McFarland, USA Page #3

Congratulations.

You just made the cross country team.

I told you to stay away from my sister!

Thomas, don't do that!

Tommy, don't do that!

And so did Thomas Valles.

Do me a favor, Valles.

Act a little happier.

The coach just negotiated you

out of a suspension.

Danny Diaz?

Hey, we needed seven.

Yeah, seven runners,

not six runners and Danny Diaz.

Hey, Danny's our anchor.

And he'll drag our ass down.

All right, knock it off, Puentes.

Let's see if those legs

work as fast as your mouth.

Elmo Bridge and back. Go.

Go.

Hey.

I mean it, all right?

You're my anchor, Danny,

and not because you're fat.

And you are a little fat, okay?

So you better lose some weight.

So, why am I the anchor?

Because you're gonna

hold this team steady, okay?

I lose you, I'll lose your brothers.

You're important, Diaz.

Let's go.

You hot, homes? You tired?

Because anytime you wanna stop,

we're cool with that.

Now I've seen everything.

You guys keep going.

Down to the bridge and back.

I'll time you from here.

Hey, what are you doing?

You can't quit.

Oh, God.

Thank...

Thank you.

Let's get some water.

Where's Victor?

Anybody seen Danny?

There he is.

Yeah, slower than 911

to a Mexican's house.

Those the best running shoes

you guys got?

Best running shoes,

school shoes, church shoes.

- Good, Danny.

- Good job.

Good job, hermano.

All right.

Put them on.

New shoes.

New shorts, man!

Ain't no way I'm wearing these.

Yeah, well, then you're running naked,

because those are our uniforms.

Hey, we wear them, you wear them, ese.

All right, let's hurry up.

Don't forget

to take the tags off, right.

- Coach Jameson?

- Yes, sir?

Jim White, McFarland.

I didn't know McFarland had a team.

Is that them?

Yeah. Yeah.

They're faster than they look.

If you say so.

See you on the course.

Okay, guys.

Okay, here we go.

Remember, scoring is based on

your individual places, all right?

You finish first, that's a 1.

Second, that's a 2, and so on.

The team with the lowest combined score

for their top 5 runners wins.

So the lowest score wins?

That's right, it's like golf.

You think we play golf?

We don't got a country club.

We don't even got a Kmart.

I bet that guy plays golf.

Hold on.

If my score don't count,

why am I even here?

To make us look faster, panzn.

All right, look.

Just try and remember,

lowest score wins.

If you get ahead of

any of their top five guys,

that adds points to their total.

Even you, Danny. Got it?

Doesn't matter.

Let's go show them how it's done.

Come on, Danny!

Where the hell is McFarland?

I hear they can't run

without a cop behind them.

Or a Taco Bell in front of them.

Timers ready?

Runners, take your mark...

Come on.

5:
17. Good pace, Hunter.

5:
22, Thomas! Keep that pace!

Come on! Come on! Get it. Get it.

You got him! Come on!

Stay with him! Stay with him!

That's it! That's it!

You're looking great!

Good pace, Robby!

Keep the pace. Keep that up!

Come on. Pick it up.

Go! Go! Go!

Jose, good!

Good, David, good!

Come on, Danny!

That's a boy, Hunter!

Take him, take him!

Come on, kid!

Come on, Hunter.

- Come on!

- Come on.

Power it up!

Come on.

Stay steady. Stay steady.

You got him, Hunter!

Come on! Move it, move it!

You got him! Way to go!

Atta boy! Atta boy!

That's right, bring it home, baby!

Bring it home.

- Nice.

- Come on, buddy.

Come on, come on.

Get up! Let's go.

Blue jersey is right on to you.

Keep that spot.

Kick it!

You can get him! You can get him!

You can get him!

- Keep it!

- Hold that position!

Yes!

Good, Thomas. Good.

Good job, guys! Good job!

Centennial, Centennial,

Palo Alto and Morro Bay.

Finish strong!

Palo Alto, McFarland.

Morro Bay, McFarland.

All the way.

McFarland. McFarland.

Good, Danny, you never stopped.

You never stopped.

And McFarland.

Coming in with a combined score of 35,

the winner is...

Centennial.

Second, Palo Alto, 41.

- Nice!

- Right here!

Third, Morro Bay, 61.

Good job. Yeah.

And in fourth place

with a score of

104...

McFarland.

That's a great race, boys.

- Yeah.

- Yeah, it's great guys.

So I guess, better luck next time, boys?

Right? Yeah?

Seriously. Later.

What happened out there today

was not your fault, you hear me?

It was my fault.

I should have checked the course.

That final hill,

I should have known about that.

Thomas would have

eaten that kid's lunch.

What happened out there today

is on me, understood?

Understood?

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

Yeah.

Good.

Hello, son.

Say hello to your father.

But fourth place, in your first meet.

That's not too shabby.

Fourth out of four.

Also known as last.

Last doesn't get us out of here.

Last doesn't get me a job

somewhere else.

I'm way too soft on these kids.

Hey.

It's Julie's birthday

tomorrow, remember?

Could you please stop by the store

and pick up her cake on the way home?

Sure.

I got her a really fancy one.

It's beautiful.

Jim?

Birthday dinner is at 6:00, okay?

Okay.

Okay, I hear you.

Okay.

We don't have a hill.

These are our hills.

This is where we're gonna run.

All of them?

That's right.

What happened to us in Palo Alto,

never gonna happen again.

Let's go.

Let's go!

We're done.

Who's done?

We are.

You mean you want to quit?

Go home, stretch out on the couch?

Guess what? Me, too.

But it ain't gonna happen.

Here's what we're gonna do.

We're gonna catch our breath,

and then we're gonna hit it again.

Danny's about to collapse.

It's hard.

- It's hard?

- Yeah.

I'll tell you what's hard,

is watching someone pass you

on that last hill.

Just ask Thomas.

What's hard is losing when you know

you haven't done enough.

All right, we're going to get to the point

where when we see a hill, we smile.

The higher, the better.

All right. Now we know

what we didn't know, right?

Right? Now we know what we didn't know.

Today's the beginning.

Let's hit it again.

Let's hit it again.

Come on, guys.

What are you waiting for, Valles?

Who's got one more?

Come on, lean into this.

Good.

Good.

Come on. Let your arms

take you up that hill.

Change the gear when you go uphill.

You gotta change it.

Change the gear going up that hill!

Come on, Danny, start to give it to me!

If we don't back down

they won't, either.

Come on, Diaz, they're lapping you.

Pick it up, Danny. All right?

You're the anchor. You're not the brake.

Atta boy.

Good, Jose.

You think I'm picking on you, Diaz?

Go faster, I'll pick on somebody else.

Good! Good!

That's it. Take a break.

Okay, good.

Good.

Okay, that's what I wanted to see.

That's how we need to finish.

Good job. Take a break.

Valles!

Valles, I said take a break.

How many more do you want?

10, 20, 100?

Take a break!

You think you're tough, White?

Well, we're tougher, right.

We're not runners. We're pickers.

And we're always gonna be pickers.

And every day we're gonna get up

and do the same thing

over and over again, just like this.

So you can make us do it

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