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I will rematch him.
Oh, okay, get up there.
Have a conversation about who goes first
and who goes second, who goes third.
What do you want to do?
You wanna hit some?
Yeah.
There you go.
Wow.
That's the real deal.
How you doing son, let's try it again.
What's your name?
Chance.
That's an awesome name.
All right Chance, we're gonna do it again, same energy,
but I want you to keep your eyes right here on this dot.
Mm-hm.
Yeah?
Hear my voice.
Kill that dot.
Again.
Kill that dot.
Again.
Swing like you're coming out of your shoes, Chance.
Chance, I want you to swing like that
for the rest of your life.
You're a hitter.
All right, next.
Who wants to kill the dot?
Me!
All right, play's at first.
Pay attention.
Ben!
Get your head in the game.
What are you doing?
Play's at first means pay attention.
Yeah, pay attention Ben.
Chance, go two!
Come on, Chance!
Come on, get your gloves down!
Chance, keep throwing hard.
Go one!
Come on, hit your cutoff man!
Heck of an arm, boy.
There's nothing there, let's go.
Come on!
Your son seems sensitive.
Yeah.
Yeah he don't handle stress well.
When he was a baby he'd cry
until he turned blue and passed out.
Really?
I never heard of that.
Yup.
He was my little blue baby.
Had to take him to the hospital a couple of times.
He's around any kind of confrontation
he'll just run off and cry.
Born intense, my kind of guy.
You think baseball will help with that?
Baseball helps with everything.
Don't be afraid to make mistakes, Chance!
Don't think.
Train the eyes.
Find the dime in his glove.
Okay I got this.
Go two.
He's gonna like playing for you.
All right boys, listen up.
Everybody see this?
Yeah.
Say yes sir.
Yes, sir!
Can anybody tell me what it is?
It's a rabbit.
Wrong.
This is the enemy.
I want you to imagine that this little floppy eared demon
has hit your mother in the head.
He stole her carrots and he's run away.
And the only thing that you've got to stop him with is this.
Now I want you to take a couple steps
and I want you to throw as hard as you can
and bean this little sucker in the head.
Can you do that?
Yes, sir!
No laughing!
I need warriors.
Who wants to kill the rabbit?
Yeah!
Okay, come over here.
Take a couple steps.
Take a couple steps and hit the rabbit.
All right, one more time.
Come on, Tank.
Here you go buddy.
Take two steps.
Take two steps and throw.
Better.
You got it in you.
All right, next time.
Yay!
One more time, here you go.
Oh!
Everybody put their hands together for that young man.
We're gonna eat rabbit stew tonight.
Try it again.
We're gonna eat rabbit stew.
All the way, smudge it down.
Do you like it?
You are gonna look so scary.
You're gonna look like a bunch of wild Indians.
We're not the Indians, we're the Flash.
Oh, I know.
Let's see.
Oh yeah, looks good.
You ready to go?
Yeah.
Yeah?
All right boys, let's gather up, let's gather up!
You guys look awesome.
Hats off.
Bow your hearts.
Dear Lord, I ask your blessing on these boys.
Make them as tough on the inside
as they look on the outside.
Amen.
All right, get your gloves.
Let's go, let's go scare some six year olds!
Yeah!
Yeah, let's go scare some six year olds.
Come on, run run run!
Give me your attention.
Now, if you're thinking,
you can only do 40 things at once.
But if you're playing wild,
your subconscious can do 11 million things at once.
Like when you're dreaming.
What's better?
11 million or 40?
11 million.
Brad, my math wiz.
All right, so the question is,
how do we tap into our subconscious?
Everybody close your eyes.
Put your gloves down.
Now I want you to listen and find the smallest sound.
What do you hear?
- A car. - A lawnmower.
A car, a lawnmower, okay.
Which one?
The smallest one.
Ben's stomach.
That's not small, have you seen the boy eat?
Chance, what do you hear?
Birds.
I hear birds.
Good.
Everybody open your eyes.
Pick up your gloves.
From now on, when I say birds,
the only thing you see in the world is a baseball.
No thinking.
Block out everything else.
Even our girlfriends?
You're six years old,
you're not allowed to have girlfriends.
All right, how many popups
do you think you guys can catch in a row?
- 30. - 20.
- 11! - 50!
Think you can do 10?
Yeah!
Yeah?
Don't mislead me now.
Mm-hm.
You think you can do 20?
Yeah!
Okay, let's see how many we can do in a row, let's go.
- There you go. - 18!
19!
Come on boys!
20!
The play's made on the first step.
Drop, step, turn and burn!
Here it comes.
Ready.
Set.
First guy go.
Ready.
Set.
First guy go.
Hey guys, hustle in.
You all know Coach Anthony?
What's up boys?
What's up, Anthony?
I'm paying him to put up with you studs for the summer.
Anthony, go long.
Yes sir.
Oh oh oh.
Nice.
Woo!
Like a puma, boys!
What do you think of your hustling coach?
I like it.
Slap me bacon.
Yeah baby.
Slap the bacon, that's what we're talking about,
you know what I'm saying?
Yeah.
All right, let's go.
Play wild.
You're gonna make mistakes, make them quick.
Not gonna kill you.
Come on guys, you're killing me!
Three seconds, first step.
Coming at you hard.
You're out!
There you go!
Hustle in, hustle in!
Oh man, seriously?
What's up guys?
Chance has to retake the fifth grade.
Chance failed fifth grade?
That stinks man.
We won't be in the same classes.
- Yeah. - You know what this means,
don't you?
What?
It means you're dumb.
You're officially dumb.
I'm not dumb.
That's what it says in the letter.
No it doesn't.
Now wait a minute.
Maybe he's not dumb, maybe he's just dyslexic.
No, definitely dumb.
Well maybe he has ADHD.
Yeah, one of my friends has that.
Yeah, and your friend's really dumb.
Shut up.
Balls on tee.
Ready.
Set.
First guy go.
Hey Anthony, take over.
Yup.
Balls on tee.
First guy go.
Balls on tee.
- Set. - Hey buddy.
What's wrong.
I got held back.
They were teasing me on the bus.
Red, get the fellas in here on the hop.
Come on guys.
Hustle in!
Chance isn't gonna be in your class next year.
That hurts.
What hurts more, is his teammates.
His buddies, teasing him on the bus.
It's a fine line between
messing with somebody and hurting them.
Back to work, be brothers.
Coach, I don't ever tease Chance.
The thought never entered my mind.
Hey.
You know one of the good things about being held back
is you'll be a year older than all your classmates.
Nobody will be able to mess with you.
Really?
Yeah.
What's your least favorite subject?
Math I guess.
Do you like your teacher?
She's a monster.
How do you get good at anything in Flash baseball?
Millions of reps.
Back to work.
One, two, three go.
Two, three go.
Go.
Here it comes, Ben.
Nothing hits the ground.
Speaks!
Get up there.
You're killing me, Speaks!
Who's that?
I heard they call him Big Mac.
My dad says he's 11 years old.
Only on hi fake birth certificate.
I hope he can pitch.
We need more pitching.
Yeah.
What's up runt.
Mess with me and I'll snap your twig.
Well he's fun.
Pitch.
Find it, find it, dime, find it.
Rabbit.
Good, good.
Rabbit.
Pitch.
Come on, come on Chance, come on, come on.
Rabbit.
Hit it.
Pitch.
Don't round it off, go straight back to the rubber.
Rabbit.
Straight back to the rubber.
Oh!
He got the ball, that's a first.
Good throw, Ben.
Somebody finally hit it.
Yeah, it's about time.
There we go.
I want a!
♪ Double cheese burger ♪ and hold the lettuce. ♪
Good.
♪ Double quarter pounder ♪ with seeds on the bun ♪
♪ A Big Mac ♪
Here we go, two-way, go on now!
Hey hey, aye, none of that.
Why you cramping our style, Coach Mike?
- Come on, Eric. - Let's go, Eric.
Get outta there!
Big Mac, my RBI king.
He's not watching.
Get his hands.
Stop stop stop, or I won't wanna watch it.
Come on boy.
What the hell?
Do this the hard way, huh?
Come on, get off me!
Oh here we go.
Oh his head's open.
Three points!
Hey, you guys wanna go walk around?
Why?
I don't know.
It's kind of spooky outside.
- Oh! - Oh yeah.
Promising.
Come on guys, you're missing, come on.
Come on.
Come on, it's out here.
He's got these two huge dogs that rumble the house.
Watch this.
I'm so sorry, I mean really
they are just young boys though.
Did I really 'cause any harm.
I mean, these kids are outta control.
This is a hate crime.
I'm calling the cops.
Okay you know, it's not a hate crime,
'cause you're an old white guy.
They're gonna go over there right now.
Come on guys, we're gonna go clean it up.
- Now. - Ow.
Don't do this again, I cannot deal with him.
- Yeah Chance! - Let's go.
- Right there, Chance. - Rip the ball here Chance.
Hey come on kid, big rip here kid!
Hey get us started here seven, come on.
Come on kid, let's go.
Come on kid, you can do it.
Shake it off, shake it off.
Come on bud, come on bud.
Get us started here Chance.
- Come on. - You got it Chance.
Big hit, big hit, let's go.
Go go go go go!
Good job buddy.
Good job Chance.
Chance, have a seat.
Speaks, rover to center.
I'm fine.
You're done.
Your team's got you covered.
Coach probably put you on the DL, huh?
Now are you still hitting or are we taking him out.
No, he's not hitting.
His back needs a rest.
Okay, no bueno.
You're all right buddy, we'll pick you up.
Hey two, three, four to start us off out there.
Here we go D.
Um, I'm thinking we need to shut him down for a while.
Maybe two weeks until his back has completely healed.
Hey, thank you.
Thank you, goodnight.
Goodnight.
Night.
All right, hey, who wants to go to Dairy Barn, huh?
What's going on?
Hello?
Mike.
Chance?
Am I cut?
What, no.
Chance, you'll never be cut.
You came with the farm.
You're part of the family, I just need you to heal.
I need you for the tournament.
I just want to play.
There's nothing to do without baseball.
Why don't you try sleeping?
You know what time it is?
2:00 AM.
Yeah.
I'm sorry.
Were you sleeping?
I'm never sleeping when you call.
I love you man.
Heal, go to sleep, heal, heal.
All right, Fury's in the semifinals.
- Yes. - Okay.
Midland beat the River Rats, what a shocker.
They've only allowed one run.
That's all right, they wasted their ace
in the quarterfinals anyway.
Aye, Fury beats the Bulls, we take of business,
we're in the championship all right.
Let's go handle business, let's go.
Here we go boys.
Here we go CJ.
Let's see.
Come on, come on now.
Put a good swing on, put a good swing on.
Down, down, down, down.
He's out!
What was that?
Hm?
You flinched, what happened?
Listen to me with your eyes.
What's wrong?
Nobody else even comes close to that ball.
I'm talking to anybody else, I'm talking to Chance.
Chance is gonna play Division 1 baseball,
and Chance makes that catch in his sleep.
Make the catch.
- Let's go team. - Let's go CJ.
All right, come on back, come on back.
Come on, hey, keep an eye on him down there at third base.
Keep an eye down there, let's go now, come on.
All right buddy.
This guy's lights out.
First movement, walk in lead.
Come on bud, we got this.
- We got this. - Pound the ball bud.
Base hit.
Let's go buddy.
Let's go buddy, you got it.
Behind you!
He's out!
Damn blue, get in the game!
I can give you my glasses if you want.
That's awful!
What's your day job?
Parents!
Let me do the coaching.
Hey Chance, does Mike think you were safe?
I was safe.
That's not what I asked.
I said do I think you were safe?
You should think I was safe.
I do think you were safe.
Am I wearing an umpire's outfit?
No.
Let's play ball.
Congrats to our runners up, Flash baseball.
Hey, sorry to interrupt.
You mind if I say a few words to your team?
You all know Chris Welsh.
He's a former major league pitcher.
Announcer for the reds.
Guys, I wanna congratulate you
on how you handled that bad call at the plate, classy.
You set a great example for both of our teams.
Thanks Chris, that means a lot.
We created this place to be something special.
Never argue with the umps,
always treat everyone with respect.
Well, that's very rare.
Hey good luck to you guys.
Thanks Chris.
- Thanks. - Thank you.
Really?
You never heard of the greatest pitching duel of all time.
Juan Marichal versus Warren Spahn.
Righty versus lefty.
Both future Hall of Famers.
I've heard about them but not about the game.
The game went 16 innings.
Both pitchers threw complete games.
Marichal threw 227 pitches
and Spahn threw 201.
Actually?
Actually.
Juan's manager wanted to take him out after 14
because of pitch count.
Marichal points at Spahn and says,
that guy is 42 years old,
I'm 25 and I'm not ready for you to take me out.
Who won?
0-0 after 15.
Spahn hangs a screw ball to Willie Mays,
the bottom of the 16th.
Bam!
Walk off home run.
Hey what's up?
Hello, sorry we're late.
Ah, don't worry about it.
All right boys, balls, buckets and bags
in the back of the bus.
Let's go.
I told Chance not to drive you crazy.
Why stop now.
Did you know him and Bam
won the best friends award at school?
You're kidding me?
Mm-hm, best friends in the whole school.
That's awesome.
Drive safe.
Thanks.
Hey Mike?
Yeah?
Are you rich?
Why do you ask that?
'Cause you got all the baseball stuff.
The old book says, wherever your heart is,
there your treasure will be also.
My heart's in you and you guys need baseball stuff, so.
So, does that make me like your treasure, too?
- Aw. - Aw.
Shut up.
I'm still trying to figure out what you are.
You guys ready to get whooped on?
Boo!
Ooh.
Hey coach, what is this green bottle
that you're always drinking?
Bubbly water from France.
I get it cheap at Sam's.
Huh, I always thought it was beer.
Hm.
We're not the Bad News Bears.
Mm, ah.
Put your seat belts on.
Whoa.
- Oh my goodness. - Give me break.
All right everybody, gather up.
Got a little surprise for you.
Here's five dollars for each of you.
Thank you.
Here's the rules,
keep your voices down, everybody stay together,
no running in the hallways, and be civilized in the pool.
When I say played perfect,
what is it that you think that I mean?
To win, to not suck.
Don't say suck.
Winning is a result.
I'm talking about something you can control.
How many plays are there in a game?
In youth baseball we play seven innings.
That's 21 outs, 70 to 80 pitches.
Unless it's Brad, then it could be more.
If you hustle for three seconds,
70 to 80 pitches, 21 outs,
that adds up to about four minutes.
Do you think you can hustle for four minutes?
And when I say hustle, I mean play like your hair's on fire.
Line drive coming at you, first step,
I'm gonna get it and I'm gonna beat him.
He doesn't stand a chance.
We're gonna win.
Every play, every pitch.
Three seconds for the entire game.
You think you can give me those four minutes?
Yes sir.
Today you're playing the best team we've played all year.
The state champions.
Won every tournament they've played in.
We might get spanked.
But we can't control that.
What we can control is the way that we take the field.
The way that we hustle to our positions.
The way that we take our at-bats.
The way we clean the dug out after the game.
That's what I'm talking about when I say play perfect.
I'm excited.
We will not be out-hustled today.
Yeah, let's pray.
Dear Lord, I ask you to give these boys
the heart of a warrior.
Make them as strong on the inside
as they are on the outside.
In Jesus name, amen.
Amen.
Blood on the battlefield today boys.
Clean this place up perfect.
Strike!
O-2!
Let's go Brad.
What do you say here, kid?
Strike three!
Hey hey, good pitch!
Welcome to K-Mart, can I help you?
No thanks, just looking.
Here we go, here we go, ball ball.
Let's go one, let's go!
Right here bud, let's go.
Go two eight.
Hold up, hold up, hold up!
Hit the deck!
Safe!
What?
Are you kidding me blue?
He was out!
He was safe the whole time!
I told him to run.
Yeah I told him to run.
That was the signal.
Right boys, we gotta hold them here!
Nothing hits the ground!
Aye, four hole, four hole!
Go go go go go go!
Come on Chance.
That a boy!
Hey nice route, Magellan!
That's it, that's it.
Good job, good job.
Let's go four four.
Strike two!
See that gap in right center?
Yeah.
I want you to hit the ball right in that hole, all right?
You see your line drive splitting those two players?
Do you really see them?
Yes sir.
Look at me.
All right.
Let's go, come on Paul.
Let's go four four.
Hey!
Strike!
Birds.
Go go go go go!
Hey.
What's with the long face?
I just can't believe baseball's over.
Oh man, you're really sick.
You know how few kids get to play
that much baseball in a season?
When I was young I was lucky to play 20 games in a season.
Well, when you were young
baseball hadn't been invented yet.
That's not funny.
Here, game ball.
Congratulations.
Give me hugs man.
Oh yeah, that breeze feels good.
Woohoo!
I got him.
Home run!
Ooh!
Chance goes dong.
Why didn't you hit that ball in the game?
I would if Anthony was pitching.
Coach I'm done, this is stupid.
Carl, if it's so easy you go pitch.
Dang Speaks, this is like a fish genocide.
Looks like whipped cream.
That's it, yeah, or hairspray in the letter.
Actually, uh, pass me a drink real quick.
Seems like a bet or something.
Thanks.
Talking to your new girlfriend?
No.
Man, even when she's not here, she's here.
No.
No?
Okay, I'm sorry.
Brook wants me to take her
to the tanning place for fair week.
So I gotta.
No, my old lady, she doesn't believe in tanning.
Says it messes their chakras.
Their chakras, what's that?
Chakras.
It's like your, it's like your vibe,
your mood, your chakra.
You know what that is?
I don't know what a chakra is.
Guys, a chakra.
Is it like a super, like an Indian superhero or something?
- No, it's not a hero. - I like that.
It's like your mood.
Like that fire has a chakra.
Just watch, watch the fire.
- Yeah, I've had red hair. - Oh yeah?
Black hair, brown hair, and now I'm blonde, yeah.
Like what's your natural hair color?
Like, dirty blonde.
Oh.
Who's Colton?
He was still there but it was like,
his cable box is gone.
Hey, I'm, I'm Colton.
I know, I'm Brooke.
Have we met before?
Uh, yeah you used to date my friend Sydney,
back in elementary school.
Oh yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah that's right.
How, how's she doing?
Uh, she died.
Wait, seriously?
No.
Sorry, I kinda forgot that I met you then.
Oh, no it's all good.
I'm used to being forgettable.
Actually, do you have a pencil I can borrow,
I only have pens.
Sure.
There you go.
Um, try not to bite it.
Wouldn't want you get cooties.
Cooties I can handle, thanks.
So he threw his phone out while the car was moving?
Yeah and then we had to turn around and go look for it.
That's actually hilarious.
Um, I gotta go, but if I have any questions I can text you?
Yeah, that's fine.
All right.
- See you later. - Bye.
Hey babe.
Who's that?
That's Colton Hollowell.
He's in my class, do you know him?
No, um, where's he from?
Uh, Batavia?
Why was he over here?
He doesn't understand conjunctive adverbs.
What's a conjunctive adverb?
Nobody knows, that's why he was over here.
Uh, I know this is stupid to ask but,
do you like, like him or some, or something?
I, I don't know if I like like him,
but we text sometimes when you make me mad.
Hey, you should see your face right now.
You are so angry.
Oh my gosh, it's hilarious.
No it's not.
Yeah it is.
- It's not. - Yeah it is.
Set it up boys.
All right.
You guys needs serve first, so here we go.
Beep.
Mm-hm-hm.
Serve it up.
Yes.
Yes yes.
I work my off during the day
and this is how you repay me?
Take it easy.
All right Carl, we gotta mount a comeback now.
Ooh, good ball.
Ow!
Oh yeah, hit.
Ha ha, 10 points to Gryffindor.
Hit!
Hit.
Ooh.
Yo, losers walk.
Chance, you're up.
That's all, that's on me, that's awful.
Gosh dang.
Oh!
Here we go now, here we go.
Jesus name, amen.
Amen.
Hey.
Hi.
Going straight to see grandma
and then we gotta stop at Kroger's.
Think maybe I can uh, spend the night?
We'll see.
Bub, can you not text please?
I don't want to be a billboard statistic.
Colton.
Yeah.
Yeah, sorry.
I uh, have some news I wanted to tell you, Mike.
Lay it on me bro.
I've been missing you.
Uh, well,
first off I've got a girlfriend.
Think I heard that.
Girlfriend's are good.
Coffee?
No, I'm okay, thanks though.
You haven't developed the habit?
I'm a bad influence.
What's her name.?
Brooke.
She's a little younger than me.
She goes to my school.
Uh-huh.
Is she nice?
Yeah.
She's pretty, too.
Here, I'll show you.
Let's have a look.
Oh, she is pretty.
Well I hope you treat her precious.
Keep in mind you're probably dating somebody's future wife.
Yeah, mine.
How are the grades?
Great.
B's and a few A's.
I might actually get an A in algebra.
Wow, there will be miracles.
Keep it up.
Show time for college coaches.
We're making a recruitment video for you
and Tom House is coming out to run a pitching camp.
That's awesome, thanks.
Mm-hm.
You got the world on a string, man.
Focus, finish this.
I will.
I've got something else I, I wanted to tell you.
Um,
I got saved at church Sunday.
That's fantastic.
I had the same experience when I was about your age.
I was just sitting there and, uh, I don't know.
I just suddenly realized it's for real,
so I just went up to the altar.
That's great.
Hey, come on.
Give me hugs.
- Ow! - Oh, man.
Why do people buy metal mailboxes?
What are they trying to do, dent our bats?
Break your hands.
Right, that hurt.
That is garbage man.
- Yeah. - Geez Louise.
What's the world coming to?
Keep up crack baby.
When are you gonna drive?
I'm gonna drive when we get to the street.
You know my friend Ricky?
Maybe, doesn't he go to Batavia?
He used to.
Now him and his family, like they moved here to Richmond,
but him and his girlfriend were together for like a year.
And then last month.
Wait, no!
Woohoo!
Poned that mailbox!
Okay dude, you're not supposed to hit the wooden ones,
what are you doing?
Who cares?
Want some of this?
No.
I'll take your half.
Okay, wait, last month what?
Last month she started going out with Lance.
Okay, who's Lance?
That's what Reggie asked.
Yo, Chuck.
I know that your motor skills have been impaired
from sniffing all those Sharpies,
but can you kindly keep pace?
I seriously gotta be home in like an hour.
And in like an hour we'll like seriously be home.
- Chillax. - Dude.
Okay, so what happened with his girlfriend?
Went to the movies or something
and Reggie got all depressed.
His parents took him out of school for a while
because he couldn't even eat anything.
Girls can mess you up.
Smack that mailbox.
Dude!
- No. - Oh that was all you.
I'm so happy that wasn't me.
Shut up dude.
You're gonna get in so much trouble.
Yeah I know I'm gonna get in trouble.
Ah, thank you.
Shut up, I swear.
That was funny, hey.
Sorry, it was funny.
And if, someone didn't like that it was parked here.
I don't know.
That, like you parked it here.
I don't know.
I mean, who would do that?
I, I don't know son.
Or leave a note or something.
I thought you said this thing's out of gas.
Um, it's not out of gas?
No, no, it shows like a half a tank of gas,
and it just started.
Oh, um, okay.
I mean I don't.
I thought it was that,
but I guess it could be something else.
- Okay. - Is there like
a check engine light or something, or?
Nope.
Nope, nope.
Why don't you get in the car?
- Okay? - Yeah.
Hey baby.
What's that?
Uh.
You didn't take my phone, did you?
No, why?
It's not in here.
Someone, someone took it.
It's gone.
Yeah, then we let you back in.
Yeah, you let me back in.
And we were having ice cream.
Ice cream, ice cream, like my own.
You were only out for like three minutes though.
What did your like, family say?
Like what did they say?
You just said, oh I lost my flip flops.
No.
The guy who owns the other house, he was um.
Yeah yeah.
The guy's like, this is a hate crime.
A hate crime.
Yeah.
And he, he was really mad.
- Then I said. - A hate crime.
Oh no, yeah he's like, how dare you?
Oh, geez.
Are you okay?
Yeah, I'm fine.
It's fine.
Hello?
You little slut.
Uh, Miss, Miss Miller?
Hey, how are you?
Um, I, I've been getting
these kinds of texts and phone calls.
There were other ones before but, these are way worse.
And you have no idea who could have taken the phone?
I, I don't know.
Could have been anyone.
Does anyone else have your locker combination?
No, just the two of us.
All right.
I'll get with you tomorrow, first thing.
We'll figure this out, okay?
Someone has been sending me and my girlfriend Brooke,
some very, very terrible notes
saying that if she doesn't dump me for them,
uh, they're gonna come to my house and kill me.
Saying that Chance is cheating on me
or that I'm cheating on him.
Uh, they stole my phone and they're using that phone
to send the messages to Brooke.
They say that I have sex with Colton Hollowell.
And they've broken into Brooke's locker multiple times.
I'm sorry I just, I don't, I don't really know what I'm,
what to do anymore.
I'm just, I'm just really scared for Chance.
Whoever's doing this, just, I just, I want them to stop.
It's, it's,
really stressing us out.
Especially Brooke, she, she's not handling it well,
as you may have seen.
Um, and it's, it's time for it to end.
So if you can find whoever did this, that'd be great.
Let's go, let's go!
Yeah!
Come on, yeah!
Come on, let's go everyone!
Most of you older guys know Tom House.
But for you younger guys,
Mr House is a former Major League pitcher.
He's one of the greatest pitching coaches
in the United States.
He's also got a PhD in sports psychology.
What does PhD mean?
I have no idea but I think he's about to tell you.
Piled higher and deeper.
Uh-huh.
He's also obviously a nut.
But he's one of the greatest influences
on how we do things here at Flash baseball.
So it's my pleasure to hand the stage over to Mr Tom House.
Thank you.
Thank you very much.
That's a bigger hand than I ever received
when I was pitching in the big leagues.
My job today is to make you aware
that there's nothing wrong with failing.
Baseball is a game of failure coached by negative people
in a misinformation environment.
What you have to realize as a youngster,
you have to learn how to fail fast forward.
You're gonna learn more from your failures
than you do from your successes.
Takes 30,000 screw ups before a baby can take two steps.
What would happen in those 30,000 reps
if a dad like me said, you suck when you try to walk.
You are the worst walker I've ever seen in my life.
What would that kid be doing when it was 34 years old?
He'd still be crawling.
We do the same thing with our kids in sports.
We do the same things with our kids in academics.
We actually remind them of what is wrong
more than we remind them of what is right.
Bozo, stand up here real quick.
Bozo.
Shut up.
What you kids need to do is Google Bozo,
'cause nobody in the room knows who Bozo the Clown was,
here he is.
All right, this is, this is a mirror.
All right, what do you see when you look in the mirror,
ladies man?
Is he a ladies man?
No. Uh-uh.
- Yeah. - You are?
He says yes and you guys say maybe.
Who's, is it you that's telling the truth or them?
Somewhere in between.
I always tell the truth.
I'm a ladies man, all right.
Okay, what do you hate about baseball?
Um, striking out.
Okay, everybody hates to strike out.
Are you aware that you'll learn more from making mistakes
than you do from being successful?
I, sometimes it doesn't feel that way.
And the feeling side of the equation
is why you don't see more guys playing in the big leagues
or the NBA or whatever it might be.
So, when you look at yourself in the mirror,
you know who you are.
Person you are, the person you want to be,
and the person that people sees.
Here's the magic.
Everything you do, everything your buddies do out here
is tied to outcome.
You can't control outcome.
You can control process.
Are we still friends?
Yeah.
God bless you young man.
Can we have a gallery clap for him as he sits down.
That's a great job, thank you.
Oh hey stranger.
Okay stop, you're gonna mess up my platter.
No, I said stop, stop.
All right, my bad.
Oh um, I'm gonna go pick up Brooke.
It's a little early.
It's never too early for Brooke, mama.
You're welcome.
Thank you, love you.
- Hey. - Hey.
So, it was just in your seat.
Yeah.
Um, yeah found it after the game.
How did it get into your car?
I don't know.
It's, it's weird.
Yeah it is weird.
I wanted to ask you,
if you'd be okay with just dropping it?
So it's out of our hands.
There's not really much we can do, so.
Would you be okay with that?
Yeah.
Yeah?
Yeah.
Okay, are you sure?
Yeah, it's good.
- Okay. - Yeah.
All right.
Yeah we're in a treat today.
If you like pitching and if you like.
I'm gonna tell them.
No.
Yes I am.
- No you're not. - Yes I am.
Yeah I am.
Hi Mr Burley.
- Hey. - Hey darling.
You sticking around for the game?
Uh, yeah for a while.
My mom's husband wants me home early on school nights.
Oh, darn stepdads.
Oh he's not my stepdad.
My mom and my stepdad got divorced.
What do you call your current stepdad?
My mom's husband.
Oh.
So, do you guys want to hear a deep,
dark, treacherous secret?
Don't do this to me, don't do this to me.
I'm gonna tell them.
- Mr blondie here bet me. - No no no no no no.
Five bucks on the Marlins.
Oh here we go.
What?
I know, I should be concerned, right?
Because he's got like no loyalty, at all.
This is so weird, 'cause I, I thought you were a Reds fan.
Man, I, you know, but I also thought you were my son,
and apparently that's not the case.
Okay because the Marlins, they have um,
they have Stanton and they have Reyes, right?
They've won a World Series.
Oh, yeah.
No that's true, like nine years ago.
- They sure. - That doesn't matter.
Plato's on the mound today, dude.
Just give her five bucks.
Just get it over with man, 'cause it's done, traitor.
You can just pay me now.
Hey if you guys want to watch a movie before game time,
there's another TV in the bedroom.
I'll make you popcorn.
Oh yes please, I'm starving.
Oh yes please mom, I'm starving.
Get off your phone.
Seriously, get off it.
Close your eyes.
Why?
Just do it.
What is this for?
Really early Valentine's Day.
Aw, you are so sweet.
Thanks.
I'm warning you, I only take cash.
Okay, the Reds are not gonna win.
The Reds are totally gonna win.
They're not gonna win.
Yes they are.
Okay.
Hey.
It's you.
I saw the light, thought I'd come out to check.
Sorry, I, just felt like hitting.
Don't be sorry.
Let's see what you got.
Ah!
Firm front, lock your knee.
Keep your arms in tight.
Stop moving your head.
Hey, Chance,
you all right?
Yeah, yeah.
I'm just um, worried about stuff.
Well, they say 90% of what we worry about never happens.
Yeah.
Um, I'm good, yeah.
Thanks for asking.
All right.
Oh hey, you hear Cueto threw a shutout?
That's uh, that's awesome.
Yeah.
Great game.
Don't forget to shut the lights out.
You okay back there?
You haven't sat in the back for years.
Since it was legal for you to be up front.
Colton.
Colton,
what's wrong?
We're taking care of grandma, bub,
she's gonna get everything she needs.
It's not that.
Why are you so upset?
It's nothing.
Tell me.
I had to go to the office on Friday.
Why'd you get called to the office?
The police were there.
What?
Why was the police there?
Let me see your phone.
No.
Colton, give my your phone.
No.
- Colton. - No.
No.
- Give me the phone. - No, quit it.
I wanna see what's going on.
Quit it.
- Mom. - Is it a girl?
Colton.
How long's this been going on?
Since school started.
They all been this bad?
They've been bad but now they're getting worse.
I'm calling the police.
This boy was in our driveway
and in two of these messages he's threatening your life.
Who's Logan?
He's one of Chance's friends.
You got one from him too.
Colton, do not come out of your house.
Stay in your house.
Chance will kill you.
You never mention this at all?
I was too scared to tell you.
Sometime's he'd come up
and poke my shoulder with his finger.
He never hit me but he'd come up and jab me,
like give me a warning.
He text me in class and ask me if I was looking at Brooke.
99% of everything had to do with Brooke.
He'd tell me to text her to see if she liked me
and I'd tell him no, Chance.
I don't want to text her
'cause you'll get mad at me if I do.
Before Chance would text me bad messages,
then he'd text me some that wouldn't be real bad.
But after that heart thing,
they were all bad.
I couldn't come out of the school till he got there.
Chance would always hang out by the brick thing in front.
I was afraid to be out there with him.
Friday I got called into the office
for writing a note threatening to kill Chance.
They didn't show it to me, the police were there though.
Don't let them take your phone.
They were telling me I could go to jail.
Why'd you write the note.
I didn't.
Why'd they think you did?
My name was on it.
Colton, the police will be able to tell
by the handwriting it wasn't you.
Why was he even talking to you, you're 15 years old.
The school notify anybody's parents?
I didn't see anybody there.
Go to bed now.
We'll talk about it more tomorrow.
This is Colton's mom.
I looked through my son's phone and found over 100 messages
from this number threatening him.
I made a copy.
I'm taking these to the police and the school tomorrow.
I will find your parents names and give them a copy.
Do not text or come near my son again.
No, I.
Hey, saw the light on.
Made you something to eat.
Who are you talking to?
- No one. - Is that Chance?
- No. - Give me the phone.
Look mom, wait.
Give me the phone.
Wait.
Give me the phone.
Chance?
This is Nina, Colton's mother.
Uh, hello ma'am.
Why are you telling Colton you're gonna kill him?
Ma'am?
Colton's only had one girl in his life that he likes.
He has no interest in Brooke.
Ma'am it's, it's not that.
It's knowing that she likes him.
Well maybe she's trying to cause trouble.
Sometimes girls will do that.
Chance I don't.
Colton would be a good friend to you.
I don't understand why you don't like him.
Ma'am, I'm, I will never tell him
I'm going to kill him again.
Is there something he could do different?
Something he's doing that you don't like?
Colton loves his grandma.
She's probably only got a few weeks to live.
Can you at least please stop this
so he can have a few weeks of peace with his grandma?
Ma'am, I, I understand.
I'm dying too.
What do you mean you're dying?
I have stomach cancer.
Chance, what would you do if this was your son?
Um, I, I would call the police.
Okay, uh.
Okay.
Chance, can I have your parents phone number
so I can talk to them first?
What's your parent's names?
I called that number and it's not your mom.
I, I've been going through a lot, ma'am.
My four year old nephew was just killed in a car wreck.
Oh, I hate to hear that Chance.
And I, I also just found out recently
that I have stomach cancer.
Chance, are you sure you have stomach cancer,
or are you just so upset that your stomach hurts that bad?
I throw up blood every day.
I, I know I have stomach cancer and,
I'm homeless right now.
I, I've been living in a van for the past three weeks.
Mom.
Just let him stay here.
Chance, if you're homeless we have an extra room here.
Any of Colton's friends can come here, you can eat.
Can I, can I talk to Colton again?
There's no reason for any of this.
Colton's a good kid.
You're gonna have friends a lot longer
than the girl you're with at this age.
She tries to make you jealous maybe she's not worth it.
I don't know, I don't know Brooke.
Will you have him call me?
I don't know.
We'll see.
I gotta go.
Hey.
Just got off the phone with Chance.
Think we might actually be friends.
Not surprising.
He also said that not all those messages were from him.
Someone stole his phone and pretended to be him.
And the principle knows, so.
I'm gonna get some sleep.
Goodnight.
Hey I'm kinda worried about Chance,
he's not been texting me.
Ah, you see him at school?
Well we don't have any classes together
but I see him all the time in the halls.
Guys said you're gonna start being friends.
Talk to him, see if he's all right.
Hustle up.
We gotta pick up your Aunt Crystal to go see grandma.
Why aren't you parking?
I have a doctor's appointment today,
so I will see you later.
See ya, love you.
Hey Speaks.
Have you seen Chance?
Si, Colton.
I really need to go to the office.
I need to tell them something.
Well what do you need to tell them?
I can't tell you, I can only tell them.
Okay, well that's incredibly informative.
Can you wait until the break please?
Thank you.
Can you check that?
Yeah.
Oh it's from Colton.
Mom, none of my teachers will let me go to the office.
Chance is not here today.
Hello, this is Principal Miller.
Hi Grace, this is Nina Hollowell.
Colton's in class and he's told every teacher this morning
he's got something important to tell you,
nobody's letting him go.
Well, do you know what it is he wants to tell us?
Yeah, he's worried about Chance.
Shelbie, call Chancellor.
He just backed out of the driveway.
He wanted me to tell you if he can't get a hold of you
he's worried about himself
but he's more worried about Chance.
I have spoken with the entire.
He feels like Chance might kill himself.
Uh, Mrs Hollowell, we have the situation taken care of,
and I will speak with Colton today.
Thank you, that makes me feel better.
Kelly, I need you to get Colton right now.
Hey Chancellor.
Hi.
Come on in.
Thank you.
How are you?
- I'm good. - Good.
Shelbie!
Now I've talked to your mom
and we have the situation taken care of.
Chance will not be returning to school.
He's gonna finish his grade from home.
Why?
I think we might have worked it out.
No, there's too much that's gone on.
Does Chance know?
You wanna see my homecoming pictures?
Well yeah.
Oh wow.
Brooke's so pretty.
You're not half bad yourself.
Yeah I think she likes someone else.
Why do you say that?
I uh, just have a feeling.
Hey.
I gotta go do some homework.
Okay.
Yeah, um, I'm just gonna take a nap.
Here.
Thank you.
We could um, watch a movie later if you want.
I wish I was homeschooled.
No you don't.
Yes I do.
No you don't.
Yes I do.
What was that movie you were talking about?
It's my mom.
Hello?
What, whoa whoa, what?
No.
Wait.
The, the school called my mom.
I'm in trouble.
Well the movie's almost over, do you wanna finish it?
No I can't, I'm sorry.
Thank you though.
Hey.
Please drive slow, okay?
Text me when you get home.
Christ Hospital, fifth floor.
Michelle Smith please.
Is that a patient?
No no, it's my mom, she works there.
They must have put you through to the wrong floor.
There's no Michelle working here today.
Let me transfer you back to the operator.
Uh, no that's okay, I'll just call back.
Hey this is Colton,
leave me a message.
Thank you.
Hey, dad?
Can you drive me to school?
Chance isn't answering.
Destiny, maybe he's camping in the shed.
Can you go out there and look for me?
Mom, don't come out here!
Don't let mom come out here!
What's going on?
What's all this?
Wait wait wait, what happened, what happened?
Wait, where's Chance?
He's up at Brown County Hospital.
Well come on, let's get going.
I can't.
What, what are you talking about?
Michelle?
He's gone.
What, what does that mean Michelle?
What do you mean he's gone?
I know, I know, I know.
I know, I know.
I'm sorry.
No, I'm not, no no.
Naw.
Where's, Chance?
Can I have your attention please?
This is Principle Miller.
There's been a tragedy among the student body.
Chance.
No!
This morning, where he was pronounced dead.
We're still waiting for more information at this time.
Please keep his family in your thoughts and prayers.
Nina.
Yeah, it's mine.
I got it, I got it.
Hello, Colton?
You killed Chance!
It's not your fault, bub.
Yeah I know but they don't know that.
Okay, I can never come back here.
Colton, it's not your fault.
I should have just told someone.
I'm sorry.
I'm sorry, I should have told.
I loved that boy.
I know you do.
Hi, my name is Mike.
I own the Flash baseball complex down the road.
I know who you are.
My son in law played for you.
Oh.
You want to come in?
Oh, no no.
No thank you.
I, here to ask some questions.
Try to find out what happened.
I spoke to Michelle and Burley,
they've given me Chance's phone records.
I just wanted to double check.
Is that Colton's phone number?
Yeah.
Um.
When was the first time that you knew
something was going on between the two of them?
I only found out when I checked Colton's phone on Sunday.
Really?
Yeah, Sunday.
He said he was called to the principal's office
but they never contacted me or nothing.
They called Burley and Michelle?
I thought school's were supposed to notify you about.
Yeah.
Anyways, that's what Colton feels the worst about.
He never told nobody until.
I'm sorry.
Been really hard on Colton.
The kids at school saying he did something to Chance.
I'm worried about him.
He mostly don't talk to me.
He stays inside his room nonstop.
I read somewhere that suicide rates go up
for people who knew the person and if he's depressed.
- I'm sorry. - I'm sorry.
I'm sorry.
That boy would cry every time he struck out
since he was six years old.
I told him, you're gonna strike out a thousand times.
May as well get all the crying done now.
I loved that boy.
Thank you.
Hey Big Mac.
Hey Anthony.
Hey, we're about to start.
Let's go take a little break, okay.
We can't, look at the people.
We just need to get you something to eat.
I can't, just.
Look at the people.
You can't hug everybody in Brown County, right?
Yeah.
I think we're all asking the same question.
Why?
Was it something we did?
Something we didn't do?
Was it something we said or didn't say?
We all want a reason.
There's been a lot of young men pass through the Flash.
This one.
This one was like a son.
Over 600 games from six years old until,
his death.
Chance grew up just a few miles from here
and considered this place his home.
It was.
And always will be.
He will always have family here.
Chance recently shared with me
that he'd received eternal life through Christ.
I know that a person saved will always have salvation,
and I believe that he is in better hands now.
We especially mourn when a young person's life is cut short.
But let's rejoice in this one.
Life filled with enthusiasm and joy.
16 years of dynamite.
Let's try it again.
What's your name?
Abe.
Abe, Abraham.
That's a awesome name.
All right Abraham, I want you to keep your eye on that ball.
Swing with the same energy, only this time,
I want you to hit this little dot.
You see that dot?
Mm-hm.
I want you to hit that dot with all your might.
Nice!
Again.
Hit that dot Abraham.
That a boy.
All right.
Dot.
You keep swinging like that the rest of your life, Abraham.
You're a hitter.
Next.
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