They won the second game, 2-1, thanks to Ian, Elvis, Josh and Michael, in the top of the ninth. Whoo-eee, what a game. Then Neftali closed the Cards out.
The chant title is from Mr. B’s old T-ball team, back in ’06, which was also called the Rangers.
Now home to Arlington for three, which could be the four they need. Maybe.
That’s my considered prediction for the Series which starts tonight. The Cardinals are just too good not to win a few. Scott agrees, though his hedging is all over the block, nervous as a long-tailed cat in a room full of rockers. I’ll be happiest if the Boys from Arlington take tonight’s game. More on the update.
UPDATE: Rangers in seven? It was a shock, the TR’s 3-2 loss, mainly because their biggest bats were silent. “Power Outage,” said the Boston Globe. It was that. Hope it was the cold—Elvis Andrus was wearing earmuffs. Are we in for another lost Series? Wait and see.
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They won their second pennant last night, bats aflame in a 15-5 beatdown of El Tigres de Detroit, and advance to their second World Series in a row—a first in the American League West since the Oakland As did it in 1988-90, according to Fox Sports.
Hope they can win this one, whomever they play, St. Louis or Milwaukee, and not be plowed under again as San Francisco did to them last year. I’m sure their No. 1 fan, my very own Webmaster who is undergoing chemo at the moment, is optimistic. But he usually is where the Rangers are concerned.
UPDATE: The Cardinals are their opponent, starting Wednesday. Go TR!
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Tagged Texas Rangers baseball, The Fat Guy
We’ve had 2.5 inches of rain at the rancho in the past forty-eight hours, with more forecast, though radar indicates the cells are heading away from us. Not unusual (despite our big drought) for October, which usually sees rain after the heat and high pressure of spring-summer-early-fall dissipate.
Delicious irony, as well, after the daily invited some local journo student group to weigh in with a big Sunday story on how (get this) drought and heat are our “new normal” thanks to impending AGW—which, the story proclaims, most Texas scientists agree is happening, so we’re in big, big trouble.
For one thing, the students are ignorant of Texas history, in which drought and heat are very much the “old normal.” And the rest of their argument is the familiar “consensus” wheeze of the ignorant. The critical mass of scientists, etc., as if science (like politics) was decided by majority vote.
These young journos are as clueless as the old ones who teach them. Probably for that reason. Fortunately they’ll have a lot harder time finding jobs to propagandize us. As for the “scientists,” these “climatologists” need to change their name to “cosmetologists.” They’re more about the latest trend in face powder and lipstick than climate.
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I guess we’ll find out tonight, if the Bankees can beat Detroit. Wouldn’t bother me a bit if those money grubbers lost. The Tigers would be a fine opponent for the defending American League champs taking another shot at the pennant and the World Series.
UPDATE: It’s the Tigers! They beat the Yankees 3-2 about ten minutes ago.
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“Some reports have said he is accused of leaking Iranian nuclear secrets to the U.S. But John Keto, chairman of the graduate studies program for UT’s physics department, told the American-Statesman that Iran’s accusations against [Omid] Kokabee were ludicrous because he never studied nuclear science. Keto described Kokabee as quiet and apolitical.”
Good luck, Omid. With the mad mullahs of Iran, you’re going to need it.
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Texas GOP Governor Rick Perry: “What we have is a soft president.”
And a corrupt one, as well. Just where did this man who never held a normal job get the $42,000 for Michelle’s new diamond bracelets? Bribes from his pals in Saudi Arabia, perchance?
Meanwhile our “permanent recession” economy (official unemployment: 9.1 percent; real figure probably closer to 20 percent) is being strangled by over-regulation—including his EPA’s impending job-killing curbing of carbon dioxide as a “pollutant.”
The latest example of how the bureaucrats rule: making and enforcing ad hoc regulations that bypass the constitutional requirement that any such new regulation must come from congress.
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