Saturday morning Rangers stuff

Just a bit outside.

I went to bed early last night feeling like heh, at leat the Halos lost. Shit.

That last call sucked, as did Murphy coming up just short. That wasn’t my biggest problem last night though. I’m sick and fucking tired of this Rangers offense making mediocre pitchers like Duensing look like Sandy Fuckin’ Koufax. How the hell do you only get 3 hits, 1 walk, and 1 run in 7 innings off that scrub? How does he strike out 8? I’m sick of hearing that some lousy pitcher just pitched a good game. No he didn’t. It was a shitty offensive performance. Not the other way around.

I liked what I saw from Hunter and Strop.

As for Kazmir, I’m fine with the Halos getting him. I hope he continues to struggle and the Halos are on the hook for 20 mil the next two years. Eventually all these bad contracts have to catch up to them don’t they?

So, does this mean Lackey is gone? I’m thinking yes.

poor burnley.

I watched that pitched called a strike and my jaw nearly hit the floor. With the camera location in MIN you can see more easily whether a pitch is inside or outside of the strike zone, making the blown call sting that much more worse. I really had the feeling that they were going to come all the way back on Nathan.

Moving on.

They can make up five games a month. It just requires that they keep winning and the Angels start losing. There’s three left head-to-head against them so it can be done, and it wouldn’t shock me to see this team do the improbable.

At this point Kazmir doesn’t concern me, but if he does regain form that’s going to suck for the Rangers. Then again, I think there has to be some kind of limit on the amount of luck a team has, and the Angels must have used a shit ton of their allotment this year. I mean they’re a good baseball team as much as I hate to admit it, but holy hell nobody’s that damn good.

But I’m also thinking they’re running out of gas. Boston’s kind of screwy and the Drays aren’t world beaters this season so the Rangers can maybe get into the playoffs on fumes. I haven’t lost hope just yet but I find myself looking back at the season to see how far they’ve come, and how much they may improve going forward if things break right/continue on their present course.

I was wrong.

That shithole stole 2 of them last night.

Had never heard that before, as Bascik ascribes.

will never sit behind a major league home plate again after last night. There’s no doubt that Nathan didn’t have his best stuff — or his second best stuff — last night. He wasn’t hitting corners. I like Elvis’s chances with the bases loaded, looking fastball down the middle. And, Elvis isn’t afraid to take a pitch, so Nathan would have had to have thrown him something over the plate.

Am I the only one that’s scared of of what Kazmir can do next season? We have no idea what could really be bothering him, besides his well chronicled injuries. He could be right as rain next year, and stuffing four fingers up our bums 6-8 times a year. Maybe it’s gout or he’s had some random, Main-esque infection this year. Or herpes.

has definitely shown some signs of regression in the last year or so. He seems to always pitch well against the Rangers, though.

Caught Harold Reynolds having Ricky Henderson explaining how he stole bases. Pretty interesting stuff as he explained what he looked for from the pitcher and catcher and about sliding technique.

That was followed up by a segment about pitching technique and how to keep pitchers healthy. Who were they talking to? Yep. Rick Peterson. Because he was so good at keeping his staff healthy. Yeah. Right.

for about a month now. If we can just get it down to 3 or at least 4 when september 16th comes. Then how do we not have a chance? Sweep them that series which can be done, and we’re tied or one game out with 4 more games against them.

Lester is being pushed back to Tuesday. Sundays’ SP is TBD. Somewhat ironic since they spent alot of money to bring in Penny and Smoltz. Both are now gone, Smoltz to STL and Penny to ??? They also traded away Masterson when they acquired Martinez. Dice K should be back next week but if Wakefield can’t pitch that means Tazawa will stay in thier rotation. Maybe Nick Green will get tomorrow’s start.

Wakefield