a good mood. And you're bringing up something that happened 10 years ago. Gray: I'm bringing it up because I think people would like to see ... Pete, we've got to go, we've got a game.Rose: This is a prosecutor's brief, not an interview, and I'm very surprised at you. I am, really.Gray: Some would be surprised that you didn't take the opportunity.</blockquote> After conducting the interview, Gray offered no apology for his line of questioning toward Rose: I stand by it, and I think it was absolutely a proper line of questioning. . . I don't have an agenda against Pete Rose . . . Pete was the one who started asking me questions. I definitely wouldn't have gone (that) direction if he had backed off. My intent was to give Pete an opportunity to address issues that have kept him out of baseball. I thought he might have had a change of heart. . . . He hadn't had an opening in 10 years. . . . If I had let that go, all of you (reporters) would have had me on here today for a totally different reason. However, after the fallout of heavy criticism toward him & NBC that ensued from the interview, Gray offered the following apology on-air prior to the start of Game 3: (I) thought it was important to ask Pete Rose if this was the right moment for him to make an apology. If in doing so the interview went on too long and took some of the joy of the occasion, then I want to say to baseball fans everywhere that I am very sorry about this. Despite Gray's pre-game apology, New York Yankees outfielder Chad Curtis snubbed Gray's request for an on-field interview with him right after hitting the game-winning walk-off home run: Jim Gray: Tell us about that pitch.Chad Curtis: I can't do it. As a team, we kind of decided, because of what happened with Pete, we're not going to talk out here on the field.Curtis claimed it was a team decision not to speak with Gray, but Yankee manager Joe Torre later suggested that Curtis had acted independently. On January 8, 2004, more than four years after the interview, Rose's autobiography My Prison Without Bars'' was published. In that book, he finally admitted publicly to betting on baseball games. Personal life He is married to his wife,