AT THE BREAK!

 

The 2022 Major League All Star Break is upon us, the Mid Summer Classic as some once called it, and for what it is worth, it’s the time of year that Major League Baseball usually celebrates the STARS of the game.

Well with that being said—in recent years, not so much. I mean this is when MLB gets to bring out NEW uniforms so they can sell them and make some extra schekel out of the public, because Lord knows, how the average fan will go out of their way to purchase a jersey that doesn’t even look the ones that they wear on an every day basis at the ball park.

They are off white for the home team (National League) or Charcoal Gray for the Visitors (American League)—and GOLD writing across their breast. SO now this is not what your teams colors are at all, and we take away that look when they do this. Its NOT TRADITIONAL!

Alright so that being said, locally the Texas Rangers finished up their 10 game homestand, and in doing so, they lost to the Seattle Mariners by a final of 6-2, with leaving 10 men on the bases for the game and if that’s not bad enough they left the bases loaded in the 4^th inning—and that just blew up in their faces.

Not sure what the Rangers are looking to do in the 2022 MLB Draft- it will be up to the front office to pick the right players and are they going to be Impact players at that.

IMPACT! There’s a word that for the last several years, if you’re a Ranger fan, have not been anything! Truly—they can explain some of this away, but YOU, the average fan, not since the Ryan Era of owning this team, has this Ranger franchise done anything to increase their on the field value.

Even when Jeff Bannister was the Manager of this team, and yes they took TWO Western Division titles in his tenure, but never getting out of the first round of the playoffs. Again go back to the Ryan era, they had something there—there was a little bit of heat going on, when we say HEAT, we mean that they were a hot Team!

Yes Jon Daniels was the GM in those days too, but lets face it, if you sit at the knee of a man who has the MOST strike outs in the History of MLB, and the most NO-Hitters (7) and over 300 career wins, I would listen too!

Remember in his time as the owner of the Rangers—they won not one but TWO American League Pennants, and appeared in TWO World Series, then on top of that, they were one strike away—one OUT away from taking the Commissioner’s trophy home to North Texas!

But alas, that was not the case—as the old Poem goes—“The Might Casey had struck out” and the clock struck 12 on the Cinderella team for Arlington.

Here we are 11 years after that, we lost that manager – Ron Washington, hired Jeff Bannister, was here a few years, again 2 Western Divisions under his belt but nothing else to show for it, anow we have a young man who was with the Los Angeles Dodgers, including a World Series run, and he is managing this ball club, and from the seats that we are in, there is a lot of questions that have to be answered, before we can go forward.

Question one! Is this the RIGHT person for the team as a leader, they explained that “He can relate to the players” because he is young—and that he understands their mindset, and so on, or “Woody is capable of working with the young players and get the most oof them”, is that really the case? Truly, is a manager that relates to players because of their age that important, or is it more important to have a manager who will work your tail off and make you better because HE knows how to make you better, not because he understands what TIC-TOC is, or Twitter, or whatever challenge or trend there is on the internet.

Truthfully, the ball club needs an infusion of arms and youth, that know the game of baseball from the fundamentals, running, catching, throwing, and hitting. Pitching is so scientific now, it didn’t use to be, it used to be throw the ball until your arm fell off, I mean look at the old guys when there weren’t that many teams, and NON on the west coast in the 1800’s through the 1950’s. The furthest west club in those days was the St. Louis Cardinals.

Now you have the Rockies, the Royals the Astros, the Rangers, and all the California teams and the State of Washington.

Can’t expect a starting pitcher to go pass 120 pitches in a game, and most of that is through the first 6 to 8 innings depending on their arms.

NOT many pitchers will give complete games, and not many of them will throw over the 120 mark (some will, but most won’t!)

So here are—MLB Draft 2022, and once again we will await who will draft what and see if any of these players will make in impact. For the record, the Rangers are at the break with a record of 41-49 8 games under .500, and dog paddling in 3^rd place in the American league West division, with the Astros leading with a pretty good head of steam.

Its time for the Rangers and the front office to do something right or wrong—DO SOMETHING!

Just a thought

Hit one for the Home Team

 

Corey Seager, the Ranger representative in the All Star Home Run Derby—even after someone asked WHY was he selected to the All Star Game, truth be told, its because he earned his place.

Why would anyone ask that, or question it, this is a ball player that shows up to the park and give 100% every game—solid with the glove, and as shown a pretty good bat at that.

The Rangers as a whole? Well that’s a different beast by a different color. They are not showing anything when it comes to pitching. In fact that had to make a start against the division rival Seattle Mariners, by committee. If you are not certain of that phrase, it means that its going to be a Bull Pen night, where your starter goes ONE inning, and then the rest is picked up by relievers. In the case of this particular evening, they brought back Taylor Hearn the young man from Royce City, Texas, and was recalled from Triple A Round Rock earlier in the week.

His outing was pretty good aside from the runs that were give up—including an error by the outfield, but SEVEN STRIKE OUTS, to go with the  5 hits he allowed—and the four runs he gave up. Two of those runs were UN-EARNED.

So there is a message being sent clearly to the man in the carpeted office, and hopefully—the Rangers will indeed get him some Run Support in the interim.

Though sitting here, just thinking out loud, about how baseball has changed and is changing, some for the better, some not so much.

For instance, this “ghost” runner at 2^nd base to start extra innings, is just plain simple, ridiculous! Simply put—JUST PLAY THE GAME as it was meant to be played. Extra innings is just the by product of the rules of the game. The other thing that they wish to implement is the ROBO UMPIRE! That’s right, they want a “machine” to call balls and strikes, and take it out of the human factor. There’s already instant replay to help overturn or confirm calls in the field, and that takes time and away (once again) from the game that they are trying to speed up.

The other thing I wish that they would outlaw—and this really has nothing to do with the game, this is more of fan participation, but for goodness sakes, PLEASE STOP THE WAVE! Oh dear heaven—there has to be something more productive that fans can do, other than just stand up and cheer when that thing hits your section in the stadium. I mean Football was one thing back in the 80s (thank you Seattle Seahawks at the KINGDOME) where that started.  Talk about annoying, and not just to the players, but the fans at home watching on TV. It just makes for bad viewing. OH I know, its something to do during the game for the fans have an interaction, but truthfully, you can become interactive if you were to watch the game, get your faces out of your phones, and maybe—by a score card and score the game.

I’m just saying, its another way to become involved in the game. And something else, why is it that the Stadium has to throw up on the scoreboard a CUE CARD for you the fan to read—to know when to Cheer or scream! WHY? I mean as a fan you should know when there is TWO strikes on the batter—and your pitcher is throwing BB’s—to stand up and cheer him on! YOU should not have to be reminded to do so! OH wait that means you would have to pay attention during the game—

Refreshing to hear the fans on a particular night, cheer without the help of the scoreboard—they were clapping and cheering and with the bases full of the opposing team and no outs in the inning—the reliever came on and struck out the first two batters he faced—and even went full count on one batter only to strike him out on a high fast ball looking! However—with the bases still full,  one batter took that relievers fast ball deep to center field for a grand slam—and for all the cheering and paying attention for 1/3 of an inning—it all came to naught.

So the top of the 9^th we headed—and that reliever is still on the hill, and will try and close this portion of the inning out without anymore damage—and see if his teammates can bring it back being down by five!

Just a thought

For What It’s Worth!

 

MY two cents worth—the Texas Rangers at the half way point in the season, with the All Star Game coming up in a few weeks, in Los Angeles, the main Ranger that is going to be representing this team is starting pitcher Martin Perez, who, with no doubt, deserves, it, had a tremendous month of May—June was pretty good, and mid July still looks like he is continue to be strong.

 HOWEVER! That brings us to the rest of the staff, and the team.

Lets take a look, shall we? Dane Dunning, has had maybe ONE or TWO quality starts, and is a 1-6 on the season, with 17 starts, and an ERA of 4.15. Now if I am Chris Woodward, (manager of the Rangers) I would say that Dunning is a sacrificial lamb, and that he’s on the mound to manage minimal damage. Not an overpowering pitcher, only recording 2 strike outs but gave up four walks—THREE in one inning to load the bases—and then added salt to the injury—hit a batter to drive in a run. YES, not a great outing.

Bullpen comes in and tries to keep the damage to a minimum, but Brock Burke enters the game and gives a solo shot to the number 9 hitter batting .209 with six homers coming into the game now has 7 on the season—lets add more misery to the situation in a game that the Rangers should, most likely have had to win, when an error on the Matt Bush who came on in relief threw the ball into the first base dugout area, and that sent the runner he had put on with a walk to third—the next batter up hits a single and that drives in the sixth run of the ball game for the Twins.

 Rangers do get a run back in the bottom of the 8^th with a solo shot to left field by Corey Seager—and that brings to with in one—and the Rangers are scrappy—they fight til the bitter end, but that’s just it they will get close the break your heart at the end.

 Bright spot for this Rangers team is the offense—the bats are there, though they lose Mitch Garver for the rest of the season due to elbow surgery that might be taking place as early as this week (July 11^th 2022), and from there who do the Rangers call up to replace him—if its Sam Huff, they will not have any more options for him if they were to send him back down, but since this is a season ending injury—there’s a possibility that he would stay up with the Big Team, and not have to worry—though the Rangers have a pretty good back up to Heim at Catcher, with #60 Miebrys Viloria, who took two runners down at second base, and beat them both by a pretty good mile. NO way that it was going to be contested that they were out.

 So the Rangers will get ready for the Swingin A’s as they come to Arlington, and take on the Good Guys, for a three game set, then Seattle after that—division rivals, and a chance to move up in the standings, they are in 3^rd place behind Houston and Seattle—15.5 games out of first place—and only 3.5 behind Seattle for 2^nd.

From this vantage point, the Rangers MIGHT be dealing before the trade deadline—however the ONLY player(s) that might be on the block for trade could be Seager (doubt anyone wants to eat that contract), Semien (again contract woes), MAYBE Heim, but that would have to be packaged with something else, prospects or draft picks, and we know that Perez has stated that he wants to STAY right here in Arlington, and work with the young staff and help them mature.

 The Garage sale sign is up, lets see if there are any takers and what sort of deals Chris Young (GM) and Jon Daniels (Pres) will make with other teams in MLB.

 Just a thought

Mental Health

May is the time for Mental Health awareness—and in some cases—to check on those who we know might be in danger of going down the rabbit hole, not able to get out and return to themselves.

 

I am one of those who suffers from this horrible mental ailment. Sixteen years ago—I was committed to a hospital to be evaluated—from there, I was analyzed, and poked and prodded with questions and had to answer them, to the point that they declared me a RECOVERING ALCOHOL!             ME???? REALLY???? In order to be recovering, you have to be ONE! And I am not. The doctor tried to inform me that “there are plenty of ways of hiding that problem” and denying it is one way! Of course I knew what they meant in the term ‘Hiding” it. Like drinking your orange juice with Vodka, or others types of fruit juices…. Well let me squelch that—I might be of Russian Decent on my mother’s side—however I can’t stand the smell nor the taste of Vodka—sorry folks, taste like Rubbing Alcohol to me, SO NO! I am not a recovering alcoholic!

 

That has irritating me since August of 2006- now move sixteen years after, and I am dealing with this crap—Part of it is Work—yes I work for State Farm, and have been for 2 and half years.  The pressure of that job is not all that—but over a period of time it can be—meaning you are constantly being rated by not just the Clients but also the AGENTS (the brick and mortar agents) The other part that has caused this is the personal side—the not being confidant enough to think I can do this job—it beats you up, and you bring that inside your home, and then question yourself with your home life—are you doing the best you can for them—are the choices that you make the right kind—or are they causing more issues than you would like.

It’s a horrible feeling, its makes you think the absolute UNTHINKABE, stepping off of this earth. Doing it YOUR way—and not waiting for something else—natural causes or accident or whatever. Death is final, there is no return, there is nothing coming back from the dead.

I can tell you from where I stand, the thought has been there, but the action, well 16 years ago, its what took me inside the asylum! All sorts of drugs to control me, my sleep, my thoughts, it was horrible. I NEVER wish to do that again, but here I am once again, going through this ordeal and they (Doctors, Therapist, Family) have said it might be the best thing for me.

 

I have used this platform for others to seek help, and to get better, my own ordeal though is one OXYMORON after another. Lets face it—I wanted to step off this earth in 2006, and in 2007 I saved MYSELF by going to the ER with a full blown heart attack! Then again in 2017 I am the one that called 911 to come again and save me with a massive heart attack. I have saved myself from death, and if I wanted to really step off, I would have just allowed it.

There are those who say that I just want attention- that this is all dramatic on my part, and that its just an act! Hmmm—I am the one dealing with it—and I don’t see anything dramatic about it! I see darkness, I see despair, and I feel empty—I don’t like the reflection I see in the mirror—I don’t like how I feel, and I am doing everything in my power to be better. But there are obstacles, and there are those who keep throwing up road blocks for my recovery.

 

I like my job, I like those who I work with, I consider them friends, but when I go down with this type of crap, all I can think of is how I shoot myself in the foot, and how I lose myself in this crap. I am not wanting to lose this job because of this crap. I would like to return but maybe in a less capacity, part time maybe, and go semi retired through Social Security.

 

My life is important to those around me, not just my wife Amanda, and her children and now granddaughter, but of course my family of my sister and her husband and their son--- my G-dDaughter and her family (the man I call my big brother) and of course the friends who consider me a part of their lives. Though I never saw that side of myself as the mentor, the teacher, the one who they consider getting them to where they needed to be. Its funny I can do all of that for others, but for myself, I have the self doubt—the low self esteem at times,. The river of tears need to stop and I need to get back to who and what I am. I miss David… Dave is great at making people laugh and entertained (Trust me I know) but I need to be David for my family, and for those who depend on me for things.

 

For what its worth, if someone struggles with Depression, or sleep deprivation, or any other type of mental illness, PDST, (which I also have) help THEM, get them help! And most of all, be patient with them—this is not like the flu or an operation that gets well in a few days or weeks, this is a delipidating illness—it will take you or them a while to get back to where they need to be.

 

Thank you for allowing me to open up and to explain, and to ask for your patience until I can get back to David!

 

Just a thought   

WHAT THE HELL IS GOING ON HERE????

To much crap going on in the sports world! Just look at the headlines.

ASTROS CHEAT FOR WORLD SERIES!

PRO FOOTBALL HALL OF FAME SNUBS COWBOY WIDE RECIEVER!

Really????

Lets start with the Astros!

Here’s a major league baseball team that was caught—“Cheating” during the entire 2017 season, and that led them to a World Series Championship, against the LA Dodgers!

Now the Commissioner of the league, had come out and stated that the Manager and the General Manger of the team will be suspended for one year, and then the team came down and FIRED them both! OK—justice is handled within the team!

BUT!!!!!!!!!!! There’s more! The Dodgers get nothing out of it, they were cheated out of a championship, because the Astros used technology to beat a team, well that doesn’t mean that other teams haven’t done it or thought about doing it, or even did it without getting caught!

Could it be sour grapes that the Dodgers are complaining about not getting anything from the league, for example, the trophy remains inside the offices of the Astros, and the team gets to keep their rings, and the fans are still wearing their championship gear that they bought, and celebrated their team’s victory!

But at what cost?

Integrity! That’s the cost!

The team now will now be a villain in every venue they step into, they will not be welcomed with cheers, they will be heckled to no end! They will no longer be revered as the champions of a city that so deserved it, perceived as they were during their Championship run—Lets face it—Hurricane Harvey ripped through the Houston area and caused the team to play some games away from their home field, remember when the Rangers and the Astros had to play two games in Tampa? They wouldn’t compromise and play those games in Arlington against the Rangers, and chose to have MLB make arrangements to play in Tampa!

Their battle cry was “HOUSTON STRONG!”

It rang through their city, their community, their state!

NOW, we get into the nitty gritty of what this whole mess brings,

The City—Houston, their first championship out side of basketball, and the old AFL, they hoisted a trophy that wasn’t NBA, they brought the world championship for the first time in the history of baseball, to the state of Texas!

The Astros have appeared in three fall classics, they are the only Major League team to appear as both National League AND American League Champions.

They were brought to the American League to help balance out Major League Baseballs divisions, and to help with the Western Division, so there will be a third of their games in the central time zone for both them and their I-45 rival, Texas Rangers.

They also found out that the Western Division was a bit easier to control, as they have seen, even with the LA Angels, the Oakland A’s, the Seattle Mariners and of course the Texas Rangers, they were weak, all of them were.

Even though the Texas Rangers have won the West several times and of course were Two Time American League Champions in 2010 and 2011.

Cheating will not get you anywhere, and they will not have honor or integrity in this league. They have to at least find both a new manager and GM, for the 2020 season, and the lose some draft picks and international picks!

It’s a horrible mess, and with that mess brings up the conversation about now Major League Baseball might HAVE to reinstate the pariah, Pete Rose!  How’s that going to work out for you now Commish?

The other rant is the Pro Football Hall of Fame!

REALLY????? YOU DON’T VOTE IN THE ORIGINAL 88 OF THE DALLAS COWBOYS??

Drew Pearson was not elected into the 100 Anniversary of the NFL, NOT THE HALL OF FAME by the way—that was put together in 1963.

But none the less, the Hall, snub one of the best players in the NFL in the 1970s, they had him FIRST TEAM offense for ALL DECADE team of that era, Pearson, went to SEVEN NFC Championships was a Pro Bowler, and ALL PRO

He had the credentials, and yes I know that another Cowboy was voted in, well TWO others actually were voted in--- Jimmy Johnson, and Cliff Harris, but Drew didn’t and neither did Clint Murchinson the original owner and founder of the Dallas Cowboys!

But lets focus on Drew Pearson, and for whatever reason, he was not voted into the Hall!

A man that has a Super Bowl Ring, and was clutch in the moments that counted, was on a team that every one that was a First Team All Decade has been voted in, including Roger Staubach, Tony Dorsett, Randy White, Rayfield Wright, Tom Landry, Tex Schramm, and most recently Gil Brandt!

Those names are impressive but then again so is #88 Drew Pearson!

The other 88, Michael Irvin is in, and the 90 Cowboys are represented, but Pearson is the missing name from the Hall!

Now what the current thinking is,, that Pearson will go in NEXT year, and let him have the stage all to himself, and that would be nice but he already stated , that they will have to come and find him and hit him over the head with a baseball bat to get his attention! He was heart broken when his name was not announced, and it was a shock to his system, and for that matter, it struck all Cowboy fans the same way.

Now the long 12 month wait is back on for Drew Pearson has it has for over 30 years, almost 40 years, before his day comes!

Once again the Hall Got It WRONG!

Its Just a thought!

GET A HINT JERRY! COWBOYS WEAR WHITE!

Oh lets face it-- there is trouble at the Star-- and the Star I am referring to, is the one on the side of the helmet and the one in Frisco!

Mr. Jones! SIR! Where is it written that the Dallas Cowboys wear their dark jerseys at home? Here's a hint-- IT DOESN'T!\

That's right-- the Team wears WHITE at home, and have been since in 1960...

WHY? you ask! Its simple!

When the team was first introduced to the NFL, the GM and President at the time, was Texas E. Schramm, who knew something about P.R. and marketing.

He thought that since this was an expansion team, that there would be no interest in the team, and that the fans would turn out to the Cotton Bowl to watch players such as Y.A. Title, of the Giants, or Jim Brown of the Browns, or maybe even Gayle Sayers of the Bears, and Paul Hornug of the Packers, just to think of a few- however they would be wearing THIER HOME jersey which is their primary color, while the Cowboys wore the "road" white... but there was more to this little escapade of Schramm's, yes there was the heat in Texas in September to deal with, so he would tell the players to where the white since the sun reflected the sunlight and heat off of them, and place it back on their opposition!

Ok so it didn't quite work out that way, since the Cowboys, that first season, went 0-11-1, with the tie being against the New York Giants.

Then teams started to get the idea behind the fact that the Cowboys NEVER wore their dark uniforms, at home or on the road, so teams such as the Redskins, Giants, Eagles, and Cardinals, started to wear white at their home game MAKING the Cowboys wear their Blue jerseys, and hence this whole JINX theory came about.

Take it a step further, the Cowboys lost the 1968 NFL Championship wearing blue-- oh wait a tick-- they lost the '66 and the '67 NFL Championships wearing WHITE!

They lost their FIRST Super Bowl appearance to the Baltimore Colts in 1970, in Super Bowl V, then they wore white in Super Bowl VI, but lost in X and XIII and won XII, alright enough with the Roman Numerals, figure it out!

They have not worn the dark jersey in the Super Bowl since they lost to the Colts, its not all in the jersey! I don't think., but the COWBOYS WEAR WHITE AT HOME!

Mr. Jones, if its about marketing, and such, then sell the Jersey in the Pro Shop, on line, or whatever but leave the team on the field alone!

This is not about the color of the jersey that they wear as a Jinx, its about Tradition, you don't see the New York Yankees changing their home uniform to look like hounds tooth, or the Red Sox wearing a different shade of red! What about the Crimson Tide-  or even the University of Texas-- they leave their Uniforms ALONE!

Its time to leave tradition alone! The Dallas Cowboys when at home wear WHITE, and they opposing team wear dark!

When they Cowboys are on the road, they will wear what the HOME team ask them to wear, and if it is the dark jersey, then so be it, learn to win in them, but leave Tradition ALONE!

If you wan the truth about why this team lost to the Minnesota Vikings on a Sunday night, at home, in prime time-- LOOK ON THE SIDELINE! The guy with the RED HAIR is the issue, you run the ball when you didn't have a running game all night, in a crucial moment and all of it fell around your ears and it is the cause of the failure-- and now you have to live with that!

Thats it in a nutshell!

Just a thought!

Time to do the Right Thing!

Seems that sometimes, it takes a sportscaster to shame an entire school system to do the right thing, and that’s what happened to the Plano ISD, when Channel 8’s (WFAA) Sportscaster Dale Hansen took the airwaves and did an editorial on why the PLANO ISD canceled a football game with El Paso Eastwood, that was to be played on September 6^th at Kimbrough Stadium.

A day later, the Plano ISD rescinded that, and scheduled the game on the 5^th, and moved from Kimbrough to Ford Center at the Star in Frisco, Texas.

So let me see if I get this right now, the original game was to be played in a Plano ISD facility in Murphy, Texas, then canceled, then  rescheduled, and moved to a facility that’s not even in the School District, they moved it to Frisco, moved it to an indoor stadium, and moved it apparently because Frisco has better security than Plano does!

This was a time to show unity, and show that one city can host the other from a tragedy, but both have a common denominator, the shooter that killed 22 people, and injured 24 others was from Plano, graduated from Plano Senior High School, and drove the 10 hours west to El Paso, and shot up a Walmart, and caused the anguish of a community, a city, a state and a country, because the very next day in Dayton, Ohio another shooter kills 9 people and injures 27, but police showed up 32 seconds after it started and took down the gunman and killed him!

Texas is known for its Friday Night Lights, it’s a tradition that Football in Texas is KING, and that we try and showcase the very best when we can.

You think back to a dismal week in 2001, September 11^th, when aircraft were used as missiles, flown into the twin towers in New York, into the Pentagon in Washington, D.C., and into a field in Western Pennsylvania.

On that Friday night of that week, the 14^th, we stood in stadiums, proud of our country, singing our National Anthem with our neighbors, and being united as one!

It was a tragedy, it was horrible, it was unthinkable, however we survived it, and we showed up on Friday night, and we watched football, because it was getting back to normal. WE as a nation needed to heal and we needed to feel normal again, and believe it or not,  it worked!

I remember that Friday in a small Texas town of Diboll, Texas, and doing a game that involved the home team the Diboll Lumberjacks, and to tell you the truth I have no idea who they played that weekend most likely Carthage, but couldn’t tell you, but the nicest compliment I got was from a writer with the Lufkin Daily News, who was driving back into town from taking his daughter to Austin to be with her mom, and my friend wrote in his article the following week, is that as soon as he was able get the radio signal, he was tuned in to listen to our broadcast, and for that instant—he was transformed back to normal. Though our world would never be normal again!

So why is it that something like a shooting, and community coming together, and the other community that hurts, because they felt like they were responsible for the Monster that was created, though they truly had nothing to do with it, but they still, somehow feel like its their responsibility.

So lets talk about how this game that is going to be played now is at Ford Center at the Star in Frisco. Most likely a couple of elements came into play.

First! Plano called Frisco ISD and made a request to play the game at Ford Center… SECOND! Jerry Jones stepped up to the plate, and made it available, but it had to be on a THURSDAY night,  since Frisco ISD have games there on Friday Night and Saturday night—not too mention, the Cowboys will be returning there for their opener with the Giants, so they need a place to practice!

Mr. Jones already has donated $50,000.00 to El Paso, and he has a firm place in the hearts of those in West Texas, and it shows because the number of Cowboy Fans that are there, and he knows that with this gesture, he has endeared himself to many more!

So TRYING TO DO THE RIGHT THING, is, make this game happen, without incident, and give those athletes, their fans, their families, a warm N. Texas Welcome and make sure that when they leave here—they will remember that there are many, in the state of Texas, that believes in giving back to the community and bringing the community together when they are hurting the most!

Just a thought!