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BOB WAKEHAM: There's no crying in politics - so let's hope we're not left crying over Churchill Falls

Tourism Minister Andrea Barbour cried over AI image blunder, but NL could have something bigger to cry about if the Churchill Falls MOU doesn't happen

Watching with feet-shuffling unease the image of Tourism and Arts Minister Andrea Barbour shedding tears in the legislature the other day, I couldn’t help but recall that famous scene in the movie “A League of Their Own.”

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In it, Tom Hanks’ character, Jimmy Dugan — an old-school manager of a women’s baseball team — reacts with shocking indignation when one of his players starts to cry as he chastises her for an on-field blunder.

The exchange went something like this:

Dugan (shouting): “I was just wonderin’ why you would let the tying run get on second base and we lost the lead because of you. Start using your head. That’s the lump that’s three feet above your ass.”

The player begins to sob.

Dugan: “Are you crying? Are you crying? ARE YOU CRYING? There’s no crying! THERE’S NO CRYING IN BASEBALL!”

Okay, I’ll confess to the sin of using any excuse to exploit two of my favourite joys in life, movies and baseball, but I swear the Hanks’ rant came to mind almost immediately upon witnessing the Tourism Minister’s tearful episode in the House of Assembly, and prompted my own admonishment of sorts:

THERE’S NO CRYING IN POLITICS!

Incident blown out of........

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