Is it lazy or inspired when Dale Hansen airs his “Thank God for Kids” segment each holiday season, with the exact same grainy video clips, every single year?
Dale’s really good at that sort of thing, and could absolutely update the visuals, but he doesn’t, and instead we see the same standard-def images of short shorts and zipper cuts annually on that next-to-last Sunday night on the calendar, every year since 1983.
It’s with equal parts laziness and inspiration — by which I mean it’s just about all laziness — that I reissue this from April 1, 2011, the first morning of Rangers baseball that counted following the club’s first World Series, heading into what would be another World Series season, and once again wish you a Happy New Year in 2016.