Rangers 2009 Top 10 Plays
by FormerLSBUser on Dec 23, 2009 1:49 PM CST
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PrintOne of my Ranger buddies told me I should do a Rangers Top 10 plays for the 2009 season, what do you guys think? Any ideas on what plays would make your list...
So far, I have thought/gatherd the following...
Feliz debut
that Holland 2-hit? shutout
Kinds 30th steal
Andrus 5? steal night
Andrus in the outfield grass (take your pick)
CD stands foul ball catches
Any other ideas? Put them in the comments and I will see if we can decide on 10 good ones...
How would you feel about using this thread to establish some candidates, then we do a top 10 countdown?
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A couple
Hamilton’s catch at the wall against the Angels I believe?….
AJones 3 homer game against the Angels…..
Any good play against the Angels…..
I just really hate the Angels….
Chris Davis walk-off HR was pretty good
(tip of the cap to Josey!)
Yep.
I’m gay for Elvis Andrus.
What do tigers dream of when they take a little tiger snooze? Do they dream of mauling zebras, or Halle Berry in her Catwoman suit?
Ahmm...
WE’RE gay for Elvis.
You have to share.
"The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance."-Socrates
The Johjima put out had a great call by Nadel
“Elvis Andrus has just performed a miracle!”
Grieve: The Yanks have struggled so far. - Lewin: Yeah, cry me a bag of money.
Dykstra has all the money!
ElectricOkra.com
Non-glove Elvis highlight
The Suicide Squeeze
http://mlb.mlb.com/media/video.jsp?content_id=6884019
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by FormerDriller on Dec 23, 2009 7:29 PM CST up reply actions
Elvis getting Johjima is it for me.
I literally could not believe my eyes when he made that play. And I lauuuughed and lauuuuughed.
Probably forgotten
The HR Cruz hit in Seattle that measured 426 (IIRC) but at that point hit an I-beam upright hard enough to sound like a bell being rung. Not the farthest, but possibly the hardest hit ball I’ve ever seen.
"He uses statistics as a drunken man uses lamp-posts... for support rather than illumination." - Andrew Lang (1844-1912) also -
"Telephone, n. An invention of the devil which abrogates some of the advantages of making a disagreeable person keep his distance."
~Ambrose Bierce
by Ed Coffin on Dec 23, 2009 3:07 PM CST reply actions
video
http://texas.rangers.mlb.com/media/video.jsp?content_id=6334267
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by FormerDriller on Dec 23, 2009 3:24 PM CST up reply actions
Good call...
that was a nice play.
"The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance."-Socrates
Even though we lost the game, the play where Bucholz was pinch running for the Red Sox,
I believe it was Pedroia (?) who hit it off the LF wall, Bucholz was studdering and had no clue what to do, I was sitting on the 3rd base side, I was screaming along with everybody else “Go home with it! Home!!! Home!!!” they threw him out at the plate. That’s the loudest I’ve heard TBIA since the Delluci double.
by TooLegitToQuit on Dec 23, 2009 3:40 PM CST via mobile reply actions
It was great
http://texas.rangers.mlb.com/media/video.jsp?content_id=6103771
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by FormerDriller on Dec 23, 2009 5:30 PM CST up reply actions
So should we use these plays as a measuring stick and then do a top 10 community project to pick the top 10?
TCU Frogs- #3
"THAT WAS MY SPECIAL MONDAY MORNING TAPE, SPECIAL, FOR YOU!
It's fucking Monday afternoon, you should get out of bed earlier."
by FormerLSBUser on Dec 23, 2009 3:55 PM CST reply actions
Does anyone have the link to D Shep's Feliz highlights?
That whole montage of strikeouts is one big highlight for me.
Murphy's wall-fence catch in LF.
The camera angle from behind the fence that shows him bending the fence back a foot or two was pretty awesome. I really enjoyed watching that play.
Others:
- Definitely any and all Elvis plays.
- Feliz debut.
- The INSANE Buchholz/MY play back in August. That might be #1.
- Borbon’s 5-hit night/ridiculous amount of steals.
- Kins 30th steal.
- MY walk-off against KC in the red unis. That was awesome. Plus his walk-off a few games before that.
There are others I’m sure I’ve forgotten.
"Either we need to re-calibrate our rectangle, or Alfonzo Marquez is not having a good night." - Josh Lewin
That was 2008, no?
"Stats are like a woman in a fine little bikini. You can see a lot, but you can't see everything." -Dirk A. Tron
yessir
TCU Frogs- #3
"THAT WAS MY SPECIAL MONDAY MORNING TAPE, SPECIAL, FOR YOU!
It's fucking Monday afternoon, you should get out of bed earlier."
by FormerLSBUser on Dec 23, 2009 8:29 PM CST up reply actions
If you want to make this a highlight reel for the team you're going to have to make it 20..
..b/c Elvis is going to occupy at least 10 of the spots.
"Sometimes you just want to sit back and watch somebody throw 100." - Jeff Passan on Neftali Feliz
"The purpose of life is to have a fucking good time." - Albert Ellis
by Cecilio's Guante on Dec 23, 2009 4:58 PM CST reply actions
Forgot about...
The triple play (Kinsler and Andrus, not sure of the date)
This catch by Hamilton: (video: http://texas.rangers.mlb.com/media/video.jsp?mid=200905174607551&c_id=tex)
Pretty sure we didn't have a triple play.
"Stats are like a woman in a fine little bikini. You can see a lot, but you can't see everything." -Dirk A. Tron
Pretty sure we did
Bryan Smith (12:17:17 PM PT): Justin Smoak and Josh Hamilton. The AL West might just have found their Bash Brothers, v. 2.0.
Looked it up.
I guess we did.
"Stats are like a woman in a fine little bikini. You can see a lot, but you can't see everything." -Dirk A. Tron
I called it.
I failed my LSB ethics test.
"WHAT A SHITLOAD OF FUCK" - LL's "Poochie" on Rich Harden signing with Texas over Seattle
5 Tools, 3 outs
http://texas.rangers.mlb.com/media/video.jsp?content_id=4657743&c_id=
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by FormerDriller on Dec 23, 2009 5:27 PM CST up reply actions
July 1st...
Hank Blalock hits a game winning home run against the Angels to bring the team back to within a half of a game in the standings and then this happened:
by ghostofErikThompson on Dec 23, 2009 5:19 PM CST reply actions
heh
I remember when we went back to back to CF and this one douchebag twice fucked up going for the ball
Also that one HR to the grass where the little kid comes out of the pile with the ball while everyone else is still in a pile looking for it
Bryan Smith (12:17:17 PM PT): Justin Smoak and Josh Hamilton. The AL West might just have found their Bash Brothers, v. 2.0.
that save by Francisco against the BoSox
in the last game of the series in Arlington. That had to be one of the most heartfelt and greatest moments of the year.
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
do you remember when that was? The first one that is
TCU Frogs- #3
"THAT WAS MY SPECIAL MONDAY MORNING TAPE, SPECIAL, FOR YOU!
It's fucking Monday afternoon, you should get out of bed earlier."
by FormerLSBUser on Dec 23, 2009 8:31 PM CST up reply actions
I think they are referring to the wrong jersey and "who the fuck is that" look on everyones face when he was called into the game
Bryan Smith (12:17:17 PM PT): Justin Smoak and Josh Hamilton. The AL West might just have found their Bash Brothers, v. 2.0.
The Andrus stab in the outfield grass is the best play of 2009
And really it’s not even close
That play signified Elvis’s arrival. Johjima wasn’t even out, but still… everybody witnessed first-hand what Andrus could do that Young couldn’t.
Number one, and again, not even close
by oc on Dec 23, 2009 7:38 PM CST reply actions 1 recs
agreed
Feliz’s debut has to be #2 or up there. That was incredible too.
"He will not coddle them. Nolan Ryan doesn’t coddle." - Jeff Passan
by Dirk Diggler on Dec 23, 2009 8:17 PM CST up reply actions
My favorite game was when Holland dominated the M's on the trade deadline.
That was fucking incredible. I was practically whooping with every strike.
I failed my LSB ethics test.
"WHAT A SHITLOAD OF FUCK" - LL's "Poochie" on Rich Harden signing with Texas over Seattle
I thought that was the Angels
TCU Frogs- #3
"THAT WAS MY SPECIAL MONDAY MORNING TAPE, SPECIAL, FOR YOU!
It's fucking Monday afternoon, you should get out of bed earlier."
by FormerLSBUser on Dec 23, 2009 8:31 PM CST up reply actions
He did it against the Angels too
But that was later. The game against the M’s right near the trade deadline, when there where all the rumors about trading him for Halladay whirling… that was incredible.
I failed my LSB ethics test.
"WHAT A SHITLOAD OF FUCK" - LL's "Poochie" on Rich Harden signing with Texas over Seattle
Yep.
Went 8 2/3 and had a shutout, but left and (Madrigal?) he ended up with 1 ER to his tab for the night. But he was electric. I think he had like 3 hits allowed or something? 2?
"Either we need to re-calibrate our rectangle, or Alfonzo Marquez is not having a good night." - Josh Lewin
by utlonghorn24 on Dec 23, 2009 8:51 PM CST up reply actions
Yeah, he had a 1-hitter going into the 9th
Then Ichiro poked a grounder up the middle and Warner the Troll came in and blew the shutout.
I failed my LSB ethics test.
"WHAT A SHITLOAD OF FUCK" - LL's "Poochie" on Rich Harden signing with Texas over Seattle
Yeah that one was great too
"He will not coddle them. Nolan Ryan doesn’t coddle." - Jeff Passan
by Dirk Diggler on Dec 23, 2009 9:00 PM CST up reply actions
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