People will come, Ray
Posted by jrunner6@reddit | Xennials | View on Reddit | 22 comments
Ray, people will come, Ray.
They'll come to Iowa for reasons they can't even fathom. They'll turn up your driveway, not knowing for sure why they're doing it. They'll arrive at your door as innocent as children, longing for the past.
"Of course, we won't mind if you look around," you'll say. "It's only twenty dollars per person." They'll pass over the money without even thinking about it. For it is money they have and peace they lack.
And they'll walk out to the bleachers, and sit in shirt-sleeves on a perfect afternoon. They'll find they have reserved seats somewhere along one of the baselines, where they sat when they were children and cheered their heroes. And they'll watch the game, and it'll be as if they'd dipped themselves in magic waters. The memories will be so thick, they'll have to brush them away from their faces.
People will come, Ray.
The one constant through all the years, Ray, has been baseball.
America has rolled by like an army of steamrollers. It's been erased like a blackboard, rebuilt, and erased again. But baseball has marked the time.
This field, this game -- it's a part of our past, Ray. It reminds us of all that once was good, and it could be again.
Ohhhhhhhh, people will come, Ray. People will most definitely come.
laffingriver@reddit
peace love dope!
IchooseYourName@reddit
Now get the hell outta gere!
motorcycleboy9000@reddit
"You're from the 60s!"
darkgothamite@reddit
Teared up a bit harder than usual during the last re-watch, when Ray Liotta passed away.
What a fantastic film.
theboxisempty@reddit
I say “Moonlight Graham” to myself in his voice all the time.
LazarusMundi4242@reddit
I loved this movie I saw it when it first came out at the Colonial Theater in Belfast, Maine.
Far-Pie-6226@reddit
As a kid, it freaked me out when Ray turns the van around and he's just standing in the headlights and says "Moonlight Graham". I wasn't following the plot very well and thought he was possessed.
Notchersfireroad@reddit
What a movie.
Thrifty_Builder@reddit
Damn, I might have to give that a watch this weekend.
TheFoxandTheSandor@reddit
If you don’t cry at the end of this movie… I just don’t understand you.
BrattyTwilis@reddit
I saw this movie in the theater when it came out, and even though I was too young to really understand it, it still had a profound effect on me
finallyadulting0607@reddit
I somehow got this VHS from McDonald's when that was a thing and watched it everyday for a whole summer. RIP to a few of the greats in this one.
boringsuburbandad@reddit
He built it, and I came....we stopped at the Field of Dreams on a family road trip in 2008.
SortofChef@reddit
Sand Lot
MaxPower836@reddit
You’re a pacifist!!!!!
BillBaloney@reddit
…shit.
turnpike37@reddit
No line just the smile, laugh and "you won't believe this" look back as his disappears into the corn.
Dude_man79@reddit
I'm not crying, I was hit in the leg by a baseball. Yea, that's it.
ImitationCheesequake@reddit
“You said your finger was a gun!”
Howardbanister@reddit
Ughh I love this monologue. Such a beautiful and moving delivery.
jocundry@reddit
You're seeing a whole team of psychiatrists, aren't you?
ImmaculateGritty@reddit
"Ohh... Dog and a beer."