"Seriously." "Keep an eye on this guy." "My gut instinct says he's got a f utur e in the NHL." "Dan." "Kim Galey can't stop br eaking r ecords, and these days, the only r ecords she's br eaking ar e mostly her own." "Our Jennif er Crystal caught up with Kim in Baton Rouge." "Dave: 30 seconds back." "" " A little r econ." "" " No." "" " A little r econ is all I'm asking." "" " No." "" " You go up ther e, you introduce yourself, " " No." " and you r ecommend me." "" " No." "I r ecommend you?" "" " Yes." "" " No." "Casey, come on." "You want me to walk into the office of a woman I don't know, a woman who has turned you down each and every one of the 17 times you've asked her out, and r ecommend you?" "" " Yes." "" " No." "You think I'm becoming obsessed with her?" "Yes." "" " You do?" "" " Yes." "" " You think it's 'cause she won't go out with me?" "" " Yes." "" " You think it's getting distracting?" "" " Yes." "" " I'm not distracted." "" " Really?" "" " I'm not." "" " Dave:" "Back in 10." "" " And you won't do r econ?" "" " No." "Don't you think I'd do it f or you?" "Oh, I know you wouldn't." "" " I'm not distracted." "" " In 3...2..." "The sophomor e sensation accr edits her agility and quick first step to her f ather, who used to take her to a neighborhood park all cover ed with cheese." "We'll be bringing you part two of that story tomorrow night." "Casey." "The San Diego Padr es..." "" " Did he just say "cheese"?" "" " He did just say "cheese."" "What was it supposed to be?" "" " What was it supposed to be?" "" " Let me find it." "A park all cover ed with cheese?" "I had thr ee people talking in my ear." "" " I can't find it." "What block?" "" " We just did it." "" " The 50s." " 55." "How about a park all cover ed with tr ees?" "" " He said "cheese"?" "" " Welcome to the show." "...f or double-A Scottsdale, with 86 strikeouts." "You'r e watching "Sports Night" on CSC, so come on back." "We're out." "Two minutes back." "The neighborhood park all cover ed with cheese?" "" " I said "cheese"?" "" " You said "cheese."" "Dana, did I say, "park all cover ed with cheese"?" "Ther e's a consensus, yes." "What ar e you lookin' at?" "I'm her e f or you, man." "Let me fix it when we come back." "Fix it when we come back." "Ar e we sur e it's wrong?" "Ar e we sur e the park isn't all cover ed with cheese?" "It's cover ed with tr ees, and shut up." "I was just about to change my mind and r ecommend you." "" " Really?" "" " No." "Dana, Casey's being mean to me." "Casey, be nice to Dan." ""The sophomor e sensation" ""accr edits her agility and quick first step to her f ather, who used to take her to a neighborhood park all cover ed with cheese."" "[ Chuckling ] Dana... we got all kinds of sentence construction her e." "I think he's gonna have to explain that it's the park that's cover ed with cheese and not the f ather." "This is an unf orgiving room." "Plus it's a little hard to figur e how running through cheese helped the kid with her agility and quick first step." "Thank you, everyone." "Boy, will I be happy when someone gets me the film on Albert Belle." "That would be a happy moment f or me." "" " Guess what." "" " What?" "" " I'm going snorkeling." "" " Seriously." "Don't anyone bring me the Albert Belle film that I asked f or, 'cause I'll get emotional." "Did you hear me?" "Yeah, you'r e going snorkeling." "I'm going snorkeling off the island of Latok." "" " Wher e's Latok?" "" " I do not know." "Also, if anybody brought me the Albert Belle film, it would be bad, 'cause I'd be able to work right now." "" " Don't you want to know when I'm going?" "" " When ar e you going?" "Week after next, weekend after next -- next Friday through next Sunday." "" " You seem pr etty ex cited." "" " You bet I'm ex cited." "I'm assuming this is with Gordon." "He asked me last night." "Just the two of you?" "Just the two of us..." "And thr ee other couples." "" " What does that sound like to you?" "" " A total of f our couples." "Do you think it's a good sign?" "That he asked you to go snorkeling?" "Yes." "Yes." "Me too." "Is ther e anything else?" "It sounds good, doesn't it?" "The snorkeling?" "That he asked me, just the two of us -- just the eight of us -- off the island of Latok." "Sounds like a lot of people ar e gonna be having sex with a lot of other people who ar en't me." "[ Laughs ] That's right." "Sounds good." "Hey." "" " Natalie." "" " Yes, ma'am." "" " I'm going snorkeling." "" " What do you mean?" "Gordon asked me to go snorkeling." "" " Is he going, too?" "" " Of course he's " " Yes." "Do you think he called me and said," ""Dana, I want you to go away f rom me and snorkel"?" "God, you don't think that's what he meant, do you?" "Absolutely not." "I'm going snorkeling." "That's gr eat." "" " Isn't it?" "" " Yes." "" " Isn't it just gr eat?" "" " It r eally is." "" " I'm going snorkeling." "" " Ar e you okay?" "" " You have to help me." "" " Why?" "'Cause I'm going snorkeling." "" " What's the problem?" "" " I can't snorkel." "" " Sur e, you can." "" " No, I can't." "" " I've seen you swim." "" " I swim just fine." "" " And you like the water." "" " I like the water very much." "" " They r eally, r eally won't." "" " Why not?" "I'm af raid of fish." "" " You'r e af raid of fish?" "" " I'm af raid of fish, Natalie." "Fish f righten me in a very r eal way." "" " Have you had a bad experience with fish?" "" " No." "Then what's the " "Well, it's just the way it is." "Well, that puts you in a bit of a pickle." "Well, what do you think I can do?" "I don't even know what the problem is." "" " Then why did you say I was in a pickle?" "" " It's f un to say." "I can't help but notice that you'r e not that happy f or me." "Gordon asked me to spend the weekend with him when the smart money said he was gonna drop me like a sack of rocks," " and you don't seem to be that happy." "" " I'm happy." "I thought maybe you wer e gonna say I shouldn't go, 'cause I'm not r eally in love with Gordon." "" " And secr etly in love with Casey?" "" " Yeah." "No." "I thought you wer e gonna say that." "" " I'm not." "" " I'm glad." "" " I'm dropping it." "" " Thank you." "From now on, you ar e no longer secr etly in love with Casey." "Huh." "So...what do I do?" "Uh, about the fish?" "Yes." "Well, how about when everyone goes snorkeling, you, you know, don't go snorkeling?" "The whole point of this is that Gordon f eels I'm not giving enough of myself." "Gordon loves snorkeling." "He's asked me to go snorkeling, so when everyone goes snorkeling, I have to go snorkeling." "Well, how about, when everyone goes snorkeling, you stay her e in New York with Casey, whom you secr etly love." "[ Groans ] I should have seen that coming." "Yes, indeed." "She's never seen the show." "Yes." "Don't you find that r emarkable?" "Okay." "She works f or CSC." "She works f or Continental Corp." "" " Ar en't we one big f amily?" "" " I like to think of us that way." "And she's never seen the show." "Isn't ther e someone you could call?" "Like who?" "A grievance hotline?" "I'd like you to take this seriously." "I don't think that's gonna happen, do you?" "I just think if she saw me on the show, she would like me." "I'm my best on the show." "It's what I want people to see." "I put all day into one hour, and I'm proud of it, but she won't watch the show." "I'm r eally troubled by that." "Yeah, I can tell you'r e all broken up." "How many times have you approached this woman?" "Altogether?" "Yes." "Nine times." "Including the flowers?" "12 times." "And waiting by the elevator?" "15 times." "" " Okay, now -- -- 17 times." " 17 times." "" " Yes." "And what has she said each time?" "Well, it usually runs something along the lines of," ""Dan, I'm not inter ested."" "Okay." ""Dan, you'r e a nice guy, but I'm just not inter ested."" "So let me ask -- have you explor ed the possibility that she's not inter ested?" "Oh, I'm well awar e that she's not inter ested." "Well, have you tried showing her how you f eel, Danny?" "I mean, have you tried doing it at least...20 times?" "I will not be the subject of your mockery." "Oh, I think you shall." "" " Jer emy." "" " What do you need?" "" " Hmm?" "" " You called me." "" " Yes." "" " What do you need?" "" " Exactly." "" " Don't listen to him, Jer emy." "Nobody's talking to you!" "Hi." "How ar e you doin'?" "I need a f avor." "Is this about Rebecca?" "" " Rebecca?" "No." "" " Yes." "I am rooting f or you, Dan, but I r eally can't get involved in things like this." "It's not about Rebecca." "Bad things happen to people when they get involved in other people's business, a lesson I'm trying to teach Natalie." "I'd like to set a good example." "It's not...about..." "Rebecca." "" " What's the f avor?" "" " It's about Rebecca." "" " Yes!" "" " Let me tell you what I'd like you to do." "I'd like you to go up to her office on some ex cuse, and then say some nice things about me." "Let me tell you why I'm not gonna do that." "" " I'll look like a jackass." "" " No, you would look sweet." "" " I don't think so." "" " Women love this." "" " Stalking?" "Not as much as you may think." "" " Yeah." "Jer emy..." " you and I need a bond." "" " We have a bond." "" " It could be stronger." "" " It's pr etty strong." "" " Look at me and Casey." "" " Was he willing to do it?" "Casey:" "No!" "" " Hey!" "I've got work." "Is ther e nothing I wouldn't do f or you?" "[ Telephones ringing ]" "[ Indistinct conversations ]" "All the help I gave you with Natalie." "Is ther e nothing I wouldn't do f or you?" "And this is how I'm to be r epaid?" "I see you'r e about to cave." "No, I just can't believe how much you sounded like my mother just then." "" " You'll do it?" "" " What possible ex cuse can I give f or stopping by her office?" "" " You'll think of something." "" " I won't think of something." "" " You will." "" " I won't." "" " You'r e good on your f eet." "" " I'm not good on my f eet." "" " You r eally ar e." "" " I'm r eally not." "You just need to mention some impr essive things about me." "I've pr epar ed a short list." "" " Ther e isn't any other way we can str engthen our bond?" "" " No." "Give me the list." "This is their world, Isaac." "They live wher e it's murky." "Poisonous, tentacle-bearing, pr ehistoric sea cr eatur es." "You'r e af raid of fish?" "And I'm not ashamed to admit it." "Ther e ar en't gonna be any sharks down ther e." "We don't know what the hell's down ther e." "It's down there." "It's their home court." "They know what they'r e doing down ther e." "They can breathe down ther e." "I need this ridiculous rubber tube and a pair of goggles." "Ar e you af raid they'r e gonna make f un of you?" "" " Isaac -- " " No, really, I mean, ar e you af raid the fish ar e gonna look at you, and point, and say, "Look at that thing with the lungs"?" "No, I'm not af raid the fish ar e gonna make f un of me." "You eat fish, don't you?" "And don't you think they know that?" "[ Chuckles ]" "I don't think snorkeling's f or you." "This is what I'm saying." "" " Dana." "" " Yes." "Is everything all right?" "Yeah." "No, I meant with you and Gordon." "Is everything all right?" "Yeah, I'm just " "I'm 33." "Tsk." "And I'm very much af raid of fish." "Okay." "Rebecca:" "If Diane's office doesn't have it, then you should talk to Sloane." "If Sloane doesn't have it, then we're working late tonight." "" " Ex cuse me." "" " Hi." "" " Rebecca?" "" " Yes." "Rebecca Wells?" "" " Yes." "Hi." "" " Hi." "Oh, I can wait till you'r e off the phone." "What's this about?" "That's a perf ectly f air question." "Doug, I'm gonna call you back, okay?" "Hey " " I " "It could have waited." "What could have waited?" "Well, I'm her e to welcome you, actually." "You'r e new her e, and I came to say "welcome."" "Welcome to the building." "I've been working her e f or thr ee years." "Yes, I misspoke." "I'm new her e." "And you came by to say welcome?" "" " Yes." "No." "" " Really?" "" " What's your name?" "" " Jer emy Goodwin." "Jer emy, why don't you give it another try?" "" " All right, I will." "Yes." "" " You'r e f rom "Sports Night."" "" " Dan sent you?" "" " Yes." "" " To say nice things about him." "" " I have a list." "Is everyone who works on your show deranged?" "I swear, everyone but me." "You needed a better plan, Jer emy." "Yes, I know." "" " You came down her e with nothin' ." "" " Hey, not with nothing." ""Welcome to the building"?" "Hmm." "Won't you please..." "go out with Dan?" "[ Sighing ] Well, God." "Maybe." "Cause at cheerleader tryouts, Kiki did say Dan was talking about me in the caf eteria." "" " Rebecca -- " " Dan's a very good-looking man, he's charming, he's a television star." "I would think he could have any woman he wants." "" " He wants you." "" " He wants me today." "" " Well, f or the last week." "" " Yes." "What wer e we talking about?" "[ Sighs ]" "I've had experience with sportscasters." "" " What kind of experience?" "" " I was married to one." "" " Ahh." "Which one?" "" " Yes." "" " None of your business." "" " That's right." "They ar e self-absorbed, narrow-minded, immatur e people of limited intelligence and limitless ego." "It's none of my business, but if that's the kind of thing you told your husband -- " " We'r e through her e now." "Take car e." "" " Right." "Hey, look -- go out with him or don't go out with him, but f or the r ecord, nothing you just said describes Dan." "Thank you." "Welcome to the building." "Dana:" "After 15:23, we'll throw it to a two shot on the break." "" " That's a bonus br eak." "" " Yeah, but it's scripted in the 20s." "" " You need to erase that." "" " I scratched it out." "" " All right, Tampa Bay -- " " If you used a pencil, you could erase that." "" " I like to use a pen." "Tampa Bay " "You should use a pencil." "Would it be possible..." "to have one 10:00 meeting that doesn't degenerate into dork r ecess?" "The noon meeting, the 6:00, the 8:00 -- these ar e fine, and then the 10:00 rolls around, and you all start to unravel." "Just once I'd like that not to happen!" "All right." "Casey's got 3: 10 " "I have to go snorkeling." "" " Dana." "" " No, I have to, Natalie." "l-I know." "I'm saying maybe now's not the time " "Gordon thinks I'm too invested in the show." " [ Telephone ringing ] " " I'm losing him, and I believe" "I can heal our r elationship if I go snorkeling." "The guys I'm with -- it's usually good enough just to wear the outfit." "" " Conf er ence room." "" " I will overcome my fear of fish." "Gordon's on your line." "You see what good thinking can do?" "" " Do you want us to step outside?" "" " He's just calling to say hi." "What's happening?" "We wer e just talking about that." "I'm gonna overcome my f ear of fish." "[ Chuckles nervously ]" "Really?" "Let's meet back in 20 minutes." "No, no, that's...fine." "This way, I can take the time I was going to devote to getting over my f ear of fish to... get over my f ear of something else..." "like... bears " " I've never r eally been comf ortable with." "" " Hey, Casey." "" " Hey, Natalie." "" " Do you mind if I grab a piece of paper?" "" " Sur e." "'Kay." "" " How you doin'?" "" " What did I do?" "Why ar en't you pursuing Dana the way I told you to?" "Hey, Dana made it very clear in no uncertain terms that she wanted me to stop pursuing her, and that was back when I never was pursuing her, which I'm still not now." "She's in ther e right now listening to Gordon bail on the snorkeling trip, and she was very ex cited about it." "She was gonna get over her f ear of fish." "Fish is not what Dana's af raid of." "" " What's she af raid of?" "" " Holding out for what she deserves." "Exactly!" "Exactly." "I totally agr ee, and I don't even know what that means." "Do you think Dana's happy going out with Gordon?" "" " I do not." "" " We'r e in agr eement." "I think Dana would be happy going out with you." "And ther e we do not agr ee." "Listen to what I'm telling you!" "I have, and you'r e wrong." "We'r e best f riends." "She tells me things." "" " What has she told you?" "" " Things." "" " She told you she'd rather be going out with me than with Gordon?" "" " Not in those words." "" " In what words?" "" " Other words." "" " Natalie -- " " Gordon's about to br eak up with Dana." "He might even be doing it right now." "And the only r eason Dana car es is that she thinks she's supposed to car e." "" " She thinks this is her f ault." "Isaac:" "Casey." "Isaac, don't you think -- don't you know that Dana isn't happy with Gordon, and that Gordon is about to br eak up with Dana, and Dana only thinks she car es?" "You know what?" "I'm gonna step out now, and it'll be like I never came in." "Casey... no kidding around." "The world keeps moving in one dir ection." "Do something." "Really." "If I did something, Natalie, it would just be as a f riend." "Whatever." "What should I do?" "You should go to her." "Go to her?" "You should go to her." "" " When?" "" " Now." "" " I should go to her now." "" " Yes." "On a Thursday." "Yes." "Go to her." "Right." "What should I do once I get to her?" "Be a man." "Right." "[ Chuckles ]" "I've got that wir ed, right?" "Yeah." "[ Sighs ]" "[ Indistinct voices ]" "[ Telephones ringing ]" "Hey, Dana." "Hey, I'm gonna move San Jose into the 4 block." "That's fine." "And you wrote a killer intro f or the 40s." "Thank you." "" " Uh..." "" " What?" "Is " " Is everything all right with Gordon?" "Yeah." "'Cause I heard maybe he called off the snorkeling." "He did." "We'r e going skiing instead." "" " Oh." "" " The same place he took me that first time." "" " Sugarbush." "" " Sugarbush." "[ Chuckles ] Remember." "See, so everything works out." "" " It does." "" " Hmm." "" " Is ther e anything else?" "" " Nope." "Seriously, the intro you wrote f or the 40s is r eally f unny." "You ar e cracking me up today." "Ex cellent." "This 1 3/8 gets amortized over 4 quarters." "It has to be right on all of the documents bef or e they get sent over to Shearson." "Got it." "" " How you doin'?" "" " Dan." "" " I knew I knew you." "" " Yes." "" " You'r e Steve Sisco's wif e." "" " Ex-wif e." "" " We wer e introduced once." "" " Yes." "Why have you been pr etending you didn't r emember?" "Look who's talking." "You didn't r emember me, and you wer en't pr etending." "Yeah, but then we met in the elevator, and you pr etended you didn't r emember me after that... until you did r emember me later, but then you didn't want to go out with me anyway." "" " That's right." "" " Because sportscasters ar e self-absorbed, narrow-minded people of limited intelligence and limitless ego." "That's right." "Let me tell you something -- first of all," "I'm a sports anchor, not a sportscaster." "Second of all, you married a jerk." "I know about Steve Sisco." "Everybody knows about Steve Sisco." "Sister, you married a loser." "And the f act that you think that that man's low-grade brand of manhood is any way indicative of my prof ession is beneath your obvious intelligence and class." "What guys like that do to women like you makes me absolutely crazy." "I knew I r ecognized you." "Will you look at this?" "You'r e working late," "I have a show to do in 10 minutes just 12 stories up." "Ther e's no earthly r eason why you shouldn't be having dinner with me after the show." "It would be midnight, and we'd go to a gr eat place, and I'd ask you about your day, 'cause I genuinely do car e about your day." "And I'd be f unny, and you'd have a good time." "And when I took you home at, like, 3:00 A.M., and I tried to kiss you good night," "I think I'd have been successf ul." "In f act, I know it." "And I can't believe none of that's ever gonna happen 'cause once ther e was a time you married an idiot." "I've got to get back to my job, which, r est assur ed," "I do considerably better than Steve Sisco." "[ Laughing ] Neighborhood park all cover ed with cheese?" "I knew it." "You've been watching the show." "Cheese, Danny?" " l-I was distracted." "" " How exactly did the cheese " "You know what?" "I've actually heard them all." "[ Laughs ]" "I gotta go." "Wer e you, uh, by any chance... thinking about me at that moment?" "What moment?" "The moment of the hideous cheese blunder." "I wouldn't r eally call it a hideous cheese blunder." "" " Danny, you said, "a park all cover ed with cheese"!" "" " I know." "That's the second time you called me Danny." "Do you like it?" "Yeah." "Was it because of me?" "" " Yeah." "" " The hideous cheese mistake?" "I was distracted." "Listen, I have to work late." "If you'r e not doing anything, do you want to get some dinner after your show?" "" " Tonight?" "" " Yeah." "I got a date tonight." "[ Sighs ]" "That was a joke." "That was a little joke I wrapped up and gave to you f r ee f or nothing." "[ Sighs ] I am serious, Danny." "If you turn out to be a jackass, I am gonna " "No kidding, as God is my witness " "I am gonna do something bad to you with numbers." "I stand warned." "Do you swear the hideous cheese mistake was because of me?" "Yes." "That's r eally nice." "Thank you." "" " I'll see you later." "" " See ya." "I don't have sound on Philly, and I'm still looking f or a cold graphic." "Pr eview 2." "" " I don't have Philly." "" " Nobody has Philly." "Casey?" "Yeah." "" " The f eed f rom San Antonio -- " " Yeah?" "Don't be f r eaked out if it's in Spanish." "Okay." "" " Natalie." "Wher e's Dan?" "" " Yeah." "Wher e's Dan?" "I don't have Philly, and I don't have Dan." "Dan, despite my best eff orts, is getting his heart broken by Rebecca, who gave me quite a tongue-lashing, by the way." "" " Dave:" "Live in 30 seconds." "" " Ex cuse me." "She gave you what?" "[ Snaps fingers ]" "'Zip-a-dee-doo-dah ' 'zip-a-dee-ay '" "'My, oh, my, what a wonderf ul day '" "Dan's back." "Thank you, Dan." "[ Sighs ]" "'Plenty of sunshine, plenty of hay '" "Uh, it's not "plenty of hay."" "It's "plenty of sunshine heading' my way."" "That makes mor e sense." "I gather it went well." "You know, sometimes it's worth it -- taking all the pies in the f ace." "Sometimes you come through it f eeling good." "Yes." "And how was your day?" "Sometimes you just stand ther e... hip deep in pie." "Dave:" "In 3...2..." "Good evening." "From New York City," "I'm Casey McCall alongside Dan Rydell." "Those stories, plus we'll take you to Indian Wells f or a hard-cor e pr eview with Marcello Rios." "We'll take you out to Auburn Hills, wher e the Pistons tipped off against a Shaq attack minus the Shaq." "All that coming up after this." "You'r e watching "Sports Night" on CSC, so stick around."