and the answer, which is unspooled in the book, is the market doesn't value baseball players properly the market was operating with bad data, the wrong data, relying too heavily on human judgment, unaided by statistics. to make sometimes very bad decisions about who was a valuable baseball player and who wasn't. and all the -- all sort of the biases that people have when they're relying on their judgment as opposed to facts were -- were on view in the market for baseball players. >> and this -- this is in some ways a -- a central mythology about baseball or any sport, there's an enormous amount that's intangible, that's it judgment. in the movie, there's a scene which is trait out of the book of all these scouts who spend all their time trying to figure out who good players are. >> right. >> and billy bean says, this is all nonsense. if you look at the numbers, everything you're doing is worthless. >> right. well, the scouts were being misled because they were, one, relying on just their eyes. and their eyes told them that, you know, a player who was good-looking was better than he ac

there's simply no better way to do that than to map it onto a southern lawyer and sort of let it unspool. and i think that's one of the reasons both these books are so good at talking about things that still all these years later we can't talk about very deftly, but we can write about it if we have a southern lawyer to light the way. the other thing -- and now i'm speaking as a jewish canadian on the panel. [laughter] in my vast experience of living in char lotsville which is kind of the south that i think it's not just north/south, i think it's big city/small town. and i think this goes to something that robert is saying that is so fundamental which is, and i think it's one of the reasons "the confession is such a powerful book. big city lawyers are very different creatures than rural lawyers, and this is a book about a bunch of people who all know each other, their kids play football together, they've known each other all their lives, they have repeated relationships with each other over and over and over. and you will see in small towns that's how the bar functions. it's a very differ

and other people, like this woman in her car, left in disbelief at the violence and chaos, unspooling in her streets. police said they had no choice but to use tear gas after protesters began throwing rocks and bottles at them. >>> of course, much of what's fueling these protest, the sense that only the rich are getting richer. this morning, a new report supports that belief. it found, over the past three decades, the wealthiest 1% of americans saw their income grow by 275%, while people in the middle three-fifths of the population saw their income rise only 40%. >>> meanwhile, hurricane rina making a beeline for some most popular tourist destinations. winds expected to get stronger before striking cozumel and cancun tonight. sam will have more on the storm's track in a few minutes. >>> finally, a cat that vanished at jfk airport here in new york and has turned into an internet sensation, has reappeared. jack the cat has been on the loose for two months. escaped from his cage in the american airlines baggage area. he turned up at the jfk customs room. didn't venture far. soon to be re

and other people, like this woman in her car, left in disbelief at the violence and chaos, unspooling in her streets. police said they had no choice but to use tear gas after protesters began throwing rocks and bottles at them. >>> of course, much of what's fueling he's protests, is at evidence that only the rich are getting richer. this morning, a new report supports that belief. over the past three decades, the wealthiest 1% of americans saw their wealth grow by 275%. while people in the middle income, saw their income rise 40%. >>> hurricane rina, hitting some 110 miles per hour. they're expected to get stronger. striking cozumel and cancun tonight. sam will have more on the storm's track in a few minutes. >>> finally, a cat that vanished at jfk airport here in new york and has turned into an internet sensation, has reappeared. jack the cat has been on the loose for two months. escaped his cage at the baggage area. he turned up at the jfk customs room. soon to be reunited with his owner in california. let's all breathe a collective sigh of relief, as jack as some 15,000 facebook fa

. >> and so, as this strange tale unspooled, tom would put his suspicions in his own movie. fictional tale to point an accusing finger toward truth. but making movies, someone might have told him, can be hazardous, especially when someone else makes the sequel. so be careful, they should have said. be careful what you wish for. >> that's right. >> in our little movie tonight, this will be the opening scene, bucolic, southern sun. a charming college campus in florence, south carolina, november 9th, 1994. a mother has been trying to phone her daughter, her daughter jennifer at the mobile home park which was her off-campus residence. >> i had started calling her. the line was busy, busy, busy. >> at the very same moment, across town, a woman in the final stages of labor is also trying to reach her best friend jennifer, who'd promised to be with her for the birth. >> the line was busy. and it was busy for the next hour and the next hour, for hours upon hours. >> they are calling the one woman, who outside these few frames of video, you will never meet. the young woman at the cen