It’s not dead yet, maybe?
Posted by TFG on July 7th, 2008
THE TEXAS SCRIBBLER: Hamilton, Bradley, Kinsler & Young
Mr. B. was thrilled
Mr. TFG is tickled pink that someone under the age of 40 cares about baseball, period, much less the idiot GDMFSOB heart-breaking-since-1972* Rangers. You can’t possibly know how happy that makes me.
I want to drive up and see a Mr. B game, but that would be very damn weird, I think, no matter how much this old fart loves watching kids play the game I love so much, the best game ever invented. Too weird by half, here in the aughts. Shame, that, but I’d probably be arrested as a paedophile these days, and I’m sure they don’t appreciate beer in the stands like they ignored it when I learned the game. So, I hope Mr. B keeps the flame going long enough so I can go see my grandsons play. I bet that’ll happen, no matter my cynicism. There’s a good reason we don’t have soccer as our default sport, and that reason is called baseball, my friends. Lotsa stuff going on there that not many get.
* Dang, 36 years. Two faggy little watered-down playoff shows. Worst night of my life was watching the Johnny Oates-led Rangers fall to the stinking Yankees while I sat in a damn Connecticut bar, surrounded by the preening peacock NYY fans. Losing my dad was rough on a different night, sure, but I knew he wasn’t going to be immortal, particularly given his proclivities, so I had no hope for that. I had hope that the stupid Rangers could do some damage, though, against General Motors. Man, I hate the Yankees. And here I’m a Cowboys fan. Some things just work out to screw you over, I guess, but you always want what you cannot have, and I fear that that’s a Rangers World Series for me. Really, I’d be thrilled to know that my grandsons will see that, but you can’t, can you?
July 8th, 2008 at 8:07 am
Hang in there Scott,we may still see the Rangers win The WS before we die. If not I just finished managing my son’s 16 and over team in the BBI and there are plenty of kids who love Baseball. Maybe they will see the day, we can only hope. Look at the Red Sox.
July 8th, 2008 at 3:14 pm
Shocked as I am to see you curse your Rangers, I have to agree. But four hitters in the all-stars is pretty good. Now, if they can just beat the Angels in some of these next five games…
July 8th, 2008 at 10:46 pm
Winning 3-2 tonight is a good start. T.J. had me scared there for a while, loading the bases like that.
July 9th, 2008 at 5:34 am
C’mon. The Astros have been screwed up way longer than the Rangers.
I think I liked the ‘Stros better when I first moved down here, in ‘74, when it was a huge accomplishment to NOT finish dead last - you could go to the Dome and sit almost anywhere, hear and SEE individual fans yelling. The beer was terrible, then, Dome-foam, we called it, but it would get you wasted enough to get you thrown out by the seventh inning if you tried hard.
Course, after the game, stop at that ice house just outside of Pearland on 35 for a few more…
July 9th, 2008 at 1:25 pm
Yeah, but I didn’t go to Astros First-Ever Opening Day with my mom and dad, like I did the stRangers. Or take my kid to a million Stros games. Sentimentality is hard.
July 10th, 2008 at 4:41 pm
Beating the Angels twice in a row with two rookie pitchers is pretty cool. If they win again tonight, they’ll be just 5.5 games behind. Nice to see they will, at least, survive the All-Star break this year.