Saturday, October 23, 2010

October 2010: The Rangers won the AL pennant!



On this day in 2010, the Texas Rangers ended almost 4 decades of frustration for baseball fans in North Texas.  It still feels like it was yesterday.

Who could have written a better script?

The Rangers beat NY, the same team that swept them 3 times in the late 1990's!

Feliz, the young closer, struck out A-Rod to finish the game and put the Rangers in the World Series.

Great memories!

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Friday, October 22, 2010

October 2010 and memories of Cliff Lee with the Rangers





Looking back at the 2010 post-season, New York came to town for game 1 of the ALCS after the Rangers beat Tampa in the first round.    


Game 1 was a disaster:  a devastating loss to New York.   Remember how everybody was speculating that the Rangers would crack after that horrific 8th inning?

They didn't and you can thank the pitching of Cliff Lee.   He was phenomenal in the 2010 post season:


"Lee was 4-0 with a 1.56 ERA in the 2009 postseason.

He has encored with a 3-0 record and a 0.75 ERA to date in the '10 postseason.

He is 3-0 against the Yankees in the past two postseasons.

In all three of his playoff starts this October, he has struck out 10 or more men, becoming the first pitcher to do that in one postseason."(MLB)

And so we remember Cliff Lee......and the 2010 AL champs.

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Wednesday, October 13, 2010

1845: A little history of Texas


As we teach our kids in Texas, our state has a long history going back to Mexico, the independent republic of Texas to the current state of Texas.

Here is a little history for you:
"On this day in 1845, a majority of the citizens of the independent Republic of Texasapprove a proposed constitution, that when accepted by the Congress, will make Texas the 28th American state.........."
So that's the rest of the story, as a famous radio host used to say.   By the way, the Michener book about Texas is interesting.
 
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Tuesday, October 12, 2010

October 2010: The Rangers finally won a post-season series











October 2010 and the Rangers beat the Rays in Tampa.

Cliff Lee's complete game, aggressive base running and Ian Kinsler's  home run ended many years of frustration in North Texas.

The Rangers finally won a post season series. (They lost 3 times to the Yankees in the late 1990's).  

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