Sports

I have thought about writing a post like this after game 6 of the world series but after such a gut wrenching defeat I decided to hold off. I just had my 34th birtday on tuesday and in my really 29 years of watching and paying close attention to sports I have never seen my fav team win a championship. When I grew up in Ohio many people thought I was a Cleveland Browns fan, but(this will probally lose me some friends) I grew up a Philadelphia Eagles fan. We have made it to a few championship games, and 1 Super Bowl(don't get mad NFL for me calling it that), and have lost. My childhood team was the Cleveland Indians. They were TERRIBLE, except for 1995 and 1997. In 95 it was the Braves that beat us(for thier only title) then in 1997 in Game 7 1 day after my birthday Jose Mesa gives up the hit to Édgar Bleeping Rentería and my dreams were crushed again. I don't even want to bring up as a kid and Michael Jordan and Craig Ehlo.

I moved to Texas in 1993 and adopted the Texas Rangers as my new team since I plan on spending the rest of my life here. From 1997-2010 my fav team in my fav sport never even sniffed a championship. Then in 2010 the Rangers made the world series for the first time in team history, only to flash back to my childhood and Édgar Bleeping Rentería and the San Franciso Giants break my heart again. Then for the first time in 20 years they make it back to the world series again! They go all the way to game 7 the final night of the season, alas I am still heartbroken again, but it still doesn't change how I feel.

The reason we all watch sports is because its the best drama and the best version of reality tv. You cant script this stuff, not in a million years! Unfortuately the mentalty of the Dallas and maybe the Texas sports fan is Title or Bust, and I'm sorry but there is gonna be a lot more busts than titles. Every year in the 4 major sports leagues 4 teams win championships and 121 teams are left heartbroken. Sometimes I think peoeple take for granted the actualy run to the championship game/series. Trust me until this season I had gone 13 years without seeing a team that I root for even make it to the championship game/series, it doesn't come around as often as we all hope it will.

For the people saying that they want to fire Ron Washington, and cut C.J. and cut Mike Young, I say that you don't know anything about sports what so ever. Now if it comes down to a matter of money and you can't keep C.J. then I am fine with that. But just to dismiss him like that is ridiculous! As much as I don't like his attitude and personality, he was HUGE part of the Rangers getting to the World Series, and for the right price you have to keep him. Yes Ron made some decison that you can question during the series but without him we aren't here either. It takes in this case 25 guys to win or lose a series, not 3 or not even 1. I know right now it hurts and it will hurt for the next 158 days until spring training starts, then we hop on the ride again and hopefully can make it back to the World Series for the 3rd straight time. Trust me you will enjoy sports more if you sit back and enjoy the ride the whole time, instead of thinking you are deserving of a title. So let it hurt, and trust me I know that it does cause I am still hurting, but then lets all go out to the ballpark and cheer them on again next year and enjoy such a wonderful ride again. Nobody said winning a title is easy, think about fans of the Seattle Mariners and the Washington Nationals/Montreal Expos who have never been to the World Series, or the Astros,Rockies,Rays,Padres,and Brewers who also have never won the World Series. Sports is a great roller coaster ride sometimes you throw up with nervousness,and cry when you lose, but it also makes winning the whole thing taste that much sweeter when you win.