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Daily Dialogue — March 26, 2010

Crash: Think I could make it to The Show as a manager?
Annie: You’d be great, just great. (rattling quickly) ‘Cause you understand non-linear thinking even though it seems like baseball is a linear game ’cause of the lines and the box scores an’ all–but the fact is that there’s a spacious-”non-time kind of time” to it…
Crash (interrupting): Annie—
Annie: What?
Crash: I got a lotta time to hear your theories and I wanta hear every damn one of ‘em…but right now I’m tired and I don’t wanta think about baseball and I don’t wanta think about Quantum Physics… I don’t wanta think about nothing… (beat) I just wanta be.
Annie: I can do that, too.

– Crash Davis (Kevin Costner) and Annie Savoy (Susan Sarandon), Bull Durham (1988), written and directed by Ron Shelton

This week’s Daily Dialogue theme is saying “I love you” without saying “I love you”.

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