that we hid into the cave art. baseball wasn t a thing then? that s why you weren t? everybody wanted him to play but there wasn t really a baseball organization. donald trump believes, not hyperbolically, not jokingly, but apparently in all seriousness that he was the greatest baseball player in new york when he was a young man. he was the best at that. he was the best at all of sports. and why, mr. trump, were you the best? i think you have a natural ability at things. i m a big believer in nature. no, not nature. i m a big believer in natural ability. i believe in being prepared and all that stuff. but in many respects, the most important thing is an innate ability. and you knew this as a kid? no, i never thought of it as a kid. do you think you had it even then? always. when you look back at yourself i had it. i always had it. i always had it. i never had to work.
again, the time he s talking about here is when he was in high school, like 1962, 1963. yankees going to the world series. some of the best remembered games of all time. baseball, unequivocally the national pastime. mickey mantle a national hero. but donald trump didn t want to bother showing up all of those lesser baseball players because baseball wasn t really a thing then. we didn t really have leather covered balls, we just had rocks that we hid into the cave art. baseball wasn t a thing then? that s why you weren t? everybody wanted him to play but there wasn t really a baseball organization. donald trump believes, not hyperbolically, not jokingly, but apparently in all seriousness that he was the greatest baseball player in new york when he was a young man. he was the best at that. he was the best at all of sports. and why, mr. trump, were you the best? i think you have a natural ability at things.
the plate, a st. louis base runner was picked off first base, and that was it. boston wins it, 4-2. series tied two games apiece. game five in st. louis tonight. and i can actually watch it because i m off the next two days. i can stay up late. have a few beers, chill out. sorry. now you have rubbed in the fact you don t have to go to bed early, and you can stay up and the fact that you re going to be drinking beer. that s great. thanks. i will call you. i ll call in to the show. are you done after today? that s it. i m done. okay. there are moments in every baseball organization that go down in history for better or for worse. at best think babe ruth calling the very spot, of course, where his own home run would land in the 1932 world series. on the other side, the worst, chicago cubs fan steve bartman s infamous catch during that pivotal playoff game. infamous moment. now add controversial call in game three of the world series. and where more on this, here s abc s
so i think that the speech is really about where he wants to have the most impact. and i think that s how he ll be judged, and that s where people will really take notice of what he says. david, before you tell us who s on meet the press this sunday, back to the speech for just a moment. do you think there s any chance at all that the president will address the innings limitations on stephen strasburg? you know, i ll tell you something. i had sort of mixed feelings about that at the time, but as you look at the as you look at the rg3 situation, i think the nationals look smarter and smarter for preserving the future the way they did. and now we ve got soriano. not since i was a boy growing up in los angeles with the great los angeles dodgers have i been in a town with such a robust baseball organization. you remember what that was like in boston, don t you? you are pathetic. is rafael soriano on meet the press this sunday? no? who is? no, but he should.
i think it s really works. up until this point. second of all, we are role models for kids. we should be good examples for kids. athletes are not above the law. if you break the law, you have to pay the price. do you believe he s the home run champion or hank aaron who is the true home run champion? that s not for me to decide, fortunately. that s for baseball historians to decide. at the end of the day, his statistics are great. he ll have to pay for what he did. i think you got some problems. mark, something you do off the field,you re in business but also like to give back. you ve given a million dollars to r.b.i.[newline talk about the program. the harlem r.b.i. is a great program that serves over 1,000 kids in east harlem. we re changing lives. we re giving kids an opportunity to play and be leaders. great players, too, coming from manhattan. you know what? it s it s a baseball organization but really baseball is a hook. it s about education. giving kids opportunity