World Series Game 5: Texas Rangers vs. San Francisco Giants

I've been a Texas Rangers baseball fan for literally my entire life.  Not that I remember this, but supposedly as a baby I "watched" the games with my dad.  Quality bonding time on the couch.  :o)

I'm proud to say I'm not a bandwagon fan or a fair weather fan.  I've gone to games every year, win or lose, regardless of how terrible we were... and trust me, we've been terrible.  So... when this year we made it into the playoffs, I was super excited but wouldn't get my hopes up since well, we've never advanced past the first round of playoffs.  And then we beat the Tampa Bay Rays!  So it was on to the New York Yankees which we'd never before been able to beat in the playoffs.  I was WORRIED.  And then we beat them to become the American League Champions!  The Rangers were on their way to their very first World Series in franchise history!  I couldn't be more excited!

Gary and I decided we deserved to go to a World Series game no matter the cost.  It would be wrong to go without also taking Dad so we split the cost of his ticket.  It was a major splurge but definitely worth it to be there!  Jeff came with us too and helped memorialize the occasion with awesome photos.  (All photos were taken by me unless otherwise noted.)

Photo by Jeff

We chose Game 5 because we had a feeling it would be the final game of the World Series and then we'd be there for the Rangers' win and how historic would that be!  Alas, our prediction of the Rangers winning was wrong... but we were correct in that Game 5 ended the World Series and it was still pretty cool to be there.  We got to see the very best of both teams' pitchers play and they truly were fantastic to watch.  They each had such different and distinctive styles.

Cliff Lee vs. Tim Lincecum

Neftali Feliz vs. Brian Wilson

    

The Giants played a really great game and they ultimately deserved to win so I'm ok with the outcome.

Photo by Brother

And now for some random World Series photos... former President George and Laura Bush were in attendance.  (We were sitting absolutely no where near them.  Josh's zoom lens is just that good that I could snap this picture.)

I happened to be snapping a picture right at this moment too... the blurry thing in the upper left hand corner would be Josh Hamilton's bat flying out of his hands and into the stands.

And I'll end with this super cute picture.  I did a double take the first time I saw her.  At first I thought it was just a panda stuffed animal but then I realized it was her baby.  Aside from the fact that it's WAY too expensive to buy a ticket to the World Series to bring along a baby... I'd totally dress up my kid like that LOL.

Photo by Jeff

Now let's hope it doesn't take another 39 years to get to another World Series...