I'm a sap, and I love baseball. So, it does my heart a ton of good to watch my Texas Rangers this season, a team that sends four guys to the All-Star Game tonight.

A team that is only four games over .500 but only 6 out of a wild-card spot in the AL, behind a wild-card leader that has lost seven straight. Sure, the Rangers have no pitching, as we haven't for the past 36 seasons.

However, we've got chemistry and the best story in baseball: Josh Hamilton.

Make that two of the best stories in baseball if you can include Milton Bradley. Read about the "Risk Brothers" in this New York Times piece.

If that wasn't enough, did you see what Hamilton did in the first round of the Home Run Derby Monday night? He hit 28 dingers, a record.

And then he talked about it with ESPN:

I'm not delusional enough to think the Rangers have a shot, long-term, against the Red Sox and Angels and Cubs of the 2008 baseball world. However, the higher power that has so obviously worked some magic with the Risk Brothers might just repay the Rangers for taking a chance on 'em.