McFarland, USA Page #5

Hey, ese.

You wanna be on the running team?

Nope.

Come on, man.

Just think about it. Say yes.

Hey!

I wanna talk to you guys

about a running team.

Johnny.

You wanna be on the running team?

I'll be on the running team.

You guys wanna be on the running team?

Hey!

I got you now, Cardenas.

You are this far from juvie, son.

Jose.

You get me my change?

My change got stuck in the machine.

I asked Jose to get it out for me.

You're not helping them, White.

What did you do that for?

Congratulations.

You just made the cross country team.

I told you to stay away from my sister!

Thomas, don't do that!

Tommy, don't do that!

And so did Thomas Valles.

Do me a favor, Valles.

Act a little happier.

The coach just negotiated you

out of a suspension.

Danny Diaz?

Hey, we needed seven.

Yeah, seven runners,

not six runners and Danny Diaz.

Hey, Danny's our anchor.

And he'll drag our ass down.

All right, knock it off, Puentes.

Let's see if those legs

work as fast as your mouth.

Elmo Bridge and back. Go.

Go.

Hey.

I mean it, all right?

You're my anchor, Danny,

and not because you're fat.

And you are a little fat, okay?

So you better lose some weight.

So, why am I the anchor?

Because you're gonna

hold this team steady, okay?

I lose you, I'll lose your brothers.

You're important, Diaz.

Let's go.

You hot, homes? You tired?

Because anytime you wanna stop,

we're cool with that.

Now I've seen everything.

You guys keep going.

Down to the bridge and back.

I'll time you from here.

Hey, what are you doing?

You can't quit.

Oh, God.

Thank...

Thank you.

Let's get some water.

Where's Victor?

Anybody seen Danny?

There he is.

Yeah, slower than 911

to a Mexican's house.

Those the best running shoes

you guys got?

Best running shoes,

school shoes, church shoes.

- Good, Danny.

- Good job.

Good job, hermano.

All right.

Put them on.

New shoes.

New shorts, man!

Ain't no way I'm wearing these.

Yeah, well, then you're running naked,

because those are our uniforms.

Hey, we wear them, you wear them, ese.

All right, let's hurry up.

Don't forget

to take the tags off, right.

- Coach Jameson?

- Yes, sir?

Jim White, McFarland.

I didn't know McFarland had a team.

Is that them?

Yeah. Yeah.

They're faster than they look.

If you say so.

See you on the course.

Okay, guys.

Okay, here we go.

Remember, scoring is based on

your individual places, all right?

You finish first, that's a 1.

Second, that's a 2, and so on.

The team with the lowest combined score

for their top 5 runners wins.

So the lowest score wins?

That's right, it's like golf.

You think we play golf?

We don't got a country club.

We don't even got a Kmart.

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