Sometimes You Have to Let Them ‘Bring the Heat’
Kevin Costner has been in some fantastic baseball movies:
Field of Dreams,
A League of Their Own, and his most entertaining –
Bull Durham. In Bull Durham, he plays Crash Davis – “the player to be named later,” traded to the Bulls to bring along their new Major League pitching prospect, Ebby Calvin LaLoosh, AKA “Nuke.” Crash’s job is to get Nuke ready for the Majors. Early in Nuke’s training as a pitcher during a game, he is shaking Crash off because he doesn’t like the called pitch. He wants to bring the “heat” repeatedly shaking Crash off, Crash trots out to the mound, and a brief discussion ensues: