“if I'm hogging the ball too much you just jump right in there and take a couple ”

[Joeyy]

Rachel: Okay. Okay, we'll be here! Hating you! Did you see how he was sweating when he walked out of there? Listen honey, if I'm hogging the ball too much you just jump right in there and take a couple punches because I'm telling you, this feels great.
Mindy: Yeah... I'm pretty sure I'm still gonna marry him.

---Friends S01E20

What does the bold part mean?

 

[GoesStation]

Rachel is mixing sports metaphors. Hogging the ball too much means taking too much time. Take a couple [of] punches means to accept some punishment.

This feels great​ means Rachel is enjoying the situation a lot.

 

[emsr2d2]

"Hogging the ball" means keeping the ball to yourself too much instead of passing it to other players.

 

[Joeyy]

Thank you, but I still don't understand this sentence, Hogging the ball, and why "ou just jump right in there and take a couple punches because I'm telling you, this feels great.“？

 

[GoesStation]

In the first part she's saying something like "If I'm taking up too much of this conversation, please feel free to interrupt me, say something, and get attacked verbally." I suspect she's speaking sarcastically when she says "this feels great" and actually means the opposite, which would be something like "You see, it feels terrible to take all this abuse."

 

[emsr2d2]

It would really help if you gave us some context with these fragments of dialogue. What were the doing at the time of the conversation? What had they been doing shortly before it? Who are they talking about?

I have seen every episode of Friends that was ever made but I'm struggling to recall the situation that each bit of dialogue refers to.

 

[JMurray]

It appears that Rachel and Mindy have confronted Barry who has, at different times in the past, cheated on them both. They give Barry a hard time and he leaves.

Rachel is saying: "If you think I'm doing too much of the criticizing (hogging the ball), and that you would like to have a go at Barry too (take a couple of punches), then go ahead, because attacking him is making me feel great."

 

[GoesStation]

It didn't occur to me that take a couple of punches could mean "hit someone a couple of times", but in the right context, it can.