The whole thing. I saw it live. Watched all the playoff games. Its a tough slide. He wasnt going for the bag. He didnt get the bag, he didnt touch the bag, neither did tejada. The damage is done. They let him stay at second and then the rest is history. The mets lost that game after all was said and done. I think they suspended him initially. Broken leg. I was saying get up. Get up. It looked like a hard hit. I didnt know he had a broken fibula, which he did. Ah. You know, utleys done it before. In fact, you can go back and find a quote about tejada when he slit in 2010, same thing happened. I thought it was a good idea to suspend him to let tempers cool because other people are saying, hey, you play second base, too. Other people do it to you. Exactly. Someones going to go in from the mets and well see, but i thought it was a good idea to suspend his. You thought it was absolutely purposeful. It was. Everybody does that. It was important to break that double. It was a key time because
The most formidable people i have seen in my life have that balance. The ioc sports as the be all were involved in another part of their life the tunes you cannot out compete them. There is a way but when you build 16 million stadiums it is hard and not fair and to expect the kids to concentrate. Thank you very much. [applause] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations]. Were kicking off a full day today with the new book, and president reagan talking about president interjects and present bush and the Science Behind but the whole the of civilrights and the relationship between the u. S. And israel in the American Space program. That is all, being applied today from boston for you can get the full schedule on line and follow us on twitter and facebook as well to give scheduled updates. Here is h. W. Brand from the 20th annual texas book festival live coverage on booktv from austin, texas. Good morning, good morning, and thank you so much for joining us at the 20th annual texas
In space. Now here is a Panel Discussion on the American Space program. [inaudible conversations] good afternoon everybody. Are you all ready to blast off . Had to do at least one before we started. Welcome, everybody to the texas book festival and to all of you joining us on cspan book tv listening throughout the universe or even the known or unknown its good to have you here. It is my pleasure today to itod is my pleasure to introduce two authors and two books that i thoroughly enjoyed reading. I couldnt put either one of them down x. The other perhaps unique aspects is they were extremely well written. Ch im sure youll very much enjoy reading them. The first book is called leavingll orbit. It is by Margaret Lazarus dean, to my left, who is a professor of english at the university of tennessee knoxville. And then also steven moss has written this really [laughter] steven moss has written this very, very interesting book aso well called we could not fail. Steven iswe a professor in th
Be an astronaut. I made it down there to work as an engineer for a few years. In 1990, i got selected by nasa to be an astronaut. Omissions,our space i was on spatial colombia three times and spatial tout discovery wants. Space, iose 44 days in got to go around the earth is 692 times. I can confidently tell you, i have seen your hometown, wherever you are from. I have seen it. We have a program tonight on space stations, a little bit about the history of space stations. I told you i flew on four Space Shuttle missions. I was actually assigned to four Space Shuttle missions, on one of the space station missions. On the sixth crew, number six going up to the space stations. Back in 2002. I trained for 2. 5 years, and two months before launch, one of the nasa doctors pulled me for medical reasons. I never made it to the space station but i trained extensively on it. I spent two years in russia in preparation for that. I also worked for three years as a space Station Program scientist. In
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