[speaker001:] Well, what's your favorite baseball team, Rita?
[speaker002:] Well, I suppose I'm supposed to say the Rangers, right [LAUGHTER]. Is that what I-,
[speaker001:] [LAUGHTER].
[speaker002:] is the million dollar question here?
[speaker001:] Well, that isn't a, a true false or right or wrong test here.
[speaker002:] [LAUGHTER] Yeah. Uh, uh, you know, I would like to say the Rangers, but unfortunately they're not. I was from Illinois, and my favorite team was the White Sox.
[speaker001:] Not a Cubbies fan, huh.
[speaker002:] No, no, my family, my dad was, but I turned out to be a White Sox fan.
[speaker001:] Well, that's all right.
[speaker002:] I lived in Chicago.
[speaker001:] How do you expect them to do this year?
[speaker002:] Yeah they did pretty well.
[speaker001:] Okay.
[speaker002:] What did you think of the World Series?
[speaker001:] Well, I'll tell you. I just, uh, moved down from South Dakota in July, and, uh, in South Dakota, the Minnesota Twins are the closest professional sports team to where I was living
[speaker002:] Uh-huh.
[speaker001:] and so everybody was a Twins fan, and I was kind of, uh, didn't have much interest in the Twins, you know, it was, it was kind of pathetic, I mean, we only had two radio stations, and one of them broadcast every Twins game live, you know, and, and the other one was country.
[speaker002:] [LAUGHTER] So you didn't really have a lot of choice, did you.
[speaker001:] [LAUGHTER] So, that's right.
[speaker002:] [LAUGHTER].
[speaker001:] There's was Twins there, or, you know
[speaker002:] Or country.
[speaker001:] Skip Williams.
[speaker002:] Yeah. Oh, uh, and I was routing for the Twins myself because, uh, they, a couple of Ranger players that I had watched when we first moved here, uh, went to Minnesota, and we used to tease about, my son and I used to have a bet going about some of the players that had moved from here to Minnesota, but it was int-, it certainly was an exciting Series, anyway.
[speaker001:] It sure was, it sure was.
[speaker002:] What do you think going to happen to the Rangers?
[speaker001:] Well, I
[speaker002:] Or can we predict?
[speaker001:] I would like to a-, a-, assume that they're going to do, do better this coming year, I was sure hopeful anyway. When we moved down, uh, I was able to go to my first, you know baseball game, and
[speaker002:] Uh-huh.
[speaker001:] thought, this is great, this is incredible. So I became a Rangers fan. I didn't really have one in South Dakota. So I adopted the Rangers, or rather they adopted me, I guess
[speaker002:] Uh-huh.
[speaker001:] and, uh, it was just exciting, you know, you can watch baseball on T V and they hit the long ball, and it looks like wow, they really hit that ball. But when you go to the ball park, it's really not all that far
[speaker002:] No.
[speaker001:] you know, and it's so much more exciting watching a ball come at you, and.
[speaker002:] Oh, isn't it though. You know, but, oh, I, I think going to the ball park just really makes it. Because then you watch it on T V you feel like you're more a part of it too.
[speaker001:] That's right, that's right.
[speaker002:] Well, I'm a great sports enthusiast, so I love, you know, baseball teams, and they, in fact, on the news tonight, Nolan Ryan was on there. He was being, he was put in the, which I never knew existed, the Restaurant Hall of Fame [LAUGHTER].
[speaker001:] The Restaurant Ha-,
[speaker002:] The Restaurant Hall of Fame inducted him tonight, and
[speaker001:] Huh.
[speaker002:] he, uh, says he's coming back, you know, uh, he doesn't know how many years
[speaker001:] Right.
[speaker002:] I mean, to pitch. He'll be at least one more, and he said he's been saying one more, and it's been two and three, might be two and three more. He likes it.
[speaker001:] That's right
[speaker002:] Yeah.
[speaker001:] and he's still doing great
[speaker002:] That's right.
[speaker001:] still doing excellent.
[speaker002:] You know, and he said, I get a kick out of it, you know, he's, he's such a nice man.
[speaker001:] Well, didn't he just sign a twelve year contract with the Rangers?
[speaker002:] Yeah, and he, you know when he quits at being active, he will go into, you know
[speaker001:] Management.
[speaker002:] being a, managing and, yeah, you know, being a coach, I'm sure.
[speaker001:] Right.
[speaker002:] But, he's, uh, he certainly is a good example, uh, for the kids.
[speaker001:] That's right.
[speaker002:] You know, you like to have someone like that you could point to say, see what a fine man, that, he is.
[speaker001:] You know, some of the, like, uh, Ivan Rodriguez wasn't even born when, when, uh, Nolan Ryan started pitching.
[speaker002:] That's right.
[speaker001:] And it's just incredible to think that there's, uh, there are players who are the sons of ball players that used to play against Nolan
[speaker002:] Uh-huh.
[speaker001:] or with Nolan, you know, and now their sons are.
[speaker002:] Oh, he's been a legend for so many years, you know, and I don't know, were you here, had you moved here yet when he did the exhibition at U T with his son. His son pitched for U T and he pitched for an exhibition game for the Rangers.
[speaker001:] Uh-huh, I wasn't.
[speaker002:] Yeah, it was a, I think it was a little early part of the summer, and uh,
[speaker001:] Was it Nolan against, uh
[speaker002:] Nolan against.
[speaker001:] Ryan against Ryan, huh.
[speaker002:] Ryan against Ryan, yeah, his son pitched for U T
[speaker001:] Well that is neat.
[speaker002:] and, uh, only, uh, Ryan didn't want too much publicity on it because he didn't want his son getting too nervous about this whole thing.
[speaker001:] Uh-huh.
[speaker002:] A game is a game, you know. Well, the Rangers really, uh, knocked the socks off of them, which you would expect
[speaker001:] Right.
[speaker002:] you know, anyway, but Nolan I think took himself out after a couple of innings or something, you know, of the game so,