Rick Vaughn: [Seeing Harris take off his shirt, revealing white stuff on his chest] What’s that shit on your chest?

Eddie Harris: [Looking at his chest] Crisco.

Eddie Harris: [wiping it across his head]

Eddie Harris: Bardol.

Eddie Harris: [wiping it along his waistline]

Eddie Harris: Vagisil. Any one of them will give you another two to three inches drop on your curveball. Of course if the umps are watching me real close I’ll rub a little jalapeno up my nose, get it runnin’, and if I need to load the ball up I just...

Eddie Harris: [wipes his nose]

Eddie Harris: ...wipe my nose.

Rick Vaughn: You put snot on the ball?

Eddie Harris: I haven’t got an arm like you, kid. I have to put anything on it I can find. Someday you will, too.

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