The Michael Berry Show

and a statement which I hope transcends political orientation and all that. I would think, Chris, as we

start to analyze what we have heard here, the rule has to be, if you can, always speak before Barack Obama, not after Barack Obama.

I have to tell you, you know, it's part of reporting this case of this election. The feeling most people get when they hear a Barack Obama speech

Mike I felt this thrill going up my leg I mean I don't have that too often steady no

seriously it's a dramatic event. Just to wrap up that discussion from earlier, Jim Nance's opening coverage of the Masters.

From the Augusta National Golf Club in Augusta, Georgia, CBS Sports presents the Masters.

And hello my friends, Jim Nance here in Butler Cabin, where later today the green jacket will be presented to the 2003

Masters winner and yes the tradition unlike any other continues the masters on CBS for the 48th consecutive year.

Jim Nance was asked about the origin of his now famous broadcast greeting on the Dan Patrick show.

No, not the loser. on the Dan Patrick show.

No, not the lieutenant governor. This is the sports, Dan Patrick, that harasses the girls in the hallway.

When did you come up with that hello friends?

2002 PGA Championship at Hazeltine.

I said it on Saturday's third round.

My father was deep in the throes of his battle that he would lose

in O. A. to Alzheimer's. And he had faint recognition of his son and I told him the last thing I had said earlier

in a week when I went to see him in Houston was I'm going to say a little cryptic

message to you on the air this weekend and it's

hello friends. I'm because my dad had nothing but friends in his life and I said

it that Saturday when we came on the air. Now Eli Spielman, a great friend of mine who co-authored a book that I wrote,

it's been now ten years, always by my side a book about my father. He heard that on the air that day and

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