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HOUSTON (AP) — Unless the
[Houston Astros increase their cur-
Irent $1.15 million base offer to vet-
leran pitcher Nolan Ryan, the all-
Itime strikeout leader may already
[have played his last game in an As-
|tros’ uniform.
At baseball’s winter meeting in At
lanta, two teams interested in Ryan
[increased their previous offer and
[another entered the bidding war for
[the 41-year-old free-agent.
The Texas Rangers and Galifor-
[nia Angels, both of whom had signif-
[icantly higher bids than the Astros
[already on the table, increased their
[offers Monday.
Texas reportedly offered Ryan a
[two-year contract worth $ 1.4 million
[for next season and .$1.6 million for
11990. The Rangers would have the
loption of buying out Ryan’s contract
|for 1990 for $400,GOO.
The Angels bumped their offer to
[a reported guaranteed $1.8 million
Iforone season.
In effect, the Angels and Rangers
lare both offering Ryan a minimum
|of$1.8 million for one season. If the
iRangers sign Ryan and elect to bring
Ihimback for 1990, their package will
|be worth $5 million.
In addition, San Francisco con-
Ifirmed it made a two-year offer to
IRyan over the weekend. Reportedly,
the Giants offered Ryan $1.5 million
for 1989 and $1.6 million for 1990
with a $300,000 buyout clause for
the 1990 season. Giants’ General
Manager A1 Rosen, the former As
tros’ general manager, said he thinks
the Giants have an excellent chance
of signing Ryan.
Astros General Manager Bill
Wood repeated Monday the club’s
intention of not offering Ryan more
than $1.15 million in base salary and
$200,000 in incentives.
The Astros have informed Ryan
they will not offer him salary arbitra
tion. If Ryan doesn’t sign with Hous
ton before midnight Wednesday,
they will lose the right to negotiate
with him until May 1.
“It sounds like I did better in At
lanta than I did in Alvin today,” said
Ryan, who met with officials from an
unidentified club believed to be the
New York Yankees. “I think there’s
a possibility something may be done
in the next couple of days.”
Moss said he expected Ryan to
make his choice from among three
teams — Galifornia, Texas and San
Francisco.
Monday’s developments involving
Ryan left Wood with little optimism
of re-signing a local favorite.
“I would say hope is certainly fad
ing,” Wood said.
Wheelin’, Dealin’ Rangers
deal for Cleveland’s Franco
ATLANTA (AP) — The Texas
Rangers remained the most active
organization at the Major League
Baseball winter meetings Tues
day as they traded away three
more players and made a decision
regarding the sale of the team.
The Cleveland Indians traded
second baseman Julio Franco, a
.303 hitter last season, to Texas in
a four-player deal.
Cleveland was to receive first
baseman Pete O’Brien, outfielder
Oddibe McDowell and second
baseman Jerry Browne.
Franco, 27, hit 10 homers and
drove in 54 runs last season. He
also stole 25 bases.
O’Brien has been one of the
most consistent first basemen in
the American League for several
seasons. He batted .272 with 16
home runs and 71 RBI and will
fill a position where the Indians
have long been weak.
McDowell hit .247 with six
homers and 37 RBI. He had hit
50 home runs in the previous
three seasons.
Browne batted .229 in a utility
role.
The Rangers had acquired Ra
fael Palmeiro, a first baseman-
outfielder, from the Cubs on
Monday. That move made
O’Brien and McDowell expenda
ble.
AL owners also decided Tues
day to wait until late January to
make a decision on Edward Gay
lord’s bid to purchase the Texas
Rangers.
American League president
Bobby Brown said the bid to buy
the team from Eddie Chiles will
be discussed at a site to be deter
mined.
“I can’t predict what might
happen,” Brown said. “At that
time we will consider the transfer
of the ownership of the Rangers.”
Gaylord, who lives in Okla
homa City, has extensive tele
vision interests, which some of
the other owners have found ob
jectionable because of the possi
bility he might telecast Rangers’
games into other markets.
High-scoring Ags
tangle with HBU
By Doug Walker
Sports Editor
The Texas A&M men’s basketball
team hopes to keep the home cookin’
going tonight against the Huskies of
Houston Baptist University at G. Rollie
White Coliseum.
The Aggies, 4-1, hope to continue a
recent trend of success at home.
A&M has won 29 of its last 36 home
games. The Aggies have posted a home
record of 280-29 since they began play
ing there in the 1954-55 season.
A&M has shown vast improvement
offensively over last year in the early
going. The Aggies are averaging 84.2
points per game and have connected on
57.8 percent of their shots from the field
in the first five games.
Power forward Donald Thompson
leads the Aggies in scoring and rebound
ing averaging 19.4 points and 8.2 re
bounds per game.
Junior guard Tony Milton, a junior-
college transfer, supports Thompson of
fensively averaging 16.2 points per out
ing. He also leads the team in assists
with 31.
Another juco transfer, guard David
Williams, has also been an effective
scorer.
Williams averages 15.2 points and six
rebounds per game. The 6-foot-6 guard
is the big guard in the Aggies’ three-
guard offense.
HBU, 1-4, is led by junior guard Reg
gie Gibbs, who averages 16.8 points per
game, and sophomore center Alvaro Te
heran.
Teheran stands 7-foot-1 and is averag
ing just under 11 points per game and
pulls down 5.4 rebounds per game.
“They have a young big man inside
(Teheran) and he’ll continue to get bet
ter,” A&M Head Coach Shelby Metcalf
said.
“We’ll have to do a good job on him at
both ends of the floor.”
Metcalf isn’t looking past the Huskies,
in spite of their record.
“Houston Baptist has lost some close
games early this season,” Metcalf said.
“A couple of breaks here and there and
they could be 4-1 instead of 1-4.”
The Huskies opened the year with
three consecutive close losses at home.
Texas Wesleyan (71-67), Stetson (77-
71) and McNeese State (60-56) spoiled
the Huskies’ start.
A&M has apparently managed to set
tle on a solid starting five despite the in
flux of seven junior-college transfers,
three of whom are starters. Milton and
Williams have settled in at two of the
guard slots while junior Darren Rhea has
become the starter at a forward position
opposite Thompson.
The 6-foot-10 Rhea leads the team in
three-point shots hitting seven of nine.
Tipoff is scheduled for 7:30 p.m.
ailing all Cowboys’ fans: Show this Bear fan your stuff
Oh my! How the times have changed.
The Dallas Cowboys lost again on
ISunday. The Cowboys are enduring their
[worst season since their inception. Dallas’s
[last win was against Atlanta back in
[September.
If you had told me at the beginning of
[the year that Dallas would be 2-12, two
[weeks before the playoffs, I woidd have
[called the nut farm to see if you had
[escaped recently. I didn’t think Dallas was a
[playoff team, hut I thought they would win
[more than two games by now.
If you took a survey today, nine out of
[ten people would tell you that Dallas stinks.
JI agree, but there is a group that is worse
Ithan Dallas.
As the self-appointed president of the
[Dallas Cowboys’ Haters Club at Texas
[A&M, I feel it is my job to point this group
[out. They are the Cowboys’ fans.
Stan
Golaboff
Sports Writer
That’s right. The so-called fans of Dallas
are in hiding right now. You can recognize
them because they are the ones you see on
Mondays grumbling about false start
penalties, fourth-quarter interceptions, and
the newest defeat saving penalty, tripping
on field goal attempts.
When I first moved to Texas in 1977, I
couldn’t go more than three feet without
seeing a Dallas Cowboys logo or fan telling
me how great Dallas was. Everyone loved
the Cowboys. They were the best. If they
lost, it was because of the refs or the other
team cheating. They were “America’s
Team.”
It was this attitude that made me begin to
hate the Cowboys. Oh, I would root for
them whenever they played the AFC in the
Super Bowl (I hate the AFC). The main
reason I started to hate Dallas was because
my favorite team, the Chicago Bears, never
beat them and always had to come to Texas
to play them. (That is until 1985, when the
Bears beat the Cowboys 44-0 in Texas
Stadium.)
I bring up the Bears because Cowboy
fans, if there are any still out there, should
take a look at Bear fans and follow their
example on how to support a losing team.
I started rooting for the Bears in 1975,
when a rookie running back, wearing
number 34, was starting his record-setting
career. Walter Payton was the only thing
that the Bears had back in the seventies.
There was no “Roger the Doger” at
quarterback. Bear fans had to watch the
likes of Vince Evans throw interception
after interception. There was no “miracle
catches” to win close games, just missed
field goals and dropped passes.
Bear fans watched each year hoping to
see a winner only to see the Bears go 4-10
or 6-10. (In 1975 they still played 14 game
seasons.) If it was a good year they would go
8-8.
Dallas, on the other hand, was a shoe-in
for the playoffs and a Super Bowl
conten '
playof
der almost every year.
Bear fans learned to love their team
anyway. We never wore paper bags over
our heads. The media never openly asked
for the head coach to be fired. We wore our
Bears’ paraphernalia with pride.
Dallas fans do all the above, except the
wearing of Cowboy paraphernalia. A sign
shown on national television sums up how
low Cowboy fans are. It read “Hi Mom,
send money and Troy.”
No Bear fan would ever hang a sign like
that in Soldier Field. Maybe Cowboy fans
should clean up their act and take a few
lessons from Bear fans.
After Sunday’s game, Bear fans every
where will be chanting: “Bring on
Minnesota,” while Dallas fans will start to
chant: “Bring on the draft.”
Oh, how the times have changed.
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