This is a scene from Parenthood. I like it.
SM - I was still high from the Little League game. Isn't it demented that a grown man's happiness is dependent on whether or not a 9 yr old catches a pop up? What if he missed?
MS - But he didn't.
SM - He could have.
MS - But he didn't.
SM - But he could have.
MS - But he didn't, Gill. You threw him 12 million pop ups in the backyard. You cut the odds considerably.
SM - There's 3 of them and you want to have a fourth. The 4th one could be Larry and they're gonna do alot of things. Baseball is the least of them. In all those things, sometimes they're gonna miss.
MS - Sometimes they won't.
SM - Sometimes they will. Sometimes they will.
MS - Well, what do you want me to give you? Guarantees? These are kids not appliances. Life is messy.
SM - I hate messy. It's so...messy.
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