we were still talking about the DVD trio backing him up.

of course it’s a generational thing on my part, Black Betty is well covered by Ram Jam and Lowrider by War is a classic

He hit #2 in frisco, right behind borbon

hence, more people pay attention.

I understand Bailey has dominated this season, but I don’t understand why he’d get votes. Has there been another relief pitcher who’s won the award?

Dont know why I always forget about him

by 0.01. Super tough call.

I seem to remember that they were thinking about dumping him too.

If Elvis were playing in NY they would have alrady given him the trophy.

Jeter was 21/22 Andrus 20/21.

Andrus’ potential is um, pretty good.

Jeets has nothing on the King.

whatever…

Piers vs Peers…

Homynyms are a bitch.

Plus, to stay on topic, I think most of the ’ol timers probably fit your description. However, there are a number of them that I think would compete up to the level, if not above, of the talent in the majors now. Ty Cobb comes to mind immediately. Man was a racist ass, but he was a phenomenal ball player.

That may be the single stupidest thing I’ve ever read on this site.

And that’s saying something.

This one was for Josey.

But there is a cold place in baseball hell for the guy who ruined Mark Prior and Kerry Wood’s (and just for the heck of it, Edinson Volquez’s as well) arms…

If I were a young pitcher, I’d sue to not have Baker have any power over how often I pitched.

without the doormats, you wouldn’t have dynasties.

Frankly, he’s completely right. There are always awful teams in the league. And I don’t have any sympathy for them. The A’s, Padres, Pirates, Nationals, and Royals don’t lose because they have poor payrolls. They lose because their owners are idiots (A’s, Padres, Nationals, Royals, probably the Pirates too) and are run badly (Padres, Pirates, Nationals, Royals). Somehow, small market teams do succeed in spite of everything. So screw the Pirates and Royals. They should work as hard and as diligently as the Rays.

So Bud’s answer should have been “That’s reality, and it is nothing new; it’s called competition, not play time. At least we aren’t the NFL where team’s go from worst to first so often that it has lost all meaning, or the NBA when last place teams can get into the playoffs”

that there was no reason at the time to think they were going to improve anytime soon… and they didn’t (outside of 2004) until this year.

Easily the darkest period of being a Rangers fan in my lifetime.

The farm system was pathetic. The major league club was disappointing at best, boring at worst.

Texas Rangers, not bad enough to get a top 5 draft pick

The problem with Rangers history is that it’s mostly irrelevant. No playoff success, not that many memorable seasons, but also not many memorably bad seasons. Just a whole long history of not-that-bad-but-not-that-good-either meh-ness.

and you’re point about never having really good draft picks, other than the Teixeira pick, is really part of the problem. The team in 2003 really looked like it was about to be mired in mediocrity for a long time. That is my definition of hopeless – no real hope for improvement (obviously not yours). The ARod signing did something weird to the feel of the team and rumors of his impending departure were imminent despite his MVP play. CHoP (nothing more needs to be said). Blalock and Teixeira were young and on the horizon, but the caliber of pitching depth in the farm system – which was the obvious need for the club – was a complete joke.

I describe that as hopeless.

I saw the counterclockwise rotation on the radar. All this stuff must be the remnants of the hirricane that struck Baja, Mexico.