Remarkably, the Rangers are still alone in first place today...it seemed like folks were resigned to the Angels beating Colorado and pulling into a tie for first last night, but the Rockies won, 11-1, and thus the Rangers are still a game up on Anaheim.

Anthony Andro says that the Rangers made a couple of nice claims when they grabbed Darren O'Day and Jason Grilli off of waivers.

Jeff (the writer) Miller has a good, in-depth feature on O'Day, and how he went from a failed walk-on at the University of Florida to a key piece of a playoff contender's bullpen.

Richard Durrett runs down some positives about the Rangers right now, amidst a sea of negativity.