Hi. Did You Hear About the Rangers? They’re Kind of Awesome.

Posted on October 22nd, 2010 10:09pm by Bethany Anderson
Filed under Sports, Super Heroes, mythical beasts

photo (10)Just stop for a minute, and take this in: A team who was mired in bankruptcy, with a payroll of $55 million, just beat a team that basically expects to go to the World Series every year because it’s what they do. And now the Rangers will go to the World Series. The Rangers, not the Yankees. Some fans have waited patiently since the team came here for this. Some just noticed that there’s a baseball club in Arlington, and the debit card charge at Wal-Mart for their Rangers shirt hasn’t even cleared the bank yet.

But I think Ron Washington has summed up the feeling best. Here, and here.  Wash’s heart and gut beat (as someone aptly pointed out to me as we all watched the game) Joe Girardi’s binder. It sounds like a story book ending, because it is. These are your Texas Rangers, y’all, and they’re going to the World Series.

7 comments

  1. Hat That!

    @ 10:17 pm on October 22, 2010

  2. I just wish Tim had watched the game.

    @ 10:20 pm on October 22, 2010

  3. Woot!

    @ 10:24 pm on October 22, 2010

  4. One of the hazards of doing a live broadcast from a sports bar just after the local team has made it into the World Series….lotsa F-bombs going off. Will not mention the channel specifically, but the atmosphere in the bar there was festive.

    @ 10:54 pm on October 22, 2010

  5. Someone needs to let the DMN know that the World Series has a team from the American League, thankfully the Rangers, and one from the National League.

    @ 6:43 am on October 23, 2010

  6. “Some just noticed that there’s a baseball club in Arlington, and the debit card charge at Wal-Mart for their Rangers shirt hasn’t even cleared the bank yet.”

    Best. Line. Ever.

    @ 12:17 pm on October 23, 2010

  7. I grew up a Dodgers fan. I was 7 when they came to LA and I learned to hate the Giants. Then I became an Angels fan and kind of outgrew my childhood hatred of SF until I lived the SF bay area for 9 years, and learned to truly hate that team, their management and their fans. Moved back to SoCal in 2001.And then there’s 2002. If I hadn’t lived in the area for 9 years I would have despised the Giants just for the way they behaved on the field, not to mention that their fans made the Yankees fans look polite that year.

    @ 6:13 pm on October 23, 2010

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