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Game-time forecast: Partly cloudy with a 50-percent chance of rain. Winds blowing from right to left field at 5-10 m.p.h. Temperature around 80. Rangers: SP, Tepesch Shin-Soo Choo DH Elvis Andrus SS Mitch Moreland 1B Adrian Beltre 3B Alex Rios RF Chris Gimenez C Leonys Martin CF Michael Choice LF Rougned Odor 2B Twins: SP, Correia Brian Dozier 2B Joe Mauer 1B Trevor Plouffe 3B Oswaldo Arcia RF Josh Willingham LF Jason Kubel DH Kurt Suzuki C Aaron Hicks CF Eduardo Escobar SS -------------------------------- Brian will post some thoughts for you here. ------------------------------------------------------- Things to Think About: 1. Texas -- Perhaps nowhere in the US of A will you find a state prouder of themselves than Texas. The state pride shows up in the many slogans... The Lone Star State... Don't Mess with Texas... It's like a whole other country... On the 8th Day God Created Texas... Obviously you get the picture... Texas thinks they are better than Arkansas and 95 percent of all Texans have not traveled past Arkansas. When Texas was first formed... the border stretched all the way into modern day Wyoming. As a condition of statehood... Texas was forced to give up a large portion of it's land because it was important to the government that Oklahoma has a panhandle where nobody lives. Economically... Texas is a major exporter of Oil, Beef, Jalapeño's, Football Players and Cheap Labor. 2. The Rangers -- They were established in 1961 and named after Clayton Moore. Original uniforms actually came equipped with a Lone Ranger mask but they didn't have the eye holes and eyesight was a simple explanation for their 62-100 record. It was Jay Silverheels who convinced the baseball club to take off the masks in 1969. Which was about the time that KISS formed. Fast forward today and we have a huge disabled list with important players such as Prince Fielder, Jurickson Profar, Martin Perez, Matt Harrison and Derek Holland on it. GM Jon Daniels has been seen roaming the countryside wondering where all his players went. Shin Soo Choo currently leads the team in walks with 31... That makes him the Walker Texas Ranger Walker award leader. 3. Willingham and Arcia -- OK... it's May 26 and they are back and in the lineup. It doesn't take much imagination to conclude... Going into the season... The front office probably believed that the combination of these two were supposed to supply a large portion of the power on this team. They are back and healthy now... Let's see if they can do what they are expected to do. As a hitter... Arcia was supposed to watch the veteran Willingham and learn what to do. It ended up being the opposite. Arcia hurt his wrist on April 4th and Willingham copied him on April 6th. 4. Josmil Pinto... Gardy it's your lineup... But I gotta ask... What are you doing in regards to Pinto? You just came off a swing of 5 games of National League Parks and Josmil Pinto started just one of those 5 games. I think we can say he's rested unless he stayed up late last night to play video games. In the one game he started he hit a home run. While Kurt Suzuki has gone 2 for his past 15. If Pinto doesn't start at catcher today... DH would have been option because Kubel is 0 for his last 11. Yet... Pinto is on the bench once again. 5. Memorial Day... My wife thinks that I need a Memorial Day every day but she says that because I forget to pick up milk sometimes. Today is a big day... It isn't just a day off. Many Americans have sacrificed more than I could ever imagine. They fought and died for something bigger than all of us. I don't ever want to take it for granted. I try to imagine what it was like to be on a landing craft heading for Omaha Beach. You got to get through Council Bluffs just to reach the beach and slog through deep water carrying heavy equipment maybe 200 yards under heavy fire just to reach the beach which was loaded with landmines while bullets picked off those around you at a horrible pace. The story is well known but I try to imagine what it was truly like. To know that you got to get out and move forward with the weight of the country and world on your shoulders when natural instinct would have been to swim back to Portsmouth England. I know I would have been scared and I know I would have been thinking of my loved ones and it's time for loved ones to think about them. Not just them... Every last one of them from the 18th Century to today.

That 'oy!' was mine, not Bri's. Was my comment on the Twins lineup.

Oh, so that was your fault, eh?

Why switch it back? Just have your choices there always. http://assets.dornob.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/stair-slide-in-mansion.jpg

Yeah, me too

Those diving misses are certainly agony of defeat moments.

If I lived in SF, I think that I could be a Giants fan ... 2nd to remaining a Twins fan, of course.

Esco, we needed that when bases were loaded.

It's hard to see Cola flailing as he is.

I can't stand the back up camera on my parents' car.

Keeerap

Well, I didn't say I was through buying cars I can trip over.

I don't consider a solid steel frame made by BMW plastic.

Hmm, I'm done with buying plastic cars.

Poop.

Oh my. Okay , Esco, redeem yourself your blunder.

I wish I were at the game. I love that park, love the city.

Wow. That was a catch.

Geez, I was trying to ridiculous with that question. I guess that answered more than I intended it to.

Wilma or Betty?

If he had stayed on 3rd, he would've scored on that wild pitch.

Wtf! Esco needs some base running 101 refresher course!