Center fielder poll

by Adam J. Morris on Feb 26, 2009 10:53 AM CST

Okay, I'm bored and can't think of anything to write about, so we're going to have a poll...

Who do you think will start in center field for the Rangers on Opening Day?

Cast your vote...

Poll

Who will start in center field for the Rangers on Opening Day?

Josh Hamilton

407 votes

Andruw Jones

278 votes

Marlon Byrd

20 votes

David Murphy

8 votes

Brandon Boggs

1 votes

Julio Borbon

9 votes

The Tool Shed

16 votes

Calvin Murray

3 votes

Laynce Nix

29 votes

George Wright

6 votes

Mickey Rivers

17 votes

Tom Goodwin

21 votes

Gary Pettis

21 votes

836 votes | Poll has closed

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First vote!

Go me!

by bhudson on Feb 26, 2009 10:54 AM CST reply actions

Bob Brower

"I saw your act, just didn't make it for me. Just a lot of fluff."

by scoop16 on Feb 26, 2009 10:59 AM CST reply actions

If you're going to invoke Brower...

…don’t forget Oddibe McDowell, his platoon partner in CF in the late ’80s.

We couldn't have known it at the time but we definitely killed the wrong Belushi brother.

by Chad Crudup on Feb 26, 2009 11:24 AM CST up reply actions

The original

Ranger cyclist- Oddibe ‘Young Again’

"I saw your act, just didn't make it for me. Just a lot of fluff."

by scoop16 on Feb 26, 2009 11:26 AM CST up reply actions

I was supposed to be retired by now...

…strictly off the profits I planned to make from the dozens of his Topps rookie cards (from the ’85 Olymoic set) I bought.

We couldn't have known it at the time but we definitely killed the wrong Belushi brother.

by Chad Crudup on Feb 26, 2009 11:28 AM CST up reply actions

Oddibe

My friends and I always referred to him as “Oddibe Hittin’ Better.”

"I dont care to debate with a troll." - Sharky

by RCCook on Feb 26, 2009 11:31 AM CST up reply actions

Heh

I had an 800 count sleeve of Mike Pagliarulo RCs that was surely gonna pay my college tuition.

"I saw your act, just didn't make it for me. Just a lot of fluff."

by scoop16 on Feb 26, 2009 11:34 AM CST up reply actions

I remember his baseball cards

I just never remember seeing Brower playing. Did they just make cards for him?

by JBImaknee on Feb 26, 2009 11:30 AM CST up reply actions

Had his shining moment in '87

14 HR, 15 SB .261 .338 .452 in about 300 ABs. He played RB at Duke, real good athlete, a poor man’s Len Dykstra. Flamed out and spent his last year in the Bronx.

"I saw your act, just didn't make it for me. Just a lot of fluff."

by scoop16 on Feb 26, 2009 11:45 AM CST up reply actions

I love the OF depth already. Maybe it’s my own giddy February Madness, Andruw Jones may be the penny stock that rebounds. By July, many GM’s may want his less than $1 million contract. He could be a Gagne-like trade Part 2. Am I dreaming? Probably.

by 3Bagger on Feb 26, 2009 11:00 AM CST reply actions

I agree with you in principle

I don’t share your unbridled confidence though. I do forsee him being the starting CF, and I’m not sure its a bad thing.

Hammy seems a better fit in RF, I don’t see Byrd getting an opening day nod, and since Cliff Lee will probably be the starting pitcher against the Rangers, I don’t think we’ll see Murphy playing either. The outfield that day will be Cruz/Jones/Hamilton.

by JBImaknee on Feb 26, 2009 11:33 AM CST up reply actions

Who is "The Tool Shed?"

Greg Golson?

My Music Blog

by FuturePants on Feb 26, 2009 11:10 AM CST reply actions

"They say brevity is the key to wit, so shut the f*ck up." Dad

by RangerFloppy on Feb 26, 2009 11:54 AM CST up reply actions

So good...

I’m adding it to the guide.

by ghostofErikThompson on Feb 26, 2009 12:56 PM CST up reply actions

Ed West

Wait, he’s just a toolbox, not a shed.

by gr7070 on Feb 26, 2009 3:26 PM CST up reply actions

Give it to me Lance....

All Your Rangers Blog Are Belong To Us

"They say brevity is the key to wit, so shut the f*ck up." Dad

by RangerFloppy on Feb 26, 2009 11:53 AM CST reply actions

Tom Goodwin

I was so stoked when the Rangers got him. I just looked at stats and I have no idea what was f’in wrong with me in 1997. F’d up on something I guess.

by WyoRanger on Feb 26, 2009 2:49 PM CST reply actions

It's going to be either Jones or Hamilton.

As a pessimist, I voted for Jones.

It SHOULD be Byrd, though. Unless Jones magically rediscovers his form, which I wouldn’t be opposed to.

And That Happened: Sports with a Hint of Sarcasm

by philkid3 on Feb 26, 2009 6:38 PM CST reply actions

Same here.

Yeah. Spies. They're little guys with beady eyes and long fingernails. They plant bugs that can pick up the hush of a man's heartbeat - or the whisper of a falling hair.

by LSJ on Feb 27, 2009 12:34 AM CST up reply actions