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Welcome back to the
baseball show on the WEI

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Sports Radio Network
and Comcast Sportsnet.

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It's Mike Felger, Lou Maloney, Steve
Buckley here in the studio in Burlington.

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But they think so highly
of this young kid that...

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They could have gotten
Santana if they wanted.

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They could have gotten...
Would they drop him in the order?

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I don't know.

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I'm not sure I would do that,
but that might be the next step.

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You gotta be crazy or the
most arrogant person's going.

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They look never tested positive, but
he makes everyone in that lineup better.

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They're impressed
to do that, you know.

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There were a couple of
times over the weekend in

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particular, he looked
very slow on a fastball.

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I just think he's
present right now.

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John, we've been talking about
this throughout the course of the day.

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Red Sox starting pitching.

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It seems to me, with the Red
Sox in first place... That's crazy.

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...as May is about to turn into June,
worrying or complaining about whatever you

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think the Red Sox issue
is... Come on in, Harry.

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Thank you very much.

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Here's the pitch.

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It's a slow curve line.

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It's a big swing.

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It's a long one.

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A long one going
out for it right now.

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...the pitch is in.

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...abami, 74 degrees,
and the wind is blowing

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dead out over the
green monster in left field.

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...long drive left field.

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If it stays there, it's gone.

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Home run!

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The Red Sox win!

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And the series is tied!

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I sometimes sit and stare out the window
thinking, what could I have done with my

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life had I not spent all
this time on the Red Sox?

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Might I have completed this novel
I've been working on for 25 years?

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Might I not have
done something else?

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But what it becomes in the
end is like raising your children.

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If you raise them well, and they love you,
and you love them back, at the end of the

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day, you know that
when you leave this life,

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your children won't
be thinking about you.

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They'll be thinking
about, you know, oh, what

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a great column you
wrote in October of 1972.

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They'll be thinking about the
time they spent with you as a father.

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That's how I think
about the Red Sox.

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The time that I spent
with the Red Sox.

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This is NBC Nightly
News with Tom Brokaw.

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Good evening.

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There's never been
a time quite like this

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one, with so many people
making so much money.

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1999 will go down as the year of the
high-tech, high-flyers, with stock prices

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going from pocket change to hundreds of
dollars in a heartbeat, and staying there.

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But will this continue
into the 21st century?

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As the last baseball season of the
20th century began, the country and its

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national pastime were
thriving as never before.

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In the five years since
the crippling strike of

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1994, the game had
bounced back spectacularly.

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Insiders and casual fans alike felt they
were watching some of the greatest players

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and some of the greatest
plays the sport had ever seen.

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Yet just as the game seemed to have
entered a new golden age, suspicions grew

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that many of the best players were
using performance-enhancing drugs, that

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steroid-inflated home-run records had
replaced day-to-day heroics, that greed

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had trumped loyalty, that only money
and success, not character, mattered.

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But at a time when America seemed most
threatened, baseball provided a welcome

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distraction, and offered
the hope, at least for

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a few hours, that things
could return to normal.

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At a time of
ever-increasing offense, a

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handful of pitchers still
managed to dominate.

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And a skinny singles hitter
from the other side of the world

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electrified fans with his
elegant mastery of the old game.

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And at a time when winning was all
that mattered in America, baseball,

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with its failures and
disappointments, reminded

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the nation that loss, is
often the best teacher.

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Through it all, the game continued to
astonish, to rise above its own scandals,

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and to reflect in good times and bad, the
complicated country that had created it.

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I've always loved the game from the time I
was little, and I'll always love the game.

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And nothing can tear
me from the game.

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There's something about what happens
on the field that's like a kind of poetry.

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It's like a kind of ballet.

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The remarkable thing about
the game is how beautiful it is,

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despite all the ugliness that
may be around it at times.

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It's just a beautiful thing.

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When you watch Pedro,
it was almost poignant in a

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way that someone that
small could throw that hard.

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Most great pitchers, you look at them, and
they all have one great strikeout pitch.

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If he counts 0 and 2, or
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2, he always has one
place to go to to get you out.

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Well, Pedro Martinez had
three places to get you out.

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It was the fastball, it was the
changeup, and it was the curveball.

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They were all the best pitches of
their kind in baseball at the time.

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And he could put them
anywhere that he wanted.

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Pedro Martinez had
been born into a family of

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pitchers in Managuaibo
in the Dominican Republic.

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But because of his slight frame,
scouts worried that he would not be able

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to withstand the punishment
of pitching in the majors.

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Martinez ignored them
all, and made himself into

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one of the greatest players
the game had ever seen.

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Swing and a miss,
he struck him out!

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15 strikeouts for Martinez!

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In the 1999 All-Star Game, Martinez
struck out five of baseball's best hitters.

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Barry Larkin, Larry Walker, Sammy
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A performance reminiscent of Carl
Hubbell's in the 1934 All-Star Game.

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He was the master of
pitching inside, giving him a

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distinct psychological
edge over opposing hitters.

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First of all, I'm confident.

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And a lot of people
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People might say he's cocky.

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I'm fearless, intense.

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Some people might say he's mean.

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And sometimes, since I'm so intense, I'll
strike you out, keep on looking at you.

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Because baseball has a
little bit of psychology in it.

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If you see a guy
frustrated with a changeup,

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you have to continue
to throw a changeup.

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If you can't hit a
changeup, I'm sorry.

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You're going to see it again.

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Between 1997 and 2003,
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average of 2.20 when the
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Twice, strike out more than 300
batters and win three Cy Young Awards.

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For four years, he had
no-hit stuff every night.

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Every time he went onto
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chance that he was
going to throw a no-hitter.

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Pitching coaches will tell you that the
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your changeup should be somewhere
around 10 to 12 miles an hour on average.

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Pedro, at his best, his
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and his changeup was 16
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It's unhittable.

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There's no way that you
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fastball and adjust to an
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He was remarkable.

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When everything clicks for you,
you just feel right on top of everybody.

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You look at A-Rod or Jeter or anybody,
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And you're gone.

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Pedro Martinez was not alone.

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Tom Glavin and Greg Maddux of the
Braves would together win 660 games.

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Mariano Rivera of the New York
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He was the most
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In the postseason,
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In 88 appearances, his ERA
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Randy Johnson of the Arizona Diamondbacks
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pitcher ever, striking out nearly
5,000 batters in 22 seasons.

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He struck him out!

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He's got 20!

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Roger Clemens, a
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was every bit as
fierce as Johnson.

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For 13 years, he had been the
exalted star of the Red Sox pitching staff,

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winning 20 games in three
different seasons and regularly

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finishing among the league
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But in 1996, the team decided to let him
go, explaining to disappointed fans that

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the 34-year-old Clemens, like most pitchers
his age, was in the twilight of his career.

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Indignant, Clemens signed with Toronto
and began training with one of the team's

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strength coaches, former New York City
policeman Brian McNamee, who would prove

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willing to do whatever
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the pitcher to hurl
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Traded to the Yankees in 1999, he
remained one of the most imposing

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pitchers in the game,
nearly as dominant in his late

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30s and early 40s as he
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Roger Clemens would eventually
receive a record seven Cy Young awards.

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We can forget about
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Walter Johnson and Cy
Young and Lefty Grove.

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The greatest pitcher in the history
of baseball is Roger Clemens.

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Now, there are many, many great pitchers,
but no one has ever done what Roger did.

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And there's the freak show
accomplishment, there's

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20 strikeouts in a game,
twice, 10 years apart.

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This is a superhuman critter.

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Baseball is something
that makes me who I am.

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The Wolf's Child is something that
makes you who you think you are.

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That's how I see it.

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Ichiro Suzuki was born in Aichi, Japan,
the son of a factory manager whose

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philosophy of life was based
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Harmony, patience,
effort, and fighting spirit.

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The only way to succeed, he
once said, is to suffer and persevere.

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From the time Ichiro was nine,
his father drilled him in batting and

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fielding, two to three hours
every day, even when freezing

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temperatures left his
hands too numb to grip a bat.

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A natural right-hander, Ichiro learned to
hit from the left side of the plate so he

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could begin each at-bat,
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Under his father's tutelage, he developed
an unorthodox hitting style that allowed

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him to put the full weight of
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Your swing is different from the
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My coach taught me a lot
of things, but if I say, you're

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hitting better than anyone
else, he would keep quiet.

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I didn't learn the form,
but I built it with my body.

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At 18, Ichiro made his debut with the
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He would go on to win
seven consecutive batting

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titles and become
Japan's highest-paid player.

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Having reached the pinnacle of the
Japanese game, he was determined to find

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out if he could compete in
America against the best in the world.

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But most scouts doubted that Ichiro,
with his slender frame and unusual batting

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stance, would be able to
handle big league pitching.

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Ten Japanese pitchers had already
come to the United States, but no Japanese

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position player had ever
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Then, in 2000, the Japanese-owned Seattle
Mariners decided to sign him anyway,

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hoping Ichiro would
attract a lot of fans.

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This led to a large following among Asian
Americans living in the Pacific Northwest.

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In an era filled with home
runs, Ichiro was a revelation.

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Slapping the ball in
every direction, beating

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out infield hits, flying
around the bases.

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He was a 21st-century throwback to earlier
generations of stars like Wee Willie

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Keeler, George Sisler, Ty
Cobb, and the fast-moving,

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fast-thinking stars of
the Negro Leagues.

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American fans embraced
him immediately.

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I think he represents a counterpoint
to a lot of what was out there.

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Because this was in the midst
of a bludgeon ball era in baseball.

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And here's this wiry
little guy spraying base

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hits everywhere, beating
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Playing this sort of cerebral game was
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the sport that I think it
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He had to make the
perfect pitch to get him.

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And he's gonna make you
throw pitches too, which we hate.

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Pitchers hate to throw more
pitches than they should.

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And even if you get him
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way, he's got such great
speed that you never know.

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He might break his bat.

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And still, he gets a base hit.

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And Ichiro is one of those.

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That throw, a Seattle reporter
wrote, needs to be framed

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and hung on the wall at the
Louvre, next to the Mona Lisa.

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Japanese newspapers and television
stations dispatched hundreds of reporters

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to send back news of
his every move to a nation

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eager for any information
about their hero.

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Ichiro, his prime minister declared,
makes me proud to be Japanese.

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Ichiro finished his first season
leading the American League in at-bats,

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hits, batting average,
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Won a Gold Glove Award and was
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It would be his first of nine consecutive
200-hit seasons, breaking a record set by

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Wee Willie Keeler a
century earlier, in 1901.

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Other big league clubs were
now eager to sign the next Ichiro.

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That's the great thing about
globalization, that people can take this

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thing that you played with
and invented and maybe to

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some degree spoiled with
whatever's going on here.

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And it can go to an entirely
different place and be recreated

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and regrown as if it's a
hybrid flower of some kind.

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And then come back and show you the game
maybe in a different way and maybe in a

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way it used to be that you
hadn't thought of in a long time.

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And I think that's
something really beautiful.

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I have, still, two gloves that
I've carded across all the years.

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And I have them for a purpose.

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One selfish, one familial.

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The selfish reason
is I love them.

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I love them because they remind
me of what I was when I was a kid.

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And they allow me to still be
a kid when I hold the gloves.

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I can still see my parents.

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I can still see the
apartment we lived in.

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All of those things.

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The familial reason is
that my kids, like a lot of

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kids today, have an excess
of things, material things.

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A bad day for them
is they lose an iPod.

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But my boys who played baseball,
when they were 12, 13 or 14, they would

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occasionally come to me and
say, Dad, I can't find my stuff.

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I can't find my
catcher's equipment.

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Do you know where my bats went?

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And I'd go get one of the gloves
and I'd say, I'd hold it up and I'd say,

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I've had this since 1954.

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I know where this is.

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Go find your stuff
and don't lose it.

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In 1999, a 34-year-old
Barry Bonds had arrived

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at spring training with
a brand new physique.

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The previous summer, he'd watched in
frustration as fans cheered Mark McGuire

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and Sammy Sosa for hitting
home runs while ignoring

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his own all-around
contributions to the game.

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Determined to outdo them both, he had put
on 20 pounds of muscle in the off season.

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Bonds had eight cold gloves, eight
All-Star appearances, three MVP awards.

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He should have had a fourth.

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They gave it to a less obnoxious
player just to punish him.

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He had more than 400 home
runs, more than 400 stolen bases.

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He was a Hall of Fame player.

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And then that
wasn't good enough.

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Bonds hit home runs more frequently
that year than he ever had before.

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But sidelined by injuries, he
appeared in only 102 games.

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In 2000, the Giants moved to their
new home near downtown San Francisco,

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Pac Bell Park.

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3.3 million people paid to watch
Bonds that summer, more than

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had ever come out to see
the club in its 115-year history.

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He finished the season with
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and propelled the Giants
to the top of their division.

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At his age, he was supposed to be
declining and he just kept getting better.

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And better and better.

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All the different things that Barry
Bonds did, he was playing at another level.

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He was playing
a different sport.

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Barry Bonds, incredible
eye at the plate.

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Incredible discipline
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And also, intelligent.

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Tremendous memory of how they got him out
or how he hit it and what to anticipate.

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And hitting,
guessing is no good.

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But anticipating, is great.

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Off the field, Bonds
worked hard to improve his

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image, telling San
Francisco fans, I love you.

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You're beautiful.

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On opening day 2001, Bonds
slammed a 420-foot home run.

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By the All-Star break, he had hit 39 and
was on a pace to break the single-season

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record of 70 that Mark McGuire
had said would never be broken.

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Bonds was so masterful
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decided it was simply
safer to pitch around him.

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I remember thinking, this is the
most feared hitter who ever lived.

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Teams have never avoided a
hitter like they have Barry Bonds.

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Not Ted Williams, not Babe
Ruth, not Joe DiMaggio.

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And then when there was
that one pitch that happened

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to be in the strike
zone, he didn't miss it.

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In baseball, you had
Bonds and everybody else.

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Bonds had a sensational summer.

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The thing that goes
through your mind mostly

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is, what's going to
happen if it's over today?

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You think about that more than, you know,
what's happening at this point in time now.

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Are you a wonderful person
because you hit a bunch of home

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runs, or are you an evil
person because you don't do it?

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On Sunday, September 9, 2001, in Denver,
he slammed a 420-foot home run and slammed

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a 488-foot shot in the
first inning, a solo home

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run in the fifth, and a
three-run blast in the 11th.

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He now had 63.

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It was a big shot.

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It was a very large play.

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It crashed into the
top of the tower.

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I woke up the morning
of September 11.

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I had an appearance in Manhattan,
waiting for a car service to pick me up.

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My phone rings.

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It's the car service
saying, you still going?

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I said, yeah, why?

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I hadn't turned the TV on.

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They said, well, a plane flew
into the World Trade Center.

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Well, I turned on the TV, and then the
second plane hit the World Trade Center.

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The last thing on your mind
is baseball at this point in time.

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Thanks very much, Dan.

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It has completely collapsed.

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The whole site has collapsed?

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The whole building
has collapsed.

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The whole building
has collapsed?

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The whole building
has collapsed.

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The building has collapsed.

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The tragedy was too
great to comprehend.

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The country was in shock.

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No one knew what was
going to happen next.

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Planes were grounded.

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Schools and
businesses were closed.

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The financial markets shut down.

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Major League Baseball
canceled all games indefinitely.

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Over the next few days, the
nation slowly began to regroup.

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Thousands made their way to New York
to help search the rubble for survivors.

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Only a handful were found.

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They're still trying to find people,
Derek Jeter, a resident of Manhattan, said.

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I really don't think it's the
right time to play baseball.

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On Friday, September 14th,
Commissioner Bud Selig announced

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that baseball would begin
again the following Monday.

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And the following Monday,
when they opened Wall Street,

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the streets were ringed
with men with machine guns.

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There was still smoke pouring out
of the pyre of the World Trade Center.

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After about four hours of walking
around downtown, a cop recognizes me.

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He says, how are you, Keith?

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I said, I'm all right.

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I'm all right.

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How are you?

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He says, I'm worried.

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I said, yeah, I'm worried, too.

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He said, I'm worried
about the Mets.

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And I sort of snapped out of it.

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I said, you're worried
about the Mets?

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He said, yeah, well, I mean,
the season resumes tonight.

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I'm really worried.

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We're in Pittsburgh.

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I mean, do you think they've got
enough to get back in the pennant race?

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I mean, they were doing so well,
and can they catch the Braves?

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I said, how on earth
could that possibly matter?

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We're standing.

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I mean, the smoke
coming up from behind us.

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He says, well, he
says, it doesn't matter.

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Of course it doesn't matter.

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I've got 300 friends dead.

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It doesn't matter.

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He says, but tonight, 7 o'clock,
and all day the rest of today,

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I can look forward to
7 o'clock, where I can

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put my feet up and
pretend it does matter.

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The New York Yankees'
first game was in Chicago.

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The remarkable part was
we go out there, and in the

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stands, you see, we love
New York, and we're in Chicago.

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And you know that, you know, in Boston,
they were playing New York, New York.

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That type of stuff just gave
you goosebumps when you

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realized that it was just a
country coming together.

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And our baseball was there
to distract the people from,

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you know, thinking about
the horrors that just went on.

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In San Francisco, Barry Bonds announced
that he would donate $10,000 to 9-11

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relief funds for each home
run he hit the rest of the season.

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For a time, wrote the Kansas City Star,
Bonds became a symbol of American

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resilience, of the country
getting back to business.

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By October 4th, Bonds had hit 69
home runs, one shy of McGuire's record.

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The Giants were in Houston
playing the Astros at Enron Field.

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The next day, the Giants
were back in San Francisco.

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Barely three years after Mark McGuire had
broken Roger Marris' 37-year-old record,

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Barry Bonds was the new
single-season home run champion.

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And he wasn't finished.

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Number 72 came
later that evening.

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Then, on the last day of the season,
in his first at-bat, he hit his 73rd.

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Bonds' 2001 statistics
were astounding.

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He had hit a home run
in every seven at-bats.

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His slugging percentage of .879
broke a record set by Babe Ruth in 1920.

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He had been walked 177 times,
more than any batter in history.

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And with 567 career home runs,
he was now sixth on the all-time list.

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But in the aftermath
of September 11th, the

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response to Bonds'
accomplishments was muted.

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Most of the country was
not in the mood to celebrate.

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On the first night of Operation
Enduring Freedom, the U.S.

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counter-strike against Osama bin
Laden and the ruling Taliban is underway,

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led by cruise missiles
and manned bombers.

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In late October, as the war in Afghanistan
began and demolition crews removed rubble

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from the site of the World Trade Center,
the New York Yankees found themselves in

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the World Series for
the fifth time in six years.

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They were led by their shortstop, Derek
Jeter, who had emerged as one of the

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most popular and respected
players in all of baseball history.

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The epitome of the
Yankees' success.

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New York would face the
Arizona Diamondbacks, an

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expansion team in only
its fifth year of existence.

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They were led by two overpowering
pitchers, Randy Johnson, whose fastball

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seemed to be halfway home before
he even let go of it, and Curtis Montague

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Schilling, a brash right-hander known
for pitching deep into games and fooling

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hitters with a wicked
split-finger fastball.

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Between them, Schilling and Johnson led
the National League in wins, strikeouts,

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earned run average,
and innings pitched.

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Together, they were responsible for nearly
half of Arizona's regular season victories.

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When asked whether he was intimidated
by the Yankees' mystique and aura,

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Schilling responded, those
are dancers in a nightclub,

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not things we concern
ourselves with on the ball field.

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Johnson and Schilling are more dominant as
a pair now than anybody in the history of

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baseball has ever been, and that's
what the Yankees are up against.

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They aren't up against a team.

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They're up against two pitchers.

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It would be one of the most memorable
World Series in baseball history.

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Less for who won or
lost than as a sign that the

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country and its national
pastime would endure.

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In game one, Schilling
stifled Yankee bats.

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Randy Johnson was even
more dominant in game two.

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The third game would
be in New York City.

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Security was tight.

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More than a thousand police
officers guarded the stadium.

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Fans were forced to pass
through metal detectors,

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and many were afraid
there might be another attack.

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Roger Clemens pitched the
Yankees to a two-to-one win.

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In game four, the Diamondbacks were leading
three-to-one in the bottom of the ninth.

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The young, young Kim, a
22-year-old relief pitcher from

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South Korea, faced Yankee
first baseman Tino Martinez.

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In nine at-bats in the
series, he had had no hits.

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Kim had struck out
the side in the eighth.

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Tino Martinez hits the
ball right center field.

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And what I can see, still visualize,
that ball disappearing over the fence,

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into the stands, and
boom, here we are.

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The game was now tied.

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Three balls, two
strikes, two outs.

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With two outs in the bottom of the
tenth inning, Derek Jeter came to bat.

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Young, young Kim trying to
send this game to the 11th.

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It was four minutes after
midnight on November 1st.

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Taking care of the first
two here in the third.

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And the 10th.

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Jeter hits it into right.

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Back.

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Just 20 hours later, they were back
at Yankee Stadium for game five.

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Both teams played well,
but in the bottom of the

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00:35:18,371 --> 00:35:21,121
ninth, the Yankees
were again trailing by two.

455
00:35:22,060 --> 00:35:23,980
Again, Kim was on the mound.

456
00:35:24,040 --> 00:35:26,520
After last night, blowing
the save in the ninth inning.

457
00:35:26,800 --> 00:35:29,560
Putting Kim right
back over the coals.

458
00:35:30,140 --> 00:35:30,860
Got him.

459
00:35:30,920 --> 00:35:31,380
Two gone.

460
00:35:31,680 --> 00:35:35,480
For the second straight night, the
Yankees were down to their final out.

461
00:35:36,580 --> 00:35:38,760
Now it's up to
Brocious for New York.

462
00:35:39,020 --> 00:35:42,060
Third baseman Scott
Brocious came to the plate.

463
00:35:42,320 --> 00:35:43,600
Tying run at the plate.

464
00:35:43,800 --> 00:35:46,140
Runner at second, two
out, two nothing Arizona.

465
00:35:46,500 --> 00:35:47,700
Here in game five.

466
00:35:48,140 --> 00:35:49,900
A huge pitch for Kim.

467
00:35:51,780 --> 00:35:53,380
Brocious hits one in the left.

468
00:35:53,840 --> 00:35:54,400
Back.

469
00:35:54,560 --> 00:35:56,960
At the wall, the Yankees have...

470
00:36:07,440 --> 00:36:10,760
Again, the game
went to extra innings.

471
00:36:13,600 --> 00:36:17,840
In the bottom of the twelfth,
Alphonso Soriano batted for New York.

472
00:36:26,150 --> 00:36:27,350
On two and one.

473
00:36:27,870 --> 00:36:29,530
Into right field, base hit.

474
00:36:29,770 --> 00:36:31,090
Here comes Nogua.

475
00:36:35,810 --> 00:36:37,970
They lead the series
three games to two.

476
00:36:39,950 --> 00:36:42,530
The Yankees had
come from behind again.

477
00:36:43,990 --> 00:36:46,630
They say lightning doesn't
strike twice in the same spot.

478
00:36:48,110 --> 00:36:49,670
It sure did that series.

479
00:36:51,730 --> 00:36:54,912
And I'll never forget being
in the Yankees' parking lot,

480
00:36:54,972 --> 00:36:57,210
after game five, when the
Yankees had done it again.

481
00:36:57,650 --> 00:36:59,270
The players didn't
want to leave.

482
00:36:59,450 --> 00:37:01,290
It reminded me of after
a Little League game.

483
00:37:01,390 --> 00:37:04,310
After a big win, you're all hanging
out in the parking lot of Dairy Queen.

484
00:37:04,490 --> 00:37:06,030
Just talking about the game.

485
00:37:06,530 --> 00:37:09,230
These last two
games defy description.

486
00:37:13,710 --> 00:37:17,810
In game six, Randy Johnson
came through again for Arizona.

487
00:37:18,280 --> 00:37:21,230
And they beat New
York 15 to two in Phoenix.

488
00:37:22,770 --> 00:37:27,550
In game seven, for the third time,
Curt Schilling started for Arizona.

489
00:37:28,510 --> 00:37:31,130
Roger Clemens again
pitched for New York.

490
00:37:32,150 --> 00:37:36,930
Curt Schilling, who last night guaranteed
a victory, saying, we're going to win.

491
00:37:49,110 --> 00:37:53,490
Through five innings, neither
pitcher let a runner past second base.

492
00:37:57,930 --> 00:38:00,750
In the sixth, Arizona
broke through.

493
00:38:03,680 --> 00:38:06,440
Finley floats one to
center for a leadoff hit.

494
00:38:08,320 --> 00:38:12,860
In the left center field,
Danny Bautista delivers again.

495
00:38:13,740 --> 00:38:16,520
That ball is going
to put Arizona on top.

496
00:38:17,180 --> 00:38:18,500
Going for third.

497
00:38:19,760 --> 00:38:21,800
Out, but it's 1-0 Arizona.

498
00:38:23,200 --> 00:38:25,620
The Yankees fought
back in the seventh.

499
00:38:26,420 --> 00:38:28,080
Runners at the corners won out.

500
00:38:29,260 --> 00:38:31,340
Martinez with a
base hit to right.

501
00:38:31,400 --> 00:38:32,600
The Yankees have tied it.

502
00:38:37,940 --> 00:38:39,520
Soriano into deep left.

503
00:38:39,521 --> 00:38:40,521
Left field.

504
00:38:42,840 --> 00:38:44,500
Yankees on top, 2-1.

505
00:38:51,450 --> 00:38:54,930
Curt Schilling had been
outstanding, but he was tired.

506
00:38:56,250 --> 00:38:59,970
And Randy Johnson is coming in.

507
00:39:00,030 --> 00:39:02,974
Randy Johnson, who
had thrown 104 pitches

508
00:39:02,975 --> 00:39:05,570
the day before, came
out to pitch in relief.

509
00:39:05,830 --> 00:39:08,030
Randy Johnson in the
game for the Diamondbacks.

510
00:39:09,090 --> 00:39:13,270
The one-two punch for Arizona,
giving the Yankees all they can handle.

511
00:39:14,470 --> 00:39:17,050
Johnson kept the
Yankees from scoring again.

512
00:39:18,770 --> 00:39:23,690
As he had for most of the past six
seasons, Joe Torre again turned to his

513
00:39:23,691 --> 00:39:27,538
unflappable reliever, Mariano
Rivera, who had already pitched

514
00:39:27,539 --> 00:39:30,970
three times in the series
without giving up a single run.

515
00:39:35,930 --> 00:39:42,251
But in the bottom of the ninth, Arizona
tied the game, and then loaded the bases.

516
00:39:44,130 --> 00:39:49,950
Rivera would face outfielder Luis Gonzalez,
who had hit 57 home runs that year.

517
00:39:50,390 --> 00:39:53,170
The chance of a
lifetime for Luis Gonzalez.

518
00:39:53,610 --> 00:39:55,310
2-2, bottom of the ninth.

519
00:39:55,570 --> 00:39:56,570
Bases loaded.

520
00:39:56,990 --> 00:39:57,850
Infield in.

521
00:39:57,950 --> 00:39:58,950
One out.

522
00:39:59,610 --> 00:40:05,430
The one problem is Rivera throws inside
the left-handers, and left-handers get a

523
00:40:05,431 --> 00:40:08,510
lot of broken bat hits into
the shallow part of the outfield.

524
00:40:08,910 --> 00:40:12,890
That's the danger in bringing the infield
in with a guy like Rivera on the mound.

525
00:40:16,110 --> 00:40:18,731
There's just about no chance
of having enough time in

526
00:40:18,732 --> 00:40:22,310
baseball to see tragedy or
triumph headed your way.

527
00:40:28,150 --> 00:40:30,090
But there it was
for Yankee fans.

528
00:40:30,270 --> 00:40:32,810
It was... They've got
him positioned wrong.

529
00:40:34,830 --> 00:40:35,830
Season's over.

530
00:40:36,030 --> 00:40:38,730
The Diamondbacks
are world champions!

531
00:40:47,920 --> 00:40:53,040
The New York Yankees, the team
much of America was rooting for, had lost.

532
00:40:54,500 --> 00:40:58,034
Several of their stars,
including Tino Martinez

533
00:40:58,035 --> 00:41:01,581
and Scott Brocious,
moved on or retired.

534
00:41:02,440 --> 00:41:06,320
It would be eight years before they
would win another championship.

535
00:41:07,880 --> 00:41:10,300
It was just so sad saying
goodbye to everybody.

536
00:41:12,180 --> 00:41:16,893
I went around the room
and hugged everybody, and it

537
00:41:16,894 --> 00:41:21,260
was just a sad way to end
our relationship, basically.

538
00:41:23,040 --> 00:41:27,560
Even though the memories were great,
that night was about as sad as it gets.

539
00:41:27,660 --> 00:41:31,860
Good to live it again.

540
00:41:33,060 --> 00:41:34,060
He

541
00:41:41,330 --> 00:41:44,430
developed a concept that pretty
much everyone in baseball knows now.

542
00:41:44,650 --> 00:41:45,430
That's VORP.

543
00:41:45,550 --> 00:41:47,130
Value Over Replacement Player.

544
00:41:47,710 --> 00:41:48,746
And how did this come about?

545
00:41:48,770 --> 00:41:49,150
VORP?

546
00:41:49,670 --> 00:41:50,950
Did he say VORP?

547
00:41:51,930 --> 00:41:54,550
This guy's VORP is $350?

548
00:41:55,810 --> 00:41:57,530
What the hell is VORP?

549
00:41:57,730 --> 00:42:00,670
We could spend half the
day explaining what VORP is.

550
00:42:01,530 --> 00:42:07,270
But there are those who will tell you,
VORP is probably the defining statistic of

551
00:42:07,271 --> 00:42:12,891
any player to tell you if he's really good,
if he's great, or not as good as we think.

552
00:42:13,290 --> 00:42:18,430
I don't have a clue how they figure out
VORP, but it's something to do with the

553
00:42:18,431 --> 00:42:25,030
value of a player over an average
replacement for him at his position.

554
00:42:25,750 --> 00:42:26,750
VORP.

555
00:42:27,290 --> 00:42:30,650
How that adds up and how they
calculate it, I don't have a clue.

556
00:42:30,651 --> 00:42:34,250
I'm still trying to get OPS,
you know, OPS, which

557
00:42:34,251 --> 00:42:38,430
is Slugging Percentage
Added to On-Base Percentage.

558
00:42:39,090 --> 00:42:40,430
And that's OPS.

559
00:42:40,690 --> 00:42:42,990
His OPS is 970.

560
00:42:43,210 --> 00:42:44,590
I know that that's really good.

561
00:42:45,150 --> 00:42:48,574
For decades, scouts and
managers had relied on gut

562
00:42:48,575 --> 00:42:52,150
instinct and accumulated
experience when evaluating talent.

563
00:42:53,070 --> 00:42:58,190
But in the new millennium, inspired by the
iconoclastic theories of statistician Bill

564
00:42:58,191 --> 00:43:02,090
James, one club discovered a
radically new way to compete.

565
00:43:03,270 --> 00:43:07,370
By compiling and reinterpreting
baseball's unending stream of statistics,

566
00:43:07,850 --> 00:43:13,090
the cash-strapped Oakland A's were able to
identify players whose particular talents

567
00:43:13,091 --> 00:43:16,670
had been undervalued or
overlooked by wealthier clubs.

568
00:43:19,070 --> 00:43:23,610
How batters got on base didn't matter,
they realized, compared to whether they

569
00:43:23,611 --> 00:43:26,610
got on base at all and
how often they scored.

570
00:43:28,530 --> 00:43:30,679
How many games
pitchers won didn't matter as

571
00:43:30,680 --> 00:43:33,471
much as how efficiently
they got batters out.

572
00:43:35,650 --> 00:43:38,989
The A's, despite having
one of the lowest payrolls

573
00:43:38,990 --> 00:43:42,210
in the game, made the
postseason four years in a row.

574
00:43:43,630 --> 00:43:47,281
Before long, sophisticated
data analysis would affect

575
00:43:47,282 --> 00:43:52,010
every decision made by
every team, on the field, at all.

576
00:43:55,110 --> 00:43:59,067
But many observers continue
to believe that, these intangibles,

577
00:43:59,068 --> 00:44:02,910
like a player's heart and
determination, still had value.

578
00:44:03,450 --> 00:44:06,659
That regardless of the
numbers, some individuals

579
00:44:06,660 --> 00:44:09,670
did perform better
than others in the clutch.

580
00:44:23,590 --> 00:44:27,132
The greatest home run
hitter of all time, Hank Aaron,

581
00:44:27,133 --> 00:44:30,011
opens trading today at the
New York Stock Exchange.

582
00:44:30,530 --> 00:44:33,630
And the market promptly
hits a home run for investors.

583
00:44:34,230 --> 00:44:37,550
The Dow now up 23% for the year.

584
00:44:37,551 --> 00:44:43,430
NASDAQ, with all its tech stocks,
up an astonishing 71% for the year.

585
00:44:45,610 --> 00:44:48,856
At the beginning of free
agency in 1975, the average

586
00:44:48,857 --> 00:44:55,490
salary of a big league player
had been $45,676 a season.

587
00:44:55,910 --> 00:44:59,270
Just three times what the
average American earned in a year.

588
00:45:00,510 --> 00:45:05,770
Now, with revenue pouring in from cable
and satellite TV, radio, the internet,

589
00:45:06,010 --> 00:45:10,950
international markets, and new ballparks,
the average baseball salary had soared to

590
00:45:10,951 --> 00:45:15,670
nearly $2.4 million, almost 50 times
what the average American made.

591
00:45:16,610 --> 00:45:18,850
Who dreamed that
players would make $25

592
00:45:18,862 --> 00:45:21,451
million for a season in
a game like baseball?

593
00:45:21,610 --> 00:45:26,890
And that creates a great amount of desire
to get to that place, just as it created

594
00:45:26,891 --> 00:45:30,770
among us this sense that we could all
make a ton of money in dot com, or we could

595
00:45:30,771 --> 00:45:34,650
make a lot of money in flipping houses,
or we could get all of these mortgages,

596
00:45:34,670 --> 00:45:37,450
all of these home equity loans,
and buy whatever it is we wanted.

597
00:45:38,790 --> 00:45:40,990
Other things were
out of proportion, too.

598
00:45:41,550 --> 00:45:45,770
It's hard to compare eras now, but
I also think that the balls are a little.

599
00:45:46,410 --> 00:45:48,390
go a little farther,
I won't say juiced.

600
00:45:48,570 --> 00:45:52,871
Most of the parks are smaller, but players
today are bigger and stronger than before.

601
00:45:53,090 --> 00:45:55,830
The ball may be juiced, and
some of the players may be juiced.

602
00:45:57,130 --> 00:46:00,147
I was trying, in a general
sense, to call attention

603
00:46:00,148 --> 00:46:03,350
to the fact that this stuff
just doesn't make sense.

604
00:46:04,700 --> 00:46:07,270
And this was the part that
I found especially galling.

605
00:46:07,710 --> 00:46:11,770
People throughout baseball who pride
themselves on knowing the difference

606
00:46:11,771 --> 00:46:15,435
between the split second
it took Bill Mazeroski to turn

607
00:46:15,436 --> 00:46:18,290
a double play as opposed to
the average second baseman.

608
00:46:19,030 --> 00:46:22,470
Who pride themselves on knowing when
a guy's arm angle comes down ever so

609
00:46:22,471 --> 00:46:25,130
slightly because he's
fatigued in the late innings.

610
00:46:25,650 --> 00:46:29,490
Who notice if a guy has moved half a
step in or half a step back at third base.

611
00:46:30,130 --> 00:46:32,665
They didn't notice a damn
thing when guys showed up

612
00:46:32,666 --> 00:46:35,410
looking like they'd been
inflated with bicycle pumps.

613
00:46:36,670 --> 00:46:39,264
As the memory of the
crippling strike of 1994

614
00:46:39,265 --> 00:46:42,690
faded away, baseball's
popularity surged.

615
00:46:43,395 --> 00:46:47,791
But rumors and suspicions about
performance enhancing drugs kept surfacing.

616
00:46:48,770 --> 00:46:53,390
Over the years, a few sports writers and
broadcasters had tried to call attention

617
00:46:53,391 --> 00:46:56,150
to steroids infiltration
of the national pastime.

618
00:46:56,810 --> 00:46:57,810
But nothing was done.

619
00:46:58,340 --> 00:47:01,010
And doping became an
open secret in the game.

620
00:47:02,685 --> 00:47:04,726
I don't think a bunch of
owners or general managers got

621
00:47:04,727 --> 00:47:07,430
into a room and they said,
we got a great thing going here.

622
00:47:08,150 --> 00:47:09,150
Turnstiles are humming.

623
00:47:09,370 --> 00:47:10,150
Fans love it.

624
00:47:10,380 --> 00:47:11,380
Let's not do anything.

625
00:47:11,920 --> 00:47:15,830
I think what happened was when they
were clued enough into what was happening,

626
00:47:15,850 --> 00:47:19,150
it was already too late without
really getting their hands very dirty.

627
00:47:19,760 --> 00:47:22,750
Cleaning it up meant taking down
the biggest players in the game.

628
00:47:23,140 --> 00:47:25,829
And that was an
undertaking they weren't going

629
00:47:25,830 --> 00:47:29,031
to touch until somebody
made them touch it.

630
00:47:31,010 --> 00:47:36,110
In May of 2002, Jose Canseco, who
would later claim that without steroids,

631
00:47:36,650 --> 00:47:38,616
he would have never
even made it to the major

632
00:47:38,617 --> 00:47:42,670
leagues, retired from
baseball with 462 home runs.

633
00:47:44,340 --> 00:47:48,630
He told the press that 85% of
major leaguers were taking steroids.

634
00:47:49,430 --> 00:47:54,291
There would be no baseball left, Canseco
insisted, if we drug tested everyone.

635
00:47:55,150 --> 00:47:57,050
But hardly anyone
took his claims seriously.

636
00:47:59,005 --> 00:48:03,590
Then, a few weeks later, Sports
Illustrated published a cover story by Tom

637
00:48:03,591 --> 00:48:08,150
Verducci, which described players taking a
wide range of performance-enhancing drugs.

638
00:48:09,670 --> 00:48:14,470
In the article, former Padres third
baseman Ken Caminiti confessed that he had

639
00:48:14,471 --> 00:48:19,910
taken heavy doses of steroids for years,
beginning in 1996, when he had been named

640
00:48:19,911 --> 00:48:22,010
the National League's
most valuable player.

641
00:48:22,730 --> 00:48:27,970
And what really, really struck me was
first of all, the responsibility that he

642
00:48:28,095 --> 00:48:32,670
took for his own career, but also the
fact that he had no remorse whatsoever.

643
00:48:32,671 --> 00:48:37,695
And that's when it really hit
home to me that it was so pervasive

644
00:48:37,696 --> 00:48:40,450
in the game that given the
choice, he would do it again.

645
00:48:43,060 --> 00:48:48,130
In 2001, Commissioner Bud Selig had
imposed a drug testing program on the

646
00:48:48,131 --> 00:48:51,970
minor leagues where he did not need
the consent of the Players Association.

647
00:48:53,110 --> 00:48:57,630
But the union had refused to permit a
similar program in the major leagues.

648
00:48:58,190 --> 00:49:02,670
Our view was there may well
be reasons to test people if you

649
00:49:02,671 --> 00:49:05,391
have some reason to believe
they're doing something wrong.

650
00:49:06,145 --> 00:49:09,610
But if you have no reason at all, that's
an entirely different set of circumstances.

651
00:49:10,090 --> 00:49:12,810
And that there ought to be
some reasonableness factor.

652
00:49:12,910 --> 00:49:15,450
It's sort of the industrial
counterpart of probable cause.

653
00:49:15,630 --> 00:49:17,670
This is a subject of
collective bargaining.

654
00:49:18,440 --> 00:49:22,130
This is not something the commissioner
can do unilaterally as much as I'd like to.

655
00:49:22,230 --> 00:49:23,370
What took so long?

656
00:49:23,790 --> 00:49:26,970
Some very long and
difficult negotiation.

657
00:49:28,150 --> 00:49:31,090
The union was in a
very difficult position.

658
00:49:32,075 --> 00:49:36,190
But at the same time, they did
not cover themselves in glory here.

659
00:49:36,730 --> 00:49:39,059
And I think that the
players hurt themselves by

660
00:49:39,060 --> 00:49:41,610
simply believing that they
were above accountability.

661
00:49:43,020 --> 00:49:47,730
Three months after the revelations
about Caminiti and Canseco, Selig and Fear

662
00:49:47,731 --> 00:49:51,130
announced that the union had
agreed to limited drug testing.

663
00:49:52,310 --> 00:49:55,259
Players would be tested
anonymously only once

664
00:49:55,260 --> 00:49:58,711
or twice, and not at all
during the off season.

665
00:49:59,820 --> 00:50:02,638
If more than 5% did
test positive, a punitive

666
00:50:02,639 --> 00:50:05,451
plan would automatically
go into effect.

667
00:50:06,295 --> 00:50:09,266
Thanks largely to the
Players Association, it was the

668
00:50:09,267 --> 00:50:12,290
weakest drug prevention
program in professional sports.

669
00:50:13,625 --> 00:50:17,870
But in the first year, more
than 5% did test positive.

670
00:50:18,610 --> 00:50:20,970
From then on, those
who failed more than

671
00:50:20,971 --> 00:50:24,631
once faced suspensions
of at least 15 games.

672
00:50:25,470 --> 00:50:29,750
After five positive results, they would
be suspended for an entire season.

673
00:50:31,130 --> 00:50:35,110
They came to an agreement about a drug
testing policy that had so many holes in

674
00:50:35,111 --> 00:50:39,810
it that there was no way a player,
unless he is just dumb as a rock,

675
00:50:39,930 --> 00:50:42,490
was going to fail under the
guidelines that they set forth.

676
00:50:44,830 --> 00:50:49,690
Despite the negative publicity about
steroids, Bud Selig could justifiably take

677
00:50:49,691 --> 00:50:52,553
credit for the fact that
baseball was booming,

678
00:50:52,554 --> 00:50:55,790
enjoying a renaissance
unparalleled in its history.

679
00:50:57,160 --> 00:51:01,430
And for the first time, the owners
and players had managed to negotiate a

680
00:51:01,431 --> 00:51:04,650
collective bargaining agreement
without a work stoppage.

681
00:51:05,965 --> 00:51:09,133
In the new contract, the
richest clubs also agreed to

682
00:51:09,134 --> 00:51:11,710
share some of their profits
with the poorest clubs.

683
00:51:12,310 --> 00:51:14,700
And the players
allowed a luxury tax to be

684
00:51:14,701 --> 00:51:18,131
imposed on the teams
with the highest payrolls.

685
00:51:18,515 --> 00:51:22,690
The Mets, the Red Sox,
and especially the Yankees.

686
00:51:23,950 --> 00:51:28,810
Although no one could have predicted it
at the time, the disastrous strike of 1994

687
00:51:28,811 --> 00:51:33,091
had ushered in a period of
unprecedented labor peace as the

688
00:51:33,092 --> 00:51:37,750
players and the owners finally
learned how to work together.

689
00:51:39,650 --> 00:51:41,710
This is the golden
era of baseball.

690
00:51:43,110 --> 00:51:48,771
Average game today is drawing 33, 34,000
people with all the games on television.

691
00:51:49,970 --> 00:51:53,130
The popularity of this
sport is just enormous.

692
00:51:54,240 --> 00:51:55,510
And that's been the question.

693
00:51:55,895 --> 00:51:58,970
Is it possible to have a renaissance
and a calamity at the same time?

694
00:51:59,210 --> 00:52:01,430
It all depends on
what your barometer is.

695
00:52:01,680 --> 00:52:02,680
What is your measure?

696
00:52:03,830 --> 00:52:08,091
If your measure is money, and
only money, then yeah, it was

697
00:52:08,092 --> 00:52:11,990
possible because people in this
game made more money than ever.

698
00:52:12,790 --> 00:52:17,030
But if your barometer is something more
than that, if your barometer is integrity,

699
00:52:17,270 --> 00:52:21,650
is in having people look at you and
believing in your sport, not just going to

700
00:52:21,651 --> 00:52:25,990
the games, but believing in
your sport, then it's not possible.

701
00:52:27,870 --> 00:52:31,682
I think fans have been able
to compartmentalize their

702
00:52:31,683 --> 00:52:35,130
disappointments and still
enjoy it the way they used to.

703
00:52:36,890 --> 00:52:42,190
And I think we have built up the same sort
of sieve for letting experience through

704
00:52:42,191 --> 00:52:44,510
that we have with real
people in our real lives.

705
00:52:45,790 --> 00:52:49,450
We don't expect them to be saints, and
we no longer expect our athletes to be.

706
00:52:49,570 --> 00:52:53,010
We expect them to be the same range of
people that we see in the rest of our life.

707
00:52:53,290 --> 00:52:57,590
And I think that one of the reasons that
baseball has not only not lost popularity,

708
00:52:57,591 --> 00:53:03,050
but gained it, is as its flaws become
apparent, it actually gains depth in

709
00:53:03,051 --> 00:53:08,810
humanity, even as it loses
its fairytale mythic qualities.

710
00:53:15,150 --> 00:53:17,090
I've done well in my career.

711
00:53:18,770 --> 00:53:21,910
If it ended today, I have
nothing to be ashamed of.

712
00:53:22,350 --> 00:53:26,350
The only thing is, I would
just feel very sad about it.

713
00:53:26,370 --> 00:53:28,690
About not having the opportunity
to go to the World Series.

714
00:53:29,250 --> 00:53:31,915
Because you can play 100
years of baseball and never

715
00:53:31,916 --> 00:53:34,551
ever have that opportunity
to go to the World Series.

716
00:53:35,490 --> 00:53:37,530
The World Series is what
I want more than anything.

717
00:53:39,390 --> 00:53:45,190
In 2002, Barry Bonds had another
spectacular season, and would be named the

718
00:53:45,191 --> 00:53:48,810
National League's Most
Valuable Player for the fifth time.

719
00:53:50,550 --> 00:53:56,070
And now, he was on his way to the World
Series for the first time, eager to prove

720
00:53:56,071 --> 00:54:00,430
he could perform as well in the
postseason as he did the rest of the year.

721
00:54:02,290 --> 00:54:04,510
The Giants would face
the Anaheim Angels.

722
00:54:05,170 --> 00:54:08,582
Both teams had been their
league's wild card, something

723
00:54:08,583 --> 00:54:11,091
that had never happened
in a World Series before.

724
00:54:13,330 --> 00:54:16,963
I had the privilege of covering
all seven games of that

725
00:54:16,964 --> 00:54:19,331
World Series for the
Sacramento Beam, my newspaper.

726
00:54:19,670 --> 00:54:24,190
And it looked for all the world that
the Giants were finally going to win.

727
00:54:27,210 --> 00:54:32,230
With Bonds leading the team, the
Giants took a three games to two lead.

728
00:54:35,010 --> 00:54:37,470
Game six would be
played in Anaheim.

729
00:54:38,270 --> 00:54:39,270
This

730
00:54:42,180 --> 00:54:46,420
is walked twice tonight,
26 times in the postseason.

731
00:54:47,060 --> 00:54:51,400
That is crushed, deep into the
night, and it's four on the nothing.

732
00:54:51,880 --> 00:54:53,420
San Francisco!

733
00:54:58,260 --> 00:54:59,560
15 bats in the second half.

734
00:54:59,580 --> 00:55:06,160
San Francisco starter Russ Ortiz pitched
brilliantly, and the Giants took a five to

735
00:55:06,161 --> 00:55:08,240
nothing lead into the
bottom of the seventh.

736
00:55:09,320 --> 00:55:10,940
We were all counting the outs.

737
00:55:12,260 --> 00:55:14,610
They were eight outs
away from winning the World

738
00:55:14,611 --> 00:55:17,461
Series for the first time as
the San Francisco Giants.

739
00:55:18,060 --> 00:55:20,080
Russ Ortiz was
pitching a shutout.

740
00:55:20,240 --> 00:55:21,300
Here's the two-two pitch.

741
00:55:23,120 --> 00:55:25,000
Swung on and
missed strike three.

742
00:55:25,340 --> 00:55:31,561
In the Giants' clubhouse, attendance iced
champagne in preparation for a celebration.

743
00:55:32,920 --> 00:55:36,040
Russ goes into his windup,
and the pitch on the way to Gloss.

744
00:55:36,240 --> 00:55:37,540
Line drive, that's a base hit.

745
00:55:38,240 --> 00:55:41,020
And Troy Gloss has
just the third Angel hit.

746
00:55:41,280 --> 00:55:42,727
And I can remember
being in the press box, and

747
00:55:42,728 --> 00:55:44,200
I was thinking, it's
finally going to happen.

748
00:55:44,360 --> 00:55:45,600
It's finally going to happen.

749
00:55:46,020 --> 00:55:48,480
Ortiz delivers, and it's
ripped into right field.

750
00:55:48,700 --> 00:55:50,220
At that point, I
was 40 years old.

751
00:55:50,640 --> 00:55:53,060
Angel's being shut out,
five nothing at the moment.

752
00:55:53,420 --> 00:55:55,280
I'd been with these
guys since I'm eight.

753
00:55:55,780 --> 00:55:58,000
So that might be it for Ortiz.

754
00:55:58,001 --> 00:55:58,760
He has a four to nothing lead.

755
00:55:58,780 --> 00:55:59,980
Four hits, shutout working.

756
00:56:00,980 --> 00:56:04,520
You know, I'm trying to keep some sort of
professional distance, but I couldn't help

757
00:56:04,521 --> 00:56:08,580
to imagine Parade Down
Market Street in San Francisco.

758
00:56:09,820 --> 00:56:14,480
And I was already thinking I was going
to take off my jacket because I didn't want

759
00:56:14,481 --> 00:56:16,540
it to stink of champagne
and the whole thing.

760
00:56:16,620 --> 00:56:16,880
Three and two.

761
00:56:17,100 --> 00:56:18,400
Big pitch coming up.

762
00:56:18,620 --> 00:56:20,000
And then the bottom fell out.

763
00:56:20,260 --> 00:56:23,240
The three-two pitch
is belted to right field.

764
00:56:23,420 --> 00:56:24,920
Back on it goes Sanders.

765
00:56:25,220 --> 00:56:26,620
He can't get it.

766
00:56:32,820 --> 00:56:34,120
Here's the pitch by Juarez.

767
00:56:34,121 --> 00:56:35,640
A drive hit into right field.

768
00:56:35,880 --> 00:56:37,000
That ball is gone.

769
00:56:37,500 --> 00:56:39,400
And they are within one.

770
00:56:39,820 --> 00:56:41,580
Here's the one-oh to Salmon.

771
00:56:41,640 --> 00:56:42,940
A drive into center field.

772
00:56:43,440 --> 00:56:44,700
Lofton can't get it.

773
00:56:44,720 --> 00:56:45,180
Face-in.

774
00:56:45,580 --> 00:56:48,040
And at a certain point,
the Angels rally kept going.

775
00:56:48,340 --> 00:56:49,340
Here comes Diggins.

776
00:56:49,900 --> 00:56:51,656
I sat back in my chair
and I stopped writing.

777
00:56:51,680 --> 00:56:52,980
The Angels take the lead.

778
00:56:53,320 --> 00:56:54,320
Six to five.

779
00:56:54,680 --> 00:56:59,100
And then when the Angels went
ahead, I did what all writers dread doing.

780
00:56:59,280 --> 00:57:01,560
I highlighted everything
I read and I hit the lead.

781
00:57:01,760 --> 00:57:02,760
A third strike.

782
00:57:02,900 --> 00:57:04,000
A seventh game.

783
00:57:05,840 --> 00:57:08,260
They're one strike
away from all of that.

784
00:57:08,580 --> 00:57:10,040
The two-two pitch.

785
00:57:10,260 --> 00:57:11,380
Swung on and missed.

786
00:57:11,600 --> 00:57:14,680
The Angels won five.

787
00:57:15,000 --> 00:57:18,620
When game six was
over, I knew it was over.

788
00:57:19,060 --> 00:57:20,980
I knew they weren't
going to win game seven.

789
00:57:34,120 --> 00:57:37,450
The next night, the Angels
became world champions

790
00:57:37,451 --> 00:57:40,600
for the first time in
their 42-year history.

791
00:57:49,080 --> 00:57:53,620
Barry Bonds had made three wins in
30 trips to the plate, hit four home runs,

792
00:57:54,000 --> 00:57:56,020
and was walked 13 times.

793
00:57:56,340 --> 00:57:57,660
A World Series record.

794
00:57:58,680 --> 00:58:00,280
But it hadn't been enough.

795
00:58:03,940 --> 00:58:05,760
It was like a morgue afterwards.

796
00:58:09,820 --> 00:58:11,720
There's so much media
for the World Series.

797
00:58:13,180 --> 00:58:15,620
And we're all trying
to cram into his locker.

798
00:58:17,555 --> 00:58:19,920
And at one point,
he's got his shirt off.

799
00:58:19,921 --> 00:58:21,300
He's got this enormous physique.

800
00:58:21,500 --> 00:58:22,500
And he wheels around.

801
00:58:23,280 --> 00:58:27,560
And he says, if you guys don't step
back right now, I'm going to snap.

802
00:58:50,250 --> 00:58:56,110
I love them so much that every year,
for 25, 30 years, I would write in the

803
00:58:56,111 --> 00:58:59,490
paper in the Globe each
spring, this is the year.

804
00:59:01,050 --> 00:59:04,130
No matter how poorly they appeared
to be as a team in spring training.

805
00:59:04,131 --> 00:59:06,570
And it was the hope of a child.

806
00:59:06,925 --> 00:59:08,626
Because that's part
of the gift of baseball.

807
00:59:08,650 --> 00:59:09,650
It's a child's hope.

808
00:59:09,790 --> 00:59:11,690
And I always had that hope.

809
00:59:12,975 --> 00:59:15,441
But also the reality
that, you know, well,

810
00:59:15,442 --> 00:59:18,731
probably not going to
happen in my lifetime.

811
00:59:20,870 --> 00:59:25,410
The tension is so great for me that I'm
embarrassed to admit that when the other

812
00:59:25,411 --> 00:59:27,910
team is up in a close game, I
cannot even watch the game.

813
00:59:28,650 --> 00:59:30,290
I run out of the
house sometimes.

814
00:59:30,795 --> 00:59:31,795
And I know that's crazy.

815
00:59:32,750 --> 00:59:34,943
You have this sense
that as long as you don't

816
00:59:34,944 --> 00:59:38,131
watch, something bad
is not going to happen.

817
00:59:38,575 --> 00:59:40,591
And then you just pray
that by the time you come

818
00:59:40,592 --> 00:59:42,510
back, your worst fears
will not be realized.

819
00:59:42,690 --> 00:59:44,550
And you'll suddenly
see them up at bat again.

820
00:59:44,730 --> 00:59:46,310
I mean, it makes
no sense at all.

821
00:59:47,000 --> 00:59:51,510
But there is this strange dynamic
that the fans feel that their actions have

822
00:59:51,511 --> 00:59:54,330
something to do with what the
players are going to do on the field.

823
01:00:01,390 --> 01:00:06,031
In 2002, hedge fund owner John
Henry and television producer

824
01:00:06,032 --> 01:00:09,930
Tom Werner bought the
Boston Red Sox for $700 million.

825
01:00:11,400 --> 01:00:16,171
Neither of them was from New England, and
locals were skeptical about their motives.

826
01:00:16,810 --> 01:00:21,950
But rather than tear down Fenway Park,
the team's home for 90 years, Henry and

827
01:00:21,951 --> 01:00:25,270
Werner decided instead to
renovate the cherished ballpark.

828
01:00:25,930 --> 01:00:30,370
And most important, they promised to
bring a world championship to Boston.

829
01:00:31,890 --> 01:00:34,030
They had their work
cut out for them.

830
01:00:34,620 --> 01:00:38,230
The Red Sox had not won the
World Series since 1918, and

831
01:00:38,231 --> 01:00:41,730
always seemed to find new
ways to break their fans' hearts.

832
01:00:43,370 --> 01:00:46,910
I'll say the Boston fans are the
most loyal fans I've ever seen.

833
01:00:47,550 --> 01:00:51,950
I got very familiar with some of
the comments that they made.

834
01:00:52,090 --> 01:00:53,250
Is this going to be the year?

835
01:00:53,300 --> 01:00:54,890
Is this going to be the year?

836
01:00:55,150 --> 01:00:56,150
Every year.

837
01:00:56,590 --> 01:00:57,590
This is the year.

838
01:00:57,890 --> 01:01:01,490
It was a comment that we
would hear almost every season.

839
01:01:01,890 --> 01:01:06,650
In 2003, the Red Sox made it to
the postseason as the wildcard.

840
01:01:07,470 --> 01:01:13,210
They were led by their hugely popular
shortstop, Nomar Garciaparra, their

841
01:01:13,211 --> 01:01:17,707
designated hitter, David
Ortiz, and Manny Ramirez,

842
01:01:17,708 --> 01:01:20,790
one of the greatest
right-handed hitters in the game.

843
01:01:22,060 --> 01:01:28,050
The pitching staff included the nearly
invincible Pedro Martinez, sinker-baller

844
01:01:28,051 --> 01:01:32,155
Derek Lowe, and Tim
Wakefield, who had mastered the

845
01:01:32,156 --> 01:01:35,170
knuckleball after failing to
make it as a first baseman.

846
01:01:36,750 --> 01:01:40,870
In the American League Championship
Series, they would face their dreaded

847
01:01:40,871 --> 01:01:43,884
rivals, the New York
Yankees, whom Red Sox CEO

848
01:01:43,885 --> 01:01:47,731
Larry Lucchino had
christened the Evil Empire.

849
01:01:49,290 --> 01:01:53,190
People have said it's been the greatest
rivalry in sports, but I don't know how

850
01:01:53,191 --> 01:01:55,710
much of a rivalry it can be
when it's been very one-sided.

851
01:01:57,970 --> 01:01:59,951
You know, to be a great
rivalry, the other team has to

852
01:01:59,952 --> 01:02:02,051
win some of the time and
knock people off their perch.

853
01:02:02,605 --> 01:02:04,801
The Yankees, to the
complete infuriation of Red

854
01:02:04,802 --> 01:02:08,270
Sox fans, seem to come
out ahead every single year.

855
01:02:08,990 --> 01:02:10,870
The two teams were
almost perfectly matched.

856
01:02:12,050 --> 01:02:14,530
The Yankees won two
out of the first three games.

857
01:02:15,265 --> 01:02:18,910
But Boston battled back to tie
the series at three games apiece.

858
01:02:20,230 --> 01:02:22,830
Everything came down
to game seven at Yankee

859
01:02:22,831 --> 01:02:25,991
Stadium, enemy
territory for Red Sox fans.

860
01:02:27,200 --> 01:02:29,410
It was the 26th
time they had met.

861
01:02:30,350 --> 01:02:33,668
No two teams anywhere,
in any sport, had ever

862
01:02:33,669 --> 01:02:36,651
played each other
more in a single season.

863
01:02:37,930 --> 01:02:41,710
And I remember talking to Willie Randolph,
who back then was the third base coach,

864
01:02:41,810 --> 01:02:43,530
and I had said to him,
so what do you think?

865
01:02:44,045 --> 01:02:49,590
And he said, listen, every single time
we've had to beat them, we've beaten them.

866
01:02:50,420 --> 01:02:52,020
Tonight's not going
to be any different.

867
01:02:52,210 --> 01:02:56,310
Roger Clemens, Boston's
one-time ace, pitched for New York.

868
01:02:57,070 --> 01:03:00,150
Pedro Martinez took the
mound for the Red Sox.

869
01:03:03,070 --> 01:03:04,770
Nixon into right center field.

870
01:03:04,910 --> 01:03:05,590
Did he get enough?

871
01:03:05,750 --> 01:03:06,450
Yes, he did.

872
01:03:06,610 --> 01:03:07,970
The Red Sox strike first.

873
01:03:10,410 --> 01:03:12,810
To the left side
for Enrique Wilson.

874
01:03:12,990 --> 01:03:14,850
His throw sails into the zone.

875
01:03:14,870 --> 01:03:17,050
And that'll make it 3-0.

876
01:03:26,180 --> 01:03:32,940
And the Red Sox and their fans have to
be thinking, finally, we have not seen the

877
01:03:32,941 --> 01:03:37,280
Yankees hit anything crisp so far
here tonight against Pedro Martinez.

878
01:03:42,410 --> 01:03:44,970
Martinez was masterful
through seven innings.

879
01:03:45,370 --> 01:03:50,030
And going into the bottom of the
eighth, the Red Sox had a 5-2 lead.

880
01:03:50,850 --> 01:03:55,170
But all season long, Martinez had struggled
after he had thrown more than one.

881
01:03:55,171 --> 01:03:56,291
More than a hundred pitches.

882
01:03:56,830 --> 01:04:01,050
When Pedro came back out in the
eighth inning, we all started screaming,

883
01:04:01,210 --> 01:04:03,290
no, no, you can't be doing it.

884
01:04:04,110 --> 01:04:07,050
I mean, fans think they know more
than the managers, and often we don't.

885
01:04:07,275 --> 01:04:10,670
But at that point, everybody knew the
pitch counts that Pedro would suddenly

886
01:04:10,671 --> 01:04:13,010
fall off the cliff if he
were over that pitch count.

887
01:04:13,290 --> 01:04:14,970
He was way over
that pitch count.

888
01:04:15,090 --> 01:04:18,290
And so there was this huge sense of
dread the minute he came to that mound.

889
01:04:19,210 --> 01:04:22,590
And with one out here in the bottom of
the eighth inning, he works to Derek Jeter.

890
01:04:22,930 --> 01:04:27,750
With the Red Sox, five defensive outs
away from heading to the World Series.

891
01:04:32,400 --> 01:04:34,520
Jeter flies into
right, Nixon back.

892
01:04:34,860 --> 01:04:36,560
On the run, it's over his head.

893
01:04:37,100 --> 01:04:38,520
Jeter will dig for second.

894
01:04:38,780 --> 01:04:39,860
And hold there.

895
01:04:42,320 --> 01:04:43,400
The 2-2.

896
01:04:44,240 --> 01:04:45,440
Into center field.

897
01:04:45,760 --> 01:04:47,220
Damon will play it on a hop.

898
01:04:47,360 --> 01:04:48,660
Jeter will come to the plate.

899
01:04:49,000 --> 01:04:50,260
It's a two-run game.

900
01:04:54,920 --> 01:04:57,400
Manager Grady Little
went out to the mound.

901
01:04:57,960 --> 01:05:00,140
The Red Sox bullpen
had been all over the place.

902
01:05:00,160 --> 01:05:01,640
It was dull but
unhittable that year.

903
01:05:01,760 --> 01:05:05,380
And Martinez had
already thrown 115 pitches.

904
01:05:07,060 --> 01:05:09,120
Little left Martinez
in the game.

905
01:05:09,520 --> 01:05:13,900
She gave Martinez the
chance to say yea or nay.

906
01:05:14,740 --> 01:05:16,240
And he said yes.

907
01:05:18,020 --> 01:05:19,020
Double.

908
01:05:26,560 --> 01:05:28,980
It's second and third with
one out here in the eighth.

909
01:05:30,480 --> 01:05:36,100
Boy, is it strange that Little
is not going to his bullpen.

910
01:05:36,360 --> 01:05:38,160
I mean, that is
absolutely weird.

911
01:05:38,161 --> 01:05:40,320
His bullpen has been...
I was just trying to do it.

912
01:05:40,720 --> 01:05:42,640
And that's what a lot of
people don't understand.

913
01:05:43,230 --> 01:05:45,000
Well, why didn't Pedro
give away the ball?

914
01:05:45,430 --> 01:05:47,240
They didn't ask me
to give away the ball.

915
01:05:47,320 --> 01:05:48,880
They asked me if I
could face the guys.

916
01:05:48,980 --> 01:05:50,260
I said yes.

917
01:05:51,240 --> 01:05:52,240
Of course I can.

918
01:05:52,800 --> 01:05:54,000
I'm in the middle of the game.

919
01:05:54,470 --> 01:05:55,820
I'm here to do this.

920
01:05:56,540 --> 01:05:58,480
A base hit ties the game.

921
01:05:59,080 --> 01:05:59,860
Second and third.

922
01:05:59,940 --> 01:06:00,440
One out.

923
01:06:00,660 --> 01:06:01,660
The pitch.

924
01:06:01,880 --> 01:06:04,520
Swung on and looked
to shallow center field.

925
01:06:04,680 --> 01:06:05,680
It is a base hit.

926
01:06:05,860 --> 01:06:06,860
One runs.

927
01:06:29,470 --> 01:06:31,510
The game went
into extra innings.

928
01:06:32,110 --> 01:06:35,190
The Red Sox turn to
knuckleballer Tim Wakefield.

929
01:06:37,170 --> 01:06:40,610
The odds were favoring
a hitter in a slump.

930
01:06:41,285 --> 01:06:44,330
Because a hitter in a slump,
his timing is already off.

931
01:06:45,050 --> 01:06:47,170
A knuckleball pitcher
throws your timing off.

932
01:06:49,160 --> 01:06:54,970
Put a guy with bad timing and add more bad
timing to him, suddenly he has good timing.

933
01:06:55,500 --> 01:06:57,430
It's a zero sum game
in terms of timing.

934
01:06:58,380 --> 01:07:02,790
So you're thinking, who on earth is
going to get the base hit for the Yankees?

935
01:07:03,120 --> 01:07:04,800
Who can do anything
against Tim Wakefield?

936
01:07:05,530 --> 01:07:06,530
Boone.

937
01:07:07,120 --> 01:07:11,250
In the bottom of the 11th, third
baseman Aaron Boone, whose grandfather,

938
01:07:11,750 --> 01:07:15,510
father, and brother had all played in
the major leagues, came to the plate.

939
01:07:16,405 --> 01:07:20,930
In 31 postseason at-bats,
Boone had managed just five hits.

940
01:07:21,630 --> 01:07:24,450
Now we're tied at five as we
go to the bottom of the 11th.

941
01:07:24,451 --> 01:07:25,830
Here's Aaron Boone to lead off.

942
01:07:26,050 --> 01:07:27,350
His first at-bats.

943
01:07:27,351 --> 01:07:27,710
He's out of the game.

944
01:07:27,770 --> 01:07:29,050
There's a fly ball deep to left.

945
01:07:29,190 --> 01:07:30,190
It's on its way.

946
01:07:33,150 --> 01:07:34,150
Aaron Therries.

947
01:07:34,210 --> 01:07:35,430
Aaron Therries.

948
01:07:39,550 --> 01:07:41,350
My son Timmy was then 11.

949
01:07:42,290 --> 01:07:46,023
And I always used to say,
when the baseball season

950
01:07:46,024 --> 01:07:48,910
was over, it's time to
put the storm windows on.

951
01:07:50,250 --> 01:07:52,890
So it became time to
put the storm windows on

952
01:07:52,891 --> 01:07:56,551
in a split second after
an incredible game.

953
01:07:56,750 --> 01:07:59,630
And the crowd was going
berserk in Yankee Stadium.

954
01:08:00,840 --> 01:08:04,760
And my son Colin, who was
then 20, tapped me on the

955
01:08:04,820 --> 01:08:08,690
shoulder and said, Dad,
you better take care of Tim.

956
01:08:09,400 --> 01:08:14,310
And I looked down at this 11-year-old
child, one of the loves of my life.

957
01:08:14,630 --> 01:08:19,810
And he had tears the size of
hubcaps streaming down his cheek.

958
01:08:20,890 --> 01:08:22,730
And I started crying.

959
01:08:23,360 --> 01:08:24,360
And I hugged him.

960
01:08:24,890 --> 01:08:28,690
And, you know, in my heart of hearts,
I was thinking, what have I done?

961
01:08:29,230 --> 01:08:30,430
What have I done?

962
01:08:58,270 --> 01:09:01,670
I became a Cubs
fan at age 7 in 1948.

963
01:09:02,570 --> 01:09:05,936
That year, Mr. Wrigley, who
owned the Cubs, took out

964
01:09:05,937 --> 01:09:09,010
ads in the Chicago papers
apologizing for the team.

965
01:09:09,590 --> 01:09:11,510
It was not an
auspicious beginning.

966
01:09:13,210 --> 01:09:15,370
The day I was born,
they lost, by the way.

967
01:09:15,371 --> 01:09:16,371
I've looked it up.

968
01:09:33,340 --> 01:09:36,769
Like the Boston Red Sox,
the Chicago Cubs played in one

969
01:09:36,770 --> 01:09:39,840
of the oldest and most
beloved ballparks in America.

970
01:09:40,040 --> 01:09:43,680
But they hadn't appeared in
the World Series since 1945.

971
01:09:44,910 --> 01:09:47,300
And hadn't won since 1908.

972
01:09:48,520 --> 01:09:51,676
Their loyal fans still
showed up at Wrigley Field

973
01:09:51,677 --> 01:09:54,640
each spring, no matter
how poorly their team played.

974
01:10:01,060 --> 01:10:05,460
But in 2003, the Cubs finally
put together a contender.

975
01:10:06,120 --> 01:10:08,683
They made it all the way
to the National League

976
01:10:08,684 --> 01:10:11,660
Championship Series, where
they faced the Florida Marlins.

977
01:10:12,020 --> 01:10:13,460
An expansion team.

978
01:10:13,461 --> 01:10:16,320
A team that had already
won the World Series in 1997.

979
01:10:17,325 --> 01:10:18,960
Only their fifth
year of existence.

980
01:10:20,990 --> 01:10:23,480
The Cubs won three
out of the first five games.

981
01:10:24,030 --> 01:10:26,832
And returned to Chicago
for game six, needing

982
01:10:26,833 --> 01:10:29,861
just one more win to
get to the World Series.

983
01:10:31,640 --> 01:10:34,827
In the top of the eighth,
they were leading 3-0

984
01:10:34,828 --> 01:10:37,541
with one out and a
Marlins runner on second.

985
01:10:38,680 --> 01:10:42,860
And the Marlins beginning to
run out of outs against Mark Pryor.

986
01:11:00,600 --> 01:11:04,820
The offender was a lifelong
Cubs fan named Steve Bartman.

987
01:11:18,080 --> 01:11:21,540
Florida would score eight
runs before the inning was over.

988
01:11:22,720 --> 01:11:24,060
The Cubs never recovered.

989
01:11:25,460 --> 01:11:28,467
The Marlins won game
seven and headed to the World

990
01:11:28,468 --> 01:11:31,441
Series, where they beat
the New York Yankees.

991
01:11:33,100 --> 01:11:36,840
There are few words to describe
how awful I feel, said Steve Bartman.

992
01:11:37,040 --> 01:11:38,640
I am so truly sorry.

993
01:11:38,641 --> 01:11:41,320
From the bottom of this
Cub fan's broken heart.

994
01:11:43,300 --> 01:11:47,180
I'm angry at the guy, said
Illinois' governor, Rod Bogoyevich.

995
01:11:48,340 --> 01:11:52,340
Florida's governor, Jeb Bush,
offered the beleaguered fan asylum.

996
01:11:54,910 --> 01:11:59,480
That winter, the Bartman ball
was auctioned off for $106,000.

997
01:11:59,960 --> 01:12:04,160
And then blown up as thousands
of approving fans looked on.

998
01:12:14,030 --> 01:12:16,770
There is going to come a day
when the Cubs win a World Series.

999
01:12:17,290 --> 01:12:18,510
It has to happen.

1000
01:12:20,050 --> 01:12:21,330
They've had a bad century.

1001
01:12:21,750 --> 01:12:22,750
It's time to rally.

1002
01:12:24,040 --> 01:12:27,448
Alex Rodriguez joins Andre
Dawson as the only players to

1003
01:12:27,449 --> 01:12:30,870
ever win the MVP award while
playing for a last place team.

1004
01:12:31,335 --> 01:12:33,390
And an hour after winning,
A-Rod confirmed the

1005
01:12:33,391 --> 01:12:36,071
Rangers have talked
to him about trading him.

1006
01:12:51,180 --> 01:12:53,173
It was almost like
a black hole where

1007
01:12:53,174 --> 01:12:55,100
everything got sucked
into these two franchises.

1008
01:12:55,101 --> 01:12:59,900
And the players around
the league bought into it.

1009
01:13:00,680 --> 01:13:03,375
When Alex Rodriguez was
going to get bought out of his

1010
01:13:03,376 --> 01:13:06,020
contract, he only wanted
to go to Boston or New York.

1011
01:13:06,700 --> 01:13:11,140
And so when that happens, the Red Sox and
Yankees were playing in a separate league.

1012
01:13:11,300 --> 01:13:15,440
And there was a lot of resentment around
the league because no one else could

1013
01:13:15,441 --> 01:13:18,520
compete with this aura that these
two super power teams had created.

1014
01:13:19,560 --> 01:13:21,380
It was the stage in baseball.

1015
01:13:22,080 --> 01:13:24,340
It was the place where
everybody wanted to be.

1016
01:13:25,100 --> 01:13:27,220
It was the place where
everybody wanted to be.

1017
01:13:27,400 --> 01:13:33,800
After their devastating loss to New York
in 2003, the Red Sox tried again to beat

1018
01:13:33,801 --> 01:13:37,040
free-spending Yankee owner
George Steinbrenner at his own game.

1019
01:13:38,290 --> 01:13:42,480
They sent general manager Theo Epstein
to Arizona for Thanksgiving dinner with

1020
01:13:42,481 --> 01:13:44,815
Diamondbacks ace
pitcher Curt Schilling, who

1021
01:13:44,816 --> 01:13:48,301
had helped defeat the
Yankees back in 2001.

1022
01:13:49,300 --> 01:13:52,980
Schilling quickly agreed to be traded
to the Red Sox and with characteristic

1023
01:13:52,981 --> 01:13:56,560
bravado, vowed to lead the
team to a world championship.

1024
01:13:59,980 --> 01:14:05,280
But in February of 2004, after several
failed attempts by Boston to sign him,

1025
01:14:05,760 --> 01:14:09,019
George Steinbrenner brought
one of the game's biggest stars,

1026
01:14:09,020 --> 01:14:12,420
shortstop Alex Rodriguez,
to baseball's biggest stage.

1027
01:14:14,460 --> 01:14:19,300
Rodriguez was the highest-paid player in
the history of the game, having agreed to

1028
01:14:19,301 --> 01:14:22,117
a ten-year,
quarter-of-a-billion-dollar

1029
01:14:22,129 --> 01:14:25,381
contract with the Texas
Rangers back in 2001.

1030
01:14:25,980 --> 01:14:31,460
To get that contract, Rodriguez's agent,
Scott Boras, liked to quote one reporter's

1031
01:14:31,461 --> 01:14:35,340
assertion that Rodriguez
would one day save baseball.

1032
01:14:36,540 --> 01:14:40,785
In Texas, he had more than
proven his worth, batting above

1033
01:14:40,786 --> 01:14:44,900
.300, averaging more than 50
home runs, and winning an MVP.

1034
01:14:47,040 --> 01:14:50,203
Despite his achievements,
the Rangers had finished

1035
01:14:50,204 --> 01:14:52,020
dead last in the American
League World Series.

1036
01:14:52,040 --> 01:14:54,375
He had played in the
Midwest three years in a row,

1037
01:14:54,376 --> 01:14:56,901
and Rodriguez was eager
to jump to a winning team.

1038
01:14:58,120 --> 01:15:00,260
Now, he was with the Yankees.

1039
01:15:03,440 --> 01:15:06,086
When the 2004 season
began, Boston and New

1040
01:15:06,087 --> 01:15:10,201
York picked up right
where they had left off.

1041
01:15:40,240 --> 01:15:44,577
The Red Sox, now managed
by Terry Francona, and

1042
01:15:44,578 --> 01:15:48,280
the humiliating loss of
2003 had never happened.

1043
01:15:49,560 --> 01:15:54,400
They were scrappy, wore their hair
long, and goofed around in the dugout.

1044
01:15:55,900 --> 01:16:02,220
What you see is what you get, said first
baseman and team ringleader Kevin Millar.

1045
01:16:04,160 --> 01:16:08,820
The heart of the team was Boston's
designated hitter, David Ortiz,

1046
01:16:09,060 --> 01:16:12,420
known to everyone in
Red Sox nation as Big Papi.

1047
01:16:13,980 --> 01:16:18,820
Here was a Red Sox player who really did
instill fear in the heart of the Yankees.

1048
01:16:20,860 --> 01:16:23,873
Here's a guy, he went
out, and when he was

1049
01:16:23,874 --> 01:16:26,780
up, you were afraid if
you were a Yankee fan.

1050
01:16:26,920 --> 01:16:29,960
If you were a Yankee, you were afraid of
what this guy was going to do because he

1051
01:16:29,961 --> 01:16:33,200
was doing things that most Red
Sox players had never done before.

1052
01:16:33,700 --> 01:16:37,380
He represented the sea change that,
look, we don't fear you, we know we're

1053
01:16:37,381 --> 01:16:39,141
better than you, and
we're going to beat you.

1054
01:16:39,320 --> 01:16:41,580
That one's not coming
back anytime soon.

1055
01:16:43,140 --> 01:16:48,240
Led by the dominant pitching of Curt
Schilling, Boston again faced the Yankees

1056
01:16:48,241 --> 01:16:50,320
in the American League
Championship Series.

1057
01:16:55,410 --> 01:17:01,270
But in game one, Schilling, hobbled by
an injury to his ankle, lasted only three

1058
01:17:01,271 --> 01:17:04,530
innings, the shortest
postseason outing of his career.

1059
01:17:07,590 --> 01:17:11,770
No one knew whether he would
be able to pitch again in the series.

1060
01:17:13,870 --> 01:17:17,090
New York took game
two as well, three to one.

1061
01:17:19,090 --> 01:17:21,770
Game three in
Boston was a blowout.

1062
01:17:22,830 --> 01:17:26,330
Yankee hitters hammered one
Red Sox pitcher after another.

1063
01:17:27,210 --> 01:17:30,130
The final score was 19 to eight.

1064
01:17:30,870 --> 01:17:34,424
The New York Yankees were
just one win away from going

1065
01:17:34,425 --> 01:17:37,930
to the World Series for the
seventh time in nine years.

1066
01:17:39,250 --> 01:17:42,577
No team in baseball
history had ever come from

1067
01:17:42,578 --> 01:17:46,131
three games behind to
win a best of seven series.

1068
01:17:48,390 --> 01:17:53,130
I was so angry at the 0-3 start to
the playoffs against the Yankees.

1069
01:17:54,090 --> 01:17:55,430
I was humiliated.

1070
01:17:55,830 --> 01:17:56,830
I was embarrassed.

1071
01:17:58,070 --> 01:18:03,830
I was thanking God for caller ID, all the
calls from area code 212 on the cell phone.

1072
01:18:04,160 --> 01:18:06,790
You'd push ignore because
you knew what it was going to be.

1073
01:18:07,100 --> 01:18:09,850
Just another winter
of verbal abuse.

1074
01:18:10,370 --> 01:18:11,110
But you know what?

1075
01:18:11,290 --> 01:18:12,770
You cannot count the Sox out.

1076
01:18:12,771 --> 01:18:17,330
But the irrepressible Kevin Millar was
not about to let his teammates give up.

1077
01:18:17,470 --> 01:18:18,790
I know you grew
up a Red Sox fan.

1078
01:18:19,210 --> 01:18:21,030
Don't let us win
this game tonight.

1079
01:18:21,890 --> 01:18:24,470
Then they get Petey, and
then they get Shield game six.

1080
01:18:24,570 --> 01:18:25,890
And game seven,
anything happens.

1081
01:18:27,720 --> 01:18:30,130
Derek Lowe pitched
for Boston in game four.

1082
01:18:31,340 --> 01:18:33,790
Orlando Hernandez was
on the mound for New York.

1083
01:18:34,880 --> 01:18:36,470
It was a back and forth game.

1084
01:18:38,790 --> 01:18:41,010
A-Rod goes into
left center field.

1085
01:18:41,150 --> 01:18:42,250
Back at the wall.

1086
01:18:42,251 --> 01:18:46,990
Alex Rodriguez has hit one over
the monster to make it 2-0 New York.

1087
01:18:50,510 --> 01:18:52,170
Ortiz into right center.

1088
01:18:52,330 --> 01:18:55,310
And the Red Sox have
taken the lead in game four.

1089
01:18:56,110 --> 01:18:58,190
Timlin's thrown quite
a few pitches in the dirt.

1090
01:18:58,290 --> 01:18:59,450
He grounds to the right side.

1091
01:18:59,610 --> 01:19:01,170
Bellhorn knocks it down.

1092
01:19:01,270 --> 01:19:03,290
Can't make a play in
the Yankees' lead again.

1093
01:19:03,910 --> 01:19:07,210
It's a two-run sixth inning
and a 4-3 Yankee lead.

1094
01:19:08,030 --> 01:19:13,350
Once again, Joe Torre brought in
Mariano Rivera to finish off the Red Sox.

1095
01:19:14,310 --> 01:19:16,330
Mariano Rivera
in the postseason.

1096
01:19:16,470 --> 01:19:18,090
Six for six and save chances.

1097
01:19:18,490 --> 01:19:23,550
With Boston down by one run in the bottom
of the ninth, Rivera faced Kevin Millar.

1098
01:19:31,580 --> 01:19:34,740
Our pinch runner, Dave Roberts,
is going to come in for Boston.

1099
01:19:35,080 --> 01:19:36,080
He can run.

1100
01:19:36,180 --> 01:19:37,280
Picked up from the Dodgers.

1101
01:19:37,800 --> 01:19:39,080
Good lead for Roberts.

1102
01:19:39,200 --> 01:19:44,540
The great base-dealer Maury Wills had once
told Dave Roberts the day would come when

1103
01:19:44,541 --> 01:19:48,380
he'd have to steal a base with
everyone in the ballpark expecting it.

1104
01:19:49,400 --> 01:19:53,380
When I got out there, Roberts said, I
knew what Maury was talking about.

1105
01:20:12,470 --> 01:20:14,510
Dave Roberts knew
that moment was coming.

1106
01:20:16,350 --> 01:20:20,390
Had studied Mariano Rivera, knew every
single one of his moves to home plate.

1107
01:20:21,895 --> 01:20:24,535
And you have to love the fact
that he took off on that first pitch.

1108
01:20:24,730 --> 01:20:26,536
You know, the Red Sox
down to their last breath

1109
01:20:26,537 --> 01:20:28,350
were going to go down
fighting and being aggressive.

1110
01:20:28,550 --> 01:20:30,800
And that's going to be
the stolen base that's

1111
01:20:30,801 --> 01:20:33,751
going to be remembered
in Boston forever.

1112
01:20:44,410 --> 01:20:48,410
The game was tied, and it
stayed that way into extra innings.

1113
01:20:53,440 --> 01:20:56,220
Manny Ramirez led off
the bottom of the 12th.

1114
01:20:57,340 --> 01:21:00,435
It was 1.

1115
01:21:17,835 --> 01:21:19,420
23 a.m.

1116
01:21:19,560 --> 01:21:21,920
The Red Sox were still alive.

1117
01:21:28,680 --> 01:21:31,760
It was one of the most exciting
moments in my whole history of the game.

1118
01:21:32,260 --> 01:21:37,260
And you then began to feel, even
so, I mean, all you are now is 3-1.

1119
01:21:38,950 --> 01:21:41,120
But still, there was hope
because of that happening.

1120
01:21:41,140 --> 01:21:45,821
If it could happen in the last part of that
inning, then maybe it could happen again.

1121
01:21:46,020 --> 01:21:47,720
With a tying run at third.

1122
01:21:47,900 --> 01:21:49,220
The go-ahead run at first.

1123
01:21:49,300 --> 01:21:54,420
In Game 5, the Red Sox again came
from behind to force extra innings.

1124
01:22:02,220 --> 01:22:05,924
With two outs in the bottom
of the 14th and men on

1125
01:22:05,925 --> 01:22:08,941
first and second, David
Ortiz came to the plate.

1126
01:22:11,500 --> 01:22:16,480
Five hours, 49 minutes,
and 14 pitchers into Game 5.

1127
01:22:17,180 --> 01:22:18,780
Ortiz had done it again.

1128
01:22:19,260 --> 01:22:23,040
It was his second walk-off
hit in less than 24 hours.

1129
01:22:24,440 --> 01:22:28,860
But Boston still had to win the
next two games at Yankee Stadium.

1130
01:22:33,500 --> 01:22:38,840
After the Red Sox won Game 5, Boston's
team doctor sutured the skin around Curt

1131
01:22:38,841 --> 01:22:41,320
Schilling's ailing
tendon to hold it in place.

1132
01:22:42,020 --> 01:22:44,740
A procedure that he had
tried only once before...

1133
01:22:44,940 --> 01:22:46,060
on a cadaver.

1134
01:22:47,020 --> 01:22:50,174
Like a scene from the
natural, Schilling climbs the

1135
01:22:50,175 --> 01:22:52,520
mound and prepares to
take on this Yankee lineup.

1136
01:22:54,520 --> 01:22:55,700
A 2-2 now.

1137
01:22:56,040 --> 01:23:00,580
Sierra strikes out, and that's the first
strikeout of the night for Curt Schilling.

1138
01:23:02,680 --> 01:23:05,232
When Schilling came
out in Game 6, we already

1139
01:23:05,233 --> 01:23:07,400
knew that there was
trouble with his ankle.

1140
01:23:07,640 --> 01:23:10,180
One wasn't sure at all that
he'd be able to pull this off.

1141
01:23:11,640 --> 01:23:15,340
Despite the pain, Schilling
managed to quiet Yankee bats.

1142
01:23:16,940 --> 01:23:21,380
With two outs in the fourth, Kevin
Millar started a rally for Boston.

1143
01:23:43,970 --> 01:23:47,590
Schilling lasted seven innings
and gave up just one run.

1144
01:23:48,890 --> 01:23:50,570
The bullpen took over.

1145
01:23:50,710 --> 01:23:51,710
Runners go.

1146
01:23:51,890 --> 01:23:53,970
Red Sox force Game 7.

1147
01:23:54,150 --> 01:23:58,008
A tremendous pitching
performance by Schilling,

1148
01:23:58,068 --> 01:24:00,510
Arroyo, and Keith
Polk, who does it again.

1149
01:24:00,730 --> 01:24:02,250
It's now tied 3-3.

1150
01:24:04,270 --> 01:24:06,290
Two of my boys
are in Washington.

1151
01:24:07,225 --> 01:24:08,250
Timmy is here with us.

1152
01:24:09,180 --> 01:24:10,180
I call them up.

1153
01:24:10,610 --> 01:24:11,850
I say, we're going back.

1154
01:24:12,855 --> 01:24:14,090
We're back for Game 7.

1155
01:24:15,390 --> 01:24:18,963
For the second year in a row,
the American League pennant

1156
01:24:18,964 --> 01:24:22,970
would be decided in a seventh
game between Boston and New York.

1157
01:24:23,810 --> 01:24:26,310
More than 31 million people
were watching on television.

1158
01:24:26,730 --> 01:24:27,930
And here's Ortiz.

1159
01:24:28,090 --> 01:24:29,770
He rips one into right field.

1160
01:24:29,970 --> 01:24:31,350
Boston came out swinging.

1161
01:24:31,610 --> 01:24:32,610
Red Sox.

1162
01:24:33,110 --> 01:24:35,330
Damon hits it in
the air to right field.

1163
01:24:35,450 --> 01:24:37,010
Sheffield back in the corner.

1164
01:24:37,210 --> 01:24:38,230
A grand slam.

1165
01:24:38,610 --> 01:24:39,610
Johnny Damon.

1166
01:24:40,490 --> 01:24:41,130
Quiet.

1167
01:24:41,230 --> 01:24:42,990
All series goes deep.

1168
01:24:43,530 --> 01:24:44,530
Four more.

1169
01:24:46,210 --> 01:24:48,190
There's another
one into right field.

1170
01:24:48,330 --> 01:24:49,970
Johnny Damon is going off.

1171
01:25:04,020 --> 01:25:08,700
And throughout the park, you could see
people who had been huddled with winter

1172
01:25:08,701 --> 01:25:11,780
jackets and sweatshirts
against the autumn chill.

1173
01:25:12,100 --> 01:25:13,280
We moved them.

1174
01:25:14,320 --> 01:25:16,660
And they had Red
Sox shirts underneath.

1175
01:25:17,420 --> 01:25:21,480
And Tim stood on the
chair in Yankee Stadium.

1176
01:25:21,860 --> 01:25:24,000
And a friend of
ours was with us.

1177
01:25:24,260 --> 01:25:28,102
And he turned to me and
said, I've never seen a kid

1178
01:25:28,103 --> 01:25:32,120
with as happy a look on his
face as Timmy Barnacle had.

1179
01:25:32,340 --> 01:25:38,000
This would be the fifth pennant for
the Red Sox since that 1918 season.

1180
01:25:38,580 --> 01:25:39,180
Here it is.

1181
01:25:39,220 --> 01:25:40,220
Ground ball to second.

1182
01:25:40,300 --> 01:25:40,760
Reese.

1183
01:25:41,020 --> 01:25:43,480
The Boston Red Sox have won...

1184
01:25:54,160 --> 01:25:57,580
It was the greatest
comeback in baseball history.

1185
01:25:59,420 --> 01:26:01,400
This was the victory
we'd all been waiting for.

1186
01:26:01,520 --> 01:26:04,020
Even though it was still
the World Series to go.

1187
01:26:08,200 --> 01:26:12,020
The Red Sox would now have to
face the formidable St. Louis Cardinals,

1188
01:26:12,665 --> 01:26:18,520
who had twice before broken Boston
hearts in the 1946 and 1967 World Series.

1189
01:26:20,130 --> 01:26:24,380
For the first time in my baseball life,
I watched every play of every inning.

1190
01:26:25,330 --> 01:26:27,612
I don't think there was
a single time when I

1191
01:26:27,613 --> 01:26:30,881
ran away, closed my
eyes, went out of the room.

1192
01:26:31,355 --> 01:26:33,520
I began to no longer
think we were going to lose.

1193
01:26:33,990 --> 01:26:34,800
I felt brave.

1194
01:26:34,801 --> 01:26:37,820
The team, I think, had
transformed the fans.

1195
01:26:38,740 --> 01:26:41,840
It was almost as if they
believed in themselves so much.

1196
01:26:42,360 --> 01:26:46,160
And if they could get us through that
Yankee series on the brink of disaster at

1197
01:26:46,161 --> 01:26:51,001
every moment and come back at the last
minute, who were we not to believe in them?

1198
01:26:51,860 --> 01:26:54,580
The Red Sox are one out
away from winning it all.

1199
01:26:55,060 --> 01:26:56,420
Boston swept St. Louis.

1200
01:26:57,220 --> 01:27:00,260
The Cardinals never
led in any of the games.

1201
01:27:01,820 --> 01:27:09,820
Rhyme in 86 years.

1202
01:27:11,780 --> 01:27:16,380
For the first time since that game, in
1918, they are champions of the world.

1203
01:27:27,770 --> 01:27:32,090
If you ask me about my World Series ring
with Boston, I would not trade that one

1204
01:27:32,091 --> 01:27:36,090
for three anywhere else
because it meant so much.

1205
01:27:36,990 --> 01:27:41,990
I think grown-ups, small ones,
little boys, little girls, old people,

1206
01:27:42,260 --> 01:27:45,710
everybody cried in Boston, I think,
when we got that World Series.

1207
01:27:48,010 --> 01:27:51,951
Think about all the people that lived their
entire lives without seeing that moment.

1208
01:27:52,700 --> 01:27:54,210
It wasn't just about 2004.

1209
01:27:54,590 --> 01:27:58,150
It was about people's fathers and
grandfathers and mothers and grandmothers

1210
01:27:58,151 --> 01:28:00,191
and all these people who
had waited all these years.

1211
01:28:00,540 --> 01:28:01,540
They were all connected.

1212
01:28:01,750 --> 01:28:07,830
And I've never seen a championship in
any sport that meant more to people in a

1213
01:28:07,831 --> 01:28:10,110
region than I saw with
the Red Sox in 2004.

1214
01:28:32,980 --> 01:28:38,580
It had been 31,458 days
since Boston's last title.

1215
01:28:40,580 --> 01:28:45,820
From Bangor, Maine to New Haven,
Connecticut, from Burlington, Vermont and

1216
01:28:45,821 --> 01:28:50,580
Charlestown, New Hampshire to Providence,
Rhode Island, millions rejoiced.

1217
01:28:51,900 --> 01:28:57,420
The next morning, in corner stores and
offices, barbershops and on factory floors

1218
01:28:57,421 --> 01:29:02,440
across New England, fans were greeted
by newspapers announcing Boston's victory.

1219
01:29:03,760 --> 01:29:08,360
Vendors who normally sold
1,200 papers in a day sold 8,000.

1220
01:29:10,561 --> 01:29:14,860
At the Mount Auburn Cemetery in Cambridge,
miniature Red Sox flags appeared beside

1221
01:29:14,861 --> 01:29:18,345
headstones as fans shared
the happy news with relatives

1222
01:29:18,346 --> 01:29:21,840
who had spent a lifetime
hoping for a championship.

1223
01:29:23,485 --> 01:29:30,360
The joy of it really didn't seep into
me, I think, until they came back home.

1224
01:29:31,280 --> 01:29:36,800
And the explosion of
emotion couldn't be contained.

1225
01:29:39,480 --> 01:29:45,820
On October 30th, three million people,
five times the population of the city of

1226
01:29:45,821 --> 01:29:50,440
Boston, turned out for a victory parade
through the streets of the Old Town.

1227
01:29:53,440 --> 01:29:58,980
One of our most enduring memories,
my brother and I, was my mother sitting on

1228
01:29:58,981 --> 01:30:03,431
the stoop of her house in
Fitchburg, Massachusetts,

1229
01:30:03,432 --> 01:30:06,780
in the shade of a single
tree on a busy street.

1230
01:30:06,781 --> 01:30:12,515
With her nylon stockings
rolled down to her ankles in order

1231
01:30:12,516 --> 01:30:17,740
to get some cool breeze, and
the radio on the front porch.

1232
01:30:18,505 --> 01:30:21,316
And she would keep
score on a piece of paper,

1233
01:30:21,317 --> 01:30:24,761
not the score book,
on a piece of paper.

1234
01:30:25,510 --> 01:30:30,063
And when the Red Sox won
the World Series, my brother took

1235
01:30:30,064 --> 01:30:34,780
a scorecard out to the cemetery
from game four in St. Louis.

1236
01:30:36,761 --> 01:30:37,761
Put it on the grave.

1237
01:30:45,640 --> 01:30:48,919
We're here today because
the sport is about to

1238
01:30:48,920 --> 01:30:51,871
become a fraud in the
minds of the American people.

1239
01:30:52,020 --> 01:30:56,130
You have a serious public
relations problem here.

1240
01:30:56,890 --> 01:31:01,270
Mr. Feer and Commissioner Selig,
all I can say to you is this issue has

1241
01:31:01,271 --> 01:31:04,890
reached the level where the President of
the United States discusses it at a State

1242
01:31:04,891 --> 01:31:06,950
of the Union message
to the American people.

1243
01:31:08,550 --> 01:31:15,050
Your failure to commit to addressing
this issue straight on and immediately will

1244
01:31:15,051 --> 01:31:18,870
motivate this committee to
search for legislative remedies.

1245
01:31:19,110 --> 01:31:20,190
I don't know what they are.

1246
01:31:20,635 --> 01:31:23,837
But I can tell you and
your players that you

1247
01:31:23,838 --> 01:31:27,271
represent, the status
quo is not acceptable.

1248
01:31:41,960 --> 01:31:45,425
If you look at the history of
the game, it takes an outside

1249
01:31:45,426 --> 01:31:48,220
influence to really get baseball
to ask the tough questions.

1250
01:31:49,820 --> 01:31:53,620
You know, going back to the gambling
problem in the early 20th century,

1251
01:31:56,301 --> 01:32:00,126
the cocaine in the
1980s, going back to Pete

1252
01:32:00,127 --> 01:32:04,461
Rose's gambling problem,
and now with steroids.

1253
01:32:05,460 --> 01:32:10,440
In every case, it took an outside agent
like the federal government or Congress or

1254
01:32:10,441 --> 01:32:13,600
a court case, a legal case,
to really get baseball to move.

1255
01:32:14,380 --> 01:32:19,440
In the fall of 2004, when fans wanted
nothing more than to revel in one of

1256
01:32:19,441 --> 01:32:22,707
baseball's greatest
post-seasons, the game's steroid

1257
01:32:22,708 --> 01:32:25,860
problems hit the front
pages in airwaves once again.

1258
01:32:26,900 --> 01:32:27,900
Now this.

1259
01:32:28,330 --> 01:32:31,880
A report in the San Francisco Chronicle
that Bonds admitted before the grand jury

1260
01:32:31,881 --> 01:32:34,442
investigating the Balco
steroids case, that he

1261
01:32:34,443 --> 01:32:37,521
did take substances
now identified as steroids.

1262
01:32:38,800 --> 01:32:44,280
An ongoing federal investigation of Balco,
a laboratory in Northern California that

1263
01:32:44,281 --> 01:32:46,518
sold nutritional
supplements to athletes, had

1264
01:32:46,519 --> 01:32:49,621
implicated some of the
biggest names in sports.

1265
01:32:50,300 --> 01:32:53,900
Balco was run by a former funk
musician named Victor Conte.

1266
01:32:53,901 --> 01:32:59,520
He had joined forces with Patrick Arnold,
an avid bodybuilder and brilliant chemist

1267
01:32:59,521 --> 01:33:01,760
who had already
introduced Andro, an

1268
01:33:01,761 --> 01:33:04,741
over-the-counter steroid,
to the American market.

1269
01:33:05,890 --> 01:33:08,439
Arnold had also done
something that made the

1270
01:33:08,440 --> 01:33:11,000
blood of every
anti-doping expert run cold.

1271
01:33:11,400 --> 01:33:15,620
He had created an untraceable
steroid called The Clear.

1272
01:33:16,940 --> 01:33:20,900
When taken with a meticulously
orchestrated combination of other drugs,

1273
01:33:21,115 --> 01:33:25,160
it enabled Balco's clients, some
of the greatest athletes in the world,

1274
01:33:25,535 --> 01:33:26,900
to become greater still.

1275
01:33:28,400 --> 01:33:33,660
Olympic medalist Marion Jones,
NFL linebacker Bill Romanowski,

1276
01:33:34,420 --> 01:33:40,260
as well as baseball sluggers Jason
Giambi, Gary Sheffield, and Barry Bonds.

1277
01:33:41,140 --> 01:33:43,020
How much testing do
you welcome in baseball?

1278
01:33:43,340 --> 01:33:44,980
They test me every
day if they choose to.

1279
01:33:45,760 --> 01:33:47,594
You know, like I tell
everybody, you want to be on

1280
01:33:47,595 --> 01:33:49,720
top, you have to have
broad shoulders to be on top.

1281
01:33:49,820 --> 01:33:50,620
I'm going to tell
you that right now.

1282
01:33:50,700 --> 01:33:53,980
Because as fast as you get there,
as fast as they try to knock you down.

1283
01:33:54,240 --> 01:33:55,540
And so I have broad shoulders.

1284
01:33:55,660 --> 01:33:56,660
I can deal with it.

1285
01:33:57,020 --> 01:34:00,599
In San Francisco, many fans
were reluctant to believe that

1286
01:34:00,600 --> 01:34:03,580
their favorite player had taken
performance-enhancing drugs.

1287
01:34:04,460 --> 01:34:07,784
But some critics pointed out
that his head had gotten bigger,

1288
01:34:07,785 --> 01:34:11,860
and his shoe size had
increased from 10 and a half to 13.

1289
01:34:13,480 --> 01:34:17,180
Bonds, according to his lawyer,
was told by his trainer that the cream

1290
01:34:17,181 --> 01:34:22,740
rubbed on his skin was rubbing balm for
arthritis, and that the clear taken orally

1291
01:34:23,090 --> 01:34:24,090
was flaxseed oil.

1292
01:34:25,260 --> 01:34:28,473
Bonds testified that he had
taken steroids inadvertently

1293
01:34:28,474 --> 01:34:31,720
and later complained that he
was being unfairly singled out.

1294
01:34:32,675 --> 01:34:35,488
Bonds has been certainly
singled out, but that's what

1295
01:34:35,489 --> 01:34:39,240
happens when the results
of your cheating are so lurid.

1296
01:34:39,710 --> 01:34:40,960
It attracts attention.

1297
01:34:41,180 --> 01:34:44,840
If you hit 73 home runs,
what do you expect?

1298
01:34:45,220 --> 01:34:50,100
I mean, if some middle infielder tries
to buy another year scuffling in the big

1299
01:34:50,101 --> 01:34:53,860
leagues with performance-enhancing
drugs, it doesn't get as much attention.

1300
01:34:53,980 --> 01:34:54,980
This is not complicated.

1301
01:34:56,250 --> 01:35:01,720
Then in February of 2005, Jose
Canseco published a tell-all autobiography.

1302
01:35:02,530 --> 01:35:06,820
In it, he extolled the benefits of
anabolic steroids, detailed his own

1303
01:35:06,821 --> 01:35:11,720
extensive use of them, and named
many other stars, hitters and pitchers,

1304
01:35:12,120 --> 01:35:14,480
who he said had
also been on the juice.

1305
01:35:15,780 --> 01:35:23,780
Wilson Alvarez, Ivan Rodriguez, Boone, Juan
Gonzalez, Rafael Palmeiro, Mark McGuire.

1306
01:35:26,800 --> 01:35:28,200
Now, people listened.

1307
01:35:30,970 --> 01:35:32,290
Let me start by
telling you this.

1308
01:35:33,030 --> 01:35:34,620
I have never used steroids.

1309
01:35:35,020 --> 01:35:35,540
Period.

1310
01:35:35,800 --> 01:35:39,900
Do you think that the team trainers,
the managers, the general managers,

1311
01:35:40,060 --> 01:35:45,140
and even the owners might have been aware
that some players were using steroids?

1312
01:35:46,065 --> 01:35:47,120
No doubt in my mind.

1313
01:35:47,480 --> 01:35:48,000
Absolutely.

1314
01:35:48,001 --> 01:35:50,840
So it's not a secret that
State... Many people sneered.

1315
01:35:50,860 --> 01:35:52,556
Doesn't Congress have
something better to do?

1316
01:35:52,580 --> 01:35:52,920
Absolutely.

1317
01:35:53,260 --> 01:35:53,920
I believe that.

1318
01:35:54,205 --> 01:35:57,245
Well, sometimes they may poke their
nose into sports where they don't belong.

1319
01:35:57,450 --> 01:35:59,800
But in this case, it actually
led to a good outcome.

1320
01:35:59,980 --> 01:36:03,619
Even if there was some
grandstanding involved, it was very

1321
01:36:03,620 --> 01:36:08,040
clear that Don Feer and Bud
Selig felt the whip from Congress.

1322
01:36:08,530 --> 01:36:09,530
And they had to respond.

1323
01:36:09,980 --> 01:36:16,740
It is rather an infamous occurrence that
in the year you were breaking the home run

1324
01:36:16,741 --> 01:36:20,100
record, a bottle of Andro
was seen in your locker.

1325
01:36:21,480 --> 01:36:23,880
Well, sir, I'm not here
to talk about the past.

1326
01:36:24,840 --> 01:36:30,540
I'm here to talk about the positive
and not the negative about this issue.

1327
01:36:31,280 --> 01:36:35,280
As far as this being about
the past, that's what we do.

1328
01:36:35,560 --> 01:36:37,120
This is an oversight committee.

1329
01:36:37,440 --> 01:36:41,060
If the Enron people come in here and
say, well, we don't want to talk about the

1330
01:36:41,061 --> 01:36:43,741
past, do you think Congress is
going to let them get away with that?

1331
01:36:44,740 --> 01:36:49,220
I've accepted, by my attorney, his
advice not to comment on this issue.

1332
01:36:50,140 --> 01:36:51,140
Okay.

1333
01:36:53,530 --> 01:36:55,743
And you could just see him
deflate like a giant balloon

1334
01:36:55,744 --> 01:36:58,001
in a Thanksgiving Day parade
with a pin stuck through it.

1335
01:36:58,990 --> 01:36:59,990
And that's very sad.

1336
01:37:00,140 --> 01:37:01,460
And also unfair to some degree.

1337
01:37:01,910 --> 01:37:04,200
Because Mark McGuire
never had the kind of ego that

1338
01:37:04,201 --> 01:37:06,280
could say, let's see you
try and do this on steroids.

1339
01:37:06,550 --> 01:37:08,430
Bonds had that ego, but
he didn't have that ego.

1340
01:37:08,780 --> 01:37:12,180
And so he couldn't come back and
say, you can't take this away from me.

1341
01:37:12,240 --> 01:37:14,200
It looked as if he was
shattered as a consequence.

1342
01:37:14,715 --> 01:37:17,420
Without the federal government,
you still have people like Mark McGuire

1343
01:37:17,421 --> 01:37:20,720
telling you there's nothing in a
bottle that can help you hit a home run.

1344
01:37:21,180 --> 01:37:24,880
Or Barry Bonds just telling you to get out
of his face because he's bigger than you.

1345
01:37:25,480 --> 01:37:28,920
It was about time that somebody
bigger than them held them accountable.

1346
01:37:29,350 --> 01:37:33,758
Mr. Sosa, what obligation
do you think you have if you

1347
01:37:33,759 --> 01:37:37,180
are aware that someone is
using drugs on your team?

1348
01:37:37,920 --> 01:37:39,080
I'm a private person.

1349
01:37:39,180 --> 01:37:42,040
I don't really go, you know,
ask people whatever it is.

1350
01:37:43,660 --> 01:37:47,117
In the fall of 2005, Major
League Baseball and the

1351
01:37:47,118 --> 01:37:50,281
Players Association
finally took decisive action.

1352
01:37:51,740 --> 01:37:55,355
The anti-doping program
they put in place for the 2006

1353
01:37:55,356 --> 01:37:58,240
season would be the
toughest in professional sports.

1354
01:37:59,340 --> 01:38:03,680
Players who failed a drug test once
would be suspended for 50 games.

1355
01:38:04,190 --> 01:38:06,540
The second time, 100 games.

1356
01:38:07,185 --> 01:38:09,920
And the third time, they
would be banned for life.

1357
01:38:11,120 --> 01:38:12,840
It's now time for realism.

1358
01:38:13,240 --> 01:38:14,880
And the realism is this.

1359
01:38:15,580 --> 01:38:18,540
The stakes of athletic excellence,
the financial stakes are now so high,

1360
01:38:19,380 --> 01:38:25,120
and the incentives for cutting corners,
therefore, so great, that we are in an

1361
01:38:25,121 --> 01:38:29,980
endless competition between the
chemists trying to devise non-detectable

1362
01:38:29,981 --> 01:38:35,300
performance-enhancing drugs and
the enforcers trying to devise detection.

1363
01:38:35,860 --> 01:38:37,640
And it will probably never end.

1364
01:38:38,570 --> 01:38:42,460
The baseball world may have hoped
the stigma of steroids would go away,

1365
01:38:43,340 --> 01:38:45,859
but the most dominant
player implicated in

1366
01:38:45,860 --> 01:38:48,801
that scandal was making
that an impossibility.

1367
01:39:20,750 --> 01:39:23,770
He's larger than life and
had to fall for that reason.

1368
01:39:24,050 --> 01:39:26,310
He was reaching, like Icarus,
he's reaching for something

1369
01:39:26,311 --> 01:39:28,451
he can't reach for and he
had to fall for that reason.

1370
01:39:28,610 --> 01:39:30,050
He was good enough without that.

1371
01:39:30,070 --> 01:39:31,070
Everybody says it.

1372
01:39:31,670 --> 01:39:34,122
I'm not even sure what he
wanted was public adulation,

1373
01:39:34,123 --> 01:39:36,950
although behind all that is
an insecurity that is really sad.

1374
01:39:37,490 --> 01:39:41,590
He comes into the world not trusting
anybody and then desperately wants to

1375
01:39:41,591 --> 01:39:44,390
change that and then gets
angry when he can't trust you.

1376
01:39:45,490 --> 01:39:49,590
The problem with me, like my dad
told me before he passed away, he said,

1377
01:39:49,670 --> 01:39:51,974
the biggest problem
with you, Barry, is every

1378
01:39:51,975 --> 01:39:54,551
great athlete that has
gone on for great records.

1379
01:39:54,930 --> 01:39:56,730
Everyone knows their story.

1380
01:39:57,410 --> 01:39:58,410
And I'm sorry.

1381
01:39:59,815 --> 01:40:03,750
I was raised to protect my family,
keep my mouth shut and stay quiet.

1382
01:40:04,390 --> 01:40:05,850
But it doesn't make
me a bad person.

1383
01:40:06,070 --> 01:40:08,370
It doesn't make
me an evil person.

1384
01:40:09,810 --> 01:40:13,470
I'm an adult and I take responsibilities
for what I do, but you know what,

1385
01:40:13,471 --> 01:40:16,010
I'm not going to allow
you guys to ruin my joy.

1386
01:40:28,930 --> 01:40:31,998
Barry Bonds began the
2007 season just 21 home

1387
01:40:31,999 --> 01:40:36,430
runs shy of Henry Aaron's
career mark of 7.55.

1388
01:40:38,030 --> 01:40:39,410
He was 42 years old.

1389
01:40:43,350 --> 01:40:48,390
As he approached the record, fans,
writers and Major League Baseball

1390
01:40:48,391 --> 01:40:50,954
struggled with how to
honor the man who was

1391
01:40:50,955 --> 01:40:54,331
about to become the
game's new home run king.

1392
01:40:55,670 --> 01:40:59,710
You know, it was sort of like, Bonds,
oh my goodness, we never liked you

1393
01:40:59,711 --> 01:41:01,450
and we never wanted
you to break the record.

1394
01:41:02,610 --> 01:41:06,270
And the steroids just added
insult to injury, I think, with all that.

1395
01:41:06,930 --> 01:41:09,697
Some suggested Bonds
should retire rather than

1396
01:41:09,698 --> 01:41:12,911
presume to play long enough
to break Aaron's record.

1397
01:41:14,190 --> 01:41:19,550
And as he approached Aaron's record,
every game was sold out, not just in San

1398
01:41:19,551 --> 01:41:23,278
Francisco, but Chicago,
in L.A., every city the Giants

1399
01:41:23,279 --> 01:41:25,531
went into couldn't get a
ticket for those games.

1400
01:41:25,995 --> 01:41:30,850
So those fans, I don't think, were hoping
he was going to retire before he got to

1401
01:41:30,851 --> 01:41:33,200
their city, because they'd
already bought the tickets to see

1402
01:41:33,201 --> 01:41:35,491
him play, and I think they
were hoping to see him hit one.

1403
01:41:36,400 --> 01:41:42,370
Henry Aaron, who in 1974 had received
racist hate mail and death threats as he

1404
01:41:42,371 --> 01:41:46,470
approached Babe Ruth's home run record,
grew tired of answering awkward questions

1405
01:41:46,471 --> 01:41:50,670
about Bonds and decided to be
elsewhere when his record was broken.

1406
01:41:52,570 --> 01:41:57,090
Bud Selig, a close friend of Aaron's, said
he wasn't sure he would be there either.

1407
01:41:57,790 --> 01:42:02,770
The whole thing was a joyless
march toward the inevitable.

1408
01:42:04,130 --> 01:42:05,130
Baseball powerless.

1409
01:42:06,095 --> 01:42:10,270
Selig with his hands in his pockets,
watching, obviously in some pain,

1410
01:42:10,845 --> 01:42:13,430
not just because of what had happened
to the game, but what had happened to his

1411
01:42:13,431 --> 01:42:17,130
lifelong friend, Henry
Aaron and Aaron's mark.

1412
01:42:17,690 --> 01:42:19,550
Bonds got threats in
hand and hate mail too.

1413
01:42:20,450 --> 01:42:25,310
Fans in opposing ballparks taunted him,
booed when he was announced as the hitter,

1414
01:42:25,890 --> 01:42:28,470
then booed louder when
their own pitchers walked him.

1415
01:42:30,295 --> 01:42:33,170
Boo me, cheer me, those who are
going to cheer me are going to cheer me,

1416
01:42:33,230 --> 01:42:35,066
those who are going to
boo me are going to boo me.

1417
01:42:35,090 --> 01:42:35,710
So what?

1418
01:42:35,860 --> 01:42:37,620
But they're still going
to come see the show.

1419
01:42:37,810 --> 01:42:38,810
And I'm happy.

1420
01:42:39,070 --> 01:42:42,390
Dodger Stadium is the best
show I ever go to in all my baseball.

1421
01:42:42,900 --> 01:42:46,510
They say Barry sucks
louder than anybody out there.

1422
01:42:46,970 --> 01:42:47,790
And you know what?

1423
01:42:47,791 --> 01:42:51,150
You'll see me in left field going
just like this because you know what?

1424
01:42:51,545 --> 01:42:55,830
You've got to have some serious talent
to have 53,000 people saying you suck.

1425
01:42:57,390 --> 01:42:58,530
I'm proud of that.

1426
01:42:59,910 --> 01:43:06,210
On August 4th, 2007, Bonds faced Clay
Hensley, who had once been suspended for

1427
01:43:06,211 --> 01:43:09,170
15 games after testing
positive for steroids.

1428
01:43:24,640 --> 01:43:28,536
On August 7th, a sellout
crowd crammed into ATandT

1429
01:43:28,537 --> 01:43:31,620
Park in San Francisco
to see the Giants play.

1430
01:43:31,640 --> 01:43:32,780
the Washington Nationals.

1431
01:43:33,280 --> 01:43:36,458
In the bottom of the
fifth, with one out and

1432
01:43:36,459 --> 01:43:39,981
nobody on, Bonds faced
left-hander Mike Bassik.

1433
01:43:40,560 --> 01:43:42,580
And Bassik deals.

1434
01:44:36,880 --> 01:44:44,201
It is a great accomplishment which requires
skill, longevity, and determination.

1435
01:44:45,260 --> 01:44:48,884
I move over now and offer
my best wishes to Barry

1436
01:44:48,885 --> 01:44:52,381
and his family on this
historical achievement.

1437
01:44:57,270 --> 01:44:59,370
When Hank Aaron's record
went down, I felt nothing.

1438
01:45:00,090 --> 01:45:02,610
I can't tell you where I was.

1439
01:45:04,070 --> 01:45:06,350
I didn't wake up my son to
let him watch the moment.

1440
01:45:06,870 --> 01:45:07,870
I didn't care.

1441
01:45:08,170 --> 01:45:10,652
And I think that a lot
of people felt the exact

1442
01:45:10,653 --> 01:45:12,870
same way I did because
of all that had been lost.

1443
01:45:13,010 --> 01:45:14,630
This was not
supposed to be this way.

1444
01:45:15,985 --> 01:45:20,690
If you care about the sport, no matter how
you felt about the man, when you achieve

1445
01:45:21,170 --> 01:45:24,210
the all-time home run record, this is
supposed to be a moment of celebration.

1446
01:45:24,560 --> 01:45:28,150
This is supposed to be a moment where
everybody drops their swords and they

1447
01:45:28,151 --> 01:45:29,950
recognize the history
that they've witnessed.

1448
01:45:30,490 --> 01:45:31,610
And none of that happened.

1449
01:45:31,910 --> 01:45:37,111
And to me, that told you more than anything
else about what's been lost in the sport.

1450
01:45:37,690 --> 01:45:40,290
Some people have suggested
that this record is tainted.

1451
01:45:40,330 --> 01:45:41,686
The word that you've
heard, that word, tainted.

1452
01:45:41,710 --> 01:45:43,750
Do you feel at all it's tainted?

1453
01:45:43,850 --> 01:45:46,530
And what would you say to someone...
This record is not tainted at all.

1454
01:45:47,130 --> 01:45:48,130
At all.

1455
01:45:48,610 --> 01:45:49,610
Period.

1456
01:45:50,590 --> 01:45:53,710
I'm not a big believer in putting
an asterisk next to records.

1457
01:45:55,290 --> 01:45:57,522
You start pulling on
this one thread, say it's

1458
01:45:57,523 --> 01:46:00,011
Barry Bonds, and it
leads to another thread.

1459
01:46:00,090 --> 01:46:03,590
The pitchers he hit against, the players
who were in the field, players who were

1460
01:46:03,591 --> 01:46:05,850
competing against him,
who was clean, who was dirty.

1461
01:46:06,010 --> 01:46:08,930
You're not going to be ever
able to answer those questions.

1462
01:46:09,650 --> 01:46:12,510
But I think in some ways,
the asterisk is already there.

1463
01:46:13,600 --> 01:46:14,670
There are no asterisks.

1464
01:46:15,370 --> 01:46:18,032
There's no asterisk next to
the name of the Cincinnati

1465
01:46:18,033 --> 01:46:20,331
Reds who won the 1919
World Series that was thrown.

1466
01:46:20,390 --> 01:46:21,846
It doesn't say they
didn't deserve to win.

1467
01:46:21,870 --> 01:46:23,710
You know, asterisk,
they should have lost.

1468
01:46:24,350 --> 01:46:26,830
The asterisk is whatever
exists in the mind of the fan.

1469
01:46:28,000 --> 01:46:29,670
No asterisk, Henry Aaron said.

1470
01:46:30,465 --> 01:46:32,710
Let's just congratulate
Barry and give him his due.

1471
01:46:33,710 --> 01:46:35,690
Many baseball fans disagreed.

1472
01:46:36,810 --> 01:46:39,820
Although other players had
used performance-enhancing

1473
01:46:39,821 --> 01:46:43,090
drugs, Bonds had become
the symbol of the steroids era.

1474
01:46:45,990 --> 01:46:51,050
Barry Bonds finished 2007
with 762 career home runs.

1475
01:46:51,051 --> 01:46:54,823
Although he remained one of
the toughest outs in the game,

1476
01:46:54,824 --> 01:46:58,770
San Francisco decided not
to offer him a contract for 2008.

1477
01:47:00,285 --> 01:47:01,405
Other teams stayed away too.

1478
01:47:02,275 --> 01:47:03,530
He never played again.

1479
01:47:08,020 --> 01:47:13,240
For more than a decade, there has
been widespread illegal use of anabolic

1480
01:47:13,241 --> 01:47:16,580
steroids by players in
Major League Baseball.

1481
01:47:16,990 --> 01:47:20,298
This has not been
an isolated problem

1482
01:47:20,310 --> 01:47:24,241
involving just a few
players or a few clubs.

1483
01:47:25,600 --> 01:47:31,860
In December 2007, a commission set up
by Major League Baseball and led by former

1484
01:47:31,861 --> 01:47:36,440
senator George Mitchell to investigate
the steroid scandal released its report.

1485
01:47:37,660 --> 01:47:39,520
It was a damning indictment.

1486
01:47:40,610 --> 01:47:44,820
Players on every team illegally took
drugs to enhance their performances.

1487
01:47:45,220 --> 01:47:50,540
And club owners, general managers,
and managers routinely considered players'

1488
01:47:50,660 --> 01:47:53,236
possible steroid use when
discussing their injuries,

1489
01:47:53,237 --> 01:47:56,360
injuries, or strategizing
about trades and contracts.

1490
01:47:57,940 --> 01:48:03,360
I thought the Mitchell report was
good insofar as it provided an official

1491
01:48:03,361 --> 01:48:09,020
declaration that there was a steroid era,
that it was long-lasting and pervasive,

1492
01:48:09,530 --> 01:48:12,228
that it wasn't isolated,
and that it affected

1493
01:48:12,229 --> 01:48:14,861
contemporary competition
and distorted the game's history.

1494
01:48:15,050 --> 01:48:16,050
So far, so good.

1495
01:48:16,200 --> 01:48:20,460
But beyond that, there's a randomness
to it, which is not to say that any of the

1496
01:48:20,461 --> 01:48:24,880
individual accusations are inaccurate,
but it's so selective and random.

1497
01:48:25,650 --> 01:48:29,660
Off the top of my head, I could name a
hundred guys who likely could have wound

1498
01:48:29,661 --> 01:48:32,020
up in the Mitchell report
and just by luck escaped.

1499
01:48:33,360 --> 01:48:38,100
Although 89 players were named, the
most sensational section of the report

1500
01:48:38,101 --> 01:48:43,400
was devoted to allegations of extensive
doping by the most successful pitcher of

1501
01:48:43,401 --> 01:48:47,751
the previous 15 years,
Roger Clemens, winner

1502
01:48:47,763 --> 01:48:51,641
of 354 games and
seven Cy Young awards.

1503
01:48:53,120 --> 01:48:56,677
So now with Roger Clemens,
they got a white player

1504
01:48:56,678 --> 01:48:59,900
with comparable accomplishments
in the game to Barnes.

1505
01:49:00,740 --> 01:49:02,880
It gives baseball an out.

1506
01:49:03,450 --> 01:49:06,100
First you have a position player
and now you have a pitcher.

1507
01:49:06,630 --> 01:49:08,240
You have a black
and you have a white.

1508
01:49:08,480 --> 01:49:11,720
And both of them are big stars who
normally would make the Hall of Fame and

1509
01:49:11,721 --> 01:49:14,681
now it's kind of clouded and you
don't know whether they'll make it or not.

1510
01:49:15,360 --> 01:49:19,000
In the coming months and years,
other players, including some of the

1511
01:49:19,001 --> 01:49:21,680
greatest stars in the game,
would also be exposed.

1512
01:49:22,855 --> 01:49:29,900
Alex Rodriguez, Sammy Sosa,
Rafael Palmeiro, and Manny Ramirez.

1513
01:49:31,685 --> 01:49:36,900
Mark McGuire, saying it was now time
to talk about the past, admitted what many

1514
01:49:36,901 --> 01:49:40,800
had long suspected, that he had
used steroids for most of his career,

1515
01:49:41,460 --> 01:49:44,508
including 1998, the year
he was so celebrated

1516
01:49:44,509 --> 01:49:47,501
for breaking the single
season home run record.

1517
01:49:48,540 --> 01:49:52,300
Roger Clemens vehemently
denied doing anything wrong.

1518
01:49:53,890 --> 01:49:59,340
Barry Barnes, under indictment for perjury
in the Balco investigation, said nothing.

1519
01:50:02,760 --> 01:50:03,940
Yeah, it's a bad thing.

1520
01:50:04,650 --> 01:50:07,850
Baseball had a black eye, but I'm not sure
that everybody should have been named.

1521
01:50:08,150 --> 01:50:10,420
It's a sad time, but it's
something we have to deal with.

1522
01:50:10,480 --> 01:50:11,520
We have to get through it.

1523
01:50:12,010 --> 01:50:15,560
And, you know, hopefully the sun's shining
on the other side of this thing because

1524
01:50:15,561 --> 01:50:21,020
this game is too beautiful to,
you know, have a lasting scar on it.

1525
01:50:22,160 --> 01:50:25,140
We're going to have When you look at the
Mitchell Report and you look at the minor

1526
01:50:25,141 --> 01:50:29,560
league program and you look at the major
league program and you look at the people

1527
01:50:29,561 --> 01:50:32,060
who've been suspended, it
doesn't matter who they are.

1528
01:50:32,490 --> 01:50:33,920
We're going to
clean this sport up.

1529
01:50:34,180 --> 01:50:35,180
I'm the commissioner.

1530
01:50:35,220 --> 01:50:39,020
I'll take full responsibility to every
thing that's gone on in my tenure.

1531
01:50:39,290 --> 01:50:41,160
I'll take credit for
all the great things,

1532
01:50:46,560 --> 01:50:49,500
The moralist wants to
decide what's right and wrong.

1533
01:50:50,310 --> 01:50:55,460
The artist wants to see things exactly as
they are, even if there are so many shades

1534
01:50:55,461 --> 01:50:57,640
that right and wrong isn't
a place that you get to.

1535
01:50:58,800 --> 01:51:03,300
John Keats wrote in a letter, and he
was talking about William Shakespeare,

1536
01:51:03,675 --> 01:51:07,240
he said that the feature that
distinguished Shakespeare the most and

1537
01:51:07,241 --> 01:51:11,140
made him the greatest of all writers
was what Keats called negative capability.

1538
01:51:11,141 --> 01:51:14,881
Which he described
as the ability to remain

1539
01:51:14,882 --> 01:51:18,580
in tension, undecided
between opposing poles.

1540
01:51:19,320 --> 01:51:23,200
And he said that Shakespeare had that
negative capability, the ability to see

1541
01:51:23,201 --> 01:51:25,164
everything and not
jump to one side of the

1542
01:51:25,165 --> 01:51:28,141
question to a greater
degree than any other artist.

1543
01:51:29,400 --> 01:51:33,100
Now, we live in a sports age and a
baseball age where nothing's more valuable

1544
01:51:33,101 --> 01:51:37,760
than negative capability, because if we're
just in a rush, if we can't wait to see

1545
01:51:37,761 --> 01:51:41,860
Roger Clemens or Barry Bones or whoever
it is that's right or wrong, then we're

1546
01:51:41,861 --> 01:51:43,941
missing the complexity
of these people and the

1547
01:51:43,942 --> 01:51:46,801
difficulty of the age
that they're living in.

1548
01:51:51,980 --> 01:51:53,860
Back into the ground,
ball off the middle.

1549
01:51:54,240 --> 01:51:56,260
Sliding stop, Jack
Wilson flips it to Castillo.

1550
01:51:56,380 --> 01:51:57,120
To the first base!

1551
01:51:57,340 --> 01:51:58,380
How did they do it?

1552
01:51:59,520 --> 01:52:00,520
Slicing foul.

1553
01:52:01,140 --> 01:52:02,140
Burns dies.

1554
01:52:02,960 --> 01:52:03,960
Great catch!

1555
01:52:04,240 --> 01:52:06,300
A great catch by Eric Burns!

1556
01:52:06,560 --> 01:52:09,960
Jason Baratek, a swing
and a fly ball into center field.

1557
01:52:10,100 --> 01:52:12,700
And DiPietro going back to
the one he trekked to the wall.

1558
01:52:12,780 --> 01:52:14,120
Reaches up and
he makes the catch!

1559
01:52:14,140 --> 01:52:15,680
Holy smokes!

1560
01:52:15,840 --> 01:52:18,980
What an amazing
running catch by Hixiro!

1561
01:52:20,360 --> 01:52:25,000
At the end of the day, I think most people
have found a way to make their peace with

1562
01:52:25,001 --> 01:52:27,561
the sport they love because they
don't want to say goodbye to it.

1563
01:52:28,700 --> 01:52:33,197
The fan has decided that the
game is more important than the

1564
01:52:33,198 --> 01:52:35,856
players, that the game is
more important than the owners.

1565
01:52:35,880 --> 01:52:37,780
The game is more
important than steroids.

1566
01:52:38,020 --> 01:52:38,940
It's more important than money.

1567
01:52:39,040 --> 01:52:40,136
It's more important
than all of it.

1568
01:52:40,160 --> 01:52:41,960
Here's the 1-2
pitch to Palmeiro.

1569
01:52:42,100 --> 01:52:43,660
A ground ball past Jenks.

1570
01:52:43,661 --> 01:52:44,600
The White Sox up the
middle of the infield.

1571
01:52:44,680 --> 01:52:45,380
Uribe has it.

1572
01:52:45,440 --> 01:52:45,920
He throws.

1573
01:52:46,300 --> 01:52:46,820
Out!

1574
01:52:47,000 --> 01:52:47,440
Out!

1575
01:52:47,720 --> 01:52:50,140
A White Sox winner and
a World Championship!

1576
01:52:50,640 --> 01:52:52,880
The White Sox have
won the World Series!

1577
01:52:53,800 --> 01:52:55,100
Swing and a miss!

1578
01:52:55,180 --> 01:53:02,250
The 2006, the 10th World
Championship in their illustrious history.

1579
01:53:03,930 --> 01:53:04,930
Game over.

1580
01:53:05,030 --> 01:53:06,030
Series over.

1581
01:53:06,150 --> 01:53:08,250
And the White Sox
are world champs again.

1582
01:53:10,330 --> 01:53:11,850
The 0-2 pitch.

1583
01:53:12,010 --> 01:53:12,850
Swing and a miss!

1584
01:53:13,030 --> 01:53:14,350
Stuck him out!

1585
01:53:14,351 --> 01:53:21,190
The Philadelphia Phillies are
2008 World Champions of Baseball!

1586
01:53:23,130 --> 01:53:27,730
In 2009, in the midst of the worst
economic crisis since the Great

1587
01:53:27,731 --> 01:53:32,270
Depression, baseball gloried in one of
the most exciting World Series in years,

1588
01:53:32,590 --> 01:53:38,190
reminding the country and the world
of the joyousness, the unpredictability,

1589
01:53:38,370 --> 01:53:40,610
and the surpassing
beauty of the game.

1590
01:53:42,970 --> 01:53:48,290
The Yankees, having bolstered their old
guard of homegrown talent, with a new crop

1591
01:53:48,291 --> 01:53:50,687
of lavishly paid free
agents, faced the

1592
01:53:50,688 --> 01:53:54,151
Philadelphia Phillies,
the defending champions.

1593
01:53:54,890 --> 01:54:00,590
The MVP of the series was Hideki
Matsui, a former outfielder for the Yomiuri

1594
01:54:00,591 --> 01:54:04,130
Giants, who led New York
to their 27th championship.

1595
01:54:12,760 --> 01:54:14,800
It just seems to be eternal.

1596
01:54:17,870 --> 01:54:19,910
Now they say that forest
fires are good for forests.

1597
01:54:20,220 --> 01:54:23,280
Every year you think, there's
possibility in the ground.

1598
01:54:24,120 --> 01:54:25,220
There's new trees there.

1599
01:54:25,320 --> 01:54:26,760
We can be a forest one day.

1600
01:54:31,400 --> 01:54:33,480
I don't know why
that is in that sport.

1601
01:54:33,660 --> 01:54:34,900
Maybe it's the number of games.

1602
01:54:35,020 --> 01:54:36,580
Maybe it's the right
number of players.

1603
01:54:36,920 --> 01:54:38,900
More than in basketball,
less than in football.

1604
01:54:39,300 --> 01:54:40,880
What a catch by Torrey Hunter!

1605
01:54:41,160 --> 01:54:44,860
There's nothing quite like it, and it
still takes my breath away after 50 years.

1606
01:54:44,940 --> 01:54:46,220
I can't not feel that way.

1607
01:54:47,540 --> 01:54:53,280
I've looked for the next generation
of ballplayers to be less serious,

1608
01:54:54,320 --> 01:54:59,380
to be less craftsmanlike, to be
less committed, to be less reckless.

1609
01:55:00,040 --> 01:55:01,360
A virtue sometimes.

1610
01:55:02,060 --> 01:55:03,200
But they haven't.

1611
01:55:05,560 --> 01:55:12,100
It's wonderful how the game revitalizes
itself, reshapes itself, shows a different

1612
01:55:12,101 --> 01:55:15,320
facet of itself, and yet
essentially doesn't change.

1613
01:55:17,280 --> 01:55:19,580
What a wonderful
touchstone to return to.

1614
01:55:20,425 --> 01:55:22,480
Always the same,
always changing.

1615
01:55:26,400 --> 01:55:30,220
When my children have children, we have
our first grandchild now, a little girl.

1616
01:55:30,340 --> 01:55:32,000
I'm going to teach
her how to keep score.

1617
01:55:33,100 --> 01:55:37,180
And hopefully someday my children
and their children will remember going to

1618
01:55:37,181 --> 01:55:39,900
games with me just as I remembered
going to games with my father.

1619
01:55:40,720 --> 01:55:45,040
They'll tell stories about me and funny
stories the way I do about my father.

1620
01:55:45,140 --> 01:55:47,860
Which means that those lives
don't really come to an end.

1621
01:55:47,861 --> 01:55:50,600
That you really can live
on in the memory of others.

1622
01:55:51,480 --> 01:55:54,960
And to the extent that baseball is a
continuing thread through many of our

1623
01:55:54,961 --> 01:55:59,180
lives, then the stories that will be
told will keep the memory of us alive.

1624
01:56:07,720 --> 01:56:09,440
I do love this game.

1625
01:56:11,880 --> 01:56:13,560
I love being there.

1626
01:56:17,360 --> 01:56:22,820
Other than my home, other than being
with my family, it is, I can honestly say,

1627
01:56:22,821 --> 01:56:30,420
the one place I truly feel at home, at
peace, comfortable, is at Fenway Park,

1628
01:56:30,910 --> 01:56:32,000
watching the Red Sox play.

1629
01:56:33,050 --> 01:56:34,050
I always have.

1630
01:56:34,490 --> 01:56:39,060
Through losing years, winning
years, I just feel it's a piece of my home.

1631
01:56:41,360 --> 01:56:43,450
Well, let me ask you, do
you think the Red Sox have

1632
01:56:43,451 --> 01:56:45,060
any appetite to trade
some of these young arms?

1633
01:56:45,140 --> 01:56:47,380
They've got three who are
just off the charts and barred...

1634
01:56:47,381 --> 01:56:49,316
I mean, the Yankees obviously
are a very talented team.

1635
01:56:49,340 --> 01:56:51,760
They have some issues,
but I do think they'll be in it.

1636
01:56:51,761 --> 01:56:52,980
You know, the Blue Jays...

1637
01:56:52,981 --> 01:56:56,160
Because they've got Josh Beckett,
they've got John Lester, and who else?

1638
01:56:56,520 --> 01:56:57,876
The rest are signs
of interrogation.

1639
01:56:57,900 --> 01:56:58,520
And everyone talks about it.

1640
01:56:58,780 --> 01:57:00,780
When Wakefield comes back,
when Daisuke comes back.

1641
01:57:00,890 --> 01:57:02,320
Yes, but the calendar is...