Eight Men Out (1988)

Don Harvey: Swede Risberg - The Team

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Quotes 

• [the Sox have just won the AL penant and are in the clubhouse. A row of champagne bottles are sitting on a table] 

  Eddie Cicotte : What's the scoop, Harry?

  Harry : Mr. Comiskey sent these down for you. His congratulations for a successful pennant race.

  Eddie Cicotte : He didn't happen to mention when we can expect that bonus he promised us if we took the flag, did he?

  Harry : This IS your bonus.

  Swede Risberg : Cheap bastard.

  Kid Gleason : Look, fellas, if it was up to me...

  Eddie Cicotte : Kid, we got no beef with you.

  [opens one of the champagne bottles - nothing happens] 

  Eddie Cicotte : It's flat.

• [Shoeless Joe Jackson is talking to his bat] 

  Shoeless Joe : Come on, Betsy. A big, big wallop, now. Big wallop. Tell me when, Betsy.

  Freddie : Does it ever answer you, Joe?

  Hap Felsch : Probably sleeps with it, too.

  Lefty Williams : Lay off, you guys.

  Hap Felsch : You crackers stick together, huh?

  Swede Risberg : Ask it for a triple, Joe.

  Lefty Williams : Did you hear me?

  Freddie : 60 years since the Civil War, Lefty. Ease up.

  Hap Felsch : Besides, you guys lost. It was in all the papers.

  Freddie : That wouldn't help Jackson none.

  [Players laugh] 

  Lefty Williams : Just leave him be.

• Swede Risberg : [teasing]  Listen, Ray, settle a bet between me and Hap, will you? He says everybody knows how to smile, even you. And I said that your puss would crack if you ever tried.

  Ray Schalk : Go piss up a rope.

• Abe Atell : [When the players meet with him to accept the money before the first game]  It's all out on bets.

  Chick Gandil : [Shoves him]  That's not good enough!

  Abe Atell : Hey! Don't worry, you'll get the money soon enough.

  Chick Gandil : When?

  Swede Risberg : And how much?

  Abe Atell : 100 grand, like I said. 20 after each game.

  Hap Felsch : Wait a minute, that's 5 games. I thought we were just dumping a few.

  Abe Atell : No, you lose the first 3.

  Eddie Cicotte : Kerr's pitching the third, he's not with us.

  Swede Risberg : So what? We don't hit for him, he'll fold. He's a busher!

  Abe Atell : After that, we got to play it by the ear. We gotta make this look good, fellas!

  Eddie Cicotte : [Aside to Chick]  Hey, Chick. Where's the money you promised me?

  Chick Gandil : Look under your pillow.

  Eddie Cicotte : What?

  Chick Gandil : Compliments of Sports Sullivan.

• Chick Gandil : So, if the thing with Sport falls through, then we can try them two birds.

  Swede Risberg : Why don't we just deal with them both? That way, it's twice the payoff for the same games.

  Chick Gandil : Well, what if they find out about each other?

  Swede Risberg : Big deal. What are they gonna do, call a cop?