"In other local baseball news, pitchers and catchers report in 17 days.

Ain't that just great.

Speaking strictly for myself, the Texas Rangers being back on the field, even if it's a diamond in Arizona, is the best way of purging all recent elements involving local jock kingdom demons, which on my list includes:

Game 6, ninth inning.

The Cowboys.

Jerry.

Nellie on that damn fly ball.

No Tyson Chandler.

Dirk got lazy.

Josh got drunk.

Game 6, 10th inning.

Speaking of Josh, I thought the most surprising news of last week involving the Rangers came across the Internet on Thursday, meaning it was a few hours too early to include any dirty pictures that are apparently now for sale. (The Hamilton story didn't break until Thursday night.)

Not that anybody has asked me yet, but, no, I'm not interested in paying $10,000 or $100,000 for pix/videos that a creep or two claim to have involving Josh's over-served activity at a Dallas bar."