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'''Annie''': Yes. I do. }}
* [[Catch Phrase]]: To this day, minor league pitchers want to "announce my presence with authority!"
* [[CentipedesCentipede's Dilemma]]: One of the best examples of this. Nuke has ''no'' control when he thinks about what he's doing. He can't even hit Crash in the chest from five feet away when he thinks about what he's doing. Once he learns how to focus on something else, his control greatly improves.
* [[Chained to A Bed]]: part of the light bondage Annie uses on Nuke.
* [[Cluster F -Bomb]]: Half the dialog is spiked with profanity. If you ever watch ''Bull Durham'' on a basic cable channel, you're missing probably thirty percent of the movie.
** There's also the [[Precision F -Strike]] for when the F-word helps make a point:
{{quote| '''Crash''': Never ''fuck'' with a winning streak.}}
** There's apparently one word {{spoiler|"cocksucker"}} you're never supposed to say to an umpire.
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* [[Good People Have Good Sex]]
* [[Informed Ability]]: Let's just say that while Costner does a pretty good job playing a ballplayer, some of the others don't. Tim Robbins is a big tall guy who fit the physical profile, but his pitching motion is a pretty poor imitation of the real thing.
* [[Ironic Echo]]: When they first meet, Crash taunts a half-drunk Nuke into starting a fight outside a bar by challenging him to nail him with a fastball. Nuke smashes a door window instead and Crash punches him out. After Nuke gets called up to the majors, he finds Crash (who knows it means the end of his stay on the team) getting drunk and taunting Nuke with baseball stats. Trying to get into another fight, Crash smashes a nearby mirror, forcing Nuke to punch Crash out. Crash then [[Secret Test of Character|uses the moment]] to see if Nuke punched with his throwing hand (he didn't)... showing that [["Well Done, Son" Guy|Nuke has the instincts not to fuck up his career]] if he ever gets in a bar brawl.
* [[Life Imitates Art]]: The bull billboard offering a "free steak" if it gets tagged by a home run was created for the film. The real-life team kept it, even after moving to a newer bigger stadium.
** Even with the adult frankness about sex and relationships, and the level of profanity, the Durham Bulls organization heavily promote their tie-in to the movie. After all, it made the franchise one of the best-known minor league teams on the planet.
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* [[No Celebrities Were Harmed]]: Nuke LaLoosh was based on Steve Dalkowski, a legendary minor league pitcher who like Nuke could throw it fast... and throw it wild, which is why Dalkowski never made the majors.
** Crash Davis got his name from the real-life Lawrence "Crash" Davis, who did make The Show as a second baseman for the Philadelphia A's in the 1940s. He got a quick bump in celebrity when ''Bull Durham'' became a hit.
* [["Not Wearing Pants" Dream]]: Annie tries to get Nuke to focus his energies elsewhere by insisting he wears a woman's garter belt. He has a horrifying nightmare of being on the mound wearing ''just'' the garter belt (and a jock strap), and refuses to. When he finally relents, Crash is the one who spots him trying it on... and doesn't mock Nuke for wearing it. He even tells him "Rose goes in front, big guy."
** Oh, Crash mocked him, all right-- he was just snarky about it. Slapping him on the ass and saying, "That's ''really'' hot."
{{quote| '''Nuke:''' This underwear feels kinda sexy. That don't make me queer, right?}}
* [[The Obi -Wan]]: Crash. The rookie players flock to his leadership and wisdom real quick, except for Nuke, who eventually comes around when Annie insists on him following Crash's advice... and it actually improves his game.
** Annie's insistence on Nuke following Crash's advice comes back to bite her on the ass when Nuke's re-channels his sexual energy into his pitching, which helps him go on a fantastic winning streak. Annie, [[Catch Phrase|being monogamous in the framework of the baseball season]], starts getting ''very'' sexually frustrated... even though [[Nice Job Breaking It, Hero|she's the one who suggested]] the re-channeling before the streak. But when Nuke admits to Crash that he's thinking about having sex with her just to get her out of his hair, Crash basically says, "Are you crazy? Never ''fuck'' with a winning streak." So Nuke stays out of Annie's bed, and when Nuke tells her why, [[Roaring Rampage of Revenge|she gets pissed off at Crash]].
*** And Crash calls her on it, pointing out that Annie (as much an expert on baseball as he is) should know full well that no one should ever fuck with a winning streak. Annie quickly realizes he's right... [[Slap Slap Kiss|and also realizes she really loves Crash]].
* [[Precision F -Strike]]:
** "Don't ''fuck'' with a winning streak."
** Straight-arrow Christian Jimmy gets what counts, for ''him,'' as a precision F-strike when he sees the "special wedding cake" the boys get him:
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