woooooooooo more mathis.

the sir sidney bitch has always been a bitch and thinks he’s better than he is maybe now we can make a trade for a actually good pitcher.

That the defense was horrible, but you can’t call your teamates out like that on the field.

You can really tell this team is having fun…we do not need a debbie downer bringing them down.

JD the enforcer.

Sidney loves to hear his own voice. And he’s a straight-shooter. The D on Wednesday was ugly, but someone above this said it right—you can’t call out your teammates. Especially if you’re a player who didn’t even have a job before March.

Ah well…this saves the headache of making room for Padilla.

or do we stick with the plan and use Mendoza and Mathis or at some point maybe even Hurley.

To hear josh talk about this tonight lol

defense gave up 4 unearned runs. i think i’d give the guy a little leeway.

I’m shocked, i didn’t see any onfield incident wednesday but i think i missed the start

He was one of the brighter stories for the team this year. Something pretty bad must have triggered this

Post the JD in sunglasses TERMINATOR over the shoulder stare picture.

IT was born for this thread.

for misplaying a ball. I saw it go down.

I don’t know what else happened, but I’m not a fan of the move.

He must have hurt some serious feelings.

when the great Ryan Drese got cut out of nowhere for an off field incident.

I wonder if this was done as a message to the rest of the team. Let’s face it, Ponson was not going to be a part of the Rangers’ plans for next season. They would either ride him out for the rest of the season or trade him; I don’t see an extension for him no matter how well he pitched. I did not see the game in question, so I looked up the game log at B-Ref. There were three errors, committed by Bradley, Kinsler, and Young. Two of these three players are part of the long term plans for this team (who knows, Bradley might even get an extension – I also notice that Boggs is also mentioned in a post above), so maybe this was done to prove that no player is above the team. I’ve had my suspicions about Nolan Ryan in the past (and I am not for one minute saying that this originated with him), and he strikes me as the type of person who does not tolerate this kind of behavior. So when Daniels suggests that drastic measures be taken for whatever Ponson did, I bet Ryan was supporting him the entire time.

http://www.break.com/index/office-worker-goes-absolutely-insane.html

i hate to say this team is F’ed.

But this team is F’ed. They already had the thinnest upper level pitching in baseball. Now it is even worse. Hilarity ensues.

wonder what happened?

I have a source inside the clubhouse who said that after the game he was cussing the players, coaches and GM aloud. He was angry that he was forced to pitch on three days rest, and the errors set him off. He said, allegedly, that Daniels had his head up his arse and that Wash couldn’t coach his way out of a wet sack with a machete…I’m using a cleaner version.
Needless to say, he teed off M-Young, J-Ham, Milt and others.

Don’t think there’s much credibility to that guy as a source, but not exactly hard to see that happening with the way Ponson acted throughout that game

JD has been very open with the media so I wonder if he will tell us what happened maybe in a couple days.

it’s Matt Harrison time!

This is shocking. Ponson really must have blown a gasket for the Rangers to feel they needed to chop him, especially with the way the rotation has performed lately. Now we’re left with a big hole in a rotation that already basically has a revolving door at the back end.

At this point, I think Eric Hurley should get his promotion, and be told to sink or swim in the big leagues. If they’re gonna do that to Doug Mathis, keep throwing him out there even though he doesn’t seem to have it, then they can do it with Eric Hurley.

Hurley’s been in the minors for a long time, anyway. I remember somebody posting a chart awhile back that showed his progress through the minors vs. the progress of other players in his draft class, and he’s one of the only ones not in the majors yet. Normally, I wouldn’t advocate pushing prospects, but we’ve babied Hurley for long enough – time to give him that one last shove.

Jon Daniels: I need your clothes, glove and your rosin bag.
Sidney Ponson: You forgot to say please…

I don’t have anything really intelligent to add. It’s just stunning.

Isnt the timing of this a bit bad?? I seem to recal that we a bit short on arms and if i remember correctly, im pretty sure Mathis isnt the answer!! Besides, id be pretty pissed too if my defense behind me gave up three errors and i was expected to throw lights out with 3 days rest. Another great move by JD, Sid the kid (old man) at least had some trade value.

AJ Murray?

for the sake of player development, so the fans and other players get WHIPed to death by Mathis. But when I suggest trading Bradley, everyone is upset because this team should put the best possible product on the field and you can’t keep trading players for magic beans, which, if I recall, is player development.

It seemed to me that something happened today, that’s what JD said. “Something happened today…”

My money is on a scuffle between MY & him.

before geing live. Josh, “I’ll do Ponson and you talk about Padilla.” TAG, “I don’t HAVE TO talk about Ponson, right?” Not my emphasis.

Semi-educated guess: Ponson showed up drunk.

out here in West Texas before they actually went live. TAG said, ” I don’t HAVE to talk about Ponson, right?” Heavy on the HAVE

that no one’s mentioned Gabbard yet as a replacement. I meanhe has had some control problems, but if I am correct he gave up only 2 walks, while giving up 5 runs in his first start down on OKC. Maybe give him one more start down there and call him up afterwards…

JD was busy with the draft. Ponson barged in complaining about the pre-game buffet spread. JD flew off the handle.

Never interupt JD during the draft…

A little shocked but it’s really just Sidney Ponson. He made a few good starts more than I thought he would but it’s not like he was a huge part of the big picture with this team. I’m sure JD wouldn’t have done this without just cause. Good riddance.

As for who takes his place. I don’t think Hurley or Harrison are ready. I go back to Gabbard. His control sucks, but I think it would be better him than Mendoza or Mathis.

And I remember wondering at the time if, when he got to the dugout, he fired off at Young and Bradley.

I agree with many posters, this will be the beginning of Harrison and possibly Hurley to the bigs. Their next starts are going to be closely watched (not that Harrison’s was much tonight…).

And will Tommy Hunter see Arlington this year? If BMac doesn’t come back?

If some kind of Bradley trade goes down, or even Laird…well, you have to figure JD’s working the phones right now. Gabbard isn’t enough to patch this dam.

this rotation has been pieced together so far all year, just like every other year. Obviously Hurley and Harrison aren’t ready yet, but I wouldn’t be suprised if they got the call. At least that is what this team would have done in the past. Lets see if they continue the bad development of pitchers streak alive.

The only other pieces I can think of would be Mendoza and Gabbard. Does Tejeda get another shot at it?

Is anyone else feel like puking over this god aweful rotation that keeps getting pieced together year in and year out? It’s so frusturating.

that’s pathetic…

I kind of figured Ponson had begun to sort out the crap that had haunted him in Baltimore.

Regardless.. Everyone has random stories about drunk athletes (or at least stories they hear once or twice removed like mine).

Ponson used to frequent the Baja Beach Club in Baltimore quite often, and from what I heard was quite the chubby chaser. Apparently, he tended to use his baseball cred to procure larger Baltimore girls (and sometimes quite a few in a night). This trick apparently worked on an old buddy of mine’s sister-in-law, who ended up getting dumped back at the club shortly after they finished… only to watch him leave with yet another girl. Real quality that guy.