Julio Borbon would like an apology...
by miles on Aug 20, 2009 3:50 AM CDT
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Lets be honest... Adam J. Morris hates fast speedy guys and this is no exception... Draft time a few years ago he joined the hate wagon to this guy and everyone followed... Everyone but me... I love fast guys, they turn me on... But everyone was like "please don't draft him, hes a bust!" WRONG! He is now our leadoff hitter less than 2 years removed from that draft.. He has exeeded everyones expectations, including mine.. Please apologize to this young gent, I bet his feeling are hurt with all this hate.. Too bad hes's our leadoff hitter and hitting like .350.....
So please show him love, this guy is a true stud of a talent and we are blessed to have his talent on our team. Join me to proclaim him a great player and a great Ranger for years to come..
P.S. Never drink 3 4 loco's becuase I did and its not a good story....
P.S.... Never let a freshman girls in highschool drive you home when you are wasted, because like 2 did and I was about to slap then it was so annoying...
P.S... Never redline a truck, especially if its not yours... I think I blew out my friends transmission in his truck because I was like going 95 in it and redlining the shit out of it....
WOOPS!!!! YOU ONLY LIVE ONCE KEEP AN OPEN MIND ABOUT LIFE OR SOMETHING BECAUSE
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So what I got out of this is
You and your girlfriend have something in common you both love fast guys. Explains why she likes you. We know you’re fast I’m sure you last a good 30 seconds.
We’ve also learned you like Borbon and think everyone else hates him…..which is not true. But after all this is a miles story.
We’ve learned that really you met the freshman girls at chuckie cheese, and your girlfriend left you up there all alone because you started a fight with chuckie cheese. So you had to ask someone to drive you home. The only offer was a mom that had a mini van full of freshman girls.
Good story Miles.
I'm just goofin' new boot goofin'
by iorange555 on Aug 20, 2009 5:05 AM CDT reply actions 1 recs
You first
I love the search function on here.
LoneStarBall....You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy.
by DaheelzCM on Aug 20, 2009 6:08 AM CDT reply actions 20 recs
lol wow
I'm just goofin' new boot goofin'
by iorange555 on Aug 20, 2009 6:12 AM CDT up reply actions 0 recs
Yeah, he said Elvis would be a bust too
J.P. can take Roy Halladay and shove him up his ass. I’ll take Derek Holland. - AJM
Rangers can no hit curve ball. Straight ball, they hit it very much. Curve ball, bats are inept.
by lonestarJon on Aug 20, 2009 7:59 AM CDT up reply actions 0 recs
Heeee
Borbon isn’t good, he didn’t play against good competition. He’s really just fast…
Everyone knows that the Yan thing is a joke, my point is that Borbon isn’t good.
Arias is the third cousin of David Ortiz? Sucks for Big Papi… by miles on Jun 7, 2007 5:31 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
Remember Red, hope is a good thing. Maybe the best of things. And no good thing ever dies.
by WyoRanger on Aug 20, 2009 9:53 AM CDT up reply actions 0 recs
holy greatness
Must kill Moe. Weeeeeeeee
by Baseball North on Aug 20, 2009 2:14 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs
Borbon
I like him, he’s got a future, but he’s got a BABIP of .684. He is hitting a ton of liners (32.1%) but no amount of line drives could be enough to rule out that much luck.
by Conjunction on Aug 20, 2009 6:22 AM CDT reply actions 0 recs
He'll struggle at some point.
And then people will say he’s a bust, and wish we had Marlon Byrd back.
J.P. can take Roy Halladay and shove him up his ass. I’ll take Derek Holland. - AJM
Rangers can no hit curve ball. Straight ball, they hit it very much. Curve ball, bats are inept.
by lonestarJon on Aug 20, 2009 8:01 AM CDT up reply actions 0 recs
I predict April 22 next year
after an 0-5 with 4 Ks.
Elvis Andrus - 2009 AL Rookie of the Year
Mitch Moreland -Tom Grieve Rangers Minor League Player of the Year
Martin Perez - Nolan Ryan Rangers Minor League Pitcher of the Year
by RangerMad on Aug 20, 2009 8:38 AM CDT up reply actions 0 recs
hold on
are you suggesting he will not maintain his .464 batting average?
by SteveP on Aug 20, 2009 11:11 AM CDT up reply actions 0 recs
heh
"When he came up with that ball, hop or not, he looked exactly like a homeless guy who had found a long cigarette butt – only to discover it was soaked with gasoline. He could not have thrown out anyone there, even though Cust moves at about the speed of soil erosion." - Ed C.
by Chase Irwin on Aug 20, 2009 11:20 AM CDT up reply actions 0 recs
I love when folks
go out of their mind for SSS.
"I don't condone steroids or any other type of growth hormones or anything else, but I could care less, and, for the most part, I don't think the fans give a (bleep). The people that care about it are the people that probably don't like baseball," - Jim Leyland
by DJCahill on Aug 20, 2009 1:37 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs
i for one thing he can keep up a .684 BABIP
thats totally sustainable!!! lol
damn thats a high babip
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.
-
"Taking steroids is only gonna make him whiff on those sliders in the dirt with more fury." -thedirkatron
by knockoutking on Aug 20, 2009 3:10 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs
It must not be that bad if you can still type... pussy
Keepin it Classy Gentlemen
There is, in fact, a manly and lawful passion for equality which excites men to wish all to be powerful and honored. This passion tends to elevate the humble to the rank of the great; but there exists also in the human heart a depraved taste for equality, which impels the weak to attempt to lower the powerful to their own level, and reduces men to prefer equality in slavery to inequality with freedom.
-Alexis de Tocqueville, 1835
by Hamiltons Homey on Aug 20, 2009 6:24 AM CDT reply actions 0 recs
Brian P Hayes
I believe he was the most outspoken critic of the pick at the time.
"You can probably stick a fork in the Rangers' playoff chances for 2009." - AJM on 7/26 with the team 4.5 games out
by tricer on Aug 20, 2009 7:26 AM CDT reply actions 0 recs
Z
He was pretty outspoken as well if my memory is correct.
by bdavison94 on Aug 20, 2009 10:05 AM CDT up reply actions 0 recs
Who the hell is Brian P. Hayes?
The 40 Trumps All!!!
by thedirkatron on Aug 20, 2009 12:52 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs
Don't be hasty.
The 40 Trumps All!!!
by thedirkatron on Aug 20, 2009 3:14 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs
I freaking hated the Ents
There were a lot of annoying parts of those books, but the Ents were the worst.
by Adam J. Morris on Aug 20, 2009 3:40 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs
No way, Adam Jay.
The fucking Elvish song/poetry shit was the worst.
I actually liked the Ents quite a bit.
Quickbeam was my homeslice numero uno.
The 40 Trumps All!!!
by thedirkatron on Aug 20, 2009 4:11 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs
I just skipped anything with singing
I’d be reading, then realize, “Oh, crap it is another song,” then skip forward until it was done.
by Adam J. Morris on Aug 20, 2009 4:24 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs
and Miles would like to be relevant
G G G E-flat_______ F F F D__________....
by t ball on Aug 20, 2009 7:56 AM CDT reply actions 0 recs
depending on what Borbon does the rest of the season
I think he might be a huge trade chip this offseason. He’s super fast and is making a great first impression, but I hope we learned last year that often times a player will never have a higher trade value than after an abbreviated, but successful ML debut.
Think of the bounty that CD and Salty and/or Teagarden could have netted in trade last offseason. Borbon is a guy that I love watching play, but it wouldn’t just kill me if he was included in a blockbuster trade.
"You can probably stick a fork in the Rangers' playoff chances for 2009." - AJM on 7/26 with the team 4.5 games out
by tricer on Aug 20, 2009 8:43 AM CDT reply actions 0 recs
Who plays CF next year?
Byrd?
Elvis Andrus - 2009 AL Rookie of the Year
Mitch Moreland -Tom Grieve Rangers Minor League Player of the Year
Martin Perez - Nolan Ryan Rangers Minor League Pitcher of the Year
by RangerMad on Aug 20, 2009 9:01 AM CDT up reply actions 0 recs
I think he's incredibly valuable to the Rangers moving forward
Having him in CF pushing Hamilton to a corner is big for this team. Plus his speed back to back with Andrus in the lineup is deadly.
I understand your point, but he fills a pretty big need for this team going forward.
"He will not coddle them. Nolan Ryan doesn’t coddle." - Jeff Passan
by Dirk Diggler on Aug 20, 2009 9:01 AM CDT up reply actions 0 recs
Borbon
I’ll admit I wasn’t a huge fan of the pick, though I thought he was the kind of guy that would make a good trade chip.
Having seen him in the majors now, Borbon seems to be a very smart player, and I like his approach both at the plate and on the bases. Still want to see more, but I’ll be happy if he proves me wrong.
Officially gay for Neftali Feliz
by RCCook on Aug 20, 2009 8:47 AM CDT reply actions 0 recs
My Favorite Ranger to Watch...
The Beast of Borbon is thrilling.
The Beast that is Borbon is unusual.
He is 100% baseball eye candy. Those bunts where he races to first? Someone needs to find a nickname for that play. That play rocks.
by 3Bagger on Aug 20, 2009 9:00 AM CDT reply actions 0 recs
I believe someone has already claimed it
it is called the Ichiro
Keepin it Classy Gentlemen
There is, in fact, a manly and lawful passion for equality which excites men to wish all to be powerful and honored. This passion tends to elevate the humble to the rank of the great; but there exists also in the human heart a depraved taste for equality, which impels the weak to attempt to lower the powerful to their own level, and reduces men to prefer equality in slavery to inequality with freedom.
-Alexis de Tocqueville, 1835
by Hamiltons Homey on Aug 20, 2009 4:37 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs
The Ichiro
does not look the same to me. For one thing, Borbon looks faster. Secondly, Borbon’s batting stance looks less like the leaning-tower pose Ichiro uses.
Borbon! Borbon! Borbon!
by 3Bagger on Aug 20, 2009 4:45 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs
Bont?
short and sweet?!?!?
Must kill Moe. Weeeeeeeee
by Baseball North on Aug 21, 2009 1:36 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs
Mr Cunningham
what you’ve just said is one of the most insanely idiotic things I have ever heard. At no point in your rambling, incoherent response were you even close to anything that could be considered a rational thought. Everyone in this room is now dumber for having listened to it. I award you no points, and may God have mercy on your soul.
08/03/2009 A day that will live in infamy for the rest of the AL West.
by Michael Cave on Aug 20, 2009 9:41 AM CDT reply actions 0 recs
I thought
people only had a problem with Borbon at pick #17, but at #35 most were happy about it. Maybe I’m just misremembering the actual events.
by BHill on Aug 20, 2009 10:04 AM CDT reply actions 0 recs
That is how I remember it as well...
Most people were just afraid the front office would pass on all the big name pitchers to take Borbon at 17. I don’t recall many, if any, being overly upset with taking him at 35. He was still one of the top rated outfielders in the draft and was good value there, despite his perceived flaws.
by Bandire on Aug 20, 2009 10:23 AM CDT up reply actions 0 recs
and his Injury.
If he wasn’t injured most of the year. I doubt he drops to 35.
by BHill on Aug 20, 2009 10:33 AM CDT up reply actions 0 recs
they were 'okay' with it at 35
but most never liked him.
usa
by Longhorn on Aug 20, 2009 10:40 AM CDT up reply actions 0 recs
I was very happy he was available at #35
He was the best OF in that draft, something the organization really needed (and still does, really).
We all know the biggest hater was BT
Go Rice Owls!
by JBImaknee on Aug 20, 2009 10:48 AM CDT up reply actions 0 recs
"He's still shitty"
"He will not coddle them. Nolan Ryan doesn’t coddle." - Jeff Passan
by Dirk Diggler on Aug 20, 2009 10:53 AM CDT up reply actions 0 recs
Borbon nickname heard on The Hardline yesterday
Somebody at The Ticket coined a nickname for him – “Chocolate Ichiro”
One of their guys interviewed him after a game recently, and asked if he liked it. He seemed on board with it.
It's baseball. You don't always get what you want, and you don't always want what you get. --Ed Coffin
by txranger7 on Aug 20, 2009 11:04 AM CDT reply actions 0 recs
I like it, but a little lengthy
How about “Choc Itch” for short?
"You can probably stick a fork in the Rangers' playoff chances for 2009." - AJM on 7/26 with the team 4.5 games out
by tricer on Aug 20, 2009 11:10 AM CDT up reply actions 0 recs
He may not
be as on board with that one.
G G G E-flat_______ F F F D__________....
by t ball on Aug 20, 2009 11:16 AM CDT up reply actions 0 recs
Crotch Itch?
Alma para conquistarte, corazón para quererte, y vida para vivirla junto a ti.
by chrisR on Aug 21, 2009 11:15 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs
I do not support the use of this nickname
I fucking hate Ichiro.
J.P. can take Roy Halladay and shove him up his ass. I’ll take Derek Holland. - AJM
Rangers can no hit curve ball. Straight ball, they hit it very much. Curve ball, bats are inept.
by lonestarJon on Aug 20, 2009 11:12 AM CDT up reply actions 0 recs
i dont hate him
but hes is fucking good
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.
-
"Taking steroids is only gonna make him whiff on those sliders in the dirt with more fury." -thedirkatron
by knockoutking on Aug 20, 2009 3:12 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs
I don't like it
Can’t nickname a player after another player unless the other player is retired. Even then it’s a little sketchy (Baby Jordan anyone?)
Remember Red, hope is a good thing. Maybe the best of things. And no good thing ever dies.
by WyoRanger on Aug 20, 2009 11:19 AM CDT up reply actions 0 recs
Wow, was he ever a bust
"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 Aug 20, 2009 11:54 AM CDT up reply actions 0 recs
is borbon black?
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.
-
"Taking steroids is only gonna make him whiff on those sliders in the dirt with more fury." -thedirkatron
by knockoutking on Aug 20, 2009 3:11 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs
Blacker skinned than Derek Jeter.
But Jeter’s jump throws make him all races, so that’s not really a fair comp.
The 40 Trumps All!!!
by thedirkatron on Aug 20, 2009 3:15 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs
heh
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.
-
"Taking steroids is only gonna make him whiff on those sliders in the dirt with more fury." -thedirkatron
by knockoutking on Aug 20, 2009 3:53 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs
dont know if you were serious
but this made me lol a lot
by Smoakin in the Boys Room on Aug 21, 2009 12:33 AM CDT up reply actions 0 recs
me too
"Does this effectively hide my thunder?"
by Bob Loblaw on Aug 21, 2009 11:36 AM CDT up reply actions 0 recs
good?
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.
-
"Taking steroids is only gonna make him whiff on those sliders in the dirt with more fury." -thedirkatron
by knockoutking on Aug 21, 2009 12:25 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs
well pablo neruda says
laughter is the language of the soul!
by Smoakin in the Boys Room on Aug 21, 2009 4:04 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs
I am familiar with the works of Pablo Neruda.
The 40 Trumps All!!!
by thedirkatron on Aug 22, 2009 3:42 AM CDT up reply actions 0 recs
heh
“borbon is not even in the same league defensively as jacoby ellsbury”
usa
by Longhorn on Aug 20, 2009 11:18 AM CDT reply actions 0 recs
That's actually true
’Cause Ellbury sucks ass. -11.1 UZR and -12.3 UZR/150 this year.
J.P. can take Roy Halladay and shove him up his ass. I’ll take Derek Holland. - AJM
Rangers can no hit curve ball. Straight ball, they hit it very much. Curve ball, bats are inept.
by lonestarJon on Aug 20, 2009 12:08 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs
I just wish Washington
would go ahead and stick Borbon in CF for the rest of the yr when he plays. I mean that IS his long term position.
08/03/2009 A day that will live in infamy for the rest of the AL West.
by Michael Cave on Aug 20, 2009 12:45 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs
Wouldn't want to upstage the veterans now.
J.P. can take Roy Halladay and shove him up his ass. I’ll take Derek Holland. - AJM
Rangers can no hit curve ball. Straight ball, they hit it very much. Curve ball, bats are inept.
by lonestarJon on Aug 20, 2009 9:23 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs
Wouldn't a freshman in high school be 14 years old?
"What ... 92 miles per hour?" Feldman scoffed. "That's not gas. Feliz throws gas."
by NorCalRangersFan on Aug 20, 2009 12:09 PM CDT reply actions 0 recs
That is exactly what i thought
ha
08/03/2009 A day that will live in infamy for the rest of the AL West.
by Michael Cave on Aug 20, 2009 12:46 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs
Well
I was 13 my freshman year. Not to brag or anything.
But I hear Chris Hansen would like a word with Miles…
Officially gay for Neftali Feliz
by RCCook on Aug 20, 2009 1:17 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs
damn Miles
good job hiding the trampoline in that picture. Anything is better than your “girlfriend”
"calmer than you are dude" Walter (Big Lebowski)
"you're fuckin out" (Kenny Powers)
Hello Win Column!!!
by Arlington Stadium Legend on Aug 21, 2009 4:47 AM CDT up reply actions 0 recs
My favorite thing about miles
is that there are all of these newish types and visitors who think he’s great because he’s doing a parody of an incredibly dumb guy.
by Brett Perryman on Aug 20, 2009 8:27 PM CDT reply actions 0 recs
newish types?
don’t you mean “noobs”?
Alma para conquistarte, corazón para quererte, y vida para vivirla junto a ti.
by chrisR on Aug 21, 2009 11:17 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs
He's not?
I’m serious.
I don’t post much, but someone needs to do an IP check, because this guy really has to be someone’s hilarious alter ego.
-Boneless
by Boneless on Aug 22, 2009 2:49 AM CDT up reply actions 0 recs
Once again, Twisted Genius
that some people…even BP…don’t quite have the capacity to appreciate.
I find Miles more entertaining than the Chain Gang.
Good coffee...good bowl...and it's Saturday
- bdls
by Clueless on Aug 22, 2009 3:20 AM CDT up reply actions 0 recs
Im not sure whats worse
the posts who the people who rec it
"I'm against picketing, but I don't know how to show it." - Mitch Hedberg
by rentz on Aug 22, 2009 8:12 AM CDT up reply actions 0 recs
And certainly more entertaining than the
LSB Circle Jerk Team.
You know who you are…
Good coffee...good bowl...and it's Saturday
- bdls
by Clueless on Aug 22, 2009 3:21 AM CDT up reply actions 0 recs
But not as entertaining as when you stop by and act like anyone gives a flying fuck what your functioning retard ass thinks about, well... anything.
Idiots are the best.
Keep it up, brosephine.
Your simpleton antics complete me.
<3
The 40 Trumps All!!!
by thedirkatron on Aug 22, 2009 3:47 AM CDT up reply actions 0 recs
I went to a town called simpleton.
A few stop lights and gas stations. That was about it.
I'm just goofin' new boot goofin'
by iorange555 on Aug 22, 2009 5:38 AM CDT up reply actions 0 recs
Is that emoticon
supposed to be a ball sac?
G G G E-flat_______ F F F D__________....
by t ball on Aug 22, 2009 7:25 AM CDT up reply actions 0 recs
The <3 thing?
I actually googled it the other day, and apparently it’s supposed to be a heart. Or three to the power of three or some shit.
Or did you know that, and I just pulled a Mike E? Heh.
J.P. can take Roy Halladay and shove him up his ass. I’ll take Derek Holland. - AJM
Rangers can no hit curve ball. Straight ball, they hit it very much. Curve ball, bats are inept.
by lonestarJon on Aug 22, 2009 8:30 AM CDT up reply actions 0 recs
Dammit!!
Who the eff rec’d this shit to get it on the recommended post?
08/03/2009 A day that will live in infamy for the rest of the AL West.
by Michael Cave on Aug 22, 2009 10:46 AM CDT reply actions 0 recs
This
Why?
Look at the comments under Jeff Wilson's blog post on dallasnews.com. What a bunch of rocket scientists.- Keith Law
by Keynes on Aug 22, 2009 10:58 AM CDT up reply actions 0 recs
Yeah, I kinda deserved a Mike E response there
Still lame-ass trolling, if you ask me.
Look at the comments under Jeff Wilson's blog post on dallasnews.com. What a bunch of rocket scientists.- Keith Law
by Keynes on Aug 22, 2009 2:32 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs
I adjusted the number of rec's needed...
…so this would drop off.
The alternative is just to start deleting these posts when they get a certain number of rec’s.
by Adam J. Morris on Aug 22, 2009 1:34 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs
dstar442005, SteveP, tangiers, chrisR, blueballlefty, princeton11loveshalos
So only one Angels goofball.
by Brett Perryman on Aug 22, 2009 5:19 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs
I'll come forward and say that I rec'd it
just to knock Chuckie Cheese out of the rec’d fanposts list (at least this one is baseball-related trolling). Since it didn’t work at the moment, I unrec’d it.
BTW, For some reason it feels like we had a hell of a lot more rec’d fanposts during the offseason (back when spursdynasty was doing his incredible work).
Alma para conquistarte, corazón para quererte, y vida para vivirla junto a ti.
by chrisR on Aug 23, 2009 7:39 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs
I generally will
rec crap like this up when the recommended fanpost list is buried in crap anyway. If the only threads up there are community draft order, and Newberg’s promotions, etc. I generally rec just about everything else.
Currently, there really isn’t shit up on the recommended lists.
"I don't condone steroids or any other type of growth hormones or anything else, but I could care less, and, for the most part, I don't think the fans give a (bleep). The people that care about it are the people that probably don't like baseball," - Jim Leyland
by DJCahill on Aug 23, 2009 6:40 AM CDT up reply actions 0 recs
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