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[AI GL] The Catcher's Secret
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00:04you
00:04You let that slider hit you on purpose just to get on base. I
00:09Take a pitch to the ribs every day if it means we win
00:14And what about after we win
00:25Did you hear that the game crowd
00:31I
00:32Told myself it was nothing a shutter in a parking lot
00:37But something in my gut told me that sound was the beginning of the end
00:48Pearl catcher caught with a girl now. That's a front page
00:55You were late last night. I heard the door at 2
01:00Celebration dinner with the team
01:02Frank bought the first round Henry called. He said you weren't at the diner with the team. He said he
01:07looked
01:11I
01:12Where were you, mija?
01:14I walked. Needed air
01:17The Mississippi at night you should see it ma
01:21I knew she was lying
01:23I just didn't know yet what kind of truth she was hiding
01:27The mother knows when child starts carrying a secret like a second spine
01:40There's a rumor floating around the press bodge
01:42Someone's got a photo from St. Louis
01:44They're shopping it to three papers
01:52Someone mailed this to the sponsor
01:54Carbon copy
01:55They want $500 for the negative
01:58Is it?
02:01I don't wanna know who's in that photo V
02:03I don't wanna know anything
02:05I'm going to pay it
02:07Out of my own pocket
02:09And this conversation never happened
02:14Frank
02:16Your father asked me on his deathbed to keep you safe
02:19Not to keep you famous
02:22Safe
02:24I'm doing what I have to
02:27He meant well
02:28He always did
02:32But safety isn't the same as freedom
02:34And I was about to learn the difference the hard way
02:38Henry
02:39The person selling that photo
02:41I need a name
02:42Beatrice Harlow
02:43Freelance stringer out of Chicago
02:45She calls herself a society truth teller
02:48They
02:48She doesn't just sell photos
02:50She sells careers
02:57To my daughter Charlie
02:59And young Philip
03:00Two families
03:01One future
03:02The weddings in December
03:05You're all invited
03:10I need air
03:18What are you doing here?
03:19How did you even know?
03:21Henry told me
03:23Said your father was announcing an engagement tonight
03:25I had to see it for myself
03:28It's not real
03:29It's a business arrangement
03:30I never agreed
03:33It looked real from where I was standing
03:35You in that dress
03:37Him with his hand on your waist
03:40You drove six hours to watch me lie in a room full of strangers
03:43Why?
03:44Why?
03:53Because I needed to know if you were gonna let them write your story for you
03:56Or if you'd fight
04:05You've been swinging at ghosts all morning, what's eating you?
04:11Nothing
04:12Just getting ready for the finals
04:15I've played with you for six seasons V
04:17I know when you're swinging at the ball and when you're swinging at something you can't hit
04:24Someone has a photo
04:25Of me
04:26With someone
04:27They're selling it to the papers
04:30Do you love her?
04:47I spent twenty years praying my daughter wouldn't have to carry the crosses I carried
04:53But the world doesn't spare anybody's children
04:57It just picks a different cross
05:03I gave Frank a chance to buy it quietly
05:06He made a counter offer I found insulting
05:08So now we're here, you and me, face to face
05:11What do you want?
05:12Three options
05:13One, you retire, quietly, personal reasons
05:17And the negative disappears
05:19Two, I sell it to the Chicago Terbrun
05:22And you become the cautionary tale of the season
05:25And if I pick door four
05:27There is no door four, sweetheart
05:29Not in 1954
05:34Henry told me about the meeting with Harlow
05:37Go back to Chicago, Charlie
05:39Put the ring back on
05:41Let your father plan the wedding
05:42This isn't your fight
05:44It became my fight the night I kissed you in St. Louis
05:49You don't get to decide that alone
05:52If I lose this
05:54If they take baseball from me, I have nothing else
05:56No degree, no family money
05:59Just a mother who needs me
06:00And a sport that's the only thing I'm good at
06:02Then we make sure you don't lose
06:07Sources close to the Pearl capsule tell a troubling story
06:10Do you know who those sources are, Charlotte?
06:13No one, because I bought the silence
06:15Page one
06:16This column is a ghost written by a woman I now own
06:21You bought Behar
06:22I bought the negative
06:24I bought her silence
06:26And I bought the right to decide what happens next
06:29Here's the deal
06:30Whatever this is with the catcher
06:31You married Phillip Phillip in December
06:33And the photo never existed
06:35You can't buy my life, Dad
06:38I built your life
06:39Get some rest
06:41You've got a game tomorrow
06:43He thought he'd won because he held the paper
06:46But he forgot
06:48I was the one who learned how to write
06:51The negative
06:52My father bought it from Harlow last night
06:54I stole it from his safe this morning
06:55Charlie, your father is going-
06:57Let him!
06:57I've spent 22 years being his daughter
06:59Starting today, I'm going to spend the rest of my life being myself
07:06I know you stole the negative back
07:08I also know that Wellington's lawyers are drafting a breach of promise letter as we speak
07:13I didn't ask her to do it
07:17That's the thing about Charlie
07:19You don't have to ask
07:21She sees a war and she walks toward it
07:23Meanwhile, I'm sitting here writing game recaps
07:25Pretending I don't know the biggest story
07:27Sitting right next to me
07:31You're a good man, Henry
07:34That's not going to make this hurt less when it all comes out
07:42I told my father I'm not going back to Chicago
07:47What did he say?
07:48He told me I'd be cut off
07:49No money
07:50No trust fund
07:51No wedding
07:53I told him that's the first good news I've heard all week
08:02If I lose baseball over this
08:05If the league finds out and I'm done, I can't give you anything
08:17I didn't steal that negative so you could owe me something
08:21I stole it because I'd rather be broke with you than rich without you
08:25Henry brought the paper by this morning
08:27He thought I'd want to see the society page
08:30Your father's friend's daughter got engaged
08:35You're not in the photo, Mia
08:37But I know your shadow
08:42I spent a week praying it wasn't true
08:45Then I spent another week praying that if it was true
08:48You'd tell me yourself
08:51You didn't
08:53I didn't know how
08:54I didn't know if you'd still
08:55You're my daughter
08:56I didn't raise you to be a liar
08:58And I didn't raise you to be ashamed
09:00I raised you to be good
09:02And strong
09:04And true
09:07I just never told you that being true means telling me the hard things too
09:16Don't be sorry for who you are
09:19Be sorry you didn't trust me with it
09:23My mother knew before I said a word
09:25And she didn't turn away
09:29That moment
09:30Sitting in the kitchen with her
09:33I realized I'd been afraid of losing a love I already had
09:43From now on, I was only afraid of losing the one I hadn't fought for yet
09:55I don't know how she printed it, I paid her
09:59Wellington paid her
10:00She took money from both of us and printed it anyway
10:07She was always going to print it
10:09We were just bidding on how long she'd wait
10:14I've played with V for six seasons
10:16She's caught every pitch I've thrown
10:17She's covered every base I've missed
10:19I don't care who she loves
10:20I care if she shows up tomorrow ready to win a championship
10:23Does she?
10:25She will
10:29My dad's a deaker
10:30I can't be on a team with this
10:38My cousin's like you
10:39She's the happiest person I know
10:44One person walked out, five stayed
10:46You do the math, Captain
10:52Tomorrow, we win
10:53And they put our names in the paper for the right reason
11:04Yes, I understand, yes
11:06Give us 24 hours
11:10League office called
11:11They're reviewing your eligibility under the morality clause
11:14That's committee spelt for
11:15We're trying to decide if we have the spine to throw you out
11:17Or if the public will do it for us
11:19If they suspend me, bench me for the finals
11:20You still have a team
11:21Maggie can call pitches, Charlie can cover center
11:24I don't want a team, I want my catcher
11:26I want the girl I watched grow up in this drug out
11:28The one who swings that lowball she shouldn't chase me
11:30Because she refuses to let anything pass her by
11:32That girl is still here
11:33And I'm not letting a committee in a Chicago boardroom take her off my field
11:39Frank didn't say he'd win
11:40He said he wouldn't let them take me
11:42That was the first time all week I felt like maybe, just maybe, I wasn't fighting alone
11:54I read the paper, so did your mother, she's been in bed for two days
12:02I'm sorry you had to find out that way, I'm not sorry for who I am
12:05Your Aunt Margaret, my older sister, they gave her a sister, it was the best day she ever saw, she
12:08loved a woman
12:09The league found out in 49, she told us to be quietly or be expelled publicly, she left quietly, then
12:13she left altogether
12:13She drank herself to death in a boarding house in Toledo three years later
12:17I'm not here to tell you I accept this, I don't know if I can
12:20I'm here to tell you that I've already lost one person I love to silence and shame
12:24I don't know if I have the strength to lose another
12:26But I'm not going to be the one who takes your choice away, not again
12:35The first time, I felt like I belonged to a family that had always been mine
12:40I just hadn't known the whole story
12:45That girl, the one from the pay paper, is she good to you?
12:52She stole her father's safe key to get back a photo that could have ruined my life
12:58She drove six hours to watch me play, before she even knew my last name
13:09She's the first person who ever made me feel like I don't have to hide
13:13Then you bring her to dinner on Sunday
13:16I'm making pot roast
13:18And tell her to bring an appetite
13:20Torres women feed the people we love
13:24Tomorrow, we play the biggest game of our lives
13:27And no matter what happens after
13:29Whether they let you stay or they donut
13:32I need you to know something
13:34What?
13:36I'd do it all again, every mile
13:39Every fight
13:40Every door that closes
13:42I'd walk through every single one to get back to this moment
13:46Right here
13:46Thank you
13:48Thank you
14:08This season, we've been through everything a team can go through
14:11Injuries, losses, rain delays, front page scandal
14:15Some of you stayed
14:16One of you walked out
14:18But all of you, every single one of you who's still standing here
14:21Chose to be on this field today
14:22And I'm gonna let that choice be for nothing
14:24One team
14:28One team
14:30This is it
14:30The last nine innings of the season
14:33Everything I've played for, everything I've risked
14:35It all comes down to this piece of dirt
14:43She's expecting the rise ball
14:44Give her the drop
14:45She'll chase it
14:48You owe me a steak dinner if this works
14:50You'll get the whole cow
15:00Thanks Henry
15:18She slid into third like she owned the base
15:21And maybe she did
15:22Maybe we all did
15:24We just needed someone to remind us that the field still belongs to the players
15:28Not to the men in the boxes
15:47Miss Wellington, there's a gentleman at the concession stock who asked me to give you this
16:13Batters scored at first, take your base
16:15A bruise heals
16:21The base is forever
16:28We've got one shot
16:29Base is loaded
16:31Two outs
16:34Whoever's up better be ready to be a hero
16:43Frank
16:45The next batter is
16:47Now batting for the pearls
16:49Number nine catcher
16:51Vivian Torres
17:05We've got this V
17:07We've always had this
17:09The first ball, a good ball
17:11The outer corner is low
17:12He is testing my patience
17:13The second ball, out of bounds
17:15I'm a little late, he is winning
17:16The third ball, the bad ball
17:18Inside, he began to hesitate
17:19He doesn't know what I'm afraid of
17:21He doesn't know that I'm not afraid of anything
17:42Come here
17:44I won the game with a swing, but I won my life the moment I stopped being afraid to hold
17:49her hand in front of the world
17:51Miss Torres, the league has not yet issued a statement on your eligibility for next season, do you have any
17:55comment?
17:56I just hit the game winning home roll in the championship final, my catcher's ERA is the lowest in the
17:59league, I've shown up to every practice, every game, every bus ride for six seasons, the league wants to have
18:03a conversation about my eligibility, they know where to find me, on my locker, getting ready for next season
18:08Miss Wellington, your father is Harold Wellington third, has your family commented on the situation?
18:15I'm not going to let a newspaper headline or a league morality screw make me choose between being honest and
18:21being loved, I choose both
18:28My dad gave me this the year I started covering Pearl games, he said it was his lucky coin from
18:33the championship season, I think he wants you to have it now
18:39So what happens now? After the parade, after the press conference, after everyone goes home, what do we do?
18:51We keep playing
18:53If they let me, if they don't, I'll find another way
18:58There are semi-pro leagues, women's barnstorming teams
19:02I've heard there's a league starting up in the Pacific Northwest
19:06You'd leave Missouri?
19:09I'd go anywhere, as long as you're coming with me
19:22I figured you'd be hungry, and I figured you'd bring her
19:29You look like you don't eat enough, sit down, there's more than enough
19:38Thank you, Mrs. Taurias
19:40Call me Rose, and eat before it gets cold
19:42We've got a lot of years ahead of us, can't start them on an empty stomach
19:52Open it
20:01Well, are they suspending you? Are they-
20:04They're not suspending me
20:05They're updating the morality clause to include a non-discrimination provision starting next season
20:10And they're inviting me to sit on the league's first player conduct advisory board
20:22Your father is dancing in heaven right now, I can feel it
20:34I'm going to frame this
20:37Ma
20:39I'm serious
20:41This letter goes on the wall next to your first baby shoe
20:45My daughter didn't just win a championship
20:48She changed the rules
20:50We've got a wire from Portland
20:54The Pacific Coast Women's League is expanding
20:56You're offering contracts to players from the championship teams
20:59You and Charlie are both on the list
21:00Triple the salary you're making here
21:02Portland, that's-
21:032,000 miles from Missouri
21:05From your mother
21:06From everything you've ever known
21:08It's also 2,000 miles from Chicago
21:10From the league office
21:12From every editor who put your face on page one for the wrong reasons
21:20Portland, they have rain, lots of it
21:22They also have a league that wants us
21:24Both of us
21:26Together
21:27When do we leave?
21:31As soon as you're ready
21:33I've been ready my whole life