Posted on 11/01/2004 2:32:36 PM PST by ajolympian2004
Wednesday, October 27, 2004
Associated Press NEW YORK -- President Bush and Sen. John Kerry will appear on a special edition of ESPN's "SportsCenter" on Monday at 11 p.m. ET, the eve of the presidential election.
"The 30-minute program will feature one-on-one, sit-down interviews with the candidates that will focus on their love of sports and how sports impact their lives," ESPN said in a statement Wednesday.
A preview of the program will be shown as the "Sunday Conversation" during the 11:30 p.m. SportsCenter on Sunday.
"As a former owner I feel they better be careful because they'll price themselves out of the reach of the consumer," said Bush, managing general partner of the Texas Rangers from 1989-94. "I was always concerned when I was with the Rangers, that our ticket prices would become so high that the family would be priced out of baseball and I've always felt that baseball was a family sport."
Bush said he has no interest in being baseball commissioner.
"I'm not sure what I'd like to do after serving the country," Bush said. "But I had a wonderful time in baseball. I loved my time there. I still love to watch the games; there's nothing more therapeutic than watching a baseball game."
Kerry said he has supported stadiums that are funded by taxpayers.
"I want to make certain that when you do that again, these other kinds of things are balanced," he said. "The minute you get the public piece in there, then you have a right to demand some sort of public accountability. And the sports people can't have it both ways in my judgment. You can't have the public support a completely private enterprise ... that's where the standards and the fans protection become much more paramount."
The Democratic challenger also said he didn't think Pete Rose should be in the Baseball Hall of Fame.
"He'd be a slam dunk on performance," Kerry said. "But as we know from Shoeless Joe (Jackson) and other experiences, gambling is treated differently and it's over the line."
Is that gibberish? That has to be the most convoluted sentence I've seen in a while...
"I want to make certain that when you do that again, these other kinds of things are balanced," he said. "The minute you get the public piece in there, then you have a right to demand some sort of public accountability. And the sports people can't have it both ways in my judgment. You can't have the public support a completely private enterprise ... that's where the standards and the fans protection become much more paramount."
THIS is the best excerpt they could use?? He's even talking about sports like a politician...
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