Worth A Thousand Words

During the course of her softball career, Clare had a teammate whose brother was drafted by the Texas Rangers.  Just for fun yesterday, I went on the Rangers’ website to check if he’d been placed on the 40-man roster.  That’s when I saw the picture.

It was supposed to show the holiday spirit of all those Rangers’ players handing out gifts to sick children.  There were seven women in the picture, all wearing the same identical team pullover as the men.  For a second, I thought, Wow, that’s a lot of females in the front office.  Then it hit me.  These were wives or girlfriends, that, or the general manager doesn’t care about subordinates hand-holding in public. 

As for my daughter’s six degrees of separation from the major leagues, the player in question has another year to go before the Ranger have to decide about putting him on the roster.  And the way it’s going, about another hundred years before adding any women.