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>> little roller up along first. behind the bag -- it gets through buckner! here comes knight and the mets win it! >> reporter: first baseman bill buckner missing that ball. even more torturous, he said this in an interview less than three weeks before the game -- >> and the nightmares are that you're going to let the winning run score on a ground ball through your legs. >> reporter: and for a time, the nightmare would not end for buckner. heckled, harassed, even death threats. red sox fans unfairly blaming him for losing that world series. >> most of the time when it's shown on tv, which, you...

22 year career that included a batting title and all star game appearance and more than 2,200 hits. he was scorned for decades by red sox fans because of that, mookie wilson, ground ball goes through buckner's legs, game six of the '86 world series, and that error may have cost boston the title. >> number 6, bill buckner. >> buckner was finally welcomed back to fenway park in 2008 after the red sox won two championships. the team and his fans fondly remembering the late first baseman. >> a generation may have only remembered that moment in game six of the 1986 world series but the truth is he ...

Focused so much on shock value and spectacle value and it's lost the character development i think people fell in love with the show in the first place. you know, in the beginning seasons, there wasn't a huge budget, there weren't like huge dragon fights and white walkers and all of this massive spectacle which is great and they are doing a great job of doing that, but what really was the reason people fell in love with it, in my opinion is the character development in the way that they spun these stories that made a lot of sense for each character and they all faced clear consequences for the...

Professionals is far fetched to the extreme. >> you're saying the mueller lawyers and prosecutors you dealt with were very professional, you're rebutting in a way how michael put it. >> they're following every ground ball in the investigation, trying to be as thorough as possible. my interactions with them, they were completely fair, didn't come in with an agenda, weren't trying to get anyone, wasn't a game of gotcha, they were trying to follow the facts and that's what they did. >> and if i might, i don't want my comments to be reflective that i am contradicting what michael said. michael is ...

Eric, you were with me yesterday. there's been more details released since then. just looking back, when did you know, based on your experience, that this was starting to unravel for smollett? >> when jussie started making better stories. i have been experienced with people who lie about crimes. what they do, they start embellishing and start wanting people to believe them. quite frankly, when he said he was a gay tupac, i knew he was lying. that was the most ridiculous thing i have ever heard. he dug a ditch for himself. he left a trail of evidence, which is the worst part of this. he left a ...