uh so my favorite team is about the Rangers
is it i'd have to agree with that they're my favorite team too been a little disappointing the last few years
yeah
i'm telling you you think they'll sign Ruben
you know
no
i really don't i just don't think
you know with that guy from Pittsburgh getting all that money twenty seven or twenty nine million or whatever it was i just don't think that they're gonna be able to sign Ruben Sierra and it's just gonna be a shame for you know our area
right yeah i think it's gonna have a big effect if they don't on the other uh Hispanic players
oh i do too i just the main thing is that
i think that's gonna be the big problem
it's just gonna have an effect on the the team you know
right
we just can't seem to
you know i think we've been in this spot i think we finished second once or maybe even twice i don't know i
yeah
i haven't been to a baseball game in a couple of years just
it's just too disappointing i just watch them fall every year
right
i was a Pete Incaviglia fan and uh
oh
i liked him but of course i understand baseball decisions are all just decisions like that have to be made by someone glad it's not me making them
right i think they're just want a stay mediocre and
draw their two million fans out there and then be happy with it and not have to pay the bucks to get a contender in here
well they say as long as they draw up two million fans that Greave and Valentine'll be there
but
right
right yeah
so and that's the name of the game too you got to make money you know they pay these players so much money now it's just
right
right
it's frightening you and i should be so lucky to you know to go out and swing a bat and get two thousand dollars every time you swing the bat or something like that
that's true but uh
they're talking about trading him if they're not able to sign him
and uh use the money that it would take to sign the guy
you know to pay for pitchers or
you know what it what it what they what else they need
because they've got the hitting but they need the pitching
yeah they really do
um
i think they uh
i think they need them all i just don't understand i understand the big cities like in New York or LA or somewhere because big cities and you know
a guy a pro athlete can go out there in the afternoon probably make five thousand dollars just by doing a personal appearance at a
oh i know
at a at a men's clothing store or something or sporting goods store but i realize the difference but i just don't understand
yeah it's sure aggravating when you go out and bust your butt working you know your day job and
you can work your day job the rest of your life and not bring home as much money as they bring home in one game
oh i know i tell you
that's real aggravating but
but i one thing i don't understand is why
a group you know headed up by George Bush would buy the Texas Rangers and not really get behind them because i tell you we need a winner in this town looks like our Cowboys are coming back but
that's right
so that's that's going to be a big help to Dallas but you know in the past half a dozen years all we've had is the uh
it's always got yeah it's always
yeah the soccer team
it's always wondered me why i mean they act as though this area is not you know a big metropolitan area but you think we'd someday get an owner in here that could afford to buy the the the players we need
oh i know that's a
just real aggravating to because i've lived here you know since well i was born and raised here so i've been a Ranger fan since
about seventy seven so it's a lot of losers it's about to get you know as bad as the Cubs or whoever you know
oh i know
i've been one
yeah i've been i've lived here since seventy four and i've really been a Ranger fan for the longest time and
excuse me i don't miss a time picking up the morning paper and checking the box scores i mean i follow them and i follow them like i follow the Mavericks and like i follow the Cowboys but and i want to see them win because
right
you know damn it they the fans deserve it i mean it you know we have pretty uh great fans to put two million people in that stadium
right
i'm telling you
i love Nolan Ryan i guess you probably love him too
right i think this town'd go crazy if they ever got a even a play-off team
time i mean it would be packed and they got that new stadium they're building so at least at least that'll be exciting when we get that but
oh i do too
it will
well where do you think they're heading this year
uh it's hard to say it's gonna be depending on where the what they do with Ruben Sierra and
uh i mean i'm getting tired of them going into each year saying you know Bobby Witt's the answer and Kevin Brown's the answer and man that's getting old you know these guys have been pampered i mean
right
it's time to to either you know put out or shut up
yeah Bobby Witt gets forced into wins like seventeen games or whatever and they have the later ten game winning streak and they give him all kinds of money and then he just goes right down the tube
and
right and
and Valentine and Greave they're about to get you know they're about to get old but i like this Sandy Johnson
