He seems to be a little fragile when people “rag” on his play or the suck he has shown at times this year. Very cocky and doesnt seem willing to admit his approach has sucked for the majority of htis year

because I swear he said the same thing earlier in the year.

to Arlington.

he’s not impressed with Rangers fans. If he wasn’t locked up long term here I get the feeling he’d be on his way out the door — by his own choice I mean.

is often discussed in clubhouses.

it’s a nice minor league ballpark, and okc really has improved that area around that ballpark. I wanted to see Feliz, but missed him by 1 day.

But he has said nearly the exact same thing before, and also when they were in boston he made a comment about how much more knowledgeable the fans were and how it was a better environment to play (paraphrasing)

it’s, also, cowboy country. To say that we had a double-header that pulled us to within 2 games of the wild card, and our local media talks about the cowboys and their fantasy football teams more than the rangers, should get Ian more upset. There are alot of borderline fans that need a winner to come to the ballpark. not everybody is a diehard fan.

to say one thing though, it annoys me that Yankee and Res Sox fans make more noise than Ranger fans when they’re in the ballpark,and there are too many of them. Of course some of them are obnoxious. I just hope we can win consistently. The crowds will continue to grow as more and more people realize what is happening at the ballpark.

I practically refuse to go to Padre games because parking downtown is such a hassle, particularly on Friday and Saturday nights; the very nights it’d be fun to go to a game. $20 bucks is what you have to expect to pay since you’re competing with restaurant and bar traffic, which is silly for a team whose product is worth at most $5 to watch. Of course, San Diego has a trolley that drops you off right there, for the completely useless price of $5 per person to take twice as long to get to the game.

I remember the same deal in Houston. But for some reason I could always manage to find good street or cheap lot parking for Astros games.

You would think though that since RBiA has ample parking around it and no practical mass transit that they’d make parking cheaper as an incentive, but maybe they’ve learned through marketing that parking is enough a hidden cost that they bring in more fans by cutting tickets by 20% than parking by 50%.

One of my biggest grievances is that parking costs 12 bucks and it’s a bitch. It used to be 10 dollars then for some reason they raised it, I told my friend that the rangers needed to start winning first before they asked for more of my money.
 Regardless, I use the non rangers parking lots when I go or take a friend with a lexus. I may whine like a little bitch but I won’t stop going to the games.

that Eddie Guardado/Leyland gif would come in handy here :)

why is it a big deal that he asks for the fans to come out to the games when they matter? wouldnt you?

ugh, sometimes i think LSBers love to bitch about their own players because they think it makes them look cool

So what are you complaining about us for?

idiot. Who do you supposed we replace his 30 homers, 90 RBI’s and 30 steals with? Joaquin Arias, Engel Beltre, Justin Smoak, Martin Perez? Good Lord, get a hold of yourself. Just because you don’t like the guy, you want to give up one of the biggest pieces to this teams success?

and this is why all sports will eventually be pay per view.

More annoying than I expected.

They didn’t ask him about the fans.. first he takes the shot in the beginning randomly, then they they said how noone (which I take to mean national media, local media, and yes the fans including diehard ones who do care..) expected them to be winning this year and somehow he uses that as a launching point to complain about attendance?

I assumed they had actually asked him about it and he was just a little too honest for his own good. Instead he seemed to be on a mission to talk about it.

Hmm…

Is this Gregory M Williams ? A.K.A., The Hammer?!?

Perhaps a big contract?

I’m not terribly upset about it, mostly because I think most regular people are the same way, but I think the money changed Kinsler’s personality quite a bit.

of course fan involvement and high attendance is a good thing and we are all for it. and when we go to a game we like to think that our support has some sort of contribution in spurring them on to perform better. ian could have easily gotten that point across in a diplomatic way had he wanted to, but he did not. his point was more to admonish fans and the media for their collective “dissing” of this team.

you ask what’s wrong with him saying he wants us there, and that’s a fine question to ask, but there’s a difference in saying you want someone to do something and chastising them for not doing it.

the economy, the lack of recent on-the-field success, the heat, the location of the ballpark, the construction and traffic in the area, and a general antipathy towards baseball are some of the possible explanations for attendance being less than what the rangers would like it to be. these are all legitimate reasons not to go to a game. but the best excuse is that it’s not mine or anyone else’s fucking obligation as a fan to go to a game. for the record, i dont buy $5 coffees, but if i did, even if i bought $5 coffees specifically with money i would have otherwise spent on rangers games, it wouldnt be any of ian kinsler’s or nolan ryan’s or tom hicks’s business (or your’s for that matter) to tell me off for it.

i do agree with you that ian’s comments shouldnt completely turn us off from rooting for him. he was just being honest at least, and im sure there are plenty of other players on various teams that feel similarly. most of them have the better sense not to say it publicly. regardless, i still cheer for him and am glad he is signed here long term at a very affordable price.

no promo will be successful if you dont have jim knox to plug it to death

as far as sporting events go its much cheaper than football or nba, etc. and a lot of people dont realize you can bring in food and drinks. someone was asking me a while back about where to sit, etc and if they should get the all you can eat seats. and i told them, you can bring in food and drink check the website. they were shocked.