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The Masters ~ Texas Rangers ~ Dirk's Retirement

GO MAVS!!!

I cried. Did you cry? 41.21.1

TV screenshot
TV screenshot
If you missed it... here are the clips I could find. 

Watch Dirk's last shot of his career

Watch Dirk highlights in his last game vs. the Spurs

Watch Dirk highlights from his last home game - where he scored 30 points!

Watch Dirk announce that he played his last game

Watch Charles Barkley's tribute to Dirk

Watch Scottie Pippen's tribute to Dirk

Watch Larry Bird's tribute to Dirk

Watch Shawn Kemp's tribute to Dirk

Watch Detlef Schrempf's tribute to Dirk

Highlights from Dirk's career

Dirk was the best thing about basketball! Especially here in Dallas. 

He said he will always be here, Cuban promised him he will always have a job with the Mavs, and there will soon be a statue outside the AAC of him. 

I'm glad we have Luca, but there will never be another Dirk.

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#MFFL
#GOMAVS
#lukadoncic
#dirk
#41.21.1

THE MASTERS
The MASTERS is finishing early Sunday!

They moved the Tee Times up to 6:30 AM CST. Should finish by 1 PM CST.

Here is the current leaderboard, courtesy of Google.


Here are the tee times for Sunday. They're going off in threesomes and are starting on hole 1 and 10.

Notable Tee Times (CDT):
Spieth and Fleetwood 7:03 AM
Watson and Day 7:14 AM
JT, Mickelson, Rahm 7:25 AM
DJ and Fowler 7:47 AM
Kuchar 7:58 AM
Johnson and Horschel 8:09 AM
Koepka, Simpson, Poulter 8:09 AM
Molinari (-13), Finau (-11), Woods (-11) 8:20 AM

Tiger casually mentioned that Jack's last Masters victory was won on hole 9, so doing a shotgun type approach doesn't scare him, the precedence has been set. We know he's eyeing his first Masters victory in 14 years, and putting is his key to victory! And hitting the fairways. And everything else.

#masters
#tigerwoods
#golflife

GO RANGERS!!! 6-7 (wins ~ losses)
5th in AL West

We started out so well, but no one believed it would last. 
Winning 5 or our first 7 games, and out-scoring our opponents 45 to 38, we had our streak going... then we slid into Los Angeles.

The Angles. They weren't in our outfield. They have a Trout in theirs and he caught everything. I'm not sure what kind of flies he was using, but nothing got past him, and we lost 3 out of 4 games in LA. It's all downhill from there. 

Our starting pitching is doing... well... how we all expected. 

Mike Minor is our best starter with a 3.86 ERA (Earned Runs Average - he's had that many people score on him). 

Our newly acquired players aren't doing too shabby either. Lance Lynn (from the Yankees) leads our roster with 19 Strikeouts (K's). And Shawn Kelley (from the Washington Nationals) has 2 wins, with 7 innings pitched and a 2.57 ERA. 

Jose Leclerc is still our Closer, despite allowing Arizona to score 4 runs on us, leading to a loss and a win. Leclerc only has two saves on the season. 

Good News... 

We are only 13 games into the season. We may have been lucky like the Orioles in our first few games, but we can find our stride still! 

Hunter Pence, the "old guy," is knocking them out of the park! He's only played in 8 games and has 21 AB (At Bats), 7 Hits, 1 HR (Home Run) and a BA (Batting Average) of .333. Second highest BA on our team. For a 36 year old guy... I'm impressed!

Odor is out with an injured knee, which may be a good thing since his BA is .167. He can take the next 10 days to re-group and get his swing back. Danny Santana is being brought up from the minor league. Check this article to read more about this kid. 

Go to a Game!!! It's the last year of the stadium! Soak it up!! It's a beautiful ballpark and is the last time you'll see real grass. Tear. 


Check out the full schedule

#TexasRangers
#OpeningDay

Random Info...
I post about this movie around this time every year, but with Easter coming up and the Masters wrapping up tomorrow - it's the perfect movie to watch in-between.

And yes, I cry every time I watch it. Lots of sports crying going on here.

Seven Days in Utopia

I highly recommend watching this alone. It's kind of slow, but I love the story! Robert Duvall is the best! And has the greatest quote in any sports movie (or one of the greatest)... "How can a game have such an effect on a man's soul?"

Did he make the putt?

#hugsomeone
#Easter
#SevenDaysInUtopia
#didhemaketheputt

~smile~

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