<p>Big Phillies fan here and I sure hope the boys can turn it around tonight. I hate waking up and remembering a loss the night before. Should be a good game.</p>
<p>Currently watching ALCS Game #6. Rangers up 5-1, going to the 6th.</p>
<p>Doesn’t look too good for my Yankees right now.</p>
<p>Yankees are toast. Three more outs. </p>
<p>Rangers versus Giants is my vote as well.</p>
<p>Congrats to the Rangers. My cousin works the gates at the stadium and she and her brother are both there tonight.</p>
<p>I grew up in Arlington. Watched the Texas Rangers from their first game. For years, they were basically a joke. You’d go to the games for a fun time, to eat some cotton candy or peanuts and hot dogs, hear the typical baseball organ music, etc. You never went to a game expecting a win. The new stadium is absolutely spectacular, and just beautiful. But you went to the games for the stadium, not for the wins.</p>
<p>I just cannot believe this…</p>
<p>The World Series AND the Super Bowl are coming to Arlington this year.</p>
<p>I am in TX this weekend for events at my D’s uni. We were in sports bar for the last two innings. Go Rangers! Antlers UP T-shirts everywhere.</p>
<p>Still a Cubs fan, though.</p>
<p>Thrilled the Yanks lost. Take a bit of that huge chip on their shoulder off.
Disappointed the Yanks lost. Phils wont get a shot at them.</p>
<p>Yup. Phils fan here.Lol.</p>
<p>It will be imposible for the Giants to win in Philly. We are just so insanely loud and annoying in that stadium. J Roll called on the fans to “bring it” so I can only imagine what it willbe like.</p>
<p>If the Phils start out slow and Howard, Werth, Utely don’t hit look for the fans to be booing their Phils by games end.</p>
<p>31 yrs ago when I moved here I was shocked and embarrased by the Phillies fans.
Lol, now I’m one of em.</p>
<p>Go Phils!!! I’ve got World Series Tx and I really want to use them!</p>
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<p>teriwtt, when I was growing up in Arlington, it was almost a rite of passage for teens to work at Rangers Stadium at some point in your adolescence. I actually didn’t, but I knew SO many kids who did. That, or Six Flags. My best friend lives there, and both of her sons have spent summers working at the stadium. I can sure think of worse summer jobs.</p>
<p>Nrdsb4 - well, my cousin would consider it a huge compliment if anyone considered her a teen! She’s my age (actually it’s my cousin’s daughter), but has been working there for many years as a way to get into free to the games. I guess it’s finally paid off… World Series tickets will be very, very expensive for those that have to purchase them. </p>
<p>I grew up in Texas, too, and I remember how god-awful hot it was when we’d go to Six Flags or Astroworld in the summer. What were we thinking? Rode my first roller coaster at Six Flags.</p>
<p>I am cautiously optimistic about the Phillies. I have Phillies earrings and I wore them through my whole legal conference this week. Despite 28 years in Dallas, I remain a Phillies fan. As was noted above, the Rangers were never anything to watch. Now they are and I’m pleased for the fans.</p>
<p>I’m just getting back from the game (and a long night of celebrating lol) and it was an incredible feeling to see the Rangers win over the Yankees and make it into their first World Series.</p>
<p>We were also lucky to score a pair of tickets to games 4 and 5 in a pretty decent location.</p>
<p>The first person I thought of after that last out (how ironic that it was A-Rod) was YouDon’t Say. But it must be bittersweet having her son so far away.</p>
<p>First Yankees pretend to be hit by pitch and get away with it. Now they pretend *not *to be hit by pitch and get away with it. And lose anyway. Beautiful.</p>
<p>And, since the Phils have taken up similar chea…sorry…*acting *antics lately, I’m hoping for similar results.</p>
<p>LET’S GO, RANGERS! <em>clapclap – clapclapclap</em></p>
<p>So. Freakin’. Excited. Thanks for thinking of me, missypie.</p>
<p>The past few weeks have been miserable for our family, as my SIL has been in ICU and CCU, and this week ds1 got cut from his college team. Seriously, if it weren’t for the Rangers, this month would have been a complete disaster. I’m up here in Dallas for SIL’s funeral, but we’ve all been able to keep our spirits up by cheering on the Rangers. In fact, last night was her religiion’s equivalent of the rosary ceremony, but we were all “secretly” following the game during the visitation, then at 9 rushed home to catch the last three innings. Trust me, that’s what she would have wanted.</p>
<p>I have no idea whether we’ll win the Series, but I’m just so proud of this team to have finally made it there. I think they’re still hungry and will give either the Giants or the Phillies a run for their money. Good luck, fans, in today’s game!</p>
<p>Just watching on TV was enough for me (though, missy, I’d still take any of those extra tickets! 
)! Called ds1, who was over the moon, wearing his claw shirt. He says he’s the only Rangers fan up there, and he had just won a pizza on a bet and was about to head out to collect. 
Guess I better make some time to get him an ALCS shirt while I’m here!</p>
<p>OK, I’m the OP and a longtime Yankee fan. Very sad today
BUT
must congratulate the Rangers and their fans for a deserved win.
The Yankees were beat and beat good. Even the bogus ‘hit/not hit by pitch’ play couldn’t save them.</p>
<p>The World Series should be good…I’d like to see Rangers/Phillies.
Baseball is still wonderful in our house, even Yankee-less.</p>
<p>I am happy the Rangers are finally going to the World Series. (Get back to me later on whether I want them to win.) But I was really rooting for the Yankees last night. I could have watched the Phillies game today if they started it at 3:30. But when the Yankees got eliminated the Phillies game moved to prime time, and I have a conflicting engagement (where no one, starting with my wife, is going to care about the Phillies).</p>
<p>YDS–so sorry to hear about your family’s troubles. I’ll root extra hard for the Rangers in the WS for you.</p>
<p>For the Rangers fans.</p>
<p>We went to a Rangers game when the stadium first opened and all I can remember is how STEEP the seating in the upper stadium was. My knees were above the guys head in front of me.There was also very little leg room. It was actually a little unnerving.</p>
<p>Am I remembering it right or has time and my imagination made it much STEEPER than it really is.</p>
<p>I’m happy for the Rangers fans. Texas needed a winner this year as …cough…ahem…foootball ain’t doing it.</p>
<p>Congratulations to the Rangers, and I hope they win the World Series.</p>
<p>A very disappointed Yankee fan (although this didn’t hurt nearly as much as the years when they lost right at the end, or “should” have won, like 2001, 2004, 2003, 1995, 1997, and 1981 – which I’ve tried to rank from most to least painful!).</p>