Josh Hamilton sticks it to Rangers, fans again

Rangers' day-in-day-out fandom skews heavily Tarrant-wise (Arlington and Fort Worth). In that sense Dallas isn't a baseball town.

 

Is in inaccurate to say most people in Dallas care more about the Cowboys than the Rangers?

 

No, not at all. Probably true across the Dallas–Fort Worth–Arlington Metropolitan Statistical Area ... doesn't mean the area's "not a baseball town," though.

 

I wonder how Josh Hamilton will feel about his new basketball town.

 

YOU KEEP MY NAME OUT YOUR MOUTH, DOG

 

I'd say unless you're playing in St. Louis, you're not playing in a "true baseball town."

 

Boston and Chicago might have something to say about that.

 

New York, too.

 

In all seriousness, as much as I enjoyed watching Hamilton play lo these many years, he needs to STFU (and that advice goes double for his wife). He got booed maybe twice, both toward the end of a very disappointing season when he looked to be mailing it in. I wouldn't have booed him, but I wasn't surprised by it. Now he seems to be doing this post hoc rationalization about why he went to the Angels, as if he's trying to convince people that money/contract duration really weren't factors.

 

New York is an everything town. There are more people who like any given sport in New York than who like the same sport in any other city in this country.

 

IMO, Hamilton's not at all wrong to claim Dallas isn't a baseball town.

Keeping it to himself might have been better for all.

Seriously doubt the Stars' Stanley Cup registered a ripple compared to any Lombardi Trophy the Cowboys brought back to the Metroplex.

 

Dallas is not a baseball town, but booing someone doesn't mean you're not a baseball fan.