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* PsychopathicManchild: It becomes pretty obvious that Gil is this at his core. His "love" of baseball is an unhealthy, childish obsession and his inability to control his temper causes him to lash out violently at whoever provokes him. He also shows himself to be very irresponsible in regards to his son, and he talks about playing baseball in the past makes it clear he never moved on from his time in Little League.

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* PsychopathicManchild: It becomes pretty obvious that Gil is this at his core. His "love" of baseball is an unhealthy, childish obsession that overrides everything else in his life and his inability to control his temper causes him to lash out violently at whoever provokes him. He also shows himself to be very irresponsible in regards to his son, and the way he talks about playing baseball in the past makes it clear he never moved on from his time in Little League.
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* PsychopathicManchild: It becomes pretty obvious that Gil is this at his core. His "love" of baseball is an unhealthy, childish obsession and his inability to control his temper causes him to lash out violently at whoever provokes him. He also shows himself to be very irresponsible in regards to his son, and he talks about playing baseball in the past makes it clear he never moved on from his time in Little League.
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* ICouldaBeenAContender: Gil often references a past playing baseball and it's clear he's compensating for his own failed dreams by living vicariously through Bobby. [[spoiler: It's later revealed that he never played baseball in any capacity beyond little league]].

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* ICouldaBeenAContender: Gil often references a past playing baseball and it's clear he's compensating for his own failed dreams by living vicariously through Bobby. [[spoiler: It's [[spoiler:It's later revealed that he never played baseball in any capacity beyond little league]].league]].
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** Juan Primo spends the whole time he is on screen rubbing it in Bobby's face that he is the eleventh player in the team and not Bobby (including tattooing the number on his shoulder) even if he knows Bobby considers it lucky and has the bad streak of games to support this belief.
** Gil would not be a good example of a baseball fan even if he was not murderously nuts.
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* FingerInTheMail: Bobby gets good proof of how psychotic Gil is when he [[spoiler:hears that Primo was murdered and the "11" (Bobby's former jersey number, which he believed was lucky and thus was not happy that Primo took it and told Gil) Primo tattooed on his shoulder was cut out, followed by him opening his locker and seeing the piece of tattooed skin right there.]]

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