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Farewell 2009 Rangers

may the team that comes after you be even more successful

"Elvis Andrus has just preformed a MIRACLE!"
-Eric Nadel, 5/4/09

by Jason Brynsvold on Oct 4, 2009 5:37 PM CDT reply actions

134 Days until pitchers and catchers report to spring training.

It's baseball. You don't always get what you want, and you don't always want what you get. --Ed Coffin

by txranger7 on Oct 4, 2009 5:37 PM CDT reply actions

Hmm.

the preceding post was a great success.

by DShep on Oct 4, 2009 5:38 PM CDT reply actions

Woohoo!

a loss! Now if only San Francisco can win. Unfortunately Florida lost.

"I don't condone steroids or any other type of growth hormones or anything else, but I could care less, and, for the most part, I don't think the fans give a (bleep). The people that care about it are the people that probably don't like baseball," - Jim Leyland

by DJCahill on Oct 4, 2009 5:39 PM CDT reply actions

RIP 2009, I guess.

Hank is 7 runs below a zombie replacement at first base. Do you realize how terrible that is? Zombie’s can’t think, they’re slow, and they’re often ejected from the game for eating opposing baserunners’ brains. - Ben quantifies Hank Blalock

by LSJ on Oct 4, 2009 5:39 PM CDT reply actions

One last time:

by Inkara1 on Oct 4, 2009 5:40 PM CDT reply actions 2 recs

I prefer to look at this year as the end of the beginning

by davea on Oct 4, 2009 5:41 PM CDT reply actions

enjoyed it folks

hope to see y’all next year with another winning season. Adios!

I soloed in the Mile High Club!

by horsedooty on Oct 4, 2009 5:41 PM CDT reply actions

I forgot my manners

Thanks Adam and Ben for putting up the site and being the hosts. Well done.

I soloed in the Mile High Club!

by horsedooty on Oct 4, 2009 7:48 PM CDT up reply actions

Well it was a pretty good year.

…even if it did end a little “meh”.

613photo

by Black Francis on Oct 4, 2009 5:41 PM CDT reply actions

Yeah

Overall it was fun, despite the bad last month of the season.

by behindthebag on Oct 4, 2009 5:43 PM CDT up reply actions

Is that all there is?? :(

Let’s break out the booze and have a ball!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qe9kKf7SHco

/PeggyLee

Good job Rangers, I’m proud of you!!

HH is that a sock in your puppet or are you happy to see me?

by BigGuns on Oct 4, 2009 5:44 PM CDT reply actions

Great season!

Thanks for all the fun times, Texas!

"Clearly, the season is over. Fire Daniels, fire Washington, fire Maddux, burn down TBIA." - AJM

by aggierangerfan00 on Oct 4, 2009 5:46 PM CDT reply actions

Time to try and remember this season for the highlights

Like the euphoric celebrations Elvis’s nightly miracles used to cause back in April, sweeping the Angels in May, and watching Derek Holland shut down the M’s amid all the trade rumors the night before the deadline.

In memory of the highs, the lows, the Bensons and the Jennings, the Feldmans and the O’days, the Hunters and the Borbons…

I think this is rather appropriate.

Hank is 7 runs below a zombie replacement at first base. Do you realize how terrible that is? Zombie’s can’t think, they’re slow, and they’re often ejected from the game for eating opposing baserunners’ brains. - Ben quantifies Hank Blalock

by LSJ on Oct 4, 2009 5:49 PM CDT reply actions

well it was fun fellow gtders.

waits till march

I'm just goofin' new boot goofin'

by iorange555 on Oct 4, 2009 5:51 PM CDT reply actions

Sig says it all

Plus, it’s a gray, dreary day here.

It breaks your heart. It is designed to break your heart. The game begins in the spring, when everything else begins again, and it blossoms in the summer, filling the afternoons and evenings, and then as soon as the chill rains come, it stops and leaves you to face the fall alone. You count on it, rely on it to buffer the passage of time, to keep the memory of sunshine and high skies alive, and then just when the days are all twilight, when you need it most, it stops.

by WyoRanger on Oct 4, 2009 5:57 PM CDT reply actions

Your sig randomly made me think of how great a feeling baseball is in the warm summer twilight, just as the sun is going down.

Random, sorry.

And That Happened: Sports with a Hint of Sarcasm

by philkid3 on Oct 5, 2009 1:54 AM CDT up reply actions

What a day

Liverpool loses, the Rangers lose, Cowboys not looking good.

But on the bright side, I finally won my first title in my oldest fantasy baseball league! 11 years and I finally got me a championship! Wooooo!!!

"I cannot believe how fucking off base I was about Tiny E before this season. The Kid is great and is going to become a star."

- Wails

by RCCook on Oct 4, 2009 6:05 PM CDT reply actions

Funny, my thought went...

Man, at least Chelsea beat up on the scousers because otherwise this day is full of losing. Cowboys, Rangers, 2 FF teams (though both are still in play, not looking good).

If Brad Pitt is playing Beane who do you want playing you?
JD: Eddie Guardado.

by GhettoBear04 on Oct 4, 2009 7:23 PM CDT up reply actions

Tough way to end the season for sure.

Still have to try find positives to feed off for next year. 2nd place two years in a row is taking baby steps right?

"BIg whoop, wanna fight about it?"

Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?

by lost in space on Oct 4, 2009 6:39 PM CDT reply actions

WARP question

does anyone know where i can find WARP numbers for 2005?

by sdson on Oct 4, 2009 6:41 PM CDT reply actions

fangraphs

Here.

Before clicking, can you guess the top 3? Two are very obvious.

"You can probably stick a fork in the Rangers' playoff chances for 2009." - AJM on 7/26 with the team 4.5 games out

by tricer on Oct 4, 2009 8:16 PM CDT up reply actions

That's WAR, not WARP

by Adam J. Morris on Oct 4, 2009 8:49 PM CDT up reply actions

oh

I thought both were wins above replacement, is one different than the other?

"You can probably stick a fork in the Rangers' playoff chances for 2009." - AJM on 7/26 with the team 4.5 games out

by tricer on Oct 4, 2009 8:57 PM CDT up reply actions

WARP is BP's deal

WAR is Fangraphs

They are both wins above replacement, but they use different methodologies. WAR is probably more accurate because BP’s defensive metrics are crap.

by Adam J. Morris on Oct 4, 2009 8:59 PM CDT up reply actions

Although I've been pissing and moaning lately,

I’m gonna miss the games and the discussions on here. Hope next year is a breakthrough season.

Son, if you really want something in this life, you have to work for it. Now quiet! They're about to announce the lottery numbers. - Homer Simpson

by SarasotaRanger on Oct 4, 2009 7:01 PM CDT reply actions

well

at least we did gain a draft position for next year. And we’re also tied with Florida. Is there any tiebreaker or is it going to be a coin flip between us and them??

After Fuentes blows a save and an Angels loss to the Indians:
"Angels still in first place" - UCI Halo
"Hey you know who would have gotten those 3 outs in the 9th?
Darren O’Day." - FirebatM3
LOL

by MayurP on Oct 4, 2009 7:03 PM CDT reply actions

Previous year's record.

We’re picking at #15 and #22 now that all the games are done. Tuesday’s tiebreaker doesn’t affect us, so it’s set in stone unless we sign a Type A before the arbitration deadline or one that’s been offered arbitration and declined it after that deadline.

Here’s the 2010 draft order with the two scenarios involving Tuesday’s one-game playoff.

MLB Bonus Baby - A Draft Blog - Author

by Andy Seiler on Oct 4, 2009 7:46 PM CDT up reply actions

Theres something wrong with us picking behind

a playoff team. I mean they have a chance for the big prize. We don’t. They should get the advantage of the weaker division but suffer the penalty of a worse draft pick.

What do voluntary mean?

by JKolar on Oct 4, 2009 8:16 PM CDT up reply actions

I agree

"You can probably stick a fork in the Rangers' playoff chances for 2009." - AJM on 7/26 with the team 4.5 games out

by tricer on Oct 4, 2009 8:17 PM CDT up reply actions

They had a worse record than us.

I don’t see any scenario where I’d support moving all the playoff teams to the back of the line. It’s not the Tigers’ and Twins’ fault that they happened to be good, but not great, in a low season for their division.

MLB Bonus Baby - A Draft Blog - Author

by Andy Seiler on Oct 4, 2009 8:19 PM CDT up reply actions

Man,

I’m tired of the off season. I’m ready for spring training

by BEW on Oct 4, 2009 7:52 PM CDT reply actions

I enjoy this site a lot more during the offseason

"You can probably stick a fork in the Rangers' playoff chances for 2009." - AJM on 7/26 with the team 4.5 games out

by tricer on Oct 4, 2009 8:18 PM CDT up reply actions

I enjoy it the most right around the

time the 1st sets of prospect lists come out and then when we get hot and heavy in late April early May prepping for the draft…

The offseason is fun around the Winter meetings and arbitration deadlines

JD’s like, "you want some fucking pitching? Here’s all the pitching you can stand. Now choke on it, bitches!"- RCCook

by laxtonto on Oct 4, 2009 8:30 PM CDT up reply actions

I enjoy the offseason

more than the last month or so of the season when it was obvious that the Rangers weren’t going to make a strong run at it.

"I don't condone steroids or any other type of growth hormones or anything else, but I could care less, and, for the most part, I don't think the fans give a (bleep). The people that care about it are the people that probably don't like baseball," - Jim Leyland

by DJCahill on Oct 4, 2009 8:30 PM CDT up reply actions

Why?

Just curious

by oc on Oct 5, 2009 2:08 PM CDT up reply actions

Well the off season is here

When do we start the LSB prospect ~~bickering~~ rankings?

Elvis Andrus - 2009 AL Rookie of the Year
Mitch Moreland -Tom Grieve Rangers Minor League Player of the Year
Martin Perez - Nolan Ryan Rangers Minor League Pitcher of the Year

by RangerMad on Oct 4, 2009 9:01 PM CDT reply actions

Of all the Rangers seasons I've followed

this is, by far, my favorite. Even more than the playoff years of the mid 90s…it just feels like this was just the beginning. Seeing Elvis, Feldman, Hunter, Feliz (and, to some some extent Davis and Holland, though they had their rough patches) step up damn near gives be goosebumps. This is a good team that’s only going to get better and better as the core matures, and I can’t wait for that. It feels like this could be a team that actually, seriously will content for a World Series in a couple of years, not just a playoff trip. Thanks, fellas, for a very kickass year. Can’t wait for 2010.

"Does this effectively hide my thunder?"

by Bob Loblaw on Oct 4, 2009 10:59 PM CDT reply actions

Can I get your law blog linkage?

by JBP on Oct 5, 2009 2:36 AM CDT up reply actions

You know, many of us may not like LL

But Jeff is still a really good writer. Dude knows how to convey emotion and thought when he wants to.

Hank is 7 runs below a zombie replacement at first base. Do you realize how terrible that is? Zombie’s can’t think, they’re slow, and they’re often ejected from the game for eating opposing baserunners’ brains. - Ben quantifies Hank Blalock

by LSJ on Oct 4, 2009 11:13 PM CDT reply actions