56. "It's supposed to be hard. If it wasn't hard, everyone would do it. The hard is what makes it great."
-- Manager Jimmy Dugan (Tom Hanks) in "A League of Their Own," trying to convince Dottie Hinson (Geena Davis) to keep playing. Of course, some teams -- such as the Pirates, Royals, Cubs and Mariners -- make it look harder than it needs to.
40. "When I walk down the street people will say, 'There goes Roy Hobbs, the best there ever was.'"
-- Roy Hobbs (Robert Redford) in "The Natural." Unless, of course, Albert Pujols is walking down the other side of the street.
26. "Losing is a disease. As contagious as polio."
-- The quack hypnotist in "The Natural." And apparently, they run out of the vaccine every summer in Pittsburgh.
18. "I just slid my ticket across the table and I said, 'Sorry, guys, I gotta see about a girl.'"
-- Psychologist Sean Maguire (Robin Williams) in "Good Will Hunting," explaining to Will Hunting (Matt Damon) how he gave up tickets to Game 6 of the 1975 World Series so he could stay in the bar and drink with a girl he just met instead. That girl winds up being his wife. It's a lesson on seizing opportunity and avoiding years of regret. Of course, he admits, he didn't know Fisk was to going to homer in the 12th.
15. "Juuuust a bit outside!"
-- Harry Doyle (Bob Uecker) in "Major League," on a wild pitch that all but hit the mascot.
14. "Hey Dad, you wanna have a catch?"
-- Ray Kinsella (Kevin Costner) in "Field of Dreams." "(Sniff) Not right now, son, (sniff) I've got something in my eye."
4. "Today, I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of the earth."
-- Lou Gehrig (Gary Cooper) in "The Pride of the Yankees." Best repeated with echoes.
3. "If you build it, he will come."
-- The Voice in "Field of Dreams," instructing Iowa farmer Ray Kinsella (Kevin Costner) to plow up his corn crop and build a baseball field. Sports owners would mimic this directive in following years by commanding taxpayers to spend hundreds of millions of dollars to knock down entirely adequate stadiums and replace them with new stadiums designed to take more money out of the fans' wallets and place it in the owners' vaults.
2. "There's no crying in baseball!"
-- Manager Jimmy Dugan in "A League of Their Own," explaining baseball's etiquette to a bawling Evelyn Gardner (Bitty Schram). Dugan evidently never rooted for the Cubs.
7. "Well, you know I ... I never got to bat in the major leagues. I would have liked to have had that chance. Just once. To stare down a big league pitcher. To stare him down, and just as he goes into his windup, wink. Make him think you know something he doesn't. That's what I wish for. Chance to squint at a sky so blue that it hurts your eyes just to look at it. To feel the tingling in your arm as you connect with the ball. To run the bases -- stretch a double into a triple, and flop face-first into third, wrap your arms around the bag. That's my wish, Ray Kinsella. That's my wish. And is there enough magic out there in the moonlight to make this dream come true?"
-- Moonlight Graham (Burt Lancaster) in "Field of Dreams"
3. "Ray, people will come, Ray. They'll come to Iowa for reasons they can't even fathom. They'll turn up your driveway, not knowing for sure why they're doing it. They'll arrive at your door as innocent as children, longing for the past. 'Of course, we won't mind if you have a look around,' you'll say. 'It's only 20 dollars per person.' They'll pass over the money without even thinking about it; for it is money they have and peace they lack. And they'll walk out to the bleachers, and sit in shirt sleeves on a perfect afternoon. They'll find they have reserved seats somewhere along one of the baselines, where they sat when they were children and cheered their heroes. And they'll watch the game, and it'll be as if they'd dipped themselves in magic waters. The memories will be so thick, they'll have to brush them away from their faces.
"People will come Ray. The one constant through all the years, Ray, has been baseball. America has rolled by like an army of steamrollers. It has been erased like a blackboard, rebuilt and erased again. But baseball has marked the time. This field, this game: It's a part of our past, Ray. It reminds of us of all that once was good and it could be again. Oh, people will come Ray. People will most definitely come."
-- Terence Mann (James Earl Jones) in "Field of Dreams"
Someone informed Uniwatch that Ted Lilly wears his undershirt backward...
Great Story on Page 2 about ballpark statues
Here's another one about a guy who built his own wiffle ball field.
Nelson Cruz is on the DL for the third time this season. Joaquin Arias will be activated from the DL tonight. Moreland, Borbon, and Boggs will likely split time for Cruz's spot in he outfield.
The Angles officially signed their top draft pick Kaleb Cowart today
Tanner Scheppers will likely be called up from AAA in September for the Rangers. He will likey be the Rangers closer of the future, as Neftali Feliz will probably make his way to the starting rotation
Rich Harden is back on familiar ground- the DL. It's possible he will miss the playoff roster
Dodgers draft pick Zach Lee is currently a freshman at LSU and playing quarterback. Tonight is the deadline for the Dodger's to sign him
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