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Jim Thorpe was then like,
I think I am gonna work harder.
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[imitates air whooshing]
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And I'm gonna be
your mother[bleep].
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After Babe won the Olympics,
Amelia Earhart's like,
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Hey, you want to get
in my plane and disappear,
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and she's like,
no, but I'll take a picture with you.
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Everybody in the place is like, boo!
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We are Cuban.
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What Jim Abbott said was,
oh, that's nice that you're Cuban.
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I don't give a [bleep].
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[patriotic music]
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2x09 - Sports Heroes
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For me, the perfect sports hero...
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it's not just their game.
It's them.
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They're a person.
Break the expectation.
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That's what makes a sports hero, who
says, [bleep] that. I'm doing it anyway.
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If your team isn't winning,
you're miserable.
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You know you feel
a connection to your home team.
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Well, in Baltimore,
we got an old saying.
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- What's that?
- [bleep] the Yankees.
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- [bleep] hate the Yankees.
- Come on, man. Come on.
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Hey, guy, come on.
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Let's go there, man.
We're getting loose.
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Let's do this. [bleep]
Let's capture magic.
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We're with you.
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Hello, today we're gonna talk
about Jim Thorpe.
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Jim Thorpe
was a native-American.
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He entered
Carlisle High School in 1907.
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He was the best at football.
The best.
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His coach, Pop Warner, was saying,
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You know, you could be an olympian,
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And so he starts realizing that,
and he's like,
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I think I am gonna work harder
than you've ever seen anyone work,
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and I'm gonna be your mother[bleep].
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So he starts training for this
new event, The decathlon. Uh...
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So how did he prepare?
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- How did who prepare?
- Jim Thorpe.
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For the Olympics?
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He would wake up in the
morning and run 20 miles,
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take a nap, eat a mild lunch,
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and then run every [bleep] event
in the decathlon.
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That is crazy.
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[chuckles]
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That is...
[chuckles]
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[chuckling]
that is cr-azy.
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1912, Sweden, you
know, Stockholm, Sweden.
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This is the Olympics.
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This is... this is the best of the world.
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This Avery Brundage guy,
is... was the favorite.
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He was a white guy, and he's like,
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I'm gonna be the man, the dude.
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And Jim Thorpe walked in out of nowhere.
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People were like, what the [bleep]?
Like, how is he there?
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He's there, and after the first day,
Jim Thorpe has the point lead,
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and Avery is like, what the [bleep]?
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Who is this guy from? Who is he?
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All of a sudden, this
Indian is in the lead.
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Avery Brundage is the favorite.
I mean, it's been in the papers.
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It's been in... in... in everything.
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Well, the next day, we wake
up, and Jim Thorpe walked in,
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and his shoes were gone.
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And he's like, where are my shoes?
Somebody took my shoes, man.
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And nobody answers. Nobody answers.
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Nobody takes responsibility
for the actions,
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but his shoes are gone, man.
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Everyone pointed the
finger at Avery Brundage,
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but Jim says, well,
guess what, you know?
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If I can't find my original clothes,
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I'm gonna be resourceful.
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I'm gonna not give up,
'cause I've trained so hard,
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and I'm gonna compete, and guess what.
I'm gonna whup ass.
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So he finds two random shoes
from the trash and competes.
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Day two is 110 meters hurdles.
So we're jumping.
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Discus throw... foom.
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Pole vault.
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Javelin throw... voom.
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And then 1,500 meters.
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Despite having shoes that
he found in the garbage,
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Jim Thorpe won the gold medal
for the decathlon and pentathlon.
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What he did was unbelievable.
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It... he was like,
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I've done everything that I could do.
I've done ever-y-thing.
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I'm talkin' about ever-y-thing.
I'm talking about...
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[clapping]
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Ever-y-thing.
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I've done everything.
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The King of Sweden, he came up to him
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and he shook his hand, and he said,
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Jim, you are the best
athlete in the world.
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And Jim said...
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thanks.
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That's what his response
was, just "thanks."
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He didn't know what else to say,
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'cause he'd trained so hard.
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He was a international hero,
and in New York,
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he had a parade on Broadway Street.
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Years later, he played
professional basketball,
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professional baseball,
professional football.
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Jim Thorpe, college
football hall of fame,
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pro football hall of fame,
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track hall of fame,
Olympic hall of fame.
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And then in 1999,
congress gets involved,
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and they say,
guess what. Giddy up.
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Who's the greatest athlete
of the 20th century?
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Period.
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Jim Thorpe competed in
17 events in the Olympics.
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That has never been matched
and will never, ever be matched again.
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I can do all those if
y'all want to see them.
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I think that's a good idea.
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- How drunk do you feel?
- Out of one to ten? Six.
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How comfortable do
you feel doing a hurdle?
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Six.
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I'm gonna say one,
a-two, a-one, two, three.
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And then do I go on
three or right after?
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No, I'm gonna go one, two, a-one, two.
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We're gonna go on three.
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- And we'll go on three.
- Ready?
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A-one, two, a-one, two, three.
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[rousing music]
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[clattering, laughter]
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- I think I'm bleeding.
- No, you're not.
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So, yeah, I want to get suited up.
How do you get suited up?
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'Cause I put these shoulder pads on.
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- Safety is everything,
- Okay.
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because you got big linebackers
like myself coming to kill you.
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- Get it, get it, get it.
- Find the hole. Find the hole.
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- Does this look normal?
- Um, we can work with it.
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Not to brag, Terrell,
this is a youth extra large.
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Okay.
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Run deep. We're gonna
throw you some ball.
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Hey! Kid's a natural.
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Nobody really does
touchdown dances anymore.
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No, don't do that. That's a penalty.
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You can't take your helmet off.
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There we go.
Go get it.
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Oh, my god. Y'all getting this?
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Pretty good. That's pretty legal.
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- That's good right there.
- Suck it!
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Suck that [bleep].
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- That's a flag.
- I can't yell...
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- And time.
- Play like a raven.
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- Play like a raven.
- Yeah.
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[shouting in slo-mo]
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I could see a movie where, like,
babies die, and I don't cry,
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But if I watch, like, Hoosiers,
then I start bawling, you know?
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- Mm-hmm.
- Yeah.
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Hey, what's up?
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Today we're gonna talk about
Babe Didrikson Zaharias.
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Okay, this is a woman.
Her name is Babe Didrikson.
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So Babe, when she was like 12,
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a kid, like, called her
a tomboy or something,
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and she, like, punched him in the face.
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And the teacher was like, [bleep] it.
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Like, I'm gonna let you
play with the other boys
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if you're gonna, like,
start punching people.
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So she started playing everything,
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playing basketball, playing baseball.
She was diving.
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She knew that she was, like, gifted,
and so she actually said,
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I'm gonna be the greatest
athlete of all time.
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Like, she's actually stated that,
like, so there's that.
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[laughing] So her dad is, like,
into her being into sports.
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He was like, I will build you, like,
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this weight lifting machine
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so you can, like, get,
like, big like a man.
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And so when she was old enough,
she starts, like, lifting weights,
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practicing track and field, and she's
like, I'm gonna be an Olympic athlete.
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- So Babe gets into the Olympics.
- Yeah, that's pretty cool.
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She gets into the Olympics.
She kicks ass.
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Gets a world record in
javelin, wins in hurdles.
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She wins two golds and one silver.
Becomes, like, world-famous.
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Babe Ruth's like, hang out with me,
and she's like, okay.
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Amelia Earhart's like, hey, you want
to get in my plane and disappear?
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And she's like, no,
but I'll take a picture with you.
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Babe has this, like, fame,
and she's achieved this status,
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but for women, like, there's not
much to do in professional sports,
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so Babe is a little bummed.
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She's like, why don't I get into,
um, uh, some like Vaudeville [bleep]?
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[jaunty music]
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And like, the Amazing Amazon...
'cause that's what they called her...
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like, wonder girl, the terrific tomboy.
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They would have her,
like, ride up on a donkey
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on the stage and, like, shoot
baskets, and, like, flex.
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I don't really know what the show was,
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but I guess back then, that
was, like, a very exciting thing.
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But she was like,
I ... I don't want to do this anymore.
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I really just want to be outside
and in the sports arena.
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I said this [bleep] about
being this great athlete.
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Like I... what am I gonna do?
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Hmm, what can I do?
Bingo, golf,
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she says to herself.
[both laughing]
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Nobody was listening.
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- Who was she talking to?
- [laughs] She...
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She was talking to herself.
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So she, like, picks up a golf club
and starts hitting balls.
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And she's like, okay, I'm... I like this.
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She starts practicing ten hours a day.
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Then Babe is like, there
aren't any tournaments
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for professional women.
What the [bleep] do I do?
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And then her dad is like,
this is... you're depressing me,
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and, like, I... this is bull[bleep].
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So then she has a great idea.
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I'm gonna... I'm gonna, uh, uh...
get in a men's tournament.
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Her dad is like, that's a great idea.
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So she enters a dude's tournament.
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It's controversial.
Reporters really, like, bagged on her.
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Like, it would be much better
if her ilk stayed at home,
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prettied themselves up,
and waited for the phone to ring.
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But Babe doesn't give a [bleep].
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She hit this, like, 250-yard drive.
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People are asking her like, Babe,
like, how do you hit 250 yards?
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And she's like, I just loosened
my girdle and let her rip.
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At this point, Babe is married,
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but she meets this woman Betty Dodd.
Betty was like, you're my idol.
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[whispers] I think you're
the greatest athlete.
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And Babe is like, I said that once.
[clicks tongue] You're my lady.
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And so Betty becomes,
like, her lesbian lover,
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and Betty was like,
you're an awesome golfer.
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Like, you should definitely be playing.
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Just shut the [bleep] up.
Like, listen to me, Babe.
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Babe's like, I didn't say anything,
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But why can't there be a
professional league for women?
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And she's like, [whispers]
that's the best idea I've ever heard.
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So she decides to do it.
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She, like, goes and
talks to all her ladies.
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She's like, the LPGA.
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L stands for ladies. It's pretty genius.
Who's with me?
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And 13 ladies do it.
And they start a professional league.
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She starts winning like crazy.
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She wins 14 tournaments in a row,
which is, like, unheard of.
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She just wins, wins, wins.
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She's like, I'm Babe. I'm gonna...
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who's finishing second or whatever?
I'm Babe. Suck my [bleep].
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Things are going great.
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Women are into her, not sexually,
but yes, but not.
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She's at the top of her game,
and she finds out
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that she has cancer,
which is [bleep] awful.
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So she... Is like, I'm
at the top of my game.
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Like, [bleep] it. Whatever.
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You have to have some, like,
serious game to do that.
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She missed competition, right?
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Yeah, but Babe was gonna come back.
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So she has the surgery.
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A year later, she comes
back pretty strong,
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and she goes back out
on the golf course.
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Betty is by her side.
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She totally, like, blows everyone away,
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And she wins the U.S. Open.
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- Go in...
- Oh!
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Yeah!
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- Shot, shot.
- Oh!
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Yay!
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The whole press says that she
was the best, like, athlete to...
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Like the female athlete to
ever, like, walk this Earth.
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- And that's what she wanted.
- That's what she wanted.
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- The greatest in the universe.
- That includes space.
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That was awesome.
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- Great job.
- All right.
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Well, see you later.
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Welcome back to Drunk History,
sports heroes.
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Oh, come on.
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Oh, I drank wine?
I drank all this apparently.
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Hello, today we're going to talk
about the baseball pitcher Jim Abbott.
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- Cheers, Matt Jones.
- Cheers.
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[bleep].
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So Jim Abbott was born in 1967,
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But he didn't have a right hand.
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And so when he was, like, five or six,
Jim was like, I want to play sports.
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Jim's dad, Mike, is like,
you should maybe think about soccer.
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Soccer is a European sport with feet.
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You don't have to use your hands.
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Actually the only rule in
soccer is don't use your hands.
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And Jim's like,
no, I'm not a [bleep] European.
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I'm an American.
I want to play baseball.
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His parents loved him.
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They were like, even though
you can't do any... everything,
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dream anything.
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There... he had to develop his
own method to play baseball.
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He used to practice against
the wall in his backyard,
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and then he would go
closer and closer and closer
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as he got older until he
was right up against the wall
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And catching it like that.
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In his first little league game ever,
he pitched a no-hitter.
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He pitched a nine inning
game, and no one gets a hit.
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So then after he had the
no-hitter, years later,
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word got out to the high school coaches,
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and they were like, he
can throw a ball, sure,
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but what if someone hits a ball to him?
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And as soon as he said
that, Jim was like,
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you want to see this [bleep]?
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Pitch!
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Someone hit a hard grounder
straight at Jim Abbott.
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Catch!
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Hand out of glove,
throw, out at first base,
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all within, like, a half a second.
So fast.
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And the high school coach was like,
oh, never mind.
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You just answered my question.
Put him on my team.
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I'm an asshole.
Oh, Jesus Christ. Wine is the devil!
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[both laugh]
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Okay, where are we at?
Oh, I got it. I got it.
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I got it.
Throughout his high school career,
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he pitched four no-hitters,
including a perfect game.
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So he gets his education,
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plays for the University of Michigan,
the Wolverines.
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When he got there,
there was so much press there.
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After the two bad
games, people were like,
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ah, he sucks. This is a publicity stunt.
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This guy is not a real pitcher.
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They're just trying to be
nice to a kid with a handicap.
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And all of the press left.
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[stammering]
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Hank, come on.
Come in here and lay down.
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Once they left, he
started pitching amazing.
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Lay down.
Lay down, fat [bleep] banana.
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He was not only a good pitcher,
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but he was a good batter
who would hit home runs.
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They win over and over.
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He's like, I throw this
[bleep] 90 miles an hour.
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In the '80s, the year 1980s,
not in the 80s of speedball.
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- Oh, Jesus, I got to start that again.
- No, you're fine.
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So I'm gonna throw the
ball in the 80s miles per hour
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- in the 1990s, which is very impressive.
- You switched 'em up.
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- So I'm Jim Abbott.
- Right.
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I'm throwing the ball
in the 90s in the 1980s.
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Very impressive. Come on.
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- Jim Abbott and Costello.
- Yeah, Jim Abbott.
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He was playing baseball
like he said he would, and...
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[laughing]
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They were, like, putting
together the national team,
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and they were like, I
don't know if he can do it,
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but it's good P.R. Let's do it.
They put him on the national team.
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Okay, Matty, I brought a
glove, and I would love for
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you and I to just, like, try
to do the Jim Abbott out there.
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- Okay.
- Is that cool with you?
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Yeah, great.
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- Okay, ready? So I caught it.
- Yeah.
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Pull it off, run.
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Let's try to get three
in a row, no dropees.
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- Got it.
- One, two.
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One, two, three.
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- Oh, Jesus.
- I love that.
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Um...
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But, yeah, so do you
remember what you were saying?
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[laughing] No, I don't.
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So he gets put on the national team,
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and the national team take him down
to the Pan American Games,
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and the biggest superpower in
the Pan American Games is Cuba,
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Fidel Castro's Cuba,
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Because Fidel loves Communism
and he loves baseball.
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Those are a couple things he loves.
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There is a huge separation between
the American and Cuban regime.
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Jim Abbott walks out
and starts for America,
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and everybody in the place is like, boo!
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We are Cuban, the greatest
baseball players in the world.
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How can you possibly
think you can beat us?
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Americans with two hands can't beat us.
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[inspirational music]
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He was like, oh, that's
nice that you're Cuban.
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I don't give a [bleep].
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His performance in the
Pan American Cuba Games
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was so remarkable that by the
end of the game, 50,000 Cubans...
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they gave him a standing
ovation when he left the field.
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There were no Americans in
the stand, because they were
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not allowed in Cuba.
And, like, Fidel Castro came down,
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shook his hand and was like, nice.
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That was a big deal,
telling an American player "nice."
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And he went on to play for, like,
ten years in the Major Leagues.
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Every step of the way,
high school, college, the majors,
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people said, can you do it?
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He was such a positive person.
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He would say stuff like,
everyone has disabilities.
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Mine are just more visible.
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It makes everybody feel
that they're in his camp.
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It's incredible.
I respect that [bleep].
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Look at your limitations and say,
[bleep] you, limitations.
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I'm gonna do whatever I want.
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- And that's the American dream.
- [whispers] Wow.
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Um, what else do you want
to talk about? [chuckles]
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