[speaker001:] okay I hope you know more about the subject of baseball and where they're going than I do because
[speaker002:] 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
[speaker001:] 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
[speaker002:] uh-huh
[speaker001:] you know and I guess they were doing pretty good up to a point and then they kind of fell on their face
[speaker002:] well with uh their biggest point of interest has been Nolan Ryan not the rest of the team lately so
[speaker001:] correct right they've got a one man show going there which is interesting you know um
[speaker002:] right oh it's amazing
[speaker001:] 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
[speaker002:] 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
[speaker001:] well good
[speaker002:] 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
[speaker001:] I understand I understand
[speaker002:] but hopefully hopefully next week I'll get back to my normal routine
[speaker001:] okay uh you are involved with TI's uh speech um
[speaker002:] but
[speaker001:] recognition
[speaker002:] well not really I um I
[speaker001:] how did you find out about it
[speaker002:] I work at laboratory from uh I'm an officer in the Air Force and uh
[speaker001:] oh okay I see interesting
[speaker002:] they have a speech lab across the hall from us
[speaker001:] oh great
[speaker002:] and uh the speech laboratory does some work with uh TI at uh not in my office but uh in my division they do
[speaker001:] I see um-hum
[speaker002:] quite a bit of speech work
[speaker001:] 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
[speaker002:] sure sure
[speaker001:] 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
[speaker002:] uh-huh
[speaker001:] uh it seems to be too physical for my uh interest
[speaker002:] 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
[speaker001:] um-hum
[speaker002:] 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
[speaker001:] 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
[speaker002:] uh-huh
[speaker001:] 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
[speaker002:] um-hum
[speaker001:] and uh that doesn't please grandma too much
[speaker002:] well
[speaker001:] I'm always afraid because the injuries are so uh can be very very devastating
[speaker002:] well there's injuries in a lot of sport
[speaker001:] 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
[speaker002:] I I um-hum
[speaker001:] 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
[speaker002:] 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
[speaker001:] because the yeah
[speaker002:] uh
[speaker001:] a love for them
[speaker002:] 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
[speaker001:] um-hum I see uh-huh
[speaker002:] 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
[speaker001:] um-hum
[speaker002:] that was always a problem for me was just just the constant throwing so
[speaker001:] did you did you sustain any permanent uh injury with that
[speaker002:] no I did that wrestling
[speaker001:] oh oh okay
[speaker002:] 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
[speaker001:] um-hum um-hum
[speaker002:] 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
[speaker001:] um-hum
[speaker002:] 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
[speaker001:] 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
[speaker002:] um-hum
[speaker001:] 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
[speaker002:] my God
[speaker001:] 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
[speaker002:] um-hum
[speaker001:] 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
[speaker002:] um-hum
[speaker001:] 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
[speaker002:] sure
[speaker001:] I don't have um Jack standing behind me to tell me what to do
[speaker002:] are you uh you on any leagues now
[speaker001:] 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
[speaker002:] oh
[speaker001:] 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
[speaker002:] 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
[speaker001:] um-hum um um-hum still carries a good league uh average
[speaker002:] well no she doesn't