Every once in a while, the Rangers tease you with what could have been. 

And when they do, you get a mix of emotions between the joy of the team winning and the frustration of a team that could not figure it out more.

The Rangers not only won in extra innings yesterday, not only won on a walk-off home run, but they had to overcome a two-run do-or-die deficit to do it.

The sad truth is, it just takes this offense longer to get going. They are procrastinators. They simply need more than nine innings. 

The Rangers are 9-2 (an .818 winning percentage) in extra-inning games, 56-70 (.444) in nine-inning games.

It’s not a bad offense. It’s a lazy offense. It’s a procrastinating offense. It’s an I’ll-take-out-the-trash-later-right-now-I’m-relaxing-on-the-couch-watching-cartoons offense.

It’s a teenage son offense.

You have to yell at them to get up off their butts and get something done and they put it off and put it off and finally, when it’s too late, they do it. After the garbage men have come for the week, they take out the garbage.

The Rangers are 9-2 in extra-inning games. It’s fun. It’s exciting. 

It’s too late. 

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