Les coulisses de l'exploit (1988)

Michael Rooker: Chick Gandil - The Team

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• Chick Gandil : You go back to Boston and turn seventy grand at the drop of a hat? I find that hard to believe.

  Sport Sullivan : You say you can find seven men on the best club that ever took the field willin' to throw the World Series? I find *that* hard to believe.

  Chick Gandil : You never played for Charlie Comiskey.

• Sport Sullivan : Look at those hands, ladies. You should have been a pug, Chickie.

  Chick Gandil : I did some fighting in my time. Once I was fighting a guy, my eyes were all bloody but I landed a lucky punch. The next thing I know I'm steppin' on something and it's the other guy's teeth. The referee raised my hand and someone shoved fifty bucks in my shorts. "What does he get?" I asked. The referee says, "From the looks of this jaw, a liquid diet for six weeks." Now what we should have done is held each other up for thirteen rounds and split the fifty.

• Lefty Williams : [Lefty and Hap confronting Chick before game 7]  I thought you were supposed to be in charge of this thing! What happened to Sullivan?

  Chick Gandil : He switched hotels, we can't track him down.

  Lefty Williams : And what happened to Attell?

  Chick Gandil : Shot his wad in the third game when Kerr won. Said he's busted.

  Hap Felsch : Hell with them then.

  Chick Gandil : Hey, you two made an agreement!

  Hap Felsch : Hey, we blow one more, it's over! I've dumped 4 games and I've been only paid for one!

  Chick Gandil : Hey, you don't know what these guys are like!

  [Lefty and Hap chuckle and walk away] 

  Chick Gandil : Once you're in, you're in! You can't welch on these guys!

  [Throws his glove to the ground] 

  Chick Gandil : Your funeral! Assholes!

• 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 : If you don't play the angles, you're a sap.

• 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?

• Chick Gandil : Listen, Burns and Maharg are in the bar car with this Abe Attell character. They say they got the jack lined up, so go have a couple of pops with them till I'm through with the boys in here. Okay?

• Chick Gandil : So what's the story, Buck?

  Buck Weaver : What does it look like?

  Chick Gandil : It looked like you skunked out on us.

  Buck Weaver : Look, I haven't taken a nickel. I don't owe anybody a damn thing.

  Chick Gandil : We let you in on the meetings.

  Buck Weaver : Look, you just play your ball game, and I'll play mine, and we'll see how it comes out.