: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...
:24:00
that was so special.
:24:02
By the hand of the Almighty
:24:05
We fowered
in this generation
:24:10
Triumphantly
:24:14
Won't you help to sing
:24:19
These songs of freedom
:24:22
'Cause all I ever had...
:24:24
When Michael came back,
:24:25
and Jud and I were driving
down to the game,
:24:29
and I said,"Jud, you know,
does Phil start Michael?
:24:32
I mean, he hasn't been here for,
you know, 60 games, 65 games."
:24:36
And Jud looked at me
And he said,
:24:38
"Steve, as a general rule,
:24:40
"when you have your own
statue outside the stadium,
:24:42
you don't
come off the bench."
:24:45
There'll be other great players,
there's no question about that.
:24:49
But what he's done
for the game...
:24:51
I don't think anybody
will touch his greatness.
:24:53
and that's why eveybody's
holding on here in the finish...
:24:57
to just be apar of...
if this is the last run,
:24:59
eveybody wants to be
apart of it and witness it.