okay
i hope you know more about the subject of baseball and where they're going than i do because
oh i know a little bit about it i'm not a die hard fan but i i enjoy the i like the Boston Red Sox myself
well i of all the sports that there are that there is
i like baseball the best however i haven't been to a baseball game in years but i have kept uh my eye on the Rangers
uh-huh
you know and i guess they were doing pretty good up to a point and then they kind of fell on their face
well with uh
their biggest point of interest has been Nolan Ryan not the rest of the team lately so
correct right they've got a one man show going there which is interesting you know um
right
oh it's amazing
i guess he can i guess he can really call down a salary they're so astronomical i can't even imagine that kind of money you know it's just uh phenomenal
right
well fortunately the Red Sox last time i saw the paper earlier this week were in first place and doing quite well um i
well good
been really busy at work this past week and normally on my way into work i'll pick up a newspaper and uh
it so every day i'll have a newspaper at work and when i take a break i'll look at the newspaper but this week i've been so busy i didn't even bother to stop
i understand i understand
but
hopefully hopefully next week i'll get back to my normal routine
okay uh you are involved with TI's uh speech um
but
recognition
well not really i um i
how did you find out about it
i work at laboratory from uh i'm an officer in the Air Force and uh
oh okay
i see interesting
they have a speech lab across the hall from us
oh great
and uh the speech laboratory does some work
with uh TI at uh not in my office but uh in my division they do
i see
um-hum
quite a bit of speech work
well that's good well that's interesting and the topics are interesting uh they run a whole gamut of
of uh subjects and uh i think we can address every topic but the depth of knowledge is quite different
sure sure
so uh when they chose baseball i mean i'm i'm i can understand baseball you know i don't understand football um you know uh it's such a rugged game that it uh
uh-huh
uh it seems to be too physical for my uh interest
oh i prefer to i i i like
i never used to really like watching football that much but more and more these days i'm
i i'll like a football game but i've always liked baseball i i prefer to watch
um-hum
um i guess i'm one of the few people that also prefers baseball to football and i i'd much rather go to a baseball game than to a football game
well i i can relate to baseball because i used to play baseball but i can't relate to football because i've never
played football and and don't and have have any interest and i said if i ever had a son he would not play football
uh-huh
and uh i had four daughters so that wasn't a question but now i have a grandson that is you know is gung ho for um
football
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and uh that doesn't please grandma too much
well
i'm always afraid because the injuries are so uh can be very very devastating
well there's injuries in a lot of sport
i understand that but i think they they happen more in football i think the odds are cut down you know i i know they can get hurt in baseball too
i i
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the bat is a very heavy object can do a lot of damage but uh i think
that they have a a lower ratio of injuries ratio of injuries in baseball
oh
baseball that's true i i would say that baseball tends to be one of the less
troublesome sports but uh for some people it's just uh
because the yeah
uh
a love for them
well that that not so much that but uh even in baseball you can like when i played baseball when i was uh growing up i had trouble uh
uh just throwing the ball because my i was very
i was always very strong and i could throw when i was young i could throw
harder than my uh like ligaments and all that should have been allowed to and so i was always throwing my arm out and uh
um-hum
i see
uh-huh
having trouble i and i was a catcher so i was constantly throwing back to the pitcher and then down to second base and all and and that kind of stuff so i
um-hum
that was always a problem for me was just just the constant throwing
so
did you did you sustain any permanent uh injury with that
no i did that wrestling
oh oh okay
no i'd well i i uh i always been quite an athlete and doing different things and um
the other thing was i'd never really let injuries stop me but interestingly enough you mentioned football is like now i won't play football anymore because of the uh
because i separate a shoulder wrestling so
um-hum um-hum
um but i stood the stood the injury wrestling but it
as long as i let it heal it never really bothered me then playing football this fall
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i it was just flag football too i separated it again and it seemed to be like the straw that broke the camels back so
oh boy
um um-hum
well i have uh i have a broken arm that i had since i was three it was never set right
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and uh uh i liked bowling as a as a kind of a relaxing sport
and uh one of the men that was in our league in on our league uh noticed uh you know uh my broken arm and the way my ball would do and he says let me show you how to use your arm to your advantage
and so he brought me up from like a hundred and fifteen i had my high game of two eighty seven
my God
so uh yeah uh it was really funny you know that he would tell me where to stand and how to hold my arm and and how to uh keep uh
follow through with my uh addressing that to put the ball the uh pins
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so that was interesting so i really um i got a lot of uh recognition from the uh
uh the bowling league i guess i'm not sure where all my pins came from but but it's but that was quite awhile ago but i and i never pursued it and a lot of people said well you should have turned pro and i thought nah not um hum-um i don't
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my love wasn't there for the game i liked to as a as a method of uh entertainment and i uh fellowship but uh outside of that no i didn't and i and i still i like to bowl but uh
sure
i don't have um Jack standing behind me to tell me what to do
are you uh you on any leagues now
no i'm not no no uh at TI they have a sponsor a junior league achievement and uh it's true bowling and i've never uh shared shared that with them i would have to brush up on my bowling before i ev en
oh
tried to uh win a lot of money for the junior achievement uh organization but that's the only thing that i would you know be allowed to do
uh-huh
right
well my grandmother has been bowling for gosh maybe thirty forty years i don't know a long time and she still she's got to be
um-hum um um-hum
still carries a good league uh average
well no she doesn't
