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re: A League of Their Own question
Posted on 7/6/09 at 1:32 am to LSUsmartass
Posted on 7/6/09 at 1:32 am to LSUsmartass
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And you push yours with no support
Are you blind?
I've supported my view with relevant context from the plot and the personal characteristics of the parties involved in said play.
So far all you guys have done is presumed that Dottie dropped it on purpose to make Kit the hero though the plot line doesn't support that idea whatsoever and the movie never even remotely indicates that this is the case.
Do you not recognize what constitutes "support"?
Posted on 7/6/09 at 1:49 am to ChewyDante
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Do you not recognize what constitutes "support"?
The biggest piece of support for the argument that Dottie dropped the ball intentionally is the shot of her watching Kit cry and then the twinge of sadness on Dottie's face. Of course, the counter to that is the fact that she instructed Ellen Sue to only throw the high heat - a pitch that Kit could never catch up to back home.
Who knows really? Clearly it's implied that Dottie never cared about the sport as much as Kit, but the speech from Jimmy likely hit on her underlying competitiveness and drive.
As to your earlier contention that Dottie wouldn't come back just to let her sister win, I would say that she definitely lacked a certain desire to win considering the fact that she only showed up for the last game in the series. Thus, it's not outside the realm of possibility that, upon seeing her sister crying in the dugout, Dottie had an epiphany of sorts that winning mattered a hell of a lot more to Kit than to Dottie.
I have also discussed this scenario before, and though I see it from both sides, I tend to side with the "dropped it on purpose" crowd - mainly because Dottie was shown to be such a bad arse ballplayer that her runt of a sister, even on her best day, couldn't take Dottie out.
This post was edited on 7/6/09 at 1:57 am
Posted on 7/6/09 at 2:03 am to ChewyDante
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I've supported my view with relevant context from the plot and the personal characteristics of the parties involved in said play.
Yeah and its all opinionated, running through a stop sign is about the only factual thing you stated.
How about the fact that Kit blew up at her sister for always being better then her at everything through yelling and screaming which displayed she had been pinning all of this anger up towards her older sister for a long time. Dottie had a home and a family to go back to while Kit had nothing but sports in her immediate future. You don't think the repercussions of not dropping that ball zipped through Dotties mind in that 1 or 2 seconds as Kit was barreling towards her? Holding onto that ball may have cost her a little sister for a very long time.
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