SCENE THREE: CONFERENCE ROOM B, WRIGLEY FIELD, CHICAGO

RYNE SANDBERG
…and Johnstone used to put refrigerator magnets on Zimmer’s head—and they’d stick! Don spent half a game onetime with a magnet schedule on his head and he didn’t even know it!

Several employees laugh.

CARRIE FITCH (to Mitch Kricksteen)
Who put a quarter in Ryno? He’s got like an actual personality all of a sudden.

MITCH KRICKSTEEN
I always heard he was like the biggest prankster on the team when he played. I heard that one time he put some of that Atomic Balm cream in Leon Durham’s jock strap. Leon ran around during batting practice like his crotch was on fire.

CARRIE FITCH
His crotch was on fire? I thought Mark Grace was the only one who had to go on the DL with a venereal disease?

MITCH KRICKSTEEN
No, the stuff in his jock got hot. It’s like Icy Hot. They pulled the same prank in ‘Revenge of the Nerds.’

CARRIE FITCH
Oh, yeah. Like I watched that (bleep) movie.

RYNE SANDBERG
Did I ever tell you guys about the time I got Larry Bowa with the hot foot and he had to stick his foot in the toilet to put it out? No? Do you guys know what a hot foot is? It’s when you sneak up on somebody and set his shoe laces on fire. I was pretty good at it. Being able to sneak up on them is just as important as getting a good fire going. The only time I almost hurt somebody was when Tom Veryzer and I got the big idea to soak Ron Cey’s shoestrings in lighterfluid the night before. So we waited until he left, unlaced his shoes, dipped the laces in lighter fluid and then put them back in his shoes. The next day I got him by the batting cage and the fire jumped up off his shoes and started his pants on fire. Plus, Cey’s legs are only about nine inches long, so we’re lucky the fire didn’t get all the way to his crotch! (laughs)

CARRIE FITCH (to Brent David)
Suddenly, Ryne’s attractive.

BRENT DAVID
Yeah…wait, what? No.