know maybe he s not like the other three back i remember two thousand we had the situation when germany played the worst football ever we had no talents but and then in two thousand the b. said ok now we need youth academy s. and they spent one billion in two youth academies that was the starting point and now we re have so many talents and he was a very important factor too to build a television that s what he can do and if he goes down now. not that naive but at the same time like they re certain things that have to go the lawyer like his loyalty to certain players the favoritism certain conditions that has to say look does it matter if i like militarism and i like. to learn something to get rid of his loyalty you know you could also you could also argue that you know this is a cycle and the cycle might be over it might be time to after change there s no
commissioner rob manford s to do list in his first 100 somedays. he s met with youth groups, solicited opinions of people in and around and out of the game. the bomb line is that in inner cities baseball diamonds are expensive to maintain. as part of the effort baseball is open seven urban youth academies across the country. the most recent in cincinnati. i m very familiar with the one in houston. it offers after-school tutors for kids and gets them to play baseball. the problem is not that kids don t like or enjoy playing the game but they don t have the facilities to play the game and that s where the effort ge begins. clarence i m fascinated by wrigley as this kind of perfect physical metaphor for the challenge here which is they are trying to do all of this stuff that a new fancy stadium will have, hotel and expand it and they have a footprint that is the footprint and it s causing a massive mess in the middle of the north side.
including that the batters keep a foot in the batters box. joining me now is clarence paige, and direct from the washington national s game tonight, richard justice. i ll start with you. how much sense of panic is there inside mlb about all of the kind of trends we have been talking about? well, it is the first thing commissioner rob manford s to do list. he met with youth groups within he got the opinion of people in the game and around the game. the bottom line is that in inner cities, baseball diamonds are expensive to maintain. as part of this effort, baseball opened seven youth academies in the country.
clubs and partnerships with baseball have opened a number of urban youth academies, i had a chance to visit the one in washington earlier this spring. it is a fantastic program. an after school program that includes baseball, educational support, nutrition support, and through those sorts of programs we hope to attract more people, more african-americans back to the game. pete rose will have you have you re coming into this with a more open mind than the last commissioner, is that fair to say? let me say this, i was trained as a lawyer. i pay attention to documents and rules and constitutions. i think under the major league constitution mr. rose has a right to apply for reinstatement. he s done that. i think he deserves a fair, full hearing. and i m not predisposed on the issue in any direction. sounds like you wish there were three choices, not two. well, i think it is hard to look at the issue and not separate the question of whether
welcome back to the most news in the morning. we re following developments in a cnn story we broke yesterday. a spiritual leader of a prominent atlanta church now facing sex abuse charges. two separate lawsuits allege that bishop eddie long, a pastor with a 33,000 member church used his position to coerce two men into sexual relationships when they were teenagers. our ed lavandera broke this story. he s live in atlanta this morning with the cnn exclusive. ed, for those who don t know him, bishop long is a very big name in the evangelical church, particularly there in georgia. well, absolutely. he leads a huge megachurch. he s really created a multimillion dollar spiritual empire. he writes books, he runs several youth academies, and that sort of thing. when coretta scott king, the wife of the reverend martin luther king passed away a few years ago, the family held her funeral in his church. this is a man who is revered by