The Rangers are more a passion for the girlfriend and her family, but I have a mild rooting interest. And since everyone is tired of me making fun of the Cowboys.....


I hope that strategy continues to work for you. For me, I think there might have been two games of perhaps one season that I was happy The Cowboys won. I forget when, and why.

My greatest fandom of Dallas ended when the Rangerette's and their little short skirts and cowgirl hats and tight cowgirl boots were deep sixed. And THAT was a long time ago.

I've always had a thing for a cute girl in a hat.

Most of the time of most of my life I've hated the self anointed America's Team.

When I was in Dallas and talking to Texans, I'd usually just mention that I had for years respected the franchise, and especially Roger Staubach and Tom Landry.

I also sometimes mentioned that I loved Don Meredith on Monday Night Football.

All true statements.

I never mentioned that there were many games I would have been happy if Tony Dorsett or Emmett Smith would have blown out a knee.

But that's just me.

As I recall Charlie, you are east of the DFW metroplex proper. I might be wrong. In my single years working Dallas I knew a younger girl who was a pretty good programmer/developer who introduced me to some interesting venues in Deep Ellum.

My personal fave place outside of Deep Ellum or the West End was a bar that normally played weekly night jazz atop the Anatole off the Stemmons Freeway. It was a great venue if I went in with a girl. And a great venue if I did not have a girl upon entry. Super drink sipping view of the Dallas skyline in a warm and rich environment, at least into the early 90's.

DFW neighborhoods have changed more quickly than the numbers of a McDonald's sign in the 1980's when Liz Taylor was eating there.

(rimshot)


(credit, Joan Rivers)

St. Louis announced with authority in the DFW metroplex this evening.

If Nolan Ryan's team retorts tomorrow....and I think they will.........it'll be a great final three games for baseball fans.

For me, I think there might have been two games of perhaps one season that I was happy The Cowboys won. I forget when, and why.

When Bernie joined the Cowboys and was on the field I rooted for them. And remember rooting for them when they played the steelers in the super bowl. But that is it for me as well.

Hillbilly wrote:For me, I think there might have been two games of perhaps one season that I was happy The Cowboys won. I forget when, and why.

When Bernie joined the Cowboys and was on the field I rooted for them. And remember rooting for them when they played the steelers in the super bowl. But that is it for me as well.

Yep, those two for sure. I think there might have been one other, maybe in the late 60's or early 70's. Not sure which game, but darned sure it matters zip, years later.

Edit:

Actually, I think there was a MNF game in Tom Landry's final season that I was pulling for them in the 80's, but as I recall, they lost.

I was stripping and refinishing a Victorian cherry washstand I had purchased with scores of layers of paint for $7 in the final moments of a rural "picker" auction in South Carolina.

My first wife still has that washstand. It looks great in her 150 year old house in Camden SC, my 2nd and Californian wife has noted on visits.

Texas and the Cardinals in another nail biter. I'm not closing watching in the 6th, but monitoring.

If it stays close I'll likely watch the 8th and 9th.

Unless my wife and I have not finished my 2nd watch of the Modern Family episode she missed while watching a new Criminal Minds last (little) Wednesday.

Rangers open up to a 4-0 lead in the late innings.

This year's World Series outcome might make Bud Selig look at least a tad smart by putting the home field advantage element into the All Star Game.

We're cruising for a Game 7 in St. Louis, at the moment.

Butthead Selig look smart? Seems unlikely. The smartest thing he ever did was to declare a tie in that all-star game. And then he showed what a turkey he really is by putting in this home-field advantage thing.

Tribe Fan in SC/Cali wrote:The Rangers are more a passion for the girlfriend and her family, but I have a mild rooting interest. And since everyone is tired of me making fun of the Cowboys.....


I hope that strategy continues to work for you. For me, I think there might have been two games of perhaps one season that I was happy The Cowboys won. I forget when, and why.

My greatest fandom of Dallas ended when the Rangerette's and their little short skirts and cowgirl hats and tight cowgirl boots were deep sixed. And THAT was a long time ago.

I've always had a thing for a cute girl in a hat.

Most of the time of most of my life I've hated the self anointed America's Team.

When I was in Dallas and talking to Texans, I'd usually just mention that I had for years respected the franchise, and especially Roger Staubach and Tom Landry.

I also sometimes mentioned that I loved Don Meredith on Monday Night Football.

All true statements.

I never mentioned that there were many games I would have been happy if Tony Dorsett or Emmett Smith would have blown out a knee.

But that's just me.

As I recall Charlie, you are east of the DFW metroplex proper. I might be wrong. In my single years working Dallas I knew a younger girl who was a pretty good programmer/developer who introduced me to some interesting venues in Deep Ellum.

My personal fave place outside of Deep Ellum or the West End was a bar that normally played weekly night jazz atop the Anatole off the Stemmons Freeway. It was a great venue if I went in with a girl. And a great venue if I did not have a girl upon entry. Super drink sipping view of the Dallas skyline in a warm and rich environment, at least into the early 90's.

DFW neighborhoods have changed more quickly than the numbers of a McDonald's sign in the 1980's when Liz Taylor was eating there.

(rimshot)


(credit, Joan Rivers)

Yes, I'm in Josh Tomlin's hometown, which is about halfway between Dallas and Albert Belle's hometown.

I've still never been to Deep Ellum, or much of Dallas for that matter. We've actually spent more time in Fort Worth than in Dallas, since my lady's major museum interests are there and it's more the speed of someone from Columbus anyway. Dallas and Houston can be seriously intimidating.

I think the Rangers need to win Game 6, because a Game 7 brings back the same matchup from Saturday night (even though Harrison didn't pitch all that badly outside of the hiccup following the criminal call at first base), and the Cardinals would certainly be encouraged by that.

I was solidly a Rangers Fan in this series at first, then developed a soft spot for the Cardinals after working with an 81 year old guy out here who adopted The Cardinals as his team after moving there from Boston after being born there Irish Catholic and attending Boston College. Years ago. Decades ago.

The pure baseball fan in me still wants The Rangers.

Man, I really like Nolan Ryan and his life and career.


I never spent much time in Fort Worth proper when I was in the DFW metroplex. My most vivid memory about anything about Fort Worth in my days there is that a (shall we say) 38'ish girl out with friends tried to get me kicked out of a bar in The Anatole by telling the bouncer I was a gigolo. She, and her friends, were Fort Worth girls out on a Thursday night while I suspect their husbands were out of town.

I took the gigolo accusation as a compliment, and later helped her up after she fell flat on her back in unladylike fashion in a very short skirt on the dance floor.

Her friends came to my aid at the moment she accused me, and told the bouncer I was a really nice guy and their friend had just had too much to drink.

Usually when I have been single in my life I knew being referred to as "a really nice guy" was not a good thing when "out on the prowl."

That night, I was happy with their support.


Dallas is a good town. More old money than most not from Texas would realize, though not as old as Fort Worth. Just pick a bar or venue or event and go, and trust me it will grow in comfort.

I've told the story before, but in Troy Aikman's rookie season I flew in on a Sunday evening and checked into a North Dallas (forty) Marriott. I asked the girl at the desk where I might find live music that night and she directed me to the suburban "Shuck 'N Jive." A seafood bar attached to a place with a band starting at 11PM.

Making a long story short, I ended up buying Ed "Too Tall" Jones a beer and him buying me one. Ed wanted to tell me how he was certain that Mike Tyson was going to get beat because he was not disciplined and focused on his rest and regimen.

Most of the Cowboys team came in after I think it was the Vikings who had humiliated them at home. Roger Ruzek was later drunk on his arse in embarrassing fashion. I saw him two more times in the future, and observed the same.

I was very impressed with the conduct of Jack Del Rio that night. He was dinged in the game and on crutches, and socially nursed two beers with his teammates by me for over two hours.

When the band started playing at 11PM, one of the girls who was an apparent Cowboy groupie didn't succeed in latching onto a player as the music began. She then turned to me in her pleated short skirt and said, "I was in such a rush to get here I forgot to put on my panties." And without any prodding, proceeded to prove it.

I got to work a bit late the next day. But of course, finished the work day strong.

I have many fond memories of Dallas.

Kudos to Bud Selig and MLB for an early in the day decision to postpone tonight's game due to the forecast. I guess.

In any other year that did not involve a post season with difficult rain delay decisions with a team's ace (Verlander), this likely would not have happened.

I sure hope the ensuing game or games will really be played as scheduled.

Yes, I'm in Josh Tomlin's hometown, which is about halfway between Dallas and Albert Belle's hometown.

I know that place.

Pretty sure I've heard Keith Jackson make a Saturday Game Day reference on National TV.

Texas is three outs away.

Up 7-5 in their 9th in St. Louis.

As Texas takes the field in the 9th, Fox reminds us with a Chief Wahoo graphic how long it has been for a small handful of franchises to win a World Series.

One down and no one out.....and Pujols doubles.

Tying run at the plate.

Feliz struggling to find the strike zone as the count goes to 3-0...and now the tying run is on by 4 pitch walk.

Allen Craig to bat (who is he?).