well what's your favorite baseball team Rita
well i suppose i supposed to say the Rangers right is that what i is the million million dollar question here
well this isn't a a a true false or right or wrong test here
yeah uh um you know i would like to say the Rangers but unfortunately they're not i was from Illinois and my favorite team was the White Sox
not a Cubbies fan huh
no no my family my dad was but i turned out to be a White Sox fan
well that's all right how do you expect them to do this year
lived in Chicago yeah they did pretty well
okay
what'd you think the World Series
well
i'll tell you i just uh
moved down from South Dakota in July
and uh in South Dakota the Minnesota Twins are the closest
professional sports team to where i was living
um-hum
and so everybody was a Twins fan and i was kind of
uh didn't have much interest in the Twins you know it was it was kind of pathetic i mean we only had two radio stations
and one of them broadcast every Twins game live you know and the other one was country
so you didn't really have a lot of choice did you
so that's right it was Twins there or you know Skip Williams
or country
yeah oh uh and i was routing for the Twins
myself because uh they a couple of Ranger players that i had
watched when we first moved here uh went to Minnesota and we used to tease about my son and i used to have a bet going
because about some of the players that had moved from here to Minnesota but it was interesting it certainly was an exciting series anyway
it sure was it sure was
what do you think's gonna happen to the Rangers how can we predict
well i would
i would like to assume assume assume that they're gonna do do better this whole this coming year i would sure hope so anyway when we moved down
uh i was able to go to my first you know baseball game and
um-hum
thought this is great this is incredible so i i became a Rangers fan
i i didn't really have one in South Dakota so i adopted the Rangers or rather they adopted me i guess
um-hum
and uh it was just exciting you know you can watch baseball on TV and they hit the long ball and it looks like wow they really hit that ball
but when you go to the ballpark it's really not all that far
no
you know and it's so much more exciting watching a ball come at you and
oh isn't it though you know but oh i i think going to ballpark it really really makes it because then you watch it on TV you feel like you're more a part of it too
that's right that's right
you know well i'm a great sports enthusiast so i love
you know baseball teams and they in fact on the news tonight Nolan Ryan was on there he was being he was put in the which i'd never knew exist the Restaurant Hall of Fame
the Restaurant Hall
the Restaurant Hall of Fame inducted him tonight
huh
and
he uh says he's coming back you know and he doesn't know how many years i mean to pitch he'll be at least one more and he said he's been saying one more and it's been two and three might be two and three more he likes it
right
that's right and he's still doing great still doing excellent
yeah
that's right you know and he said i get a kick out of it uh you know he's he's such a nice man
well didn't he just sign a twelve year contract with the Rangers
yeah and he you know when he quits at being active he will go into you know being a managing and yeah you know being a coach i'm sure
management
right
but he's uh he certainly is a good example uh for the kids
that's right
you know you like to have someone like that you could point to to say see what a fine man that he is
you know some of the
like uh
Ivan Rodriguez wasn't even born when when uh Nolan Ryan started pitching
that's right
and it's just incredible to think that there's uh there are players
who are the sons of ballplayers that used to play against Nolan or with Nolan
um-hum
you know and now their sons are
oh he's been a legend for so many years you know and i don't know were you here
had you moved here yet when he did the exhibition at UT with his son his son pitched for UT and he pitched for an exhibition game for the Rangers
huh-uh i wasn't
yeah it was a i think it was a a little early part of the summer and uh
was it Nolan against uh oh it it was Ryan against Ryan huh
Nolan against
Ryan against Ryan yeah his son pitched for UT
well that is neat
and uh only uh Ryan didn't want too much publicity on it because he didn't want the son getting too nervous about this whole thing game is a game you know well the Rangers
uh-huh
really uh
knocked the socks off of them which you would expect you know anyway but Nolan i think took himself out after a couple of innings or something
right
you know of the game to let
