:22:00
Say, hey,
he's no Willie Mays.
:22:01
But he's tring, man.
:22:03
What it did teach me was,
don't be afraid to try.
:22:07
The worst thing that can happen...
:22:09
is it doesn't...
it doesn't pan out
the way that you envision it.
:22:13
But at least you know
that by giving it a shot.
:22:17
People were basically saying...
:22:19
that I didn't have no reason
being in the sport,
:22:22
and I was degrading the sport.
:22:25
When those negative things
started to happen,
:22:27
the only thing,
I wish my father was there...
:22:29
to give me the positive
reinforcements that I needed.
:22:32
I asked him what it was like
for him in the morning.
:22:35
And Jordan said,"I get up
before the sun comes up,
:22:37
and I make myself
some breakfast by myself"...
:22:39
he was down there alone...
:22:41
"and I get in the car.
:22:43
"And I'm driving
to spring training,
:22:45
"and there's no one, really,
out on the roads yet.
:22:48
"And I look at the seat
next to me and I see my Dad,
:22:54
"and I talk to him.
:22:55
"I think to myself,
Pops, we're doing this.
:22:58
We're doing this together."
:23:01
And the day would end,
:23:02
and he would say
to the batting instructor,
:23:05
"Can we do a little more?
:23:06
"I think I'm getting this.
:23:07
I think I'm learning this,
I think I'm getting this."
:23:09
And that's when
Spors Illustrated
put him on the cover...
:23:12
saying that Michael Jordan
has embarrassed baseball.
:23:16
And as I would watch him
there ever night...
:23:18
as the sun was going down and
the other ball players had left,
:23:20
and I would see this guy
working to get better...
:23:23
Michael Jordan working
to get better...
:23:25
I couldn't help thinking that
if you ever have children,
:23:27
you ought to pray
that they grow up someday...
:23:30
to embarrass
you like this.
:23:31
Michael Jordan...
:23:33
hits a fly ball.
:23:51
I think that experience itself
kind of gave him a blessing...
:23:55
of coming back to basketball...
:23:57
and understanding the gift that
he'd been given for this game...