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by Adam J. Morris on Apr 27, 2008 5:07 PM CDT
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Boy did this crowd, this team and this fan base need that.
Truer words have not been written.
This is the sort of game where usually you'd say, let Dustin Nippert or Josh Rupe or whomever at the end of the bullpen come in and pitch the 9th.
But I didn't figure there was any way that was happening today...even at 10-0, Washington was going to ride Padilla as long as he could, and then go to Joaquin Benoit or C.J. Wilson.
There was no way he was going to let some garbage-time runs come in and kill the enthusiasm and the buzz from this game.
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Vinnie P
I picked him as this year’s eventual #1. So far, not bad at all.
I'd rather be Blind, Crippled, & Crazy
Sweet pick, bro!
"I hope it's a special dumb person hell so that I don’t have to meet up with you after I die."
- The D-tron
by inactive lsb user on Apr 28, 2008 2:10 AM CDT up reply actions
Trade
If nothing else, I’m glad that he’s doing so well to increase his eventual trade value later this summer.
Fortunately
Padilla didn’t give RW the opportunity to let Francisco, Rupe or anyone else “kill the enthusiasm and the buzz from this game.”
Max Ramirez 2008 Texas Rangers ROY
Cathartic
Please forgive any and all typos, mispellings, etc.
Your kindess in this matter is appreciated.
by red shoe ranger on Apr 27, 2008 5:52 PM CDT reply actions
We will not see...
a better game this year.
Botts, Hamslam, and Board Game all go yard.
MY and Hamslam with 3 hits a piece.
No errors on D.
And of course a CG shutout for Padilla who pitched very well.
I may have to keep this game on my DVR and re-watch it whenever the Rangers lay another stink-bomb like yesterday’s game.
"The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance."-Socrates
Oh...
and now everyone in the pen gets 2 straight days off as well. So the pen should be nice and fresh after being stretched out the last week+.
"The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance."-Socrates
Agree...awesome game
I wholeheartedly believe that Padilla’s complete game was greatly influenced by Nolan Ryan’s recent mandate for the pitchers to “grow some”. Previously, he’d have been pulled.
That’s the kind of move that could put some attitude back into the pitchers.
The new era begins…
I'd rather be Blind, Crippled, & Crazy
Actually Padilla...
has now thrown at least 108 pitches in 4 of 6 starts this year.
I think the fact that Padilla and Millwood are being left in there longer has a lot more to do with them coming into this year ready to pitch and in shape.
I don’t see Figurehead having anything to do with it.
"The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance."-Socrates
I think it has more to do with raising their trade value,
but thats just me.
The bloggerformelyknownasBigBaddBubbaJ
If you don't want to see it, that's OK with me.
“Obviously, he’s got strong feelings about pitching,” Rangers general manager Jon Daniels says, “and we were able to incorporate some of the things Nolan did into our farm system. We’ve encouraged a lot of our [minor league] managers and pitching coaches that they have the flexibility to let their pitchers go past 100 pitches.
Nolan schooled JD, JD got the message, and it was sent to Wash.
Who cares if you think Nolan is a Figurehead. JD certainly doesn’t.
Believe whatever you want.
I'd rather be Blind, Crippled, & Crazy
We interrupt this celebration for an unimportant announcement
Ron Washington still needs to be fired.
That is all.
We now return you to your regularly scheduled celebration.
HOW ‘BOUT THAT PADILLA? WOOO!!!!
Would you knock it off...
You don’t have to put “fire Wash” in every one of the numerous posts you make.
We all know you would like to see him gone. Give it a rest.
"The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance."-Socrates
+1
????
There is no such thing as global warming. David Murphy was cold, so he turned the sun up.
by SarasotaRanger on Apr 27, 2008 7:07 PM CDT up reply actions
Just reminding everyone that one, albeit VERY nice win
Does not mean we’re out of the woods.
And at this point, I think everybody knows everybody elses position on Wash – I’ll knock off my “fire Wash” posts when the discussion about him is over. In other words, when he is fired. Till then, this is a blog. We like to restate our opinions, all of us.
*Phew *
I thought we were about to take the division!
"I hope it's a special dumb person hell so that I don’t have to meet up with you after I die."
- The D-tron
by inactive lsb user on Apr 28, 2008 2:12 AM CDT up reply actions
LOL
The "Electrician" was born 7/16/07 11:53 PM EDT
http://www.lonestarball.com/2007/7/16/213154/893
by LAMuscleFag on Apr 28, 2008 12:39 PM CDT up reply actions
Unfortunately
I apologize for my pessimism, but I feel like I have heard this song a thousand times out of the Texas Rangers. When pending change is near, they always seem to do just enough to perpetuate the status quo. And the status quo for the Rangers over the past several years has been less than acceptable. Unfortunatley, I think todays win may have done just enough to save Washington or Daniel’s job for another month or so. Unfortunately, I just don’t think Washington was ready to handle an entire MLB roster and his poor roster decisions have proven such. With Danks, Young and Volquez performing at a higher level than 90% of the Ranger pitching staff, I can’t see how Hicks can justify keeping him on the payroll for anything more than a restroom attendant assigned to clean up all the dung in the ballpark banos. He’s certainly done his job in ensuring a thick load of dung has been on display in the ballpark since taking over. Let’s hand the reigns to Nolan Ryan and see who he can bring in here to manage this team. It’s obvious that Daniels has no idea what he is doing which has been abundantly evidenced by a poor managerial choice, horrendous trades and ridiculous off-season signings. Also, way to go on the Fukumori signing, vomit!
Ooops, by "him" I was referring to Daniels, not Washington.
Obviously, I didn’t preview before posting.
I switched my rant from Washingtons incompetence to Daniels incompetency, but forgot to define “him”. The “him” I am referring to as the future bathroom attendant is Daniels. Although at this point Washington would suffice as well.
Yes, this is my first blog rodeo. sorry folks.
Waxahachie
God bless you and protect your soul from those certain LSBers,who have forgotten more baseball than you or I know, as you are now a target. As a beacon of truth, all hellfire is about to rain down upon you.
Hand the reins over to Nolan? Yes.
Daniels has no idea what he is doing? Perhaps.
Say that aloud here? Blasphemy!
I'd rather be Blind, Crippled, & Crazy
what is your purpose of posting here?
to be a dick? do you not get your way with your wife either? or are you 12?
Rare Gnats Sex
Wow
Now that is an intelligent posting abo3! You are truly a man of words. I thoroughly enjoyed your rebuttal as you responded with very intelligent and astute points of consideration.
Geez, do you have some emotional attachment to Washington or Daniels!? I’m sorry, but my allegiance do not lie with either of them, rather I chose to support the Rangers franchise that has been around the city of Arlington longer than either of them.
Well
in his defense, how was supposed to offer a cogent rebuttal to that searingly intelligent “thick load of dung” metaphor you dropped on us?
No, there is simply no comeback for genius like that.
"Sabean did a good job on selling high on Liriano." -Excel Hearts Choi
by thedirkatron on Apr 27, 2008 7:07 PM CDT up reply actions
Fair enough
Good point…I fully admit that I am a frustrated Rangers fan right now. As is typical of our Rangers, we have a batting line-up that is ready for a post-season success, but a pitching staff that consistently has us 10-15 games out of first well before the All-Star break. Before Daniels took over the Rangers had a nice group of young pitchers that were destined to succeed in the MLB. Unfortunately, most of those young starts are succeeding else where.
"Before Daniels took over..."
are you familiar with the previous GM and what he did to the minor league system here?
"The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance."-Socrates
Doug Melvin
Melvin was genious and the last time this team was in competition for the post-season it was done with a system and team built by the great D. Melvin. Take a look at what he’s done with a small market team like the Brewers who barely spend a dime.
Brewers payroll
$81 million this season. Barely spending a dime?
Also, Melvin didn’t build the playoff teams of the late 90s.
Doug Melvin's first 5 years in Milwaukee
56-106
68-94
67-94
81-81
75-87
Of course, JD doesn’t deserve any time to build the franchise because he’s one of those young whippersnappers that never played the game and yaaaaaaaaaaaaaaawn.
Ok Grandpa Urine
But he was here so you have to recognize what he did when he was here.
I liked Melvin also but last year was his best with the Brewers. Thing is JD has done a good job building up the minors. When the time comes and those prospects get here you will have to give JD some credit.
"My death certificate will probably say: 'Cause of Death: World Series.'" Jamey Newberg
So do I
But how can you possibly say “Before Daniels took over the Rangers had a nice group of young pitchers that were destined to succeed in the MLB” when you don’t recognize a 5 year period in the franchise. None of the young pitchers we have traded away and have had success elsewhere were Doug Melvin picks or that Melvin traded for so your statement makes no sense. Also Melvin wasn’t exactly great developing pitchers in his own right. All his great young players that he developed were positional prospects. Same as in Milwaukee which as has been pointed out were all there before Melvin took over
That would be...
what I was hinting at.
"The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance."-Socrates
Destined to succeed?
Really? Chris Young looked like he was destined to succeed? John Danks looked like he was destined to succeed? Volquez looked like he was destined to succeed? No none of them looked like they were destined to succeed. Danks looked like the best of the bunch and even then he looked and still looks like no more than a serviceable middle rotation guy. Volquez looked great running to back up home plate after another RBI base hit he gave up.
Young, Danks...your kidding right???
Are you kidding me? do you not remember the last season Young spent in a Ranger uniform? And as for Danks: 1) you never trade a lefty for a righty unless the righty is significantly better than said lefty and 2) you certainly never trade a righty prone to injury for a prospective lefty who had never previously succumbe to significant injury. I might give you Volquez, but I won’t argue that as I am happy to have Hamilton here in Texas, just wish we didn’t have to give up one of our young pitching prospects for him.
Prone to injury?
DMac was never injured in Chicago so how is he injury prone? Did you know something everyone else didn’t?
"My death certificate will probably say: 'Cause of Death: World Series.'" Jamey Newberg
Yeah I do actually
And it was nothing special. Take off your blinders and realize he pitches in the best pitchers park in the majors and in the National League. He wore down toward the end of the year here and has now shown he does that in San Diego. People got their panties in a wad because he was a Dallas kid who grew up here. Wow thats great by that same token people should be in love with Jason Jennings. But they aren’t. Had Eaton not gotten hurt and put up a full year like his half year was and people wouldn’t have been so upset.
Now as for Danks I know BMac is hurt now but he was not injury prone before last year. Thats a fact. And he was significantly better than Danks. Go look at the numbers. Had McCarthy come up through our system and had the exact same numbers he would have been viewed as a savior. In fact of the three guys, McCarthy Hurley and Danks, Danks had the worst numbers. Hurley has had better numbers in the minors, before this year of course, than Danks did. Look at the hype he has created. McCarthy was better than that. Get your facts straight
i generally agree with you
but i tihnk you have to give credit to danks and young. at least young has shown that he is a good pitcher, irrespective of park, league, and backup defense. The thing about those guys was that there was no consensus that young was going to turn into a star and there was no consensus that danks was going to be better than Bmac. As it stand now, both of those things might come true but there was no guarantee at the time. Since those trades, both players have taken steps forward developmentally.
Rare Gnats Sex
Young's success
Young pitched above average here as a rookie in park that usually ate young pitchers alive.
Although he wasn’t Cy Young, he was definitely someone that you saw pitch and knew we needed to keep on the team.
a lot of people here were not all that impressed with young
well at least in the ranger community accross several boards. of course we liked him, but i dont tihnk the general opinion was that he would be an ace or anything.
at the time it seemed like smoke and mirrors a bit. he had a questionable minor league career, he didnt have great secondary pitches and his fastball was 90 mph….
turns out (helped by the park or not) he really was that good.
oh well. i thought the trade was terrible at the time, but because of the return not because I thought we were giving up an ace.
Gerald Laird is my hero.
Fun game today.
I took my sons for the first time and everybody had a blast. Josh Hamilton’s home run was magnificent. It looked like a pop up coming off of the bat and just kept going and going. Padilla looked very good today. There were times when he was actually working quickly. The defense looked pretty good as well. All in all, a very enjoyable afternoon at the ballpark.
Good thing...
you picked todays game to go to rather than yesterday’s. I’ll bet you and your sons wouldn’t have had the same experience yesterday. Still a pretty cool thing to take your kids to their first game.
Baseball is a funny game sometimes.
"The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance."-Socrates
the sound of the HR
just watching it again on video – the ball really does sound different
Rare Gnats Sex
The Ballpark a good time to be had by all
Athos – Glad to hear you and your sons had a good time. The ballpark is always a great place to take your family and count on a good time regardles of the outcome of the game. I took my boys to opening day this season and despite the loss, we all had a great time. Did you get to the ballpark earlier enough to see batting practice? It is amazing to watch the ball bounce off of Hamilton’s bat. I look forward to years of excitement watching him play at the ballpark.
Rangers Hitting - AL rankings
BA – 3rd
OBP – 3rd (tie)
SLG – 5th
by Randy Richardson on Apr 27, 2008 7:02 PM CDT reply actions
yeah,
I was trying to stick with the positive. After today, they are 10th. But, only 4 runs separate 6th thru 11th.
The OBP number is particularly encouraging.
by Randy Richardson on Apr 27, 2008 7:16 PM CDT up reply actions
I think it will...
looking at the #’s for the top of our lineup it looks pretty good so far.
Ian, MY, Hamslam, Board Game, Blalock, and Murphy have all been pretty solid so far. If Cat can heat up, Salty produces, and we get anything from Botts this lineup will look very good.
"The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance."-Socrates
RISP
they’re batting something like .200 with RISP right now, that will go up in time. Seems like last year they had the opposite problem – batted very well with RISP but didn’t have enough opportunities.
...and curse Sir Walter Raleigh, he was such a stupid git.
That's because last year,
the Rangers had Sosa the RBI machine.
by Randy Richardson on Apr 27, 2008 9:49 PM CDT up reply actions
milton bradley
while we all acknowledge how great milton bradley is, I just want to reemphasize that early on, this looks like an outstanding FA pickup. They guy can flat out rake and we can do whatever we want with him (trade him, extend him). If Wash had anything to do with getting him here, he deserves some credit (especially because it seems like he’s going to take all of the flak for signing BB).
Rare Gnats Sex
You know...
there aren’t many things more nauseating than listening to Joe Morgan call an Angels game.
funny
Morgan taking about how it was hard to believe that GMJ (son of his all-time favorite teammate) was batting .250 because every time you turn around he gets a big hit.
by Randy Richardson on Apr 27, 2008 7:36 PM CDT up reply actions
Maybe
he only turns around once every 4 times to the plate
by bigsteve on Apr 27, 2008 7:37 PM CDT up reply actions 1 recs
zing!
"I hope it's a special dumb person hell so that I don’t have to meet up with you after I die."
- The D-tron
by inactive lsb user on Apr 28, 2008 2:18 AM CDT up reply actions
OT: Posada to the DL...
and he thinks it could be bad. Wanting to see Dr. James Andrew is not a good sign.
The Yanks just DFA’d Moeller, so the only other catcher they have beside Molina is some Stewart guy, whoever that is?!
If only another team had a real “superstar” catcher available that the Yanks could barter for.
"The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance."-Socrates
A five tools
catcher that will make Yankee fans forget some guy named Berra, or Dickey and Munson.
Max Ramirez 2008 Texas Rangers ROY
Laird anyone, anyone....
How about Salty for Joba? After all he is just a setp-up guy. lol
"My death certificate will probably say: 'Cause of Death: World Series.'" Jamey Newberg
two walks allowed...
...plus superb defense…
michael with a backhanded stab…
botts running down a couple of outfield flys
josh holding a runner to a single… when it could have easily been a double…
three inning-ending double plays…
i ran to the dugout after the game, just as the guys were walking into the clubhouse and shouted… “no errors!... no errors!... great effort, fellas!”
wash was the last man to go down… and he acknowledged my chants with a thumbs up… i felt really proud for him…
how does a team play like they have for as long as they have, and then pull a gem like this out of their ass?.....
i just don’t understand this team… i seriously hope they enjoy their day off and come right back at it on Tuesday…
the "crispest" game of the year...
...even if they lost, i would have cheered for them.
by oc on Apr 27, 2008 8:46 PM CDT up reply actions
Dude
i ran to the dugout after the game, just as the guys were walking into the clubhouse and shouted… "no errors!... no errors!... great effort, fellas!"
Could you think of a more douchey thing to say after the best game of the year?
WTF?
"I hope it's a special dumb person hell so that I don’t have to meet up with you after I die."
- The D-tron
by inactive lsb user on Apr 28, 2008 2:31 AM CDT up reply actions
Wednesday
I hope they can string some decent baseball together until at least then. I’ve got four free tickets behind home plate and a season ticket lot parking pass for Wed’s game against KCR.
Just saying
I’m getting pretty psyched about Marcus Lemon.
Not sure how soon he’ll play his way to Frisco but I look forward to his and Vallejo’s progress this year.
It’d be fun to see Davis in Arlington, Elvis in AAA (somehow, and I have doubts)...thus putting Gac, Vallejo, Lemon and Whittleman on the Frisco infield with Max catching and Mayberry in the outfield.
Go Strangers.
by hightowersmith on Apr 28, 2008 12:39 AM CDT reply actions
Lemon is in a groove
10 for his last 21 with 4 BB’s and 2 SB’s.
Not bad for 19 in A+.
"I hope it's a special dumb person hell so that I don’t have to meet up with you after I die."
- The D-tron
by inactive lsb user on Apr 28, 2008 2:26 AM CDT up reply actions
First game attended of the year
Some interesting notes:
1) between innings one time, a kid in the whiffleball park hit a homer, setting off the fireworks. Delwyn Young was warming up in left field at the time and nearly crapped himself.
2) When did they stop playing “Hit the Road, Jack” when an opposing pitcher is pulled? Sunday would have been the perfect day for it. Livan was pwned!
3) Botts looked pretty good in LF. Made one catch near the warning track at the line and then the next between the CF and SS in very short Left-center.
4) Section 11 Row 14 rocks for seats!!!!
5) 60 degrees in the afternoon is VERY comfortable.
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