World Series Champions from 2023 Rangers & the 2024 Champion Dodgers IN a Series!

 

What happens when the last two World Series Champions meet in a series during the regular season?

Well, first, you buy your tickets early, otherwise you will not have a seat, second, who come to the game wearing your gear, and in this case, a LOT of Dodger blue in the stands, and lastly—you listen to the crowd, because, even though you are in N. Texas.., This crowd was mostly DODGER FANS!

The mere announcement of players such as Ohtani, Freeman , and Betts—and this crowd at Globe Life Field, almost turned this place into Dodger Stadium—it was that loud.

The three game set, saw the Dodgers outscore the Rangers 7-4, and of those runs—they win game one –3 to 0, lose game two 4-3 and win the third game 1-0.

Tyler Mahle for the Rangers goes 7 innings and throws shut out baseball, gives way to the bullpen, and the allow the one run with pinch hitter Will Smith in the 8^th inning starts it off with shot up the middle, then goes to second on a walk drawn by Shohei Ohtani, and Sacrifice Fly to left field when Smith sits at third, and scores—and that’s the ONLY run allowed in the game!

Chris Martin who entered the game in the 8^th, takes the loss on that one—but still the Dodgers, who’s starter Tyler Glasnow, left the game in the 4^th with soreness in the legs—and gave way to six relievers who threw 5 innings of shut out baseball to preserve this for the Bums that once called Brooklyn home! Now Los Angeles.

The Rangers will head out west to take on the A’s (they are not called Oakland or for that matter Sacramento as they have moved to, Just plain o’ A’s) and then Travel to the Bay area and take on the San Francisco Giants, both series are three games a piece—then return home at the end of the month to face the A’s and the Mariners at Globe Life Field.

Speaking with Rangers Skipper Bruce Bochy—his concern (if you call it that) is not so much about the offense—but to get something started with the guys that he knows can produce. Just when a team like the Dodgers can throw the types of games that they have, its never easy to win—just remember—in Baseball, GOOD Pitching will always beat GOOD Hitting. It’s a cliché but none the less, it provides the best way to explain it.

Just a thought

Death KNOWS NO COLOR

 

Last week two 17 year old young men had their lives altered—one because of death the other, because he CAUSED the death.

Two Frisco High School Students, from TWO different high schools were at a track meet sanctioned by the U.I.L. (in Texas), and during that meet, a young man walked over to another schools area (sectioned off by a tent) and those students from that particular school informed this “intruder” that he did not belong there.

A confrontation ensued, and words were exchanged--- according to Eye Witness accounts, one young man challenged the other by saying “touch me and see what happens…” and continued to push the matter. The other young man put his hands on the first, and somewhere, the one young man pulled a knife and strategically plunged it into the other’s chest, causing massive destruction in his body.

Now those are the facts, they are irrefutable!

Plain and simple, Karmelo Anthony, 17 years of age,  attends Frisco Centennial High school, showed up to the track meet at Kuykendall Stadium, and entered it with a bag and with in that bag held a knife. They (police) have not described the knife in detail, but suffice to say it was long enough, sharp enough, and deadly enough to take Austin Metcalf’s life.

Metcalf, a Junior at Frisco Memorial High School, was entered in the meet that was taking place, there has been NO confirmation that Anthony was entered in any events.

The other fact that should be noted, is that the FRISCO area of Collin County is a well versed community, but the average income in the household is well over six figures, and the Anthony family, has a family unit of a Mother and a Father, this is not some inner city family, this is a family that chose to live in a community with better schools, better surroundings and a way from the influences that we hear and see on the evening news.

Lets face it, this is not the type of area, in North Texas, that a crime such as THIS would occur, nor would we expect.

High school events have their share of tension, but usually it is a rivalry and there are “words” tossed back and forth, from the student body that attend. Go to any Friday Night Football game in Texas in general, and you are well versed in some of the chants that the sections filled with student will go through.

However, on this particular day, there were no Student Body Sections at the meet- on this particular day, there were tents set up to mark the areas where the schools participants were to hang out in the stands, and someone walked over and sat down in an area they truly didn’t belong.

IT was pointed out, and words were exchanged, then, as said before, a gesture from one person to the other to “make me”… and then a weapon was drawn and a life was ended.

Austin had a twin brother, who was also at this meet, and that Hunter Metcalf held his brother in his arms and tried to stop the bleeding, but couldn’t and watched his brother die in his arms.

That young man will need the help of not just his family but the community to get over that burden, and that memory.

As for Karmelo Anthony, after he was detained by Frisco Police, they stated that they had the Alleged Suspect, to which Anthony stated—“I ain’t alleged, I did it”… now under most circumstances, a good lawyer would get that thrown out, however, the officers had not Mirandized the young man, so he did not have the RIGHT to REMAIN SILENT, that right had not be read to him, nor did he wait for it to be presented.

Once he was arraigned, his bond was set at 1 Million Dollars, and there are those who state that it was TOO MUCH.

The Judge must have felt, that he was a flight risk, and that if released, he would set out and commit another crime.

There was a fund set up for his defense, but his family stated that THEY DID not set that up, and wish that the money be returned to those who donated.

There have been false narratives to this story, the facts are as they have been presented.  Ther was an opinion piece written with a photo of Hunter and Austin Metcalf dressed in hunting gear, with rifles, and looking like two teenagers on a hunt for either deer or other wild animals. There father Jeff Metcalf, even stated, that he had gone hunting with the two boys the weekend before the tragedy, and considered it one of the best times the three spent together.

The Anthony family, Karmelo’s family, will have to face the reality that the act in which he performed, was a stupid act, and the fact that a weapon was brought onto the grounds of a school activity, regardless that this young man was a straight A student, and had accolades to his resume’, it all goes down the drain when he does the act of murder.

His family will be torn apart, and his life will be in shambles, but the life he took, will not have a life at all, no more tomorrows, and not more dreams a 17 year old’s life cut short, and all because of another young man’s inability to walk away from a situation he had no business being in, to begin with.

There is a higher being, there is a G-d, and even if you don’t believe in that, then believe in this, that justice will be served one way or another, should this young man be put to death (which could be asked for by the D.A.) that is strictly up to a jury to decide. Twelve people made up from a pool of hundreds who will listen to the evidence and the facts and make that decision and it will rest on their shoulders.

Karmelo Anthony’s fate lies with in them, but his CHOICE, on that day, was to terminate a life all because he was in a place he was informed he did not belong in.

The streets of heaven are already crowded enough with angels that have left this world too soon, and for even far worse reasons that what happened to Austin Metcalf. Mass shootings, and killings at schools, malls, theaters, churches and synagogues. Think about it, we read about death on a daily basis, and the message is still not getting through to any of us.

STOP THE INSANITY!

There was a time, that we would drive our pick up trucks to school with a “gun rack” in the back window, and our Winchesters, and 30.6, or 12 gauge shot guns were strapped to those racks and we would drive to school, and park in the student parking lot and show off the weapons without thinking one bit of turning that weapon on to someone and shooting them.

The worse weapon we worried about in those days was an AFRO RAKE, that someone would stab our hands with. No Knifes, no Guns, just fist or a Rake. 

Now we have to have metal detectors at the schools and events, and armed security (off duty Police, and in some cases ON DUTY officers) to protect the patrons or the students in and out of school and events.

GONE are the similar days, gone is the way of life that we grew up knowing, and here in its stead, the use of deadly force to settle a simple situation.

You all try and make sense of this, because some of us have given up.

 

Just a thought!