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Sideburns

This is a guy that we named "Sideburns." Sideburns is your typical annoying fan. He sat on the front row with his posse. His schtick was to yell ,"Go Ball-boy!" as loud as he could, every time the ball boy came out of the dug-out to get a stray ball or bat. Then Sideburns' posse would join in by yelling "Whoo-hoo!" This wasn't funny the first time, or the fifth time or the 30th time. I was glad when Sideburns went away.

We enjoyed watching most of the game from our good fake free seats behind home plate. I will tell you that the Rangers have some good future prospects on the Rough-Riders. I decided that it would probably be OK to go say a quick hello to Tim during the 7th inning stretch, because I noticed the guys in the pen talking to fans now and then between innings. I told Jeff I was going to hit the restroom, go say hi, and be back after the stretch. When I came out of the very clean and surpisingly decorated bathroom, Jeff was over by the bullpen. He said we were kicked out of our seats, even though the section was half-empty. So we decided to go say hi to Tim and hit the road to beat the traffic. We asked him if he thought he would pitch, and he said no. He said if he did, it would be in the ninth. So we talked to him for a couple minutes, and went back up to the concourse. The Rough-Riders hit a home run. They were winning 5-1, and it didn't look likely that there would be a bottom-of-the-ninth, for Tim to pitch. So we left, got in the car, turned on the radio, and heard, "Well, here we are in the bottom of the eighth, and now pitching for San Antonio is Tim Rall." DANGIT! So after all that, we missed him. And he did well! Two strike-outs and a very solid inning from the youngster from New York. The announcers called him "deceptive." And I'll be damned if after his outing, he wasn't promoted to the AAA club in Tacoma! So congratulations to Tim Rall, and best of luck during the rest of the season. Sorry we missed your last inning with the Missions.

The bad news is that now that Tim's leaving Texas, Marty and Kim will NEVER come to visit us.