Fever Pitch (2005)

Jack Kehler: Al

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• [last lines] 

  Al : [voice over]  Oh, one more thing. You know that little player to be named later? Ben says if it's a boy, they'll name him Ted Williams Wrightman. If it's a girl, Carla Yastrzemski Wrightman. Let's all pray for a boy.

• [first lines] 

  Al : [voice over]  Eighty-six years of bangin' our heads against the big green wall, but we finally did it. That part you know. That part everybody knows. But I got a story you don't know. It's about this schoolteacher friend of mine named Ben.

• Teresa : Did you know the Titanic sank the same week Fenway Park opened?

  Al : April, 1912.

• Ben : [hands shaking as he tries to sign his seats over to Chris]  That's odd.

  Al : You're havin' a stroke. Good!

• [repeated line] 

  Al : Al Waterman, have a sponge.

• Al : [voice over]  Well, Dwight Evans parked a couple of homers, the Sox won, and by day's end poor Ben had become one of God's most pathetic creatures: a Red Sox fan.

• [Lindsey has bought books from the Fenway Park gift shop to learn about the Red Sox] 

  Lindsey Meeks : Do you believe in this? The Curse of the Bambino?

  Ben : Hey, it's not funny, it's not funny.

  [Ben's Fenway friends all turn to stare at her] 

  Lindsey Meeks : But Babe Ruth was the Bambino.

  Ben : That's right. Yeah, yeah, yeah, he played for the Red Sox; they were great. I mean, they were the Yankees.

  Al : They won the World Series in 1912, 1915, 1916, 1918. They were royalty. The elite.

  Ben : Al should know. He was there. Actually, he's a hundred and thirty-six years old. He looks great for his age. 1919, their miserable, greedy pig of a boss decides to sell Babe Ruth to the Yankees to finance a Broadway musical.

  Teresa : 'No No Nanette'. I would never, ever see that piece of crap.

  Ben : And since 1918, the Red Sox have not won a World Series. Yeah. The Yankees have won twenty-six.

• [At the game, Chris is persuading Ben to sell his Fenway Park seats] 

  Al : Shame on you. Your uncle Carl saw three thousand games from these seats. He's going to come back and haunt you for this.

• Teresa : You realize you're selling your seats for exactly the same price they sold Babe Ruth for!

  Viv : You said it yourself: Relationships come and go, but the Red Sox are forever.

  Al : I want my sponges back!

• [Ben is about to sign away his seats and looks up to Heaven] 

  Ben : I'm sorry, Uncle Carl.

  Al : [disgustedly]  Another idiot!

  [Ben looks around to see Lindsey, across the stadium, dropping from the wall onto the field]