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褣眕离陓 湖賸珨?赽 甡坳眭眳朼峚 〞〞譙.霤邲(堵操陎)
?攝.渴蟹湖 珨 扂?淏婓滖畦 Ball one to Johnny Damon and we are under way.
渴蟹腔18?湖笢衄8盓假湖 Damon has eight hits in 18 at bats,
珨盓媼假湖 珨盓假湖 棒寂 a double, a triple, a couple of stolen bases.
坻婓?撫忑掀?笢堤4盓假湖 He had four hits in the series opener.
疑 Strike.
2001爛 10堎15
善衵俋珧?? 渴蟹稛盓岆賜 Down the right-field line, fair off the bat of Damon.
佴揝穢諉 It rolls by Spencer.
菴珨堵腔渴蟹蚚珨盓 假湖桴奻賸媼 And Damon will coast into second base with a leadoff double.
藝?襠撫摽? 煦杬怑?
鵁笢衵俋珧 堵 邈狟賸 岆假湖 Into right-center field, broken bat, it'll fall, a base hit.
坻?婓尨砩渴蟹茇隙掛 坻猁腕煦賸 They waVe around Damon. He will score.
伬.憚假掀婓菴珨擁 And Jason Giambi deliVers
堤珨假湖冞?衭隙腕煦 with a run-scoring single here in the opening inning.
親帗綅模?腕1掀0薆珂 And the Athletics haVe taken that 1-nothing lead.
樓蚐陛 猁悵蛂? Go, come on, now. We gotta spin it.
114ㄛ457ㄛ768藝啋 VS 39ㄛ722ㄛ689藝啋
憂廣栥價? VS 親帗綅模
奻陛 栥價? Let's go, Yankees!
 Bases loaded.
栥價?彆褫眕堤媼假湖 憩衄袚 政婓2掀0邈摽 The Yankees haVe the tying run at second, down 2-nothing.
綅模?穢諉 疆腕鵁 The A 's are kicking it and throwing it all oVer the field.
彆祥猧駟捼淕 坻?掩杬怑 And it might lead to their elimination if they don't get it right in a hurry.
笭湖輪衵俋珧?? 撝佴菱佴 Hammered down the right-field line. Justice!
栥價?薆珂賸 The Yankees haVe taken the lead.
靡 藹
坻?蕾翍 渾衱珨棒 They're standing, anticipating another trip
穻筳?襠夢??腔藏最 to the League championship Series.
栥價?硐剒賤郔摽珨?湖氪 The Yankees one out away.
除夎親.皎塋佴 坻婓栥價翋?衄湖 Eric Byrnes, never with an at bat in Yankee Stadium,
稛棒嘛?珩祥衄妦陂 and they don't get much bigger than this one.
嗽蛁珨珩帤斛衄磐彆 Or more hectic when you're up there trying to get a job done.
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堵邈諾 And they're a strike away.
票檄親佴岆網?ㄗ栥價?翋垀婓華ㄘ And they're roaring in the Bronx.
栥價婓拻撫摽煦?笢(53ㄘ 腔翋囮瞳 Losing the first two games at home in the best-of-fiVe series
and roar back to...
栥價?煽苾赻撩腔夢?螹? The Yankees will defend their title.
燊  ?坳嶱翍勘 It's okay, Joe, you can leave it on.
- 扂褫眕祥艘 -  嶱翍 I don't need to watch. Joe, leave it on.
疑勘 Okay.
砑砉珨狟 釬栥價?? Imagine how bad it'd be if you were a Yankee player
祥炰?瘓眅??崋煇 and didn't like the taste of champagne.
硐夔?滖勘 Better ask to get traded.
斛?緻栥價?＃ You gotta giVe the Yankees...
＃湜腕夢? - win the big game.
諉狟岆崋腔掀?＃ What a series that is gonna be in the next...
斕眭耋衄嗣屾滯赽援翍憚假掀 You know how many kids are wearing Giambi's...?
憚假掀婓親帗腔綅杶劦 簽赽 ?砉睿漆 You know, Oakland Giambi's jerseys and hats and pictures and posters?
- 栥價?堎稛夎稛虳滯赽?珨 - 洷咡森 Those same kids will be booing in July when the Yankees come here.
善菁岆憚假掀邈凝狟坒 ?岆偉腔翞堪妀綎煦 Is it Giambi that's stabbing the back or the Pinstripes on the East coast?
斕祥夔墅坻?瑰 You can't blame them for pilfering the henhouse.
- 揃埭翍祥夔檢愐陛 - 妦請祥夔墅坻? The henhouse is there. I can't blame them?
鞠爛夎坻?堤賸12藝啋 They're offering $ 120 million oVer six years.
憂廣栥價?掀扂?嫶嗣 坻??砩緻坻堤湮嫶 The Yankees haVe deeper pockets and they're willing to giVe him money.
坻?婓彶賃扂?腔? They're pilfering our players.
疑砉扂?岆憂廣栥價?腔粕華侔腔 It's like we're a farm system for the new York Yankees.
- ??湖腕崋 - 坻?竭?漲 How are the guys doing? That was a killer.
竭?漲 竭褣諱狟 稛＃ That was a killer. It's a tough one to swallow. It's...
- 坻?湖腕竭疑 - 憩船?螹韕悛賸 They played great. They played their hearts out.
坻?專薯賸 湖腕竭儕粗 硐岆磐彆祥專砩 They did. They played fantastic. It just didn't fall our way.
- 隴爛斕?湖腕載疑 - 祥綎憩船珨陛 岆勘 You'll do better next year. But we were close, though.
竭諉輪賸 憩船珨 We were so close. Right there.
船憩瞳賸 斕?嶱陑腔 Almost had it. You gotta feel good about that.
扂嶱陑侚賸 嶱陑賸 I feel great about it. I feel great about it.
蜁 Um...
隴爛祥湖腕載疑 We're not gonna do better next year.
- 妦 - 斕眭耋扂?淏掩礩 Why not? Well, you know we're being gutted.
憚假掀 渴蟹睿畛佴輿瑰伬飲猁軗賸 We're losing Giambi, Damon, Isringhausen.
飲?隅賸 扂?鎊竭湮 Done deal. We're in trouble.
斕夔梑善陔腔 ?場憩岆斕追政賸伬睿渴蟹 You'll find new guys. You found Jason, you found Damon.
- 扂猁載嗣腔揃踢 妢菱痲 - 掀瞳 I need more money, Steve. Billy.
- 扂剒猁嫶 - 扂?嫶賸 I need more money. We don't have any.
扂祥夔蚚3800藝啋蕨算12陛 I can't compete against $ 120 million with $38 million.
扂?祥夔睿衄載湮蕼呾腔?斪掀 We're not gonna compete with these teams that have big budgets.
扂?斛?婓赻撩夔薯?綅釬 We're gonna work within the constraints we have,
奧斕猁專薯桸躁陔? and you're gonna do the best job that you can recruiting new players.
扂?楊藩爛葆緻?1700 We're not gonna pay $ 17 million to players.
扂衱猁斕堤＃ I'm not asking you
1 2麼3 for 10 or 20, 30 million dollars.
扂硐猁珨翑 I'm just asking for a bit of help.
婬扂珨狟 扂憩夔斕瞎傖夢?? Get me a little closer and I will get you that championship team.
斕嗶扂憩岆賸稛? 稛憩岆扂腔馱釬 I mean, this is why I'm here. This is why you hired me.
扂猁? 扂?婓稛愐妦?＃ And I gotta ask you, what are we doing here
- 掀瞳 扂... - ＃彆祥岆砑湜夢? Billy, l... if it's not to win a championship?
- 扂珩竭砑＃ - 扂腔醴憩婓稛夎 稛夎 I wanna win just as much... That's my bar. My bar is here.
醴岆?湜腕夢? My bar is to take this team to the championship.
掀瞳 扂?岆苤庈? 斕岆苤庈?腔?燴 Billy, we're a small-market team, and you're a small-market GM.
扂祥夔葆堤扂衄腔嫶 ?斕醱政? I'm asking you to be okay not spending money that I don't have.
?斕旮網柲珨諳 And I'm asking you to take a deep breath,
咭裁囮 隙善?夎 shake off the loss, get back in a room with your guys,
砑煇楊蚚扂?忒螹腔嫶 and figure out how to find replacements for the guys we lost
梑善夔杸測褩嶱?腔陔 with the money that we do have.
扂祥軗 扂祥夔憩稛軗陛 I'm not leaving here. I'm not... I can't leave here with that.
扂?夔斕妦 What else can I help you with?
稛?嶱怮疑賸 斕腕砑煇楊猧閉 扂＃ It's a good offer, and you gotta match it. L...
扂剒猁珨嶲 I need another day.
坻竭 扂砑斕?隴啞 His mind's pretty made up. I just think you should know that.
- 衄??筳 扂珨湖緻斕 - 扂珨隅滖豢坻腔 I got a call. I'll get you back. I'll let him know.
婬? Bye.
- 庣 - 掀瞳 岆扂 妢蕉杻 Yeah? Billy, Scott.
- ?躲竣籵賸?? - 祥岆勘 Just got off the phone with Dan. You didn't.
坻湖緻扂 扂竭譑? I was surprised he called me.
蛂諳 扂緻?攝嶱750 坻祥虴薯 Stop. I got Johnny for 7.5 or he doesn't play anywhere else.
- 稛岆斕湘腔 - 疏尪蕺?樓徨善775 That's the deal you made. Boston just upped it to 7. 75.
斕?婓 You there?
- 扂?挲疑腔 妢蕉杻 - 岆挲疑賸 彆斕夔樓善800 We had a deal, Scott. We haVe a deal, if it's 8 million.
- 漞? 斕芄扂陛 - 扂硐岆諦督 Oh, man, you played me. I'm just doing my job for my client.
祥 斕岆芄扂 奧斕政婓珩婓芄扂 No, you're playing me, and you're still playing me.
鳩炰斕 髦粥 斕湜賸 Congratulations, asshole. You win.
扂炰嘖奻墿禱腔鳴 I like guys that got a little hair on their ass.
拊啞挲 坻岆霤迖麼氪繩佴饒?棒腔 He looks like a Mantle or a Mays, quite frankly.
- 坻毞汜憩岆堵忒腔闚 - 醪菱 斕梑善掞賸 He's got a baseball body. Matty, who do you got?
- 扂炰憚嶺攝蘆 -  I like Geronimo. Yes.
稛鳴岆疑綅 螹湮 厒僅辦 衄毞敥 The guy's an athlete. Big, fast, talented.
- 扂忒夎齬菴珨腔 - 墿腕疑艘 ?尷鰎隴 Top of my list. Clean-cut, good face.
-  狟匙竭 - 夔倰腔 Yeah, good jaw. Five-tools guy.
- 墿腕祥嶒腔忒 - 卍墿湖 Good-Iooking ballplayer. Can he hit?
- 坻堵訬竭謠 岆勘 譙 - 坻夔參湖惇 He's got a beautiful swing. The ball explodes off his bat.
坻蚚堵潑 諉茦善 He throws the club head at the ball, and when he connects,
坻蚚薯堤 體華鵁軗 he drives it, it pops off the bat.
- 淕?飲夔?善 - 笢薹竭詢 You can hear it all over the ballpark. A lot of pop.
彆坻竭湖 妦湖腕祥疑 If he's good, why doesn't he hit good?
- 坻岆?疑湖氪 - 腷婌坻堤螹腔 He is a good hitter. He'll be ready.
坻疑腕逋眕萋蕨湮?襠芘忒 He's gonna be a good hitter against big-league arms?
- ?祥嶒腔 - 扂祥稛砑 Could be great. I don't think so.
陔剒猁湖 閉綎侐啃 坻憩?疑 Kid needs at bats. Give him 400 at bats, he's gonna get better.
坻褫眕湖腔 He can play.
坻褫眕硌闡湖闡 He's hit everywhere along the line.
坻憩岆扂?猁腔 He's one of our guys.
疑 扂?餞鴦 Okay, let's move on.
- 陝舜 斕炰掞 - 扂炰驚濘佴 坻腔訬竭 Artie, who do you like? I like Perez. He's got a classic swing.
- 稷岆俇藝湖 - 扂祥紒腕 坻夔湖? It's a real clean stroke. I don't know. Can't hit the curveball.
?剒猁蜊筳 扂創庲 祥綎坻珩硉腕燊蛁 There's some work to be done, I'll admit that, but he's noticeable.
- 躓攬衭竭墏 - 妦砩佷 Got an ugly girlfriend. What's that mean?
- 躓攬衭堯聃隴坻赻陓 - 疑勘 Ugly girlfriend means no confidence.
斕?飲餉螹賸 陝舜岆腔 稛?竭衄殤 You are full of it. Artie is right. This guy's got an attitude.
衄殤岆疑岈 An attitude is good.
坻憩岆饒意?軗筳 眒?倯餫詢偕腔 He walks in a room, his dick's already been there for two minutes.
坻準岆奧祥?腔 俋倰岆祥嶒 He passes the eye-candy test. Got the looks.
坻眒?疑賸 憩岆剒猁掀??? He's ready to play the part. He just needs playing time.
扂硐岆挲坻腔躓攬衭醪醪誥誥 I'm just saying, his girlfriend is a six at best.
- 彆猁測杸憚假掀 坻?俴 - 匙嶺匙嶺 Look, if we're trying to replace Giambi, this guy could be it.
- 扂肮砩 - 匙嶺匙嶺匙嶺 I agree with you. La-la-la-la-la.
?寤 掀瞳 斕岆砑枑膘荽 Damn, Billy, was that a suggestion?
漞?? 斕?憩挲?俇 Guys, you're just talking.
挲陛挲 徽徽徽徽 疑砉稛?岆瞰俴鼠岈 Talking, "la-la-la-la-la," like this is business as usual.
筍祥岆 It's not.
扂?婓贗薯賤?觳 掀瞳 We're trying to solve the problem.
祥岆稛腔 斕?飲淏??觳 Not like this. You're not looking at the problem.
扂?竭奠?觳岆妦 扂岆挲＃ We're very aware of the problem. I mean...
疑勘 ?觳岆妦 Okay, good. What's the problem?
?翍 掀瞳 扂?飲眭耋?觳睡婓 扂?斛?梑測杸＃ Look, Billy, we all understand what the problem is. We have to...
竭疑 ?觳岆妦 Okay, good. What's the problem?
?觳岆扂?猁梑測杸 ?笭猁? We have to replace three key players in our lineup.
祥 ?觳岆妦 Nope. What's the problem?
刓譟挲賸 扂?猁娗奻諾腔＃ We gotta replace these guys with what we have...
祥 ?觳岆妦 ? No. What's the problem, Barry?
扂?剒猁梑善38?湖 120?湖 47?媼假湖 We need 38 home runs, 120 RBIs and 47 doubles to replace.
扂?猁賤腔?觳岆 彆稛岆衄嫶? The problem we're trying to solve is that there are rich teams
稛夎岆睢? 摽狟醱岆挲祥腔嶼僵 and there are poor teams, then there's 50 feet of crap,
摽符岆扂? and then there's us.
稛岆祥鼠腔掀? It's an unfair game.
政婓扂?淏掩婟賃 憩砉婓緻蜓曇侵夥 And now we've been gutted. We're like organ donors for the rich.
疏尪蕺鏽軗賸扂?腔鯧鐵 栥價?鏽軗賸扂?腔陑鐵 Boston's taken our kidneys, Yankees have taken our heart.
奧斕?釴婓稛夎 And you guys sit around
挲妦"疑闚"腔? 疑砉扂?硐岆婓敤籟豝? talking the same old "good body" nonsense like we're selling jeans.
疑砉扂?婓梑楊掀 ㄗ旯第珨霜腔砩湮瞳戮鹹陎ㄘ Like we're looking for Fabio.
扂?斛?滖?佷繚 We got to think differently.
扂?岆裂?帣腔 We are the last dog at the bowl.
斕?眭耋郔腔僩憀 妦狟 甓侚 You see what happens to the runt of the litter? He dies.
掀瞳 稛嘟岈竭覜 淩腔 Billy, that's a very touching story and everything,
筍扂砑扂?飲竭奠政婓腔 but I think we're all very much aware of what we're facing.
斕岆扂?笢嶲郔衄??郔衄秷雌腔 You have a lot of experience and wisdom in this room.
斕剒猁扂?衄陓陑 ?扂?梑善夔測杸憚假掀腔 You need to have a little faith and let us do the job of replacing Giambi.
?衄砉憚假掀稛腔珨忒 Is there another first baseman like Giambi?
- 衄賸 - 衄 No, not really. No.
- 彆衄 扂?夔惁腕 - 祥俴 If there was, could we afford him? Nope.
饒斕???? Then what the fuck are you talking about, man?
彆扂?婓稛?砉栥價?饒俴岈 If we try to play like the Yankees in here,
婓?奻扂??腕珨坵華 we will lose to the Yankees out there.
稛?砉諾滓腔湮?奧眒 掀瞳 Boy, that sounds like fortune-cookie wisdom to me, Billy.
- 祥 稛岆??佷蕉 - 掞岆楊掀陛 No, that's just logic. Who's Fabio?
坻岆蚔忒 昹捇 He's a shortstop. He's a shortstop from Seattle.
政婓嶲謁酷賸 Now, this is no time to push the panic button.
掀瞳 扂?腔抻昜伎 摽筳俴鑠? Our scouts will find players, Player Development will develop them.
扂?諒坻?傖 親帗綅模?腔忒 We'll teach them to play Oakland A baseball.
- 跪弇＃ - 衄砩 筍扂?珨眻稛酕腔 With all due respect, we've been doing this a long time.
斕?參杸測憚假掀腔岈蝠緻扂? Why don't you just let us be responsible for replacing Giambi
扂?梑夔腔 with who we know that can play?
- 薯耋籵 - ?踹 Easy power. And loose.
稛赽褫眕筳忑追? This son of a bitch is going in the first round.
斕岆?凅腔腢忒 掀瞳 You're a premium player, Billy.
斕夔變 夔忐 夔芘 夔湖 You can run, you can field, you can throw, you can hit,
褫眕湮薯 you can hit with power.
稛祥嗣? That doesn't come along Very often.
- 稛岆譟.醪間佴 ?抻 - 竭詢鶸庲舑斕 This is Tom Martinez, national cross-checker.
- 斕疑 - 掀瞳.揝塋 How you doing? Billy Beane.
竭詢鶸庲舑斕 Nice to meet you.
眒?衄僇嶲艘善夔倰腢忒賸 It's been a while since I've seen a five-tool guy that can do everything.
扂咡斕樓?堵腔鶸 I'm hopeful your interest in professional baseball
睿扂?珨綠 扂?褫眕珨肮筳 is as strong as ours is gonna be in getting you in this upcoming draft.
揝塋珂汜 WOMr. Beane?
醪親褫眕?蠟賸 Mark is ready to see you now.
- 斕踏毞疑 - 扂竭疑 How you doing? WOI'm fine.
How are you? Good.
- 稱 掀瞳 - 鉖 醪親 Hey, Billy. Hey, Mark.
?善斕淩詢鶸 ?釴 Good to see you. Please sit down. You too.
- 稛岆扂腔漞?? 漞?? 稛弇岆掀瞳 - 湮模疑 These are the guys. Guys, Billy. Boys.
- 輪睡 - ?祥嶒 斕崋 How's it going? All right. How you been?
- 斕釴稛眛赽竭砉陛 - 扂眒?釴賸?笚賸 You're filling out that chair nicely. I got three weeks in it right now.
竭疑 倗萊 Good, good, man.
- 鉣 斕崋儸 - 竭祥嶒 Yeah, man. How you doing? Fantastic.
- 疑賸 - 婬疑祥綎賸 Awesome. Couldn't be better.
淩岆疑秏洘 扂祥砑檢愐斕腔嶲 That's good to hear. I'm not gonna waste your time.
斕眻諉挲斕猁妦勘 You just tell me what you're looking for.
樓郇5000 Fifty million dollars in additional payroll.
斕?梑憚假掀猁 You should try Giambi.
- 淏笢芫? - 惕 嶱俙虷怮婌賸 岆勘 Ouch. I'm sorry. Too soon, right?
扂砑掛棒醱衭囡珨虳 I want this to be a friendly meeting.
筍稛祥岆斕腔?勘 It's not all on your shoulders.
- 妢菱痲崋挲 - 妢菱痲?觳 Where's Steve in this? Steve's great.
坻100%薯盓厥笭膘?斪 He's supportive in rebuilding this team.
扂?淏砑稛酕 That's what we're gonna do.
- 饒斕砑猁妦 - 酘芘摽堔芘忒 So, what are you looking for? A left-handed reliever.
扂砑猁夎縐嗣.輿艙 I'm thinking Ricardo Rincon.
祥褫夔腔 That's not gonna happen.
?飲祥夔? Not even a discussion?
掀瞳 憩呾斕惁腕 賡砩扂稛挲 扂?珩竭炰坻 Billy, even if you could afford him, respectfully, we love him.
扂?祥滖?腔 We're not about to let him go.
筍斕?惁賸控縐縫嶺腔 巹嶺陔 祥岆 You got this Venezuelan kid coming up.
嶒 眒?滖緻菁杻薺賸 We had him. We moved him to Detroit.
- 慇 - ?衄妦砑楊 Huh. What else you thinking?
俋珧忒 Outfielders.
- 測杸渴蟹 -  To replace Damon? Yeah.
- 憩斕夔堤腔跡? 扂衄砩慇 - 逋賸 醪親 In your price range? No disrespect. Enough, Mark.
萺...慇輿佴? Uh... Hollins?
祥 Uh-uh.
- 樓昹?? - 祥俴 Garcia? No.
饒 褪佴杻 Maybe Coste.
箕 Uh-uh.
硐夔稛賸 That's it.
- 疑勘 憩樓昹?勘 - 測杸?攝.渴蟹 All right, tell me about Garcia. To replace Johnny Damon?
- 醪親 坻翩艙?觳勘 -  坻淏婓閥 Mark, is he healthy? Yeah, he's healthy-ish.
祥烯斕挲 坻掖衄?觳 岆勘 He had that back thing.
- 景撫?憩夔堤?賸 - 扂眻挲勘 He'll be ready for spring ball. I'll tell you what.
彆斕惿嫶 扂褫眕跡佷夎 I can give you Guthrie if you kick in some cash.
- 醪親.跡佷夎ˋ -  Mark Guthrie? Yeah.
- 嗣屾嫶 - 20 How much cash? Two hundred K.
疑 Okay.
- 祥夔緻斕樓昹? - 斕飯扂腔勘 So Garcia's gonna be a no. You're kidding me, right?
- 斕嶱俙虷 - 衄 You're kidding me. I'm not.
疑勘 樓昹?跡佷夎 祥惿嫶 Okay. Straight up, Garcia for Guthrie, no kicker.
- 祥惿嫶賸? - 珨媼奠 No kicker? Straight up.
樓昹?稷祥俴 筍扂??夔?? I think it's gonna be a hard no on Garcia, but let's just keep going.
- 斕?衄砑猁腔 - 稛岆鎰陛 扂?岆婓酕汜砩勘 What else you thinking? What are we doing? Is this business?
扂?婓親瞳痲帗憩稛酕汜砩 This is the way we do business in Cleveland.
稱 Hey.
- 斕疑 - 斕岆掞 Hello. Who are you?
扂岆杻.票帗肅 I'm Peter Brand.
斕酕妦腔 What do you do?
扂岆醪親.妢巖縫腔杻翑燴 I'm special assistant to Mark Shapiro.
垀眕 斕酕妦腔 So, what do you do?
政婓價掛奻岆煦昴啐嘛 Mostly player analysis right now.
馱釬嗣壅賸 岆婓堵賜腔菴珨爺馱釬? Been on the job long? First job in baseball?
稛憩岆扂腔菴珨爺馱釬 It's my first job anywhere.
- 阺 鳩炰陛 - 珴珴 Wow, congrats. Thank you.
菴珨爺馱釬 斕岆掞腔硍赽 First job. Whose nephew are you?
醪親妦?斕腔 Why does Mark listen to you?
扂祥庲＃ I don't think, uh...
扂祥庲坻?都?扂腔 I don't think he does very often.
筍?符衄 He just did.
婓饒意狟 Well, in that circumstance,
扂砑坻?岆?票?佴腔 祥岆扂腔 I think he was more listening to Bruce than myself.
鉣 斕岆掞 Mm-hm. Who are you?
扂岆杻.票帗肅 I'm Peter Brand.
扂符坻?祥奪斕請妦 I don't give a rat's ass what your name is.
?符岆崋隙岈 What happened in there?
?符婓夎醱岆崋隙岈 What happened in that room?
扂祥怮奠斕砑?妦 揝塋珂汜 I'm not quite sure what you're asking me, Mr. Beane.
斕躲票?佴挲賸妦 What did you tell Bruce?
- 扂硐岆挲扂炰樓昹? - 斕妦炰樓昹? I just told Bruce I like Garcia. You like Garcia. Why?
妦 Why?
扂祥眭耋 I don't know. Ahem.
婓稛?赽夎 衄意雞晊俶腔 There is an epidemic failure within the game
瓣醴?政腔? to understand what is really happening.
稛?綅釬堵湮?襠?腔 And this leads people who run Major League Baseball teams
嶒悷嘛?賸赻撩腔睿?斪 to misjudge their players and mismanage their teams.
淩岆惕 I apologize.
餞鴦挲 Go on.
疑 ?堵整窒腔饒虳 佷鋤?岆惁敤 Okay. People who run ball clubs, they think in terms of buying players.
斕腔醴腔祥?岆惁敤 奧岆惁瞳 Your goal shouldn't be to buy players. Your goal should be to buy wins.
猁惁善瞳 憩猁惁腕煦 And in order to buy wins, you need to buy runs.
斕砑梑測杸?攝.渴蟹 You're trying to replace Johnny Damon.
疏尪蕺廠烝?艘笢?攝.渴蟹 The Red Sox see Johnny Damon
岆艘善珨?硉750藝啋珨爛腔隴陎 and they see a star who's worth $7.5 million a year.
奧扂艘?攝.渴蟹 When I see Johnny Damon,
扂艘善腔岆... what I see is...
睡腕煦瑭衙癩腔 an imperfect understanding of where runs come from.
坻岆祥嶒腔忐? The guy's got a great gloVe.
岆竭疑腔忑追湖氪 坻竭寂 He's a decent leadoff hitter. He can steal bases.
筍坻硉疏尪蕺廠烝?緻腔 藩爛750腔郇踢 But is he worth the $ 7.5 million a year that the Boston Red Sox are paying him?
祥 祥硉 No. No.
堵腔佷鋤?婓笢岍廢阨 Baseball thinking is medieVal.
坻?腔砑楊飲衄?觳 They are asking all the wrong questions.
彆扂稛豢偍 扂憩岆毀巖 簸毞狟眳湮祥癃 And if I say it to anybody, I'm ostracized. I'm a leper.
垀眕扂符躲斕錐赽 So that's why I'm cagey about this with you.
垀眕扂... That's why...
扂郬噹斕 揝塋珂汜 彆斕砑?昅陑睜腔? I respect you, Mr. Beane, and if you want full disclosure,
扂紒腕斕溫裁渴蟹岆璃疑岈 I think it's a good thing that you got Damon off your payroll.
扂紒腕稛竭嗣衄腔褫夔俶 I think it opens up all kinds of interesting possibilities.
- 斕模跐岆闡 杻 - 醪夎帗 Where you from, Pete? Maryland.
- 斕婓闡夎奻 - 珖? 扂婓珖?奻 Where'd you go to school? Yale. I went to Yale.
- 斕妦腔 - ? What'd you study? Economics.
扂?腔 I studied economics.
珖? ? ?衄堵 Yale, economics and baseball.
斕竭衄砩佷 Pete You're funny, Pete.
豢偍扂 妦岆掀瞳 Tell me, why Billy?
岆妦?坻?搭奧堤 What is it that makes him special?
竭褣郣善掀瞳稛腔爛愩 Very rare do you come upon a young man like Billy
夔變 夔忐 夔芘 夔湖 who can run, who can field, who can throw, who can hit,
?夔堤疑 and who can hit with power.
稛拻意撮夔 祥嗣?腔 Those five tools, you don't see that very often.
扂?笢砩腔稷湮窒煦爛愩腢忒 Most of the youngsters that we have an interest in
卍墿珨?麼?撮夔 have one or two tools,
扂??洷咡坻?夔嗣追桯珨? and we're hoping to develop an extra one.
奧斕腔赽拻?夔 Your son has five.
扂?婓憂廣梑珨?帤腔閉?操陎 We're looking at a guy that's a potential superstar for us in New York.
政婓岆緊?坻鵁賸 The time is now to get him started.
扂?疑賸?綠腔渾郣 We're prepared to make a sizable financial commitment.
湮飲?薯盓厥掀瞳 The Mets are gonna stand behind Billy
秪扂?咡坻傖 湮?襠夎腔笢忒 because we expect him to be our big-league center fielder.
稛?盓測桶賸憂廣湮飲? This check here represents the offer
緻掀瞳腔傔綠隙 that the New York Mets would be making to Billy.
斕?眭耋坻眒?腕善賸 佴拊腦湮腔謞?踢 You do know that he's been accepted to Stanford on a full scholarship?
扂眭耋 I do.
垀眕坻夔醱潭?賸 So he can do both?
竭祥倷腔 坻祥夔肮 奻佴拊腦睿?堵? Unfortunately, he can't do Stanford and professional baseball.
坻斛?衄垀 He would have to pick one or the other.
彆猁?湮飲?腔笢忒 If he wants to be center fielder for the Mets,
?珨靡堵綅 wants to be a baseball player,
坻斛?森釬汜菴珨弇腔岈睿? he really needs to accept this as life's first occupation, first career.
議?覦?衄豢偍扂? 祥夔婬俙苤滯赽腔絿賸 We're all told at some point we can no longer play the children's game.
硐岆扂?祥奠岆妦覦 We just don't know when that's gonna be.
衄虳18憩?善 衄虳40符眭耋 筍?衄饒?緊 Some of us are told at 18, some of us are told at 40, but we're all told.
稛岆珨汜珨棒腔郣 But this is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity.
扂?竭艘疑斕 奧稛遁嫶腔醴 喃煦桶絻賸扂?腔褡咡 We want you badly, and we think that this amount of money expresses that desire.
掀瞳 稛岆斕腔腢 祥綎?斕崋隅 Billy, this is your decision, and whatever that decision is,
扂睿斕??飲衄砩? you know it's fine with your mother and I.
- 庣 - 稱 扂岆掀瞳 揝塋 Hello? Hey, it's Billy Beane.
- 政婓陛 - 扂祥眭耋 Hey, what time is it? I don't know.
?翍 菴珨?腢凅斕泔扂 Listen, would you have drafted me in the first round?
妦 What?
扂褩嶱眳摽 斕婓?嚶奻脤綎扂 After I left, you looked me up on your computer.
菴珨?腢凅斕泔扂陛 Would you have drafted me in the first round?
腔 斕岆?疑忒 I did, yeah. You were a good player.
綸雀 漞? Cut the crap, man.
菴珨?腢凅斕泔扂陛 Would you have drafted me in the first round?
扂參斕齬善菴嬝? 衄?廣踢 I'd haVe taken you in the ninth round. No signing bonus.
扂笨斕溫? 諉忳佴拊腦腔?踢 I imagine you would'Ve passed and taken that scholarship.
嶒 Yeah.
湖婦勘 杻 Pack your bags, Pete.
扂?親瞳痲帗荂菴假?忒奻惁賸斕 I just bought you from the Cleveland Indians.
- 稛岆窣翍饒?赽 -  扂賤嶱 Is it attached to that clamp? Yeah, let me unhook it.
饒夎賑狟 Slide it up right there.
- 善酘? - 扂岆陛 To the left. I did.
- 疑 疑 - 脹脹 衄 Yeah, yeah. Hang on, it's wet.
溫勘 Come on.
- 婌假 妶仴 縉溜疑賸 -  Morning, Suzanne. Coffee on? Yes.
竭疑 Great.
- 掀瞳.揝塋煇鼠弅 - 稱 Billy Beane's office. Hey.
- 杻.票帗肅 - 掀瞳 Peter Brand. Billy.
- 斕疑＃鉖 斕疑 - ?善斕淩嶱陑 How are...? Hi, how you doing? Nice to see you.
斕夔淩疑 斕釬淩辦陛 Good to have you here. Boy, you move in fast.
 扂踏婌善腔 Yeah, yeah. I got here early this morning.
Wow. Huh.
- 飲唸疑賸 - 祥嶒 All moved in. Yeah.
岆陛 Yeah.
鉖 掀瞳 Hey, Billy,
扂洷咡斕艘艘 I wanted you to see these player evaluations
斕猁扂酕腔啐嘛 that you asked me to do.
扂猁斕啐嘛? I asked you to do three.
 Yeah.
- 啐嘛? - 岆陛 To evaluate three players. Yeah.
斕酕賸? How many did you do?
47? Forty-seven.
祥嶒 Okay.
?岆51? 扂祥眭耋?符妦猊 Actually, 51. I don't know why I lied just then.
斕顯扂?煦齪狟軗軗勘 Why don't you walk me through the board?
珴珴 Thank you.
蚚酘奻褒腔稛?源最宒 Using this equation in the upper left,
扂庲扂?祫屾剒猁湜99掀? I'm projecting that we need to win at least 99 games
符夔湖撫摽? in order to make it to the postseason.
猁湜稛嗣 扂?祫屾鏽狟814煦 We need to score at least 814 runs in order to win those games
郔嗣硐夔?645煦 and allow no more than 645 runs.
稛岆妦 What's this?
岆扂酕腔爛僅啐嘛? This is a code that I'Ve written for our year-to-year projections.
岆跦扂?梪挍腔垀衄 揃?筳俴啐嘛 This is building in the intelligence that we haVe to project players.
摽儸 Okay.
憩岆跪意陓洘趼趙 It's about getting things down to one number.
籵綎扂?杻衄腔煦昴 Using the stats the way we read them,
憩追政艘祥善腔 腔?婓硉 we'll find Value in players that nobody else can see.
衄腔符秪 People are oVerlooked
跪意?睿俋婓腔掩綺? for a Variety of biased reasons and perceiVed flaws.
掀爛 俋簷 俶跡 Age, appearance, personality.
掀?.梐譟佴綅蚚碀?稛虳秪匼 Bill James and mathematics cut straight through that.
掀瞳 婓扂?啐嘛腔2?笢 Billy, of the 20,000 notable players for us to consider,
扂眈陓憩衄扂?葆腕腔25? I believe that there is a championship team
褫眕瞎膘珨盓夢?腔 of 25 people that we can afford,
秪坻尪飲腴嘛賸坻? because everyone else in baseball undervalues them.
坻?憩砉掩嗽蕾腔祥饜俙撿 Like an island of misfit toys.
掀瞳 稛岆脤肅.票嶺肅腦 坻岆摽堔芘忒 Billy, this is chad Bradford. He's a relief pitcher.
坻憩岆郔掩腴嘛腔眳珨 He is one of the most undervalued players in baseball.
坻腔岆芘釬竭賑儉 His defect is that he throws funny.
憩秪坻釬賑儉 堵湮?襠艘笭坻 Nobody in the big leagues cares about him because he looks funny.
彆婓扂?忒奻 稛鳴祥硐岆郔槽芘忒 This guy could be not just the best pitcher in our pen,
奧傖垀衄堵掀?笢 郔籟腔摽堔芘忒 but one of the most effectiVe relief pitchers in all baseball.
稛硉腕爛郇300藝踢 This guy should cost $3 million a year.
扂?堤237憩夔?狟坻 We can get him for 237,000.
掀瞳 Billy.
- 憩岆稛? - 岆 That it? Yeah.
鉖 鬲杻 Hey, Art.
褫眕婓斕?嶱睿斕?? Can I talk to you before you get started?
- 扂政婓衄疆 - 扂眭耋 I'm a bit busy right now. I know.
- 扂眭耋 - 疑勘 I know. Okay.
- 湮模婌奻疑 - 鬲杻 Morning, everyone. Art.
- 杻.票帗肅 竭詢鶸?善斕 - 杻侚闡賸 Peter Brand. Nice to meet you. Where the hell's Pete?
稛弇岆杻 That's Pete.
梑?釱弇 扂醪奻隙 Grab a seat. I'll be right back.
俴賸 斕挲坻婓闡翍 All right, where did you say he's at?
鉣 坻婓... Okay. He's on...
- 饒苤赽岆掞 - 岆扂攬衭 Who's the kid? A friend of mine.
硐?珨爛磁肮 扂楊硌稛盓? I can't manage this team under a one-year contract.
斕?褫眕 Well, sure you can.
祥 扂祥俴 No, I can't.
疑勘 扂猁嶺珨??掀? Okay. I gotta put a team on the field.
眳摽 扂豝?艘艘斕腔磁肮 After that, I'll take a good long look at your contract.
珂睿??燴?廣 摽婬瞎??崋 Deal with the manager's contract, then put a team on the field.
鬲杻 政婓彆華掩善珨 諉腕蛂 At this moment, if a grounder's hit to first, nobody's there to stop it.
婓硐?珨爛磁廣腔薯狟 扂稛爺魂褫祥眢 It's not easy doing what I do under the cloud of a one-year contract.
俴賸 扂夔燴賤 Okay, I understand that.
- 扂珩衄綎稛意? - 扂眭耋 扂眭耋斕珩衄綎 I've been there. I know you have.
珨爛磁廣睿 ??燴砩庤翍肮腔薯 A one-year contract means the same thing to a manager as to a player.
扂?衄陓陑 There's not a lot of faith there.
奻??撫湜賸102 衄稛腔磐彆淩岆墅 Which is strange after a 102-win season.
隴啞賸 I see.
斕猁岆?賸?撫郔摽饒郔笭猁腔 醱腔瞳憩婓綱賸 If you lose the last game of the season, nobody gives a shit.
- 稛挲政婓?婓扂賸 - 祥 鬲杻 岆扂腔? So it's on me now? No, Art, it's on me.
稛苤鳴岆陔腔?燴翑燴 And the kid is the new assistant GM.
- 疑勘 - 俴賸 跪弇 Okay. Okay, fellas.
鉖 掀瞳 Hey, Billy.
斕祥夔瘁庲坻腔馴薯 坻衄珨忒 You can't deny his offensive output. He can play.
扂?剒猁湖腔 And we need people that can play.
斕砑珂?掞 Who do you wanna talk about first?
珨?飲祥砑 None of them.
掀瞳 扂??船38?掛湖 睿120?湖 Billy, we got 38 home runs, 120 RBIs to make up for.
跪弇 斕??岆婓梑測憚假掀 Guys, you're still trying to replace Giambi.
扂豢偍綎斕?扂?酕祥善 扂?祥夔稛補 I told you we can't do it, and we can't do it.
政婓扂?夔酕腔岆婬婖珨?坻 Now, what we might be able to do is re-create him.
- 婓?奻婬婖坻 - 婓妦奻 Re-create him in the aggregate. The what?
憚假掀腔奻薹岆.477 Giambi's on-base percentage was.477.
渴蟹岆.324 ?繩嗣岆.291 Damon's on-base, .324. And Olmedo's was.291.
樓岆... Add that up and you get...
斕岆猁扂挲? Do you want me to speak?
?扂硌翍斕腔緊 岆腔 When I point at you, yeah.
- 1.092 - 壺眕3 1.092. Divided by three.
- .364 - 稛憩岆扂?猁腔 .364. That's what we're looking for.
? ?歙奻薹岆... Three ballplayers... Three ballplayers whose average OBP is...
.364 .364.
- 鞣翍 稛呾祥 - 嶒腔 陝舜 Wait, that doesn't come out right. It's right, Artie.
- 掀瞳 - 斕?猁樓奻稛? Billy. You gotta carry the one.
- 掀瞳 - 參稛?裁 Billy. Scratch this out.
妦 Yeah?
饒岆掞 Who's that?
饒岆杻 That's Pete.
稛夎剒猁杻 Does Pete really need to be here?
剒猁 Yes, he does.
疑賸 稛虳憩岆扂?猁腔 Okay, here's who we want.
1?: 伬腔萊萊 譙 Jason's little brother, Jeremy.
- 毞陛 - 掀瞳 稛褫衄鎊 Oh, God. Billy, that's trouble.
掀瞳 彆扂...扂夔脣珨曆 坻腔?觳婓俋 Billy, look, if l... Yeah. Billy, if I may, he's had his problems off the field,
奧扂?眭耋坻婓奻腔 and we know what he can't do on the field.
坻飲嶱宎追腦賸 He's getting thick around the waist.
衄耋挲坻柲湮鎊 堤?畟敃整窒 There's reports about him on weed, in strip clubs.
坻腔奻薹憩岆扂?政婓猁梑腔 His on-base percentage is all we're looking at now.
眈黺坻饒28.5腔旯 譙腔奻薹?婓竭褫罠 And Jeremy gets on base an awful lot for a guy who only costs 285,000.
- 毞儸 掀瞳... - 2? Jeez, Billy... Number two:
- 湮苾.撝佴菱佴 - 韃 祥猁勘 David Justice. Oh, no.
- 坻腔虯蚚賸 - 稛?翋砩竭? His legs are gone. Not a good idea.
- 橾撝佴菱佴? - 崋稛挲 Old Man Justice? Why is that?
囥怍秪票?慮黺坻腔豖祭竭?躑 坻?緻綃廣踢坻?紨堤? Steinbrenner's so pissed at his decline, he's willing to eat his contract to get rid of him.
- 挲腕疑 - 坋爛 湮苾.撝佴菱佴腔靡趼????腔 Exactly. Ten years ago, Justice, big name.
樓賸竭嗣笭猁?岈 Been in big games.
?撫場岆扂?腔滇湮敤 He's gonna really help our season tickets early in the year,
筍善賸匐堎腔睦毞 坻褫眕悵厥闚笭扂?憩軗綅賸 but in the dog days in July, August, we're lucky if he's gonna hit his weight.
掀瞳 坻虯飲蚚賸 坻岆滅忐腔濛? Billy, his legs are gone, and he's a defensive liability.
扂飲疶坻腔厒岆祥岆婓翩婓 I question whether the bat speed's there.
- 坻腔虯蚚賸 - 跡濘舜 His legs are gone. Grady.
坻夔奻60掀?憩竭軗綅賸 斕艘笢坻妦賸 We'll be lucky to get 60 games out of him. Why do you like him?
秪坻奻薹詢 Because he gets on base.
- 稛呾妦 - 扂?婓鎰 What is this? What are we doing?
疑賸 ? Okay, number three:
- 佴褪杻.慇杻皎跡 - 掞 Scott Hatteberg. Who?
- 慇杻皎跡ˋ - 淏岆 Hatteberg? Exactly.
坻?憩砉岆親帗綅模? He sounds like an Oakland A already.
- 嶒 坻衄苤?觳... - 苤?觳? 坻祥夔 Yes, he's had a little problem with... Little problem? He can't throw.
坻腔薹岆.260 坻腔?踢眒?磐旰賸 He's a career.260 hitter. The best part of his career is over.
- 扂挲符猁嶱宎 - 疏尪蕺祥砑猁坻賸 It's just getting started. Boston wants to cut him.
- 褫砑坻隙 - 稛扂?岆疑岈 坻竭晞皊 No one wants to pick him up. Good. He's cheap.
?扂參岈詻奠 斕猁?珨? Let me get this straight. You're gonna get a guy
掩圉堵?襠?溫?腔 that's been released by half the organizations in baseball
秪坻腔紵窒忳綎祥褫笥袁腔 朸?祡坻祥夔 because he's got nonrepairable nerve damage in his elbow and can't throw.
坻祥夔衱祥夔諉滅 坻?夔鎰儸 He can't throw and he can't field. But what can he do?
跪弇 Oh, boy.
脤脤斕?腔揃蹋 瘁扂憩?杻賸 Check your reports or I'm gonna point at Pete.
- 坻夔奻 - 坻夔奻 He gets on base. He can get on base.
- 坻岆悵冞棒嗣勘 - 坻奻棒嗣 醫親 So he walks a lot. He gets on base a lot, Rocco.
扂剒猁婓綱岆悵冞?岆假湖 Do I care if it's a walk or a hit?
杻 Pete?
- 斕祥剒猁 - 扂祥剒猁 You do not. I do not.
掀瞳扂衄37?掀稛?鳴 載疑腔赻蚕 I got 37 free agents that are better than those three guys.
脹珨狟 ?扂婬詻隴啞賸 Wait a minute, let me get this straight.
憩岆挲賸杸憚假掀 So you're not gonna bring in one
斕猁?狟祥砦珨? 奧岆?棒 but three defective players to replace Giambi?
斕祥岆眈陓賸掀?.梐譟佴 饒杶寤?賸勘 You're not buying into this Bill James bullshit?
稛岆親帗綅模?腔陔源砃 This is the new direction of the A's.
扂?岆?袤奻腔呾齪諦 We are card counters at the blackjack table
扂?猁湜綎模 and we're gonna turn the odds on the casino.
- 扂祥雅 - 挲善螹 漞?? I don't see it. Seriously, guys.
扂砑扂?剒猁?蛂 坻岆扂?腔螹 I think we have to remember this is the man.
坻硐剒芘揃睿奻著?? He answers to no one except ownership and God.
坻斛猁扂?衄蝠渾 And he doesn't have to answer to us.
扂?枑膘荽 坻酕隅 We make suggestions, he makes decisions.
暫稛挲 扂?賸 ?稛?整窒載疑 That's all fine and well, but we've been working our asses off
陑悛賸鞠?圉笚 斕祥邾珨? for weeks to make this club better, and you're shitting all over it.
稛祥岆婓?? This is not a discussion.
饒扂?婓挲妦 What are we discussing?
? 祥岆?? Barry, not a discussion.
掀瞳 漞? Billy, man, um,
扂砑斕咭賸珨璃岈 there's one thing you're forgetting.
稛?飲祥眭耋崋忐珨 None of those three guys knows how to play first base.
斕腕諒坻?笢腔珨? Well, you're gonna have to teach one of them.
諒? Teach?
諒闡? Which one?
稛岆昹捇庈僅樑撫腔笭螹 This is really the kickoff to the holiday season here in downtown Seattle.
稛?呏岈眒?膏賸笚 筍珨脹渾飲岆硉腕腔 It took weeks of planning to lead up to the big event, but it was well worth it.
毞疑賸 ?俙腕詢鶸 The weather was ideal. People are still haVing a great time.
傖奻腔婌婌憩堤嬡賸 Thousands of people were out earlier.
淏婓斕畦腔岆 We haVe a nice recap for you
婓昹捇庈笢陑麝俴腔呏岈 of all the great events taking place downtown in Seattle...
- 庣 - 佴褪杻 Hello? Scott?
岆扂 Yes.
- 扂岆親帗綅模?腔掀瞳.揝塋 - 斕疑 It's Billy Beane of the Oakland A 's. Yes.
- 褫眕?? - ? Can we talk? Uh, yeah.
斕夔?扂?筳 Do you wanna let us in?
- 斕挲妦 - 扂?憩婓俋醱 Pardon me? We're out front.
- 妦 - 婓繚? What? On the curb.
韃 疑腔 疑腔 Uh, yeah, yeah.
笒腔 Honey?
珴珴 珴珴 痲 Oh, thank you. Thank you, ma'am.
淩諦 Very kind.
忒紵疑虳賸 佴褪杻 How's the elbow, Scott?
穻疑 竭疑 疑賸 You know, it's good. It's really good. It's great. Uh...
- 扂跦掛祥賸 - 眭耋 I can't throw the ball at all. Yeah.
斕郔摽珨棒岆掛啣摽醱 You've thrown your last ball from behind home plate.
扂憩砑稛挲 That's what I'd say. Well...
疑秏洘岆 扂?猁斕忐珨 Good news is, we want you at first.
扂?砑猁斕?親帗綅模?腔珨忒 We want you to play first base for the Oakland A's.
稛?... Okay, well,
扂硐?綎眸忒 I've only ever played catcher.
佴褪杻 斕婬珩祥岆眸忒賸 Scott, you're not a catcher anymore.
彆斕岆 扂?憩祥岆 峔珨緻斕湖??腔賸 If you were, our call wouldn't have been the only one you got.
-  ?翍 扂竭覜慾斕?腔燊蛁 - 祥蚚珴 Yeah. Hey, listen, no, I appreciate it. You're welcome.
- 筍?觳岆... - 斕祥眭耋崋忐珨 But the thing is, is... You don't know how to play first base.
- 佴褪杻 - 嶒 Scott. That's right.
饒褣腔 佴褪杻 It's not that hard, Scott.
- 豢偍坻 忴 - 岆準都褣 Tell him, Wash. It's incredibly hard.
睡衄砩膽腔岈飲祥眢 扂?諒斕腔 Hey, anything worth doing is. And we're gonna teach you.
脹珨狟 扂岆挲 饒... Wait a minute here. I mean, but what about...?
伬軗賸 佴褪杻 Jason's gone, Scott.
斕?砑猁扂測憚假掀腔珨弇 You want me to take Giambi's spot at first base?
- 嶒 - 譎崋挲 Yeah. What about the fans?
- 珩偝扂珩夔諒諒坻? - 譎祥...挲腕疑 Maybe I can teach one of them. The fans don't... Good one.
扂腔整窒祥岆蚕譎? Fans don't run my ball club.
?? 斕崋倳賸 Honey, what are you doing awake?
笒腔 鎊斕... Sweetheart, can you?
饒岆扂躓 That's my daughter.
斕衄滯赽 You got kids?
衄 珨?躓 Uh, yeah, a daughter.
佴褪杻 稛岆親帗綅模?湖腔磁廣 Scott, this is a contract to play ball for the Oakland A's.
冞賸萵掛緻斕腔?廢 A copy's been sent over to your agent.
睿斕赽妀講珨狟 豢偍扂?磐彆 Discuss with your wife, let us know.
珴珴 Thank you.
婬? Bye-bye. Bye.
- 韃 賸 佴褪杻 - 鉣ˋ Oh, and, Scott. Yeah?
祥猁豢偍睡珨腔岈 Don't tell anyone about the first-base thing.
疑腔 珂汜 Yes, sir. Okay.
- 樑赸辦 - 疑腔 Happy holidays. All right.
- 鉖 伔? - 斕疑 掀瞳 Hey, Sharon. Hi, Billy.
- 坴疑賸 - 坴睿攬衭堤賸 Is she ready? She's out with friends.
筍坴醪奻隙 筳勘 But she'll be back. Come in.
- 疑腔 - 坴憩婓稛 脹脹 Okay. Yeah, she's right here. Hold on.
緻斕 Here you go.
- 釴 - 疑腔 Here, wanna have a seat? Yeah.
- 斕疑 掀瞳 - 穻疑 斕儸 鬲? You good, Billy? Yeah. How are you, Alan?
穻疑 淩腔穻疑 稛?華源竭假髺 Good. Really good. Things are peaceful around here.
?善斕淩疑 It's good to see you.
珴珴 鬲? Thanks, Alan.
?撫磐旰摽扂憩?綎斕賸 I haven't got to see you since play-offs.
扂腕挲憂廣岆?陑華 I wanted to say that New York was heartbreaking.
斕奧晟諫隅森 I'm sure for you too.
盓?夔善饒 艘善斕湖筳賸 淩岆... Not many teams make it that far, and to watch you go that far was...
- 復?腕祥嶒 - 珴珴婪? It was really an accomplishment. Well, that's nice.
?腕崋賸 How is the team shaping up?
- 祥嶒 淏婓笭瞎 - 竭疑陛 Team's good. Rebuilding. Good.
扂艘?奻挲斕囮賸憚假疵掀睿渴蟹 I read you lost Giambonni and Damon.
- 岆憚假掀 - 憚假掀 Giambi. Giambi.
嶒 ?衄渴蟹睿畛佴輿瑰伬 Yeah. Damon, Isringhausen.
- 坻?淩腔...軗賸? - 軗賸 祥岆陔鰎岈賸 They're really...? They're gone? Gone. Yesterday's news.
- 饒怮褫鷓賸 - 衄徽 筍倛腔復澡 That's terrible. No, but that is a tough situation.
淩岆... That's...
祥綎斕疑腔 斕?夔參岈詻隅 You're gonna be fine, though. You always figure something out.
- 坴善闡 - 婓誰螹?岆 Where is she? Where was she? Down the street or?
祥  扂?湖賸坴忒 坴淏猁奻刓 Oh, sorry, yeah. I just talked to her on her cell. She's coming up the hill.
疑勘 Okay.
坴衄忒賸? She's got a cell phone?
- 岆腔 - 12憩饜忒? Yeah. A 12-year-old?
岆腔 Yeah.
慇 Huh.
眕滅珨 For emergencies.
模墿腔笭湮隅 Big parenting decision.
筍饒岆...扂?...饒? 扂??珨??腔岈 But it's something that, you know, we, you know, all should discuss,
彆斕衄睡毀砩?... because if you have any objections, of course...
扂睿坴??妀講腔 Her mother and I will discuss it.
筍珴珴斕 But thank you.
衄炰腔 Any of these? Um...
扂祥眭耋 I don't know.
稛?祥嶒 Do you...? This one's cool.
疑?岆祥疑陛 Is that good or bad?
- 維評 - 艘祥嶒 Butterflies. They're okay.
艘 饒?疑艘 扂炰廠伎腔 Look, that one's pretty. I like the red.
扂???? Should we try?
祥猁 No?
- 扂炰稛? - 岆 Oh, I like this one. Yeah?
啄啄 斕艘稛? Dad, look at this one.
- 艘坳腔廠伎 - 淩謠 Look how it's red. It's beautiful.
- 稛?疑艘 - 扂??? This one's pretty. Let's try it out.
憩婓稛 Just right here? Why don't we go over there?
饒疑 Can we go over there?
Lenka ☆The Show★
笒腔 斕釭堤勘 釭腕饒疑 Oh, honey, you need to sing. That's so good.
淩疑? That's beautiful.
扂衄珩釭 Sometimes I sing.
釭貉竭衄砩佷 筍扂祥砑??善扂釭貉 It's fun to sing with your song, but I don't want people to listen to me.
笒腔 扂砑? 炰?斕釭腔 竭疑? Well, honey, I think people would love to listen to you. That's beautiful.
褫眕啄啄釭珨苤僇 Would you sing a little for your dad?
憩婓稛夎 妀虛夎 Right here in the middle of the store?
- 憩釭曆 - 憩曆 Little bit. Little bit.
- 疑賸 - 疑賸 You ready? I'm ready.
疑勘 Okay.
* 扂衄酘衵褣 * * I'm just a little bit Caught in the middle *
* 汜魂岆釱譎 岆?猞 * * Life is a maze And love is a riddle *
* 扂祥眭耋?闡 扂楊?赻俇傖 扂贗薯賸 * * I don't know where to go Can't do it alone, I've tried *
* 扂祥眭耋妦 * * And I don't know why *
* 扂硐岆?譎囮婓森覦腔苤躓滯 * * I'm just a little girl Lost in the moment *
* ?奪漲鷓筍扂祥霜繞 * * I'm so scared But I don't show it *
* 扂衄煇楊 辦掩踹 * * I can't figure it out It's bringing me down *
* 扂眭耋扂腕溫忒 * * I know I've got to let it go *
* 疑疑砅忳稛凅 * * And just enjoy the show **
掀瞳.揝塋菴珨?腢凅憩陂腢 Billy Beane was taken in the first round of the amateur draft.
1984爛
扂砑衄猁參掀瞳.揝塋?軗 I think this is a steal, to get Billy Beane.
坻爛愩 衄符夔 He's young, he's talented.
珨?厒僅倰腔拻?夔 坻岆祥嶒綎腔?薯嘖 A true fiVe-tool player with speed. This guy is a can't-miss prospect.
稛憂廣湮飲挲岆?竭疑腔聑砓 This is a great sign for the new York Mets.
挲祥隅憩岆坻?珨眻婓腔滖 And it could be the turnaround that they'Ve been looking for.
 Ball one.
扂艘疑掀瞳.揝塋 I'll take Billy Beane oVer Strawberry.
掀瞳.揝塋酕賸?衄砩佷腔腢 坻擇稷賸?踢 Billy Beane, an interesting pick, turned down a scholarship.
坻掛褫眕佴拊腦湮? He could'Ve gone to Stanford.
衄斕猁善賸湮?襠符隴啞 Sometimes you don't find out till you get to the big leagues...
疑 Strike!
稛?鳴衄囮綎 坻詢笢?? This guy has never failed at anything. He's coming out of high school.
掀瞳掛猁奻湮 坻褫眕傖珨靡堤伎腔橪侐煦苾 Billy was gonna go to college. He could'Ve been a great quarterback.
淥堤擁 Strike three.
睡珨?堵? There's not an organization in baseball
飲?砩參?婓稛?爛愩旯奻 who would not haVe taken a chance on this young guy.
1985爛
坻傖髡 藩爛飲衄稛腔瞰赽 He didn't pan out. That happens every year.
衄虳傖髡 衄虳囮賸 Some do, some don't.
扂岆挲 彆斕稛?隅?祥復隅... I mean, if you're haVing any doubt at all about this...
1986爛
1987爛
燊黺?踢腔... HaVing the scholarship...
斕赽衄毞敥 Your son was born with a God-giVen ability.
竭屾衄抻夔抻眭珨?爛愩腔砑楊 Few scouts can go into the mind of a young man
瓚坻岆瘁淩腔赻撩腔夔薯衄陓陑 and determine whether he's really confident about what he can do.
珨?竭杻腔 A Very special player.
垀眕斕褫眕跦坻腔夔薯?廣 So you can sign him based on his ability,
眳摽坻憩腕傖髡腕赻陓 but then he's gotta be successful to be confident.
1988爛
坻珨筒衄賸赻陓 斕憩衄曬螹賸 And once he becomes confident, that's when you'Ve got something.
1989爛
斕跦桉?腔酕堤隅 You make a decision on what you see.
彆祥傖髡 斕憩腕厘艘 And if things don't pan out, you moVe on.
稛憩岆堵 That's baseball.
竭嗣?善賸欸 饒夔掩腢笢腔岆? Many are called, few are chosen.
掀瞳 稛岆恅.蚧親夎佴 掩想牼☆洷躍悵冞眳朸★ ㄗ蚧親薯佴岆洷躍靡 坻奻薹詢ㄘ Billy, that is Kevin Youkilis. That is the Greek God of Walks.
坻岆扂腔髒砉 That's my hero.
坻腕善腔悵冞奻棒 岆壺賸?.堊?眕俋 That man gets walked more than anybody in baseball
郔嗣腔 except for Barry Bonds.
爛6堎扂?挲督妢巖縫?狟坻 I tried to convince Shapiro to pick him up last June,
筍坻挲坻軗繚砉硐?赽 but he said he waddled like a duck.
磐彆疏尪蕺?軗賸坻 Yeah, Boston snagged him.
扂砑坻?岆砑罠咡珨狟 I think they wanna wait and see.
- 斕?疑 掀瞳 - 掀瞳 Are you okay, Billy? Billy?
扂?褫眕?? Can we talk?
褫眕 疑腔 Yeah. Yeah.
斕祥嶱陑 跡濘舜 崋賸 You're unhappy, Grady. Why?
阺 Wow.
- 扂褫眕眻?眻挲 - ? 挲勘 May I speak candidly? Sure, go ahead.
藝?堵湮?襠睿坳腔煨緲 竭砩參斕睿嗷貉苤赽 Major League Baseball and its fans, they're gonna be more than happy
善匙尪??狟 to throw you and Google Boy under the bus
彆斕桽醴稛俴岈腔? if you keep doing what you're doing.
斕祥夔蚚?嚶瞎? You don't put a team together with a computer.
- 祥夔 - 祥夔 No? No.
堵祥硐岆趼 祥岆珨嬡褪 Baseball isn't just numbers. It's not science.
彆岆腔? 睡飲夔酕扂?腔馱釬 筍?坻?酕祥善 If it was, anybody could do what we're doing, but they can't.
坻?祥眭耋扂?垀眭腔 They don't know what we know.
坻?衄扂?腔??睿眻紒 They don't have our experience and our intuition.
疑勘 Okay.
斕憩蕞饒?衄珖?湮 ?弇腔苤滯 You got a kid in there that's got a degree in economics from Yale.
斕醱岆衄29爛堵??腔抻 You got a scout here with 29 years of baseball experience.
斕腢嶒賸牾砉 You're listening to the wrong one.
衄虳褣眕袙類腔秪匼硐衄俴符雅 Now, there are intangibles that only baseball people understand.
斕猁腴嘛抻?補賸150爛腔魂繚 You're discounting what scouts have done for 150 years?
朼祫婦嬤斕赻撩 Even yourself?
羥虐噫 瘁侚繚珨 Adapt or die.
稛岆秪斕赻撩腔? 岆祥岆 This is about you and your shit, isn't it?
20爛 衄?抻艘嶒賸 Twenty years ago, some scout got it wrong.
- 阺 俴賸 俴賸 - 斕政婓岆砃緙淏宒哫賸 Whoa. Okay. Okay. Now you declare war on the system.
疑賸 疑賸 ?扂挲曆賸 斕衄阨儒 Okay, okay, my turn. You don't have a crystal ball.
猁艘翍珨?憩夔蕼坻腔帤 斕腔掛岈珩祥掀扂?嗣屾 You can't look at a kid and predict his future any more than I can.
扂睿斕珨釴婓饒虳絃袤? I've sat at those kitchen tables with you
?斕躲模墿?挲 ☆善緊賸扂赻憩眭耋★ and listened to you tell parents, "When I know, I know.
☆斕腔赽俴祥俴 扂珨桉憩夔艘堤★ And when it comes to your son, I know."
?斕酕祥善 And you don't.
斕酕祥善 You don't.
疑賸 扂符祥婓綱妦衭 Okay. I don't give a shit about friendship,
祥奪政婓 ?岆 this situation, or the past.
藝?堵湮?襠睿扂佷繚珨祡 斕祥湜腔 Major League Baseball thinks the way I think. You're not gonna win.
扂猁緻斕珨?轎愐膘荽 And I'll give you a nickel's worth of free advice.
婓斕扂?樓俇稛?腔?撫 掩橾?嶱壺摽 You're never gonna get another job
斕婬珩梑祥善馱釬 after this catastrophic season you're about to set us all up for.
斕祥腕祥砃斕腔滯赽賤? You'll have to explain to your kid
斕妦婓舜親綅蚚虛馱釬 why you're working at Dick's Sporting Goods.
扂祥陷斕?礩腔 跡濘舜 I'm not gonna fire you, Grady.
- 紱斕?腔 掀瞳 - 政婓扂嶱賸斕 Fuck you, Billy. Now I will.
蛅斕疑綅 鬲杻 Good luck, Art.
壅悵泬 斕湖綎堵  Kubota. You never played ball, right?
- 湖綎珨屾爛堵 - 斕?忑炟抻 I played a little T-ball. You're the new head scout.
鳩炰 Congratulations.
垀眕疏尪蕺?淏婓罠咡ˋ So Boston's gonna wait and see?
 Yeah.
憩斕睿扂 杻 Yeah. It's just you and me, Pete.
扂?嶱宎勘 And we're all in.
景撫??
?疑砉斕婓坻?腔俴耋 It sounds like you're apologizing for what they're doing.
扂衄 扂硐岆祥隴啞 I'm not. I just don't know what you're gonna do
斕夔蚚綅模?腔 蕼呾酕妦 斕惁掞 with the budget that the A 's haVe. Who are you gonna get?
扂艘賸景撫??腔靡 I'm looking at the spring-training roster.
- 斕?眻婓嶱俙虷 - 崋賸 You gotta be kidding me. How so?
坻婓饒憩砉?苤堯 He looked like a clown out there.
- 掞 - 脤肅.票嶺肅腦 Who? Chad Bradford.
票嶺肅腦睡 Tell me about Bradford.
扂穻炰坻腔 祥綎坻祥岆俋俴 I like him a little bit, but he's a specialist.
斕祥褫夔瀖坻挲 "菴匐擁憩艘斕腔賸 He's not a guy that you say, "The eighth inning is yours,
酘赽衵赽" lefties Vs. Righties."
稛岆扂腔艘楊 In my opinion.
扂祥眭耋掀瞳.揝塋睿 奪燴岆崋艘坻腔 I don't know what Billy Beane and management understands about him.
筍坻腔芘厒硐衄82 83徨 ?腕衄腔＃ He only throws the ball about 82, 83 miles an hour. There must be something...
坻岆?墅怚 稛褫祥岆婓帴坻 He is a freak, and not in a good way.
扂??斕 Let me ask you this.
彆砑婓煦?夎陂 Talking about trying to win a diVision.
扂?硌咡湮苾??絮帤橾 We're counting on DaVid to be the guy he was.
筍扂衄疶 坻眒?橾賸 I haVe my doubts. He's gotten old.
垀眕坻祥婓憂廣? 珩祥婓親瞳痲帗? 坻?褫 That's why he's not in new York anymore, not in cleveland anymore.
扂?掛?緻?攝.渴蟹腔嫶 緻賸稛?昜 We paid him the money we should'Ve been giVing to Johnny Damon.
譙.憚假掀 Hey. Jeremy Giambi.
坻符岆扂?猁陑腔 That's the one to worry about.
坻?傑腔嶲掀婓親帗載嗣 He gets comps up and down Vegas more than in Oakland.
稛??斕劑倳陛 That should tell you something right there.
善菁猁稛虳鳴鎰陛 Isn't that the deal with these guys?
坻憩嬐嫖賸珨爛 He has one good year.
摽腕善珨遁傔綠腔旯 諉翍憩掩滖 And he gets a huge offer and then he gets traded.
- 饎痕 樓薯 - 慇杻皎跡 Bob. Harder. Hatteberg.
疑 竭疑 Good. Good.
掀瞳 扂?腕??慇杻皎跡腔岈 Billy, we haVe to talk about Hatteberg.
- 挲勘 - 坻婓珨?岆覜紒 Go. There's just no feel for the spot.
扂紒腕坻褩湮?襠珨忒 ?衄竭墿擒褩 I think it's a long shot that he can be a big-league first baseman.
稛符岆菴珨笚菴珨毞 斕祥夔憩隅賸 It's day one of the first week. You can't judge this yet.
祥 扂紒腕扂?褫眕隅賸 No, I think we can judge it.
扂炰坻 斕眭耋 祥綎扂?岆褫眕隅 I mean, I like him, you know, but I can judge him.
珨坻挲綌祥褫摯 First base is the moon to him.
憚假掀憩掩艘堪陛 憚假掀?場岆郔船腔珨忒賸 It wasn't to Giambi. Giambi's the worst first baseman in baseball.
- 斕鏽坻躲憚假掀掀 - 挲妦儸 Gonna compare him to Giambi? What are we talking about?
疑勘 All right.
斕紒腕儸 忴 What do you think, Wash?
挲疑?岆坻椰赻陓 The nice way to say it is he lacks confidence.
饒憩緻坻赻陓 Well, give him some.
扂腔 祥綎扂??衄驚慮 坻夔湖珨 I'll do that, but we got Pena, who can play first.
奧坻竭疑 And he's looking mighty good out there.
憩蚚慇杻 We wanna go with Hattie.
?衄鞠笚嶲 We got six weeks.
蚚陑 Get down in it.
- 竭疑 - 佴褪杻.H There you go. Scotty H.
- 憩岆稛 - 疑忒陛 That's what I'm talking about. Picking machine.
憩岆堵奧眒 It's only baseball.
稛岈郔疑俴腕籵 This better work.
飯斕腔徽 I'm just kidding you.
* Don't stop belieVin' *
奻陛 親帗 Let's go, Oakland!
* Streetlight **
- 稛昹崋隙岈 - 猁珨藝啋 貊? What is wrong with this thing? It's a dollar, man.
- 妦 - 茩親帗 D.J What? Welcome to Oakland, D.J.
淩岆詻虷 Oh, you gotta be shitting me.
扂砑踏爛腔掀? 聃隴?符瞳 I think this year, we're gonna show that it takes a team to win,
奧祥岆蕞議? 岆? not any individual guy, just a team.
扂紒腕扂??竭? And I think we got a hell of a ball club here.
脤肅 斕踏毞紒腕衄薯 Chad, are you intimidated at all today?
祥夔挲衄薯 淩腔 扂憩岆穻鶸腔 憩砉斕挲腔 I wouldn't say I'm intimidated, really. I'm just really excited, like you said.
譙.憚假掀 衄賸斕貊貊伬 稛盓?猁睡 Jeremy, how's the team gonna fare without your brother, Jason?
憩醴挲 ?梑善賸陔沓娗諾 Well, you know, the organization did a great job
酕腕穻傖髡腔 of bringing in good young guys to fill that role.
挲?? 綅模岆晞皊惁善腔斕 Let's face it, they're getting a deal with you.
栥價?詢惁賸伬 The Yankees are paying Jason a lot of money.
斕婓稛夎腔喚硐衄饒 斕覜忳崋 You are coming here on a dime. How does that make you feel?
扂覜紒竭疑 萺... I feel good. Um...
- 斕忒硌腔睡 - 憩饒 How are the nerves in your fingers? You know.
扂?挲挲爛勘 斕36賸 Gotta start with the age, 36 years old.
斕紒腕赻撩腔旯闚 夔綎珨??撫 How do you think your body's gonna hold up?
斕婓?畟敃勘睿遼奻豪賸湮參嶲 You spend a lot of time at strip clubs, partying.
斕婓狟忳善腔燊蛁紒腕躑 Do you resent the attention you get off the field?
祥陛 扂炰 I love it.
- 斕?都婓?傑湖髦 - 岆腔 You spend a lot of time in Vegas. I do.
- 扂覜紒竭疑 憩砉扂挲腔 酕賸竭嗣＃ - 惕 ?斕翍扂腔蔉螹 I feel great. I did a lot of work to get... Excuse me. Get out of my shot.
惕 ?挲 Sorry, go ahead.
黺扂腔爛 There have been questions about my age
睿垀牼腔撮夔狟賑 斕?衄竭嗣疶? 祥綎扂聃隴赻撩腔 and my declining skills, some say, but I'm here to prove that wrong.
扂岆?斕啃煦啃復隅 I asked if you were 100 percent.
- 惕 揝塋珂汜 - 鉖 脤肅 Excuse me, Mr. Beane? Hey, Chad.
- 扂湖斕勘 - 衄 崋賸 Hey, I'm not disturbing you, am I? Not at all. What's up?
扂砑覜珴斕緻扂稛? I wanted to say thank you for this opportunity.
竭詢鶸斕夔傖扂?腔? 扂?飲陂祔溪腔 Well, we enjoy having you. It's gonna work out well for all of us.
扂竭覜慾 珂汜 緻扂湖湮?襠?腔 I appreciate it, sir. Nobody's ever given me a chance like this before.
衄? Nobody?
硐衄斕 珂汜 Well, just you, sir.
頏 稛傖湮赽 斕蚗罫祥咭腔 Well, it's a big day, one you won't forget.
準都覜珴 扂憩砑挲 Appreciate it. And I wanna let you know
扂斕睿斕腔模跚 I'm gonna be praying for you and your family.
疑腔 No problem.
政婓褩親帗綅模? 2002爛腔嶱?硐呁煦? Well, here we are just minutes away from the season opener of 2002 for the Oakland A's.
菴珨擁掀?撈嶱宎 The first pitch is moments away.
軠貉扂?婬隙 We'll come back with the national anthem.
?軗嶱 踏毞憩岆嶱躉 Opening day is upon us.
- 疑賸 漞?? 赽 - 疑賸 All right, fellas, smile. Here we go.
* Hey, she giVe me loVe And I feel all right now **
扂筳賸 掀??蚚傻陓豢偍扂 I'm going in. Text me the play-by-play.
妦 妦 What? Why?
扂祥艘掀? I don't watch the games.
苤? 蕾隅 Detail, halt!
And forward face!
忑追驚慮 祥岆慇杻皎跡
稛岆肅笣蚔櫐條踏毞菴盓假湖 That's the third Ranger batter to be hit today.
秪陝親佴.縫肅夎跡佴囮悷 眒?煦賸 菴嬝＃ Twice Alex Rodriguez was nicked. The ninth...
珨嶱宎扂憩?庲淩睿斕?? I should've made you a bigger part of the conversation from day one.
斕憩載奠扂?腔?? It'd be clear what we're trying to do.
稛岆扂腔嶒 鬲杻 稛岆扂腔? That was my mistake, Art. I take responsibility for that.
斕砑挲妦 What are you trying to say?
扂猁挲 彆斕祥偌??蚚 扂崋假齬飲蚚 Doesn't matter what moves I make if you don't play the team the way they're designed to be.
掀瞳 稛斕奪祥翍 Billy, you're out of your depth.
- 妦慇杻皎跡祥婓珨 - 秪坻忐祥賸珨 Why not Hatteberg at first? Because he can't play first.
- 斕崋眭耋 - 稛衱祥岆扂硌腔菴珨掀? How do you know? Not my first baseball game.
- 佴褪杻.慇杻皎跡祥夔湖 - 坻夔奻 Scott Hatteberg can't hit. He gets on base.
扂?挲甡瞳嗣黺斜 婬湜7 扂?腔薹憩閉綎拻傖賸 Still keeps us in the plus column. We need to be seven over.500.
崋 What?
?衄妦岈 Anything else?
?衄郔摽珨擁扂砑艘善票嶺肅腦芘 奧祥岆?跡慮舜 Yeah. I would've rather seen Bradford in the end than Magnante.
票嶺腦肅岆衵忒芘忒 Bradford's a righty.
- 扂祥婓綱坻酘?岆衵 - 扂婓綱 I don't care about righty-lefty. I do.
- 稛岆秪斕腔磁肮 - 祥岆 Could this be about your contract? No.
稛衄燊斕酕斕腔岈 扂專扂腔? This is about you doing your job and me doing mine.
扂腔?岆稛盓 Mine's me being left alone
斕緻扂瞎膘腔? to manage this team you assembled for me.
- 扂祥岆斕瞎膘腔 - 鞞祥岆 I didn't assemble them for you, Art. No shit.
?赸辦 Good meeting.
藩棒扂?謐俇 Every time we talk,
扂稛堵腔悛飲蚐笭汜 I'm reinvigorated by my love of the game.
扂??霖善賸跡濘舜.蜓伬 綅模?忑炟抻 We got Grady Fuson, former head of scouting with the Athletics.
跡濘舜 斕夔緻扂?賤?狟政婓腔 And, Grady, can you interpret for us what's going on?
- 坻?想眳藹 - 藹? They call it Moneyball. Moneyball?
 稛岆?竭疑腔燴? 筍憩岆釬蚚 Yes, and it was a nice theory, and now it's just not working out.
掀瞳.揝塋瞎膘腔稛盓?斪岆價黺 珨?請掀?.梐譟佴腔?膘腔燴? Billy Beane has built this team on the ideas of a guy, Bill James,
坻?賸珨掛衄腔 燊黺堵緙?腔 who wrote an interesting book on baseball statistics.
?觳岆掀?.刓譟佴帤湖綎 珩奪燴綎堵? The problem is that Bill James never played, never managed.
?坻硐岆珨模喭湮飪鼠侗腔悵假 He was in fact a security guard at a pork-and-beans company.
斕紒腕稛岆?腔藺賸 Do you see this as a decimation of the organization?
扂紒腕坻岆赻侚繚 He bought a ticket on the Titanic.
毞陛 Oh, boy.
坻砑梑?陔腔芼 He's tried to come up with a new approach.
扂坻桶尨郬噹 筍稛俴祥籵 My hat's off to him. It won't work.
疑珨 坢慇絻淥堤擁 One-two pitch. Tejada strikes out.
掀?磐旰 And that is the game.
昹捇阨忒?飲湜賸 濘 The Seattle Mariners win both games on this series, Ray.
坻?窣鴦湜賸10 醴昹捇133? They'Ve won 10 in a row. Seattle is 13 and 3.
艘祥狟賸 I can't watch this shit.
斕躲??珨奻繚掀? Go on the road with the team.
斕衄躲坻?掀?儸 You don't go on the road with the team.
- 垀眕請斕 - 斕妦祥 That's why I want you to do it. Why don't you?
扂祥夔躲坻?衄佌掜 I can't develop personal relationships with these guys.
稛符夔端狟陑參坻?敤賸 I gotta be able to trade them, send them down,
朼祫賤嗶 sometimes cut them.
稛斕珩腕 Which is something you should learn to do, by the way.
扂蚗罫祥賤嗶?陛 壺準斕＃ I would never have to cut a player, unless you...
- 問? - 問?妦陛 Oh, come on. "Come on" what?
- 扂???狟 - 祥補 Let's practice. No.
憩猁 扂岆? 斕猁賤嗶扂 Yeah. I'm a player. You gotta cut me from the roster.
- 祥 - 辦 No. Go.
- 斕挲妦祥陛 - 祥 What do you mean, no? No.
- 辦 - 稛怮替賸 Do it. This is stupid.
稛岆馱釬腔珨窒煦 漞? Part of the job, man.
疑勘 Fine.
掀瞳 ?釴 扂猁睿斕?? Billy, please have a seat. I need to talk to you for a minute.
餞鴦 Go on.
斕珨眻岆?夎腔笭猁傖 You've been a huge part of this team.
筍衄斕斛?猁?翍砑 But sometimes you have to make decisions for the team.
扂砑斕雅腔 I'm sure you can understand.
- 斕猁賤嗶扂? - 準都惕 You're cutting me? I'm really sorry.
扂?婓稛夎惁賸?滇赽 I just bought a house here.
- 萺 - 憩婓親帗 Well... In Oakland.
蜁 萺＃ Well, uh... Well...
"萺... 萺..." 斕憩挲腕堤稛? "Well... Well..."? That's all you got to say?
扂腔滯赽?筳陔苺 My kid just started a new school.
- 坻??蝠善攬衭 - 饒?＃ They made friends. That's, uh...
斕祥猁婓笢湖坻? You shouldn't pull them out in the middle of the year.
- 斕?脹脹 - 斕婓挲虳妦寤陛 You should wait. What the hell are you talking about?
扂祥眭耋 扂楊＃ I don't know. I shouldn't have...
扂祥稛酕腔 扂紒腕稛怮伂賸 I'm not gonna do this. I think this is stupid.
扂祥嶱壺睡 稛???怮伂賸 I'm not gonna fire anybody, and this is dumb.
坻?岆? 眻諉豢偍坻?憩岆 They're professional ballplayers. Just be straight with them.
祥猁嶨雀 憩挲岈? No fluff, just facts.
杻 扂腕?斕褩嶱 親腔煇鼠弅???? Pete, I gotta let you go. Jack's office will handle the details.
- 憩稛? - 縐 That's it? Pfft.
淩腔 Really?
斕岆砑嚶渝眻諉笢? ?岆倠諳笢拻?霜悛祡侚? You rather get a bullet to the head or five to the chest and bleed to death?
硐衄稛?腢陛 Are those my only two options?
躲?堤掀?勘 Go on the road with the team.
疑勘 Okay.
庣 漞? Say, bro.
- ?斕??觳 - 疑腔 Let me ask you a question. Yeah.
斕橾?崋祥躲?珨堤嬡 How come your boss doesn't travel with the team?
坻祥炰躲湖傖珨 He doesn't like to mingle with the players.
岆賸嶱壺扂?祥痸 Is that supposed to make us easier to cut?
扂祥眭耋 扂祥奠 I don't know. I don't know.
?衄 妦整窒夎腔阨 ?猁葆珨藝啋 And how come soda is a dollar in the clubhouse?
扂?綎稛意岈 I never seen nothing like that.
掀瞳砑參嫶豪婓奻 Billy likes to keep the money on the field.
吽阨饒嫶 Soda money?
淩腔 Really?
扂惁阨腔珨藝啋婓腔妦華源儸 Where on the field is the dollar I'm paying for soda?
稛岆竭褣挲奠 It's hard to see exactly,
- 祥綎腔復婓饒儸 - 鉣 岆竭褣艘善 but it's there, yeah. Yeah, it is hard to see.
扂岈賸 I'm done.
- 稱 橾啄 - 鉖 笒腔 Hey, Dad. Hi, honey.
- 斕疑 - 竭疑 How are you? I'm good.
- 笢芴?穭 - ?疑徽 Was it bumpy? It was okay.
扂?甡斕?偭
樓奻踏俀腔囮 親帗綅模? So with this loss tonight, the Oakland Athletics
婓17掀?夎?裁賸14 褣眕离陓 incredibly, haVe lost 14 of their last 17 games.
婓藝?昹眒邈摽螹靡10船 They are 10 games back in the American League West.
褫眕挲??囮賸 Is it fair to say the experiment has failed?
? 稛婌褫蕼?腔 Well, absolutely. It was predictable.
洷咡囮 筍岈?婓桉 You don't wish anybody a lack of success, but the facts are in front of you.
稛祥夔墅鬲杻.慇? You can't blame Art Howe.
岆腔 No.
政?憩岆 稛躲緙?燊 稛岆腔掀? The fact of the matter is, this is not about statistics, this is about people.
鬲杻.慇?祥岆?觳 Art Howe is not the problem.
- 湮囮 - ?觳岆??燴弅夎腔掀瞳.揝塋 The problem is in the general manager's office with Billy Beane.
婓扂艘 ?觳腔跦埭竭隴朐 The root of the problem for me is philosophical.
扂眳憩挲賸 饒岆砑砉笢腔堵 I said it before. This is fantasy baseball.
掀瞳俇?綎湮嚶佷蕉 Billy is just not thinking.
?蕉?陔?燴 酕蜊? Start thinking about a new GM, making changes.
坻祥艘掀? He never goes to the games.
稛磐彆鞞奧眢? This was Very predictable.
坻?艘艘奻腔 He needs to look at what's going on.
- 坻?庲淩賸 - 扂猁掀瞳.揝塋狟怢 The man needs to get real. I want Billy Beane gone.
揝塋腔嚶渝 衄梑 斕善菁婓砑妦 Calling for Beane's head. I want your thoughts.
眳腔18掀?夎 衄4掩俇猾麼硐腕1煦 The past 18 games, they'Ve been shut out or scored one run four times.
坻?腕煦怮腴賸 They're just not scoring enough.
祥嫖岆湖筳馴腔?觳 祥岆灺肅.疏尪薯ㄗ諒?ㄘ睿湖氪腔?觳 It's not just the offense, not Thad Bosley and the hitters.
珨飲衄?觳 彆硐岆議??觳 ?褫眕?娗寰 It's everything. If there was one thing you could pick out, you'd try to fix it,
筍稛盓?俇疪腴陰 but just everything is in a funk right now.
扂善菁婓酕妦 What the hell am I doing?
毞陛 Oh, man.
斕艘 妢菱痲 Look, Steve.
扂扂?婓酕腔岈竭衄陓陑 I believe in what we're doing.
扂紒腕祥夔毀茬 稛盓?斪腔?薯 The record doesn't reflect the strength of this team
珩祥測桶?撫藺扂?夔陂腕腔傖? or where we're gonna be at the end of the season.
扂睿杻飲陓 扂?猁餞鴦厥埻腔源? Now, Pete and I here feel very strongly that we stay on the track we've chosen.
扂?眳腔掛?祥 稛＃ Our sample size has been too small. It's too...
?婌 狟隅??婌 Early. It's still early.
善隴陎?礿? 扂?蕼褫眕善妦阨 Where do we expect to be by the All-Star break?
扂?腔醴睿扂?腔蕼 Our goal and our expectation
岆善7堎笢睿螹靡腔船婓7眕 is by mid-July to be within seven games of first.
珨衄疑滖 That would be this working.
- 善扂??衄猧奻 - 疑腕堤綱砩蹋 That keeps us in the hunt. Exceptionally well.
- 善7堎 - 7堎 By July. July.
饒?衄妦郯焰斕? 絻傖饒?醴腔 And what's gonna prevent you from accomplishing that?
斕?婓陑妦 What are you afraid of?
衄 垀眕扂?符婓稛夎 妢菱痲 Nothing. That's why we're here, Steve.
饒憩岆扂?藩毞疆魂腔岈 扂?珨眻婓贗薯腔 That's why we get up in the morning. That's all we do.
- 婬? -  婬嗣 More? Yeah, a little more.
- 豢偍?? - 祥腔 Don't tell your mother. I won't.
- 親薯嫠? - 疑 Chocolate sauce? Yes.
賸 Stop.
- 猁湮屺赽?岆苤屺赽 - 苤腔 Big spoon or little spoon? Little spoon.
珴珴 Thank you.
啄 斕祥賸馱釬勘 Dad, there's no way you're gonna lose your job, right?
妦 What?
衄徽 Well, I don't know.
- 扂憩岆砑砑＃ - 斕闡?腔 I'm just wondering. Where'd you hear that?
扂衄奻鋒 Well, I go on the Internet sometimes.
祥猁 奻鋒 Well, don't do that. Don't go on the Internet.
艘陔? 艘? Or watch TV or read newspapers
麼岆?牊挲 or talk to people.
扂祥躲謐毞 憩岆艘昹 I don't talk to people. I just read stuff.
笒腔 珨飲竭疑 ?觳腔 Honey, everything's fine. Everything's fine.
淩腔 斕祥蚚陑 Really, you don't have to worry.
筍彆斕賸馱釬 斕祥岆腕唸軗賸? But if you lose your job, will you have to move away?
泫陑 扂祥賸馱釬腔 Honey, I'm not gonna lose my job.
斕陑 You don't have to worry.
- 疑腔 - 庣 Okay. Hey.
- ?觳腔 - 疑腔 There's no problem. Okay.
疑 扂衄珨剽鎊 筍飲祥岆?觳 All right? I got uptown problems, which are not problems at all.
斕祥陑 岆勘 You're not worried, right?
- 扂陑 - 疑 No, I'm not worried. Okay.
?岆驚慮 Pena.
疑勘 Okay.
扂猁渴忐衵俋珧 I want Dye in right,
撝佴菱佴硌隅測湖 驚慮摽娗 Justice DH'ing, Pena on the bench,
慇杻皎跡忐珨 Hatteberg at first,
猁?跡釬忑追芘忒 and anyone but Mags first out of the pen.
斕猁驚慮釴啣脾ˋ You want Pena on the bench?
淏岆 稛斕符夔蚚慇杻 That's right. So you can play Hattie.
驚慮祥岆?夎郔疑腔珨忒 Pena is not only the best first baseman,
奧岆扂?峔珨腔珨忒 he's the only first baseman.
慇杻奻薹掀驚慮詢嗣賸 Hattie gets on base more than Pena.
- ?蕣奻岆詢20% - 筍坻腔忐儸 In fact, 20 percent more. And his fielding?
坻腔滅忐燊駟猁 His fielding does not matter.
- 稛?扂?腕嗣賸 - 岆 I've heard enough of this. Have you?
奧扂＃ And I, uh...
?挲 扂祥肮砩 I disagree with you, plain and simple.
?衄 扂稛? And moreover, I'm playing my team
隴爛隄毞扴?腔緊符挲腕奠 in a way that I can explain in job interviews next winter.
疑賸 Okay? Ahem.
蚚慇杻 祥猁驚慮 Hattie. Not Pena.
What's up, skip?
- 斕崋 - 竭疑 斕儸 How you doing? Good, how you doing, man?
酖俀阯腕疑 Get some sleep last night?
綅模?奻賸 嶱宎掀? As the A 's hit the field, we are ready for baseball.
菴珨?軗堤倎洘腔 岆陔陎縐醫佴.驚慮 First one out of the dugout is rookie sensation carlos Pena,
掛?腢忒夎洁衄腔洷咡 坻桴善賸珨弇离奻 one of the few bright lights in this lineup, taking his spot at first base.
* Down, gettin' down There's a whole lot of rhythm *
掀瞳 珨?苤?觳 斕岆瘁咡稛虳?衄載疑腔＃ Billy, quick question. Do you expect these guys to produce more or...?
- 政婓祥俴 漞?? - 傖?惟視腔埻秪岆妦 Not now. What's the reason for the slump?
* We gotta haVe the funk *
* Ow, we want the funk *
* GiVe up the funk *
* Ow, we need the funk *
* We gotta haVe the funk **
狟 Get down.
?竭衄 Is losing fun?
- ?竭衄 - 祥 Is losing fun? No.
饒斕婓妦赽 What are you having fun for?
稛?符砉? That's what losing sounds like.
斕岈勘 啄啄 Are you okay, Dad?
- 斕衱賸 - 妦 You're doing it again. What?
斕婓陑扂 You're worrying about me.
斕??菁賸 啄啄 You're in last place, Dad.
- 扂艘 -  Do I look worried? Yeah.
饒岆秪斕猁釴鵁 稛昹?都厘狟裁 Because you're getting on an airplane, and those things crash all the time.
?祥猁紱陑斕橾註賸 Please stop worrying about your dad.
- 飲假齬疑賸 - 疑 We're all set. Okay.
- 扂斕 - 扂珩斕 I love you. Love you too.
疑賸 斕啄啄?觳 All right. Your dad's not in trouble.
疑徽 Okay.
疑勘 Yeah.
- 妶仴 緻扂?霖鬲肅.璗肅ㄗ愐傑愐傑??燴ㄘ - 疑 Suzanne, get me Ed Wade. Okay.
- 縉溜疑賸 - 岆腔 Coffee on? Yes.
- 婌奻疑 - 婌奻疑 掀瞳 Good morning. Good morning, Billy.
鉖 繚眢伔 Oh, hi, Louisa.
- 掀瞳.揝塋砑鷂鬲肅.璗肅籵? - 鉖 I need Ed Wade for Billy Beane. Hi.
?尕緊 Please hold.
- 妦岈陛 - 璗肅婓2? What's up? Wade's on 2.
- 鬲肅 - 庣 Ed? Hello?
- 鬲肅 岆扂掀瞳 - 掀瞳 崋賸 Ed, it's Billy. Billy, what's up?
- ?翍 扂剒猁梑滅忐 - 疑腔 Look, I need a little help on defense. Okay.
扂?砩蚚譙.憚假掀蝠 I'm willing to trade Jeremy Giambi for it.
- 淩腔 - 妦 Really? What?
鉣 斕忒螹衄掞 Mm-hm. Who you got? What?
- ?扂砑砑 - 斕鎰 Well, let me think. What are you doing?
燴嬡 Cleaning house.
- 繩票瞳崋 - 麼偝崋 Mabry? Maybe what?
- 扂岆挲繩票瞳 - 尕脹 No, Mabry. Hold on.
- 祥俴 - 妦 No. Why not?
斕祥夔敤裁譙.憚假掀 Because you can't trade Jeremy Giambi.
憩坻賸 鬲肅 He'll be fine, Ed.
妦扂紒腕斕婓扂晞皊 Why do I get the feeling you're picking my pocket?
扂衄 斕符扂晞皊 嫖憚假掀稛靡趼飲硉載嗣 I'm not. You're picking mine. Giambi's name alone is worth more.
- 坻衄妦?觳 - 坻?觳 What's wrong with him? Nothing.
垀眕稛呾岆挲疑賸 嶱宎酕恅璃賸? Can we say it's done in theory and start drawing up the paperwork?
- 疑勘 祥綎斕腕＃ - 疑賸 Okay, but you're gonna haVe... Great.
坻?砑挲? He was gonna say something else.
腕善砑猁腔隙湘憩?? When you get the answer you're looking for, hang up.
- 妶仴 - 婓 Suzanne. Yes?
- 諉湮苾.票縫痲佴價ㄗ菁杻薺橾誥?ㄘ - 疑 David Dombrowski. Okay.
- 驚慮珩腕軗 - 扂紒腕斕祥夔稛酕 And Pena's going too. I don't think you should do that.
扂淩腔紒腕斕祥夔稛 I really don't think you should do that.
扂猁慇杻皎跡踏俀憩奻 I want Hatteberg in the lineup tonight.
掀瞳 扂砑斕?脹珨脹 You need to take a minute.
扂淩腔紒腕斕猁砑奠婓酕妦 I think you seriously need to think about what you're doing.
- 秪斕竭祥邠 - 疑勘 Because you're upset. Okay.
扂衄妦砑善腔 What am I missing?
稛虳隅竭褣砃蝠渾 These are hard moves to explain to people.
衄?觳 杻 Why is that a problem, Pete?
砩蚚岈 掀瞳 Don't make an emotional decision, Billy.
湮苾.票縫痲佴價婓3?? David Dombrowski's on 3.
?翍 扂?猁酕憩酕賸 Look, we're gonna shake things up.
湮苾 驚慮猁鼠嶱堤忮賸 扂菴珨?籵眭斕 Dave. Pena's going on the block. You're my first call.
秪坻?掛?坻鞞腕竭替 Because he's making the rest of the team look bad.
坻腕踏爛腔陔?韃 He's gonna be a Rookie of the Year.
- 挲祥隅褫眕腢隴陎? - 坻筳隴陎 湮苾 Probably an All-Star. He's an All-Star, Dave.
祥 扂猁摽堔芘忒樓政踢 No. I want a reliever and cash.
疑勘 緻斕5煦? 湮苾 綎祥緊 Okay. You got five minutes, Dave. I'm not waiting.
掀瞳 驚慮岆隴陎腔蹋陛 Billy, Pena is an All-Star, okay?
彆斕敤裁坻 奧慇杻皎跡 稛桸衱傖髡 斕眭耋稛＃ And if you dump him and this Hatteberg thing doesn't work out, you know this is...
稛意隅逋眕?斕裁馱釬 This is the kind of decision that gets you fired.
淩腔 It is.
 斕挲腔 Yes, you're right.
扂褫夔裁馱釬 I may lose my job.
奧扂44腔 硐衄詢笢恅 In which case I'm a 44-year-old guy with a high school diploma
扂?砑冞扂躓莮湮 and a daughter I'd like to be able to send to college.
斕25 衄珖? You're 25 years old, with a degree from Yale
?衄竭堵腔馱釬?? and a pretty impressive apprenticeship.
扂?衄?瞄陑?觳 I don't think we're asking the right question.
扂砑扂???腔岆 I think the question we should be asking is,
斕眈陓扂?腔腢 do you believe in this thing or not?
扂陓 I do.
斕紒腕扂??剒猁 砃賤?腔?憩嶒賸 It's a problem you think we need to explain ourselves.
祥賤? ?掞 Don't. To anyone.
隴啞 Okay.
扂猁厥善菁賸 ?磐擁疑 Now, I'm gonna see this thing through, for better or worse.
斕硐猁豢偍扂 斕煦昴珨岆蚚 慇杻皎跡載衄呾 ?岆驚慮 Just tell me, do you project we'll win more with Hatteberg or Pena at first?
磐彆竭諉輪＃ It's close...
祥綎燴?奻慇杻皎跡載疑 but theoretically, Hatteberg.
饒扂??妦? What are we talking about, then?
票縫痲佴價衱湖賸 婓3? Dombrowski's on again, on 3.
庣 Yeah?
疑 褫眕 Okay, that'll work.
竭疑 ?衄珨璃岈 Great. I need one more thing.
阨  扂祥砑?赻撩腔婬 豪嫶惁阨 Soda. Yeah, I don't want my guys paying for soda.
扂猁斕緻扂腔阨娗?爛 I want you to stock my machine for three years.
扂岆庲淩腔 I'm serious.
疑賸 挲隅賸 Great. It's a deal.
豢偍驚慮 ?坻湖婦軗 Go tell Pena he's gotta pack.
- 斕猁扂豢偍驚慮 - 稛岆馱釬腔珨窒煦 You want me to tell Pena? Part of the job.
憚假掀儸 珩猁扂挲 What about Giambi? You want me to tell him too?
扂 I'll tell him.
- 湖狟 縐醫佴 - 妦岈 Excuse me, Carlos? Yeah?
- 扂夔睿斕?曆 - 疑腔 Can I speak with you a minute? Yeah.
縐醫佴 斕掩滖善菁杻薺橾誥?賸 Carlos, you've been traded to the Tigers.
稛岆.鰻??腔?? This is Jay Palmer's number.
坻岆?腔船藏奪燴贈 He's the traveling secretary for the team.
坻淏脹斕腔?? 坻?燴坻珨岈皊 He's expecting your call. He'll take care of everything.
- 憩稛賸? -  Is that it? Yes.
疑勘 Okay.
疑賸 Okay.
鬲杻 斕政婓衄諾 Art, you got a minute?
鉣 釴勘 Yeah. Take a seat.
踏俀斕祥夔忑追驚慮奻珨賸 斕猁蚚慇杻皎跡 You can't start Pena at first tonight. You'll have to start Hatteberg.
扂祥砑婬雀稛??觳 掀瞳 I don't wanna go 15 rounds, Billy.
瞎??腔岆扂 ?屾挲 The lineup card is mine, and that's all.
? 瞎??腔岆斕 That lineup card is definitely yours.
扂硐岆挲珨祥夔蚚驚慮賸 I'm just saying you can't start Pena at first.
韃 Well...
扂憩猁?坻珨 I am starting him at first.
扂砑祥俴賸 坻政婓菁杻薺虴薯賸 I don't think so. He plays for Detroit now.
斕軗賸驚慮ˋ You traded Pena?
嶒 Yeah.
?衄霤慮焂 洷?憚佴 坢譟掩賤賸 And Menechino, Hiljus, Tam are all being sent down.
- 斕?賸 - 岆韃 扂岆?赽 You are outside your mind. Yeah. Cuckoo.
- 斕砑?扂? -  譙 釴勘 You wanted to see me? Yeah, Jeremy, grab a seat.
譙 扂參斕善愐傑?賸 Jeremy, you've been traded to the Phillies.
稛岆鬲肅.璗肅腔?? 坻岆??燴 岆?疑 This is Ed Wade's number. He's a good guy, the GM.
斕緻坻湖??勘 He's expecting your call.
票肅斕?鵁 Buddy will help you with the plane flight.
斕岆?疑 譙 You're a good ballplayer, Jeremy,
蛅斕疑綅 and we wish you the best.
譙珩軗賸 Jeremy's gone too.
斕猁賸稛?? You're killing this team.
鬲杻 扂褫眕珨眻稛酕狟 Art, I can do this all day long.
稱 Hey.
斕森瑭?荽? You agree with this?
緲瑭衄 Hundred percent.
砑猁燊奻嬡 You want this door closed?
- 佴褪杻.H - 岆腔 珂汜? Scotty H. Sir?
- 諉華勘 - 疑腔 Go field some grounders. Yes, sir.
湮模?疑賸 Everybody, listen up.
珩偝斕?艘祥砉夢?? You may not look like a winning team...
筍斕?憩岆 but you are one.
垀眕... So...
踏俀湖堤夢?赽 play like one tonight.
猁韜賸 Oh, shit.
?善斕炰腔 斕腔湖薹岆.625 眈?譑陛 When you're getting your pitch, you're hitting.625, massive.
斕夔參湖惇 You're crushing the ball.
筍?斕...祥泔斕卍墿褒淏笢 But when you swing at things... Your pitch is middle-in.
奧岆堵腔岆腴俋褒 斕腔湖薹硐衄.158 When you're swinging low and away, you're batting.158.
藩?湖飲砉21腔珨?齪 Every at bat's like a hand of blackjack.
藩追俇珨?齪 擁飲褫夔楹屜 Every card that's dealt, your odds change.
垀眕珨筒菴珨?疑笢 斕腔薹憩狟蔥75? So every first-pitch strike, your batting average goes down about 75 points.
75?陛 Seventy-five points.
源芘忒?婓菴拻擁芘堤100? He should throw 100 pitches before the fifth.
斕?腕參忑追芘忒緻濛鰱狟 ?坻婓籟麟夎祥 You wanna knock that starter out.
扂猁斕?婓炵蹈?彶燊坋? 朼祫11?芘忒饒鏽逋湖 I want you taking at bats off the 10th and 11 th pitcher by the end.
稛夎腔緙?煦昴鞞尨賸 This is your basic breakdown of the pitches,
斕腔垀衄燴砑 眕摯??埻秪 where you should be hitting them, why.
- 垀眕斕岆猁扂?載嗣腕掩悵冞 - ?腕疑 岆腔 So you want us to walk more? Good question. Yes.
撝佴菱佴珂汜 Mr. Justice.
- 扂衄虳砑楊 - 岆 Had a few thoughts. Yeah?
- 岆腔 - 砑諒扂妦 Yeah. Gonna teach me some things?
妦 Excuse me?
?綎?燴 饒躲琌? Never seen a GM talk to players like that.
斕珩?綎?綎腔?燴勘 You never seen a GM who was a player.
慇 Huh.
- 衄妦?觳 湮苾 - 祥 妦 We got a problem, David? No, it's okay.
扂眭耋斕腔杶繚 I know your routine.
稛岆?腔 賸絻善虴彆 It's patter. It's for effect.
筍稛珨杶坻?疑蚚 扂蚚 But it's for them, all right? That shit ain't for me.
饒斕竭杻忷罹 Oh, you're special?
斕藩爛緻扂700藝啋 垀眕 岆腔 You're paying me 7 million bucks a year, man, so, yeah,
珩偝扂岆衄杻 maybe I am, a little bit.
祥 漞? 扂緻斕700 No, man, I ain't paying you 7.
栥價??賸斕珨圉郇阨 Yankees are paying half your salary.
稛憩岆憂廣栥價?斕腔僅 That's what the New York Yankees think of you.
坻?緻斕350藝啋 ?斕酕坻?腔忒 They're paying you $3.5 million to play against them.
斕善菁砑挲妦 掀瞳 Where you going with this, Billy?
湮苾 斕37賸 David, you're 37.
祥扂?拊啞 挲挲捨森砑猁妦 How about you and I be honest about what each of us want out of this?
扂猁掍補斕郔摽珨舒堵夔薯 I wanna milk the last ounce of baseball you got in you.
奧斕砑隱婓?奻 And you wanna stay in the show.
扂?磁釬勘 Let's do that.
扂祥岆斕崠?腔揱銓緻斕嫶 I'm not paying you for the player you used to be.
奧憩岆艘奻政婓腔斕 I'm paying you for the player you are right now.
斕竭?隴 斕隴啞扂?砑酕妦 You're smart. You get what we're trying to do here.
緻爛愩酕?埤勘 Make an example for the younger guys.
??薆氪 Be a leader.
斕夔酕善 Can you do that?
疑勘 扂眭耋賸 All right. I got you.
扂?眳嶲?觳賸勘 We're cool?
?觳 We're cool.
佴褪杻.H Scotty H.
- 斕疑 D.J. - 慇 Yo, what's up, D. J? Picking machine.
炰珨 漞? How you liking first base, man?
衄筳桯勘 餞鴦勘 It's coming along. Picking it up.
斕眭耋 滖?竭嬪褣 祥綎扂覜紒埣埣疑賸 You know, tough transition, but I'm starting to feel better with it.
- 岆 - 鉣 Yeah? Yeah.
斕郔鷓妦 What's your biggest fear?
睡陳扂鵁腔堵 A baseball being hit in my general direction.
竭疑虷 挲淩腔 岆妦 That's funny. Seriously, what is it?
淩腔 憩岆稛? No, seriously, that is.
稱 饒蛅斕疑綅陛 Well, hey, good luck with that.
猁嗣扦蝠陛 Be social out there.
- 扦蝠 - 扦蝠 憩砉GAP腔茩揝 Social. Social. Like a greeter at the Gap.
衄變善斕腔華屜 憩睿坻謐謐 Guy steps into your office, chat him up.
斕莮綎 奻綎 You're well-read. You went to school.
-  - 嶱陑 溫? Yeah. Have some fun. Relax.
藩?飲砑筳馴 祥猁橾砑筳馴 Everyone wants to attack. Quit trying to attack.
?掀?躲翍斕腔?軠軗 稛昹祥癹嶲腔 Let the game come to you, man. There's no clock on this thing.
稛岆?秏瘧 This is a war of attrition.
扂褫眕嗣溫綎 朼祫溫綎疑 掩悵冞奻腔薹珩埣湮 If I take more, I could even take a few strikes, but I'll get walked more.
硐猁奻 扂?憩湜 奻祥賸 扂?憩? You get on base, we win. You don't, we lose.
扂??? 脤哏 扂?? And I hate losing, Chavvie. I hate it.
掀砑湜 扂載??? I hate losing more than I even wanna win.
稛岆衄腔 And there's a difference.
- 祥猁茦傻湖 - 傻湖憩砩庤翍珨堤擁 No bunts. Bunts is an out.
- 憩呾忒摽豖珩祥俴 - 祥奪崋珩祥猁傻湖 Even if the third baseman is back? No bunting whatsoever.
彆源汊傻湖 眻諉緻珨 If someone bunts on us, throw it to first.
剩荎倯賸砑褞 Don't be a hero and go to second.
脹翍溢嶒悷 Let them make the mistakes.
斕溢嶒 稷祥猁湖坻? When your enemy's making mistakes, don't interrupt them.
坻?岆婓緻斕 ?斕杺坻?堤擁 They're giving you an out. Just giving it to you.
蚰蛂 耋珴憩疑 Take it. Say thank you.
?衄珨璃岈 祥猁寂 Another thing. No more stealing.
筍扂憩卍墿寂 斕嗶扂憩岆?扂寂 That's what I do, what you pay me to do.
扂嗶斕賸桴奻珨 祥岆賸掩諉婓媼 I pay you to get on first, not get thrown out at second.
稛岆?綎最 綎最 眭耋 This is a process. It's a process, it's a process. Okay?
伬ㄗ栥價腔憚假掀ㄘ諉蛂 緻媼 珨堤擁 綅模?腕珨煦 Jason takes it, goes to second for the only out, and the A 's get a run.
腯塋.渴衱珨盓湖 稛岆坻掀?笢腔菴媼盓賸 Jermaine Dye homers again, his second in two games.
綅模??婓厥 稛夎岆醴腔搪煦 ㄗ2002爛6堎6ㄘ And the A 's are still hanging in. We'll get you scores here.
綅模?睿毞妏?腔船掩嶺輪賸 硐船2憩夔衄?俋縐 The A 's pull within two of the Angels for the wild-card chase.
廠烝?政婓眒窣?5 The Reds haVe now dropped fiVe in a row
婓稛炵蹈?珨嶱宎憩掩親帗? 眕5掀3薆珂 as Oakland beats them in the beginning of this series 5 to 3.
坢慇絻掩悵冞賸 Tejada walks.
侐 Ball four.
侐 慇杻皎跡掩悵冞奻 Ball four and Hatteberg walks.
親帗追汜妦賸 綅模?眒窣鴦湜賸7 What is happening in Oakland? The A 's haVe won seven in a row.
淩岆鍔鶸 稛岆陰陛 A lot of excitement. What a winning streak.
祥岆鬲杻.慇??蛂賸?陑 But how about the calming influence of Art Howe?
彆祥岆硌扂麼氪杻 饒斕硌腔秏洘埭憩俇祥眭垀牼 When you say "your source," if it's not me or Peter, they don't know.
坻薆翍珨?祥肮都腔?斪 He's managing an unorthodox team.
-  - 稛?祥堤伎 Right. It's not a perfect roster.
筍政婓鬲杻.慇?符岆 稛盓?斪瞳腔埻秪 But right now, Art Howe is the reason this team is winning.
- 坻硉腕稛腔婪? - 疑 珴珴 婬? He deserves the credit. Great, thanks. Bye.
斕??賸 Did you hear that?
扂?善"窣鴦湜賸7" 斕鏽善親瞳痲帗?腔馴滅靡賸 I heard "seven in a row." You get the Cleveland matchups?
 憩婓稛夎 Yeah, right here.
- 票佴 - 掀瞳 Voos. Billy.
- 稛夎腔庤耋載褣?賸 - 扂稛憩?燴 That smell is getting worse. I'm on it.
- 踏俀崋湖呾 - 跪圉崋 What are we doing? Splitting it in half?
- 酘衵?飲猁 - 疑腔 Both sides of the plate. Got it.
- 禎舜 ?腕?繚 - 疑腔 珂汜 Huddy. Mix it up. Yes, sir.
- 眈陓斕腔唅滖 - 疑腔 Trust your slider, yeah? Yes, sir.
斕?婬?坻煦陑賸 You guys quit distracting him.
斕酖俀祥?摹翍湖饒虳?陛 You couldn't hit that shit last night with a paddle.
嗣脹鎰 You gotta see more pitches.
- 疑腔 掀瞳 - 猁衄騵陑 All right, Billy. Patience.
- 稱 湮苾 - 稱 掀瞳 Hey, David. Hey, Billy.
- 湖腕疑 - 珴珴 Great at bats. Thank you.
竭衄斮講 Really quality. Thank you.
衵俋珧假湖 坢慇絻腕煦 Base hit to right field. Tejada scores.
脤璗佴珩變隙掛賸 鵁綎賸屳? ChaVez coming in. The ball gets past Guiel.
綅模?眕5掀0邈摽 毀閉6掀5薆珂 The A 's, from 5-nothing down, now lead 6 to 5.
芘忒汜挭廢?
政婓親帗綅模??眻岆?燡珧醪 The Oakland A 's are completely out of hand at the moment.
藝?襠摽堔芘忒
坻?陂腕174? 岆藝?掛堎郔疑腔傖? They are an AL-best 17 and 4 this month.
坻?婓疏尪蕺睿憂廣珩諉窣陂 They also took back-to-back series at Boston and at new York.
??腕鞠堎坻?譙.憚假掀 敤緻愐傑? Remember when they traded Jeremy Giambi in June
垀衄飲庲坻?溫?賸 and everyone thought they'd just giVen up?
?淏眈毀 Actually, not so much.
2002 蝠眢諍砦
妶仴 諉妢巖縫?? Suzanne, get Shapiro on the phone.
- 斕砑猁輿艙? -  坻腔?撫磐旰賸 坻陓陑賸 You thinking Rincon? His season's done. He's lost faith.
- 扂砑醪親??坻 - 笨腕鏝陛 I think he's gonna dump him. Hard-core.
妢巖縫婓2? Shapiro on 2.
醪親 岆扂掀瞳 扂?嶱嬡?刓勘 Mark, Billy. Let's be honest.
蕞珨??凅腔摽堔芘忒岆祥褫夔 斕湜腕撫摽?腔 A premier setup man isn't gonna get you closer to the play-offs.
斕岆硌輿艙 Are you referring to Rincon?
漞? 斕褫?祥稛?异喂 He's a luxury you can't afford, man.
斕夔 坻磁肮奻?猁葆50 And you can? There's half a million on his contract.
奧猁惁坻腔祥砦珨?陛 And we'Ve got at least one other suitor.
"祥砦珨?"憩岆硐衄珨?勘 By "at least one," you mean one.
- 岆掞 - 扂祥砑挲 Who is it? I'd rather not say.
黯踢刓操? San Francisco. San Francisco.
綎婬湖緻斕 I'll call you back.
斕紒腕扂?蚚?跡慮舜夔掞 What do you think we can get for Magnante?
妦珩祥賸 Nothing.
- 璗慮痲縫腔磁肮奻?呁嗣屾 - 27.5 What's left on Venafro's contract? Two seventy-five.
妶仴 扂諉揝塋 Suzanne, get me Sabean on the line.
?操?鶸滖善璗慮痲縫旯奻 猁惁輿艙腔憩硐呁珨? Get the Giants interested in Venafro, Mark's only got one buyer for Rincon.
- 憩岆扂? - 坻婓3?? Us. On 3.
灺掀 扂岆掀瞳 斕紒腕璗慮痲縫崋 Saby-Sabster, it's Billy. What do you think of Venafro?
扂圉敤圉冞?緻斕 I can let you have him for almost nothing.
- 斕假腔妦陑儸 - 秪扂岆?疑 Why would you do that? Because I'm amazing.
扂憩猁嫶睿珨?蜇樓璃 I want a couple bucks and a sweetener.
斕憩緻扂＃ Throw in, say...
- 假肅伬 - 假肅伬 Anderson. Anderson.
- 扂炰假肅伬 - 斕符祥 炰假肅伬 I like Anderson. No, you don't. Nobody likes him.
扂飲祥眭耋扂鎰稛酕 筍憩稛勘 I don't know why I'm doing this. But let's do it.
- 璗慮痲縫腯親?伬 - 假肅伬 - 扂岆挲假肅伬 扂飲祥眭耋坻請妦 Venafro for Michaelson. Anderson. I don't know his name.
- 扂蕉狟 - 疑疑蕉 緻扂?? I'll think about it. Think about it and call me back.
諉妢巖縫 Get Shapiro on.
妢巖縫婓2? Shapiro's on 2.
- 醪親 - 斕惁祥坻 掀瞳 Mark. You can't afford him, Billy.
斕復隅 You sure about that?
崋扂紒腕輿艙妦庈賸 I get the impression the market for Rincon is softening.
- 陛? - 扂褫夔?嶒賸 Huh? I could be wrong,
彆扂岆斕 but I'd call whoever's interested
扂湖緻眳衄鶸腔?? ?腕隙扂??韃 and see if they're still interested. Call me back.
- 湮飲?璗慮痲縫衄鶸 - 斕?參坻侵緻操?陛 What about the Mets for Venafro? You offered him to the Giants.
妶仴 諉妢菱痲.鵁瞳 Suzanne, Steve Phillips.
操衄堊? 諫杻 鰍 妢焂 符祥猁璗慮痲縫 Between Bonds, Kent, Nen, Snow, San Francisco's never gonna do it.
- 俇肮砩 - 扂?硐岆猁坻?溫?輿艙 Totally agree. We just need them to cool on Rincon.
- 鵁瞳婓2? - 妢菱痲 岆扂掀瞳 Phillips on 2. Steve-o, it's Billy.
扂?挲斕砑猁酘忒摽堔芘忒 扂褫眕緻斕璗慮痲縫 I hear you're looking for a reliever. I can give you Venafro.
- ?賸? - 斕衄伅 I can make it quick and easy. What's the angle?
- 陛 - 饒斕砑塹變掞 No angle. Who am I getting fleeced for?
- 脹脹 - 掛慮杻崋 Hang on a sec. Uh, Bennett, maybe?
- 爛 - 26 How old? Twenty-six.
26 ?婓2Aㄗ鑠璵摽腔苤?襠ㄘ 祥俴 Twenty-six, Double-A? Forget it.
?諫 祥俴 Duncan, no.
祥俴 艇票妦 祥俴 No. Furbush, no.
鬲諫杻崋 憩 Eckerton? Eckerton? Eckerton.
Eckerton.
- 扂炰鬲諫杻 - 斕跦掛飲祥眭耋坻岆掞 I like Eckerton. You don't even know who Eckerton is.
- 璗慮痲縫忳賸 - 衄 坻竭疑 Is Venafro hurt? No, he's fine, he's fine.
硐岆扂?窒衄?觳 It's just an issue for us.
- 眳棒 坻芘飲掩鵁賸 - 祥岆坻腔?觳 Last couple times, he got hammered. Not his fault.
- 岆扂?腔?觳 習謹嶒悷 - 岆妢菱痲 That was us. We misused him. It's Steve.
- 憩辦疑賸 - 妢菱痲.伔杻ㄗ橾?ㄘ I'm almost done. Steve Schott.
- ?尕脹 坻婓湖?? - ?翍妢菱痲 扂眻諉躲斕挲勘 Look, Steve-o, let me be straight with you.
岆稛腔 扂猁賸輿艙 眒??疑賸 Here's the deal. I'm getting Rincon. It's a done deal.
- 筍扂?挲操?＃ - 祥 操?砑蚚腯親?伬璗慮痲縫 I heard the Giants... Giants want Venafro for Michaelson.
- 岆假肅伬 - 扂??緻斕 Anderson. I'd rather deal with you.
斕褫眕緻扂鬲諫杻睿22.5政踢 You can give me Eckerton and $225,000 in cash,
操?妦飲衄 and the Giants can't.
- 扂蕉珨狟 - 蕉勘 I'll think about it. Think about it.
祥綎掞珂隙扂?? 璗慮痲縫憩掞 But whoever calls me back first gets Venafro.
伔杻ㄗ橾?ㄘ賸 Schott hung up.
扂珨隅猁傖髡 Oh, I want this one.
妦湖陛 Why isn't anybody calling?
妢巖縫婓2? Shapiro's on 2.
庣 Yeah?
疑 扂躲橾??? 摽隙斕?? 珴珴 Okay, let me talk to my owner. I'll call you back.
- 諉妢菱痲腔?? - 伔杻ㄗ橾?ㄘ?岆鵁瞳ㄗ湮飲ㄘ Get Steve on the phone. Schott or Phillips?
扂猁湖緻鵁瞳 ?岆坻湖緻扂? Why would we call Phillips? Phillips has gotta call us.
豢偍坻 扂?婓湖?? Tell him I'm on the other line.
鉖 伔杻珂汜 扂岆杻.票帗肅 竭惕猁斕脹緊 Hi, Mr. Schott, it's Peter Brand. I apologize for putting you on hold.
- 掀瞳請扂隙斕?? 坻?婓湖?? - 挲扂?猁22.5惁輿艙 Billy asked me to call you back. Tell him we want 225,000 for Rincon.
掀瞳挲坻猁22.5惁夎縐嗣.輿艙 Billy says he needs $225,000 for Ricardo Rincon.
?斕 Please.
岆 岆扂樓腔"?斕"媼趼 Yes, I added the "please" at the end.
疑勘 扂...?尕脹珨狟 Okay. Let me... Hold on one second, please.
豢偍坻 扂緻嫶 Tell him I'll pay for him.
筍彆隴爛扂參坻敤賸褞捷嫶 饒?腕扂 But when I sell him back for twice the amount next year, I keep the money.
疑 掀瞳挲坻赻撩葆嫶惁輿艙 Okay, so Billy says he'll pay for Rincon himself.
筍隴爛彆敤賸詢 瞳?飲坻賸 But when he sells him for more money next year, he's keeping the profit.
準都覜珴 扂?婬湖緻斕 珴珴 Thank you very much. We'll call you back. Thank you.
陛 婬 Come on. Come on.
妶仴 湖緻妢巖縫 呾賸 坻湖賸 Suzanne, call Shapiro ba... Never mind, I got him right here.
醪親 岆扂 Mark. Yeah.
?翍 扂褫祥猁輿艙踏俀躲扂湖怢 Listen, I don't want Rincon pitching against me tonight.
豢偍坻?督 冞坻綎 嫶疑賸 Tell him to change clothes and send him over. I got you the money.
 Yup.
怮疑賸 Great.
扂祥砑煬 筍扂?衄賸輿艙... I don't wanna dampen the mood at all, but since we picked up Rincon...
憩猁杺議?堤擁賸 We gotta send someone down.
- ?跡 - 鉖 掀瞳 Mags. Hey, Billy.
扂眭耋郔輪扂衄勛薯 I know I've been struggling lately.
筍狟圉?撫珨隅衄蜊囡腔 夎睿扂砑善＃ But second half of the season, definitely turn it around. Ricky and l...
?跡 祥猁婬淕娊賸 Mike, I need you to stop getting dressed.
扂掩敤賸? Traded?
竭惕緻斕秏洘 I'm sorry for the crap news.
扂眭耋稛竭芫賴 I know it hurts.
?跡 ?夎祥夔衄26? Mike, I can't have 26 guys in the clubhouse.
扂眭耋 扂眭耋 I get it. I get it.
疑腔 珴珴 Okay. Thanks.
稱 夎縐嗣 Hey, Ricardo.
- 斕疑 珂汜 - 斕疑
稛珨隅?斕勛賸珨譑勘 This must be a bit of a shock, I guess.
繩票瞳笢珨 鵁筳笢衵俋珧 Mabry hits one deep to right-center field.
變氪眒變隙掛 滑親諉祥善賸 Racing back, Fick can't get it.
?善腕煦齪啣奻 珨?變隙掛 ?變隙掛 It bounces to the wall. One run is in. Two runs are in.
繩票瞳珨眳嶲 憩緻綅模?薆珂 Mabry, on one pitch, has shot the A 's in front.
淥 綅模?窣12賸 ㄗ窣ㄘ Strike three called. TwelVe straight wins for the Athletics.
毞儸 怮祥褫佷荽賸 Man aliVe, was it hairy.
親帗堤賸墅岈賸 Something strange is now happening in Oakland.
- 政婓煦褫离疶賸 - 窣12 You cannot argue that point. TwelVe straight.
坻??藝堵?襠傖賸虷? They're making a joke out of the American League.
- 坻?踏毞婓菁杻薺 - 坻緻珨 They were in Detroit today... He throws to first.
稛憩岆14窣腔網 And that's the sound of 14 straight Victories.
14 稛岆踏爛腔郔詢?? Fourteen, the longest run this year.
綅模?眒?戀汔善藝?昹菴珨靡 瞳珨追祥褫彶夆 It has slingshot the A 's into first in the AL West. A nice streak.
稛盓?崠?珨僅掩髑 This team was written off.
睡賤?坻?腕腔譑瞳 How do you explain, otherwise, the Victories they'Ve come up with?
親帗綅模?湜腕賸16窣 The Oakland A 's are gonna win 16 consecutiVe games.
稛岆25爛堵賜郔墿腔窣?? 罠?? This is the longest win streak in baseball, folks, in 25 years.
綅模?眒?窣16賸 The A 's haVe won 16 in a row.
扂?猁20窣 20窣 We're going to 20! We're going to 20!
猁窣鴦湜善政婓 ?斪珨隅竭?凅 To haVe a winning streak of this duration, you haVe to be good,
筍稛夎醱珩衄髒俶 but there's an element of randomness to it.
1927爛腔栥價? 衄繚肅 屳跡 ?衄忒湖?ㄗ緻?爛栥價??湮?腔糒想ㄘ The 1927 Yankees, Ruth, Gehrig,
祫踏衄庲岆郔?凅腔? Murderers' Row, some people still say the best team ever.
坻??爛郔墿腔瞳岆嗣屾 9窣 Longest winning streak for them that year? Nine.
斕砑蚚珨炵蹈腔罠煦昴稛岈 You guys try to analyze it from a numbers standpoint.
扂豢偍斕 政婓追汜腔岈 楊賤? I'm telling you, there is no explanation for what's occurring right now.
斕岆蚚賸妦拵胍 Do you haVe superstitions going on?
斕酕賸妦符夔悵厥窣腔? Do you do things so you keep the streak aliVe?
廢?腔20窣艘 準祥褫夔 The all-time record of 20 does not seem impossible anymore.
踏毞綅模?奻賸憂廣測褭庹 The A 's were on page one of the New York Times.
坻?岆淕?模闚郤賜腔 They are the story in sports in this entire country.
疑 艘稛? Two-two pitch, here it is.
堵邈諾 淥堤擁 菴17 Swing and a miss! Struck him out! Number 17!
蚚71爛賸 It's taken 71 years.
親帗綅模?賸愐傑?腔廢? The Oakland A 's haVe tied the Philadelphia A 's.
諾稷摽腔17窣?? The all-time franchise record 17 straight
赻1953爛眕 堵妢奻郔墿腔窣?? and baseball's longest winning streak since 1953.
?船 綅模?憩夔賸藝???賸 The A 's are two wins away from tying the American League record.
鵁堤賸 鵁堤賸 坢慇絻湖 斕?夔眈陓 It's gone! It's gone! Tejada wins it! Do you believe it?
窣18 Eighteen wins in a row!
斕?褫眕笭恚艘饒18棒掀?100梢 You could replay these 18 games a hundred times oVer.
夔婬棒窣18 And nobody wins 18 straight again.
稛?葡賸扂?堵垀衄腔罠癩 It defies everything we know about baseball.
綎4毞夎 湮闚郤夎追汜賸 The most amazing thing you could imagine
斕夔砑砉善郔朸腔岈 happened oVer the last four days at the coliseum.
坢慇絻 眻鵁笢珧 綅模?窣19賸 Tejada, up the middle. The A 's haVe won 19 in a row!
1906爛腔啞烝? The 1906 White Sox,
1947爛腔栥價? 坻?衄圈賸 the 1947 new York Yankees haVe company.
窣19 Nineteen in a row.
綅模?鷂瞳衄廣 The A 's haVe a date with destiny.
坻?眻掉藝?襠?腔??奧 They're going for the all-time American League record,
窣20 20 games in a row.
扂?猁20窣 扂?猁參????芃陔善20窣 We're going to 20! We're gonna take the AL record to 20, baby!
2002爛 9堎4
豢偍扂煦 杻 Don't tell me the score, Pete.
祥 掀瞳 岆扂 No, Billy, it's me.
- 伔? - 岆腔 Sharon? Yeah.
- 斕衄嶲 - 衄 崋賸 You haVe a second? Yeah, what's up?
扂給砑善斕諉 Well, I didn't actually expect you to pick up.
掛砑隱?諳陓腔 I was gonna leaVe a message.
昹睿扂 扂?婓模淏婓艘掀? Um, casey and I, we're here and watching the game at home.
扂砑豢偍斕 And I just wanted to say...
斕酕腕竭堵 掀瞳 you did good, Billy.
扂?斕?偭 We're really proud of you.
珴珴 伔? I appreciate it, Sharon.
- 珴珴 - 蛅斕疑綅 Thank you. Good luck.
鉣 Okay.
昹砑躲斕挲? 脹脹 Oh, casey wants to talk to you. Hang on.
斕淏婓綅腔繚奻 Are you on your way to the stadium?
祥 扂淏猁鋤?瞳? 艘扂?腔苤?襠?? ㄗ蜇黺湮?襠?斪?冞摽餞?ㄘ No, I'm on my way to Visalia to see our minor-league team.
- 辦裁螹陛 啄啄 - 嬡 Turn around, please, Dad. No way, Jose.
- 裁螹勘 問? 橾啄 - 祥 祥俴 Turn around. Come on, Dad. Nope. Not gonna happen.
斕祥塌綅徽 You're not gonna jinx it.
隙螹婬謐 泫陑 扂斕 I'll talk to you later, sweetheart. I love you.
?腔 Shit.
菴侐擁珨堤擁 彆斕?滖善稛?螿耋 One out here in the fourth, and if you're just joining us,
斕嶒綎賸竭嗣儕粗陛 you missed a lot.
?善悵縫.甡揝攝? 珨疑 And the pitch to Raul Ibanez. Strike one.
扂腔?扴竭? I think my recap will be simple.
綅模?菴珨擁腕賸6煦 菴媼擁1煦 菴擁4煦 The A 's scored six in the first, one in the second, four in the third.
斕挲腕稛愩 ?善腔勛譑徽 慇慇慇 And people would be shocked if you just did that. Heh-heh-heh.
11掀0 綅模?薆珂 Eleven to nothing, the A 's do lead.
- ?腔 - 賜俋 疑＃ Shit. Foul off the foot of Ibanez...
茇陛 親帗 Let's go, Oakland!
政婓奻 2? 眸忒票帗杻.繩塋 Now batting, number 2, catcher, Brent Mayne.
- 親帗 - 奻陛 親帗 Oakland! Here we go, Oakland!
Two.
假奻 Safe.
政婓奻 Now batting,
18? 酘俋珧忒悵縫.甡揝攝? number 18, left fielder Raul Ibanez.
假隙 Safe.
政婓綅模?眕11掀3薆珂 And the A 's now lead by a score of 11 to 3.
?茇狟岆祥嶒 筍祥?緻忒 A nice cushion, but you don't wanna giVe teams life
祥夔?坻?衄楹屜腔 撈妏薆珂＃ and let them wedge their way back in, even when you're...
堤擁  Nobody out, the bases loaded.
鬲杻.慇?淏軗砃芘忒 猁釬芘捼淕 And Art Howe on the way to the mound to make a pitching change.
稛掀?腔擁醱褫夔 And this game is still in a state
閉堤綅模?腔梪諷 where it could get out of control for the Athletics.
議?覦 ?衄豢偍扂? 祥夔婬俙苤滯赽腔絿 We're all told at some point we can no longer play the children's game.
硐岆祥眭耋岆睡 We just don't know when that's gonna be.
褫夔岆婓18 褫夔岆婓40 筍扂??衄饒?覦 Some of us are told at 18, some of us are told at 40, but we're all told.
政婓岆?親.佴鋤攝湖 珨衄 Mike Sweeney with runners at first and third.
政婓掀煦11掀7 綅模?薆珂 It's an 11-to-7 game, the A 's in front.
坢譟脹翍芘忒忒 Tam peering in for the sign.
堤擁 珨衄 Two out. Runners at first and third.
疑ㄗ眒 狟珨猁 堤擁森擁磐旰 猁褫夔腕煦ㄘ And the 3-2 deliVery.
ㄗ稛岆湖 稛珨衄 砩庤翍珨狟赽腕煦ㄘ
稛怮墅賸掀瞳 It's weird, Billy.
斕砑溫?湖堵 ?抻ˋ You wanna giVe up baseball to become a scout?
扂祥岆堵忒 I'm not a baseball player.
斕復隅稛岆斕砑猁腔 Are you sure this is what you want?
婓臢祄 諫妦疑賸 疑珨 The crowd is roaring. Koch is ready. One-two pitch.
陝爵昹?湖堤賸 說?鵁善酘俋珧 珨盓假湖 Alicea puts it in play, a looper to left field for a base hit.
變綎 眻茇掛 煦賸 Around third, tearing for the plate, here comes the tying run.
賑傖髡 褞源11煦 Sliding safe. And the ball game is tied at 11-all.
奻著陛 Holy Toledo.
綅模?檢愐賸11掀0腔薆珂? The A 's haVe blown an 11-to-nothing lead.
赻銘模?婓菴侐擁腕善5煦摽 This is the specter of a development that has been lurking now
?陑螹腔謁酷嶱宎雞晊賸 ever since the fiVe-run fourth inning by the Royals.
綅模?鷂瞳腔廣堤政礿賸 And the A 's date with destiny is on hold right now.
慇杻皎跡 慇杻 Hatteberg. Hattie.
鏽奻堵 斕測票帗慮佴 Grab a bat. You're hitting for Byrnesy.
辦  旯 Come on, let's go. Get yourself loose.
除夎親.票帗慮佴測湖 Hitting for Eric Byrnes,
10? 佴褪杻.慇杻皎跡 number 10, Scott Hatteberg.
偌綅模?都腔餫跡 巖賸夔奻腔奻 In your typical A 's fashion. They want a base runner here.
佴褪杻.慇杻皎跡卍墿腕侐悵冞 Scott Hatteberg is so adept at drawing walks.
諒?岆砑?慇杻皎跡奻 He's looking for Hatteberg to get on base,
婬測變 maybe bring in a pinch runner.
奻陛 親帗 Let's go, Oakland!
鵁堤賸ㄗ湖) That one is gone!
稛岆親帗綅模? 菴20窣鴦瞳 And it's 20 consecutiVe Victories for the Oakland Athletics
婓稛?祥褫佷荽腔珗俀 on an unbelieVable night
坻?囮賸11掀0腔?眳摽 when they lost an 11-to-nothing lead
郔摽湮陂 and now they win it.
笭陔疪?遼 The crowd comes back to insane life.
稛岆祥賤眳譎陛 How do you explain it?
?賸 俇岆?賸 Crazy. Just plain crazy.
慇杻皎跡婓掛奻掩湮模婦 Hatteberg is mobbed at home plate.
婓藝堵?襠103爛腔妢奻 In 103 years of American League baseball,
綅模?腔瞳嘉 the Athletics haVe accomplished what no one has before.
坻?窣鴦湜腕賸20瞳 They haVe won 20 consecutiVe games.
斕楊祥奻堵 It's hard not to be romantic about baseball.
稛意呏岈 岆譎腔遼 This kind of thing, it's fun for the fans.
滇湮敤 僩忮騔 It sells tickets and hot dogs.
筍瑭砩膽 Doesn't mean anything.
掀瞳 扂??窣20陛 Billy, we just won 20 games in a row.
垀眕儸 And what's the point?
扂??婖賸?? We just got the record.
漞? 扂酕稛俴眒?＃ Man, I've been doing this for...
?翍 漞? Listen, man.
扂婓稛珨俴腔嶲竭墿賸 I've been in this game a long time.
扂祥岆賸廢?腔 豢偍斕 I'm not in it for a record, I'll tell you that.
扂祥岆賸夢?硌虐 I'm not in it for a ring.
稛意緊 ?衄葆堤測 That's when people get hurt.
彆郔摽珨夢??扂??賸 If we don't win the last game of the Series,
坻?桽祥婓砩扂? they'll dismiss us.
- 掀瞳... - 扂猓賤稛虳 Billy... I know these guys.
扂眭耋坻?腔砑楊 坻?蘑扂?腔傖憩 I know the way they think, and they will erase us.
扂?酕腔珨 And everything we've done here,
坻?飲瑭砩膽 none of it'll matter.
坻睡?湜賸夢??飲岆璃疑岈 Any other team wins the World Series, good for them.
坻?嶱眅? 陂腕夢?賭 They're drinking champagne, they get a ring.
筍彆扂?湜賸 But if we win,
蚚稛腔蕼呾 稛腔? on our budget, with this team...
扂?憩蜊?賸珨絿? we'll have changed the game.
稛符岆扂猁腔 And that's what I want.
扂猁稛岈隱狟砩膽 I want it to mean something.
親帗綅模? 翍昹夢?螹?筳撫摽? The A 's going to the play-offs with the West DiVision title.
坻??帤湮佹蛅 稛衄褫埻 ForgiVe the A 's if they're not celebrating.
坻?眳珩軗善綎稛夎 They haVe been here before,
憩婓爛 綅模?婓藝?撫緊 煦??窣湜綎栥價 when Oakland went up two games to none on the Yanks in the ALDS,
眳摽眻? 獡迼奧 and went nowhere after losing three straight.
踏毞湜賸褞傑? 親帗?婓1992爛摽 With a win today oVer the Twins, Oakland moVes into the ALcS
菴珨棒穻筳藝?夢?? for the first time since 1992.
筍?蛂珨璃岈 But remember one thing.
淕??撫腔湖薹褫眕竭詢 褫岆憩珨掀? 珨?湖?奧晟 Percentages hold up oVer a season, but for one game, one at bat,
湖薹衄睡砩膽 throw the percentages out the window.
隴攝妶絻褞赽?課繞賸 親帗綅模?腔淩眈 What the Minnesota Twins exposed is the fact that the Oakland A 's
坻?皺噶祥岆珨盓?薯穻腔? were fundamentally not a sound baseball team.
??燴善秷黨飲?翍珨? They had a flawed concept that started with the general manager
嶒悷腔罠癩 憩岆坻?褫眕蜊?堵? and the brain trust thinking they could reinVent baseball.
祥夔蚚諾笢憨腔緙?衙癩 You can't approach baseball
??堵綅 from a statistical, bean-counting point of View.
瞳剒猁籵綎?湖?腔掀?符夔陂腕 It's won on the field with fundamental play.
斕腕寂 傻湖 汊 You haVe to steal, you haVe to bunt, you haVe to sacrifice.
斕腕??桴奻腕煦弇 婬冞坻?隙 You gotta get men in scoring position, and you gotta bring them in.
稛祥岆蚚珨剽緙?腔豪桸憩夔腔 And you don't do that with a bunch of statistical gimmicks.
衄褫眕蜊?絿? Nobody reinVents this game.
岆扂 Yeah.
扂砩苤艘親帗翋 祥綎稛符岆淩淏腔堵 Due respect to the Coliseum, but this is a ballpark.
嶒 Yes, it is.
珨珨勛敁?勘 We're gonna have some lunch in a little bit.
扂縉溜 Why don't I have some coffee sent up?
Denise?
珴珴斕 竣攝佴 Thank you, Denise.
- 珴珴 - 燊 Thanks. You're welcome.
斕眭耋 坴汜善賸 扂?冞坴汜跎昜 You know, it's her birthday and I need to get her a present,
筍籵都坴符岆扂泔跎昜腔 but she's usually the one that does that for me.
斕衄妦枑荽 So do you have any ideas?
踫 Scarf.
斕岆挲栺禱腔? You mean like wool?
祥 扂岆硌躓蚚釬?腔饒意 No, I meant what women wear with... You know, decorative.
陛 扂善闡惁稛?陛 Ah. And where would I get something like that?
扂祥砑囮跎 筍扂眒窣鴦爛?裁煦? No disrespect, I just lost in five for the second year in a row.
扂硐砑冞坴硐悵 Get her a bowling ball for all I care.
挲腕珩岆 Right.
妢菱痲豢偍扂坻眒?枑堤賸鴦廣 Well, Steve told me he's offering you a new contract.
岆腔 Yes.
饒斕妦猁隙扂?? So why did you return my call?
秪稛岆廠烝? Because it's the Red Sox.
秪扂眈陓褪褫眕賤?掀?佴腔藹紸 (1920爛廠烝??掀?佴掩敤摽唵紸 廠烝?楊婬腕夢?) Because I believe science might offer an answer to the Curse of the Bambino.
- 秪扂?挲斕賸掀?.梐譟佴 -  Because I hear you hired Bill James. Yup.
妦猁稛壅符衄坻 扂淩砑祥籵 You know, why someone took so long to hire that guy is beyond me.
堵賜祥炰坻 Well, baseball hates him.
岆腔 堵賜褫眕??坻 Well, baseball can hate him, you know.
嫶腔珨湮疑?憩岆褫眕惁竭嗣昹 One of the great things about money is that it buys a lot of things,
稛意异喂婦嬤賸 祥蚚奪堵賜炰妦 one of which is the luxury to disregard what baseball likes,
堵賜祥炰妦 坳崋砑 祥崋砑 doesn't like, what baseball thinks, doesn't think.
?竭邠 Ah. Sounds nice.
Well...
扂竭覜慾斕腔? I was grateful for the call.
- 斕竭覜慾? -  You were grateful? Yeah.
斕蚚4100藝啋瞎膘賸?? For 41 million, you built a play-off team.
斕囮賸渴蟹 憚假掀 畛佴輿瑰伬 驚慮 You lost Damon, Giambi, Isringhausen, Pena,
摽斕湜腔掀? 掀坻?婓腔緊載嗣 and you won more games without them than you did with them.
斕湜腔掀?躲栥價?珨嗣 You won the exact same number of games that the Yankees won,
筍栥價?藩瞳歙豪愐1400藝啋 but the Yankees spent 1.4 million per win,
奧斕硐葆堤賸26藝啋 and you paid 260,000.
扂眭耋斕鑪褣腕舒悛 筍菴珨?湖檣?腔 I know you're taking it in the teeth, but the first guy through the wall,
?岆?忳渥殏腔 he always gets bloody.
?岆 稛祥哏爍善淕??耀宒 Always. This is threatening not just a way of doing business,
婓坻?腔陑醴笢 稛哏爍善淕?綅燴癩 but in their minds, it's threatening the game.
淩腔 稛哏爍善坻?腔汜湔源宒 坻?腔?俖 Really, what it's threatening is their livelihood, their jobs.
哏爍善坻?酕岈腔源宒 It's threatening the way that they do things.
藩棒堤政稛意岈 Every time that happens,
?岆淉葬俴 ?岆妀俴 ?岆妦 whether it's a government, a way of doing business, whatever,
忒挍梪諷腔 the people who are holding the reins,
褫眕珨忒殑毞腔 they have their hands on the switch,
坻?追? they go batshit crazy.
斕艘 饒虳祥莞汃政衄? I mean, anybody who's not tearing their team down right now
祥偌斕腔耀宒笭瞎?腔 and rebuilding it using your model,
坻?憩岆稷腔謁? they're dinosaurs.
踏爛10堎 坻?釴婓赻模伈追奻 They'll be sitting on their ass on the sofa in October
桉??艘翍疏尪蕺廠烝? 湜腕岍賜湮?夢? watching the Boston Red Sox win the World Series.
稛岆妦 What's this?
扂猁斕?扂腔??燴 稛岆扂嶱腔 I want you to be my general manager. That's my offer.
蛁砩陛 Heads up.
斕鎰陛 What was that?
- 惕 扂珩祥眭耋 - 斕詻妦陛 Sorry. I don't know. What the hell was that?
斕?喭螹 You knucklehead.
疏尪蕺眳俴睡 How was Boston?
荂砓旮覦 Impressive.
箋瞳?緻賸斕竭疑腔渾郣勘 Did Henry make you a good offer, at least?
- 燊駟猁 妦腔 - 岆崋 岆崋 Doesn't matter. Doesn't matter. What was it? What was it?
- 稛燊駟猁 - 善菁岆妦 Doesn't matter. What was it?
斕岆闚郤妢奻 郇阨郔詢腔?燴陛 That makes you the highest-paid GM in the history of sports.
垀眕儸 So?
衱崋 So what?
扂崠?酕綎珨?砃嫶艘腔隅 I made one decision in my life based on money.
扂追綎岉 稷祥婬溢 And I swore I would never do it again.
斕稛棒祥岆賸嫶 You're not doing it for the money.
- 祥岆 - 祥岆 No? No.
斕岆賸稛嫶腔砩膽 You're doing it for what the money says.
坳測桶翍藩??湮嫶腔 飲眭耋腔砩膽 And it says what it says to any player that makes big money.
憩岆坻?硉腕稛?嫶 That they're worth it.
稛飲妦? What a dump.
扂淩腔砑婓稛夎腕瞳 I really wanted to win here.
扂淩腔砑 I really did.
扂紒腕斕眒?湮陂賸 掀瞳 I think you won pretty big, Billy.
杻 扂??賸 Pete, we lost.
扂??賸 We lost.
符毞奧眒 斕腕緻赻撩珨嶲軗堤 It's only been a few days. Give yourself some time to get over it.
漞? 扂蚗罫?祥賸稛? Man, I don't get over these things.
蚗罫 Ever.
躲扂善?砉弅 衄昹緻斕艘 Come with me to the video room. I wanna show you something.
祥賸 扂政婓陑 No, man, I'm not up for film right now.
 挲淩腔 Come on. Seriously.
綎 掀瞳 躲扂 Come on, Billy. Come on.
鋤瞳?腔親帗苤?襠? The Visalia Oaks
眕摯扂?220踝腔眸忒譙.票檄 and our 240-pound catcher, Jeremy Brown,
斕眭耋腔 ?坻變媼岆猁坻韜賸 who, as you know, is scared to run to second base.
稛岆鞠笚腔珨掀? This was in a game six weeks ago.
稛?芘辦 This guy's gonna start with a fastball.
譙猁參湖善笢摽源 Jeremy's gonna take him to deep center.
稛岆郔衄腔華源賸 Here's what's interesting,
秪譙湖呾酕 坻酕綎腔岈 because Jeremy's gonna do what he never does.
坻猁賸 He's gonna go for it.
坻錐綎珨 摽薯茇砃媼 He's gonna round first and he's gonna go for it.
疑賸 Okay?
稛?眻憩岆譙腔堿傖淩 This is all of Jeremy's nightmares coming to life.
- 坻?婓虷?坻 - 譙醪奻憩猁眭耋妦賸 Aw, they're laughing at him. And Jeremy's about to find out why.
譙砩舑善 Jeremy's about to realize
鵁堤賸60荎喜罫 that the ball went 60 feet over the fence.
坻湖堤賸湖 奧赻撩飲追紒 He hit a home run and didn't even realize it.
斕崋夔祥奻堵 ㄗ襖螹ㄘ How can you not be romantic about baseball?
- 稛岆婓螛郟斕 - 扂眭耋岆婓挲扂 It's a metaphor. I know it's a metaphor.
疑賸 Okay.
杻 斕岆?疑 Pete, you're a good egg.
扂湖緻斕 I'll call you.
稱 橾啄 稛岆扂挲賸?庨腔貉 Hey, Dad, this is the song I told you I'd record.
祥猁緻?陛 Please don't show it to anyone else.
彆斕蜊?翋砩 隱婓樓瞳腦瞳? ?腕豢偍扂 Let me know if you change your mind and stay in california.
撈妏衄 斕珩岆郔疑腔啄啄 If not, you're a really great dad.
* 扂衄酘衵褣 * * I'm just a little bit caught in the middle *
* 汜魂岆釱譎 岆?猞 * * Life is a maze And loVe is a riddle *
* 扂祥眭耋?闡 扂楊?赻俇傖 扂贗薯賸 * * I don't know where to go can't do it alone, I'Ve tried *
* 扂祥眭耋妦 * * And I don't know why *
* 扂硐岆?譎囮婓森覦腔苤躓滯 * * I'm just a little girl Lost in the moment *
* ?奪漲鷓 筍扂祥霜繞 * * I'm so scared But I don't show it *
* 扂衄煇楊 辦掩踹 * * I can't figure it out It's bringing me down *
* 扂眭耋 扂腕溫忒 * * I know I'Ve got to let it go *
* 疑疑砅忳稛凅 * * And just enjoy the show *
* 鞣狟 礿狟 * * Slow it down, make it stop *
* 祥扂腔陑鐵憩猁泐堤賸 * * Or else my heart Is going to pop *
* 秪怮嗣 辦猁創忳祥賸 * * 'cause it's too much Yeah, it's a lot *
* 稛祥岆扂 * * To be something I'm not *
* 扂岆?伂圖  * * I'm a fool, out of loVe *
* 褫岆扂砑猁載嗣 * * And I just can't get enough *
* 扂衄酘衵褣 * * I'm just a little bit caught in the middle *
* 汜魂岆釱譎 岆?猞 * * Life is a maze And loVe is a riddle *
* 扂祥眭耋?闡 扂楊?赻俇傖 扂贗薯賸 * * I don't know where to go can't do it alone, I'Ve tried *
* 扂祥眭耋妦 * * And I don't know why *
掀瞳擇稷廠烝嶱堤腔1250藝踢腔爛郇 * I'm just a little girl Lost in the moment *
坻腢隱婓親帗綅模虴薯 * I'm so scared But I don't show it *
* I can't figure it out It's bringing me down *
爛摽 廠烝湜腕赻1918爛眕腔 菴珨釱岍賜湮??夢? * I know I'Ve got to let it go *
蚚腔淏岆親帗腔堵殍 * And just enjoy the show *
* Dum-dee-dum Da-dum-dee-dum *
掀瞳黯?湜腕岍賜湮?夢? * Just enjoy the show *
* You're such a loser, Dad You're such a loser, Dad *
* 斕岆?囮氪 啄啄 砅忳稛凅勘 * * You're such a loser, Dad Just enjoy the show *
* 斕岆?囮氪 啄啄 砅忳稛凅勘 * * You're such a loser, Dad You're such a loser, Dad *
* 斕岆?囮氪 啄啄 * * You're such a loser, Dad *
* 砅忳稛凅勘 * * Just enjoy the show **
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