marable mike bloomberg says you can't have a great city people don't feel safe and that was a growing concern. it was a daily counter on the front page of one of the newspapers about the level of homicides in the city, so i took that on as a major issue and we fought some battles about it, but the facts are the facts. first year, 15% reduction in homicides, 30% over the eight year period. >> in the spring 2008 you experienced a emotional high emotional lows within a close time. we will deal with the highs first. march 31, 2008, you throw out the first pitch at the phillies. how much preparation went into it? >> a fair amount. i think you can pretty much destroy your career with a bad pitch in front of 45000 people on opening day in philadelphia. [laughter] we make a sport of torturing elected officials at sporting events unfortunately was three months and. i really had not done anything to anyone so people in how much reason to be upset with me. mostly with jordan's works probably about two weeks of practice and some visits to the ballpark. >> for one throw? >> one throat. >> but, it