Thursday a.m. Rangers stuff
by Adam J. Morris on Aug 6, 2009 11:26 AM CDT
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Jeff Wilson says David Murphy's two homers weren't enough to overcome the A's slapping around of Vicente Padilla.
On the injury front, Nelson Cruz hopes to be back against the Angels this weekend, Brandon McCarthy is going to have a rehab start for Oklahoma on Saturday, and Ian Kinsler is lifting weights.
Ron Washington, before the game, told the players to play within themselves.
And there's a story up about Eddie Guardado's 900th appearance.
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Somebody pleas post a link for the game today
please, please, please
by FormerLSBUser on Aug 6, 2009 11:27 AM CDT reply actions
I'm glad it's a day game
and that I have an All-Staff meeting this afternoon, so I don’t have to watch today’s disaster.
"You got a guy coming up there who can’t hit water if he fell out of a boat." - Tom Grieve on Richie Sexson, 5.8.2008
"I’ve been a Rangers fan all my life and I can tell you there’s been plenty of fucking crying in baseball…" - WhipSmart, 6.3.08
"When it comes to Jeff Mathis, the story ends with us putting one in his earhole." - AJM, 7.7.08
Damn
are we just going to assume they’ll lose every game now? Keep your chin up, put on a happy face.
G G G E-flat_______ F F F D__________....
Tommy Hunter will right the ship!
A baseball game is simply a nervous breakdown divided into nine innings.
No
but I don’t really have high expectations for this one.
"You got a guy coming up there who can’t hit water if he fell out of a boat." - Tom Grieve on Richie Sexson, 5.8.2008
"I’ve been a Rangers fan all my life and I can tell you there’s been plenty of fucking crying in baseball…" - WhipSmart, 6.3.08
"When it comes to Jeff Mathis, the story ends with us putting one in his earhole." - AJM, 7.7.08
Kind of?
This is a real crappy road trip.
Every kid knows it's about win or lose.
San_Fran_Ranger_Fan
by San_Fran_Ranger_Fan on Aug 6, 2009 11:29 AM CDT reply actions
Thanks again for throwing up an AM fanpost
Remember Red, hope is a good thing. Maybe the best of things. And no good thing ever dies.
So Cruz says he can pinch-hit in Anaheim
Can he DH, maybe play German at 1st?
"I’m not in the meetings and not part of the discussions; it’s not my responsibility. . My responsibility is to go out and win tonight. My focus is to win tonight. The club has to look at more than just this year." -Michael Young
My thoughts exactly.
Purgatory's kind of like the in-betweeny one. You weren't really shit, but you weren't all that great either. Like Tottenham.
correction............
Ron Washington, before the game, told the players to playwithinwith themselves.
by Hard8 on Aug 6, 2009 11:46 AM CDT reply actions 2 recs
LOL, one silver lining about last night was...
…Feliz giving up that bomb. It proved to be the winning (losing?) margin but I’m pretty sure if Neftali had another spotless outing Josh Lewin was going to play with himself in the booth.
I have no objection to man walking on the moon.
What if.......the Rangers just got up there and didn't swing the bat at all
For like the first 4 or 5 innings. Just try to draw a walk, steal a base or two. Pray for a Wild Pitch?? Seems like they’d be more effective offensively that way.
Plus it would be easier on me
I lose a little more sanity each time I see someone swing at a pitch 3 feet off the plate.
It seemed to me like they were...
taking more pitches yesterday, at least in the first 3 or 4 innings.
Hell, I think even Blalock took the first 3 pitches to start his first two AB’s.
"The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance."-Socrates
Classic Hank.
"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 inactive lsb user on Aug 6, 2009 12:16 PM CDT up reply actions
3-0
took a strike, popped out to short
"calmer than you are dude" Walter (Big Lebowski)
"you're fuckin out" (Kenny Powers)
Hello Win Column!!!
by Arlington Stadium Legend on Aug 6, 2009 12:37 PM CDT up reply actions
The first innings had me pretty optimistic offensively.....
I saw a lot more laying off of bad pitches, more defensive swings, and just more smart ABs.
The Texas Rangers have been synonymous with explosive firepower ever since they emptied 130 rounds into Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow in 1934. - Alyssa Milano
I heard the Teagarden AB on the radio
Pretty impressive to go from 0-2 to 3-2 to an RBI single. That gave me hope.
yea, i like TTs eye, but the frequent swinging and missing on fastballs belt high
or right down the middle is pretty disturbing, it almost looks like he has a hole in his bat sometimes
"The House That Ruth Built, 85 years old, goes out as The House That Hamilton Knocked Down"
Yep, that's what I was talking to my buddy about yesterday
With Salty, he seems to hit mistakes fairly well, but noone in their right mind will challenge him b/c he gets himself out so easily. With TT, he doesn’t usually get himself out on bad pitches, but he misses so many hittable ones. I prefer TT though, but I can see both arguments.
no sane person should prefer TT
lets see…still hits like shit…doesnt have as much potential as Salty
and then to top it off…he is playing shitty D, another pass ball and a better throw and he throws him out at 2nd
the only reason anyone should prefer TT is if they are a UT homer
I actually don't like UT at all, so that's kind of ironic.
I just don’t enjoy watching Salty hit, and right now, this team needs someone to demonstrate how to lay off bad pitches. But I see your point for sure.
OT : I heard Skip Bayless...
this morning say that if he had a choice of Tebow or Bradford for the #1 pick in the next NFL draft that he would take Tebow. His reasoning? He said although Bradford is a good college QB, that he thought he was more of a product of the system at OU than Tebow is in Florida. I’m not kidding. He actually said that.
"The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance."-Socrates
i will be surprised if
tebow is even drafted in the first half of the 1st round
and oh yea
skip bayless is a fucking idiot
by dustinvandeman on Aug 6, 2009 11:59 AM CDT up reply actions
skip bayless makes the rodney king beatings look like a pillow fight....he just drains the like force out of me
Nobody is perfect, i am nobody, therefore, i am perfect
by 34express on Aug 6, 2009 12:01 PM CDT via mobile up reply actions
You have to wonder if he's really that stupid.
Or if his goal is simply to rile people up as much as possible.
Very good analogy of Bayless.
The killer is….he is a fantastic writer if you look at the writing by itself but that’s obscured by the fact that he’s such a dick.
"Dying ain't hard. It's living that's hard."
"Ranger players, especially veterans, weren’t surprised that Daniels couldn’t find a deal"
Bayless
insults gays?
When, where?
It has been alleged not so subtly on The Ticket that the lifelong bachelor Bayless swings from the other side of the plate.
"Dying ain't hard. It's living that's hard."
"Ranger players, especially veterans, weren’t surprised that Daniels couldn’t find a deal"
no, Bayless is very gay
and by association, insults all other gays.
If he is hetero, then I’m insulted.
It was very strange how he would feel confident enough to point fingers
at Aikman for possibly being gay and then also put it in print.
He was never sued for those allegations. Maybe Bayless really did know something (because of connections to that part of the community) but that is so difficult to believe.
"Dying ain't hard. It's living that's hard."
"Ranger players, especially veterans, weren’t surprised that Daniels couldn’t find a deal"
I heard from a nurse of his
that he and a doctor had some eyes for each other, but who knows.
the man was great
Bayless or Aikman?
"Dying ain't hard. It's living that's hard."
"Ranger players, especially veterans, weren’t surprised that Daniels couldn’t find a deal"
between Bradford, McCoy, Tebow
i don’t think you can go wrong with those guys in the draft. but #1? I don’t know if any of them are #1’s. We’ll have to see through this season, but at least 1 will probably regret not entering the draft last year.
A baseball game is simply a nervous breakdown divided into nine innings.
What?
He’s a system quarterback on the NFL level (West Coast – Hasselbeck, Garcia), but he does NOT suck…
Watch the kid play… He has it.
I have watched him play
My favorite moment (and I am not at all an Aggie fan) was watching him squirm on the ground after consecutive levelings at the end of the game.
Ah, so you just don't like him...
Makes sense now.
I just don't like UT
Though I have no real preference to any school in the Big 12…..except whoever is playing UT.
How logical.
"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 inactive lsb user on Aug 6, 2009 12:29 PM CDT up reply actions
I'm a Sooner but
Colt is a very good QB. And of ryou to sit here and say it was fun watching someone get hurt is just stupid.
2009 Texas Rangers: Why The Hell Not Us?--ghtd36 on May 13, 2009
+1
anyone who thinks Colt isnt a good QB has the IQ of anyone who posts on HH
After Fuentes blows a save and an Angels loss to the Indians:
"Angels still in first place" - UCI Halo
"Hey you know who would have gotten those 3 outs in the 9th?
Darren O’Day." - FirebatM3
LOL
Well don't comment on it then
Pot-Kettle-Black?
2009 Texas Rangers: Why The Hell Not Us?--ghtd36 on May 13, 2009
thank you
anyone who enjoys injuries is just an absolute pathetic excuse of a human being
id rank the qbs (for the NFL) as
Bradford
Colt
Tebow
wtf is tebow gonna do in the NFL, sure isnt qb
Most likely
he will be a tight end. That is the only thing i could think of. He probably would be a good TE.
I am genuinely hoping that McCoy wins the heisman this yr so there could be 3 heisman winners playing at the same time. That hasnt ever happened has it?
08/03/2009 A day that will live in infamy for the rest of the AL West.
Im just not sold on Tebow
in the NFL…some 260 lb linebacker is gonna light his ass up and then laugh at him when he tries to talk smack like the douchebag that he is
like with Vick…running around like that doesnt work in the NFL
furthermore, i think he would mentally refuse to play anything but qb
You are probably right on that (the refusal to play QB part)
He will be an interesting test case because when he throws the ball he doesnt look too bad but he really doesnt throw much.
08/03/2009 A day that will live in infamy for the rest of the AL West.
Really?
I think you can go wrong with ALL of them…
Purgatory's kind of like the in-betweeny one. You weren't really shit, but you weren't all that great either. Like Tottenham.
every draft pick can go wrong
but i think you would be happy with any of those guys and their pro “potential”
A baseball game is simply a nervous breakdown divided into nine innings.
Let me put it this way
I’d take Stafford, Sanchez and Ryan over all of them
Purgatory's kind of like the in-betweeny one. You weren't really shit, but you weren't all that great either. Like Tottenham.
I would pit Bradford, McCoy and Tebow
against those three
I think Stafford is overrated. His completion percentages aren’t that great, and that will not improve in the pros
A baseball game is simply a nervous breakdown divided into nine innings.
Heard a crazy stat
the only 2 true indicators of a college QB’s ability to be a good pro is games started and completion percentage. Experience can’t be taught and apparently accuracy can’t either…
"calmer than you are dude" Walter (Big Lebowski)
"you're fuckin out" (Kenny Powers)
Hello Win Column!!!
by Arlington Stadium Legend on Aug 6, 2009 12:39 PM CDT up reply actions
On that criteria
I’m still shocked Graham Harrell didn’t get drafted or a decent sniff from an NFL team.
He started and won a ton of games against some of the best competition there was and had a good completion percentage. He didn’t have an all-time cannon for an arm but he made all the throws.
"Dying ain't hard. It's living that's hard."
"Ranger players, especially veterans, weren’t surprised that Daniels couldn’t find a deal"
which is why
I won’t be surprised at all if he gets signed in a year or 2 and ends up being better than alot of the guys drafted
"calmer than you are dude" Walter (Big Lebowski)
"you're fuckin out" (Kenny Powers)
Hello Win Column!!!
by Arlington Stadium Legend on Aug 6, 2009 12:46 PM CDT up reply actions
I actually think he may be better off going up there
to get some playing time instead of spending the next three years carrying a clipboard.
He’s a coach’s son and I never doubted his intelligence on the field.
He wasn’t very good v. Oklahoma or Ole Miss (the offensive line got their asses handed to them in both games) plus sucked it in the Senior Bowl so I’m not blaming everybody else for what happened to him but he had a very nice body of work leading up to those games.
"Dying ain't hard. It's living that's hard."
"Ranger players, especially veterans, weren’t surprised that Daniels couldn’t find a deal"
I think Harrell
will end up catching on as a very good no. 2 guy. He knows how to run an offense. Just has to get in the right system. One of the big reasons i hate it when ppl call QBs system quarterbacks. Isnt every QB in a system that is meant to maximize their strengths?
08/03/2009 A day that will live in infamy for the rest of the AL West.
you know nothing of what it takes to be an NFL QB
college completion % mean shit when you are talking about this… Absolute, total putrified shit.
"The House That Ruth Built, 85 years old, goes out as The House That Hamilton Knocked Down"
Well
Please tell us than what it does take to be an NFL QB instead of just insulting me. Again, I’m just telling you guys what I heard somewhere. A few NFL teams did a comprehensive study and found the only college stats that good NFL QB’s had in common were games started and completion percentage. That doesn’t mean you will be sucessful, but in most cases, it seems to be a pretty solid indicator of NFL success.
Poor argument skills…
"calmer than you are dude" Walter (Big Lebowski)
"you're fuckin out" (Kenny Powers)
Hello Win Column!!!
by Arlington Stadium Legend on Aug 6, 2009 1:00 PM CDT up reply actions
ok, i was harsh, but if you think college completion % mean alot, especially when you forgot
to mention that Stafford played in the SEC and not in a spread offense is just not a good way to start an argument.
Performance in college is very decieving when it comes to being a good NFL QB. It has a whole lot more to do with the strength of your arm, size, footwork, smarts and work ethic, you could have looked horrible in college, but there are so many factors that go into that that are out of the direct control of the player.
Just going back to the Tebow-Bradford Argument, Tebow has a decent arm, but his release is slow and thats one of the most underrated aspects of being a good NFL QB, its alot of the reason Romo is a good NFL QB, he gets rid of the ball extremely quick when he knows where he wants to throw. In the NFL, the game happens so frickin fast on the field that you have no time to have a slow release or not know a read. Tebow is a great athlete with alot of great things about him, but the skill set to being a great NFL QB is very specialized and in those skill sets i dont see Tebow really standing out.
On Stafford, he has a quick release, an amazingly strong arm with which he can throw extremely well while moving his feet. He’s not going to be good out of the shoot just b/c he’s gonna have a ton of learning to do and he isnt polished, which is probably part of the reason he was not just amazing in college.
Of course, being able to complete passes is a good sign in college, relying on stats to predict a players success in the NFL is just a terrible way to go about things.
"The House That Ruth Built, 85 years old, goes out as The House That Hamilton Knocked Down"
also, i wonder if that study was done more recently (like the last two or three years) when the proliferation
of the spread offense has taken over the game and has likely screwed those numbers up completely. The spread offense is much more likely to produce higher % passers, Stafford did not have the benefit of playing in the spread while a ton of his peers do.
"The House That Ruth Built, 85 years old, goes out as The House That Hamilton Knocked Down"
I agree
All are very good college QB’s, but I got money on a OL or even a running back going first. Those guys aren’t worth the money. Honestly, Tebow has a better chance of being a tight end than a QB in the NFL. Unless this Wildcat crap becomes the next West Coast offense. Which has about a 2% chance of happening.
Skip Bayless' job is to be brazenly contradictory
It’s amazing to me when people talk about his HSOs as if they weren’t all schtick.
by LiamP on Aug 6, 2009 12:06 PM CDT via mobile up reply actions
Well...
saying Tebow is the greatest thing in college football isn’t really contradictory right now. Many are drinking the Tebow-aid.
I just don’t see how anyone could see him as not being a system/college QB. Perhpas he will go onto the NFL and be a good QB, but I just don’t see it.
"The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance."-Socrates
If any of them are a product of the system
it would be Tebow. See Alex Smith, QB, San Francisco
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
Heh now...
leave my boy Alex out of this. He’s been hurt and had to learn a new system with different coaches each of the first 3 seasons. Add that to the fact that SF had no offensive line and most young QB’s would struggle.
Of course I do realize Smith was a system/college guy, I’m just very bias when it comes to him.
"The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance."-Socrates
I agree about Tebow
but also see, Jason White, shoe store owner; Josh Heupel, coach; Nate Hybl, c-list porn star.
Purgatory's kind of like the in-betweeny one. You weren't really shit, but you weren't all that great either. Like Tottenham.
White was hurt
He has had an ACL on both legs. Heupel, you might have a case for him since the crazy pirate was O cord. before going to TT. Hybl was never any good.
2009 Texas Rangers: Why The Hell Not Us?--ghtd36 on May 13, 2009
oh cmon
white wouldve been shitty no matter what
even before the surgeries he had the mobility of an 80 year old man…and more importantly, he doesnt have the arm strength to be an NFL qb
there is nothing wrong with merely being a great college qb…in some ways it is even better
White had a great deep ball
And was very accurate. Was he mobile…not so much but there are a lot of QB’s that aren’t. He was a great college QB just as you said. He would never have been great in the NFL but I think he could have been a servicable back up.
2009 Texas Rangers: Why The Hell Not Us?--ghtd36 on May 13, 2009
yea, i agree, but i dont think anyone of those guys had anywhere close to the phyical advantages Bradford has
Strong arm, 6’6, those two things alone make him a much, much more viable option as an NFL QB.
"The House That Ruth Built, 85 years old, goes out as The House That Hamilton Knocked Down"
This is how i see it
Bradford has the ability to win Super Bowls as a qb
McCoy has the ablity to get to Super Bowls as a qb
Tebow, im completely lost on.
08/03/2009 A day that will live in infamy for the rest of the AL West.
Bradford's arm isn't great...
And it’ll be very, very interesting to see how he looks this year behind a new offensive line…
He was literally NEVER under pressure in the Big XII last year… Had all day to pick apart defenses and make decisions…
Florida puts some pressure on him and he wasn’t quite the same quarterback…
Where do I...
get in that line to slap Padilla around?
"Everybody wants the most they can possibly get for the least they can possibly do." - Todd Snider
by henryfinkel on Aug 6, 2009 12:04 PM CDT reply actions 1 recs
finkel is einhorn, einhorn is finkel?!?!?
don’t hit like a girl. only punching
A baseball game is simply a nervous breakdown divided into nine innings.
Couple positives from last night
Feliz: Got smacked for the home run will hopefully be the welcome to the big leagues moment that makes him become dominant
Hamilton: 2-3 with a walk. Didn’t get to see his actual at bats but those results coupled with an at bat I saw the other night where he went with a pitch and drove it to deep left center make me think he may be slowly coming around. it may take until the end of the month but there would be no bigger addition to this team, sorry LSJ Nick Johnson be damned, than a productive Hamilton.
Bryan Smith (12:17:17 PM PT): Justin Smoak and Josh Hamilton. The AL West might just have found their Bash Brothers, v. 2.0.
I don't think anyone would disagree
The thing with wanting to add someone like Johnson is us not counting on Hamilton to return. I can’t think of anyone we could have had in the trade market that would be a better hitter than the 2008 Josh Hamilton.
The Ziegler strikeout was just nasty.
Ziegler is a wizard with changing speeds
by oc on Aug 6, 2009 12:13 PM CDT up reply actions
Hahahaha
Chad Gaudin may have been pounded in his most recent start against the punchless Giants and recently put on waivers by the Cubs, but he really has Hall of Fame type stuff against Texas today.
I didn't say he was a scrub dildo....
I don’t even know what that is. Your collection must be quite impressive.
It's got a little brush on the end
With the vibrating motion and the brushes, it gets things very clean in there.
I've been screaming this for three days
Hamilton is back, his power will come, but he’s back, you can very definitively see it… now, we still have the absolute suck that the rest of this lineup has been around him so it might not help too much, but Im telling you, he’s back.
"The House That Ruth Built, 85 years old, goes out as The House That Hamilton Knocked Down"
But is he back?
The Texas Rangers have been synonymous with explosive firepower ever since they emptied 130 rounds into Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow in 1934. - Alyssa Milano
I think the team is going to hold tryouts next February
And all that you have to do is take a single ball and you make the team….batting cleanup.
quit trying so hard
"He will not coddle them. Nolan Ryan doesn’t coddle." - Jeff Passan
by Dirk Diggler on Aug 6, 2009 12:25 PM CDT up reply actions 1 recs
you are doing a nice job of spamming this thread
"He will not coddle them. Nolan Ryan doesn’t coddle." - Jeff Passan
by Dirk Diggler on Aug 6, 2009 12:42 PM CDT up reply actions
How so?
Expressing my frustration in a Rangers team that has lost 3 straight to an pretty bad A’s team and failing to take advantage of very rare consecutive losses by the Angels? Please explain
You post more over at HH
Are you a Rangers fan or a Angels fan?
2009 Texas Rangers: Why The Hell Not Us?--ghtd36 on May 13, 2009
I've been a die-hard Rangers fan since Julio Franco won the batting title in 1991
I’m just extremely frustrated with how they are playing right now. B/c while I didn’t and don’t expect them to make the playoffs, the way they are playing drives me insane. I hate the Angels.
I was banned from Halos Heaven for saying that I wasn't doing anything wrong
So Rev banned me for telling him how to do his job
Yeah....he really is
I don’t even want to get started on him. I just went over there to talk casually about the Angels and Rangers b/c I find that you get a better assessment of your team from other fans. He’s a slight homer though…on a power trip.
Please
YOU are the douchebag.
Who goes into an opposing team’s gameday thread and writes:
ATTA BABY
NELLIE!!!!!!!!!!!
Rev seems like a douchenozzle and a poor writer who lacks eloquence, but that would alert me pretty quickly that you are a douche who likes to come agitate others.
Also, you suck here, so please just get offline altogether. You’re taking up precious internet.
by brettgardner on Aug 6, 2009 1:14 PM CDT up reply actions 1 recs
Ouch?
I was getting along with the Halos fans just fine. Thanks for your opinion though. And when I go to Halos Heaven it says…..you are banned from halos heaven. You said that you didn’t do anything wrong…THAT IS MY CALL SUCKER.
So what is your point?
I’ve read your posts and they suck. You don’t ever say anything worthwhile, so take your own advice. Get the hell outta here.
I think you should try frequenting Lookout Landing
The guys over there would love you.
by LiamP on Aug 6, 2009 1:27 PM CDT via mobile up reply actions
I think it's fun to check out all the sites and just read what they ahve to say
It gives a different perspective than just the Rangers fan
Lookout Landing is the primary SBN Rangers blog
They’re just starting “Mariners Month”, during which they devote the lion’s share of their content to Mariners analysis.
Feel free to go there and post any Rangers related thoughts that pop into your head (much like you’ve been doing here). They’ll be much more receptive than the jerks on this site.
by LiamP on Aug 6, 2009 1:37 PM CDT via mobile up reply actions
I think he should just quit period
Bryan Smith (12:17:17 PM PT): Justin Smoak and Josh Hamilton. The AL West might just have found their Bash Brothers, v. 2.0.
Padilla HPBs
He hit a batter for the first time since plunking Mark Teixeira twice in June 2. The stretch of eight starts without hitting a batter is the longest of his career since becoming a starting pitcher
http://startelegramsports.typepad.com/foul_territory/
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
Wow , ..
"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 inactive lsb user on Aug 6, 2009 12:20 PM CDT up reply actions
When the team does not exercise his option,
it will be interesting to see if he wants to go back to the NL where he will have to bat.
If they do exercise it, their may be a mutiny.
"I’m not in the meetings and not part of the discussions; it’s not my responsibility. . My responsibility is to go out and win tonight. My focus is to win tonight. The club has to look at more than just this year." -Michael Young
while he is quite the humorous character to have on this team
i’ll be happy to see him gone and i guarantee you mike and the rest of the ‘classy’ Rangers will be more than glad to see him gone
"The House That Ruth Built, 85 years old, goes out as The House That Hamilton Knocked Down"
I really need a Rangers victory today
To get rid of this pessimistic attitude that is destroying my ability to be productive today.
Know the feeling...
…just can’t get going today.
by GhettoBear04 on Aug 6, 2009 12:12 PM CDT up reply actions
Washington
…"listen up men (or mens)…you need to play within yourself. What the hell does that even mean? Is it that baseball players are so smart that a little zen like self-reflection will lead them to the promised land. Good grief. In numerous discussions the defenders of Wash have said that the players play hard for him because they like him. Nobody has defended him for his great managing skills. So, do we now assume that since the players are playing stupidly at the plate, as well as making a lot of errors that they aren’t playing hard for him anymore? Clearly this is not a fired up baseball team so does that mean its time for Wash to go? And if so, who would be a good replacement?
Foolish consistency is the hobgobblin of little minds - Emerson
I think he has a point
in that a lot of players look like they are trying to hit 5 run HRs every time up.
"I saw a soldier try to dig a foxhole with his bare hands. He didn't notice that he'd torn off all his fingernails. I got him out of there quickly; not for his sake, but for ours. Fear is poison in combat...destructive, contagious." - Band of Brothers
that isn't possible...
"calmer than you are dude" Walter (Big Lebowski)
"you're fuckin out" (Kenny Powers)
Hello Win Column!!!
by Arlington Stadium Legend on Aug 6, 2009 12:42 PM CDT up reply actions
It's not possible to hit a 3-0 pitch that bounces 10 feet in front of home plate either
But it doesn’t mean that some guys don’t try
that
is physically possible though. A 5 run HR is actually completely impossible
"calmer than you are dude" Walter (Big Lebowski)
"you're fuckin out" (Kenny Powers)
Hello Win Column!!!
by Arlington Stadium Legend on Aug 6, 2009 12:45 PM CDT up reply actions
I guess
Though I’m not sure that even Vlad could hit that 3-0 pitch that Josh swung at a couple weeks ago.
Doesn't stop Hank
from trying.
"I saw a soldier try to dig a foxhole with his bare hands. He didn't notice that he'd torn off all his fingernails. I got him out of there quickly; not for his sake, but for ours. Fear is poison in combat...destructive, contagious." - Band of Brothers
How exactly do you fire a manager
Who has vastly exceeded expectations? Doesn’t seem like it makes much sense
I have an aluminum baseball bat that I want to hit you over the head with
by oc on Aug 6, 2009 1:04 PM CDT up reply actions 1 recs
Don't be a puss - bring a wood bat...
The Texas Rangers have been synonymous with explosive firepower ever since they emptied 130 rounds into Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow in 1934. - Alyssa Milano
Okay....
So maybe we should bring back Buck Showalter? Every team complains about every manager and the moves that they make. There’s not one team in baseball that doesn’t. Fact of the matter is, the Rangers are MUCH better than they were supposed to be and the guys like playing for him.
I dont want any of that
“stanford swing” crap either!
08/03/2009 A day that will live in infamy for the rest of the AL West.
From the "I already knew that file"
Aaron Crow and Tanner Scheppers will have until a week before next year’s draft to sign with the teams that selected them, according to Jim Callis of Baseball America. Most draftees must sign by August 17th, but MLB has ruled that the August deadline won’t apply to players drafted out of independent leagues. Both Crow and Scheppers played in independent leagues after failing to sign last summer.
The Royals will have more time to sign Crow, but the Rangers may benefit most. Their finances are unstable now, but if they’re resolved in the coming months, the team could sign Scheppers instead of shying away from his bonus demands.
I don’t think the Rangers will shy away from Scheppers bonus demands. I do think it is possible, depending on the finances and ownership, that his signing could drag well into next year.
http://www.mlbtraderumors.com/
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
Angels vs. White Sox
Johnny Danks and his cutter toe the rubber for the Pale-Hos
Top 1. Runners at first and second with one out. Vladdy at the plate
1-2 count
WTF was that?
Nice play, Beckham.
Gracchus (about Obama): I think he knows what America is. America is the mob. Conjure money for them and they'll be distracted. Take away their freedom and still they'll roar. The beating heart of America is not the paper of the Constitution, it's the power of the media. He'll bring them debt - and they will love him for it.
by Aquaman, Esq. on Aug 6, 2009 1:17 PM CDT up reply actions
Ball takes a funny hop off the mound. Beckham rushes the throw to first and Rivera reaches on a throwing error
by oc on Aug 6, 2009 1:16 PM CDT up reply actions
Halos score on the play. Rivera advances to second on the error
Two outs. 1-0, Angels
by oc on Aug 6, 2009 1:17 PM CDT up reply actions
Pop out to end the inning.
Bottom of the first we go
2-0, LAA
by oc on Aug 6, 2009 1:19 PM CDT up reply actions
Dye grounds to first
Two outs.
Podsednik at third
And Jim Thome just watched a meatball pass him for strike one
by oc on Aug 6, 2009 1:28 PM CDT up reply actions
someone at the ticket with a good grasp at why we are better this year:
http://insidecorner.dmagazine.com/2009/08/06/my-intern-loves-stats-as-much-as-i-do/#more-12794
I think most of us know this already, but for those who would like to get caught up on it, this is a solid break down of it.
"The House That Ruth Built, 85 years old, goes out as The House That Hamilton Knocked Down"
also, he makes a point that i've noticed recently, Derek Holland is good
yea, thats a great point isnt?
"The House That Ruth Built, 85 years old, goes out as The House That Hamilton Knocked Down"
TC has star potential.
It’s not really that anything in that essay is groundbreaking, but it’s just a really well-written and easy-to-swallow explanation for a lot of statheadian stuff associated with the Rangers this year.
Pretty good stuff...
Sad that one of Sturm’s best-ever baseball posts was “ghost-written”.
The Texas Rangers have been synonymous with explosive firepower ever since they emptied 130 rounds into Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow in 1934. - Alyssa Milano
I'm amused
That he said TC likes stats “just as much as” he does.
I like Bob a lot, and he’s definitely a statty nerd, but It’s pretty clear who the stats pretender in that relationship is.
The good news in the Angels being ahead is...
if they win, then there’s a chance the Rangers might win today.
JAYSON NIX GOES YARD
First pitch fastball
5-3, Halos
by oc on Aug 6, 2009 1:44 PM CDT up reply actions
Getz with a single into left
Runner on first, still nobody out
Santana is all over the place today
by oc on Aug 6, 2009 1:45 PM CDT up reply actions
You're bad luck. Getz just got caught stealing third >:(
by oc on Aug 6, 2009 1:47 PM CDT up reply actions
Midland High represent!
LOL Sorry the Sooners will score more that 14. - boomer1
by vfn on Aug 6, 2009 2:02 PM CDT up reply actions
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