Mariners lose to entire state of Texas

Photo by Stephen Brashear/Getty Images Maybe the secret to not being bad is on the groundThey say everything is bigger in Texas. The state is obviously pretty big, but from what I’ve seen, so are the food, drink, cows, carbon footprint, trucks, and moustaches. I’ve always wondered, though: how did Texas get that reputation? Well, if you were reading between the lines of tonight’s Mariners-Rangers game, I think it was evident that the story seeped into the game.

The first inning was fairly uneventful. Both sides traded runs, as Shin-Soo Choo socked a solo dinger to remind the Mariners yet again that Ben Broussard just wasn’t worth it. The Mariners small-balled Mallex Smith in to score, tying…