And we can bet so don’t you get souped yet.

Thanks for the update. No wonder no one claimed him.

..cause, like Eddie G has been so awesome

i’m fine with murphy. but there is absolutely no reason byrd should be batting 4th. And yes, I know he accounted for one of the two runs, but the way he’s been hitting lately, I dont see why RW keeps him there.
But yes, Hammy cant come baack fast enough…

Im not sitting here randomly taking out bad games or anything. Murphy started the season on a 0-22 (not 0-24 my bad) streak. Hes had almost 150 ABs since then so this isn’t exactly a tiny sample size I am talking about. His numbers on the year against RHP are .279/.367/.426. Thats not that bad to begin with. And if you can understand the fact that includes 18 ABs at the start of the season when he couldn’t hit anything his numbers do look better. In fact they raise to this: .322/.389/.492. Thats an almost 900 OPS against RHP. With this lineup missing Josh Hamilton and everyone struggling there should be no complaining over Murphy hitting 3rd or 4th right now

than on an individual basis

I understand the value in making pitchers work hard, etc. etc. etc. You don’t have to explain all that to me. But it’s not a stat that should be used to criticize a single at bat in my opinion, and that’s how it always seems to be used here, and with no supporting stats saying that this or that hitter doesn’t see enough pitches.

The Rangers are seeing plenty of pitches, they’re just swinging at too many that are outside the strike zone and making poor contact. Chris Davis sees plenty of pitches. The problem with the Murphy at bat cited above was how the bat hit the ball, not that the pitch was swung on, or that it was the first pitch in the at bat.

Could he be any worse than who the Rangers have now?

Yes.

California is totally and completely fucked in every single way financially. Doomsday, literally. So school districts are required to have their budgets in place by July 1, by law, but no one knows how much state funding will be taken away from the districts, and that won’t be known until well after July 1, so districts have to guess.

The guy woke up this morning in OKC probably not even thinking about the possibility of getting called up. Within a 12 hour span he went from figuring out what he was going to have for breakfast in Oklahoma City to being at the plate in a ML game. From getting the phone call to packing to making your flight to all the phone calls from family, friends, your former colleges sports department, getting to the stadium, etc, etc, etc having the guy DH so he only has to focus on one aspect of his game makes some sense. Its not his permanent spot. But for tonight it was his spot. The amount of flipping out over it was crazy

0 hour work weeks for the last 2 months has left me with nothing other than baseball to occupy my time.

I’m a little pent up right now.

stay in the minors all this year.

The 7-8 hitter with 1yr in the MLs is dragging down the whole team? Wow. What a bunch of mental midgets the Rangers are. That includes MY.

Kind of like saying getting stabbed is better than getting shot. Or, to use your drowning analogy, Blalock is only waterboarding his teammates, whereas Davis stuck a fire hose down their throats.

one lucid point: we have a chance at the AL West.
and one non-lucid point: Chris Davis is draggin down the “entire” lineup…

logic fail.

Davis – .231/.286/.423

Blalock – .179/.254/.339

Sure, Blalock is obviously better.

If the offense turns things around and gets as hot as it was last year, Rudy has a chance to return.

give it a week… we’ll probably hit one too.

but i did just get out of the shower

and indicates the manager losing the hearts and minds of the team again. The misplayed situations managerially, the crazy lineups, the inability to use players correctly, and many other facets of Washington’s tenure push me to believe it’s time to let the manager go. Before you get your pitchfork, no it isn’t his fault as he does not play the game. However, to use a gardening analogy, he does not create fertile soil. The growth of this team comes from the hardy stock not from the craft of the gardener. The Rangers need a brilliant tactician (I got no idea who), and a strong leader (no not Buck-type, maybe more a LaRussa type) ideally. A solution must be present obviously before letting Washington go. So I ask, do you agree? If so, who should be on the list? If not, why?