Appointment viewing.
I give you no choice but to find six extra minutes today. Now would be best.
On Friday, the Rangers and Longhorns won baseball games.
On Saturday, the Rangers and Longhorns won baseball games.
On Sunday, the Rangers and Longhorns won baseball games.
It was a nearly perfect baseball weekend for me.
And I just had what might be the best six minutes I’ll have all week — watching this:
Three in-the-moment reactions:
I can’t believe I’ve never watched and listened to this — the greatest game I will ever have experienced in my life — in its entirety, as I was in the stands that night down the first base line, with no replays and no voices aside from those of all the Diamondbacks fans around me. I need to remedy that.
I bet Corey Ragsdale would have sent Evan Carter home in the top of the seventh.
Though I’ve written over and over that the Game 5 win was much, much bigger than a five-game World Series would suggest — given that a loss would have meant facing Merrill Kelly (who had dominated Texas in Game 2) in Game 6 and then some sort of pitching scramble in a Game 7, since Max Scherzer had been deactivated — I’d forgotten that the score of this one was merely 1-0 going to the ninth.
I decided to write this quick post not only to invite you to watch that golden gold yourself but also to tell you that I’m extremely motivated — probably even more so after these last few minutes — to dive into some big-picture angles on what the Rangers might need to do (and can do) to get back to that glorious world of late-October baseball.
Watch that video. And then stay tuned.
I have played the game, been a student of the game all my life but at the moment of Josh Sborz’s WS clinching pitch I didn’t sense the greater impact of what the Ranger’s had accomplished. The big picture hit me later; the difficulty of winning series after series and being the underdog all along the way…….How nice to relive this moment while it being set in perspective this time…..can’t watch it too often!!
I'd like to say that I broke out the Pappy Van Winkle after the game, but it was just a normal bottle of Maker's Mark. And the MLB Ticket started re-playing the game two hours after it was over. I watched it two more times before the sun came up, and I got out my old baseball glove so that I could slam it with Sborz each time he closed it out again.