"It's funny how women get in your head." "You think you divorced your wife and it's over." "Then suddenly you can't stop wondering why she's unhappy." "She wanted to pay a guy for sex." "And at the last moment, I realised that guy was supposed to be me." "If she loved her husband so much what was she doing in that hotel?" "Having sex for money was a lot harder than I thought." "But I had a house to fix kids who might want to move back in a job I used to think was there forever but now was only there till the end of spring." "At least there was baseball." "Didn't know why, but I had a feeling that this year we were gonna win." "Or if we couldn't, we'd go down fighting." "The district might run out of money and hang us out to dry but I knew in my gut that if we could just focus on baseball I'd be all right." "And the kids would be all right." "Every year is another chance to make it." "Nothing's over till that final out." "Hey, Ray!" "I got the signs." "I got some coffee here." "You ready to protest?" "Stir up a little trouble?" "Hey, Jess, it's me again." "You haven't called me back, so, uh, I hope you're okay." "If you're not, or if you are, just call me, okay?" "We can talk about whatever you want." "Or nothing at all." "No contracts, no school." "Get the facts before you react." "No contracts, no school." "Get the facts before you react." "Hey, I love you." "Jessica!" "Je" " Hey, Jessica." " Hey, how are you doing?" " Hi, Ray." " Hold your horses." " What do you need?" " Didn't you get my calls?" " Oh, no." " Watch it!" " Hi." " Hi." " I was thinking we should have a meeting." " Oh?" " You know, to, uh, discuss the kids." "Face to face." "Same time, same station?" " How about Sundays at Bertson's?" " Bertson's is a dump." " What--?" "You're acting weird, Ray." " I just wanna talk to you!" "Although we sell dick and not cars we can learn a lot from Diego Rivera." "Notice the workers." "Clearly their jobs are depressing." "They work too many hours for little pay and they have to wear unattractive overalls." "Actually, Lenore, the workers are meant to be the heroes of this mural." "No, Tanya." "When I look with a modern eye I see someone like Ray teaching history year after year to ungrateful kids." "Or maybe that's you, Tanya, at Wagner  Finch..." " ...in a washed-out yellow jumpsuit." " Can we get to the point?" "Glance to the top." "You see that doughy Asian person and the mannish woman holding rocks?" "That" " Those fat people could be us." "If we can change our way of operating I believe there's a place for us on that mountain." "What about these clenched hands?" "To me that represents fisting, Ray." "It's time for you to change your repertoire which brings us to Claire." "What went wrong?" "Nothing." "She" " She hugged me goodbye." "She was just a little reserved." "What do you mean, "reserved"?" "I mean she kept most of her clothes on." "I guess she was shy?" "Well, it's your job to make her relax." "Look, the woman is very pregnant, okay?" " Ha-ha-ha." "So?" " So I had to" " To go delicate." " Go delicate?" " What does that mean?" " You mean...." " I mean I held back." " Held back?" " Yes." " I'm still in the dark." "You know, I did just the tip." "You're worried that your dick is so big you might hurt the baby?" " You don't have to put it like that, Tanya." " Ha-ha-ha." "That's hilarious." "Look, there's a baby in there." "Babies have been seeing penises for centuries." "Ray, here's the thing:" "Horny clients with disposable income are like fruit." "I can only pick them when they're ripe." "Remember the last ripe one?" "You left her waiting in a hotel room." " Now she won't take my calls." " I had food poisoning." "It's time for you to prove to me that you are up for this job." "We don't want Claire to have an okay time." "We want her on your hook." " It's called stripper theory." " You know I've worked with several ex-strippers who are proofreaders now and they're pretty miserable people." "You don't know shit about it, T-Brain." "Using Ray's penis as a metaphor you gotta give her the whole dick." "Not half a dick or a quarter-dick or just the tip." ""Stripper theory"?" "Who does she think she is, a professor?" " Ph.D. of Bullshit?" " She's a businesswoman." "Yeah, just because she says that doesn't mean it's true." "A good businesswoman knows her product which in this case is you." "And she just wanted to lecture." "She didn't even think to ask." " Ask what?" " If it was difficult for you, you know?" "Because she's so pregnant." "That was my guess." "It wasn't that difficult, Sherlock Holmes." "Where's your car?" "Well, I go back" " I go back that way." "Ahem." "Okay." "Um, here's your cut." "My cut?" "Wait, Lenore gave you yours?" "Why didn't she give me mine?" "Because she wanted, uh your cut to come out of my cut, and I figured, why rock the boat?" "Are you kidding me?" "Don't you see the symbolic significance?" "It's like saying I'm a charity case." "You should get 60 percent, Lenore should get 20 and I should get 20." "Okay, but for now, Lenore gets 40 and you get 20 of my 60." "Oh." "Roll it down." "Roll it down!" " You got sandwiches?" " What?" "Where are your sandwiches?" "I want a P.B.J." " Where's your cooler?" " Cooler?" " I want a sandwich." " Ain't you from the mission?" "From Our Lady of Madonna." "The mission lady drives this kind of car." " If you're hungry, I could get a doughnut." " Doughnut?" "You think I need a doughnut?" "Read the fucking sign, lady." "This is the Donut Hole." "Damn, I thought they was related." " They look so related." " Wait, wait, wait!" "Where are you guys going?" "Shit." "I just" " I want" "I just wanted to ask you some questions about your work." "I'm just interested in your job, but no judgement." "I have no interest in judgement." " Can I help you?" " Aah!" "No, I was just leaving." "You looking for work or you looking for play?" "Neither." "I just wanted to ask some questions about the psychology of prostitution." "Uh-huh." "Are you their...?" "Am I their what?" "You know." "Look, lady get the fuck out of here." "Jessica." "It's Lenore, the friend you're not mad at anymore." "If you want to keep me in the deep freeze, I understand." "But I still need to drop by and give you a full refund." "I insist." "I'm morally burdened." "I think Ronnie wants to kill me." "Never trust a skin doctor who sleeps with his patients." "Full of disease." "And my grandkids are weird." "I know what you're trying to do, Mother." "It's not working." "Boy is always following the girl." "And girl masturbates too much." "Very loud." "I did notice the girl had big muscular fingers." "You know what?" "We should be grateful." "Most siblings hate each other." "And believe me if there was something wrong with my kids, I'd know it." "If Darby wants to masturbate, good for her." "You're telling me that the district has money to bus the team to away games but not enough to drive them back?" "How are the players supposed to get back home, Rhonda?" "They'll have to work out other means of transportation." "Is this some kind of sick joke?" "A lot of my kids, they don't have any money." "They don't have cars." "Their parents are working two, three jobs to survive." "I don't control the purse strings, Ray." "Don't you have more pressing things to worry about like, I don't know, your job?" "This is my job." "This is my job." " Wait, Rhonda" " Rhonda, this is my job." "This is my job." "We keep chipping away at these kids." "No uniforms, no decent field." "And now there's no way to get back from the games?" "And these kids" " These kids are good." "Some of them are more than good." "Some are great." "Yeah." "We could have a championship team this year." "They just" " They need our support." "They have our support, Ray." "Times are tough." ""Times are tough."" "If I never heard that again it would be too soon." "Every piece of cash I got, I put in the house." "It still wasn't finished." "I just had to keep going, one nail at a time." " So, uh, last time...." " Yeah." " You want it, uh, different this time?" " Yeah." " Like harder?" " No, not necessarily that." " No?" " No, I, um...." " Something else?" " Yeah, I'm not sure what." "Not sure." "You're not sure what." " I think you were holding back." " Right." "Well, I didn't want to hurt" "No, I mean, like emotionally." "Are you somehow, like, freaked out by me?" "No." "The pregnant aspect of things doesn't" "No, no, that's cool." "So you really have had sex with a pregnant woman before?" "Yeah, a lot." "And did you like it?" "Yeah." "A lot?" "Yeah." "Uh...." "A lot." "Okay." "Well, that makes me feel better about it." "Maybe it was all in my head." "Because in your head, it's all clear?" "It's totally, totally clear." "That might be the biggest lie I ever told." "So, Darb how's it going with Hammer?" "Bad." " Why?" " He broke up with her again." " Oh, what happened?" " He thinks I'm too fat." "Oh, Darb, you are not fat." "Mom, can you not say that?" "Because I don't want to hear it." "And what about you, Damon?" "What about your romantic life?" "Oh, what romantic life?" "Mom, do you mind?" "Sure." "You know, Darb, there are a lot of things I know nothing about." "I was a horrible student in high school." "I got a D in chemistry." "Barely made it through math but I do know about boys." "If there had been a class on boyfriends, I would have gotten an A-plus." "All my girlfriends used to come and ask me for advice and they usually ended up with a guy wrapped around their finger." "Do you have Ronnie wrapped around your finger?" "Some might say so." "All I'm saying is that I'm pretty good at knowing how to use my feminine wiles." " Gross." " Oh, come on, Darb." "Maybe I could be of help to you, you know, with Hammer." "There are things women could do." "Like we could go shopping maybe soften your look a little." "Just think of me as an untapped resource." "Thanks, Mom." "The problem is if I listen to you then I might end up with your life." "I like my life." "I don't." "It's a life lived through men." "You don't really have an existence without them." "What are you talking about?" "Yes, I do." "I don't even think you like Ronnie that much." " It's true, Mom." " That is silly." " That is so silly, guys." " Oh, but if he left, you'd die, right?" "I would not." "I would be strong." "I would find other things to be interested in." "Like another man?" "Not to be mean, Mom but you just seem like a totally lost person to me." "Here you go, Charlie." "I'm a pimp." "I mean, not exactly." "Not exactly the kind of pimp you are, but I am a pimp nonetheless." " Are you trying to fuck with me?" " It's the God's truth." "But let me assure you, I am tougher than I look." "I mean, mentally." "Um, look, you don't have to believe me, but I need help." "Um, I've got" " I've got problems." "Pimp-type problems." "And, uh, I'm new to the business." "So I need you to tell me:" "How do I get my prostitute to bond with me?" "Because right now, his loyalty is divided." "And I need him to be loyal to me to respect me." " This a male ho?" " Yeah." "What kind of male ho?" "He's very fresh, very new to the business." " He does what kind of customer?" " Women." " Just women." " How can he do just women?" " That is not where the money's at." " No, I know." "But I can't even bring up the idea of men." "He's stubborn." "He'd quit." "So you have absolutely no control over this ho." "Yeah." "Yeah, therein lies the problem." "Although the just-women thing it's fine, because we're a speciality operation." "You need to get your ho on a tighter leash." "And the way that you do that is you make him want the leash." " Want the leash?" " Uh-huh." "You gotta be there when nobody else is there." "You gotta know him like nobody knows him." "Find out what his problem is and fix it for him." "That's it." "Thank you." "Name's Charlie." "And you're welcome." "Ray, I'm too old for this." "Yeah, we should probably stop." "Stop what?" "You mean sex?" "There's nothing wrong with good healthy sex." "It makes for a fun vibe in the neighbourhood." "What are you talking about then?" "I'm not in the army anymore." "I'm too old to have sex on the floor." " You were in the army?" " Yeah." "The Israeli army." "You've heard of it?" "Hey, Ray?" " Shh." " Hey, Ray, you there?" "Ugh." "That girl." "It's like she has radar." "Every time we screw, she comes by for a visit." "Why don't you break up with her, Ray?" "Because we're not going out." " Hey, Ray?" " Tanya." "Uh, hang on." " I'm preoccupied." " I'm leaving out the back." "Get a bed and some carpet in here, Ray." "Your floor is giving me scabs." "And you call that a skylight?" " You ever heard of hiring a professional?" " I'm working on it." "I was cooking and I thought you might be hungry." "Plus I figure you can always use a microbrew." " You made burgers?" " Yeah." "I did." " I like cooking meat." " Meat." "Uh...." " With garlic in it?" " Yeah, garlic and paprika." "So you still live in your tent?" "Sometimes." "I'm used to it out there, you know?" "It's comfortable." "So, Ray, I've decided from now on I'm not gonna take my commission." "Thank you." "What?" "Since when are you in this business for free?" "Since my work stopped being respected." "I'm not saying I'm gonna do it for free forever just till you see that I'm a better pimp than Lenore." "And if that day never comes?" "Oh, it'll come, Ray." "I'm sure of that fact." "So let's talk about Claire." "How did that go?" "Fine." "Pretty damn sure she was happy this time around." " What about you?" " Me?" "I did what I had to do." " Well, what's wrong?" " Nothing." "Let's just say she's not my favourite job." " Why?" "Because she's" " No, no." "Well, what is it, then?" "I don't need my head examined." "All right, it's probably Jessica." "The pregnant lady reminds you of Jessica?" "I used to love" "I used to love fucking Jessica when she was pregnant." "I couldn't get enough of it, you know?" "It's just, uh...." "I was drunk on it." "You know, it was just the future of it all." "She's pregnant we were young." "Yeah." "I try not to think about it when I'm with Claire, but...." "She reminds me of that whole period of time." "Maybe" "Maybe you just don't fight it." "You know?" "Maybe you just close your eyes and pretend that it's" "That it's your future, you know?" "That it's her." "You want me to pretend I'm fucking my ex-wife?" "Yeah." "You're my pimp and that's your pimp advice?" "Yeah." "That's my pimp advice." "And right now it's for free." "I ain't gonna lie to you guys." "We've got a lot of problems." "Principal Barr says we'd be lucky to play any games at all." "We don't have enough equipment." "There's no money for transpo." "Levon can't practise because he's pulling two shifts at the Waffle Inn." "People close to you are out of work, losing their homes." "It doesn't seem like baseball's that important anymore." "When I look at you guys, I don't see a bunch of tired kids." "You know what I see?" "I see champions." "You've got more talent and desire in your pinky than most teams got in their two hands combined." "And I'll be damned if I'm gonna let you go down without a fight." "So right here, right now I pledge I won't let budget or money or any other bullshit adversity stop you." "That district can go to hell because we're going all the way to the state championships." "Good." "If you've got an itch, you know where to scratch." "Listen, Lenore, we've had a breakthrough this evening and I've got a very, very good feeling about Ray's date with Claire." "And I think it's safe to say that I was the deciding factor that turned that situation around." "So this is just a heads up that I do know how to carry my weight in this business." "So, Lenore, to put it another way I am not a meaningless piece of the pie." "I am the pie." " I can't stay long." " Yeah, sure, Jess." "You're right, Ray." "It's good to find time to talk about the kids." "They're teenagers now." "It's hard." "It's hard for them." "It's hard for us." "Yeah." "I mean, I know that every stage of life has its challenges." "I don't know what to say to them." "Honestly, sometimes I'm at a loss." "Yeah." "Ray?" "You brought me here to talk about the kids." "You're not saying anything." "I'm yakking away and you're just saying "yeah" and "sure."" "Because I'm listening." " What?" " Yeah, I wanted to make sure and listen." "You wanted this meeting to listen to me talk?" "That's right." " About what?" " About whatever." "Well, that's strange, Ray." "You don't like it, me listening to you?" "It's just I...." " What?" " Where did you get that idea?" " And why did you pick this place?" " Do you want to bowl?" " What?" " Let's bowl." " Now?" " Yeah." "I can't." "I can't bowl with you anymore." "I'm married." "I'm not asking you to fuck, Jess." "I'm asking you to bowl." " It's a complicated request." " No." "It's simple." " Don't miss." " Oh, you!" "Turn this one out." "Over the line." "Those arrows right there." "Go ahead." "Nice." "Hey, hey!"