robert wagner becomes a very important u.s. senator from, shapes labour legislation for decades to come. al smith becomit surprise you that he did that? having gotten to know mark, i would have been surprised if he didn't. when he was courting teixeira, cashman flew to washington, stayed at the ritz-carlton and met with teixeira for eight hours. he was blown away by his baseball i. q. and his preparation. everything that he does on a day-to-day basis has been in preparation for that day's game, so it did not surprise brian at all that he did the right thing on that play. >> one of his old teams, the texas rangers, taking the best team in the a.l., the dodgers. they won 6-0, shutting out one of the best offenses. is it time to start believing in texas? >> i think it has been for about a month. with the rangers, it will be a fragile equation, as with the jays, because they will have to overcome injuries, matt harrison and mccarthy. that's the question about texas. can they get enough starting pitching to hold off the angels. the

bailey pitched in college at wagner, which is on stat on island. he was drafted and developed by the athletics. 6th round pick in 2006 and already in the big leagues. good eye by melvin. 2-2 the count. >> buck: one thing when you have a power arm like bailey, if he throws strike he can have success and he's shown the ability to throw strikes. 2-2, outside with ball 3. and melvin was down 0-2 after two pitches. now bailey has the count full. melvin 0 for 3 on the day, trying to get on. orioles need to get 2 on to get the tieing run up there. 3-2 on mora, with one out and none on. foul -- fouls it off to stay alive. melvin has grounded out twice and flied out to centerfield. and low, ball four. melvin works a 1-out walk. and the orioles need one more and here is salazar to bat. tieing run is on deck. salazar playing his first game. he was called up from triple-a to take over for cesar izturis who is on the disabled list. he was hitless in the game. and that's a strike. grounded out twice and flied out. no balls, and two strikes on the oriole first ba

. >> for the great players of the past, you see some enormous error totals for honus wagner, ty cob. you don't know how good the fielders of 350 years ago w the glove is not doing everything but it sure beats trying for catch a ball with a seat cushion. i now understand why grandfathers used to yell "use two hands", because they had to. >> you also get prop pay for doing this, you know. thanks so much, phil. we'll come back and continue. noticec pre-fame. the first of a big weekend series in tampa bay against the rays we'll talk about the starting pitchers coming up tonight. it will be craig stammen for the nationals against matt garza. hey. don't move. for the next minute, i'm gonna show you what it's like to have verizon fios. these are your widgets, they let you put whatever you're watching down here, while you check out local traffic, weather, even your news up there. i've got a news flash you're out of mayo. how did you get in here? door was open. you'd have tons of ways for you to search for content: by actor, director, any word at all. what about chicken? chicken's fine. any w

social security the wagner act and so on, than the first two years. and in my mind, the question for us is what -- is is you know will we have that kind of sustained series of breakthroughs over multiple years or will we have a narrow window to get our shopping cart filled up? and the answer to that question isn't up to president obama. it's up to us. thank you very much. [applause] >> this has been a great panel. great group of speakers, a great group of letters. we have -- we've caught up a little bit in terms of our time so we have a little bit of space to, to have a discussion. i don't know if any of our speakers want to have an exchange or ask some questions with their other panel it'ses? -- panelists -- >> how about audience questions? >> i'm sorry, we didn't prepare for that. let -- we'll get to you in a second, all right? let me make an interesting comparison between the two efforts on health care. and, and to, to, just have a conversation about how we how we do parallel paths. mitch you said that there were three principles guiding the effort

robert wagner becomes a very important u.s. senator from new york. shabes labor legislation for decades to come. al smith becomes governor of new york and a presidential candidate. when he goes to run, for president, he meets-- need someone he can count on, someone who is going to be a good governor and intends to franklin roosevelt. frances perkins is friends with owls smith before she becomes close friends with fdr. and, as fdr rises she rises with him. al smith was not the only person that came out of machine politics that frances perkins became a great friend to. another person she sawed during the candidates seek was harry truman, who she first met add add event in independence, missouri and they were being screamed and yelled at by the ku klux klan who were opposed to al smith running for president. harry truman was also widely believed to be a part of machine politics but he too with someone who she saw greatness then and she became a friend and ally of his as well so even when fdr died she went to work in the civil service commission and did.

karats that they mainly are and you know when i say that i was just thinking out of every and jim wagner, i don't know what his politics are when he is a decent university president, they want to designate the controversial speaker and charge of the college republicans for the security they had to have because the leftists will attack them. and the dean of the school completely supported this so i had an emergency meeting with the president and it took five minutes for him to say and i said, i don't think it is a good idea to call people controversial speakers. jimmy carter was so controversial u.s. and invited to the democratic convention -- you're not going to tell me however, that you're going to charge the college democrats were infighting jimmy carter. one of the reasons is that are conservative students are civilized and they don't attack people who come to speak. and he said, you are right. so that ended that policy and they said they would have to pay so there are decent university presidents who will stand up on certain issues. but they are limited. what these university preside

wagner woorks left elbow surgery.mets thought would be available for them are not and are out for extended periods of time. so, the leadoff -- the one- outwalk is the first surrender by guthrie. that will put schneider on. what we were talking about earlier, schneider is one of those batters you've got to get. >> jim: yeah, it really sets up this inning for the mets. castillo not a power hitter, but he's a high average guy and it opens up first base, the hole into right field. it's going to turn -- at least you're going to get to the top of the order more quickly. i you think the guy offensively other than delgado they miss is jose reyes. when you start looking how dynamic an offensive player he is as far as with the triples and stolen bases and the average and not to forget that he's a high quality shortstop. >> gary: he's the ignition on the engine. 2-0 count to luis castillo. castillo batting ninth. switch hitter. runner at first base. shows bunt again. he's taking all the way. it's in there for a strike. on the se

austin goal tries to defend the present position of firing wagner. he was as nervous as i would have been but you have got to do it. when you understand policy is not academics. it is not academic research. it is where you go along the political line and that to a large extent is why there's so much of the debate. >> i would say that a huge percent of the academic economists and don't have any relationship with obama are saying-- >> do have a huge relationship. key think universities are independent defense, they are not. even when i was officially with the white house steve, there were always groups that would hang together. it is us versus them and it becomes a very political process for economists. that is what happens and whether it should origin, it does and that is that would gets along. what we do is we see each other has been parts of a different team because steve, there not many things that you and peter could say honestly that i would not want to defend because you are my friends and we are on the same team and it does the same with econom