Rangers, Garza.... Awesome!!!!!

I try to keep my comments about baseball to a minimum.  Why?

Well to be honest...  it's mainly for fear of jinxing things.  When "my team" -- and yes, I am one of those people who refers to them as "my team" (Hey, I cheered for the Rangers back when they were terrible.  I've invested a lot of my precious time if nothing else...) -- but anyway, when my team is on a winning streak, I don't say a thing.  I don't kid about it with co-workers at the day job.  I don't brag about it on the ole blog here.  I keep it all inside, just one big happy (and very silent) smile.

Same is true for a losing streak.  I don't say a word, not on the blog, not in chat, nothing.  I just let the guys in the clubhouse do their thing.

But I will break that general rule just a little bit today, simply because Matt Garza is (and has been) one of my favorite players in all of baseball, and...  I have wanted to see him in a Rangers uniform ever since I first saw him pitch.  I love his passion for the game, for pitching, for life, all of it.  He's one of my top five favorite pitchers in the game right now, and he's going to be wearing a Rangers uniform.  Awesome!

Yu Darvish is another one of my top five favorite pitchers in baseball right now; so two out of five ain't too bad, eh?

Anyway...  Please forgive this small interruption in the regularly scheduled blog updates...  I did "finish" chapters 18 and 19 of the new book this weekend!