[MrBarlow]

French Connection II.


Jimmy 'Popeye' Doyle : [drunk] You know, I had a tryout with the Yankees. You know what the Yankees are?

Inspector Henri Barthelemy : Yes. As in "Yankee go home."

Jimmy 'Popeye' Doyle : Yeah. NO! No, uh... Uh... no, the Yankee baseball... baseball team. Yeah, I had a tryout with them and... they sent me down to the... the minors. And the poblem... poblem... problem was that... there was a ****in' kid there, and he was... the fastest bastard, he was ****in' FAST. And he... he played shortstop at the time, and he... he could hit the ball a ****in' ton. A ****in' TON! You know what "****" means?

Inspector Henri Barthelemy : Yeah.

Jimmy 'Popeye' Doyle : Yeah. Well, I was in spring training... and I saw this kid... and I just immediately took the test for cops. That kid was Mickey Mantle. You know who Mickey Mantle was? You ****head?

Inspector Henri Barthelemy : No, I can't say that I know.

Jimmy 'Popeye' Doyle : You don't know who Mickey Mantle was? Huh? How about Willie Mays? Say hey! Willie Mays! The mighty Willie Mays! See?

Inspector Henri Barthelemy : No.

Jimmy 'Popeye' Doyle : Max Lanier - a frog. Jean Kiley. You remember Jean Kiley?

Inspector Henri Barthelemy : Gene Kelly?

Jimmy 'Popeye' Doyle : Gene... Not Gene Kelly! Jean Kiley! The ****in' skier!

Inspector Henri Barthelemy : Oh - you mean Jean-Claude Killy.

Jimmy 'Popeye' Doyle : That's what I said! Yes. ****, yeah. Good athlete. Well, and... Whitey Ford. Goddamn. You know who Whitey Ford was? Oh... shit. He was a dandy little southpaw. That's what we called him. He was a dandy little southpaw.

Inspector Henri Barthelemy : Southpaw?

Jimmy 'Popeye' Doyle : Yeah. He was a lefty.

Inspector Henri Barthelemy : You mean a Communist?

Jimmy 'Popeye' Doyle : No, he was a Republican. But he was somethin', I tell you. He was somethin'...