:24:00
and he would say
to the batting instructor,
:24:02
"Can we do a little more?
:24:04
"I think I'm getting this.
:24:05
I think I'm learning this,
I think I'm getting this."
:24:07
And that's when Spors Illustrated
put him on the cover...
:24:10
saying that Michael Jordan
has embarrassed baseball.
:24:14
And as I would watch him
there ever night...
:24:16
as the sun was going down and
the other ball players had left,
:24:19
and I would see this guy
working to get better...
:24:21
Michael Jordan working
to get better...
:24:23
I couldn't help thinking that
if you ever have children,
:24:26
you ought to pray
that they grow up someday...
:24:28
to embarrass
you like this.
:24:30
Michael Jordan...
:24:32
hits a fly ball.
:24:51
I think that experience itself
kind of gave him a blessing...
:24:55
of coming back to basketball...
:24:57
and understanding the gift that
he'd been given for this game...
:25:00
that was so special.
:25:02
By the hand of the Almighty
:25:05
We fowered
in this generation
:25:11
Triumphantly
:25:14
Won't you help to sing
:25:19
These songs of freedom
:25:23
'Cause all I ever had...
:25:25
When Michael came back,
:25:26
and Jud and I were driving
down to the game,
:25:30
and I said,"Jud, you know,
does Phil start Michael?
:25:34
I mean, he hasn't been here for,
you know, 60 games, 65 games."
:25:38
And Jud looked at me
And he said,
:25:40
"Steve, as a general rule,
:25:42
"when you have your own
statue outside the stadium,
:25:44
you don't
come off the bench."
:25:47
There'll be other great players,
there's no question about that.
:25:51
But what he's done
for the game...
:25:53
I don't think anybody
will touch his greatness.
:25:56
and that's why everybody's
holding on here in the finish...
:25:59
to just be apart of...
if this is the last run,