"By the rivers of Babylon we sat down; there we wept when we remembered Zion."
-Psalm 137, Verse 1
This post isn’t about baseball.
-- Marla, NDC Class of 1979
A little baseball, a little nonsense, few serious thoughts on life, television, food, the Texas Rangers and whatever else Marla Hooch thinks she needs to share with the intenet
"By the rivers of Babylon we sat down; there we wept when we remembered Zion."
-Psalm 137, Verse 1
This post isn’t about baseball.
-- Marla, NDC Class of 1979
I heard a very interesting proverb this past weekend:
If I had anything to
complain about that team, November 1st, changed it all and I’ll love
all of those guys till the day I die.
I’ve been thinking about what to call my occasional random thoughts, off- topic musings and rhetorical questions. I still haven’t come up with something I like (and that hasn’t already been used by someone else) So, I’ll try out a few titles until I find one I like.
Hmm, let’s see a lot has happened in the 11+ years since
my last blog post: blogs are out, podcasts
are in – no I will never bore you with a podcast. Our friend TR Sullivan retired, the Fort Worth Star Telegram retired from
baseball too (no more beat writer or daily coverage) The Athletic retired from
baseball (well, their coverage has shrunk considerably to be borderline not worth
it). The Astros cheated, Vin Scully, Hank Aaron, Charlie Pride and two of my
dearest DTFCer’s left us. Mr. Sterling crossed
the Rainbow Bridge. We spent 2 years at
home looking out the window worrying, then returned to a world that had been
drastically altered. We’re done with
Twitter, over saturated with Tik Tok, fake news is now real news, opinion overrides
facts. The earth got a lot warmer and its inhabitants a lot meaner.
Most importantly: on November 1st 2023, I cried my eyes out and literally jumped for joy, because as Eric Nadel so eloquently stated “may the ghosts of 2011 be forever erased” – and they were when the Rangers, finally, won the World Series.
What happens next? Right now, I don’t care, as one of our Ranger baseball guru’s stated: The Rangers can’t hurt me anymore.