Hey, Yu.

Hey, Yu.

See that kid who just did that last night?

There’s more where he came from.

See that other kid who debuted just a few days before, and did what he did?

More of that, too.

See that igniter Delino and what he brings? Keone?

Yeah, I miss your little buddy Roogie, too, and what he brings. He’ll be back.

So will Derek and Martin and Matty. They’ll be back by time you are, and you’ll all be part of this thing together again.

See what your old teammate Josh came back and did?

I know you did, because you were on the field with everyone else ambushing him.

Dude — are you believing this manager?

Seriously, don’t you want to compete for this guy for years and years?

For this organization, the one that relentlessly found a way to make you a Texas Ranger just as it did with Joey, and Adrian, and Josh, twice?

Don’t you want to go to battle with Adrian and Prince — man, with Prince — and Roogie and Delino and Joey and Chi Chi and their friends Jorge and Nomar and Jake and a whole bunch of others coming in right behind them, and with Shawn and Keone and Tanner, and Elvis and Leonys and Choo and Mitch, and Derek and Martin and Matty?

And that warrior, Colby?

Look where this thing is without you and without so many other beasts who will be back.

Imagine what it’s gonna be like when that happens.

You know you want to stand on that hill with the ball in your hands in front of this team, everyone following your lead in the red or white or blue or gray that you chose. You remember the energy here. You felt it Saturday, and Sunday, and last night.

And you remember when you’ve been the one who triggered it.

There are legacies to be built, and built upon, both team and player, and you want to do that here, where this awesome phase of your baseball life began.

You want to play and win for these teammates and for these fans and for Jeff Banister.

You know it, man.

Right here.

For a long time.