48-41

that Salty sucks. He’s a guy that you can just about replace with a waiver wire pickup in the offseason.

you could say the same about several of them

So they go out and lose the first two and the offense looks like it did in June.

how baseball stupid some of these guys are right now.

We’re down by 3 runs late. MY swings and misses at a very high ball 3 on 2-1 count. Grounds out.

Before getting lucky on the dink “hit”, Nellie swings out of his shoes trying to hit that “oh so meaningful” solo home run while down 4-1.

Saltalamacchia…. ugh, just sucks. Doesn’t help when he’s swinging 1-0 on a horrible pitch when he needs to find a way to get on bases, namely by walking or working count in his favor.

It really looks like all of them are swinging as hard as me on the golf course all the time… which is out-of-their-shoes bad. Dear God, why can’t they see that???!!!

the record in red? Or am I just imagining that it’s awful?

Our 1 run was on a homerun…..I am shocked!

This team as it is presently constructed is DONE!

I expect us to be 6 or 7 out by next week…..

posting last summer that Salty was a “KP” and everyone had a cow and jumped all over me. It has always been obvious to me that MLB is too fast for him.

upsets me greatly. Anyone else notice our leadoff guy saw 3 pitches in his first 3 AB’s?

This team swings and misses at more pitches than any baseball team I’ve ever seen. The only reason why half these guys see 4 pitches an AB is because they have to swing and miss at 3 of them before they can K.

I’m sick of it. These guys just aren’t willing to take a couple pitches. The most patient guy at the plate is the fucking 20 year old rookie. Every guy is just going up there swinging for the fences. It doesn’t matter the score or situation. Whether you hit leadoff or are hitting while down a couple runs late in the game with no one on base. I’m tired of it.

If Rudy can’t/won’t get these guys to take a pitch then can his ass.

How dare he come up to the majors and not hit 300/400/500

This team has been like this for years. Always a one sided affair. They play well before the all-star break and come mid-summer, they bust. Or vice verse. It’s like once the pressure is on, they aren’t. It has been like this for years now and it doesn’t surprise me one bit. Life would be so much easier if I just rooted for another team. But, I continue to stick with this bs one-half team for years now. It’s getting old fast. We are still 7 games up, but come august, we will see where we are at and whether we really want to play ball or not.

I was watching ESPN about a week before the all-star break and Kruk told me that Texas was his team to watch for the AL West because we had the hitting and just needed to get some pitching. He also said that we had the depth at hitting to go out and get that pitching.

Surely he knows what he’s talking about more than some blogger?

Ivan Rodriguez, Mark McLemore, and even the Tom Goodwins and Kevin Elsters of the world. They made people belive that Rudy J was a God because of their own enormous talent or their career years. Now we are stuck with him and his swing for the fences attitude.

Bring back Oddibe McDowell and David Hulse.

The Rangers did not advance a runner with a base hit all game. They were 0-for-16 with men on base and 0-for-7 with runners in scoring position.

is rudy not fire-able? with as bad as this offense has done, and as bad as the approach has been, how can rudy not be getting run outta town by now?

and don’t give me that “well, all he can do is give them the correct approach. the players have to put it into use and they are failing” bullshit. THAT’S ALL ANY COACH CAN DO! and if your players aren’t successful, its your fault as a coach. i coach football, and if my players suck, it is my fault. no matter how many times i coach it up, if they don’t preform, its my ass.