Eight Men Out (1988)

John Mahoney: Kid Gleason - The Team

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Quotes 

• [the Sox have just won the AL penant and are in the clubhouse. A row of champagne bottles are sitting on a table] 

  Eddie Cicotte : What's the scoop, Harry?

  Harry : Mr. Comiskey sent these down for you. His congratulations for a successful pennant race.

  Eddie Cicotte : He didn't happen to mention when we can expect that bonus he promised us if we took the flag, did he?

  Harry : This IS your bonus.

  Swede Risberg : Cheap bastard.

  Kid Gleason : Look, fellas, if it was up to me...

  Eddie Cicotte : Kid, we got no beef with you.

  [opens one of the champagne bottles - nothing happens] 

  Eddie Cicotte : It's flat.

• [Eddie Cicotte is warming up before Game 7] 

  Kid Gleason : Put it away, Eddie. I'm going with Wilkinson today.

  Eddie Cicotte : Why?

  Kid Gleason : You haven't had your stuff lately, have you?

  Eddie Cicotte : But I feel right today, Kid.

  Kid Gleason : I can't take any chances, I'm sorry.

  Eddie Cicotte : Like I can't lose, that's how right I feel.

  Kid Gleason : Sure you do, Eddie.

  [He starts to walk away] 

  Eddie Cicotte : Kid! I can't miss.

• Kid Gleason : I mean, I can see though where... Well, maybe if a guy feels he's bein' underpaid, and... Maybe falls in with the wrong kind of people and they feed him a line how he could... You know, people are human.

• [Dickie Kerr is warming up before Game 3] 

  Kid Gleason : How's it feel, Dickie?

  Dickie Kerr : My arm's great. It's my knees.

• Kid Gleason : I been hearing a lot about odds lately, like this is a racetrack, everybody's a damn handicapper. Sometimes the smart money gets a little too smart for its own good. But I'll tell you, I've been in this game over 30 years, I've never yet seen a club could hold a candle to you fellas. That's the straight dope. The way I figure, we can't be beaten. We can only beat ourselves. You fellas know what I mean. All right, let's get 'em!

• Kid Gleason : I heard the same thing, fellas. Every series I've been to there's some rumor about a fix just to shake up the odds. You hang out in bars, you hear a lot of screwy things.

  Ring Lardner : Doesn't mean they're not true.