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August 26,1 I August 26,1992 The Battalion Sports Texas A&M University Page 13 s still Ripken's numbers don't add rtg honi u P to new birthday contract 3CIATED PRESS THE ASSOCIATED PRESS y. BALTIMORE — Cal Ripken's •st gamebackat this seas ?, n don,t add ,< ,Bp to the ones on his new con- uston had JS*!* 532 - 5 mUlio '’ for f five y? ars ' , >ut at the plate mil T ^®, new co, ; lract lsn 1 l usl Even will A n d| b ““ lth , c P res£nt -, ” It s also a reward for the past ind an advance for the future. Ripken was batting .247 with 0 homers and 56 RBIs when the altimore Orioles gave him the Schest contract in baseball histo- on Monday night. He proceeded to go 0 for 4 - H,ith an error. 1 7 So it doesn't make much sense V unless you consider Ripken is a 10-time American League All- Star who will pack fans into !amden Yards and fill the team's :offers as he nears Lou Gehrig's |ecord of 2,130 consecutive ;ames played. ig for the cycle, i St. Louis 5-3 jesda called from Trip! - in the day, ‘ >r leaguer to season. om Page 11 rd sideline as ;s of the nation ies to see if they al statement, ied away from nake or creak p , the hoopla is locum said lit to this game, factors, will be positive! ■ outcome. Our win the SWC )le game to pre parations, the; / on old game! when Walsh 1 Cardinal in the! resented a unii he A&M coachi because when Bill Walsh over ears, it gives lings to lookil fhat's not what p defensive team th. have alwayste Ori°l es if ig the football,® > me as big a prti ng game." 1 can boast a He: ndidate in runn:: burn. The speei n change direct: i dime, has the; re aggressive/ as. ■els that aspect ; will not be ali "I thought to myself when I fas at the All-Star game in San hego, it would be a sad irony if the loudest applause at next gear's game (at Camden Yards) fere to be for Cal Ripken wear- \g some other uniform," Orioles resident Larry Lucchino said. Ripken began to feel that he ist might have to go elsewhere [or employment. Negotiations for [he contract began last September ind eventually Ripken's hopes of jemaining in Baltimore began to diminish. I "At first I thought there would be a five percent chance I'd go Isewhere. Then it became 10 per- ent and then 15 percent," he aid. "I thought tnat maybe it ould be a situation where I ouldn't be allowed to be an Ori ole." It would have been terribly ointing to Ripken and the e were to break Gehrig's record in the uniform on another team. Ripken was sched uled to play in his 1,700th succes sive game Wednesday night, leaving him 430 games short of Gehrig's record. If all goes as planned, the record will fall in 1995. That's just another part of the Ripken package. It usea to be that homers and RBIs were his chief selling point, but the 32-year-old shortstop has fallen upon hard times. And it remains to be seen whether his best days are behind him. In the days leading up to the finalization of the contract, Rip ken said the negotiations had proven to be a major distraction. Now that all that is out of the way, he hopes to turn things around. "I don't want to hide behind an excuse. I'm not going to say it's the reason I only have 10 homers at this point," he said. "I just know that I haven't been able to focus and concentrate the way I did in the past. "Hopefully, this will give me a fresh start. I'm not going to make any promises and say now that this over everything is fine. Who knows? That might not be the root of the problem anyway." The Orioles sure got a bargain last year when he hit .323 with 34 homers and 114 RBIs. Ripken could have asked to re negotiate this yea^s pact but to him, a deal's a deal. "I never felt that I was under paid. I felt as if I was lucky to be getting paid," he said. "You sign a contract and you live up to that contract. At that time it gave me a tremendous amount of security, allowed me to do a lot of things financially. I take the same view with this contract as I did the last contract — I'm lucky." Patrick Bates, shown here intercepting a pass against LSD last season, will be part of the Aggies secondary in tonight's Disneyland Pigskin Classic game against Stanford. Dallas far from signing All-Pros Irvin, Novacek THE ASSOCIATED PRESS IRVING — The Dallas Cow boys don't appear to be any where near signing their three offensive team holoouts — cen ter Mark Stepnoski, wide receiv er Michael Irvin and tight end Jay Novacek — and teammates are getting impatient. Defensive end Tony Tolbert, who signed a three-year contract on Sunday, wrote the numbers 88, 84, and 53 on his gloves at practice. "Just a show of support," Tolbert said for No. 88 Irvin, No. 84 Novacek and No. 53 Stepnos ki. The Novacek signing appears the most critical. The Cowboys have no tight end with Novacek's passing catching skills. He caught 59 passes last year for 664 yards, although he missed four games with a knee injury. "We need those three guys to be the kind of football team we can be," said quarterback Troy Aikman. "We can be good with what we have, but we can be great with them." Novacek has asked for $3.6 million for three seasons; the Cowboys have offered $2.44 mil lion for three years. Need Help Family Self Wants to With Rent: Sufficiency Help You! ;uys like Sean Jao a State and Rok ^lor give us mo se tney are bi he saia. tave the speed ai up well withM md his ability! >rd will employ : passing set, ‘ ere will be sob is the Cardinals is. ced everything ey do a lot of trap mouth football, concerned abot seen it all at son a great offenslt a so big up front' ie problems. Biii ? OK. We have and the restvi. ressed with Ail he ball, itanford must fir- the Aggies. ) not get inm# overall balanci plosion," plan, but it coni ace so we need ir big plays one: vggies must coc th ball-control ol d. hots you give chance they ha" execute." ust hours away i excitement wil her happiness i football fans, eman EricEnj k A&M fans W ;ame and a got" o something ri i some respect, ody is watchit; k we will disaf ar." 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