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"Nervous?"

~(Mickey)~

"No, ma'am.

It's just a game."

~(Rigoberto Sanchez)~

"You're right, Rigo.  It's just a game."

~(Mickey)~

Trouble with the Curve - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: Trouble with the Curve is a 2012 sports-drama film starring Clint Eastwood, Amy Adams, Justin Timberlake, Matthew Lillard, and John Goodman. The film revolves around a retiring baseball scout who brings his daughter on his final trip.

Plot

An aging Atlanta Braves baseball scout named Gus Lobel (Eastwood) is given one last assignment to prove his worth to the organization, who sees him as unable to adapt to changes in the business. His boss and friend Pete (Goodman), who does not want to see him let go, asks Gus's daughter Mickey (Adams) to join him on the trip to make sure he's okay, against Gus's wishes. Together they scout a top new prospect in North Carolina, where Mickey begins to take an active role in her father's work to make up for his failing vision, which he has hidden from his bosses. Along the way Gus reconnects with Johnny (Timberlake), a rival team's scout who has a friendly history with Gus, as Gus was the man who scouted him when he was a baseball player, and who also takes an interest in Mickey.

Reception

Trouble with the Curve has received mixed reviews. Review aggregate website Rotten Tomatoes reported that 51% of critics gave the film positive reviews, based on 169 reviews, with a rating average of 5.7 out of 10. The consensus reads, "Though predictable and somewhat dramatically underwhelming, Trouble with the Curve benefits from Clint Eastwood's grizzled charisma and his easy chemistry with a charming Amy Adams."

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"I am not better than anyone else

just

because I play football."

~(Tim Tebow)~

All this talk about Tebow's work ethics and Tebow believing God had given him a platform to take advantage of?

"You just try to be nice to everybody

and

treat them all the same.

Treat them how

you

would want to be treated."

~(Tim Tebow)~

First Alliance Church on North Druid Hills Road near where I live even had a sign out front once reading:

"Dare to Tebow"

What I would like to know:

"When does football ever

stop

being 'just a game' and becoming 'work ethics'?"

If Tebow wants to believe God has given him a "platform" to take advantage of...

fine then...

God has given me a platform to take advantage of as well.

"Bend him over boys.

I'll fuck it!"

Believe that's fair enough

considering his Superbowl Ad
was
sponsored

by

FOCUS ON FAMILY,
an orgainazation well known for it's activism against gay civil rights issues.

"Can't be neutral on a moving train!"

~(Howard_Zinn)~

Simply Jim:
One Pearl,
Total Pig,
Anti-Christ.

~(6!9)~