Conference 7.286::sports_91

    Bob, great note as usual.
    
    Mark.

    Nice note, Bob, but one small nit about Bull Durham:
    
    1.  Nuke LaLoosh gets promoted to the "show"
    2.  Nuke and Crash have their last fight, at the pool hall
    3.  Nuke leaves for the show after one last fatherly lecture from Crash
    4.  Jimmy (the Bible-toter) and Millie (the town slut) get married
    before a game
    5.  Crash gets cut during the bachelor party
    6.  Crash goes to Annie's, they dance to Sixty Minute Man, then they
    have the bathtub scene and then they have the kitchen table scene.
    7.  Crash departs for Asheville, leaving Annie with a note
    8.  Crash homers  for Asheville and then quits.
    
    Great movie.  There are some parts of it I have memorized.
    
    Ninj

I'd have to check, but last month, or the month before, National
Geographic did an article on minor league ball.  From the way you describe
it, Bob, I could SWEAR that field was in one of the pictures 8^)

I'll have to look it up...

'Saw

 This takes supreme filberts but I'm actually going to call you on
 this one, Ninja.
 
 I've watched "Bull Durham" countless times, too, and I could have
 sworn that ...
 
 1) He went to Asheville and hit The Dinger.  
 
 2) Then, Crash came back to Durham and sat on Annie's front porch
    swing waiting for her in the rain.   
 
 3) She finally did come home, sat down next to him, and ...
 
 4) He told her that he got the dinger, that he quit and that maybe
    there was a manager's job for him in Visalia next season and ...
 
 5) *Then* they ended the movie by dancing to "Sixty Minute Man"
    inside her house while it was still raining outside.
 
 Now I'm not so sure anymore.  Guess the only thing to is dust off the
 tape one mo' time.    Honey, get the popcorn ready ...
 
 Bob Hunt

    Well, if I'm wrong, I'm wrong.  I swear Sixty Minute Man was the
    foreplay to the bathtub scene.  Like I said, there's only one way to
    know for sure, and since I'm off on a business trip for a couple of
    days, I'll have to rely on you to check it out.
    
    Ninj

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    From "Bull Durham"...
    
    "After 12 years in the minor leagues I don't try out. Besides, I don't
    believe in quantum physics when it comes to matters of the heart."
    
    "What do you believe in then?"
    
    "Well I believe in the soul, the c*ck, the p*ssy, the small of a
    woman's back, the hanging curveball, high fiber, good scotch, that the
    novels of Susan Sontag are self-indulgant overrated crap. I believe
    that Lee Harvey Osweld acted alone. I believe that there ought to be a
    constitutional ammendment outlawing asrtoturf and the designated
    hitter. I believe in the sweet spot, soft core pornography, opening
    your presents Christmas morning instead of Christmas eve, and I believe
    in long,slow,deep,sorf,wet kisses that last three days. Good night."
    
    
    
    the devil dog
    

    
    Your both right! Ninj's chronological breakdown just missed
    the end where Crash goes back to Annie's, I'm not so sure
    when they danced however.
    
    
    
    
    Steve

The @#$%^ with the trivia about sequencing in the movie;

Missah Hunt, you in the wrong note -- that account is
head and shoulders above them over-pretentious 'artistes'
over in "PROSE"


... seriously, a great read; glad you had fun, too!

- Steve

    
    Great note Bob...
    
    	Welcome to our neck of the woods!  You'd be surprised at what us
    country boys do around here in the off season! :*)
    
    B.A.

Hey Walt when the hell did you get your own town? your own team?

mike

I saw the movie on CBS recently and you're all wrong.  None of those scenes
were even IN the movie.  Matter of fact, the movie was only 3 minutes long.

j.

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>      One of the Gastonia players hit a dinger that landed
> halfway up the mountain behind the right field fence.  An awesome
> shot.   Scrappy little second baseman named Pepe or Jose or
    
    This is the place where Willie Stargell played in the minors and hit so
    many balls on the "hill" over the right field fence he earned the
    nickname "On the hill" Will.
    
    Truly Wonderful note, Bob.
    
    JaKe
    

 Right field in Asheville's McCormick Field was "only" 300 feet away.  
 Yes, that would indeed be considered a "short porch" in a major
 league ballpark.
 
 But this Gastonia kid's dinger was not a cheap one at all.  It was a
 no-doubter that landed a good 20 yards up the mountainside beyond the
 double-decker fence.  Paper nexted day said it was a 400' shot but I
 don't know about it going *that* far.    It was very pretty to see
 regardless of how far it went.
 
 I didn't know that Willie Stargell played in Asheville.   I can just
 imagine some of the monster taters he musta crushed in that park.
 
 Bob Hunt

    Speaking of the minors, anyone see that catch attempt on the news last
    night?  Some fielder on a west-coast team was going back, back, back on
    the run for a fly.  He ran right thru the outfield fence!  Incredibly,
    he only sustained a broken nose.
    
    This should be in ALL baseball highlight films.
    
    Lee

    It was a triple AAA game at Portland, with the Portland OF going
    through the wall at full speed.... AWESOME attempt Dude....
    
    REK

    
    > Speaking of the minors, anyone see that catch attempt on the news last
    > night?  Some fielder on a west-coast team was going back, back, back on
    > the run for a fly.  He ran right thru the outfield fence!  Incredibly,
    > he only sustained a broken nose.
    
    That "fence" looked like the cheapest, thinnest plywood you can buy,
    secured by two nails near the top.  I'm surprised they're not knocking
    the wall down there 1-2 times a game.
    
    Reminiscient of "The Natural", 'cept the guy got up...
    
    glenn
    

 Yeah, I saw the kid run through the right field wall, too.   Ouch.  
 Guess somebody needs to show him what a warning track looks like.
 
   "Look, Rodney, nice catch, babe, but do you see this line here
   close to the fence where the grass turns to dirt ???    You're
   supposed to slow down when you get there.   They have 'em in all
   the ballparks, Rod."
 
 Anyway, Ninja definitely knows his "Bull Durham".   I fast-forwarded
 the tape to the end of the movie late last night and it goes like
 this ...
 
 o  Nuke gets "The Call" to go to "The Show".
 o  Nuke and Crash fight in the old-timer's pool hall bar.  Crash
    tried to make him understand that if he had gotten just one more
    "ground ball with eyes or a dying quail" a week that he'd have
    been there, too.
 o  Crash gives Nuke some final advice in the locker room.
 o  Jimmy and Millie get married in the ballpark.
 o  Crash gets cut during Jimmy's wedding party in the locker room.
 o  Crash walks over to Annie's house and tells her he was released.
 o  Annie already knew.
 o  They kiss and Crash expertly unhooks her famous garters.
 o  Annie whispers "Oh, my!"
 o  [Censored]
 
 o  Nexted morning, he's munching on Wheaties and wondering out loud
    why nobody ever describes their past lives as "Joe Schmoe".
 o  Annie says "God, you're gorgeous!" and asks him to dance.
 o  Crash heaves the bowl of Wheaties into the sink and then clears
    off the breakfast table.   [Censored]
 
 Just as the bowl of Wheaties hits the sink, "Sixty Minute Man" starts
 up.  The song continues throughout the breakfast table scene, their
 bathrobe dancing scene, the tie-me-up toenail polish scene, and the
 bathtub scene with the candles getting wet from their "splashing".
 
 o  Nexted morning, Annie wakes up to find a note (and an apple) that
    Crash had gone to Asheville.
 o  Crash is seen driving his Mustang thru the mountains to Asheville.
 o  Annie is cleaning up the kitchen but stops to smoke the rest of a
    doob she found on the floor.
 o  Crash drives his 'Stang right on past the gate and into Historic
    McCormick Field in Asheville.
 
 Note: This was the real thing.  That was Historic McCormick Field. 
 No doubt about it.
 
 o  Crash dumps his stuff into a locker in the Tourists' clubhouse. 
 o  Crash is at the plate saying to himself "C'mon, Meat, throw me that
    weakass shit." 
 o  Crash takes him over the wall into the trees beyond left-center field 
    and slowly circles the bases.
 
 Great shots of McCormick Field during all this.
 
 o  Back in Durham, the Bulls game is rained out and Annie takes a
    slow walk home.
 
 We cut away now to see Nuke up in The Show doing an interview with a
 reporter named "Rae Ann".   Nuke is using all the cliches Crash gave
 him and then throws in his famous last line ...
 
 "It's a simple game ... You throw the ball, you hit the ball, you
 catch the ball ... Sometimes you win, sometimes you lose, and
 sometimes ... it rains.  Think about it."
 
 o  Back in Durham, Crash is sitting on Annie's front porch swing.
 o  She sits down nexted to him and he tells her he got his dinger and
    that he hung 'em up and that there might be a manager's job open
    in Visalia nexted season.
 o  She's choked up a bit but starts to ramble about the "non-linear
    space-time continuum quantum physics" theory of baseball.
 o  Crash interrupts her, says he wants to hear all her theories but
    not right now.  Right now he just wants "to be".
 
 o  Annie finishes up with one final quote from Walt Whitman and they
    go inside and dance again.   This time it's just a short dance to
    a song called "Love Ain't No Triple Play".
 o  The camera fades away from them and pulls in tight on Annie's framed
    memorial photograph of the late Thurman Munson.
 o  Then a Joe Cocker song comes on.  A real nice slow one called
    "When A Woman Loves A Man."
 o  The credits roll.
 
 Great stuff.  Priceless.
 
 Bob Hunt