My state.

By the end of the night, weather permitting, there will have been 12 playoff games played. I found something sorta interesting about those dozen games, if not very important.

In the AL Wild Card Game on Tuesday, neither Toronto’s nor Baltimore’s starting pitcher had Texas ties, but the pitching story of the game was Orioles closer Zach Britton, who went to Weatherford High School.

In the NL Wild Card Game on Wednesday, the Mets started Mansfield Legacy High School produce Noah Syndergaard.

On Thursday, the Rangers played one game, and in the other ALDS Game One, Cleveland gave the ball to Trevor Bauer, who was heavily rumored late in spring training to be a Rangers trade target.

Four games were played on Friday: Texas played in one; Corey Kluber (Coppell High School) started another; Clayton Kershaw (Highland Park High School) faced Max Scherzer (who pitched professionally for the Fort Worth Cats while negotiating with the Diamondbacks as their first-round pick) in the third; and Jon Lester, who was traded to the Rangers as a AA prospect in the Alex Rodriguez deal with Boston that MLB ultimately rejected, started the fourth.

One game was played yesterday, and in it former Rangers farmhand Kyle Hendricks started for the Cubs.

Today there are three DS match-ups slated.

Former Rangers minor leaguer Tanner Roark starts for Washington in the early game.

The mid-afternoon contest pits Cleveland’s Josh Tomlin (Tyler native; Whitehouse High School; Angelina College in Lufkin; Texas Tech University) against Boston’s Clay Buchholz (Nederland, Texas/Lumberton, Texas native; Tomlin’s 2005 teammate with Angelina College in Lufkin).

The Rangers play the night game.

And that’s this morning’s edition of I Hope This Didn’t Push You to Unsubscribe Even Though It’s Arguably the Worst NR Entry Ever or at Least in a While and I Badly Need Game Three to Hurry Up and Get Here.