Great to see the Rangers take the Pennant.
The play that will stick with me was the Rangers double steal of second and home in game (IIRC) 1.
“The slider curled in so neatly on Rodriguez-—who hit .190 with two runs batted in over the entire ALCS-—that he might not have been able to pull the trigger on the swing even with a vault door in his hands for a bat. The gigastar who wanted out of Texas after the 2003 season because he wasn’t crazy about being surrounded with twenty-four kids could only stand frozen as a kid dropped a pennant-winning third strike in on him.”
That really was sweet.
And when the Rangers had them down 3-1 in the series - Star Telegram writer, Randy Galloway wrote: ‘The Boys of Bankruptcy now have the Bank of Baseball shoved to the brink.’ in reference to the financial status of the two teams. Guess money really can’t buy everything.
Key concept...They are not entitled to wear the ring. They earn the ring by beating the opposition. And when they fall short they are usually in contention for the pennant or the series. They are consistently at the top or near the top of the game. What kills Yankee haters is their teams are not as good on a consistent basis as the Yankees. Well I am a Yankee fan and an AL fan. So...Go get em Rangers!! Show that triple A National League how to play ball!!
´Hope Bush throws out the first pitch in Texas.