Quarter of a century ago i came to milwaukee and blood as red about Franklin Delano roosevelt so he wanted to meet me to talk about history keand i wanted to meet him to talk about baseball so always theres been a push and pull, whats happening in baseball, whats happening in the country and weve had this great relationship. I became great friends with his family. Weve been to hall of fame games together, we went to japan for the opening day about the red sox and all this time but would tell me Amazing Stories so i was so glad when he finally decided to write this book which is a collection of the best stories because hes a great storyteller. So im so happy to be able to ask him questions that will illuminate area and we will get to the thing thats on everybodys mind which is the Houston Astros disaster in terms of what that means for baseball. This guy is always authentic, he will tell you whats happening but first id like to start with the friendship youve formed with hank aaron beca
their real property assessment, particularly the commercial real property assessment, then they would agree that what we are doing is exactly the right thing. reporter: but when the numbers from year to year are compared, it shows the city is actually assessing commercial businesses more adding millions to the city s tax base. but let s remember one more time, we are going to collect $200 million more in 2012. so this idea that we have not collected taxes, that we have given up city s tax base, to say that is very irresponsible. reporter: but concerns remain and gandhi is hoping in talking about the issue he cannot only shed light on the complicated matter but show his assessors have done nothing wrong, that the office of tax and revenue is run with honor and integrity. i guarantee you, i assure you that in the office of tax and revenue you have an aggressive honest tax collector. there are reports that the agency s office of integrity and oversight and the fbi are
622639. we ll read the best responses later in the show. the next 30 minutes will be your cram session for this friday, may 25th as you head into memorial day weekend. a lot to get to before you go, including the one-week mark of facebook s ipo. what in the world happened there, and where to go from here. we ll discuss that in a live report from london. plus, democracy, ukrainian-style. look at this. for all you young civic students out there watching, this is how a bill becomes a law in the ukraine. fists fly. shirts are ripped off. we ll tell you what set off this burst of legislative debate a bit later in the show. first, though, to the news. live at 5:30 a.m. here at 30 rock in new york city. the week in presidential politics is closing the way it began with a battle over business and the competing views of mitt romney s time at bain capital. president obama says romney s time there as corporate ceo was focused far more on turning a profit for investors than on keepin
he s going. and jones swings and foul tips it again and that was close. wanting to throw, pulled that bare hand out which is always a dangerous mode for a catcher. buck: when a runner is taking off, you have to get your hand close to your glove and he got a little foul ball, bounced up and hit him, got a piece of it. that was right off the end of the bat. he was fortunate to get a piece of it. . gary: the announcers let that kind of a replay go because you can see it. 3-2, this time greinke just to hold him. buck: don t want to talk about it. gary: thank you so much. buck: hang with it miguel. [ laughter ]. . . gary: 3-2 the count. outfield deep on adam jones, roberts there he goes again. and again, it will be fouled away. so one thing the orioles have done already with only two batters at the plate is to force greinke to work here in the 1st inning and whenever you get a starter of his calibre, you want to do that. buck: yeah. before he gets really locked in wi
lopez comes up with the two-out single. puts the indians up a run. then andy dirks pops up to the second baseman. tom brookins wants a balk called on the ball. the first base coach gets run. gets his money s earth. jimmy leland wanted a piece of the action. he s thrown out as well. not a great trip to cleveland for the tigers. they lose 2-1 and fall six games back of the indians in the a.l. central. remember last year s nlcs when a squirrel ran on to the field n interrupted play at busch stadium? he made a few cameo appearances. last night the cardinals and phillies. something else ran on to the field. streaker interrupted play in the seventh inning. take a closer look at his tattoo. it says hakuna matada. that s a line from the lion king. it keeps getting more weird. he told police he ran on the field because he lost a bet. probably the same reason for the