So much has happened this week and I have been unable to comment until now. It has definitely been a good news, bad news week.
First, the bad news. The Terminix Bug Killers dropped the championship game on Tuesday evening to His Way Construction 14-9. His Way jumped out to a 10-2 lead but the Bug Killers fought hard and competed valiantly.
The good news is the girls had a great year, finishing second in the league. The second place finish will result in a trophy for each of the girls. They deserve it.
Bad News #2: Kenny Rogers. The Gambler. I just have one question for Kenny: what in the name of sense are you thinking? The 41-year old veteran pitcher for the Rangers, who currently leads the American League in ERA, went postal on the cameramen surrounding the Ranger dugout Wednesday before the start of batting practice. Bud Selig has jurisdiction in the matter, since the incident occured on the playing field. His jurisdiction absolves Tom Hicks, John Hart and Buck Showalter of the need to step in and render the penalty. I hope the penalty is stiff. Rogers's actions were inexcusable.
The good news is the Rangers have responded to Rogers's tirade by winning two in a row, cutting the Angels lead in the West to 6.5 games.
Bad News #3: My sister called me this morning to tell me unless I divorce myself from the Rangers, my brother-in-law will never speak to me again. His rationale is this: several years back, I gave up on Houston Nutt's Razorback football program when senior leader Jermaine Brooks was arrested for a mountain of marijuana and other drug perephenalia in his apartment. Ryan reasons since the Rangers have become the Oakland Raiders of Major League Baseball (with the Frankie Francisco chair throwing incident in, of all places, Oakland last summer coupled with the aforementioned Rogers incident) I am morally compelled to dump my loyalty to the Rangers.
The good news is Ryan is wrong. My Ranger loyalty runs deep. Much deeper than my previous Razorback loyalty (by the way, does Houston Nutt keep his job with another 5-win season?).
Bad News #4: The Rangers now lead the American League with 128 home runs. The closest team to Texas in terms of home runs has 94. This team is fun but way, way too one-dimensional offensively.
The good news is the Rangers hit 8 home runs for the second time in five weeks yesterday, pasting the Angels 18-5. The recipient of both 8 homer games (which ironically each produced 18 runs)? Chris Young. Young must be living right in polar opposition to Rogers.
Yesterday, Kevin Mench did something that has only been done seven times in the history of Major League Baseball. He homered three times in three consecutive innings (the 5th, 6th and 7th). The home runs flew at such a pace that Mandy and I watched laughingly in the Love Field airport as the firework shooter at the Palace left after the 8th homerun, apparently out of ammunition.
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I'll be gone again for a few days. This time its off to Lake DeGray for a camping weekend with the family and several other young families from church. I'll be back on the 4th, reminiscing about living in a free land as a free servant of Jesus.
