[speaker001:] which baseball team's your favorite
[speaker002:] uh I don't really have a favorite baseball team but of course the Rangers play here
[speaker001:] oh uh-huh
[speaker002:] and and they've made a whole team history of trading away players that become all stars later on so
[speaker001:] oh have they like who are some of their who are some of their players that they've traded away
[speaker002:] uh several pitchers that Toby Harra and uh
[speaker001:] oh
[speaker002:] Doc Meddich a another pitcher and of course now they've they've sunk all their money into Nolan Ryan so
[speaker001:] uh-huh oh oh
[speaker002:] but they they they have they have Ruben Sierra and they have um uh Julio Franco
[speaker001:] oh so they've had some real good ones over the years
[speaker002:] yeah and they they traded away um Incaviglia to Detroit I think and then he hit more home runs this year than he'd ever hit before
[speaker001:] um-hum oh ah well that's good do they is is baseball for young kids there a big thing do they start them out early or where do they get all these good players from
[speaker002:] uh no well they get them from you know Puerto Rico and Mexico and the minor leagues
[speaker001:] oh oh
[speaker002:] the baseball baseball has a big minor league system especially in a a few players come out of college and then uh more players um go straight to the minors
[speaker001:] um-hum oh
[speaker002:] and that gives them time to see uh pitching at a higher speed you know and
[speaker001:] um-hum how do so do they have a a program at all for young kids there for baseball or is soccer the biggest thing or
[speaker002:] yeah they do it's it's mostly in the schools the I think the biggest thing here is soccer
[speaker001:] that's that's what I thought that soccer is bigger it used to be around here anyway that um baseball was real big for the young boys but now it it soccer is
[speaker002:] um-hum
[speaker001:] making a real quick catch up um I know they have the four and five year old kids start like with the tee ball
[speaker002:] um-hum
[speaker001:] are you familiar with that at all
[speaker002:] right yeah
[speaker001:] the tee ball and I think they go until they're seven then they have the pitching machine I think eight and nine and then and then just the regular pitching after that but
[speaker002:] um-hum
[speaker001:] it's not it's not a big as program as it as it used to be and I'm I'm not really familiar around here we don't have any baseball teams I don't think that even in Salt Lake City there is a
[speaker002:] no there's not California's the nearest place
[speaker001:] there's a right right so it it's not there's no teams around here that I really follow and am close with have you ever played baseball
[speaker002:] yeah uh no just in P E uh it's it's pretty big here in high school and they've they've had several players um picked in the draft you know they they're picked in lower rounds
[speaker001:] is it oh uh-huh
[speaker002:] especially pitchers
[speaker001:] oh
[speaker002:] uh but mostly they just go on to college because because because they need the experience and the education so
[speaker001:] right uh-huh right well that's I remember uh playing baseball when I was just in grade school but by the time you know we got to P E it it wasn't a real
[speaker002:] um-hum
[speaker001:] a real big thing either but I enjoy baseball just for a fun pastime now with you know a group gets together a family reunion or whatever or or it we we live in a real small community and they have uh like Fourth of July celebrations and people'll get together and play softball and that's fun I really enjoy that I think it's a fun game I think it's funner to play than to watch myself
[speaker002:] right yeah
[speaker001:] so do you do you enjoy playing it at all or do you enjoy watching it even
[speaker002:] yeah I I um I enjoy playing and it took always took me we'd play you know during the spring semester always took me about six weeks before I could see the ball before I could hit the ball
[speaker001:] uh-huh oh oh uh-huh
[speaker002:] and uh
[speaker001:] yeah it's do you
[speaker002:] and but I enjoy playing I enjoy uh watching the All-Star Game and the World Series was really good this year
[speaker001:] right oh
[speaker002:] the there were some spectacular catches and a lot of home runs and they had uh several double plays you know and
[speaker001:] oh uh-huh was it in Candlestick Park again
[speaker002:] uh no it was uh uh Minnesota Twins versus the Atlanta Braves
[speaker001:] oh
[speaker002:] and both the teams were in last place at one point in the season
[speaker001:] this year
[speaker002:] um-hum
[speaker001:] my word
[speaker002:] then they fought their way back up to the top and then of course Minnesota won I think in the seventh game and ended up
[speaker001:] oh wow oh that would be exciting I I was
[speaker002:] so it was really exciting
[speaker001:] listened a little bit about it but I didn't know you know much about it oh so it had to go the full seven games
[speaker002:] right
[speaker001:] oh
[speaker002:] and it looked for a while that like Atlanta was gonna the win you know before they went back to Minnesota but it didn't happen you know they played
[speaker001:] oh