2010 World Series

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Born the last day of spring in 1966, I am 44 years old.  I lived in Arlington, Texas from 1966-1979.  I have annually attended Rangers games since the team moved from Washington, D.C. in 1972.  I have taken student groups to the Ballpark in Arlington for field trips and rewards incentives.  I was a season ticket holder from 1995-2003.  My Mom and I have attended more Opening Day games than we have not.  I remember Arlington Stadium before and after the grandstands, the big, blue Texas in left-centerfield on the scoreboard, and the first dot race (yes, Arlington Stadium is where the dot races began and so did ballpark nachos).  I know all the Rangers logos and have about as many Rangers shirts as I do pairs of underwear.  I still own and wear the opening-day give-away shirt from 1994 when the Rangers' new ballpark opened.  I have my brother's beautifully framed 1995 All-Star Game ticket stub. Sitting at the kitchen table in 1996, Mom snapped a photo of me holding up the tickets and completing the paperwork to have the Rangers organization redeem my unused ALDS tickets, because the Yanks went 3-1 in the series.  I graduated from college in 1988, and have not felt this excited about sports since I was an athlete, myself, even though I coached, and loved it, for eight years.  There is an excitment, a ferver which can not be described, but I feel it down deep in my soul; it is more than a game, really.  I love and watch almost all sports, and can remember key persons or events or plays from so many events, but baseball, hands down, is my absolute favorite sport.  This sport is like no other--play begins with the defense having the ball, the offense never touches the ball, the players themselves, and not the ball, have to score, to name just a few of its idiosyncracies.  I want the Rangers to win in four games straight.  Yes, "good things come to those who wait."  I have waited for this Rangers season for 38 years.