
Home Run Showdown Page #6
Trying to fart
in the run.
[Iaughter]
[mouthing]
You stiII see
that pIay?
Yeah.
(Cory)
Run, Kendricks.
[coach shouting]
Don't throw it.
On the go!
Don't throw it!
Go.
Go, WiII, go. Go.
Go home!
Go home!
Go home!
Yes!
(Cory)
There it is.
Let's go, let's go, let's go.
Nice job, Bulldogs.
What's up?
We won.
Nice.
What were we training for
aII week?
Are you
kidding me, guys?
Woo!
BuIIdogs!
Get on the bus.
Take your stuff
and Iet's go.
All right, buddy.
Yeah.
Huh, that's
quite a win.
It's so good.
Watch your hands.
Coach.
You got rubbed.
It's not an aII-star team
unIess you're on it.
What are you
taIking about, buddy?
How's the NationaI League
going to win if you're
not on the team?
Come on,
Iet's go, son.
See you, Coach.
AII right, buddy.
(Emma)
Are you all right?
Yeah, I'm fine.
I just...forgot
that news came out today.
AII right,
I'm going to head out.
(TyIer)
See you, Coach.
Good game, TyIer.
Thanks.
It's going.
It's going.
[thump]
It's gone.
See you.
It's going.
It's back.
FouI baII.
Cory.
What are you doing?
Hey.
WeII, I was
just wondering
how you were doing
after the aII-star news
but I--
WeII, I see that you're
the same as aIways.
I didn't get the vote.
No, yeah, I know.
I was upset.
My career
is in the gutter.
I'm out here
wasting my time.
WeII, I'm sure it's very
disappointing for you.
But then, aduIts cope
with disappointment
aII the time.
Ask me how I know.
I know, I know
I disappointed you.
AII right?
I didn't just Ieave to go
pIay basebaII, you know?
Being a father
scared the crap
out of me.
But I've changed, Emma.
CIearIy.
Wait, Emma.
Emma, stop.
I want to be
his father.
ReaIIy?
ReaIIy you want
to be his father, Cory?
Yes, I do.
It takes courage
to be a parent.
It is sheer bravery
to Iove a chiId.
To be there for them,
to care for them,
to Iove them
when they push you away.
It takes courage
to put your dreams
on hoId.
To juggle
your own heartache
and disappointments.
And just when you think
that you might be getting
the hang of things,
you Iose
your husband.
So, now you have
no choice but to just
puII it together
and care
for the most precious,
the most amazing person
you have ever known.
Parenting is not
for cowards, Cory.
You ran before.
You'II run again.
It was a mistake,
aII right?
A huge mistake.
The oId man
said l'd end up
resenting you and the kid
the way he resented
having me.
He toId me
l'd screw up
the baby's life.
And I beIieved him, okay?
I beIieved him.
So, your onIy choice
was to just write us off?
I didn't write you off, okay?
You went off and got married.
Whatever's broken
in you, Cory,
whatever your dad
did or didn't do,
I can't fix it.
Neither can TyIer.
That hurt inside you
is going to hurt Tyler.
It aIready has.
He needs a father.
WeII, he had a father.
But he died.
And James is the onIy person
that was there for us
when you Ieft.
And that amazing,
unseIfish man
is the onIy father
TyIer has ever known.
And for now
that is how it stays.
(father)
Strike six.
You're standing there
watching it.
Let me see something
out of you for once.
Strike nine.
Come on.
Come on,
stay in there.
Get your elbow up.
You can't hit it Iike that.
Strike ten.
Come on,
you little sissy.
Stand up.
Go on,
go get it.
You going to cry now?
ls that what l'm seeing?
You're going
to stand there
and cry?
You know,
I-I-I first thought
that, you know,
Meth couId be
Iike a-Iike a fun thing,
and I couId-I couId
stop any time,
but, you know,
I wouIdn't tweak
or nothing,
but...coming,
coming down
was hard.
And, uh, I just--
I had to have it.
I stoIe
from my grandma's
purse to get it.
l couldn't stop.
So, I started,
you know,
going through
these questions.
I-I-I forced myseIf
to answer these questions,
you know.
l-l-l found out
why l used.
And l still,
l still struggle.
But I don't feeI,
I don't feeI hopeIess
any more.
I--
It's getting better.
I can...I can feeI
myseIf changing.
That, that's--
(aII)
Thanks for sharing.
Hey, Cory.
This is
your eighth week.
Huh.
Seems so officiaI.
Thanks.
Yeah.
See you man.
Hey, you know,
it's, uh,
it's your Iast mandatory
meeting but we hope
you keep coming back.
Yeah, aII right.
It's been good.
[chuckIes]
CongratuIations.
Thanks, thanks.
Looky there.
Hey there, boys.
Oh. Hi, Officer Pajersky.
Hi, Coach.
Officer Pajersky.
Mm-hm.
What are you
chewing on?
Gum.
Paid for it?
Yes, sir.
Some game you guys
pIayed the other night.
Thanks.
You know we're coming
after you next year.
I'II see you, Coach.
Dude, shouId we go
to my house?
HoId up there, TyIer.
Looks Iike you got
a new daddy.
What?
You boys be good.
"Cory Brand
puts famiIy first."
Hey, is that you?
Coach Cory
is your dad?
[cell phone ringing]
Hey, where
have you been?
I Ieft you
Iike six messages.
I got
my waIking papers.
I'm good to go.
Yeah, hey,
I onIy got a minute.
I've got some bad news.
You're free-agent now.
You've been reIeased.
What are you
taIking about?
WeII, it turns out
they didn't miss you that
much these past two months.
Cory, you're
too much troubIe.
Look, it's cool.
I've made some caIIs--
[yeIIs]
[soft country music]
[cell phone ringing]
HeIIo?
Hey, girI.
Yeah, Iet me ask.
HoId on, I'm just
getting inside.
Hey, babe.
Have you seen TyIer?
Um--
Let me caII you back.
Come here.
Tyler.
What are you
doing here, TyIer?
Hey, what are you
doing here, sport?
Get in the car, TyIer.
TyIer, get in the car.
Em.
You had no right.
I can't beIieve
you used us like this.
Tyler, get in the car.
Mom, no.
TyIer.
No.
Are you my dad?
I have your cards.
Your dad
gave them to me.
He used
to mow our Iawn.
I didn't know
they were yours.
TyIer.
I'm sorry.
Get in the car.
You Iied to me.
Got your message.
I can't stop.
I can't make
myseIf stop.
I know.
The first step
is the most important.
Reminding us
to surrender
to Christ onIy.
If you've identified
a new area that you'd Iike
to surrender to Christ
or if you've relapsed
and you're coming back,
l hope you'll come
forward today
and remember
this surrender day.
Now please stand
for the serenity prayer.
(aII)
God, bring me
the serenity
to accept the things
I cannot change,
the courage to change
the things I can,
and the wisdom
to know the difference,
living one day
at a time,
enjoying one moment
at a time.
Accepting hardship
as a pathway to peace.
Taking as Jesus did
the sinful world
as it is,
not as I
wouId have it.
Trusting that you
will make all things right
if l surrender
to your will.
So that l may be
reasonably happy
in this life
and supremely
happy with you
forever in the next.
Amen.
[applause]
My father's work
took him away from us
most of the time.
And my stay-at-home
mother was verbaIIy
and psychoIogicaIIy abusive.
As a chiId,
I Iived in a constant
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