Rangers are the only team in the MLB without....

by Steal Home on Aug 8, 2008 1:46 AM CDT Comment 29 comments

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....

0 recs | Comment 29 comments

Story-email Email Printer Print

Comments

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

but, we did sweep 'em

by oc on Aug 8, 2008 2:13 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.

"He uses statistics as a drunken man uses lamp-posts... for support rather than illumination." - Andrew Lang (1844-1912)

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.

A Lonestar in California

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.

Time you enjoy wasting was not wasted.

by t ball on Aug 8, 2008 7:33 AM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

+1

by aggierangerfan00 on Aug 8, 2008 7:51 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.

Time you enjoy wasting was not wasted.

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.

"I want to marry Chris Martin." - Miley Cyrus

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.

"Over the last 15 months, we’ve traveled to every corner of the United States. I’ve now been in 57 states" - Barack Obama

by DaheelzCM on Aug 9, 2008 9:08 AM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

Fuck off.

I’m going to beat the shit out of you, your so annoying.

Today is the youngest you will ever be. Act like it.

by miles on Aug 11, 2008 6:57 PM 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?

Grieve: The Yanks have struggled so far. - Lewin: Yeah, cry me a bag of money.
ElectricOkra.com

by WhipSmart on Aug 8, 2008 10:23 AM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

haha

good one

What's the rumpus?

by Hypo-Luxa on Aug 8, 2008 10:47 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.

Physician: Primum non nocere

Batter: First, make no out

by Chad Crudup on Aug 8, 2008 11:02 AM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

but we are a family

by FirebatM3 on Aug 8, 2008 2:34 PM 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

Grieve: The Yanks have struggled so far. - Lewin: Yeah, cry me a bag of money.
ElectricOkra.com

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.

Plaschke: Scioscia, the former Dodgers catcher, is the model manager who has created an atmosphere of winning.
Junior:It's that simple. Mike Scioscia brings a Glade Plug-In labeled "Winning™" into the clubhouse and everyone who breathes it in gains 15 points in average.

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

Who

would rather Washington have played against Mussina? Would you have rather tried Saltalamacchia out there instead of Laird? The Rangers don’t have a lineup available right now that could have faced Mussina better.

by CS3 on Aug 8, 2008 9:29 AM CDT up reply actions 0 recs