October Baseball in Texas!

College and professional football have made their customary annual Fall invasion upon the television screen, but I have not forgotten that there is another game in town -- Playoff Baseball. Regardless of how the Rangers fare this post-season, they still are my team, just as they have been my team since arriving here in 1972.

I last held season tickets to the Rangers in the late 1980s at old Arlington Stadium, but I found that I was unable to attend all of the home games, myself, and during those years, tickets to the Rangers games were not easy to give away. Now, with the Rangers in their "new" Ballpark, season tickets are a luxury that I just cannot afford!

Fortunately, I have some very good friends who have access to tickets (season and otherwise), and, knowing my fondness of the game, they generously provide me with seats to enough games each year to keep my baseball addiction in check. One of my good friends even made it possible for me to attend the second home playoff game on October 1 against Tampa Bay.

For next year, I am seriously considering looking into one of the multi-game packages that the Rangers began offering some time ago, but even at that, the investment will be rather substantial, and I likely would have to curtail some of my other "recreational expenses" to afford it.

Generous friends who have shared their tickets with me, and the fact that I have a business that affords me the chance to at least consider purchasing a season package (albeit a "mini-package"), cause me to pause and be grateful for the blessings that I have been given.

So today, I give thanks to God, to my family and to my special friends for bestowing upon me so many of the blessings that now shape and form the fabric of my life.

GO RANGERS!