his father was a difficult taskmaster. he has admitted that he led by fear and his children have even acknowledged how difficult it was. when you live that way where winning is everything and you win the world series and then the next moment is what have you done for me lately, what kind of life is that? where do you revel? talking to this red sox fan, you know, i turned to my wife after the victory in 2004 and said, i don t have to worry again. that didn t happen. but i had a nice attenuated period. for steinbrenner it was literally you have to go and do it again. and that s a football mentality. utterly american. maybe what he did is he brought a little bit, imported a little bit of football to this game that we love and transformed it in really important ways. he did understand something about free agency. he did understand what he could do with it. but in the end the nucleus of the successful yankee team are the homegrown players, who stick michael got to develop in his absence
he has admitted that he led by fear and his children have even acknowledged how difficult it was. when you live that way where winning is everything and you win the world series and then the next moment is what have you done for me lately? what kind of life is that? where do you revel? talking to this red sox fan, you know, i turned to my wife after the victory in 2004 and said, i don t have to worry again. that didn t happen. but i had a nice period. for steinbrenner it was literally have to go and do it again. that s a football mentality. utterly american. maybe what he did is he brought a little bit, imported a little bit of football to this game that we love and transformed it in really important ways. he did understand something about free agency. he did understand what he could do with it. but in the end the nucleus of this successful yankee team are the home grown players. who michael got to develop in his absence which are the posadas and riveras and pettittes and of course the
fear and his children have even acknowledged how difficult it was. when you live that way where winning is everything and you win the world series and then the next moment is what have you done for me lately? what kind of life is that? where do you revel? talking to this red sox fan, you know, i turned to my wife after the victory in 2004 and said, i don t have to worry again. that didn t happen. but i had a nice period. for steinbrenner it was literally have to go and do it again. that s a football mentality. utterly american. maybe what he did is he brought a little bit, imported a little bit of football to this game that we love and transformed it in really important ways. he did understand something about free agency. he did understand what he could do with it. but in the end the nucleus of this successful yankee team are the home grown players. who michael got to develop in his absence which are the posadas and riveras and pettittes and of course the jeters. that is the interestin
meddlesome style and some people said he had become much more mellow. who was the george steinbrenner that you knew? the one that we were used to was the leader of the yankees who was willing at a moment s notice reverse course and fire a manager, as he did, you know, more than 20 times in 22 years. quite often that person being the volatile billy martin and this man who was restless and had that kind of football mentality of needing to win every single game when baseball teaches you those lessons of losses every single day. was able to at different eras at first in the late 70s when he first bought the franchise in the early 70s and joe torre in the mid-90s ushering in this amazing dynasty that is with us to this day. in fact, the first franchise
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