the lessons of baseball is that you re going to lose more than you ll win and steinbrenner had the kind of football mentality of having to win, win, win at all costs and hating and hating to lose. and baseball requires a kind of patience and understanding of this. that s what was so great about joe torre, that he brought in a notoriously losing manager to turn around this notoriously winning franchise. it s interesting lessons. steinbrenner teaches us so many things with regard to the game of baseball, good and bad. and i think he ll be missed in so many ways. and that s coming from this red sox fan, sorry. well, we forgive red sox fans. i have even a few in my own family. thank you so much, ken. thank you. your documentary still stands as the epic on baseball. we thank you. and a new washington post /abc news poll that we ve been talking about today, it has a big warning sign for the white house. so, let s get right to democratic strategist bob shrum up there in the boston ar
director who of course brought us the 18-hour baseball series. ken, what was steinbrenner s importance to the game? i think he lives a legacy of sort of both winning excellence, success and, of course, a lot of that success has to do with the value of the franchise growing from the paltry $8 million or $10 million that they bought the yankees for to the $2 billion today. but he s also left a legacy of turmoil. like all great figures, he strode across the stage of baseball and dominated the last several decades in a way i can think of no other owner dominating this sport. i mean, he changed managers 23 times in 20 years. 23 times. some of them more than once, billy martin. so, that is turmoil. i felt in a way that he was better suited to own a football team, because one of the great lessons of baseball is that if you fail seven times out of ten, and don mattingly knows this, you re a .300 hitter. and you do that for 30 years, you re in cooperstown in the hall of fame.