For my loyal followers, you may remember this post from last year where I pretty much bashed the Texas Rangers organization and called them a bunch of "losers" and went on about how I couldn't enjoy baseball because our team sucks and how I would never experience the exciting feeling of watching my team play in the World Series.
Until now.
Yes, I am currently eating my own words. To an extent.
Don't get me wrong, I am not saying that I was wrong or that I take back all my ranting (it did take them 39 years to get here), but I will admit that they've had a great season and they really have been very exciting to watch. All day I've been catching myself thinking about the game tonight and noticing a growing butterfly feeling in my stomach at the thought that the RANGERS could be in the World Series!!!!! The buzz seems to be everywhere; everyone is talking about them around here. There are status posts galore on Facebook, along with a rather interesting rendition of the Lord's Prayer (Our Rangers, who art in Texas, winners be thy name....). I've also heard many "loyal" Ranger fans complain about the "fair-weather" fans who were once, like me, bashing the Rangers but are now kissing the ground they walk on. While I am excited about the Rangers season and their potential World Series berth, I currently do not consider myself a "loyal fan"; I haven't even gone out and bought a t-shirt. I am not running around rewriting prayers or proclaiming that "my team" is God's gift to baseball and whatnot. While I will cheer for the Rangers tonight and (hopefully) in the Series, don't expect this "fan" to be converted to Ranger-dom so easily as the rest of this fair-weather city. If these guys can continue to make the playoffs and win championships and prove that they are indeed a good ball club and not just a once-every-thirty-nine-year fluke, then yes, I will buy my red and blue t-shirt and become a die hard fan. Until that day though, I would keep your "holier-than-thou" attitudes about the Rangers to yourself....I would hate for you to have to eat your own words next year.
Oh! Also. What, exactly, do claws and antlers have to do with Rangers or baseball? I just don't get that one.....
