Eating My Words (Go Rangers!)

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.....

Baseball Talk

Soooo, I never watch baseball. At least never on TV. And I rarely go to games. Mostly it's because our (Dallas) baseball team sucks. And if they happen to not be sucking, its pretty certain that if you give them enough time, they will begin to suck again. And by suck I mean the following:

• the Rangers are the ONLY current MLB franchise which has yet to win a playoff series
• they have NEVER won a home playoff game
• they are 1 of only 3 current MLB teams to have never gone to the World Series
• they are the oldest active MLB franchise yet to appear in the Series
• they are the oldest franchise in ALL FOUR major American pro sports leagues to have never appeared in the league's championship
  
• they are the ONLY Dallas/Ft. Worth area professional team to never reach the championship

In a word, LOSERS. And THAT is why I don't watch baseball. I consider myself pretty loyal so I don't feel right rooting for another team. On the small chance I do attend a Rangers game, I'm only there for the beer and the nachos. I have absolute faith that they will not win; and if they do, they surely will have a sub- .500 record. Maybe that's terrible of me, but that's how I feel.

The only time I do watch baseball is during the World Series. And even then its more of a lack of better programing than an actual interest in the game or the outcome. And it makes me sad! I mean, baseball is America's pastime! It should be a part of of all our lives, and not just when the Series rolls around. I really wish that I enjoyed baseball more. While watching the current series, I almost feel envious of the fans and the emotional connection they have with their teams. It must be so exciting to watch your team play in the World Series! But I wouldn't know.

It would be great to cheer, wholeheartedly and unconditionally, for our ball club.....but I don't root for losers. Sorry boys.

Go Yankees!!! (kidding) :-)