Ozzie Smith On Why Opening Day Should Be A National Holiday, Hall Of Fame, PED [VIDEO EXCLUSIVE]

First of all, I'm honored to be teaming up with Budweiser to make it an official holiday. There was a survey done recently said that 22 million people have played hookie at some point in time on Opening Day, so it's already an official holiday. We';re trying to get 100 thousand signatures to make it an official holiday.

Very, very easy. All you have to do is go to Budweiser.com/openingday and sign the petition and become a part of history.

Well, I think the sports writers have spoken very loudly and very clearly. I think it'€™s kinda a temperature of where America is as far as that's concerned, if you're a baseball purist then you know the last 10 or 15 years have been turbulent as far as the game of baseball is concerned. I think Major League Baseball and the Commissioner'€™s office has done a great job at putting in a deterrent, and a deterrent being something that deprived someone of the ability to do what it is that they love to do. I think we have something in place now, and we'€™re hopefully getting to that point where the focus is more on the field than it is off the field.

Well, I think the sports writers have spoken very loudly and very clearly. I think it’s kinda a temperature of where America is as far as that’s concerned, if you’re a baseball purist then you know the last 10 or 15 years have been turbulence as far as the game of baseball is concerned. I think Major League Baseball and the Commissioner’s office has done a great job at putting in a deterrent, and a deterrent being something that deprived someone of the ability to do what it is that they love to do. I think we have something in place now and we’re hopefully getting to that point where the focus is more on the field than it is off the field.

Well, I don'€™t know, to this point we haven'€™t had any unanimous votes and I don'€™t know. It's kinda like a badge of courage not to let someone at this point be unanimous, but hopefully we will see that in the near future.

Well, you know, here again I don’t know if we’ll ever be able to do enough to get them back interested in the game again. You know a lot of the programs that the kids had early on have been eliminated, but I think Major League Baseball through its RBI program and programs that are sponsored by ex-major league players are ways that we’re working on trying to get more African American players interested in the game.

Do I think I’ll ever do another episode of ‘The Simpsons’? If I’m asked, I will! Once I get out of that hole!