Nolan Ryan Breaks The Unintentional Comedy Meter

Per the DMN's writeup on the $26-28 hot dog coming to the new Captain Morgan Club (sidenote: promoting the hot dog itself has proven a genius way of increasing the public's awareness of the CMC):

"I just heard about it, and I thought it was a $28 hot dog," said Texas Rangers CEO and President Nolan Ryan told Galloway and Company on KESN-FM 103.3 in Dallas. "You all may have discounted it, I don't know. I don't know what one of those looks like. And when [Rangers Executive Vice President, Communications] John Blake came in and told me that Sportservice had announced that yesterday, I asked him how big the wiener was. He didn't know. But it has to be a tremendous wiener. And then we're getting some kind of exotic bread flown in from France. And I don't know what kind of condiments you put on that. But I do want to look at it."

Is that something Ryan would eat?

"Maybe there's a family out there that likes exotic hot dogs," Ryan said. "I'm pretty old plain Jane. I kind of like just a regular wiener and a bun with a little relish and mustard."

If you'd like to hear Nolan actually enunciate the line "it has to be a tremendous wiener," Galloway's podcast is here. I wonder if Nolan would have still selected that same terminology if he had known that the DMN would craft a headline out of him talking about a tremendous wiener.