[speaker001:] uh so my favorite team is about the Rangers
[speaker002:] is it I'd have to agree with that they're my favorite team too been a little disappointing the last few years
[speaker001:] yeah I'm telling you you think they'll sign Ruben
[speaker002:] you know
[speaker001:] no
[speaker002:] 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
[speaker001:] right yeah I think it's gonna have a big effect if they don't on the other uh Hispanic players
[speaker002:] oh I do too I just the main thing is that
[speaker001:] I think that's gonna be the big problem
[speaker002:] it's just gonna have an effect on the the team you know
[speaker001:] right
[speaker002:] 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
[speaker001:] yeah
[speaker002:] 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
[speaker001:] right
[speaker002:] I was a Pete Incaviglia fan and uh
[speaker001:] oh
[speaker002:] 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
[speaker001:] 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
[speaker002:] well they say as long as they draw up two million fans that Greave and Valentine'll be there
[speaker001:] but right right yeah
[speaker002:] 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
[speaker001:] right right
[speaker002:] 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
[speaker001:] 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
[speaker002:] yeah they really do
[speaker001:] um
[speaker002:] 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
[speaker001:] oh I know
[speaker002:] 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
[speaker001:] 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
[speaker002:] oh I know I tell you
[speaker001:] that's real aggravating but
[speaker002:] 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
[speaker001:] that's right
[speaker002:] 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
[speaker001:] it's always got yeah it's always
[speaker002:] yeah the soccer team
[speaker001:] 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
[speaker002:] oh I know that's a
[speaker001:] 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
[speaker002:] 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
[speaker001:] right
[speaker002:] 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
[speaker001:] right I'm telling you
[speaker002:] I love Nolan Ryan I guess you probably love him too
[speaker001:] 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
[speaker002:] oh I do too it will well where do you think they're heading this year
[speaker001:] 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
[speaker002:] right
[speaker001:] it's time to to either you know put out or shut up
[speaker002:] 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
[speaker001:] 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