The Sandlot: Heading Home Page #6

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- [Cell Phone Ringing]

That's me. Lou.

That's chump change.

Call me back with the real deal.

I've got shoes

that cost more than that.

New York Yankees.

The Big Apple, baby!

New York? But, Tommy,

I took my residency here.

Babe, we're talking

about the New York Yankees.

That's 3,000 miles away.

Tommy is a money machine.

The owners, they want to buy him, okay?

The fans, they want to pay to see him.

He is what baseball should be...

caps, T-shirts, memorabilia,

cash just for signing your name.

They have these things called

bobble-head dolls now. All right?

It's payday,

and New York is the ticket.

That's the way it was,

the way it always will be.

Yankees! Yankees.

They are making me

the offer of a lifetime.

- I thought that's what I was doing.

- [Tapping]

- Can you hear that?

- Not now.

Tommy, this is us we're talking about.

Baby, I love you.

Judy, no!

[Panting]

[Judy's Voice]

You're not gonna get another chance.

- [Tapping]

- [D.P.] Tommy, wake up.

Tommy, you're gonna miss

the chance of a lifetime.

Come on. Open it.

We're going to get

that equipment you talked about.

- In the middle of the night? What's open?

- Old Man Mertle's house.

- [Q] Yeah.

- It sounds like breaking and entering.

- The place is abandoned.

- Except for the treasure.

You want to stay

on the right side of the law.

- [Imitating Chickens]

- Told you he wouldn't go.

Come on. Let pretty boy here

get his beauty sleep.

Go now, Tommy. You're not gonna

get a second chance at this.

Hold on. I'll come.

- [Thunder]

- [Two Ton] Can somebody please tell me...

why we didn't go over the back fence?

[Wok] Because pushing your fat butt

over could get real stinky.

[D.P.] So I heard that Mr. Mertle

was once a great baseball player...

until he went blind after getting hit

with a baseball in the head.

Legend has it that he has a secret stash

of old baseball stuff.

[Tommy]

So what ever happened to Mr. Mertle?

Some say he just died.

Others say he up and vanished.

- Hit in the head with a baseball?

- Vanished?

[Thunder]

- [Two Ton] Guys, I just saw something move.

- Guys, it's just a house.

- If we're going to do this, let's do it.

- What about the ghost?

[D.P.] All right. Come on. Let's go.

All right. Move! Move! Move!

- [All] Shut up, D. P!

- All right, move your butts.

- [Wok] Hey, check it out.

- [Roll] Hercules?

Who names their dog Hercules?

It was probably just some

Chihuahua or something.

You know how people name their dog

just the opposite of what they are.

[Thunderclap]

- That must have been a grande Chihuahua, man.

- % % [Whistles]

- [Thunder]

- [Boy] Let's go.

This... This is crazy, guys.

That's it. I'm out of here.

Oh, come on. Don't be such a wuss.

I thought we were a team.

All right, then.

Go ahead, you're up.

I say we send in one of the little guys,

kind of like a scout.

Since when does the shortest guy

have to go first?

When the taller guys tell him to.

- Speaking of short guys, where's Ryan?

- [Wok] Yeah, where is he?

- Where is he? He was here?

- [All Screaming]

[Barking]

- It's Ryan!

- Ohh!

- Gutsy move, kid. Pretty impressive.

- [Boy] What was that for?

[Tommy] You guys check this floor.

I'll check upstairs.

[All Screaming]

[Exhales]

That's a big baseball.

- [Shouting]

- [Screaming]

That's not funny, you idiot!

Whoa! That's a big baseball.

[Thunder]

[Both Scream]

[Both Sigh]

- You stay here.

- Yeah.

- I'm gonna check over there, okay?

- Yeah.

[Squeaking]

- Bats!

- Baseball bats?

- No, bat bats!

- [Squeaking]

[Both Screaming]

If I were something

really important...

where would I be?

- [Sighs] Let's go, guys.

- Come on.

[Thunder]

[Both Screaming]

- There's nothing down there.

- Except for bats.

- [Timber] Baseball bats?

- [Together] No. Bats bats.

Oh, okay. There's nothing

here, either.

Yeah, this place is a bust.

Hey, up there. Let's beat it.

- Come on, let's go.

- Let's go.

Come on, guys.

What is that?

My best guess would be a hole.

Bingo.

- I told you there's treasure in here.

- This is treasure, all right.

But why leave it

in such an obvious place?

[Clunking, Creaking]

I've got a bad feeling

about this, guys.

What should we do?

[Together]

Run!

Hey, guys!

- [Screaming]

- [All Screaming]

% % [Man Singing]

- [Screaming]

- Get it off!

% % [Continues]

Oh, no.

- [Rumbling]

- % % [Continues]

[Screaming]

That's a big baseball.

- % % [Ends]

- [D.P.] You brought the ball?

- Of course.

- Then I think we've got everything.

- We do now. This is the real treasure.

- [Two Ton] Whoa.

[D.P.] Yeah, it's signed by all

the '63 Dodgers. Koufax. Drysdale.

- Tommy Davis.

- The whole team!

- I say we sell it.

- That's loco.

- No, you loco.

- Imagine what you can get for this on eBay.

- [Together] What bay?

Nothing. I don't ever think we should

sell this ball. I mean, it's why we found it.

Old man Mertle's

trying to tell us something.

- I think he's right, guys.

- So what do you say? Deal?

- [All] Deal!

- Our ball!

- Our lucky charm.

- Our championship.

- On three, guys. One, two, three!

- [All] Sandlots!

- Yeah!

- Let's go!

Now, I've seen it

time and time again.

Teams not playing

up to their full potential.

- Time and time again?

- I've been around, Wings.

Now, listen, the thing of it is,

you guys could be good.

You guys got the stuff, but we're going

to have to work on some basics...

play heads-up ball,

work together as a team, all right?

- Yeah!

- All right.

- Now just remember, baseball's more than just...

- Talent.

- Benny?

- Benny!

- What's up, man?

- Hey!

- Hey, man.

- Hey, how's it going? We missed you.

- How's the ankle, man?

- Oh, it's okay. I figured instead

of laying around the house...

I'd come out and see how

the old sandlot gang is doing, right?

- Yeah!

- What about you, Santorelli?

Seems like you've had

a change of heart since a few days ago.

I've seen some things, that's all.

Yeah? Well, I'm glad.

What do you say you take center field,

then shag some fly balls?

I mean, that is, if there's room

for more than one coach on this team.

- [Chuckles]

- I'd say that's... boffanado!

[All]

Yeah!

- Here, let me take those for you.

- Ah, thanks, D.P.

Thanks, Benny.

- Right here, Benny.

- Come on, Ben.

All right, let's turn two!

- % % [Man Singing]

- Nice.

% % [Continues]

Turn two.

Hit the cutoff.

- Slide!

- There you go!

- % % [Continues]

- Come on. Come on.

All right!

[Benny]

Okay. New plan.

Okay, try it again.

D.P., give me a target.

Yes!

Dig, dig, dig, dig, dig!

All right, he was out.

All right, so.

Ear, chin, ear, chin.

Slap, slap, slap.

Good jobs, you guys.

All right, bring it in. Bring it in.

- % % [Ends]

- [Groans]

- Nice catch.

- [Chattering]

Yeah, that was...

that was so groovy.

Well, what do you say, Santorelli?

Think these guys are ready

for the city tournament?

Yeah, I think they can bring it.

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