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A struggling minor league baseball player retires and woefully returns to his small hometown, carefully dodging old woun | dG1fSlBEZUUxem9KdzA
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00:00You've been in the organization 12 years now?
00:06Yeah.
00:07So you know better than anybody, this is a game of statistics.
00:12Your batting average just isn't where it needs to be.
00:17It's always next year.
00:20I'm so sorry.
00:23Why don't you come home?
00:27Home?
00:28What's in Brampton?
00:29You must have given some thought into life after baseball.
00:30And do what, Ma?
00:31I've never had a back-up plan.
00:32So have you let your friends know that you're back home?
00:33No, I told you, I haven't talked to them in a long time.
00:34You can't quit.
00:35You're the best baseball player that ever came out of this town.
00:36You remember my high school girlfriend, Rachel Kinley?
00:37How long are you home for?
00:38I don't know.
00:39I don't know.
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00:51I don't know.
00:53You remember my high school girlfriend, Rachel Kinley?
00:56How long are you home for?
00:57I bought a one way ticket.
00:58I mean we haven't spoken in years.
01:00Is it impossible to consider that maybe I've moved on?
01:05Have you?
01:08I got nothing to show for the last 12 years-
01:11and it just feels like everyone else is moving on and I'm just stuck in the same place,
01:15you know what I mean?
01:19Sorry, what?
01:22This is Eddie. This is the guy Rachel's dating.
01:26Nice to meet you.
01:27Actually, we're engaged.
01:30Eddie proposed to me this morning.
01:32And you said?
01:33What are you doing here?
01:34To tell you how it's gonna go.
01:36How what's gonna go?
01:37My life.
01:38How your life's gonna go?
01:39I don't have time for this. I just got engaged.
01:40I can tell you're beaming.
01:43I'm not good enough to make it in the place I want to be.
01:46I mean, you never appreciated the journey.
01:48Because at the end of the day, we all end up in the same place.
01:55You broke up with me, remember? You wouldn't wait any longer.
01:57Yeah, I may have done the breaking up, but it was because I was so tired of you choosing the game over me.
02:08You're incapable of just having a little taste, and you would keep chasing it.
02:12And then we're gonna be back where we were three years ago.
02:19I was hoping I don't strike out.
02:22See ya.
02:23See ya.
02:25Keeps tapping on the shoulder.
02:27Yeah, he does that.
02:28Can you get him to stop?
02:29I tried.