Houston Team 4
Dallas Team 3
contributed by NeilT
Howdy! Man, this week has been busy, what with patrolling the Red River to stop iceback French-speakin’ children crossing over from Canada, and starting my own Super PAC. Anita reminded me that to be presidential, I need to ask for donations every time I appear somewhere, so please give me money. I had a tough time coming up with a PAC name, but finally came up with Rick PAC. Anita says I forgot the “P”, for Perry and President I guess, but I thought that Rick P. PAC was a bit long. She said that I should switch it around a bit but PAC Rick P doesn’t sound right.
Anyway, the Texas team was playing the Houston team so it’s my turn to do the recap. I’ve got to tell you that I’m not real excited about the Texas team these days. I guess you know that the current president and his administration are content to simply throw money at a problem and hope the problem will resolve itself, but my response has been crystal clear: Texas will not expand Medicaid under Obamacare. It’s nothing but socialism on American soil.
But I got this letter from Jon Daniels of the Texas team. Seems like the team is eat up with medical expenses, and they’re asking that we reconsider Medicaid expansion. He said they had six pitchers on the DL and seven position players. He said if the state could just provide some Medicaid expansion, then maybe the Rangers could buy some free agents for next season, and wouldn’t that be fair? Ain’t that what government’s for?
Well I tell you, back when I was a Democrat and an Al Gore supporter I surely might have felt that was right, but I don’t change my positions, and Texas is not expanding Medicaid. If the Texas team needs indigent health care, it needs to go to the emergency room like everybody else.
But I also understand that the Texas team hasn’t been playing so good, and that makes me think I need to find another team. I felt pretty good last night during the first 7 innings. The Texas team started out the first with two runs off of Oberholtzer, with Shin-Bob Soo Choo scoring on an Arencibia homer. After the first, Oberholtzer settled in, but Mikolas allowed no runs until Carter’s HR in the 5th. Altuve left the game in the top of the 6th with a neck strain, and is day to day.
Tolleson gave up 2 hits and no runs on 2 Ks for the 6th, and Mendez went three up, three down with 2 Ks for the 7th. It was looking like a one run win for the Texas team until Cotts came in for the 8th. Robbie Baseball homered driving in Singleton, and Marisnick scored on a Petit double. That put the Houston team up by two.
The Houston team non-closer, Qualls, came in to close out the 9th, and made things exciting. Rosales led off with a double to left, and then with one out Carp drove in Rosales on a single. Rougned Odor followed with a single, putting the winning run on base. Pat Robertson grounded into a double play to end the inning, which was a disappointment. I usually like just about everything Pat Robertson does.