Daily Dialogue — December 8, 2018

Larry: [Larry jogs out to the mound to break up a players’ conference] Excuse me, but what the hell’s going on out here?
Crash Davis: Well, Nuke’s scared because his eyelids are jammed and his old man’s here. We need a live… is it a live rooster? [Jose nods] We need a live rooster to take the curse off Jose’s glove and nobody seems to know what to get Millie or Jimmy for their wedding present. [to the players] Is that about right?

The players nod.

Crash Davis: We’re dealing with a lot of shit.
Larry: Okay, well, uh… candlesticks always make a nice gift, and uh, maybe you could find out where she’s registered and maybe a place-setting or maybe a silverware pattern. Okay, let’s get two! Go get ‘em.

— Bull Durham (1988), written by Ron Shelton

The Daily Dialogue theme for the week: Coach.

Trivia: In the meeting at the pitcher’s mound, Robert Wuhl ad-libbed his line about getting candlesticks as a wedding present. He said it was based on a real conversation he had with his wife.

Dialogue On Dialogue: Sometimes a coach is a kind of goofball, a comedic sidekick. That’s the case with Larry (Robert Wuhl) as in this scene from the wonderful baseball comedy Bull Durham: