A small grey cloud rains on one of two potted succulents while the other remains dry.

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Ebby Calvin LaLoosh

Sometimes you win. Sometimes you lose. Sometimes, it rains.

— Bull Durham • 1988

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What it means

Our interpretation.

Ebby Calvin LaLoosh sums up how things go with three plain outcomes. Sometimes you win, sometimes you lose, and sometimes weather interrupts everything. The joke is the rain sitting beside win and loss as if equally important.

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