“We’ve secretly replaced the Arizona hitting coach with Morgan Ensberg. Let’s see if anyone notices.”
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Will Smith is one lucky ball player.
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I agree with this. I hate them, but they had an impressive run.
One WS win does not a championship team make. They’ll have to keep it up the rest of the decade to be where the Astros are.
But good for them, great playoff run, all that. See you next year when we’re all healthy.
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I guess you gotta be happy for Rangers fan, they finally have something good to point to other than Odor punching Adolis Garcia Jose Bautista
Wow, no shit. Talk about right place right time.
My hope was baseball would keep its integrity in terms of umpiring as basketball and football lose theirs. After this post-season, I am very worried.
My parents were from eastern Fort Worth and I have relatives who I am happy for. Arlington was always far more a part of Fort Worth than of Dallas. But my utter disdain for Dallas makes it difficult for me to take any solace here.
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Someone pointed out this morning that the Rangers beat the
(R)ays
(O)rioles
(A)stros
(D)iamondbacks
Going 11-0 on the road.
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It’s almost like they were only an 84-win team that hit a hot streak at the right time before regressing.
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I have a close friend here in Austin who is from from Arlington and whose Dad has terminal brain cancer. He’s been a big stRangers fan since they were transplanted from DC in ‘72 so I’m glad for her and her family.
Still, overall, ugh.
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I am happy for my friend Jerry and for Mark’s and my friend Rachel. That starts and ends my happiness for Rangers fans.
A sensible Ranger fan friend of mine is around my age and has lived through their ups and downs, near misses and awful seasons, since the 90s, just like we have with the Astros. He texted me a few minutes after the final out, simply saying, “So this is what this feels like?”
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At 1:18
Congratulations to the Rangers.
Fuck the Rangers!
Onward to the void.
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Long ago, long before inter-league play, back in the mid to late 70s when I was living in the DFW area, I attempted to follow the Rangers as my American League team of choice. I was always a Fergie Jenkins fan. But I just never could get into caring about the Rangers. I only cared about the Astros. I didn’t hate them. Hate didn’t come until inter-league play. And I don’t care about what the team or their fans think or feel. Fuck the Rangers.
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That is exactly the kind of dumb pointless shit that I absolutely love.
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If the Astros did something like that, I’d buy the poster.
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These last few weeks have been a real exercise in me complying with my mantra: I will not argue with strangers on the internet. Ah-oom.
This week, in fact ON Wednesday, I made a quick trip to Dallas for an appointment. I stayed at my friend Cathy’s house that night because she’s very close to DFW airport. We saw the final pitch happen while we were catching up.
Thursday morning, over coffee, her son (who had come home after the rest of us hit the sack) got a very pleasant congratulations from me. He was still excited from the win the night before, understandably. Then he realized that I’m an Astros fan and told me to get out of his house and root for the Cheatstros elsewhere.
Cathy chided him, saying-- you know she’s from Houston. You’ve known her for 15 years and you know she’s a fan of the Houston sports teams. Wtf is wrong with you? (Cathy likes football and hockey but is not a big follower of baseball.)
I kept it simple: This is why nobody likes y’all. We try to be nice, and y’all fling shit in our faces. Enjoy your win.
He was mostly kidding, except for the Cheatstros crack. His mother is one of my best friends. But he’s still someone I know, for Chrissakes. JFC.
SHIT LIKE THIS IS WHY NOBODY LIKES Y’ALL.
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