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| It's All Over |
No excuses. Texas bats just did show up to this World Series. All the big guns were silent. I have to confess to tearing up a bit after the final out. I turned off the TV so I would have to watch the spectacle of the Giants celebrating their victory in the Ballpark in Arlington. Congratulations to them. They outplayed the Rangers, out-pitched the Rangers especially. First win for the franchise since it's been in San Francisco, so nice for them.
But as my son Ben reminds me, the Rangers have a whole new winning attitude, new leadership willing to spend money, and a young, young team with a fat farm system stuffed with great young players. Things look bright for the future.
Now that my bucket list wish to see the Rangers in the World Series has been fulfilled, I'm going to make a new entry. To see the Rangers win the World Series. And this time, I think it's really possible. (Not like the original entry about the Rangers . . . which I never thought possible.)
Only 104 days till pitchers and catchers report for spring training. Go Rangers!
*He hit 3 home runs all year . . . he hit 2 in the World Series.
6 comments:
awwwww sorry your team chocked up so badly. :( Your tearing up part made me think about how Willie Morris wrote in "Good Old Boy", about doing the same thing while listening to all the radio broadcasts of the STL Cardinals' games played from the radio in his parent's living room in Yazoo City.
I've never given a second's thought to the Rangers--(but remember MLB is my weakest knowledge content area of the big "3" games.)--but as the playoffs wound down & I saw how they truly were gonna be the underdogs, my hopes lay in their ultimate success at the season's end...esp. since they ended up playing against the Giants.
Nothing against the Giants, (their stadium is my absolute most favorite of all the +/- 4 MLB stadiums I've actually sat in), but the Giants (I think) have already won the World Series at least once...probably several times over..LOL I tend to always side with the underdogs in all genres, so I'd hoped your team really would succeed.
Chocked up underdogs is a condition that's very familiar for me. I'm sure there's a record book somewhere that lists the Rebels at the very top for teams with the most impressive amounts of chocked up moments in sports history. They've managed to hold onto epic underdog status in nearly every athletic field since about the time of Morris's childhood. LOL
Unlike a certain Bengal Tiger school a little ways up the road from the Bayou Teche.... :)
I've got to start using a spellchecker. I can't believe I misspelled choke at least a half a dozen times above. LMAO Blondie strikes again!
Yes, it was a sad spectacle indeed. But as I said, the Rangers are looking potent for the next few years. One thing for certain is that the rest of the baseball world will have to take them seriously now. That in itself will be novel.
Actually, I don't know if the Rangers were "underdogs" in the classic sense. They had the best offensive lineup in the major leagues. Unaccountably (Giant pitching cannot be discounted) that lineup did show up for the Series.
Are you an Ole Miss Reb? (or should I say Black Bear?)
Hell yeah, damn right!!
LOL
I'm sorry if I sounded so cryptic in that comment earlier. I'd just thought that I'd once mentioned that to you, several months back. Also, I'm sorry for my very tardy & delayed response tonight. Last week turned out being just unbelievably frenzied for me. But, I know that one day I will look back upon it with zero regrets, and thus will have all been wisely well worth it! :)
The Mississippi Black Bears. WOOT!!
But hey, it's still better than what the University's original team/mascot was, prior to the Colonel's creation following WWII...Before we were the Ole Miss Rebels we were the 'Mississippi Flood'...WOOT! WOOT!!
LOL
R.I.P., Colonel Reb, R.I.P......old times there will not ever be forgotten. ~Hotty Toddy
Omigosh! The Flood? That is awful. Almost as awful as the Black Bears. Are you still living in Mississippi? I was born there: in Vicksburg. I think the Civil War is in my blood.
Yeah, the Flood. Technically, it's just as historical & accurately-based as the black bears are...it's just that both events happened so long ago that most of the youth in the state haven't the foggiest notion about what (and where) exactly those mascot names may have originated from. Much less for out-of-state pple. who've little to no knowledge about the state's history/culture...not misspelling the name is about the most you can hope for in that regard.
As a native Vicksburg son, I imagine you've heard something about the Great Flood of 1927. There's a great book on it that I read several years ago, "Rising Tide". It's how I became familiar with the Percy name in Mississippi. Walker's Great-Uncle, Senator LeRoy Percy, along with his son, William Alexander, played a significant role during the flood's crisis. The flood was sort of like the hurricane Katrina of it's day & age. Anyway, that's where the University got it's original "mascot" or team name, The Mississippi Flood. The Great Flood of 1927
The TR hunting party & black bear cub incident also occurred in the Delta region, but several yrs. prior to the flood. TR's bear hunting trip in MS
And as for your question, I am indeed at this time. First time back in the state since 2003, and I actually am staying less than 30mins. from the true Delta region. All incredibly fascinating for myself, personally, b/c this whole area is nothing like the region I was born & raised in (Lee county). I've had a strange attraction to the Delta's roots, culture & sociological elements ever since I was an undergrad in Oxford...even though Oxford's only the halfway point when traveling to the Delta from the easternmost counties of the state, it is where I first encountered pple. who were Delta natives & thus, how I got the opportunity to travel out that way.
But where native-born Delta residents find that area to be so depressing, destitute and even "ugly", I've always found it to be just fascinating--prob. mainly due to it's deep, rich cultural heritage et al...I don't know. Then again it could just simply be b/c it's so unlike anything at all from where my background knowledge base originated from! lol
I could go on & on & on for days about MS/Southern history/culture...LOL Although I was born & raised here, neither of my parents were from the state & so my family "ties" are all non-Mississippian. Another factor that makes my weird obsessions w/MS even more perplexing. lol As I wrote, I could go on for days about these topics...but I'm here now looking into a different career field that links all of the above together, but I'm hesitant to post more specifics online due to a couple of "parasites" I acquired a couple years ago...I don't know why, but mine seem to always be female and they're the worst to completely eradicate! lol
Anyway, if you want to discuss more details you're welcome to write to japasserby@gmail.com I remember you used to have a contact email on your profile a long time ago, but not now. Otherwise, I would have sent all of this in a message that way. Either way though, all of the work/research I'm in the midst of doing right now is the reason why I've not had much opportunity to get online, not even to simply check my email barely. But I try to flag ones that I wish to reply to---eventually..lol.
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