Rangers are the only team in the MLB without....
by Steal Home on Aug 8, 2008 1:46 AM CDT
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a 3 or more game sweep. Almost every team had at least one sweep by May and the latest a team got their first sweep was in June. EVEN THE MARINERS HAVE ONE.........Its pretty amazing that we can start off with a 9-18 record and then go to 6 games above .500 and still not have a sweep or a 5 game winnings streak. I guess the reason we dont have one is that we dont have consistent pitching...or just pitching general. I wonder if a team has ever gone a season without completing a sweep, maybe the 50-win Tigers? I knew we didnt have a sweep but i had no idea every team had a sweep by early june. well at least we are overacheiving....
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technically...
...we did sweep Toronto in April.
by oc on Aug 8, 2008 1:50 AM CDT reply actions 0 recs
well i dont count that as a sweep
but thats why i said a 3 or more game sweep
Feliz and Hurley. The 1-2 punch of the future
by Steal Home on Aug 8, 2008 1:52 AM CDT up reply actions 0 recs
The best hitting team
Will have a one or two game falloff every so often. The “no sweep” syndrome is just about offset by the fact that the Rangers have only been shut out twice in over a hundred games. But yeah, without two ace types supplemented by two innings eaters, chances of any streak, even a four game sweep, are pretty dim.
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by Ed Coffin on Aug 8, 2008 2:01 AM CDT reply actions 0 recs
Quick, somebody call Joe Morgan
And let him in on this awesome new way of judging a teams success: how many sweeps they have by august. Because you’re nobody until you’ve swept somebody.
We need to hire Chuck Norris to kick the ass of any Ranger fan caught booing one of our young pitchers at the RBiA.
by lonestarJon on Aug 8, 2008 7:12 AM CDT reply actions 0 recs
A bit harsh.
He wasn’t claiming to have discovered the cure for cancer, just an oddity.
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by t ball on Aug 8, 2008 7:33 AM CDT up reply actions 0 recs
to be fair
if LSJ had made the same fanpost, probably four or five people would rush to tell him that he was a moron for thinking it was important. He’s just doing unto others as others have done unto him.
by JBImaknee on Aug 8, 2008 11:25 AM CDT up reply actions 0 recs
And I almost
posted exactly that point. There’s too much of that in general here.
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by t ball on Aug 8, 2008 11:39 AM CDT up reply actions 0 recs
To be fairer
When you have more posts than anybody on the site (by a few thousand) you are just asking for it.
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by DaheelzCM on Aug 8, 2008 7:36 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs
Well, if you want to be ultimately fair
That award goes to Miles, with 11157 comments – and 231 fanposts to back it up. That’s the most I’ve seen by any one person here who doesn’t go by the name Adam J Morris.
Personally I think LSJ does take a little more than his fair share of crap around here (and he’s not the only one either) but I do agree he posts… a lot.
by BlackHawk125 on Aug 9, 2008 8:15 AM CDT up reply actions 0 recs
That is a little sad
You’d think a couple of 18-20 year guys would have more exciting things to do than be posting on a baseball blog.
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by DaheelzCM on Aug 9, 2008 9:08 AM CDT up reply actions 0 recs
settle down, hey zeus
we can’t all be genuses
by bushe on Aug 8, 2008 7:56 AM CDT up reply actions 0 recs
but can we all be species?
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by WhipSmart on Aug 8, 2008 10:23 AM CDT up reply actions 0 recs
Nice...
...I wanted to make a similar joke but couldn’t figure out how to word it. Kudos.
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by Chad Crudup on Aug 8, 2008 11:02 AM CDT up reply actions 0 recs
You're out of order
stop disrupting the class.
Time you enjoy wasting was not wasted.
by t ball on Aug 8, 2008 3:21 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs
stay class-y
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by WhipSmart on Aug 8, 2008 3:53 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs
Lack of sweeps
This is true, but how many series have the Rangers’ won 2/3. If were numbers to track that, I’d guess we’d be in the top 2 or 3.
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by TheBZA on Aug 8, 2008 8:35 AM CDT reply actions 0 recs
exactly
Feliz and Hurley. The 1-2 punch of the future
by Steal Home on Aug 8, 2008 9:41 AM CDT up reply actions 0 recs
PITCHING
thats why they can’t win more than 2 or 3 in a row, and then one of the rare times they get pitching (last night) they can’t hit in the clutch because they have a manager who can’t make out a lineup to match the pitcher.
by TRFAN on Aug 8, 2008 9:09 AM CDT reply actions 0 recs
not true...
and still not have a sweep or a 5 game winnings streak.
we did have a 5 game winning streak in early may.
by downsetgo on Aug 8, 2008 9:31 AM CDT reply actions 0 recs
Yeah, that was when the 33-inning shutout streak was, too...
Lost the opener of a four-game series against Seattle, won the next three, then won the first two out of three against Oakland.
by Inkara1 on Aug 8, 2008 12:09 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs
right, i forgot about that
Feliz and Hurley. The 1-2 punch of the future
by Steal Home on Aug 8, 2008 12:49 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs
it may not be a measure of greatness
but the lack of sweeps is telling that our pitching is not consistent enough to sustain winning streaks – not that we need “sweeps” to tell us this – just another example that our SP is not good enough to be a real contender
Team chemistry trumps all!!!!
by simplesimon on Aug 8, 2008 1:25 PM CDT reply actions 0 recs
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