Case of the Mondays: This lockout has us all feeling like we are in purgatory -

(Editor’s note: C.J. was an idiot and didn’t include Michael Young. Thanks to Eric Carillo for pointing out my dumbassery on Twitter. This article has been updated)

We wait, we wait and we wait.

I’m not smart enough or in the know enough to know when this damn thing will end – the lockout. And while I’m being selfish with my contention here, I know there are a huge majority of free-agent players that are looking at this hard, because they don’t know what their futures look like.

It feels like a harsh movie, where you watch for an hour and a half of struggle and get through to hope for a happy ending. Let’s hope this movie doesn’t end like Requiem for a Dream. If you haven’t seen that movie, don’t.

You would just be torturing yourself. But I digress.

One of our new brethren at Rangers Nation, Kane McCutchen, is doing a piece on what he thinks is his all-time Texas Rangers lineup would look like. Since we have nothing else to do while the MLB and MLBPA have a pissing contest, I’m gonna do the same.

Maybe Kane and I will have our own pissing contest. We shall see.

C—Pudge Rodriguez. No explanation needed.

1B—Rafael Palmeiro. There can be many arguments here. Will Clark, Mitch Moreland and more could be considered. But Palmeiro hit 569 home runs and drove in 1,835 runs during his – what should be – Hall of Fame career. Getting busted using PEDs at the tail end has scarred his illustrious career.

2B—Ian Kinsler. If you played against him, you hated him. If you played with him or was a fan of the Rangers, you loved him. Kinsler was a driving force in the Rangers lineup from 2008 to 2013. Enough said. While his tenure ended ugly with the front office, he still stands as the best Rangers second baseman ever.

3B—Adrian Beltre. No explanation needed.

SS—Michael Young. Mr. Ranger had six seasons with over 200 hits, and he also won a Gold Glove at shortstop after the Rangers dealt Alex Rodriguez to the Yankees for Alfonso Soriano in 2004. His non-stop unselfishness has made him one of the Rangers greats of all time, and he turned his average natural talent into a great talent with his nonstop dedication and hard work.

RF—Juan Gonzalez. There was a period in the 1990s where Igor was an unstoppable force, both in the field and the batter’s box. Juan Gone finished his career with a .295 batting average and 434 home runs – 345 of which he hit in a Rangers uniform. And he won the AL MVP twice. Argument over.

CF—Josh Hamilton. A lot of controversy surrounds Hambone, but there was not a more feared player in baseball when Josh was in his prime. This one, also, goes without anymore explanation.

LF—Rusty Greer. There is no one that played left field better than the Red Baron. He would do anything to make an out, and he was one of the best pure-hitting left-handed batters in the game during his prime. He finished his career with a batting average of .305, and there was a brief period where national media members were comparing him to Tony Gwynn.

DH—Mickey Tettleton. I’ve taken arguments on the Twitter machine that Nelson Cruz deserves to be in this spot. My argument is this – Nelly played right field during his Rangers tenure, not DH. And with the lineup I have provided, Mickey would slot in perfectly as your DH, partially because he was a switch hitter. He also brought power, hitting 54 combined home runs between 1995-96. Mickey gets my vote here.