Ken Burns

And when I mean that, it would be like saying, let me tell you about Babe Ruth and Reggie Jackson.

They struck out a lot.

Thanks so much.

I mean, and I'm true.

I have not told you anything that is not true.

Correct?

They also hit a hell of a lot of home runs.

And so calling balls and strikes is saying that what happens is the way we teach history is the way ESPN does sports highlights.

It's always the home run.

It's never the guy turned the double play or he doubled some guy off or there was some other thing.

It's always the home run.

And so nobody takes a strike in these highlights.

And what we're trying to say is...

Isn't it better to watch the game and see that even Babe Ruth can only come up to bat every nine times.

And even Babe Ruth fails seven times out of ten.

He's a 300 hitter.

A little bit more than 300 hitter.

That's the great beauty of it.

And so I think that we don't ever now think that he is a failure.

We understand that the dynamics of life, the dynamics of this particular game, mean that the people who fail seven times out of ten and do it significantly are in the Hall of Fame.