,504
Oh, yeah. Like you're
first-round draft material.

428
00:35:36,537 --> 00:35:41,241
Who do I brush back next?

429
00:35:42,275 --> 00:35:43,443
Come on.

430
00:35:44,277 --> 00:35:45,479
Hey, flamethrower.

431
00:35:46,313 --> 00:35:48,215
I hit off you, we both play.

432
00:35:48,248 --> 00:35:50,551
And it's gotta
clear the infield.

433
00:35:52,553 --> 00:35:55,523
Nobody's ever pitched to you
with the heat he brings.

434
00:35:55,556 --> 00:35:57,592
Whiff in front of
these townies, and...

435
00:35:57,625 --> 00:36:00,528
they'll never let you
forget it, much less play.

436
00:36:00,561 --> 00:36:02,229
I ain't gonna whiff.

437
00:36:03,263 --> 00:36:06,299
Hey, robo boy.
Where do we bury you?

438
00:36:06,333 --> 00:36:08,268
The cemetery or the junkyard?

439
00:36:11,773 --> 00:36:13,340
Three swings.

440
00:36:13,373 --> 00:36:16,209
Hey, whatever. You ain't
even gonna see the ball.

441
00:36:21,314 --> 00:36:23,283
Y'all best stay in the outfield.

442
00:36:23,316 --> 00:36:25,285
Boy, you got no idea.

443
00:36:25,318 --> 00:36:26,721
It's Rickey Hill.

444
00:36:27,822 --> 00:36:29,590
Rickey Hill.

445
00:36:29,624 --> 00:36:33,260
You got a lot of guts,
but not so many smarts.

446
00:36:33,293 --> 00:36:35,596
Guys with legs that work
can't hit him.

447
00:36:37,330 --> 00:36:39,232
Don't say I didn't warn you.

448
00:36:39,266 --> 00:36:41,201
You ready, robot boy?

449
00:36:43,403 --> 00:36:45,272
Little late on that one.

450
00:36:45,305 --> 00:36:48,776
Robot boy! Gonna keep whiffin',
or are you quittin'?

451
00:36:48,810 --> 00:36:50,377
Start hittin'.

452
00:36:50,410 --> 00:36:53,380
Oh-ho-ho! Oh, robot boy's
gonna start hittin'.

453
00:36:53,413 --> 00:36:55,482
All right, jelly legs, come on.

454
00:37:01,889 --> 00:37:03,758
Hey, RB!
Quit while you're behind.

455
00:37:03,791 --> 00:37:06,493
-All right, enough!
-Come on,
before you get really hurt.

456
00:37:06,527 --> 00:37:09,362
-Three strikes.
-So he can kill you?

457
00:37:10,898 --> 00:37:12,700
I stay down here, I'm dead.

458
00:37:20,908 --> 00:37:22,510
Better bring a quicker bat.

459
00:37:31,451 --> 00:37:32,720
What are you doing?

460
00:37:32,754 --> 00:37:34,488
Look at robot boy.

461
00:37:34,522 --> 00:37:37,658
Full... body... rotation!

462
00:37:54,374 --> 00:37:56,309
Folks gotta do
what they gotta do.

463
00:38:00,347 --> 00:38:02,750
How do you know
you can do it, Rickey?

464
00:38:04,952 --> 00:38:06,654
I just know it.

465
00:38:09,123 --> 00:38:11,092
All right, fun's over.

466
00:38:11,125 --> 00:38:14,529
Time to say night-night
and bye-bye to robot boy.

467
00:38:31,712 --> 00:38:33,480
- You done it!
- Wow!

468
00:38:35,917 --> 00:38:38,553
-You hit!
-That don't count!

469
00:38:38,586 --> 00:38:41,823
Screw you guys. I ain't playin'
with no-- no cripple kid.

470
00:38:41,856 --> 00:38:44,391
- We made a deal.
- I made no such thing.

471
00:38:44,424 --> 00:38:46,093
Liar!
I seen you nod your head!

472
00:38:46,127 --> 00:38:49,697
Nobody calls me a liar,
robot boy.

473
00:38:49,730 --> 00:38:51,866
Aw, you think you can stomp me?

474
00:38:53,734 --> 00:38:56,436
- He already did.
- Hey, stop it!

475
00:38:56,469 --> 00:38:58,739
Coach says one more fight
and you're done!

476
00:39:02,076 --> 00:39:03,678
Damn you!

477
00:39:05,079 --> 00:39:06,814
You white trash no-'counts.

478
00:39:08,182 --> 00:39:10,117
Not worth it anyway.

479
00:39:12,186 --> 00:39:14,856
Come on.
There ain't no game for us here.

480
00:39:14,889 --> 00:39:16,157
But I hit off of him.

481
00:39:16,190 --> 00:39:18,092
That's what counts.

482
00:39:18,125 --> 00:39:20,427
Goodbye, Rickey Hill.

483
00:39:22,897 --> 00:39:25,666
Okay.

484
00:39:25,700 --> 00:39:28,870
Anybody else wanna say grace?

485
00:39:33,941 --> 00:39:37,812
Is there some kind of revelation
that I'm not aware of?

486
00:39:45,987 --> 00:39:47,655
Oh, my God.

487
00:39:52,526 --> 00:39:54,762
-Is there pain?
-Not a lick.

488
00:39:57,131 --> 00:39:58,566
How?

489
00:39:59,533 --> 00:40:03,938
Well, sir,
it seems one of my braces--

490
00:40:03,971 --> 00:40:06,507
the left one, I think--

491
00:40:06,540 --> 00:40:08,743
well, it broke first, so--

492
00:40:08,776 --> 00:40:11,478
So you had to take the other one
off to walk, right?

493
00:40:11,512 --> 00:40:14,447
- Yes.
- Right?

494
00:40:14,481 --> 00:40:15,816
Thank you, Lord.

495
00:40:18,953 --> 00:40:20,988
Well, show me. Just...

496
00:40:27,561 --> 00:40:29,931
Okay, everybody up.
We're going for ice cream.

497
00:40:29,964 --> 00:40:32,533
-And we're gonna walk.
-James, we can't afford it.

498
00:40:32,566 --> 00:40:35,970
You just keep that
ice cream man busy,
and I'm gonna steal us a gallon.

499
00:40:36,003 --> 00:40:39,206
-Oh, no, you won't.
-Oh, yes, I will!
I'm feelin' adventurous.

500
00:40:39,240 --> 00:40:41,609
He's not gonna steal a thing.

501
00:40:41,642 --> 00:40:43,844
It ain't curin' polio, boys.

502
00:40:43,878 --> 00:40:49,150
All it takes to be on my team
is, A, attend practice
every day, 4:00 to 6:00.

503
00:40:49,183 --> 00:40:52,920
B, be prepared to
work your hind ends off.

504
00:40:52,954 --> 00:40:56,857
And C, cut the crap
and swing the bat,
'cause I ain't your mama.

505
00:40:56,891 --> 00:41:00,094
Now, if I catch any one of
y'all half-assing out there,

506
00:41:00,127 --> 00:41:02,596
I'll boot your whole ass
off my field.

507
00:41:02,630 --> 00:41:04,832
Now, if you ain't turned
one of these in yet,

508
00:41:04,865 --> 00:41:08,102
I need your folks' John Hancock
on one of these
permission slips.

509
00:41:08,135 --> 00:41:13,473
Come on. Bring it back to me
3:00 p.m. Tuesday, signed.

510
00:41:15,776 --> 00:41:16,844
All right?

511
00:41:19,547 --> 00:41:21,816
Oh, now, son.

512
00:41:21,849 --> 00:41:25,219
It mayn't be your doin',
but you're already half-assin'.

513
00:41:25,252 --> 00:41:27,722
Or making sacrifices.

514
00:41:29,090 --> 00:41:30,992
Well spoke.

515
00:41:31,025 --> 00:41:32,994
I'll give you through tryouts.

516
00:41:33,027 --> 00:41:36,731
Hey! But you better
bring me some magic.

517
00:41:38,933 --> 00:41:41,736
Think Mom will sign this
without telling Daddy?

518
00:41:42,903 --> 00:41:45,006
Even if she did, he'd find out.

519
00:41:57,318 --> 00:41:59,553
How's my little lion?

520
00:42:01,188 --> 00:42:04,925
What's on your mind? You got
something behind your back.

521
00:42:16,070 --> 00:42:18,039
Why don't you calm your mind?

522
00:42:18,072 --> 00:42:21,642
Let's hear Psalm 23.

523
00:42:21,675 --> 00:42:25,146
-"The Lord is my shepherd--"
-More conviction.

524
00:42:26,380 --> 00:42:28,916
"I shall not want."

525
00:42:28,949 --> 00:42:32,319
Daddy...
I know what you're gonna say.

526
00:42:32,353 --> 00:42:34,755
But I'm better.

527
00:42:36,223 --> 00:42:37,792
Son...

528
00:42:37,825 --> 00:42:40,995
you might be better,
but you are not healed.

529
00:42:42,329 --> 00:42:43,998
Your bones...

530
00:42:45,232 --> 00:42:46,801
they're green.

531
00:42:48,002 --> 00:42:49,670
They're like twigs.

532
00:42:49,703 --> 00:42:53,307
Daddy, all I wanna do is play.

533
00:42:53,340 --> 00:42:57,078
You will not play.

534
00:42:58,045 --> 00:42:59,113
Ever.

535
00:43:00,281 --> 00:43:04,218
Now, you might think that
your affliction is an injustice,

536
00:43:04,251 --> 00:43:07,121
but God has a plan for you.

537
00:43:07,154 --> 00:43:13,861
It's a sign.
It's a sign of something greater
that you are supposed to become.

538
00:43:20,668 --> 00:43:22,203
<i>What is important?</i>

539
00:43:23,237 --> 00:43:25,606
Many things are important.

540
00:43:26,207 --> 00:43:28,742
But what is vital?

541
00:43:29,944 --> 00:43:34,748
One practice: doing God's work.

542
00:43:34,782 --> 00:43:40,955
I want you to seek out
every opportunity that you have
to serve Him.

543
00:43:40,988 --> 00:43:44,892
And the next time that
you even consider sinning,

544
00:43:44,925 --> 00:43:47,862
I want you to ask yourself
this question:

545
00:43:48,829 --> 00:43:52,233
how will God judge me?

546
00:43:52,266 --> 00:43:57,104
The Holy Spirit sees all,

547
00:43:57,138 --> 00:43:58,806
knows all,

548
00:43:58,839 --> 00:44:01,842
punishes every misdeed.

549
00:44:07,114 --> 00:44:10,684
So let us ask God

550
00:44:11,318 --> 00:44:14,788
for a sin-free week.

551
00:44:21,829 --> 00:44:24,265
This place is worse
than the last.

552
00:44:24,298 --> 00:44:26,433
See that man smoking?

553
00:44:26,467 --> 00:44:28,435
Why didn't Daddy
put a stop to that?

554
00:44:28,469 --> 00:44:31,972
To grow his flock, your father
must endure a few black sheep.

555
00:44:32,006 --> 00:44:34,141
-Have a great day.
-You too.

556
00:44:34,175 --> 00:44:35,943
This came for you.

557
00:44:37,878 --> 00:44:41,282
-Must be from Gracie!
-No way.

558
00:44:41,315 --> 00:44:44,485
Yeah, he pocketed it so quick,
I thought his hand was on fire.

559
00:44:44,519 --> 00:44:46,954
Nah. Just his heart.

560
00:44:53,360 --> 00:44:56,096
I'm gonna go... stretch my legs.

561
00:44:56,130 --> 00:44:59,333
Daddy finds out you've been
swatting that baseball
on the Sabbath...

562
00:44:59,366 --> 00:45:00,768
I'm just gonna watch.

563
00:45:01,435 --> 00:45:02,836
You?

564
00:45:04,371 --> 00:45:06,040
Come on.

565
00:45:13,214 --> 00:45:16,483
One Blast-Off Burger,
one order of fries,
and one Coke.

566
00:45:16,518 --> 00:45:19,320
Cost: 75 cents,
and that's what I got.

567
00:45:20,921 --> 00:45:24,358
One Blast-Off Burger,

568
00:45:24,391 --> 00:45:27,061
one order of fries,
and one Coke?

569
00:45:27,094 --> 00:45:29,763
That ain't nearly enough
to feed all three of you kids.

570
00:45:29,797 --> 00:45:31,365
We just
need the one order.

571
00:45:31,398 --> 00:45:32,900
I tried to tell him,

572
00:45:32,933 --> 00:45:35,769
but he just came in here
like a crazy man.

573
00:45:35,803 --> 00:45:39,006
Well... he counted too quick.

574
00:45:39,039 --> 00:45:41,208
We're just a quarter short,
actually.

575
00:45:42,276 --> 00:45:45,112
Well, I ain't so hot at numbers.

576
00:45:45,145 --> 00:45:47,114
I'll come back
when I get the rest.

577
00:45:47,147 --> 00:45:51,785
Wait. It just so happens...
I have a quarter.

578
00:45:51,819 --> 00:45:54,989
- Okay, I've got 'em closed.
-  -Keep 'em closed.

579
00:45:55,022 --> 00:45:58,492
I will, I will. I've never
been more in the dark.

580
00:45:58,526 --> 00:46:01,195
Here,
bring him this way.

581
00:46:01,228 --> 00:46:02,863
Oh!

582
00:46:02,896 --> 00:46:05,799
Well, I guess I'm going to
sit down, is that right?

583
00:46:10,037 --> 00:46:12,873
We all know turkey's
your favorite, but...

584
00:46:12,906 --> 00:46:15,876
but we wanted to get
something special instead.

585
00:46:15,909 --> 00:46:17,545
Can I open my eyes?

586
00:46:17,579 --> 00:46:19,079
Yep.

587
00:46:22,483 --> 00:46:25,986
Why, it's my second favorite.

588
00:46:26,987 --> 00:46:29,123
And a more thoughtful gift, I--

589
00:46:31,191 --> 00:46:32,594
I can't remember.

590
00:46:32,627 --> 00:46:35,996
You take care of us
all year, so, uh...

591
00:46:37,064 --> 00:46:38,566
today we wanna take care of you.

592
00:46:39,500 --> 00:46:43,270
The most beautiful gift
I have ever been blessed with

593
00:46:44,371 --> 00:46:46,807
is not this delicious burger.

594
00:46:48,342 --> 00:46:53,447
It's the joy of sharing it
with all of you.

595
00:46:53,480 --> 00:46:56,116
You're my beautiful family.

596
00:46:56,150 --> 00:46:58,252
We ain't hungry.

597
00:46:58,285 --> 00:47:00,054
Stuffed.

598
00:47:00,087 --> 00:47:01,155
Slimming.

599
00:47:02,557 --> 00:47:04,358
All us girls are.

600
00:47:07,361 --> 00:47:08,996
Well, I'm starvin'.

601
00:47:14,468 --> 00:47:15,537
Mmm!

602
00:47:21,408 --> 00:47:25,946
<i>"Me and my mama are</i>
<i>heading to Oklahoma City</i>
<i>to live with my grandfolks.</i>

603
00:47:25,979 --> 00:47:28,550
<i>Hey, has anyone in</i>
<i>your new town figured out</i>

604
00:47:28,583 --> 00:47:30,351
<i>how you're cheatin'</i>
<i>at batting yet?</i>

605
00:47:30,384 --> 00:47:33,921
<i>Heh. Truly,</i>
<i>I hope you're still swingin'</i>

606
00:47:33,954 --> 00:47:35,623
<i>no matter how your legs are.</i>

607
00:47:35,657 --> 00:47:38,158
<i>Knowing you, I bet you</i>
<i>a Buffalo nickel</i>

608
00:47:38,192 --> 00:47:40,227
<i>you're still dreamin'</i>
<i>of the majors.</i>

609
00:47:40,260 --> 00:47:42,630
<i>Me,</i>
<i>I've run clean out of dreams.</i>

610
00:47:42,664 --> 00:47:46,967
<i>I guess it's up to you to make</i>
<i>one come true for both of us.</i>

611
00:47:47,000 --> 00:47:49,403
<i>If anyone can, it's you.</i>

612
00:47:49,436 --> 00:47:52,106
<i>PS: you're still my boyfriend!"</i>

613
00:48:00,548 --> 00:48:02,249
Since when ain't you tryin' out?

614
00:48:02,282 --> 00:48:04,519
Since my daddy refused to sign.

615
00:48:05,953 --> 00:48:10,023
Check out Coach Don.
He look like he's up all night
verifying signatures?

616
00:48:10,057 --> 00:48:13,394
Hold up. You're sayin'...

617
00:48:13,427 --> 00:48:15,262
Fake Daddy's signature?

618
00:48:15,295 --> 00:48:18,932
Yep. Seems like the real sin
is stopping you from playin'.

619
00:48:18,966 --> 00:48:20,267
Jason's right.

620
00:48:21,402 --> 00:48:23,103
Plus...

621
00:48:23,137 --> 00:48:26,273
I don't know a soul who's
owed this shot more than you.

622
00:48:28,710 --> 00:48:30,144
Give it to me.

623
00:48:33,180 --> 00:48:35,282
Hope the good Lord
sees it that way.

624
00:48:45,392 --> 00:48:47,227
Oh. Evening, ma'am.

625
00:48:47,261 --> 00:48:50,030
Uh, Don Fisher,
youth baseball coach.

626
00:48:50,063 --> 00:48:54,268
Oh. I'm sorry, our boys
aren't allowed to play.

627
00:48:55,169 --> 00:48:58,005
Uh, better iron that out
with your husband, ma'am.

628
00:48:58,038 --> 00:49:00,307
He-- he signed
Rickey's permission slip.

629
00:49:00,340 --> 00:49:04,211
- Oh, um, come in.
- Oh, uh... ah!

630
00:49:04,244 --> 00:49:06,246
Who, by the way,

631
00:49:06,280 --> 00:49:09,216
is knocking the tar out
of anything we throw at him.

632
00:49:09,249 --> 00:49:12,186
What is this?
I didn't sign nothin'.

633
00:49:16,724 --> 00:49:19,460
That's not my handwriting.
That's forgery.

634
00:49:19,493 --> 00:49:21,261
Well...

635
00:49:21,295 --> 00:49:22,564
you know boys.

636
00:49:23,430 --> 00:49:27,201
Anyhoo, he-- he is
one heck of a hitter.

637
00:49:27,234 --> 00:49:31,506
The only way I can figure
how your boy can
possibly hit the ball

638
00:49:31,539 --> 00:49:34,542
as far and as hard as he can...

639
00:49:35,510 --> 00:49:37,712
the Lord give him a gift.

640
00:49:37,745 --> 00:49:39,413
Well, he's not gonna be playing.

641
00:49:39,446 --> 00:49:42,550
-You ain't gonna let him play?
-Nope.

642
00:49:42,584 --> 00:49:46,320
Look, I've pastored 13 years
up in the Panhandle,

643
00:49:46,353 --> 00:49:49,958
and I know good and well
what a miracle looks like.

644
00:49:50,658 --> 00:49:52,392
And Rickey is one.

645
00:49:53,761 --> 00:49:56,163
So my counsel to you, Pastor,

646
00:49:56,196 --> 00:49:59,132
is figure out why
you're so hellbent on

647
00:49:59,166 --> 00:50:02,236
crushing the boy's soul
and squandering his blessing.

648
00:50:03,170 --> 00:50:05,339
God bless you. Amen, good night.

649
00:50:15,583 --> 00:50:17,017
Rickey?

650
00:50:17,685 --> 00:50:19,119
Rickey!

651
00:50:26,661 --> 00:50:27,762
I done it.

652
00:50:27,795 --> 00:50:30,030
He's covering for me.

653
00:50:31,231 --> 00:50:33,300
I-- I said for him to play,

654
00:50:34,468 --> 00:50:36,136
and doctored the slip.

655
00:50:36,169 --> 00:50:39,273
He was just trying to help me
do the one thing I love.

656
00:50:39,306 --> 00:50:41,174
The one thing you love?

657
00:50:41,876 --> 00:50:43,443
That's the truth.

658
00:50:43,477 --> 00:50:47,549
It ain't about me
swinging a stick to hit a stone.

659
00:50:47,582 --> 00:50:50,818
When I swing that bat,
I ain't crippled no more.

660
00:50:50,852 --> 00:50:53,387
I am David taking down Goliath.

661
00:50:53,420 --> 00:50:56,423
Everybody can see how much
this means to me but you, Daddy.

662
00:50:56,456 --> 00:51:00,795
-Don't you backtalk me, boy.
-Don't you dare
run that child down!

663
00:51:00,828 --> 00:51:02,630
Give him his say.
He's earned it.

664
00:51:02,664 --> 00:51:05,600
You stay out of this.
This ain't none of
your business.

665
00:51:05,633 --> 00:51:08,201
My business is the family

666
00:51:08,235 --> 00:51:10,103
that you've turned into sheep.

667
00:51:10,137 --> 00:51:12,172
Helen and the kids,
they love you so much,

668
00:51:12,205 --> 00:51:16,176
they let you just suck
all the joy out of their lives.

669
00:51:16,209 --> 00:51:18,813
I'm too old and mean
to stand by another minute

670
00:51:18,846 --> 00:51:20,848
while you make
your misery theirs.

671
00:51:20,882 --> 00:51:25,620
"To seek out the one true
calling God has placed us
on Earth to answer

672
00:51:25,653 --> 00:51:29,724
is no less than our duty to
fulfill it with pure devotion,

673
00:51:29,757 --> 00:51:31,491
no less than
our divine destiny."

674
00:51:31,526 --> 00:51:33,327
Yeah, see right there?

675
00:51:33,360 --> 00:51:37,197
Even a blind man could tell
you're born to be a preacher.

676
00:51:37,230 --> 00:51:39,767
You said those words.
That's your sermon.

677
00:51:39,801 --> 00:51:42,436
Are those words the truth?

678
00:51:45,640 --> 00:51:48,576
You think baseball is your duty?

679
00:51:48,610 --> 00:51:50,344
Ever since I can remember.

680
00:51:50,377 --> 00:51:53,180
So much you'd lie about it?

681
00:51:53,213 --> 00:51:56,584
See that? That's a lie.

682
00:51:57,785 --> 00:51:59,654
Now,
I'm gonna give you a choice.

683
00:52:01,556 --> 00:52:03,357
God's will...

684
00:52:04,659 --> 00:52:05,693
or your will.

685
00:52:13,968 --> 00:52:16,504
Robert...

686
00:52:16,537 --> 00:52:18,539
...you lied.

687
00:52:18,573 --> 00:52:20,642
You deceived.

688
00:52:20,675 --> 00:52:22,242
You misguided your brother.

689
00:52:22,275 --> 00:52:24,277
Now, we got rules in this house.

690
00:52:25,546 --> 00:52:28,181
And you know there's
consequences to those rules.

691
00:52:28,215 --> 00:52:29,717
Yes, sir.

692
00:52:29,751 --> 00:52:31,552
Get out back.

693
00:52:32,553 --> 00:52:34,589
And I mean now.

694
00:52:34,622 --> 00:52:36,691
Daddy, it should be me!

695
00:52:40,928 --> 00:52:42,295
Robert.

696
00:52:46,233 --> 00:52:47,835
You deceived me.

697
00:52:47,869 --> 00:52:50,237
I can't tell you how that hurts.

698
00:52:51,839 --> 00:52:53,941
And you know I love you.

699
00:52:53,975 --> 00:52:56,678
This is about saving your soul.

700
00:52:56,711 --> 00:52:58,579
You ain't gonna save me.

701
00:53:00,682 --> 00:53:02,416
You can beat me all night.

702
00:53:04,852 --> 00:53:06,587
It ain't gonna change Rickey.

703
00:53:08,022 --> 00:53:10,424
Rickey's confused.

704
00:53:10,457 --> 00:53:12,426
He's lost.

705
00:53:12,459 --> 00:53:14,595
He ain't the one who's lost.

706
00:53:15,730 --> 00:53:17,230
What's he doin'?

707
00:53:22,904 --> 00:53:24,304
Growing up.

708
00:53:25,640 --> 00:53:26,774
You turn around.

709
00:53:52,299 --> 00:53:53,500
Go inside.

710
00:53:55,903 --> 00:53:57,839
-I said go inside.
-Daddy?

711
00:53:57,872 --> 00:53:59,574
Just leave me be. Go inside.

712
00:54:33,941 --> 00:54:35,643
It ain't fair.

713
00:54:35,676 --> 00:54:38,913
I can't go this entire summer
without playing baseball.

714
00:54:38,946 --> 00:54:43,618
Well, till you can find
a way to preach and play
at the same time...

715
00:54:45,086 --> 00:54:46,521
you're benched.

716
00:54:57,064 --> 00:54:58,298
Son.

717
00:54:59,801 --> 00:55:03,403
You know you're not
supposed to interrupt me
when I'm writing my sermon.

718
00:55:04,939 --> 00:55:06,406
Yes, sir.

719
00:55:07,842 --> 00:55:12,580
I came here to ask you
what to do when I need to
tell you something.

720
00:55:14,715 --> 00:55:15,950
Now.

721
00:55:21,088 --> 00:55:22,824
All right.

722
00:55:23,791 --> 00:55:25,392
Say your piece.

723
00:55:29,730 --> 00:55:32,834
Last night,
you gave me a choice.

724
00:55:33,601 --> 00:55:36,604
And I've been thinking
real hard on it.

725
00:55:37,872 --> 00:55:40,608
You're right. God is number one.

726
00:55:40,641 --> 00:55:44,011
He has, is, and always will be.

727
00:55:44,045 --> 00:55:46,614
And like you've preached
so many times,

728
00:55:47,414 --> 00:55:48,983
God don't make mistakes.

729
00:55:49,016 --> 00:55:50,417
Amen.

730
00:55:52,720 --> 00:55:56,891
I feel His perfection guiding me
when I swing that bat.

731
00:55:58,025 --> 00:56:03,130
I bear witness to His power
when the ball sails over
the backfield fence.

732
00:56:03,164 --> 00:56:07,001
I'm not following your logic.
What?

733
00:56:07,034 --> 00:56:08,501
'Cause I ain't done.

734
00:56:10,905 --> 00:56:12,472
I choose both.

735
00:56:12,506 --> 00:56:17,678
You choose God and baseball?

736
00:56:17,712 --> 00:56:19,446
Only answer.

737
00:56:20,781 --> 00:56:24,518
In His perfection,
He handed me two gifts:

738
00:56:24,552 --> 00:56:28,656
preaching with fire, and playing
by the power of His hand.

739
00:56:28,689 --> 00:56:31,826
"Each blessing to His glory.

740
00:56:33,761 --> 00:56:38,165
I can do all things through
Christ who strengthens me."

741
00:56:38,199 --> 00:56:41,401
Philippians 4:13.

742
00:56:52,179 --> 00:56:53,748
What is that?

743
00:57:15,169 --> 00:57:17,972
Thank you for
all you taught me, Daddy.

744
00:57:45,266 --> 00:57:47,535
<i>Now batting for the Buffaloes,</i>

745
00:57:47,568 --> 00:57:51,238
<i>center fielder,</i>
<i>number 17, Rickey Hill!</i>

746
00:57:51,272 --> 00:57:53,007
-Rickey!
-Rickey!

747
00:58:04,085 --> 00:58:07,888
<i>And gone!</i>

748
00:58:09,156 --> 00:58:13,928
<i>- Ladies and gentlemen,</i>
<i>the 1973 season opener ends</i>

749
00:58:13,961 --> 00:58:16,063
<i>with another</i>
<i>game-winning home run</i>

750
00:58:16,097 --> 00:58:19,867
<i>from Buffaloes senior</i>
<i>sensation,</i>
<i>Rickey Hill!</i>

751
00:58:19,900 --> 00:58:23,137
-That's our brother!
-Oh, man, you're flyin'!

752
00:58:23,170 --> 00:58:25,106
-There you go, Rickey!
-Rickey!

753
00:58:25,139 --> 00:58:26,841
Come on!

754
00:58:30,177 --> 00:58:32,613
You set him up so good.

755
00:58:32,646 --> 00:58:34,749
Laid off the slider
the whole game...

756
00:58:34,782 --> 00:58:37,018
I almost got caught
with my foot in the bucket.

757
00:58:37,051 --> 00:58:39,954
Oh, man.

758
00:58:39,987 --> 00:58:41,756
All right, I'm gonna git.

759
00:58:41,789 --> 00:58:44,191
Um, see you Monday
after practice.

760
00:58:44,225 --> 00:58:46,961
-Yeah.
-All right. We got some
work to do on that old car.

761
00:58:46,994 --> 00:58:48,863
-I'll be there.
-Well, have fun tonight.

762
00:58:48,896 --> 00:58:50,865
-All right. Night.
-Good to see you, buddy.

763
00:58:50,898 --> 00:58:54,168
Four for four. Again.
Officially battin' above 400.

764
00:58:54,201 --> 00:58:55,936
Sure he ain't cheatin'?

765
00:58:57,338 --> 00:59:00,041
Girls don't know spit
about baseball.

766
00:59:00,074 --> 00:59:01,742
No, I see it.

767
00:59:01,776 --> 00:59:04,945
Finally got full body rotation.

768
00:59:04,979 --> 00:59:06,113
Found your power.

769
00:59:06,147 --> 00:59:07,748
Well?

770
00:59:09,250 --> 00:59:10,651
Did you miss me?

771
00:59:10,684 --> 00:59:12,987
Now, I only want the truth.

772
00:59:16,257 --> 00:59:17,825
Gracie?

773
00:59:19,026 --> 00:59:22,063
-Last I heard, you--
-Well, I came back.

774
00:59:22,096 --> 00:59:24,065
To see an old friend.

775
00:59:25,099 --> 00:59:26,700
Me?

776
00:59:26,734 --> 00:59:29,070
Still know how to charm a girl.

777
00:59:29,103 --> 00:59:30,805
I been tracking your career.

778
00:59:31,639 --> 00:59:34,341
We've gotta go... fix something.

779
00:59:34,375 --> 00:59:36,210
Fix somethin'!

780
00:59:36,243 --> 00:59:39,947
Oh! Yeah, we-- Okay. We can go.

781
00:59:39,980 --> 00:59:41,849
You sure showed me.

782
00:59:43,717 --> 00:59:46,887
- I talk big.
- You believe big.

783
00:59:46,921 --> 00:59:50,091
Me? I couldn't see past
getting out of that house.

784
00:59:52,126 --> 00:59:54,728
How long you gonna be in town?

785
00:59:55,362 --> 00:59:57,064
I don't know.

786
00:59:57,098 --> 00:59:58,699
A few days.

787
00:59:58,732 --> 01:00:00,668
Baby, is it always this hot?

788
01:00:00,701 --> 01:00:02,236
-Uh...
-I need a drink.

789
01:00:02,269 --> 01:00:04,972
Ned, this is my friend, Rickey.

790
01:00:05,005 --> 01:00:08,843
The Rickey? The Rickey Hill,
the batting phenom?

791
01:00:08,876 --> 01:00:11,645
You know what?
I actually owe you a thank-you.

792
01:00:11,679 --> 01:00:13,414
For what, exactly?

793
01:00:13,447 --> 01:00:16,317
I backed him.
Fifty bucks, running 5:1.

794
01:00:16,350 --> 01:00:19,086
You paid out like a Vegas slot,
my friend.

795
01:00:19,120 --> 01:00:22,189
Well,
when he's not being crude,
Ned's a sports writer.

796
01:00:22,223 --> 01:00:24,358
<i>Eastern Chronicle.</i> I edit him.

797
01:00:24,391 --> 01:00:26,393
Thought you two should meet.

798
01:00:26,427 --> 01:00:28,195
Your mom invited us to supper.

799
01:00:28,229 --> 01:00:30,664
Cool.

800
01:00:30,698 --> 01:00:34,802
Well, he'd just hit four homers
in this one game.

801
01:00:34,835 --> 01:00:37,438
You a good, clean sports writer,
are ya?

802
01:00:37,471 --> 01:00:41,108
Oh. Uh, well,
I'd like to think so.

803
01:00:41,142 --> 01:00:43,277
Punchy. Not windy,

804
01:00:43,310 --> 01:00:47,314
in the way that
McCormack blowhard goes on.
You know him?

805
01:00:47,348 --> 01:00:51,285
I am that McCormack... blowhard.

806
01:00:51,318 --> 01:00:53,954
Well, then,

807
01:00:53,988 --> 01:00:57,391
you have something more to chew
on than gamblin' and drinkin'.

808
01:00:59,226 --> 01:01:02,163
Is that that little seedlin'
that got planted so long ago?

809
01:01:02,196 --> 01:01:06,133
Gracie, you done bloomed
into a beautiful rose, girl.

810
01:01:06,167 --> 01:01:09,170
Come here and hug my neck.
Oh, oh!

811
01:01:12,473 --> 01:01:16,177
Are you gonna come
celebrate Sunday services
with us tomorrow?

812
01:01:16,210 --> 01:01:18,479
-I'd love to.
-It would make me so happy.

813
01:01:18,513 --> 01:01:21,215
Well, hon, I mean,
slugger's got his game tomorrow.

814
01:01:21,248 --> 01:01:25,386
Ned McCormack, by the way.
So nice to meet you.
Thanks for having us over.

815
01:01:25,419 --> 01:01:29,056
I love everything you've done
with the... everything.

816
01:01:29,089 --> 01:01:31,358
Don't tell me you people
don't play on Sundays.

817
01:01:31,392 --> 01:01:36,197
Well, his father failed
to lead him to a higher path.

818
01:01:36,230 --> 01:01:38,866
Higher path.

819
01:01:39,534 --> 01:01:41,835
I'm sorry,
I don't mean any disrespect,

820
01:01:41,869 --> 01:01:43,904
but, I mean,
certainly you can see,

821
01:01:43,938 --> 01:01:46,740
whenever he plays,
he's a-- he's a phenom.

822
01:01:47,775 --> 01:01:49,777
I've never seen him play.

823
01:01:50,978 --> 01:01:52,713
You never seen him play?

824
01:01:54,348 --> 01:01:55,749
No.

825
01:01:57,117 --> 01:02:00,788
Well... uh,
I'm gonna get washed up.

826
01:02:01,989 --> 01:02:04,693
Be right back.
Good to see you, Gracie.

827
01:02:06,493 --> 01:02:08,062
I'll be there.

828
01:02:16,270 --> 01:02:17,805
Great game today.

829
01:02:19,006 --> 01:02:22,076
Did your... guy leave?

830
01:02:23,344 --> 01:02:25,079
Ned is not my guy.

831
01:02:25,112 --> 01:02:27,915
I realized that at dinner
last night and broke it off.

832
01:02:27,948 --> 01:02:30,784
He took it like a gentleman,
then fired me.

833
01:02:30,818 --> 01:02:33,787
Oh! Well...

834
01:02:33,821 --> 01:02:35,155
you're smart.

835
01:02:36,390 --> 01:02:38,025
I bet something finds you.

836
01:02:38,058 --> 01:02:40,828
If that optimism
comes in bottles,

837
01:02:40,861 --> 01:02:42,830
I'll take a whole case.

838
01:02:44,832 --> 01:02:46,500
You wanna know what a dork I am?

839
01:02:46,534 --> 01:02:47,968
It's not apparent.

840
01:02:48,002 --> 01:02:49,870
Fill me in.

841
01:02:49,903 --> 01:02:53,874
Every stinkin' letter you wrote
since you were nine,

842
01:02:53,907 --> 01:02:57,344
- I kept.
- Lord!

843
01:02:57,378 --> 01:02:59,046
Did they fill a whole tub?

844
01:03:00,515 --> 01:03:01,915
No.

845
01:03:03,250 --> 01:03:04,385
We're both dorks, then.

846
01:03:05,853 --> 01:03:07,187
You kept mine?

847
01:03:07,221 --> 01:03:09,290
Both of 'em.

848
01:03:09,323 --> 01:03:12,326
I'm not much of a writer.

849
01:03:13,894 --> 01:03:15,896
Was that why you stopped?

850
01:03:16,531 --> 01:03:17,931
No.

851
01:03:20,434 --> 01:03:23,937
Your career was taking off and
I figured you forgot about me.

852
01:03:25,306 --> 01:03:27,007
Not for one day.

853
01:03:32,614 --> 01:03:36,283
Rickey, that's twice now!
What is going on?

854
01:03:36,317 --> 01:03:38,218
I just...

855
01:03:38,252 --> 01:03:40,454
I get sore from hittin'.

856
01:03:40,487 --> 01:03:42,590
That ain't sore. That's agony.

857
01:03:42,624 --> 01:03:44,024
How long?

858
01:03:44,892 --> 01:03:46,260
My whole life.

859
01:03:46,293 --> 01:03:49,296
-What do your doctors say?
-Nothin'.

860
01:03:49,330 --> 01:03:52,833
I see a doctor, they're just
gonna tell me to stop.

861
01:03:56,303 --> 01:03:59,206
I'm sick of it.
I'm sick and tired

862
01:03:59,239 --> 01:04:01,175
of all these other
high school players

863
01:04:01,208 --> 01:04:04,478
who got scouts out
watchin' 'em, and...

864
01:04:04,512 --> 01:04:08,148
and here you are, the hardest
damn hitter I ever seen,

865
01:04:08,182 --> 01:04:09,350
and nothin'.

866
01:04:09,383 --> 01:04:11,151
And the clock is tickin'.

867
01:04:11,185 --> 01:04:13,954
In four months,
you're graduatin' high school,

868
01:04:13,987 --> 01:04:17,592
and right now is when all
the scouts are snatching up
all the good ones,

869
01:04:17,625 --> 01:04:20,494
and, son,
you're better than good.

870
01:04:20,528 --> 01:04:22,496
Do you wanna play in the majors?

871
01:04:22,530 --> 01:04:24,131
That's all I want.

872
01:04:25,533 --> 01:04:28,035
-But Ray...
-But jack squat.

873
01:04:30,638 --> 01:04:33,073
After all the hell
you been through,

874
01:04:33,107 --> 01:04:36,009
I'm not about to
let you lose hope now.

875
01:04:36,043 --> 01:04:37,645
We're going straight to the top.

876
01:04:37,679 --> 01:04:40,080
I'm not talkin' about
just anybody.

877
01:04:40,981 --> 01:04:45,018
-I'm callin' Mike Toliver.
-Who's Mike Toliver?

878
01:04:45,052 --> 01:04:47,421
Mike Toliver's one of the
best scouts in the business.

879
01:04:47,454 --> 01:04:50,658
And I'm gonna get him to come to
one of your high school games.

880
01:04:56,029 --> 01:04:58,999
-Hey. Good to see you.
-Good to see you.

881
01:04:59,032 --> 01:05:02,002
-Who's he talking to?
-It's one of them scouts.

882
01:05:02,035 --> 01:05:04,004
-Really?
-That wasn't bad at all.

883
01:05:04,037 --> 01:05:07,274
- Good.
- Gonna be worth it. I'm looking
forward to seeing Rickey.

884
01:05:07,307 --> 01:05:09,443
He's something else.
Thank you, Mr. Toliver.

885
01:05:11,044 --> 01:05:14,682
Robot boy.
Looks like we're gonna
finally finish what we started.

886
01:05:14,716 --> 01:05:16,618
Don't worry. I'll make it quick.

887
01:05:16,651 --> 01:05:19,554
Wouldn't wanna see you suffer
in front of all of these folks.

888
01:05:19,587 --> 01:05:22,956
<i>Well,</i>
<i>there they are, folks,</i>
<i>the Bowie City Buffaloes.</i>

889
01:05:22,990 --> 01:05:25,959
<i>This should be some</i>
<i>regional matchup tonight,</i>

890
01:05:25,993 --> 01:05:29,664
<i>as Bowie faces county rivals,</i>
<i>the Wildcats.</i>

891
01:05:32,433 --> 01:05:34,001
I got it!

892
01:05:43,444 --> 01:05:46,581
Scouting report said that kid's
bat speed's off the chart.

893
01:05:46,614 --> 01:05:48,583
Didn't say nothin'
about that arm.

894
01:05:54,021 --> 01:05:56,056
Strike three! Batter's out!

895
01:05:56,089 --> 01:05:58,626
<i>Now batting</i>
<i>cleanup for the Buffaloes...</i>

896
01:05:58,660 --> 01:06:00,394
You reckon they'll pitch to him?

897
01:06:00,427 --> 01:06:03,130
<i>-...one-man hitting machine...</i>
-Well, it's on the line,

898
01:06:03,163 --> 01:06:06,066
tying run on second. Would you?

899
01:06:06,099 --> 01:06:08,035
<i>...Rickey Hill!</i>

900
01:06:08,068 --> 01:06:10,404
Nowhere to hide now, robot boy.

901
01:06:20,715 --> 01:06:22,517
I'm not walkin' him again.

902
01:06:24,251 --> 01:06:28,322
Ends right here, tonight.

903
01:06:43,805 --> 01:06:45,239
Strike!

904
01:06:49,844 --> 01:06:51,579
Come on, Rickey!

905
01:07:16,571 --> 01:07:19,172
-Rickey!
-Come on! Whoo!

906
01:07:19,206 --> 01:07:21,408
Yeah!

907
01:07:24,111 --> 01:07:26,413
That looked so good!

908
01:07:33,320 --> 01:07:35,455
The faster it comes in,
the faster it goes out.

909
01:07:48,770 --> 01:07:50,203
I got it!

910
01:07:54,776 --> 01:07:57,110
Ow!

911
01:08:01,348 --> 01:08:04,284
Rickey?

912
01:08:05,152 --> 01:08:06,721
Don't move.

913
01:08:06,754 --> 01:08:08,355
I-- I can finish.

914
01:08:11,893 --> 01:08:13,628
I stepped on somethin'.

915
01:08:17,532 --> 01:08:18,566
Sprinkler head.

916
01:08:27,609 --> 01:08:29,844
Fracture's bad...

917
01:08:29,877 --> 01:08:32,145
but the least of my worries.

918
01:08:32,179 --> 01:08:33,548
These ligament bands,

919
01:08:33,581 --> 01:08:37,652
they hold the joint together,
but, Rickey...

920
01:08:39,286 --> 01:08:40,755
they're torn to bits.

921
01:08:40,788 --> 01:08:44,257
They can't connect your ankle
to your calf bone.

922
01:08:44,291 --> 01:08:46,894
And these two peroneal tendons?

923
01:08:46,928 --> 01:08:50,263
They're not torn.
They're completely severed.

924
01:08:50,297 --> 01:08:52,934
All right, well,
how long before I can play?

925
01:08:52,967 --> 01:08:57,505
Son...
 it'll be a miracle if you ever walk again.

926
01:08:59,272 --> 01:09:01,475
I'd like to attempt
to save the ankle.

927
01:09:01,509 --> 01:09:02,910
Attempt?

928
01:09:02,944 --> 01:09:05,680
Pastor,
the only guarantee I can offer,

929
01:09:05,713 --> 01:09:10,283
multiple surgeries
broken up with long,
excruciating recoveries.

930
01:09:12,920 --> 01:09:14,488
Well, how much?

931
01:09:15,590 --> 01:09:17,424
$7,000, probably more.

932
01:09:17,457 --> 01:09:19,661
And then there's
the other condition.

933
01:09:19,694 --> 01:09:22,530
Other condition?

934
01:09:22,563 --> 01:09:25,667
Advanced degenerative
spinal disease.

935
01:09:25,700 --> 01:09:29,671
Rickey, your bones are
rapidly depleting protein,

936
01:09:29,704 --> 01:09:33,306
causing your spine
to age prematurely.

937
01:09:33,875 --> 01:09:35,375
How prematurely?

938
01:09:36,376 --> 01:09:39,580
Your son has the spine
of a 60-year-old man,

939
01:09:39,614 --> 01:09:42,482
and there's nothing
I can do to reverse that.

940
01:10:00,367 --> 01:10:02,269
Let me get that for you.

941
01:10:10,545 --> 01:10:13,246
My heart breaks for you, Rickey.

942
01:10:14,015 --> 01:10:16,517
Even as my faith sustains me.

943
01:10:18,019 --> 01:10:21,488
Next you're gonna tell me
it was God's will.

944
01:10:21,522 --> 01:10:24,424
Shred my ankle,
twist up my spine.

945
01:10:24,458 --> 01:10:27,427
Why, Dad? What, he wants me
to suffer my whole life,

946
01:10:27,461 --> 01:10:29,897
same as it started,
a pitiful cripple?

947
01:10:29,931 --> 01:10:33,735
Don't you talk
about yourself that way.
I won't hear it, you hear me?

948
01:10:33,768 --> 01:10:35,870
You're being tested, son.

949
01:10:35,903 --> 01:10:39,406
You're being tested,
sorely tested,

950
01:10:39,439 --> 01:10:42,043
and you got to
hang on to your faith,

951
01:10:42,076 --> 01:10:45,046
because that's all
we got in this world.

952
01:10:45,079 --> 01:10:48,983
Now, baseball,
it had to end eventually.

953
01:10:49,016 --> 01:10:52,587
And if I'm gonna get bad news,
I'd rather get it
sooner than later,

954
01:10:52,620 --> 01:10:56,891
so having it taken away from you
while you're still young...

955
01:10:56,924 --> 01:10:58,893
now, maybe that's a good thing.

956
01:10:58,926 --> 01:11:03,531
It-- it gives you time

957
01:11:03,564 --> 01:11:07,467
to figure out what you're gonna
do with the rest of your life.

958
01:11:08,936 --> 01:11:12,673
First time you ever talk to me
like a real old man...

959
01:11:14,709 --> 01:11:17,678
is to say "forget the only thing
you ever cared for"?

960
01:11:18,813 --> 01:11:19,947
No.

961
01:11:22,083 --> 01:11:25,520
No, that's not
what I'm sayin', Rickey.

962
01:11:27,722 --> 01:11:30,892
When you were ten, you said
you were going to majors

963
01:11:30,925 --> 01:11:32,392
and you had no idea how.

964
01:11:33,060 --> 01:11:35,462
You did everything you could,

965
01:11:35,495 --> 01:11:38,966
and the rest you took on faith.

966
01:11:39,000 --> 01:11:40,868
Yeah, and look where it got me.

967
01:11:41,869 --> 01:11:43,771
Same crap, different day.

968
01:11:45,106 --> 01:11:47,008
Rickey,
we're gonna raise that money.

969
01:11:47,041 --> 01:11:48,943
All $7,000 of it.

970
01:11:48,976 --> 01:11:51,378
It might as well be ten million.

971
01:11:51,411 --> 01:11:54,816
Maybe Ned will kick in,
write a story.

972
01:11:54,849 --> 01:11:57,752
Yeah, "How I helped the gimp
and won the girl."

973
01:11:58,853 --> 01:12:01,354
Gotta admit, it makes sense.

974
01:12:03,858 --> 01:12:06,661
Boys don't know spit about love.

975
01:12:10,097 --> 01:12:12,332
Why'd you come back here?

976
01:12:14,735 --> 01:12:17,839
Something got torn out of me
when I was just a little girl.

977
01:12:17,872 --> 01:12:19,874
It left a hole in my soul.

978
01:12:21,609 --> 01:12:24,812
No matter what I tried
or-- or who I met,

979
01:12:26,747 --> 01:12:27,915
it never healed.

980
01:12:31,152 --> 01:12:34,822
A few months back,
I was on my last nerve.

981
01:12:36,090 --> 01:12:38,593
I truly was lost.

982
01:12:39,694 --> 01:12:41,361
What saved ya?

983
01:12:42,029 --> 01:12:44,464
I remembered my first boyfriend.

984
01:12:50,705 --> 01:12:54,008
Wouldn't it be something
if he ended up being your last?

985
01:12:54,041 --> 01:12:59,446
Now, if that's a proposal,
you're gonna have to do a whole
lot better than that.

986
01:12:59,479 --> 01:13:01,549
- What, that wasn't good?
- No.

987
01:13:02,216 --> 01:13:04,685
But I'll take it. Go on.

988
01:14:29,704 --> 01:14:31,739
Hey, how's
Operation Rickey Hill going?

989
01:14:31,772 --> 01:14:33,975
Nine weeks,
we're up about $2,000.

990
01:14:34,008 --> 01:14:37,578
Well, I'll tell you what.
I got a brand-new 50 here

991
01:14:37,611 --> 01:14:41,716
that says that you'll
hit the entire jackpot
right on up to tryouts.

992
01:14:41,749 --> 01:14:44,719
So you just keep swingin',
slugger.

993
01:14:44,752 --> 01:14:46,587
We're all countin' on ya.

994
01:14:46,620 --> 01:14:47,989
Thank you, sir.

995
01:14:51,692 --> 01:14:53,961
We're never
gonna make it in time.

996
01:15:13,981 --> 01:15:15,049
Gram.

997
01:15:16,050 --> 01:15:18,252
Ladies. Miss Helen.

998
01:15:18,285 --> 01:15:21,222
Rickey. You seen this?

999
01:15:21,255 --> 01:15:23,290
Top of the sports page.

1000
01:15:23,324 --> 01:15:27,161
"A co-op of four baseball teams
will be holding
major league tryouts

1001
01:15:27,194 --> 01:15:29,230
at Rockwood Park Field
in Brenham.

1002
01:15:29,263 --> 01:15:34,735
The scouting staffs will
evaluate qualified players
over a two-day period."

1003
01:15:35,803 --> 01:15:37,605
That's two months away.

1004
01:15:37,638 --> 01:15:40,674
It'll be tough,
but you can recover.

1005
01:15:40,708 --> 01:15:43,577
-Recover from what?
-Surgery.

1006
01:15:43,611 --> 01:15:49,050
-The sooner we get you in there,
we can get--
-Ray, Ray, we-- we tried.

1007
01:15:49,083 --> 01:15:51,886
It's over,
and we didn't raise the money.

1008
01:15:52,686 --> 01:15:56,157
Money, money, money.
The root of all evil.

1009
01:15:56,190 --> 01:15:58,225
Well, not always.

1010
01:15:59,126 --> 01:16:02,797
- What are you doin'?
- Seems obvious enough.

1011
01:16:02,830 --> 01:16:05,766
- Ray, I can't take it.
- Who's giving it?

1012
01:16:06,834 --> 01:16:10,004
This is a loan
against future earnings.

1013
01:16:10,037 --> 01:16:12,339
- At the scrapyard?
- The scrapyard?

1014
01:16:12,373 --> 01:16:14,675
On what I pay you?

1015
01:16:14,708 --> 01:16:18,712
Son, you'd die broke
at that scrapyard.

1016
01:16:18,746 --> 01:16:20,915
Gracie,
how much are y'all short?

1017
01:16:20,948 --> 01:16:23,951
Actually,
better I don't know the amount.

1018
01:16:23,984 --> 01:16:24,985
Ray.

1019
01:16:26,387 --> 01:16:29,356
-Pastor.
-My son is not gonna be

1020
01:16:29,390 --> 01:16:31,659
trying out for
professional baseball.

1021
01:16:31,692 --> 01:16:35,229
No, he is gonna try out.
The boy's been trying out
for professional baseball

1022
01:16:35,262 --> 01:16:39,033
since he was nine years old
and busted a hole in
my windshield over there.

1023
01:16:39,066 --> 01:16:42,803
I don't need you comin'
around here, filling him
full of false hope...

1024
01:16:43,437 --> 01:16:45,139
and puttin' him into debt.

1025
01:16:45,172 --> 01:16:47,708
Pastor... I'm beggin' you.

1026
01:16:49,777 --> 01:16:54,181
Give that boy
one solitary chance

1027
01:16:54,215 --> 01:16:57,718
to show the right people
what he was born to do.

1028
01:16:57,751 --> 01:17:01,322
You're gonna paralyze him.
That's what you're gonna do.

1029
01:17:01,355 --> 01:17:04,125
Now, he's my son, not yours.

1030
01:17:04,158 --> 01:17:06,427
I know him better than you do.

1031
01:17:06,460 --> 01:17:09,396
And you heard him.
We don't need your money.

1032
01:17:09,430 --> 01:17:13,134
Now, I think it's about time
you stopped meddling
in this family's affairs

1033
01:17:13,167 --> 01:17:16,804
and get in your truck
and get on down the road.

1034
01:17:16,837 --> 01:17:18,806
That tears it!

1035
01:17:19,773 --> 01:17:21,275
Bring that check yonder.

1036
01:17:21,308 --> 01:17:23,144
Lilian!

1037
01:17:30,317 --> 01:17:32,753
"Pay the sum of..." Gracie?

1038
01:17:32,786 --> 01:17:36,891
-$4,652.
-What?

1039
01:17:45,966 --> 01:17:47,801
You're a good man, Raymond.

1040
01:17:48,736 --> 01:17:51,205
Even if you're
a bit of a heathen.

1041
01:17:53,107 --> 01:17:54,775
Thank you.

1042
01:18:23,237 --> 01:18:26,073
I believe you are an angel.

1043
01:18:26,106 --> 01:18:28,976
That's sweet,
but that's the morphine talkin'.

1044
01:18:29,009 --> 01:18:32,179
The truth's the truth.

1045
01:18:32,213 --> 01:18:33,515
What about me?

1046
01:18:33,548 --> 01:18:35,216
You're still my angel, Mama.

1047
01:18:35,249 --> 01:18:39,119
Mmm? Just as good-lookin'
as this sweet girl?

1048
01:18:39,153 --> 01:18:41,355
- You could be twins.
- Oh.

1049
01:18:41,388 --> 01:18:42,823
Uh...

1050
01:18:45,392 --> 01:18:46,961
How come you look worried?

1051
01:18:46,994 --> 01:18:49,063
I mean,
even more worried than usual.

1052
01:18:49,096 --> 01:18:51,799
The damage was worse
than we expected.

1053
01:18:51,832 --> 01:18:54,768
We're still hopeful
for a full recovery,

1054
01:18:54,802 --> 01:18:56,904
but it's gonna take some time.

1055
01:18:56,937 --> 01:18:59,340
Tryouts are in seven weeks.

1056
01:18:59,373 --> 01:19:01,208
Not for you.

1057
01:19:01,242 --> 01:19:02,843
I'm sorry.

1058
01:20:23,658 --> 01:20:25,292
Hey, mister?

1059
01:20:26,226 --> 01:20:29,997
For a guy who can hardly walk,
you sure can hit.

1060
01:20:30,030 --> 01:20:33,033
- You like baseball?
- Love it.

1061
01:20:38,472 --> 01:20:39,907
Keep at it.

1062
01:20:41,108 --> 01:20:42,376
You might have a chance.

1063
01:20:55,956 --> 01:20:58,125
Hey, what is your rush?

1064
01:20:59,527 --> 01:21:01,395
I wanna take you someplace nice.

1065
01:21:02,396 --> 01:21:04,064
Talk about the future.

1066
01:21:04,098 --> 01:21:07,301
Well...
if we're gonna talk about us,

1067
01:21:07,334 --> 01:21:09,336
we should probably be us.

1068
01:21:09,370 --> 01:21:11,038
Come on.

1069
01:21:20,414 --> 01:21:22,550
It's so cold tonight.

1070
01:21:22,584 --> 01:21:26,420
We'll be eating better
when I start earning
some serious money.

1071
01:21:26,453 --> 01:21:28,288
Not on a rookie's salary.

1072
01:21:31,659 --> 01:21:33,060
Gracie...

1073
01:21:36,564 --> 01:21:38,399
it's all stacked against me.

1074
01:21:38,432 --> 01:21:40,134
Too risky.

1075
01:21:41,235 --> 01:21:42,269
You're quittin'?

1076
01:21:42,302 --> 01:21:45,507
Stuck in a chair,
a bed for life?

1077
01:21:45,540 --> 01:21:49,076
-I wouldn't be any good to you.
-Don't you make this about me.

1078
01:21:50,545 --> 01:21:53,013
I'm scared.

1079
01:21:53,046 --> 01:21:55,583
I grew up in shackles.
I don't chance going back.

1080
01:21:55,617 --> 01:21:59,654
I was raised by a man
who gave up.

1081
01:21:59,687 --> 01:22:01,088
He lost hope.

1082
01:22:01,121 --> 01:22:03,991
And I saw what that did to him.

1083
01:22:04,024 --> 01:22:06,160
Now, if you don't try,

1084
01:22:06,193 --> 01:22:08,429
you're gonna die inside.

1085
01:22:08,462 --> 01:22:11,432
And that's the one thing
I won't stick around to watch.

1086
01:22:12,600 --> 01:22:14,368
Now, I want my dreamer back.

1087
01:22:14,401 --> 01:22:18,338
I need him.
I'm gonna take my chances.

1088
01:22:19,339 --> 01:22:20,474
I can't.

1089
01:22:22,777 --> 01:22:24,512
Rickey...

1090
01:22:55,108 --> 01:22:56,343
Come on.

1091
01:22:57,478 --> 01:22:59,079
Come on, get in!

1092
01:22:59,112 --> 01:23:01,616
What's got you so spooked?

1093
01:23:01,649 --> 01:23:05,587
Come on.

1094
01:23:12,727 --> 01:23:14,461
That my slugger?

1095
01:23:18,499 --> 01:23:22,202
- You're gon-- You're gonna come through this, Gram.
-  You-- -Hush.

1096
01:23:22,236 --> 01:23:24,606
You know doctors and
their doom and their gloom.

1097
01:23:24,639 --> 01:23:26,674
Shush, shush, shush, shush.

1098
01:23:26,708 --> 01:23:29,409
I'm going on to His glory.

1099
01:23:35,817 --> 01:23:37,417
Lookin' for these?

1100
01:23:43,423 --> 01:23:45,259
When I was a girl...

1101
01:23:47,862 --> 01:23:51,533
all I wanted
was to breed horses.

1102
01:23:51,566 --> 01:23:55,803
And one summer--
I expect I was no more than 17--

1103
01:23:55,837 --> 01:23:58,272
I got a job at a ranch.

1104
01:23:58,305 --> 01:24:03,778
Oh, glory, if I didn't love
every blessed minute there.

1105
01:24:05,212 --> 01:24:10,450
And late that spring,
it was about a month
before I was set to return,

1106
01:24:11,318 --> 01:24:14,656
I met this handsome...

1107
01:24:15,890 --> 01:24:17,324
young dude.

1108
01:24:21,863 --> 01:24:26,366
And, uh... out of the deal, I--

1109
01:24:26,400 --> 01:24:28,435
I got y'all.

1110
01:24:32,907 --> 01:24:34,341
Regret...

1111
01:24:36,209 --> 01:24:40,615
it's an ache in your bones
that don't ever stop.

1112
01:24:42,817 --> 01:24:45,185
-James.
-Yes.

1113
01:24:46,754 --> 01:24:48,455
You're a good man.

1114
01:24:50,925 --> 01:24:54,328
But tonight I'm gonna
ask you to be a great one.

1115
01:24:56,531 --> 01:24:58,600
Give your son his dream.

1116
01:25:15,650 --> 01:25:17,284
I never doubted ya.

1117
01:25:19,787 --> 01:25:23,891
All right, then. Next week...

1118
01:25:23,925 --> 01:25:27,595
when you step up
at them tryouts,

1119
01:25:27,629 --> 01:25:29,731
sling that stone.

1120
01:25:31,264 --> 01:25:33,266
Bring down Goliath.

1121
01:25:34,936 --> 01:25:38,539
Just know... I'll be watching.

1122
01:25:44,411 --> 01:25:46,748
<i>And these three things remain.</i>

1123
01:25:46,781 --> 01:25:51,284
Faith, hope, love.

1124
01:25:51,318 --> 01:25:54,221
And the greatest
of these is love.

1125
01:25:55,623 --> 01:26:01,395
And she gave of herself
and her love in such abundance

1126
01:26:01,428 --> 01:26:05,165
and reserved for us a blessing,

1127
01:26:05,833 --> 01:26:08,435
to speak the unvarnished truth,

1128
01:26:09,604 --> 01:26:12,372
whether we wanted
to hear it or not.

1129
01:26:15,242 --> 01:26:16,911
I will miss her.

1130
01:26:16,944 --> 01:26:19,647
May her fierce spirit

1131
01:26:19,681 --> 01:26:21,949
guard the foals of spring.

1132
01:26:21,983 --> 01:26:24,317
What's that quote from?

1133
01:26:25,720 --> 01:26:27,689
A man's heart.

1134
01:27:35,723 --> 01:27:39,292
What do you want first?
Bad news, or the worst?

1135
01:27:39,326 --> 01:27:41,328
Will you stop
sugarcoating things?

1136
01:27:41,361 --> 01:27:46,399
Tryout next week will be
teeming with pro scouts.

1137
01:27:48,536 --> 01:27:50,705
Exactly how is that a bad thing?

1138
01:27:50,738 --> 01:27:53,674
Well...
'cause one of 'em's Red Murff.

1139
01:27:53,708 --> 01:27:55,743
The Nolan Ryan Red?

1140
01:27:55,777 --> 01:27:57,044
That Red.

1141
01:27:57,078 --> 01:27:58,445
The toughest scout in the game.

1142
01:28:00,413 --> 01:28:03,785
Now, I told you
you're gonna get your chance
to show 'em your stuff.

1143
01:28:03,818 --> 01:28:04,852
You ready?

1144
01:28:07,889 --> 01:28:11,559
-As I can be.
-Well, hell, I'd have
taken a little more, like,

1145
01:28:11,592 --> 01:28:14,394
emphatic "Hell yeah," but...

1146
01:28:14,427 --> 01:28:16,664
Now, you just remember
one thing, though.

1147
01:28:16,697 --> 01:28:19,901
All old Red's gotta do
is see you hit.

1148
01:28:48,529 --> 01:28:51,464
Nice. That was bad on my part.
You all right?

1149
01:28:52,465 --> 01:28:54,434
<i>Tomorrow, I--</i>

1150
01:28:54,467 --> 01:28:57,370
<i>I face one of</i>
<i>my greatest trials.</i>

1151
01:28:58,639 --> 01:29:00,875
I will prevail not for myself,

1152
01:29:02,009 --> 01:29:03,911
nor to defy my earthly father,

1153
01:29:06,514 --> 01:29:09,116
who, through your grace,

1154
01:29:09,150 --> 01:29:12,753
I've come to love
and understand more.

1155
01:29:13,921 --> 01:29:15,723
I know I've been selfish...

1156
01:29:17,725 --> 01:29:21,329
that his beliefs and works at
your service come before mine.

1157
01:29:22,063 --> 01:29:26,634
<i>I will try to find some</i>
<i>other way to deserve his love</i>

1158
01:29:27,802 --> 01:29:29,502
<i>and make him proud.</i>

1159
01:29:33,908 --> 01:29:35,743
<i>But tomorrow, Lord,</i>

1160
01:29:35,776 --> 01:29:37,778
be at my side.

1161
01:29:42,116 --> 01:29:43,951
I cannot do this alone.

1162
01:30:26,560 --> 01:30:30,064
200 top baseball talents.

1163
01:30:31,232 --> 01:30:34,702
That's how many of you qualified
to stand here this morning.

1164
01:30:35,937 --> 01:30:41,175
By the end of the longest,
toughest day of baseball
any of you have endured,

1165
01:30:41,208 --> 01:30:44,078
only a handful of you
will remain.

1166
01:30:44,111 --> 01:30:46,814
You'll be divided
into two teams.

1167
01:30:46,847 --> 01:30:51,152
Tomorrow night,
you'll go head-to-head
in the big boy park.

1168
01:30:51,185 --> 01:30:53,821
And make no mistake.

1169
01:30:53,854 --> 01:30:56,590
You're not just playing to win.

1170
01:30:56,624 --> 01:31:00,995
You're playing
to join the elite.

1171
01:31:01,028 --> 01:31:04,598
I ain't here wasting my time
with guys who play baseball.

1172
01:31:04,632 --> 01:31:07,500
We're lookin' for
baseball players.

1173
01:31:07,535 --> 01:31:11,672
Hopes, dreams,
determination don't matter.

1174
01:31:11,706 --> 01:31:15,776
This comes down to one thing:
who's best.

1175
01:31:15,810 --> 01:31:18,946
We'll be sending you off
in groups to various fields

1176
01:31:18,980 --> 01:31:23,217
where these men will be making
the calls as to who moves up

1177
01:31:23,250 --> 01:31:25,219
and who goes home.

1178
01:31:25,252 --> 01:31:26,854
Your only goal:

1179
01:31:26,887 --> 01:31:29,757
convince them
to send you to the stadium.

1180
01:31:29,790 --> 01:31:32,760
That stadium
is the winner's circle,

1181
01:31:32,793 --> 01:31:37,031
where you will face the last man
to decide your fate...

1182
01:31:38,799 --> 01:31:39,834
me.

1183
01:31:41,202 --> 01:31:42,636
Last up...

1184
01:31:43,804 --> 01:31:44,905
one rule:

1185
01:31:45,906 --> 01:31:49,276
no talking to the scouts
unless they talk to you.

1186
01:31:49,310 --> 01:31:52,013
Let your play
show 'em what you got.

1187
01:31:52,046 --> 01:31:53,948
And if they say you're done...

1188
01:31:55,649 --> 01:31:57,118
you're done.

1189
01:31:58,019 --> 01:32:00,287
All right, ladies.
Get your assignments.

1190
01:32:00,321 --> 01:32:01,789
Let's head to the field.

1191
01:32:07,028 --> 01:32:08,729
Jason!

1192
01:32:08,763 --> 01:32:11,699
They tried to tell me
Rickey Hill was finished.

1193
01:32:11,732 --> 01:32:15,102
I said, "Nah. Hill's got himself
another mountain to climb.

1194
01:32:15,136 --> 01:32:18,172
He's too hard-headed to quit
and too dumb to listen."

1195
01:32:18,205 --> 01:32:19,940
Pitchers and catchers!

1196
01:32:19,974 --> 01:32:22,176
To the stadium with Red now.
Let's go!

1197
01:32:22,209 --> 01:32:25,079
That's me. Good luck.

1198
01:32:25,112 --> 01:32:26,947
Hey.

1199
01:32:28,082 --> 01:32:29,683
You didn't bring Quinn with you?

1200
01:32:29,717 --> 01:32:32,319
After you went yard on him,

1201
01:32:32,353 --> 01:32:34,789
all the air got leaked
out of that balloon.

1202
01:33:05,319 --> 01:33:08,022
Run! Run hard!
Run hard! Harder!

1203
01:33:46,026 --> 01:33:48,395
-How's he doing?
-He's hurtin'.

1204
01:33:48,429 --> 01:33:51,899
But he is-- he's hittin'
the best I've ever seen.

1205
01:33:51,932 --> 01:33:54,135
Hey, Hill.

1206
01:33:54,168 --> 01:33:56,670
Don't seem to be making
much of a difference.

1207
01:33:56,704 --> 01:34:00,040
No, Coach, you ain't cuttin' me.
I'm still doing
my second round of hitting.

1208
01:34:00,074 --> 01:34:03,744
I'm not wasting our time.
You can-- you can swing,
you just can't run.

1209
01:34:03,777 --> 01:34:06,180
I don't think they're
giving him a contract to sign.

1210
01:34:06,213 --> 01:34:10,017
They can't cut him yet.
Red hasn't seen him hit.

1211
01:34:10,050 --> 01:34:12,286
All right,
if you give me my last at-bat

1212
01:34:12,319 --> 01:34:14,788
and I don't
moon-shot every pitch,

1213
01:34:14,822 --> 01:34:17,691
-I'll cut myself.
-I'm not negotiating with you!

1214
01:34:17,725 --> 01:34:21,028
But I'll tell you what,
if that's what it takes
for you to leave,

1215
01:34:21,061 --> 01:34:22,429
then grab your bat.

1216
01:34:22,463 --> 01:34:23,931
Yes, sir.

1217
01:35:12,514 --> 01:35:15,316
Hey. Watch where
you're throwin', son.

1218
01:35:16,483 --> 01:35:18,352
All right. Then four catchers...

1219
01:35:20,421 --> 01:35:22,122
- Incomin'!
- Watch out.

1220
01:35:25,859 --> 01:35:27,361
What's he doin'?

1221
01:35:27,394 --> 01:35:29,863
Breakin' windshields.

1222
01:35:33,133 --> 01:35:35,502
Can someone tell me
what the hell's going on?

1223
01:35:42,476 --> 01:35:44,378
Gracious!

1224
01:35:44,411 --> 01:35:48,082
Question is, is that boy hittin'
from home plate or second base?

1225
01:35:51,285 --> 01:35:53,287
No, that's over 400 foot.

1226
01:35:54,255 --> 01:35:55,389
Every bit of it.

1227
01:35:57,157 --> 01:35:59,360
How about we stop
whoever's bombing us

1228
01:35:59,393 --> 01:36:01,395
and check the boy's bat?

1229
01:36:01,428 --> 01:36:03,297
Want me to shut him down, Red?

1230
01:36:06,934 --> 01:36:08,570
Do it now
before he kills someone.

1231
01:36:08,603 --> 01:36:10,371
-Yes, sir.
-Whoa!

1232
01:37:13,467 --> 01:37:16,203
How many homers was that?

1233
01:37:16,236 --> 01:37:17,871
I don't know.

1234
01:37:17,905 --> 01:37:20,207
I lost count after 16.

1235
01:37:31,118 --> 01:37:33,921
-That's a homer.
-Nuh-uh.

1236
01:37:33,954 --> 01:37:36,056
Boy,
I know what a homer looks like.

1237
01:37:36,090 --> 01:37:39,126
It don't count unless
you're batting in the majors.

1238
01:38:23,237 --> 01:38:25,172
Red. It's him.

1239
01:38:27,408 --> 01:38:32,413
-Mr. Murff? I'm--
-Rickey Hill.
Never forget a name.

1240
01:38:32,446 --> 01:38:35,517
Sir, I'm one of the best hitters
you're ever gonna see.

1241
01:38:35,550 --> 01:38:38,485
If I hadn't seem them bombs you
been droppin' with my own eyes,

1242
01:38:38,520 --> 01:38:41,288
I'd be calling all hat
and no cattle on that claim.

1243
01:38:41,321 --> 01:38:43,056
Well,
it ain't no claim.

1244
01:38:43,090 --> 01:38:45,459
Today,
you should've seen me hit.

1245
01:38:45,492 --> 01:38:49,029
Because I got a bum ankle
that's gonna heal...

1246
01:38:50,063 --> 01:38:51,331
they wouldn't bring me up.

1247
01:38:51,365 --> 01:38:54,435
For good reason.
You don't belong here.

1248
01:38:54,468 --> 01:38:58,305
A bad leg could cost
a team wins and money.

1249
01:38:58,338 --> 01:39:03,110
-Money?
-Pro ball ain't just a game.
It's a damn business.

1250
01:39:03,143 --> 01:39:05,078
Come back next year
when you heal up.

1251
01:39:05,112 --> 01:39:06,748
I can't wait until next year.

1252
01:39:06,781 --> 01:39:10,484
Boy's got him some <i>cojones.</i>

1253
01:39:10,518 --> 01:39:14,188
- Know what, that's enough--
- No, no. No, let him be.

1254
01:39:14,221 --> 01:39:16,323
I gotta admit, I'm curious.

1255
01:39:17,391 --> 01:39:20,762
Tell you what. We're gonna
settle this fair and square.

1256
01:39:20,795 --> 01:39:26,433
-How?
-Put you up against the best
pitching talent in the game.

1257
01:39:26,467 --> 01:39:28,570
Tomorrow night?

1258
01:39:28,603 --> 01:39:33,741
That game's gonna be as close to
a pro game as you'll ever get.

1259
01:39:33,775 --> 01:39:37,377
I'm gonna let you
DH for both teams.

1260
01:39:38,245 --> 01:39:41,248
Then we can get
a nice, long look at you.

1261
01:39:43,116 --> 01:39:44,586
I won't embarrass you.

1262
01:39:45,787 --> 01:39:47,789
You got my word.

1263
01:39:47,822 --> 01:39:50,257
I'm gonna give you
this shot here.

1264
01:39:51,291 --> 01:39:54,127
But you don't perform,
it's the end of the road.

1265
01:39:54,829 --> 01:39:56,598
Get you a new dream.

1266
01:40:09,811 --> 01:40:12,112
"Salvation."

1267
01:40:12,145 --> 01:40:14,481
Does that sound
a little old-fashioned to you?

1268
01:40:15,517 --> 01:40:17,017
- Helen?
- Hello?

1269
01:40:17,685 --> 01:40:19,019
It's another reporter!

1270
01:40:20,354 --> 01:40:24,124
Not a mistake.
Rickey's gonna be designated
hitter for both teams.

1271
01:40:25,425 --> 01:40:27,795
Sure. Yeah, the whole
family's gonna be there.

1272
01:40:27,829 --> 01:40:30,798
It's so frizzy!

1273
01:40:30,832 --> 01:40:33,133
- It's the best I ever seen it.
- Oh--

1274
01:40:35,335 --> 01:40:37,605
Hello? Oh, well...

1275
01:40:40,107 --> 01:40:41,308
Sorry, Mama.

1276
01:40:44,846 --> 01:40:47,214
Half your congregation
isn't gonna be there.

1277
01:40:47,247 --> 01:40:51,586
Wherever two or more
are gathered.

1278
01:40:52,720 --> 01:40:55,122
Now, may I have my eggs?

1279
01:40:56,591 --> 01:40:59,293
Down here in front of me.
May I have my eggs?

1280
01:40:59,326 --> 01:41:00,494
Mm-hmm.

1281
01:41:09,169 --> 01:41:12,306
What on Earth
has gotten into you?

1282
01:41:15,309 --> 01:41:18,111
I need-- I need Mama.

1283
01:41:18,145 --> 01:41:19,714
She understood.

1284
01:41:20,648 --> 01:41:23,618
She said you didn't
do a thing wrong.

1285
01:41:25,218 --> 01:41:27,755
Your boy, he's not a freak.

1286
01:41:27,789 --> 01:41:29,657
He's special.

1287
01:41:29,691 --> 01:41:33,093
He's... perfect.

1288
01:41:34,161 --> 01:41:36,196
When he was born,
I saw him first.

1289
01:41:36,229 --> 01:41:41,669
His legs so thin and frail,
they said, "He will never walk,"
and he ran.

1290
01:41:41,703 --> 01:41:44,872
They said, "He will never live
through the operations,"

1291
01:41:44,906 --> 01:41:46,908
and he survived!

1292
01:41:46,941 --> 01:41:49,911
They said he would
never be good enough,

1293
01:41:49,944 --> 01:41:52,479
and he is the best.

1294
01:41:53,881 --> 01:41:57,184
How many miracles do you need?

1295
01:41:59,887 --> 01:42:01,656
Stop it.

1296
01:42:30,685 --> 01:42:32,520
However you're cheatin',

1297
01:42:32,553 --> 01:42:35,222
you've gotten so good,
I can't even catch it.

1298
01:42:39,493 --> 01:42:42,563
-Wanna know my secret?
-Mm-hmm.

1299
01:42:45,667 --> 01:42:47,200
I ain't doin' it.

1300
01:42:49,003 --> 01:42:51,238
Well, then who is?

1301
01:42:56,410 --> 01:42:59,747
I guess you'd have to be
living in the cave of Lazarus

1302
01:42:59,781 --> 01:43:03,483
not to know why there's
so few of us here tonight.

1303
01:43:03,518 --> 01:43:08,321
My son Rickey,
he's got a baseball game.

1304
01:43:08,956 --> 01:43:10,725
Very important.

1305
01:43:12,827 --> 01:43:14,595
And if he does well...

1306
01:43:15,997 --> 01:43:18,866
he will have the opportunity

1307
01:43:18,900 --> 01:43:22,369
to become a Major League player.

1308
01:43:22,402 --> 01:43:26,507
To play professionally
is his heart's desire.

1309
01:43:26,541 --> 01:43:29,476
I've always known that he's had

1310
01:43:30,611 --> 01:43:34,448
an exceptional ability
to hit a baseball.

1311
01:43:34,481 --> 01:43:37,350
So you might find it curious

1312
01:43:37,384 --> 01:43:43,691
to know that I have
never seen Rickey play.

1313
01:43:44,659 --> 01:43:46,794
That is a fact

1314
01:43:46,828 --> 01:43:49,362
that I have, uh...

1315
01:43:50,565 --> 01:43:51,833
been proud of

1316
01:43:53,500 --> 01:43:55,670
the whole time that he's played.

1317
01:43:57,905 --> 01:43:59,774
Right up until this very night.

1318
01:45:02,103 --> 01:45:05,673
<i>Ladies and gentlemen,</i>
<i>welcome to an exhibition game</i>

1319
01:45:05,706 --> 01:45:09,110
<i>showcasing the best-ever</i>
<i>players</i>
<i>in the great state of Texas.</i>

1320
01:45:09,143 --> 01:45:10,545
Go get 'em!

1321
01:45:11,444 --> 01:45:12,914
Lord knows you've earned it.

1322
01:45:12,947 --> 01:45:14,715
Proud of you, Rickey.

1323
01:45:29,462 --> 01:45:31,966
Let me get this straight.

1324
01:45:31,999 --> 01:45:36,003
-I hear they got you hitting
for both sides tonight?
-Yeah.

1325
01:45:36,037 --> 01:45:38,405
That's some heavy liftin'.

1326
01:45:38,438 --> 01:45:41,642
You know,
the boys and I were talkin'.

1327
01:45:42,710 --> 01:45:45,680
And if you was to manage
one more home run
for the blue team...

1328
01:45:45,713 --> 01:45:48,583
- ...got a ice-cold six-pack
of RC Cola

1329
01:45:48,616 --> 01:45:50,383
waitin' for you
in the clubhouse.

1330
01:45:50,417 --> 01:45:52,153
I'll see what I can do for ya.

1331
01:45:52,186 --> 01:45:53,721
All right.

1332
01:45:53,754 --> 01:45:55,623
The starting pitcher
for the red team,

1333
01:45:55,656 --> 01:45:58,993
four-time college
All-American Jake Wilford.

1334
01:46:08,035 --> 01:46:10,571
It's your time, Rickey!

1335
01:46:10,605 --> 01:46:13,541
<i>Tonight, we are in</i>
<i>for a special treat, folks.</i>

1336
01:46:13,574 --> 01:46:17,044
A local high school baseball
star by the name of Rickey Hill.

1337
01:46:17,078 --> 01:46:18,779
<i>Now, this kid has</i>
<i>quite a story.</i>

1338
01:46:18,813 --> 01:46:21,115
<i>He's battled degenerative</i>
<i>spinal disease</i>

1339
01:46:21,148 --> 01:46:24,619
<i>since he was a little boy,</i>
<i>and recently suffered</i>
<i>a real bad setback</i>

1340
01:46:24,652 --> 01:46:27,755
<i>where he fractured his ankle,</i>
<i>resulting in surgery.</i>

1341
01:46:27,788 --> 01:46:30,992
<i>You know, he's overcome a lot,</i>
<i>and he's on a mission.</i>

1342
01:46:33,694 --> 01:46:35,930
<i>Red Murff is gonna give him</i>
<i>a shot of a lifetime</i>

1343
01:46:35,963 --> 01:46:40,668
<i>by being the DH on both teams</i>
<i>to prove to him if he can hit</i>

1344
01:46:40,701 --> 01:46:43,137
<i>and really get</i>
<i>to the big leagues.</i>

1345
01:46:43,170 --> 01:46:45,206
Don't take it easy on him, Jake.

1346
01:46:45,239 --> 01:46:47,407
He calls himself a hitter.

1347
01:46:51,812 --> 01:46:55,049
- Play ball!
 <i>-Can you imagine what's</i> <i>going through Hill's mind,</i>

1348
01:46:55,082 --> 01:46:57,752
<i>all that he had to do,</i>
<i>just to get to this point</i>

1349
01:46:57,785 --> 01:46:59,921
<i>to prove he belongs as a</i>
<i>hitter?</i>

1350
01:47:03,090 --> 01:47:06,060
<i>Digs into the batter's box.</i>

1351
01:47:06,093 --> 01:47:10,665
<i>We're about to see if</i>
<i>Hill is ready for the task.</i>

1352
01:47:10,698 --> 01:47:13,801
<i>Wilford on the mound, getting</i>
<i>ready to throw the first pitch.</i>

1353
01:47:17,104 --> 01:47:19,240
<i>Rocks back</i>
<i>and delivers a fastball.</i>

1354
01:47:19,273 --> 01:47:21,142
- Strike one!
<i>- Right by Hill.</i>

1355
01:47:21,175 --> 01:47:23,911
<i>Looked like he was on his</i>
<i>front foot. Probably anxious,</i>

1356
01:47:23,945 --> 01:47:26,714
<i>just seeing that velocity</i>
<i>for the first time.</i>

1357
01:47:34,121 --> 01:47:36,757
- Strike two!
<i>- Curveball, and a beauty.</i>

1358
01:47:36,791 --> 01:47:39,694
<i>Drops off the table.</i>
<i>That had a lot of break on it.</i>

1359
01:47:39,727 --> 01:47:42,997
<i>And really quickly,</i>
<i>Hill is 0-2 in the count.</i>

1360
01:47:45,666 --> 01:47:47,835
<i>Two strikes on Hill.</i>

1361
01:47:47,868 --> 01:47:49,570
<i>Wilford delivers.</i>

1362
01:47:49,603 --> 01:47:51,872
<i>That's a line drive base hit.</i>

1363
01:47:51,906 --> 01:47:54,241
<i>That's gotta feel good for</i>
<i>Hill.</i>

1364
01:47:54,275 --> 01:47:57,712
Good hit, Rickey!
That'll shake the cobwebs off.

1365
01:47:57,745 --> 01:48:00,114
What, his or yours?

1366
01:48:00,147 --> 01:48:04,484
<i>That's gotta</i>
<i>take a lot of pressure off</i>
<i>of him to start the day.</i>

1367
01:48:08,756 --> 01:48:11,559
<i>And a pinch runner</i>
<i>steps in for Hill.</i>

1368
01:48:13,160 --> 01:48:15,096
I have been selfish.

1369
01:48:17,164 --> 01:48:19,767
I have been arrogant.

1370
01:48:20,901 --> 01:48:22,670
I, uh--

1371
01:48:24,038 --> 01:48:26,073
Even cruel.

1372
01:48:26,107 --> 01:48:30,244
I thought that

1373
01:48:30,277 --> 01:48:33,881
I knew God's plan for my son.

1374
01:48:33,914 --> 01:48:38,519
And I raised him in obedience
to that plan.

1375
01:48:40,688 --> 01:48:42,790
But it wasn't God's plan.

1376
01:48:45,092 --> 01:48:47,061
It was my plan.

1377
01:48:51,699 --> 01:48:54,201
Rickey had to w--

1378
01:48:54,235 --> 01:48:58,039
wear braces on his legs
just to walk.

1379
01:48:58,072 --> 01:49:02,977
And no matter how he does
in that game tonight,

1380
01:49:03,010 --> 01:49:08,983
he has overcome that
terrible burden that he has
had to carry his whole life.

1381
01:49:11,852 --> 01:49:14,255
I've been the one
that's been the cripple.

1382
01:49:14,288 --> 01:49:19,593
I just couldn't see past
what I thought my son should be

1383
01:49:19,627 --> 01:49:24,698
and just see who he really is

1384
01:49:24,732 --> 01:49:27,034
in the eyes of God.

1385
01:49:33,140 --> 01:49:37,645
I'm supposed to be your pastor,
your spiritual leader.

1386
01:49:39,146 --> 01:49:40,181
But...

1387
01:49:41,715 --> 01:49:43,984
right now I just feel...

1388
01:49:44,018 --> 01:49:46,187
so ignorant.

1389
01:49:46,220 --> 01:49:47,955
And shamed.

1390
01:49:52,660 --> 01:49:54,962
I can't even ask
your forgiveness.

1391
01:49:57,264 --> 01:49:59,867
I guess I gotta
go to God for that.

1392
01:50:01,735 --> 01:50:05,372
<i>Now batting,</i>
<i>this time for the red team,</i>
<i>designated hitter Rickey Hill.</i>

1393
01:50:05,406 --> 01:50:07,808
- Rickey!
<i>- As he gets in the box,</i>

1394
01:50:07,842 --> 01:50:10,244
<i>Red goes out to the mound</i>
<i>to talk to his pitcher.</i>

1395
01:50:10,277 --> 01:50:13,047
Take him down. Let's end this.

1396
01:50:18,018 --> 01:50:20,387
<i>The pitcher gets back</i>
<i>on the rubber, looks back,</i>

1397
01:50:20,421 --> 01:50:22,723
<i>and says to himself, I'm sure,</i>

1398
01:50:22,756 --> 01:50:25,726
<i>"I never pitched a ball with</i>
<i>a guy standing right behind</i>
<i>me."</i>

1399
01:50:25,759 --> 01:50:30,331
<i>Red Murff, a legend in this</i>
<i>game, is planted right</i>
<i>by the pitcher.</i>

1400
01:50:36,303 --> 01:50:39,273
<i>Wind-up... and the pitch.</i>

1401
01:50:39,306 --> 01:50:42,143
<i>Blazed straight up the middle!</i>
<i>Red had to get out of the way.</i>

1402
01:50:42,176 --> 01:50:44,945
<i>Another base hit</i>
<i>in his second at-bat.</i>

1403
01:50:44,979 --> 01:50:48,215
I haven't seen Red
move like that in 20 years.

1404
01:50:48,249 --> 01:50:52,419
<i>Kind of gives a head of</i>
<i>acknowledgment to,</i>
<i>"Okay, that's two."</i>

1405
01:51:42,770 --> 01:51:47,107
<i>Hill has been ten for ten.</i>
<i>He gets another hit.</i>

1406
01:51:51,378 --> 01:51:55,482
<i>Who would've thought that Hill</i>
<i>could've done this after</i>
<i>all that he's been through?</i>

1407
01:51:55,517 --> 01:51:58,085
<i>The surgeries, the comeback.</i>

1408
01:51:58,118 --> 01:52:02,156
<i>Pretty amazing story,</i>
<i>as he steps in now</i>
<i>for his 11th at-bat.</i>

1409
01:52:02,189 --> 01:52:05,492
<i>Red goes to the mound.</i>
<i>Looks like he's gonna</i>
<i>make a change, and he is.</i>

1410
01:52:05,527 --> 01:52:07,328
<i>Making a change to the bullpen.</i>

1411
01:52:09,163 --> 01:52:10,965
What am I missing?

1412
01:52:10,998 --> 01:52:14,368
Red.
Playin' his last stink card.

1413
01:52:14,401 --> 01:52:18,973
- Oh, ladies and gentlemen, this
is gonna be a treat right here.

1414
01:52:19,006 --> 01:52:21,275
<i>This is big-league pitcher</i>
<i>Jimmy Hammer.</i>

1415
01:52:22,476 --> 01:52:24,945
Hammer. The all-star.

1416
01:52:24,979 --> 01:52:28,482
Makes major leaguers
look like Cinderella.

1417
01:52:28,516 --> 01:52:33,555
He's just here for rehab.
Now Red's bringing him in
to ruin Rickey's night.

1418
01:52:33,588 --> 01:52:35,289
Well, Rickey can hit anyone.

1419
01:52:36,357 --> 01:52:37,758
Right?

1420
01:52:40,327 --> 01:52:42,229
Go ahead and warm up.

1421
01:52:43,964 --> 01:52:46,467
Don't need it.
I'm gonna sit him down.

1422
01:52:46,500 --> 01:52:50,938
<i>This is a guy</i>
<i>who's used to putting out</i>
<i>the game with heat,</i>

1423
01:52:50,971 --> 01:52:53,941
<i>comes in and silences</i>
<i>all the at-bats.</i>

1424
01:52:53,974 --> 01:52:57,311
<i>Hill digs in.</i>
<i>You would think 11 for 11</i>

1425
01:52:57,344 --> 01:53:01,181
<i>is a very daunting task</i>
<i>against the big right-hander.</i>

1426
01:53:02,383 --> 01:53:05,986
<i>As he toes the mound and</i>
<i>gets ready for his first pitch,</i>
<i>here it comes.</i>

1427
01:53:07,321 --> 01:53:11,225
- Strike one!
<i>- Fastball, right by him.</i>
<i>Little bit of a flinch.</i>

1428
01:53:22,469 --> 01:53:25,939
- Strike two!
<i>- Swing and a miss.</i>

1429
01:53:25,973 --> 01:53:28,108
<i>Hill looks around in amazement,</i>

1430
01:53:28,142 --> 01:53:31,345
<i>as Red knew probably this is</i>
<i>what he needed to see</i>

1431
01:53:31,378 --> 01:53:37,017
<i>to make his challenge against</i>
<i>Hill about as big as it gets.</i>

1432
01:53:42,923 --> 01:53:44,458
Foul ball!

1433
01:53:44,491 --> 01:53:46,927
<i>Foul ball</i>
<i>down the right field line.</i>

1434
01:53:46,960 --> 01:53:48,295
<i>He got a piece of that.</i>

1435
01:53:51,566 --> 01:53:56,103
<i>Hill processing everything</i>
<i>right now, and Hammer knows</i>
<i>he's got one task,</i>

1436
01:53:56,136 --> 01:53:59,373
<i>and that's to strike out Hill</i>
<i>and show him what he's made of.</i>

1437
01:54:00,341 --> 01:54:03,410
<i>Hammer delivering</i>
<i>a two-strike pitch.</i>
<i>Here it comes.</i>

1438
01:54:03,444 --> 01:54:06,480
<i>- Oh, no, high and tight.</i>
<i>Dusted him.</i>

1439
01:54:06,514 --> 01:54:10,250
<i>It hit Hill right in</i>
<i>the rib area, and he is down.</i>

1440
01:54:10,284 --> 01:54:14,988
<i>In obvious pain.</i>
<i>Here comes Red to the</i>
<i>batter's box to check on him.</i>

1441
01:54:17,291 --> 01:54:19,426
Come on, Rickey.

1442
01:54:19,460 --> 01:54:21,962
Get up!

1443
01:54:21,995 --> 01:54:24,231
What next?
He-- he takes a base, right?

1444
01:54:24,264 --> 01:54:27,434
-He goes to first.
-With everything that
Hill has been through,

1445
01:54:27,468 --> 01:54:29,970
you just wonder if
this is one of those things

1446
01:54:30,003 --> 01:54:32,206
<i>that might not</i>
<i>allow him to continue.</i>

1447
01:54:32,239 --> 01:54:34,408
<i>It looks like</i>
<i>he's in a lot of pain.</i>

1448
01:54:34,441 --> 01:54:36,377
You done, kid?

1449
01:54:36,410 --> 01:54:39,313
Walk it off. Take your base.

1450
01:54:41,382 --> 01:54:43,618
No.

1451
01:54:43,651 --> 01:54:46,253
What do you mean, no?

1452
01:54:46,286 --> 01:54:48,255
Take your damn base.

1453
01:54:50,090 --> 01:54:52,926
I don't have to take my base.

1454
01:54:55,362 --> 01:54:56,997
It's not a real game.

1455
01:54:58,232 --> 01:54:59,466
It's a tryout.

1456
01:55:01,569 --> 01:55:03,437
You're ten for ten.

1457
01:55:04,438 --> 01:55:07,074
You got nothing left to prove.

1458
01:55:09,276 --> 01:55:11,211
<i>He's gonna stay in and hit.</i>

1459
01:55:11,245 --> 01:55:13,548
<i>We're watching</i>
<i>an incredible moment, folks.</i>

1460
01:55:13,581 --> 01:55:16,049
<i>This is something</i>
<i>that normally doesn't happen.</i>

1461
01:55:16,083 --> 01:55:18,152
Hey, what's he doing?

1462
01:55:18,185 --> 01:55:20,487
Well, take a base, Rickey!

1463
01:55:27,294 --> 01:55:30,565
<i>Again, ten for ten</i>
<i>and then getting hit.</i>

1464
01:55:30,598 --> 01:55:33,500
<i>He wants to stay in the box</i>
<i>and try to go 11 for 11.</i>

1465
01:55:33,535 --> 01:55:37,204
<i>- Imagine everything</i>
<i>going through his mind</i>

1466
01:55:37,237 --> 01:55:40,107
<i>as he processes</i>
<i>this whole day of events.</i>

1467
01:55:40,140 --> 01:55:43,477
You do that again, you're done.

1468
01:56:09,369 --> 01:56:10,605
Play ball!

1469
01:56:20,380 --> 01:56:22,650
<i>This battle's gonna continue.</i>

1470
01:56:22,684 --> 01:56:25,520
<i>Hill could've taken his base,</i>
<i>but he's standing at home</i>
<i>plate,</i>

1471
01:56:25,553 --> 01:56:27,689
<i>staring the bully in the face.</i>

1472
01:56:27,722 --> 01:56:31,626
<i>Hammer on the mound with</i>
<i>an 0-2 pitch ready to be</i>
<i>delivered. Here it comes.</i>

1473
01:56:31,659 --> 01:56:35,663
<i>Swung on. Hill smokes</i>
<i>this ball to left center.</i>

1474
01:56:37,532 --> 01:56:41,636
<i>This ball is far,</i>
<i>and it is gone over the wall!</i>

1475
01:56:41,669 --> 01:56:45,072
<i>Can you believe it?</i>
<i>In the 11th at-bat,</i>
<i>after getting hit,</i>

1476
01:56:45,105 --> 01:56:47,241
<i>Hill has hit a home run.</i>

1477
01:56:47,274 --> 01:56:49,644
<i>What a moment</i>
<i>this must be for him!</i>

1478
01:58:18,198 --> 01:58:20,467
I guess I'll have to
get used to this.

1479
01:58:23,538 --> 01:58:26,373
God's not through
working on both of us.