29-19
by Adam J. Morris on May 29, 2009 10:06 PM CDT
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Print10 games over .500 for the first time since May 31, 2005, when the Rangers won their 9th game in a row against the Tigers. They promptly lost 8 of 10 afterwards.
How long ago was that? The starting outfield for the Rangers was Kevin Mench, Andres Torres, and Richard Hidalgo, with Chad Allen as the DH, and Nick Regilio pitched a scoreless inning in relief.
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Lucky you.
The CJ hate is getting old.
"We love Wash.....As a team, we want Wash as the head of that team." Hamilton
"The NFL made me undergo a psychiatric evaluation......Please. It was an accident. If I wanted to post a picture of my penis I wouldn't have been all hunched over."- Chris Cooley.
And my fantasy pickup of CJ is not effective until tomorrow
Son of a ….
"Elvis Andrus has just performed a miracle." -Eric Nadel
Oh, poor you :)
"Back on the scene, with a gangsta lean" RW
"you gonna lose your horse. seriously." FX2
Yes we can! November 04, 2008
I'm so horny for this team right now.
We’re doing what playoff teams do: Consistently thrashing teams we should beat.
The 40 Trumps All!!!
Chris Davis will be fine. Relax.
Yes...
I can’t stop having sex with them in my mind.
by ghostofErikThompson on May 29, 2009 10:08 PM CDT up reply actions
Me neither
But you all knew that
-- Micah
Baseball Is My Boyfriend
I'm an Andrus-caliber catch. :-)
by The Best Micah on May 29, 2009 10:08 PM CDT up reply actions
Too bad I can't dream about that
With the exception of one player
-- Micah
Baseball Is My Boyfriend
I'm an Andrus-caliber catch. :-)
by The Best Micah on May 29, 2009 10:11 PM CDT up reply actions
Not him
I’ve never dreamed about him
-- Micah
Baseball Is My Boyfriend
I'm an Andrus-caliber catch. :-)
by The Best Micah on May 29, 2009 11:07 PM CDT up reply actions
Ha ha...mine too
I’d like to dream about him. Unfortunately, my dreams feature other Rangers, and only one has been a dirty dream.
-- Micah
Baseball Is My Boyfriend
I'm an Andrus-caliber catch. :-)
by The Best Micah on May 29, 2009 11:08 PM CDT up reply actions
Ha ha
No, thank goodness
-- Micah
Baseball Is My Boyfriend
I'm an Andrus-caliber catch. :-)
by The Best Micah on May 29, 2009 11:52 PM CDT up reply actions
shes the one who emailed asking for more tag on screen??
"I'm against picketing, but I don't know how to show it." - Mitch Hedberg
Nope
But you’re getting warmer
-- Micah
Baseball Is My Boyfriend
I'm an Andrus-caliber catch. :-)
by The Best Micah on May 29, 2009 11:08 PM CDT up reply actions
Yeah...
that would have been Adam, anyway.
Kevin Mench.
by ghostofErikThompson on May 29, 2009 11:09 PM CDT up reply actions
Oh no
Colder now
-- Micah
Baseball Is My Boyfriend
I'm an Andrus-caliber catch. :-)
by The Best Micah on May 29, 2009 11:10 PM CDT up reply actions
Winner
Yes, he has starred in two of my dreams. More clothed in one than the other.
-- Micah
Baseball Is My Boyfriend
I'm an Andrus-caliber catch. :-)
by The Best Micah on May 29, 2009 11:13 PM CDT up reply actions
Interesting...
he’s always reminded me of that guy in that Nutra-Grain commercial…only, with a sweet mustache.
by ghostofErikThompson on May 29, 2009 11:20 PM CDT up reply actions
I like Taylor
And he was hot in my dream.
-- Micah
Baseball Is My Boyfriend
I'm an Andrus-caliber catch. :-)
by The Best Micah on May 29, 2009 11:22 PM CDT up reply actions
I like Taylor, too...
he’s incredible in my daydream about how awesome this team is.
by ghostofErikThompson on May 29, 2009 11:28 PM CDT up reply actions
I have to make an effort not to think about baseball at the gym lately.
Cause baseball boner + gym shorts = everyone getting an eyefull of my shame.
The 40 Trumps All!!!
Chris Davis will be fine. Relax.
by thedirkatron on May 29, 2009 10:10 PM CDT up reply actions
No...
make them look at it. MAKE THEM.
You wear that baseball erection proudly, friend.
by ghostofErikThompson on May 29, 2009 10:14 PM CDT up reply actions
This!
"Back on the scene, with a gangsta lean" RW
"you gonna lose your horse. seriously." FX2
Yes we can! November 04, 2008
Ha ha ha
I’m only sad I can’t do that
-- Micah
Baseball Is My Boyfriend
I'm an Andrus-caliber catch. :-)
by The Best Micah on May 29, 2009 10:17 PM CDT up reply actions
lol
Maybe I’ll try that tomorrow.
“Hey, what’s up, ‘Gigantic Muscley Guy with a Ponytail and More Veins on Your Arms Than an Italian Guy’s Penis’. Please note my baseball erection. It’s cause we’re in first place. Wait… Stop! Ahhhh!!! Where are you throwing me…!?”
The 40 Trumps All!!!
Chris Davis will be fine. Relax.
by thedirkatron on May 29, 2009 10:17 PM CDT up reply actions
Can't ask them to do much more.
It feels good.
The CJ hate is getting old.
"We love Wash.....As a team, we want Wash as the head of that team." Hamilton
"The NFL made me undergo a psychiatric evaluation......Please. It was an accident. If I wanted to post a picture of my penis I wouldn't have been all hunched over."- Chris Cooley.
Taylor's interview
You’d never know they just won the game with his tone/expression.
-- Micah
Baseball Is My Boyfriend
I'm an Andrus-caliber catch. :-)
by The Best Micah on May 29, 2009 10:07 PM CDT reply actions
I will proudly verify...
Taylor Teagarden does, in fact, smile occasionally. Not so much on the field. I’ve seen it during warmups, though.
There’s no crying in baseball but pedicures are fine! --- BigGuns
Teagarden
I talked to him one-on-one for a while at a Newberg book signing…it was after the Q&A, and folks were swamping C.J. and ben was pestering Kam Loe with snake talk, and the other guys were talking to folks, and he was just sort of standing there like he wasn’t sure what to do (it was the winter after he’d missed the entire season with T-J surgery, so he was kind of off the radar), so I went up and started chatting with him, in no small part because I was also sort of standing there like I wasn’t sure what to do.
He was really an interesting guy to talk to…smart, insightful, had some really interesting stuff to say. He just strikes me, from seeing him interviewed and such, as someone who is fairly reserved and cerebral, and not necessarily all that comfortable with the “So how big was this game?”-type b.s.
by Adam J. Morris on May 29, 2009 11:28 PM CDT up reply actions
Yeah, I've always gotten that impression too
seems perfect for a catcher
I have an irrational hatred of Chris Davis because his Ks are way too ugly and irrational liking of Matt Harrison because he's a lefty - deal with it.
not that I've talked to him or anything
I have an irrational hatred of Chris Davis because his Ks are way too ugly and irrational liking of Matt Harrison because he's a lefty - deal with it.
Sounds like me.
"Hi, I’m a fucking horsefaced moron." - John Lackey to Ian Kinsler, 5/16/09
"That start was like somebody on a deathbed suddenly jumping up and doing the Lindy Hop, then speeding away on a pogo stick while playing the fiddle." - Telegraph on Matt Harrison
I saw him smile at the Newberg Book Signing this past year
I asked him if he had any good team nickname that he could sign my book with. He gave a bit of a smile as Young laughed. Young only said that it was PG and he couldn’t say.
By 2028, Mark Teixeira will be in the HOF.
-The Outlaw
If he had a few gray hairs
he could pass for a 40 year old….he always looks beaten down.
"There is the Vegetarian Hot Pocket for those of us who don't want to eat meat, but would still like diarrhea." Jim Gaffigan
by Suicide Prince on May 29, 2009 10:09 PM CDT up reply actions
he looked nervous as hell...
Grieve: The Yanks have struggled so far. - Lewin: Yeah, cry me a bag of money.
Dykstra has all the money!
ElectricOkra.com
When he and McCarthy gets paired together
The crowd wouldn’t be able to cheer because it would feel out of place
VAMOS!!!!
"Congrats Rangers fans, you just found your replacement for Mark Teixeira. Just a crazy, crazy steal." -Goldstein
Really bad at math, but does this mean we are 10 games over .500?
"BIg whoop, wanna fight about it?"
First place mother effin' Rangers!
2009 Texas Rangers: Why The Hell Not Us?--ghtd36 on May 13, 2009
by boomer1 on May 29, 2009 10:08 PM CDT reply actions 4 recs
+100000000000000000
"BIg whoop, wanna fight about it?"
by lost in space on May 29, 2009 10:09 PM CDT up reply actions
Hey bitch.
"Back on the scene, with a gangsta lean" RW
"you gonna lose your horse. seriously." FX2
Yes we can! November 04, 2008
by Rodney on May 29, 2009 10:14 PM CDT up reply actions 4 recs
You were late to the party Rodney! :)
2009 Texas Rangers: Why The Hell Not Us?--ghtd36 on May 13, 2009
THIEF
Scout: He was a first-round pick right? Got a huge bonus?
KG: Oh yeah.
Scout: Well, he spent a lot of it on milkshakes.
-
Scout to KG: On Sandoval: "Man, that fat [expletive]-er can hit."
by knockoutking on May 29, 2009 10:27 PM CDT up reply actions
Is it Kosher to root for Seattle right now?
It feels so dirty….
Grieve: The Yanks have struggled so far. - Lewin: Yeah, cry me a bag of money.
Dykstra has all the money!
ElectricOkra.com
Sometime
The things that feel wrong are oh so right.
-- Micah
Baseball Is My Boyfriend
I'm an Andrus-caliber catch. :-)
by The Best Micah on May 29, 2009 10:09 PM CDT up reply actions
*Sometimes
I can’t type
-- Micah
Baseball Is My Boyfriend
I'm an Andrus-caliber catch. :-)
by The Best Micah on May 29, 2009 10:10 PM CDT up reply actions
Yes, that is what was wrong
I was channeling Ron Washington
-- Micah
Baseball Is My Boyfriend
I'm an Andrus-caliber catch. :-)
by The Best Micah on May 29, 2009 10:17 PM CDT up reply actions
no idea why I capitalized kosher...
so don’t ask
Grieve: The Yanks have struggled so far. - Lewin: Yeah, cry me a bag of money.
Dykstra has all the money!
ElectricOkra.com
Damn right it is, not one person on this board should be rooting on the Angels right now
"BIg whoop, wanna fight about it?"
by lost in space on May 29, 2009 10:12 PM CDT up reply actions
Took me a min to find and upload it
The World Series Crisis - Ranger fans held hostage; Game 5910
Magic Number- 112
by red3biggs on May 29, 2009 10:10 PM CDT reply actions 5 recs
x
"Hi, I’m a fucking horsefaced moron." - John Lackey to Ian Kinsler, 5/16/09
"That start was like somebody on a deathbed suddenly jumping up and doing the Lindy Hop, then speeding away on a pogo stick while playing the fiddle." - Telegraph on Matt Harrison
by LSJ on May 29, 2009 10:12 PM CDT up reply actions 1 recs
The World Series Crisis - Ranger fans held hostage; Game 5910
Magic Number- 112
by red3biggs on May 29, 2009 10:15 PM CDT up reply actions 1 recs
Wow.
That’s… impressive.
"Hi, I’m a fucking horsefaced moron." - John Lackey to Ian Kinsler, 5/16/09
"That start was like somebody on a deathbed suddenly jumping up and doing the Lindy Hop, then speeding away on a pogo stick while playing the fiddle." - Telegraph on Matt Harrison
Kenny Rogers...
was pretty good in 2005.
by ghostofErikThompson on May 29, 2009 10:10 PM CDT reply actions
Mayonnaise on the Astros
He went 4-4 today with his first major league homer.
by Adam J. Morris on May 29, 2009 10:11 PM CDT reply actions
What?
Maysonet you mean?
"Hi, I’m a fucking horsefaced moron." - John Lackey to Ian Kinsler, 5/16/09
"That start was like somebody on a deathbed suddenly jumping up and doing the Lindy Hop, then speeding away on a pogo stick while playing the fiddle." - Telegraph on Matt Harrison
inning?
"BIg whoop, wanna fight about it?"
by lost in space on May 29, 2009 10:12 PM CDT up reply actions
What?
Winning never gets old, I don’t care who it’s against.
"Hi, I’m a fucking horsefaced moron." - John Lackey to Ian Kinsler, 5/16/09
"That start was like somebody on a deathbed suddenly jumping up and doing the Lindy Hop, then speeding away on a pogo stick while playing the fiddle." - Telegraph on Matt Harrison
This
-- Micah
Baseball Is My Boyfriend
I'm an Andrus-caliber catch. :-)
by The Best Micah on May 29, 2009 10:13 PM CDT up reply actions
double This
"BIg whoop, wanna fight about it?"
by lost in space on May 29, 2009 10:13 PM CDT up reply actions
Have you forgotten which team you root for?
When’s the last time the Rangers were destroying shitty teams?
The CJ hate is getting old.
"We love Wash.....As a team, we want Wash as the head of that team." Hamilton
"The NFL made me undergo a psychiatric evaluation......Please. It was an accident. If I wanted to post a picture of my penis I wouldn't have been all hunched over."- Chris Cooley.
This team ain't exactly perfect right now.
I’ll take whatever wins they can get, and worry about beating the bigger teams when we actually have a team that should be be capable of it.
"Hi, I’m a fucking horsefaced moron." - John Lackey to Ian Kinsler, 5/16/09
"That start was like somebody on a deathbed suddenly jumping up and doing the Lindy Hop, then speeding away on a pogo stick while playing the fiddle." - Telegraph on Matt Harrison
This reminds me of an anecdote from my college days
I was with a group of 5-6 people, and we went to some party at an apartment where just one of the people in the group knew the guys who were throwing the parties. And they were these, like, super-hospitable hosts.
So anyway, this one guy with us, Stef, was sitting on the couch by himself at one point, just sort of staring out into space, alone. And one of the hosts came over to him and said, “Hey, man, what’s wrong, is there too much good food over there for you? Want to come over with me to get something to eat and talk to some of these folks over there? Or wait, hey, maybe there’s too many types of beer to choose from…come on over to the cooler, that’s Chip over there, he’s a cool guy, you’ll like him. Or wait, there are too many hot girls dancing, right? That’s what’s wrong?”
And the funniest part was that Stef had dropped a couple of hits of acid about 90 minutes earlier, and was just feeling the full effect, which was why he was sitting on the couch alone staring into space in the first place. The guy completely freaked him out, and we ended up having to leave.
by Adam J. Morris on May 29, 2009 10:23 PM CDT up reply actions
Heh.
"Hi, I’m a fucking horsefaced moron." - John Lackey to Ian Kinsler, 5/16/09
"That start was like somebody on a deathbed suddenly jumping up and doing the Lindy Hop, then speeding away on a pogo stick while playing the fiddle." - Telegraph on Matt Harrison
And then the golf-ball...
behind his ear exploded.
Ka-blooie!
"Blalock in the cleanup spot makes gives me agita." - Dustin
I don't get how that has anything to do with anything
But keep ’em coming.
By 2028, Mark Teixeira will be in the HOF.
-The Outlaw
What?
The CJ hate is getting old.
"We love Wash.....As a team, we want Wash as the head of that team." Hamilton
"The NFL made me undergo a psychiatric evaluation......Please. It was an accident. If I wanted to post a picture of my penis I wouldn't have been all hunched over."- Chris Cooley.
Seattle 3 Angels 0 after 4.5
Lackey around 77 pitches
Rodney if I had known you were going to get a mohawk, start wearing gold chains, call everyone fool, and re-name yourself Mr. R I may not have been so generous with the work-out tips. I'd re-think all that big guy.
Rangers win two and the Halos are behind
Me so horny
me love you long time
"BIg whoop, wanna fight about it?"
by lost in space on May 29, 2009 10:14 PM CDT up reply actions
X
Rodney if I had known you were going to get a mohawk, start wearing gold chains, call everyone fool, and re-name yourself Mr. R I may not have been so generous with the work-out tips. I'd re-think all that big guy.
That is awesomely
F’ed up!
MOAR!
"Back on the scene, with a gangsta lean" RW
"you gonna lose your horse. seriously." FX2
Yes we can! November 04, 2008
Someone needs to take that gif...
…and replace the head with Medusa.
by Adam J. Morris on May 29, 2009 10:27 PM CDT up reply actions
AJM's on a roll tonight
SHEP!
"Hi, I’m a fucking horsefaced moron." - John Lackey to Ian Kinsler, 5/16/09
"That start was like somebody on a deathbed suddenly jumping up and doing the Lindy Hop, then speeding away on a pogo stick while playing the fiddle." - Telegraph on Matt Harrison
Good call sir
"BIg whoop, wanna fight about it?"
by lost in space on May 29, 2009 11:32 PM CDT up reply actions
.500 the rest of the season gets us to 86 wins
Meaningful games in the Fall, oooh yeah. It’s been a while.
"He's old school in that he give up his groin like that. It hurt me when he do that" -- Worsh on Chris Davis' stretch at first base to end the game vs. the Angels on 5/16
Eric Aybar.
"Hi, I’m a fucking horsefaced moron." - John Lackey to Ian Kinsler, 5/16/09
"That start was like somebody on a deathbed suddenly jumping up and doing the Lindy Hop, then speeding away on a pogo stick while playing the fiddle." - Telegraph on Matt Harrison
Do David Ortiz and Dikembe Mutombo look like long-lost brothers?
by Adam J. Morris on May 29, 2009 10:17 PM CDT up reply actions
Apparently we're drunk of wins...
the grammar in this thread has been lacking.
by ghostofErikThompson on May 29, 2009 10:20 PM CDT up reply actions
You know what television needs more of? Dikembe Mutumbo.
That guy’s voice is the best.
I’d honest to God watch American Idol if ’Kembe was on.
I’d love to hear him cover some pop songs.
The 40 Trumps All!!!
Chris Davis will be fine. Relax.
by thedirkatron on May 29, 2009 10:20 PM CDT up reply actions
Ever hear Dan interview him for two seconds?
Very funny.
"Back on the scene, with a gangsta lean" RW
"you gonna lose your horse. seriously." FX2
Yes we can! November 04, 2008
dikembe.... uhh mr. murtumbo.
"I'm against picketing, but I don't know how to show it." - Mitch Hedberg
Baeewwwhhhh waaaeeeehh eehghww
Baw wahhgh eehhh
Wae eehe whhhh ehggg
Aeeehhh fehhhhhYYYY!
Ezequekial
Astacio makes them both look like pageant winners.
"He's old school in that he give up his groin like that. It hurt me when he do that" -- Worsh on Chris Davis' stretch at first base to end the game vs. the Angels on 5/16
This.
"Hi, I’m a fucking horsefaced moron." - John Lackey to Ian Kinsler, 5/16/09
"That start was like somebody on a deathbed suddenly jumping up and doing the Lindy Hop, then speeding away on a pogo stick while playing the fiddle." - Telegraph on Matt Harrison
Corey Hart
-- Micah
Baseball Is My Boyfriend
I'm an Andrus-caliber catch. :-)
by The Best Micah on May 29, 2009 10:18 PM CDT up reply actions
Popeye Jones
"...like some Russian priest fresh off a bottle of potato vodka and a box of cigars." -t ball
by rangerdanger on May 30, 2009 2:27 AM CDT up reply actions
Go to bed.
"...like some Russian priest fresh off a bottle of potato vodka and a box of cigars." -t ball
by rangerdanger on May 30, 2009 2:31 AM CDT up reply actions
Well screw me. It
"...like some Russian priest fresh off a bottle of potato vodka and a box of cigars." -t ball
by rangerdanger on May 30, 2009 2:44 AM CDT up reply actions
reply fail
Well screw me. It’s 2:45 am in Big D. Maybe I need to go to bed.
Where are you?
"...like some Russian priest fresh off a bottle of potato vodka and a box of cigars." -t ball
by rangerdanger on May 30, 2009 2:46 AM CDT up reply actions
First Place Mother Fuckin' Texas Rangers!!!
Suck IT, Bitchez!
"Back on the scene, with a gangsta lean" RW
"you gonna lose your horse. seriously." FX2
Yes we can! November 04, 2008
by Rodney on May 29, 2009 10:16 PM CDT reply actions 13 recs
Rodney
deep into the sauce.
"Dying ain't hard. It's living that's hard."
by Josey Wales on May 29, 2009 10:19 PM CDT up reply actions
You showed up
to a postgame circlejerk.
It is a great thing to know the season for speech and the season for silence.
--Seneca
I will suck on that all night
She say she are the manager.
by rockin_rangers on May 29, 2009 10:20 PM CDT up reply actions
that's what...
oh, nevermind…
Grieve: The Yanks have struggled so far. - Lewin: Yeah, cry me a bag of money.
Dykstra has all the money!
ElectricOkra.com
Someone go get the Kinsler fuck yeah gif
She say she are the manager.
by rockin_rangers on May 29, 2009 10:20 PM CDT reply actions
this is bad ass.
Fuck yeah it is.
tyd you should post this after every Rangers win.
"...like some Russian priest fresh off a bottle of potato vodka and a box of cigars." -t ball
by rangerdanger on May 30, 2009 2:30 AM CDT up reply actions
CJ tweets from the clubhouse
“That makes it 4 yrs in a row I’ve pitched in both games of a doubleheader. So sweet to take both games!”
-- Micah
Baseball Is My Boyfriend
I'm an Andrus-caliber catch. :-)
by The Best Micah on May 29, 2009 10:20 PM CDT reply actions
in other words
“hey everybody! look at me!”
"He's old school in that he give up his groin like that. It hurt me when he do that" -- Worsh on Chris Davis' stretch at first base to end the game vs. the Angels on 5/16
by tricer on May 29, 2009 10:22 PM CDT up reply actions 1 recs
Ha ha. You're such a hater, Toddler.
The 40 Trumps All!!!
Chris Davis will be fine. Relax.
by thedirkatron on May 29, 2009 10:23 PM CDT up reply actions
C.J. does love himself a lot
But I thought that was a neat factoid that I doubt I’d have been able to find anywhere else. I like C.J. offering his insights and two cents.
-- Micah
Baseball Is My Boyfriend
I'm an Andrus-caliber catch. :-)
by The Best Micah on May 29, 2009 10:24 PM CDT up reply actions
What's that
about 13 IPs in a row without an earned run v. CJ?
Very important development for this team that’s under the radar.
"Dying ain't hard. It's living that's hard."
by Josey Wales on May 29, 2009 10:25 PM CDT up reply actions
true
His success is crucial to the bullpen, and the bullpen is crucial to this team.
"He's old school in that he give up his groin like that. It hurt me when he do that" -- Worsh on Chris Davis' stretch at first base to end the game vs. the Angels on 5/16
r u starting to be an optimist?
A baseball game is simply a nervous breakdown divided into nine innings.
This team (unlike that steaming pile of shit that almost all of you thought was good in 2008)
is legit.
I’m not an optimist.
I’m a realist.
"Dying ain't hard. It's living that's hard."
by Josey Wales on May 29, 2009 10:33 PM CDT up reply actions
cmon
you’re starting to look on the bright side of life.
and i agree, ‘08 was a steaming pile of pitching and defense shitfest, but they showed some signs of improved, and it’s nice to see this progress this way so far this year
A baseball game is simply a nervous breakdown divided into nine innings.
Who here thought
the 08 team was good? I know I didn’t.
2009 Texas Rangers: Why The Hell Not Us?--ghtd36 on May 13, 2009
boomer
I don’t know if you led the parade saying my decrying the 2008 team throughout the season but you were near the front.
Nobody was lockstep with me when I kept telling everybody that thing was a fraud.
"Dying ain't hard. It's living that's hard."
by Josey Wales on May 29, 2009 10:43 PM CDT up reply actions
2008 record
Didn’t the 2008 Rangers exceed your prediction?
Elvis Andrus - 2009 AL Rookie of the Year
Mitch Moreland - 2009 Rangers Minor League POY
I predicted 76-86 before 2008
which ended up being their pythag record.
Actual record was 79-83.
"Dying ain't hard. It's living that's hard."
by Josey Wales on May 29, 2009 10:52 PM CDT up reply actions
The 2nd order record...
…was 79-83.
Their RA was skewed by a fluky LOB%.
But yeah, it was a steaming pile, bleah bleah bleah.
by Adam J. Morris on May 29, 2009 10:53 PM CDT up reply actions
Second order record talk
is a bunch of bullshit and nobody gives a damn what your “2nd order record” is when playoff teams are determined.
"Dying ain't hard. It's living that's hard."
by Josey Wales on May 29, 2009 10:55 PM CDT up reply actions
Nobody gives a damn..
…what your Pythagorean W/L record is when playoff teams are determined, either, if you want to play that particular card.
by Adam J. Morris on May 29, 2009 10:55 PM CDT up reply actions
Pythagorean record is a much better indicator of how well
you played and while you’re here, whoever told you that Chris Young hasn’t been a good pitcher the last two seasons is full of shit.
Duly note that Ted Lilly hung up a 67 Game Score this afternoon against one of the better teams in the NL.
"Dying ain't hard. It's living that's hard."
by Josey Wales on May 29, 2009 10:58 PM CDT up reply actions
Okay
Pythagorean record is a much better indicator of how well you played
And 2nd order record is a better indicator than Pythagorean.
whoever told you that Chris Young hasn’t been a good pitcher the last two seasons is full of shit.
Young walked 6 batters today, and gave up 3 runs in 6 innings. His ERA is 4.45, and he had an ERA+ of 82 coming into today. His ERA+ last year was 97, and he was only healthy for half the year. And his FIP last year was 4.40, so even that 97 ERA+ overstates how good he was last year.
Duly note that Ted Lilly hung up a 67 Game Score this afternoon against one of the better teams in the NL.
I could give a rat’s ass about game scores.
by Adam J. Morris on May 29, 2009 11:02 PM CDT up reply actions
Understood
the Game Score stat shits all over everything you have to say about both Chris Young and Ted Lilly and then wipes it’s ass with ERA+.
"Dying ain't hard. It's living that's hard."
by Josey Wales on May 29, 2009 11:07 PM CDT up reply actions
Adam
Some stats tell you what time it is and some stats tell you how to make a watch.
Game Scores tell you what time it is.
"Dying ain't hard. It's living that's hard."
by Josey Wales on May 29, 2009 11:11 PM CDT up reply actions
but even a broken clock is right 2x a day
see the padilla and lackey game
Scout: He was a first-round pick right? Got a huge bonus?
KG: Oh yeah.
Scout: Well, he spent a lot of it on milkshakes.
-
Scout to KG: On Sandoval: "Man, that fat [expletive]-er can hit."
by knockoutking on May 29, 2009 11:11 PM CDT up reply actions
You know
Science fascinates me. And one of the interesting things about scientists — particularly physicists — is that oftentimes those that achieve great things in their youth can’t evolve and develop their ideas going forward, and while they were revolutionary in their youth, in their older years, they turn into reactionary cranks.
Einstein wasted his last 30 years of his life looking for the GUT and dismissing quantum physics (spooky action at a distance) and things like plate tectonics.
Tesla achieved great things with direct current, and then turned into a nut.
Lord Kelvin insisted to his dying day that the Earth wasn’t old enough for basic ideas about geology to be correct.
This reminds me of you. It is as if you believe that everything about baseball statistical analysis stopped in 1988 or so, and whatever was done up to that point (primarily by Bill James, since he was the main person doing this stuff back then) is the Bible, and everything else is just dinosaur fossils that the devil has put into the earth’s crust to confuse us.
by Adam J. Morris on May 29, 2009 11:16 PM CDT up reply actions 5 recs
Very flowery argument
and points for the Tesla reference but do you realize how important it is for this particular Ranger team to get Game Scores of 50+ from their starting pitcher if they wanna win?
Throw all that bullshit out the window that you just wrote (Einstein/GUT are you fucking serious?) and stop thinking too much.
Simply ask yourself, what fucking time is it (and stop worrying about the size of the faceplate on the watch)?
You lost the Ted Lilly argument a few years ago…just tip your cap to the pitcher and then have your ass go grab some pine.
The way it works in the Great Game is that you’ll get another chance to hit.
"Dying ain't hard. It's living that's hard."
by Josey Wales on May 29, 2009 11:23 PM CDT up reply actions
You know
if you look at a lot of Bill James stuff, its so very second rate these days. His actual website is very third rate.
Kind of like Freud. He got the ball rolling, but his ideas have basicly been tossed on the dustbin of history.
"Guillermo Moscoso despite his stunning game yesterday, is not a legit prospect. He is simply too old, too skinny, too weak, and lacks the fastball to make it at the professional level. ." - crops.mlblogs.com
Game scores
Ted Lilly: 34, 78, 67, 34, 78, 58, 52, 59, 39, 67
Chris Young: 57, 74, 15, 72, 11, 64, 52, 26, 61, 65, 56
Scott Feldman (as a starter): 56, 53, 57, 61, 65, 55, 53
Brandon McCarthy: 50, 52, 48, 31, 60, 21, 57, 46, 74
Kevin Millwood: 67, 75, 69, 52, 53, 45, 50, 49, 53, 38
So it doesn’t seem like the Rangers would really be any better with Lilly and Young.
Game scores
They also punish a pitcher more severely for a hit than for a walk, and don’t take park and league effects into account.
by Adam J. Morris on May 29, 2009 11:29 PM CDT up reply actions
Are there any other stats
that can be used to compare pitchers on a game by game basis?
Elvis Andrus - 2009 AL Rookie of the Year
Mitch Moreland - 2009 Rangers Minor League POY
How do Game Scores of starting pitchers
affect a team’s chance of winning and losing?
Just answer that single question, Adam.
The guiding principle is that starting pitchers can fuck up everything and deciding who gets the ball each night may be the most important decision a manager ever makes.
"Dying ain't hard. It's living that's hard."
by Josey Wales on May 29, 2009 11:34 PM CDT up reply actions
Game Scores have less to do...
…with the team’s chances of winning and losing than the number of runs the SP allows.
Which is why I don’t understand why you are so hung up on Game Scores. You want to ignore things like FIP and ERA+, but rather than just saying, Pitcher X has an ERA of Y, you want to obsess over game scores.
I don’t get it. It is almost as if you figure that if you reference game scores, people won’t know exactly what you are talking about or won’t know how to refute it, so even though it isn’t the best tool to use in evaluating how well a pitcher has performed, you’ll whip it out in certain contexts (particularly in regards to Young and Lilly, since their GSs will be better because GSs are not put in a context-neutral setting).
by Adam J. Morris on May 29, 2009 11:38 PM CDT up reply actions 1 recs
I have always linked what
Game Scores are when approached and credited the Great Bill James.
I talk about it because it’s the best way to analyze the single game performance of a starting pitcher….meaning did he give his team a good chance to win. Get enough of those good performances from your starter and who knows, you might have the best record in the AL on May 30.
“Context-neutral settings” ??
Just look at that fucking phrase – it simply screams that you’re thinking too much.
Did the starting pitcher give his team a good chance to win? Keep it simple.
"Dying ain't hard. It's living that's hard."
by Josey Wales on May 29, 2009 11:43 PM CDT up reply actions
x
it’s the best way to analyze the single game performance of a starting pitcher
Why’s that?
by brettgardner on May 29, 2009 11:57 PM CDT up reply actions
and I thought they were
a .500 team. The LSB consensus was probably .500 also. We both were wrong.
Elvis Andrus - 2009 AL Rookie of the Year
Mitch Moreland - 2009 Rangers Minor League POY
REM
showing their sensitive side and I’m not sure they’ve recovered.
"Dying ain't hard. It's living that's hard."
by Josey Wales on May 29, 2009 10:30 PM CDT up reply actions
I thought Bill Parcells sang that song.
Anyone? Anyone?
"...like some Russian priest fresh off a bottle of potato vodka and a box of cigars." -t ball
by rangerdanger on May 30, 2009 2:34 AM CDT up reply actions
This is fun.........
but we still have some weaknesses that scare me.
I’m not looking forward to the next 2 weeks……..let’s hope for .500 during that time.
Ian Kinsler..... yea, he's good at baseball.
I cried a little when I read that
-- Micah
Baseball Is My Boyfriend
I'm an Andrus-caliber catch. :-)
by The Best Micah on May 29, 2009 10:25 PM CDT up reply actions
I cried just a little...
…when she played piano in the dark.
by Adam J. Morris on May 29, 2009 10:26 PM CDT up reply actions
He'll be with Yankees within a week.
Here’s an artist’s depiction of what his reunion with Teixeira will look like:
The 40 Trumps All!!!
Chris Davis will be fine. Relax.
by thedirkatron on May 29, 2009 10:26 PM CDT up reply actions 1 recs
You know...
I love Kins. But, it always seemed like he longed for Teixeira in a way that we’ll only find with our soul mates when Tex was still here.
by ghostofErikThompson on May 29, 2009 10:29 PM CDT up reply actions
He was only trying to be more like Young
The World Series Crisis - Ranger fans held hostage; Game 5910
Magic Number- 112
Hasn't he been perpetually hurt lately?
"Hi, I’m a fucking horsefaced moron." - John Lackey to Ian Kinsler, 5/16/09
"That start was like somebody on a deathbed suddenly jumping up and doing the Lindy Hop, then speeding away on a pogo stick while playing the fiddle." - Telegraph on Matt Harrison
Man, I love Delluci.
His big ass mole too.
"...like some Russian priest fresh off a bottle of potato vodka and a box of cigars." -t ball
by rangerdanger on May 30, 2009 2:36 AM CDT up reply actions
Caught a foul ball gave it to a 6 year old little girl
in return god gave me 2 wins and a double header sweep of those shitty A’s.
Go Mutha Hump’n Rangers!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Hell Yeah!!!!
mormons stole me and held me against my will with Oklahoma beer and 12+ hour work days.
I think I may have saw that,
you soccer loving liberal…
"Back on the scene, with a gangsta lean" RW
"you gonna lose your horse. seriously." FX2
Yes we can! November 04, 2008
next sunday 3pm
vs. Earthquake, they are at Chicago this sunday afternoon same time i think
PS: we really suck and i dunno if id be in my right mind to sell high on the american soccer experience in frisco this season, if ya catch my flow.
mormons stole me and held me against my will with Oklahoma beer and 12+ hour work days.
dollar beers an hour before the game and 5 dollar tickets and free parking though
mormons stole me and held me against my will with Oklahoma beer and 12+ hour work days.
interesting...i may have to go sometime.
"I'm against picketing, but I don't know how to show it." - Mitch Hedberg
Yeah, I think you were on TV!
She say she are the manager.
by rockin_rangers on May 29, 2009 10:39 PM CDT up reply actions
I'm not sure if this was mentioned in the GDT
but I thought the Ranger fans at the game showed some class with Chris Davis.
That was really nice.
A baseball game is simply a nervous breakdown divided into nine innings.
Fuck yeah they showed support
when he had struck out 6 times in the game, his last AB he hit a good shot to right and the RFer made a good catch, but it was an opposite way drive, and we all stood up and let him know he was on the right track, he also had a AB that ended in a K i think, but he fouled off some good pitches on his way to the strike out, he was making contact, i think he may be pulling out of it. That said, i thought Salty looked dramatically better this season and his stats dont reflect it, but watching chris battle i think he showed signs of rebounding. he was still late on FB’s but he was making contact on some of them that he wasnt last series, and the fans let him know we saw it, i think he knew the sincerity was there
mormons stole me and held me against my will with Oklahoma beer and 12+ hour work days.
He had that one 8 pitch AB
and also got called out out on strikes in one AB on a ball.
queue “Quit bending over backwards to defend Davis” posts…
By 2028, Mark Teixeira will be in the HOF.
-The Outlaw
question
Does anybody remember how to reset your video preferences at MLB.com?
Since I’ve upgraded to IE 8 the highlight videos there are very sketchy.
sum1 help him, this could get skipped
mormons stole me and held me against my will with Oklahoma beer and 12+ hour work days.
From the DMN blog
Tommy Hunter allowed three runs in 5 1/3 innings as the Rangers beat Oakland 6-3 in the first game of a doubleheader. His reward? A return trip to Oklahoma City. He has been optioned back to Triple A, and Guillermo Moscoso has been recalled from Double-A Frisco and will be in the bullpen for the second game.
oh please, pretty please do well
A baseball game is simply a nervous breakdown divided into nine innings.
Finnerty will have a heart attack.
It is a great thing to know the season for speech and the season for silence.
--Seneca
Fun fact:
(and I know you’re kidding this is just an interesting point)
Guillermo Moscoso has a 2.80 FIP in AA this year. Poveda’s is 4.12.
Apparently Poveda’s not throwing his changeup right now, which is why his K rate is way down, no doubt affecting his FIP some. But even if you ignore K%, he also has a 3.44% walk rate and a .258 BABIP, whereas Moscoso has a 2.98 BB% and a .324 BABIP. Which could indicate that Moscoso has in fact pitched better than Poveda so far.
Just don’t try to tell Jimmy Finnerty that though.
wORLD sEIRES HERE WE COMER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Didn't know this
Apparently Poveda’s not throwing his changeup right now
What’s up with that? Was he pitching backwards at Bakersfield or something?
I really wish Guillermo didn’t have that 2 inning outing that one day where he only threw his fastball a few times on his stat line. One HR in 42 innings is Feliz-like (although I suppose you could tag it SSS).
Funny how Crops blahblahblah-age always seems to bring up good, cogent discussion. Maybe those guys serve a purpose after all. Beyond imaging Guillermo giving Finnerty this look.
Poveda not throwing his changeup
Trip mentioned this on a minor league thread a couple of days ago. The club is making Poveda work on his breaking pitch and not allowing him to throw the changeup much, presumably so he doesn’t try to rely on it too much.
"wORLD sEIRES HERE WE COMER!!!!!!!!!"by bigsteve on May 29, 2009 10:21 PM PDT
"Elvis Andrus has just performed a miracle." -Eric Nadel
Yah
I couldn’t remember whether I read that here or over on Inside Corner, but yep, that’s it.
wORLD sEIRES HERE WE COMER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
changeup
couldnt that possibly have a negative effect on the change since thats a “feel” pitch
"I'm against picketing, but I don't know how to show it." - Mitch Hedberg
In theory, yes
But it’s not like they’ve barred him from throwing it at all, just limiting the number of times he throws it in a game, so he doesn’t rely on it too heavily.
Plus, since he’s got the best change in the system, I imagine they’re comfortable that he’s thoroughly learned the proper feel for it.
"wORLD sEIRES HERE WE COMER!!!!!!!!!"by bigsteve on May 29, 2009 10:21 PM PDT
"Elvis Andrus has just performed a miracle." -Eric Nadel
I don't think Finnerty
In your rush to mock his opinion, what he was actually saying flew right over your head.
"He's old school in that he give up his groin like that. It hurt me when he do that" -- Worsh on Chris Davis' stretch at first base to end the game vs. the Angels on 5/16
I got what he was saying
It was just presented in a douchey manner and backed up by less facts than the Flat-Earth Society typically presents. I mean, does anyone in educated Rangers fandom really think Guillermo isn’t a flawed prospect? I can handle someone telling me just the flaws of just about any Rangers prospect- Feliz is having intermittent control wonkiness and throws too many pitches, Strop’s arm is going to fall off sometime soon, Kiker’s going to need a police escort to and from stadiums if he keeps up the HPB’s, Martin and Wilfredo are too far off, Tommy Diamond is Tommy Diamond, Derek Holland doesn’t talk like Ricky Bobby in interviews…
But to say a guy who’d killing the Texas League is a cruddy prospect and a bad return in trade for Gerry Freakin’ Laird (without mentioning the lottery ticket we got in that trade) because he’s skinny and he’s about a year over the median age for his league (without citing his late arrival in the States and missing development years due to injury) gets you mocked. Then, if your response to mockery is to call the WAAAAMMMMbulance rather than showing facts to support your opinion, the mockery is going to escalate. Crops doesn’t seem to get this.
LOL
Kiker’s going to need a police escort to and from stadiums if he keeps up the HPB’s
"Back on the scene, with a gangsta lean" RW
"you gonna lose your horse. seriously." FX2
Yes we can! November 04, 2008
Seriously
I was having dinner with brother & sister in law last night & trying to talk them into going to a Frisco game with us sometime. I closed the deal by telling them they had a pitcher who was leading the world in hit batters, and it wasn’t really close.
Brother-in-law loved that.
Fresh young faces are sexy
Tommy Hunter with a good outing, UTT looked really good and looks like he should be getting some extra PT imho, and im as big a salty lover as lurks around these parts, hell JJ jasnt looked bad out of the pen, CJ in back to back games the same day?
Now Morosco called up!
its like prospectwetdreamvilletonburg every friggin night, and if we suck fine our guys are 12 years old, but ya know what, we aint sucking that much
mormons stole me and held me against my will with Oklahoma beer and 12+ hour work days.
Oh my goodness,
Just what the Doctor ordered. After getting waxed by the Damn Yankees, I’ll def take this sweep with pride. (& sure the Yanks pwnd us, but at least we won one game of that series.)
beneath the paving stones, the beach!
Gooooo M's
"Hi, I’m a fucking horsefaced moron." - John Lackey to Ian Kinsler, 5/16/09
"That start was like somebody on a deathbed suddenly jumping up and doing the Lindy Hop, then speeding away on a pogo stick while playing the fiddle." - Telegraph on Matt Harrison
this is pretty great
Scout: He was a first-round pick right? Got a huge bonus?
KG: Oh yeah.
Scout: Well, he spent a lot of it on milkshakes.
-
Scout to KG: On Sandoval: "Man, that fat [expletive]-er can hit."
by knockoutking on May 29, 2009 10:29 PM CDT up reply actions
knew that lol
Scout: He was a first-round pick right? Got a huge bonus?
KG: Oh yeah.
Scout: Well, he spent a lot of it on milkshakes.
-
Scout to KG: On Sandoval: "Man, that fat [expletive]-er can hit."
by knockoutking on May 29, 2009 10:30 PM CDT up reply actions
Speaking of Everett
I went to the Newark Bears game today (my first game) and Everett is on the team.
ask him about dinosaurs, ask him about dinosaurs, ask him about dinosaurs
mormons stole me and held me against my will with Oklahoma beer and 12+ hour work days.
just got home
I’m luvin’ it. If you had told me before the first game that Kinsler and MY would got 0 for the DH and the Rangers would sweep the A’s I would have called you insane. Not only did MY and Kinsler go 0-12, but Davis went 0-7 with 6 Ks.
I love this pitching thing they have going on.
Elvis Andrus - 2009 AL Rookie of the Year
Mitch Moreland - 2009 Rangers Minor League POY
john lackey
is an ugly mofo
Scout: He was a first-round pick right? Got a huge bonus?
KG: Oh yeah.
Scout: Well, he spent a lot of it on milkshakes.
-
Scout to KG: On Sandoval: "Man, that fat [expletive]-er can hit."
just did
thats actually what made me post it
Scout: He was a first-round pick right? Got a huge bonus?
KG: Oh yeah.
Scout: Well, he spent a lot of it on milkshakes.
-
Scout to KG: On Sandoval: "Man, that fat [expletive]-er can hit."
by knockoutking on May 29, 2009 10:31 PM CDT up reply actions
Apparently putting an asterisk before and after something in a post bolds it...
I saw him in HD on my 32-inch LCD TV in his last start against the Dodgers… that’s when I found out the white curved line at the top of the 34 patch says “Adenhart.”
i like the * *
Scout: He was a first-round pick right? Got a huge bonus?
KG: Oh yeah.
Scout: Well, he spent a lot of it on milkshakes.
-
Scout to KG: On Sandoval: "Man, that fat [expletive]-er can hit."
by knockoutking on May 29, 2009 10:32 PM CDT up reply actions
bourne supremacy
pretty good movie
Scout: He was a first-round pick right? Got a huge bonus?
KG: Oh yeah.
Scout: Well, he spent a lot of it on milkshakes.
-
Scout to KG: On Sandoval: "Man, that fat [expletive]-er can hit."
Not sure if I've said this here or not
But it always looks like Feldman is wearing eyeliner? He must just have some killer lashes.
-- Micah
Baseball Is My Boyfriend
I'm an Andrus-caliber catch. :-)
by The Best Micah on May 29, 2009 10:32 PM CDT reply actions
This woman said I had
“killer lashes” I just stared at her and asked her why she was looking at my eyelashes… it was awkward.
Jeff Zimmerman for President.
I've had someone say something similar to me too.
"Hi, I’m a fucking horsefaced moron." - John Lackey to Ian Kinsler, 5/16/09
"That start was like somebody on a deathbed suddenly jumping up and doing the Lindy Hop, then speeding away on a pogo stick while playing the fiddle." - Telegraph on Matt Harrison
Women are drawn to beautiful eyelashes
We want them because we ruin our own by going to the mascara in our teens.
-- Micah
Baseball Is My Boyfriend
I'm an Andrus-caliber catch. :-)
by The Best Micah on May 29, 2009 10:36 PM CDT up reply actions
The thing is
I don’t think I’ve ever in my life noticed another female’s lashes. It caught me off guard.
Jeff Zimmerman for President.
You know whose lashes I noticed recently?
Suzy Q, when they were talking to her as part of the “Top 100 One Hit Wonders of the 80s.”
She (in her current state, not back in the 80s) had these ridiculous fake lashes that completely freaked me out.
by Adam J. Morris on May 29, 2009 10:40 PM CDT up reply actions
I'm a sucker for those shows.
Especially when you have actual “one hit wonders” one song and then they disappear.
Jeff Zimmerman for President.
No one's ever told me "killer lashes"
but my lashes are long… and they like to fall off and land in my eye, sometimes when I’m driving.
What I've had happen
Is one come off and stick in with the others. It makes it feel like they’re all clumped up, and it’s irritating as hell.
This comment courtesy of the things you probably didn’t want to know assoc.
"Hi, I’m a fucking horsefaced moron." - John Lackey to Ian Kinsler, 5/16/09
"That start was like somebody on a deathbed suddenly jumping up and doing the Lindy Hop, then speeding away on a pogo stick while playing the fiddle." - Telegraph on Matt Harrison
I've had, on several occasions, women ask me if I was wearing mascara. I have very thick, very black eyelashes
She say she are the manager.
by rockin_rangers on May 29, 2009 10:42 PM CDT up reply actions
They were jealous
-- Micah
Baseball Is My Boyfriend
I'm an Andrus-caliber catch. :-)
by The Best Micah on May 29, 2009 10:43 PM CDT up reply actions
Yes it is.
"Hi, I’m a fucking horsefaced moron." - John Lackey to Ian Kinsler, 5/16/09
"That start was like somebody on a deathbed suddenly jumping up and doing the Lindy Hop, then speeding away on a pogo stick while playing the fiddle." - Telegraph on Matt Harrison
jeez
i had to go back a few post before i understood what you were sayin….
The World Series Crisis - Ranger fans held hostage; Game 5910
Magic Number- 112