It's 3:18 a.m. and I'm currently witnessing a ridiculous event on TV. Oklahoma State is facing Tulsa with 6:53 left in the fourth quarter. And this thing is live. At 3:18 a.m.
After a three-hour lightning delay, game officials apparently are going to try to finish this thing. I've been watching football a long time, but I've never seen a game in the central time zone push 3:30 a.m. Oklahoma State is not helping the telecast either, because it's leading, 59-26. Long game with a lot of scoring.
At any rate, the Rangers made significant progress tonight with a 7-6 victory at Seattle. The significant progress came in large part because the Angels lost at Baltimore on the same night, 6-2.
With the Rangers winning and the Angels losing, Texas currently holds a 4.5-game lead in the American League West with 10 games remaining. Combine that with the rest of the Texas schedule (series left at Oakland, vs. Seattle, at Anaheim), and it really started to hit me tonight that the Rangers are well on their way to becoming back-to-back AL West champs.
It's a great time to be a Rangers fan. The team has a talented nucleus of players in the prime of their careers, and, for the most part, general manager Jon Daniels has attempted to keep the core together.
I'm aware not everyone will stay. C.J. Wilson, Josh Hamilton and Nelson Cruz will require new contracts soon. But hopefully, we can keep the majority of the nucleus in Arlington. If that happens, this can be a playoff contender for the next three to four years.
It's about 3:30 now and this OSU-Tulsa game still has 1:42 remaining. Insane. I'm barely keeping my eyes open, so I'm going to end this post now and rest easy, knowing the Rangers are on the brink of capturing another AL West crown.
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