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It's true, as Ned/Norah later observes, that the teammates scarcely discuss their emotional lives, and do so only in clipped, coded form. When Jim's wife is diagnosed with a recurrence of cancer, which is evidently life-threatening, the guys barely talk about it. Mainly what Vincent discovers is one of the hoariest truths of manhood, that these all-male institutions (sports teams, card games, hunting and fishing clubs) are in their own way zones of nurture and liberation.
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These zones are also places where one goes to, you know, bowl or whatever. Places where simple routine and low-intensity conversation is prized.
It would be interesting to know how many of Jim's teamates talked with him about his wife before or after their leauge meetings.
