[speaker001:] well what's your favorite baseball team Rita
[speaker002:] well I suppose I supposed to say the Rangers right is that what I is the million million dollar question here
[speaker001:] well this isn't a a a true false or right or wrong test here
[speaker002:] yeah uh um 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 how do you expect them to do this year
[speaker002:] lived in Chicago yeah they did pretty well
[speaker001:] okay
[speaker002:] what'd you think 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:] um-hum
[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 the other one was country
[speaker002:] so you didn't really have a lot of choice did you
[speaker001:] so that's right it was Twins there or you know Skip Williams
[speaker002:] or country 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 because about some of the players that had moved from here to Minnesota but it was interesting it certainly was an exciting series anyway
[speaker001:] it sure was it sure was
[speaker002:] what do you think's gonna happen to the Rangers how can we predict
[speaker001:] well I would I would like to assume assume assume that they're gonna do do better this whole this coming year I would sure hope so anyway when we moved down uh I was able to go to my first you know baseball game and
[speaker002:] um-hum
[speaker001:] thought this is great this is incredible so I I became a Rangers fan I I didn't really have one in South Dakota so I adopted the Rangers or rather they adopted me I guess
[speaker002:] um-hum
[speaker001:] and uh it was just exciting you know you can watch baseball on TV and they hit the long ball and it looks like wow they really hit that ball but when you go to the ballpark 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 ballpark it really really makes it because then you watch it on TV you feel like you're more a part of it too
[speaker001:] that's right that's right
[speaker002:] you know 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'd never knew exist the Restaurant Hall of Fame
[speaker001:] the Restaurant Hall
[speaker002:] the Restaurant Hall of Fame inducted him tonight
[speaker001:] huh
[speaker002:] and he uh says he's coming back you know and he doesn't know how many years 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:] right that's right and he's still doing great still doing excellent
[speaker002:] yeah that's right you know and he said I get a kick out of it uh 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 being a managing and yeah you know being a coach I'm sure
[speaker001:] management 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 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 ballplayers that used to play against Nolan or with Nolan
[speaker002:] um-hum
[speaker001:] 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 UT with his son his son pitched for UT and he pitched for an exhibition game for the Rangers
[speaker001:] huh-uh I wasn't
[speaker002:] yeah it was a I think it was a a little early part of the summer and uh
[speaker001:] was it Nolan against uh oh it it was Ryan against Ryan huh
[speaker002:] Nolan against Ryan against Ryan yeah his son pitched for UT
[speaker001:] well that is neat
[speaker002:] and uh only uh Ryan didn't want too much publicity on it because he didn't want the son getting too nervous about this whole thing game is a game you know well the Rangers
[speaker001:] uh-huh
[speaker002:] really uh knocked the socks off of them which you would expect you know anyway but Nolan I think took himself out after a couple of innings or something
[speaker001:] right
[speaker002:] you know of the game to let