[speaker002:] actually I'm in like I said I'm in Minneapolis and the big thing up here of course is the Twins um
[speaker001:] I imagine you can't escape it
[speaker002:] no it's it's pretty pervasive it kind of goes into about all aspects of society I think up here but um actually I don't know how much of the World Series you caught last year but that was a lot of fun
[speaker001:] well of course it was fun for you
[speaker002:] well to be honest with you I'm not from Minneapolis in fact I've only been up here a few months and I'm going back at the end of next month
[speaker001:] to
[speaker002:] uh Orlando Florida
[speaker001:] oh really
[speaker002:] so I'm not exactly a real Twins fan from birth or anything but
[speaker001:] I was born and raised in uh near Miami and uh spent the last twenty years in Dallas
[speaker002:] oh yeah oh
[speaker001:] uh where the Rangers played
[speaker002:] uh-huh
[speaker001:] and uh for the last uh what year roughly year I've been in San Francisco where there're two teams the Oakland A's and the San Francisco Giants
[speaker002:] right
[speaker001:] uh but honestly you know I uh I do my duty and watch the sports on uh the newscast
[speaker002:] oh okay
[speaker001:] but that's about all the exposure I have to sports
[speaker002:] yeah yeah I haven't followed it real closely at all um except like I said last year when the World Series rolled around I did I did follow that pretty religiously went out to the bars you know drank a beer watched the game sat a girl a good time that way
[speaker001:] um-hum well yeah sure well I guess the uh San Francisco Giants and the Oakland A's were like the leading teams a couple years ago
[speaker002:] but uh is that right
[speaker001:] well I think I don't know well that's sort of what I gather
[speaker002:] um-hum
[speaker001:] um and uh I don't know what is the prognosis for uh this year
[speaker002:] uh real good as far as I can tell people are pretty excited about
[speaker001:] oh good I I assume that means good for the Minnesota
[speaker002:] well yeah sorry about that yeah uh as far as the Twins are concerned it seems to be real good um my roommate went and saw them play um their season opener uh a couple of nights ago and they they won that one seven to one so um that's pretty good I guess it looks like they'll be doing pretty well are you still there
[speaker001:] yep
[speaker002:] okay I heard some noise on the line didn't know what happened
[speaker001:] I think a train went by
[speaker002:] oh okay all right
[speaker001:] but I know a train went by I don't know what the noise was but I think it probably was the the train
[speaker002:] yeah
[speaker001:] well I don't know I I I don't even know uh who who has been winning in uh as far as the uh San Francisco Giants and the Oakland A's but I think they both won their opener I sort of gathered that in my uh subliminal memory
[speaker002:] uh-huh well maybe that has has good tidings for their uh for their season coming up I've actually got a friend that's living in San Francisco right now uh he's doing the same thing I'm doing which is basically uh an internship we were both doctoral students and he's doing his with IBM and I'm doing mine with Honeywell but um I I think he kind of follows the sports and I think he's mentioned um the Oakland A's a couple times
[speaker001:] hm um-hum
[speaker002:] uh he may have watched them and seemed to think that they were pretty good
[speaker001:] I guess they're in different leagues is that right the A's
[speaker002:] as far as I know yeah and in the major leagues I guess there's a couple of different divisions and then of course there's the minors um
[speaker001:] yeah
[speaker002:] I don't know I I guess I'm one of those people that if I really made a concentrated effort I could really probably get into baseball
[speaker001:] um-hum
[speaker002:] um but I was talking to my roommate a couple nights ago right after that game and he offered you know to take me to one of the games because apparently he'd bought uh he and four other people from Honeywell had bought a seat or a row of seats actually
[speaker001:] um-hum um-hum
[speaker002:] for the home games but the the thing is there's like eighty six home games per year so there's no no way you can ever use them all
[speaker001:] eighty six
[speaker002:] eighty six I was amazed to hear that you know that's just the home games and I I thought it was a mistake but he goes no see eight
[speaker001:] well they must play every day then
[speaker002:] yeah well just just about yeah
[speaker001:] I mean eighty six times two
[speaker002:] yeah
[speaker001:] is a hundred and sixty
[speaker002:] and that's you know yeah that's almost
[speaker001:] and that's Lord that's uh over five months worth
[speaker002:] that's a lot of baseball
[speaker001:] even if they play every day that's over five months worth
[speaker002:] well you you if you if you consider it the season starts well it's the season started about a week and a half ago and it ends with the World Series which usually takes place I believe in December or January
[speaker001:] no
[speaker002:] yeah I think so it did last week year didn't it or was it November
[speaker001:] that was the Super Bowl
[speaker002:] maybe it was November I'm thinking about I know it was doggone cold up here um
[speaker001:] I don't feel so bad I think you you don't know all that much more than I do about baseball
[speaker002:] well I know for sure it was I know it was after September because that's when I got up here
[speaker001:] I see okay
[speaker002:] and it and it was at least two months after I got up here
[speaker001:] oh really okay well
[speaker002:] yeah so it had to be November anyway
[speaker001:] well I I I know uh the Super Bowl