What they're saying in Texas

One of the things that I do on a regular basis is visit Web sites in the cities of the competition to see what they are saying. With the Sox battling Texas (sort of) for the Wild Card, today I went to Dallasnews.com, the Dallas Morning News site (their equivalent of Boston.com) to find out how things are with the slumping Rangers.

Here’s what I found out:

• The lead on the Sports page was “Balanced Allen hands Trinity second straight loss.” Oh yeah, Texas, high school football, “Friday Night Lights” and all that. Apparently the Dillon Panthers have a bye week, because there was no mention of them.
• The Cowboys-Giants game on Sunday night is expected to draw 100,000 people.
• Some of the people who won’t be there are folks who have had Cowboys’ season tickets for years but have been priced out of the Cowboys new stadium by the $350 ticket prices, the $25,000 personal seat licenses and the $1,000 option fee to renew season tickets.
• The Cowboys have had success getting to Eli Manning
• The Cowboys hope to contain their opening night emotions.
• There was a lot of trash-talking about the Giants in the Cowboys’ locker room this week.
• The team has a Web site to provide you with your best route to the parking lots at the game, where parking will cost as much as $60! And we thought Foxboro was bad.
• Jerry Jones is ready to preside over the festivities as he rakes in the cash at the new stadium.
• Oh, yeah, there was one story telling me that the Rangers lost to the Angels. And another reminding Rangers fans that the game on Sunday starts at noon, and to get there early if they want to park for the normal Rangers’ parking price of $8. After noon, you will pay the Cowboys’ price of $60.

Apparently the teams share a parking lot, but they sure don’t share space on Dallasnews.com.

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