So on October 22, 2011 (when Jack turned 17 months) Ben and I got to go to the World Series to see MY Texas, MY Rangers play baseball. Now, Ben got to go to every single playoff game this post season so I was glad it was my time to get to experience this. I'll just start off by saying we lost, but it didn't really matter. It was awesome!
We were able to drop Jack off at his KK and Papa's who were going to keep him for the night. That was nice when we got home and went to bed at midnight, not having to get up extra early to get Jack ready for church was nice. Here are a few photos of Jack supporting the Rangers.
Notice the A&M decor in the background.
They were finishing up their game at this time.
"cheese" Jack can say this word now!
So after dropping Jack off, I came back to pick up Ben who was still stressing over the Aggie Game. We left and listened to the end of that game on the ride over to the stadium. They ended up winning 33-17 by the time we parked. So needless to say, it didn't feel like we were walking to a World Series game since Ben's attention had been on another game. But once we arrived, walked across the street with a HUGE crowd it was feeling special. We arrived at our seats in plenty of time to take some pictures and get ready for the National Anthem and first pitch.
St. Louis Cardinals vs. The Texas Rangers
Cardinals colors are red so I had to get a new BLUE shirt.
This was a little sad because I love Ranger Red.
It was such a beautiful night. Cool, about 78 degrees, nice little breeze.
It was time....time for DIRK! Dirk Nowitzki threw out the first pitch. There was a lot of controversy over this. First the MLB said Dirk could not throw it then I guess there was so much fan uproar on Twitter that they changed their minds. Ben has a HUGE man crush on Dirk. So needless to say he was a little giddy :) Here is Dirk:
Dirk in awwe of everything.
Walking out, being announced
Ready...
Pitch to Michael Young
Walking off with Young
All done, crowd still going wild!
Then came time for them to announce the teams. I tried to get a picture of all of the players but some of them are just too quick coming out of the dugout.
Ron Washington - Manager
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IAN KINSLER - Love him! My favorite, not having the best couple of games but that is ok.
Josh Hamilton, had a great night
Michael Young - Designated Hitter, also did well
Nelson CRUZ! - amazing, ALCS MVP
Yorvit Torrealba - catcher, giving Napoli a Rest
Harrison - pitcher
Both teams, Rangers on the Right side
Then came the Singing of the National Anthem (Dunn, of Brooks and Dunn).
Then the game started. The crowd was great, at first. We did have a fan behind us that wanted the crowd to be even more into the game than we already were. I left after the 3rd inning to go and get some garlic fries and then everything blew up. After the fourth inning, Ben and i decided to switch seats. And for a while it worked, the Rangers scored 6 runs in the next two innings. But that wasn't good enough.
Some things I noticed is, when the World Series comes to town, it seems like they have to play "commercials" on the big screen or generic baseball videos. I missed the Ranger pump it up videos and the dot race.
I don't think I have screamed so much since probably the NBA championship games that we went to. Ben reminded me that we went to Game 3 of the MAVS/Heat game and the Mavs lost but then we went to game 6 and they won and won the championship. Ben said we might need to fly up to St. Louis for game 6.
Rally towel that they passed out and World Series pin
Probably in the 8th inning when we knew we weren't going to win but were still having a good time.
