WATCH ABOVE: Canha barely held back a smirk as he delivered one of Kevin Costner’s infamous lines.
TORONTO – Oakland Athletics rookie first basemen Mark Canha played great in his Major League Baseball debut Wednesday but it was his off-field antics that probably earned him the most fan support.
Canha was stellar at the plate, going 3-for-5 with a pair of doubles and four RBIs, in an 8-2 win over the San Francisco Giants.
But when it was time for his first-ever post game, big league, interview he channeled one of the most famous fake baseball players of all-time – the one and only Kevin Costner as Crash Davis from the classic baseball flick Bull Durham.
“I’m just trying to help the ball club and give it my best shot,” he told a CSN reporter after the game. “Good Lord willing, things will work out.”
That is, word for word, just one of the clichés Costner instructed Tim Robbins’ character ‘Nuke’ LaLoosh to use for interviews.
Cahna admitted to having more lines from the movie memorized after another reporter called him out on his humorous quote.
Well played, Mr. Canha. Well played.
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