http://www.lonestarball.com/2008/8/7/589063/mccarthy

Guardado
Benoit
Wright
Rupe
Madrigal
Nippert
Francisco

You could put Francisco in, but I suspect he’ll pitch the 9th.

Madrigal isn’t available.

I don’t think you’d want to use any of the rest.

No use in giving up so early. We can give up if we don’t score anything before the 9th.

Since this image was created.

It may make this thing more enjoyable…

would work, too.

but the game will be over before we get there.

Oh my God.

Speaking of momentum killers, since the CJ incident, the team has been pretty meh and mistake ridden. Did it have something to do with these last 2 team performances? No… but an interesting coincidence.

like at checkers if they don’t wanna be forced to jump a piece, they don’t have to

first base simultaneously became open and he was already there. Very odd.

therefore it wasn’t a force out at 2nd anymore…

threw to first to get hitter on the force. took off the force for betemit.

It was a force play, but once the throw went to first base, Betemit had the right to stay on first base. Since he never left first base, he was safe.

If Davis had stepped off the bag and caught the ball, then tagged Betemit, then touched 1st, there’d be a DP.

The rangers have no idea how to play smart baseball?

I will take 2-2 against the Yankees and move on.

upsets me…especially on retarded fuck ups like that.

Strained quad.

and it looks alot like the early part of the season

The last two games.

The last two games.

Just like these two games mean exactly two losses.

I agree FOTF was an epic failure tonight

that is a suck ass thing to say. He pitched very well tonight.

’”THE NEWBERG REPORT

While they didn’t really factor into why Texas lost tonight, or why New York won, who had the worse four-game series:

Bob Davidson, Andy Fletcher, Alfonso Marquez, & Rob Drake?

Or Alex Rodriguez, who went 0 for 14 in the series and created 18 outs?

Disappointing loss, and a shame that Texas had to settle for a split after the way the first two games went.”

Overall, though, that game was one big suckfest. Feldman impressed the hell out of me…I really hate the word “gritty”, but that was a pretty gritty performance. Some awful baserunning decisions, and some even awfuler (just go with it) fielding.

I also had an impromptu discussion/argument with the dumbest Yankees fan I’ve ever encountered. I was discussing with my mom (albeit out loud) that I would never understand how Derek Jeter can be considered a “great” player.

This large bald man behind me told me, and I quote, “Hey! Derek Jeter is a first-ballot Hall of Famer!”

I tried to make the argument that Jeter is a good player who gets a lot more credit than he deserves, especially defensively, because he plays in New York.

The large bald man was having none of it, pointing out the fact that he was the “leader of some of the great teams in history”.

I tried to make the argument that Derek Jeter should never have won a single Gold Glove because he is, by every metric, a godawful defensive shortstop.

The large bald man told me that I need to “watch him and tell me he’s not a great player.”

And I did. I also told him that Jeter is on the good end of one of the greatest double standard of all time: Jeter could go 0-for-his next 35 and would get cheered, and Alex Rodriguez (arguably the greatest player of this generation) could go 12-for-his next 20, and the Yankees fans would boo him because he got out eight times.

The large bald man asked me how many World Series that Michael Young has won.

I informed him that Michael Young has never even been to the playoffs, but that Derek Jeter has never had five consecutive 200-hit seasons. Then I told him that it was neither here or there, the original point being that Jeter is simply beloved because he is Derek Jeter, he plays in New York, he has a good face and he smiles a lot, and that he might be the single most overrated player of this generation.

The large bald man asked me how many World Series that the Rangers had won.

This was the end of my conversation with him.

On the way out, Yankees fans were taunting me and my mom. I politely told them that both of our teams would be in the same place come September:

Sitting at home, watching the playoffs.

Also, +1 to LonestarJon for the sad Flair. Excellent.