Congratulations to Shutdown Inning (and me)

Congratulations are in order for everyone over at Shutdown Inning, which just celebrated its second anniversary.  For those of you who may not know, Shutdown Inning is a baseball website (or “blog,” as the kids these days call it) that focuses primarily on the Texas Rangers, and for which I have been fortunate enough to write since June 2012.

In fact, my next article for SDI will be the 50th I’ve written for them, so allow me to take a quick moment to break my arm patting myself on the back.  Hope I don’t end up on the DL.

And while in celebratory mode, I’d like to extend heartiest birthday wishes to my most beloved (*wink*) member of the Rangers’ starting rotation, Derek “The Dutch Oven” Holland, who turns 27 today.  I chose the SDI graphic with Derek in it specifically in honor of his birthday.