thoughts of major league

shared by VJ Rabuy, her sister

My sisters and I are fans of the movie Major League. I once wanted to watch it just so I could count the number of times a cuss word was used.

At one point while we were growing up, Arlene wanted to own a copy of all baseball movies, and you could be sure that Major League was amongst them. I think it's safe to say it was the first R-rated movie that Cindy and I had ever watched.

There is a line used by the new owner lady during the early scenes of the movie, where she meets with the team's front office personnel as they review a list of prospects for the team meant to lose. Not only is the list full of washed up, undesirable players, it also contains at least one name of a player who was deceased.

The line goes something like...
Scout: “This guy’s dead.”
Boss lady: “Well cross him off then.”

This scene and favorite quote reminds me of a time when Cindy was just starting her term as the Financial Supports Commissioner (FSC) for the Associated Students of UCLA. She had been cleaning out the office as she was moving in, and found a half-filled box of old business cards for the previous FSC, Tyett Nguyen.

So I opened the box, took out a business card, grabbed my pen, drew a line through the previous FSC's name, and wrote "Cynthia Rabuy" above it.

As soon as Cindy saw that I made the old forgotten card useful once again, she kinda chuckled and was amused. At that instance I’m not sure who said it, but the words, “well cross him off then” were undoubtedly uttered.