![]() ![]() ‘The world is made for people who aren’t cursed with self-awareness.’ Why it’s the best: All I can think is that, in today’s game, there’s zero chance a bonus-baby youngster would even be allowed to stay in a game long enough to face at least 36 batters - 18 Ks, 18 BBs -but that was a different time. In addition, he hit the sportswriters, the public-address announcer, the bull mascot - twice - also new league records. The setup: Nuke’s first game is in the books, and manager Joe “Skip” Riggins and coach Larry Hockett talk about it after the contest ends. Crash sees Nuke struggling to put it on in the clubhouse.Ĭrash: “The rose goes in the front, big guy.” The setup: Annie has Nuke wearing her garter on days when he pitches, to keep the other half of his brain occupied. Why it’s the best: As a member of the press, I can confidently tell you we would think he’s a slob, not colorful, if he won 20 in the bigs with fungus-covered shower shoes. Until you win 20 in the show, however, it means you’re a slob.” If you win 20 in the show, you can let the fungus grow back on your shower shoes and the press will think you’re colorful. You’ll never make it to the bigs with fungus on your shower shoes. The setup: In the Bulls clubhouse, Crash gets a look at Nuke’s fungus-covered flip-flops.Ĭrash: “Your shower shoes have fungus on them. Why it’s the best: Damn right, baseball’s a blessing to us. It will repair our losses and be a blessing to us.’ You could look it up.” He came back to Durham to be with Annie, and they’re sitting together on her porch swing, on a rainy late-summer day.Īnnie, voiceover: “Walt Whitman once said, ‘I see great things in baseball. Crash hit his record dinger - the 247th of his minor-league career - in Asheville and retired. The setup: We’re starting this list with the end of the movie, the final line of Annie’s narration. These top 37 lines/scenes are what I consider the funniest, most iconic, most repeatable and most usable in everyday life. There are no perfect answers, though I hope I came close. You’ll surely disagree with some of these rankings, and that’s OK. And that classic scene where Crash tells Nuke to throw the ball at the bull mascot? It didn’t make it, either, because it’s seeing the bull fall to the ground that’s the funny part, not necessarily the dialogue.Īnyway, this was an incredibly difficult labor of love. God! I can’t keep giving you these free lessons. I mean, who can forget Frank Robinson for Milt Pappas, for God’s sake?”Ĭrash Davis: “When you get in a fight with a drunk, you don’t hit them with your pitching hand. So I kept it at 37. Which means that great lines like this one …Īnnie Savoy: “Bad trades are part of baseball. And if you know "Bull Durham" well, you probably immediately recognized 37 as the uniform number for Ebby Calvin “Nuke” LaLoosh. Watching through on Monday, I typed in 79 different quotes/scenes, and on Tuesday I cut down that list to 37, including the parts I felt had to make the list. MORE: Ranking the best lines from "The Sandlot"Īnyway, on to the reason you clicked on the story. ![]() Just means I’ll have to keep watching them for years to make up my mind. But this week, I’ve rewatched "Bull Durham" a couple of times to rank this brilliant movie’s best quotes/scenes, and now I’m just as convinced this one’s my favorite. When I finished, I would have definitely told you that’s my favorite. Some days, I’d say it’s "Major League." Some days, "Bull Durham." Kinda depends on which one I’ve watched most recently.Ī couple of weeks ago, I ranked the top 30 quotes from "Major League," on the 30th anniversary of that classic’s release. If I’m being honest, I don’t have one favorite baseball movie. ![]()
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