many teams had their local scouts interview him, but, for the cubs, theo epstein did the interview; thenhis top draft pick. what was it about his character that impressed you? >> epstein: kyle played baseball with a football mentality. >> whitaker: what do you mean? >> epstein: he would run through a wall in order to catch a ball. he would attack any obstacle that faced the team. >> whitaker: but running flat out, chasing a fly ball in the first week of his second season: disaster. schwarber tore his knee ligaments so badly that doctors said he would be out for the entire season. he believed them, but he still attacked his rehab relentlessly. >> schwarber: i wanted to challenge myself, and i wanted to get back as soon as possible. "okay, i'm going to push myself." >> whitaker: while schwarber was rehabbing, the cubs were dominating. >> grand slam time! >> whitaker: the pressure kept building, pressure that could have crushed this young team. manager joe maddon had the antidote for pressure. >> maddon: i talked about pressure and expectations as being positives, and they are. embrace it.

theo epstein passes it around and when it came back some of the spikes on it was damaged. ( darya ) garyr studio. it had it's own security guard who was wearing white gloves. i wasn't even allowed to touch it. (darya) new york mets fan tom mcdonald brings the ashes of his late friend roy riegel to ballparks and flushes them down the toilet. reigel was a plumber and so far his ashes have been flushed at 16 stadiums. he has been doing this for the last 10 years. gary says it's nice to know this guy is in a position in life where he has the time to do it. they tried spreading the ashes but the ballparks wouldn't let him. gary says if he dies before i do... he wants to be buried underneath kron. he doesn't want a big production. just write "gary died" in the crawl at the bottom of the screen and continue with weather and traffic. lorenzo where a juvenile pedestrian has been hit and killed by a train. it happened on grant and railroad avenues just after 8:00 this morning. no other information is available. we have a reporter headed there and we'll have updates on kron4.com and in our later ne