Saturday morning Rangers things
by Adam J. Morris on Sep 12, 2009 11:40 AM CDT
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PrintThree straight nights with no Ranger baseball. Boo.
Derek Holland is unhappy with the amount of walks he's issued lately, and he's looking to just go out there on Sunday and get back on track.
Josh Hamilton got yet another shot in his back, won't be available until Friday at the earliest, and might not be back before the regular season ends.
On the plus side, Matt Harrison had a pain-free bullpen session yesterday.
Tim Cowlishaw says Ron Washington should be in the mix for the Manager of the Year Award.
Jim Reeves has a column up on the Rangers finances, essentially stating that the Rangers couldn't sign Matt Purke because MLB wouldn't let them offer what the Rangers had planned. There's more bleak news there, with Nolan Ryan saying that a sale won't happen before April or May at the earliest, which means that there will likely be no significant free agent additions this offseason, and Reeves also echoes T.R. Sullivan's earlier comments that MLB could end up making the Rangers bench Kevin Millwood down the stretch so his option won't vest.
Reeves basically paints a picture of a team that's turning into the Expos, when they were under the control of MLB. Very cheerful.
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Scenario
Tonight’s game gets rained out…will we have to play a home game in Seattle when we go there in October?
"Clearly, the season is over. Fire Daniels, fire Washington, fire Maddux, burn down TBIA." - AJM
by aggierangerfan00 on Sep 12, 2009 11:41 AM CDT reply actions
So would it just be postponed and played
at the end of the season if needed?
"Clearly, the season is over. Fire Daniels, fire Washington, fire Maddux, burn down TBIA." - AJM
by aggierangerfan00 on Sep 12, 2009 11:48 AM CDT up reply actions
Yep
The 2009 Texas Rangers offense: sigh...
by Kinslerhomer on Sep 12, 2009 11:49 AM CDT up reply actions
Interesting
We could end up playing Seattle once or twice at the end of the season, then turn around for a one game playoff.
Does that delay the start of the postseason?
No
It just fucks up our roto if we make it.
The 2009 Texas Rangers offense: sigh...
by Kinslerhomer on Sep 12, 2009 11:52 AM CDT up reply actions
The way it looks tonight and tomorrow may be out as well
Scott Feldman – "The greatest Hawaiian-born Jewish baseball player to ever set foot on the mound."
Grrr.
I had high hopes about tomorrow, because I have Sunday tix and was looking forward to a doubleheader.
"I love winning." - rockin_rangers, on May 16, 2009
They have to get at least one game in Sunday.
They just have to.
The 2009 Texas Rangers offense: sigh...
by Kinslerhomer on Sep 12, 2009 12:07 PM CDT up reply actions
So how does it play out if the all the games this weekend are rained out?
Scott Feldman – "The greatest Hawaiian-born Jewish baseball player to ever set foot on the mound."
by Pocket Ninja on Sep 12, 2009 12:12 PM CDT up reply actions
Don't know
We don’t have any matching off-days left. MLB is going to have to get creative.
The 2009 Texas Rangers offense: sigh...
by Kinslerhomer on Sep 12, 2009 12:17 PM CDT up reply actions
Look below
2009 Texas Rangers: Why The Hell Not Us?--ghtd36 on May 13, 2009
In the interest of quicker games Ron should just tell the ump he's pulling the Feliz card and the ump should rule the inning over.--Sherman McCoy on Sept. 4, 2009
Joey
over at BBTIA has some good thoughts up on the Reeves news as well.
Looks like RG was indeed correct in what he said a few weeks ago about Purke.
Anybody wanna give an impassioned defense of how Tom Hicks spends his money now?
I’m also wondering about TR’s take. He’s one of big the house organs for the Rangers when they need spin even though he technically works for MLB.
Wonder if he’s getting this out in the open to help the team and make MLB stand down in trying to keep Millwood from getting 180 IPs?
Thing is, if anybody deserves to be skipped because they look like they’re gassed, it’s that Fat Fuck Millwood.
"Dying ain't hard. It's living that's hard."
"Ranger players, especially veterans, weren’t surprised that Daniels couldn’t find a deal"
"Fat Fuck" shouldn't be capitalized, for what it's worth.
"I love winning." - rockin_rangers, on May 16, 2009
If it is his nickname that I've glossed him with
it’s capitalized just like Ichabod McCarthy.
"Dying ain't hard. It's living that's hard."
"Ranger players, especially veterans, weren’t surprised that Daniels couldn’t find a deal"
by Josey Wales on Sep 12, 2009 12:31 PM CDT up reply actions
Look at the sky Frito....
2009 Texas Rangers: Why The Hell Not Us?--ghtd36 on May 13, 2009
In the interest of quicker games Ron should just tell the ump he's pulling the Feliz card and the ump should rule the inning over.--Sherman McCoy on Sept. 4, 2009
Are you one of those hot english teachers
with big tits who helps out with the cheerleaders and loves literature or do you have a wart with hair growing out of your chin?
I had both teachers growing up.
"Dying ain't hard. It's living that's hard."
"Ranger players, especially veterans, weren’t surprised that Daniels couldn’t find a deal"
by Josey Wales on Sep 12, 2009 12:35 PM CDT up reply actions
I'm a 24-year-old journalist.
With an AP Stylebook.
"I love winning." - rockin_rangers, on May 16, 2009
Ooooooooooooh....
"Dying ain't hard. It's living that's hard."
"Ranger players, especially veterans, weren’t surprised that Daniels couldn’t find a deal"
by Josey Wales on Sep 12, 2009 12:40 PM CDT up reply actions
No not yet
He is still being held back.
2009 Texas Rangers: Why The Hell Not Us?--ghtd36 on May 13, 2009
In the interest of quicker games Ron should just tell the ump he's pulling the Feliz card and the ump should rule the inning over.--Sherman McCoy on Sept. 4, 2009
Galloway must be Josey Wales...
Who else would string together that many disjointed, one-sentence paragraphs?
He is a gifted writer
2009 Texas Rangers: Why The Hell Not Us?--ghtd36 on May 13, 2009
In the interest of quicker games Ron should just tell the ump he's pulling the Feliz card and the ump should rule the inning over.--Sherman McCoy on Sept. 4, 2009
A sunflower is yellow
2009 Texas Rangers: Why The Hell Not Us?--ghtd36 on May 13, 2009
In the interest of quicker games Ron should just tell the ump he's pulling the Feliz card and the ump should rule the inning over.--Sherman McCoy on Sept. 4, 2009
I hate Tom Hicks so gd much....
fuck that guy and his dumbfuck hockey and soccer team. I don’t care it’s the Stars, hockey sucks and soccer sucks even worse. The Rangers don’t have any money, yet the Stars can sign Sean Avery for 2 weeks?
The other sports are just sports. Baseball is a love. ~Bryant Gumbel, 1981
Hey now...
…don’t you drag the Stars into this.
/doesn’t really care
"I love winning." - rockin_rangers, on May 16, 2009
Uhh.....
Sorry you feel that way.
By the way, the Stars are in almost the same situation, without the sale of the team being on the horizon. Only reason it’s not the Stars on the block is because it’s damn near impossible to sell a hockey team right now.
Defending Big D: A Dallas Stars blog on SBN: easy to use, free to join.
by Brandon Worley on Sep 12, 2009 12:17 PM CDT up reply actions
stars
he tried to sell them once before too, and there were no takers.
"I'm against picketing, but I don't know how to show it." - Mitch Hedberg
Yeah...
And the Stars are in the top 5 each year in revenue in the NHL as well. But with the CBA problems between the NHLPA and the league, its just really, really hard for a hockey team to get sold to the point where the ownership selling doesn’t lose money in the deal.
Unfortunately, even though the Stars as an organization isn’t bleeding money, they’re on a low budget, can’t sign any free agents and are handcuffed from making any big trades.
I’m not a big fan of Hicks, either.
Defending Big D: A Dallas Stars blog on SBN: easy to use, free to join.
by Brandon Worley on Sep 12, 2009 12:29 PM CDT up reply actions
Been having problems accessing Gmail for a few days now.
Like it gets stuck on the login. But my outlook is downloading fine, which is odd.
Defending Big D: A Dallas Stars blog on SBN: easy to use, free to join.
by Brandon Worley on Sep 12, 2009 12:21 PM CDT up reply actions
Again,MLBPA will have a field day with this if Millwood is benched for the season w/o probable cause.
It’s utterly ridiculous to do that. The Rangers agreed to pay Millwood his 12 mill option if he hit 180 innings,now the goons are speculating they may bench him so they don’t have to pay him.
Talk about a breach of contract. I would drag this fucking team down all winter if I was getting jipped of my money.
You agreed to do this,now do it and quit being a bitch Hicks,Selig..
by TooLegitToQuit on Sep 12, 2009 12:20 PM CDT via mobile reply actions
Millwood
The MLBPA would have Selig’s head if he forced the Rangers to bench Millwood to keep the option from vesting.
Not surprising, though, considering Budzilla was one of the ringleaders of collusion. How that fuckhead became commissioner is beyond me.
"I cannot believe how fucking off base I was about Tiny E before this season. The Kid is great and is going to become a star."
- Wails
I'd like this whole series to get rained out
Several reasons. First, we can reset our rotation and not use a #6 starter like Nippert on Wednesday. Second, if we replay this series at the end of the year, we’ll have Young and maybe Hamilton back.
Third, it will allow us to control our own destiny at the end of the year. After October 4, as long as we are within 1.5 games of Boston or Anaheim, we can play three more games and push our way into the playoffs. Plus, those three makeup games back in Texas would be exciting as hell.
our destiny is up to us either way
but three straight “win or go home” games would be INTENSE
by kevinkinsler on Sep 12, 2009 12:23 PM CDT up reply actions
Per Grant
If the whole series gets rained out, we’ll be playing 6 games in 3 days in Seattle the final weekend.
by Adam J. Morris on Sep 12, 2009 12:25 PM CDT up reply actions
3 DH in 3 days?
Not to mention we lose home field because we have to play in seattle….sigh
2009 Texas Rangers: Why The Hell Not Us?--ghtd36 on May 13, 2009
In the interest of quicker games Ron should just tell the ump he's pulling the Feliz card and the ump should rule the inning over.--Sherman McCoy on Sept. 4, 2009
Agreed
fucking BS
2009 Texas Rangers: Why The Hell Not Us?--ghtd36 on May 13, 2009
In the interest of quicker games Ron should just tell the ump he's pulling the Feliz card and the ump should rule the inning over.--Sherman McCoy on Sept. 4, 2009
Probably back in the 1800's
2009 Texas Rangers: Why The Hell Not Us?--ghtd36 on May 13, 2009
In the interest of quicker games Ron should just tell the ump he's pulling the Feliz card and the ump should rule the inning over.--Sherman McCoy on Sept. 4, 2009
watch it come don to those 3 games in Seattle...
and Seattle has a fucking walkoff win.
by death of the cool on Sep 12, 2009 12:31 PM CDT up reply actions
Houston had to play
“home” games against the Cubs in Milwaukee because of Katrina. Killed their season…
That's very different than three games at the opposing team's home park
Not to mention the idea of ending the season with six games in three days.
Also, MLB agreed that, if the third makeup game had playoff implications, it would be played back in Houston at the end of the season.
Milwaukee
was like the opposing teams home park. It’s about a half hour train ride from Chicago and was packed with Cubs fans booing the Astros the entire game.
Really buzzed them.
Had to go to Milwaukee after the hurricane, played in front of about 20000 Cubs fans, gets no-hit by Carlos Zambrano, then dominated by Ted Lilly. Then they have to swing all the way down to Florida and gets swept there.
Remember to retire Fin's number, Mark.
Fuck that.
Selig can go fuck himself. Play a double header and a single day game up there, fly back, single night game here and double header. There 3 home and 3 away and doesn’t use anymore days.
The other sports are just sports. Baseball is a love. ~Bryant Gumbel, 1981
Oh wait...uses one more day, the day the one game playoff would be anyway.
The other sports are just sports. Baseball is a love. ~Bryant Gumbel, 1981
We need to get at least one game in this weekend
so we can play a DH on that Monday back here after the season (when Seattle won’t give a shat about the season.
Losing all three games makes it too convenient for MLB to say they should be all made up in Seattle.
The only reason Houston had to play that home game in Milwaukee last year is because of the hurricane. Sorry if this is a Captain Obvious Moment but they weren’t playing the Brewers, they were playing the Cubs.
"Dying ain't hard. It's living that's hard."
"Ranger players, especially veterans, weren’t surprised that Daniels couldn’t find a deal"
by Josey Wales on Sep 12, 2009 12:46 PM CDT up reply actions
Son of a Bitch
The Rangers are faced with nearly identical circumstances tonight. Except that things get even tighter. Another lengthy pre-game delay might push the start back to nine or later. The teams are supposed to play two tomorrow starting at 12:35. The Rangers had a tough enough task earlier this week playing three games in 19 hours in Cleveland; another delay tonight and they are looking at playing three in 16 or 17 hours.
Or playing more games on the road than at home.
The 2009 Texas Rangers offense: sigh...
by Kinslerhomer on Sep 12, 2009 12:25 PM CDT up reply actions
How can MLB do that...
that is complete bullshit.
Would that happen to the Yankees or Redsox. I fucking doubt it.
by death of the cool on Sep 12, 2009 12:28 PM CDT up reply actions
More proof the baseball gods hate the Rangers...
The other sports are just sports. Baseball is a love. ~Bryant Gumbel, 1981
I'm wondering
if there’s a lot of jumping to conclusions going on here regarding the Ranger’s finances. Its hard for me to believe that the Rangers have had access to anything near the amount of funding that the Expos had access to before they were taken over. Also, our LA signings were big enough that MLB would have nixed them if they were really in control like we’re imagining they are.
The financial situation could become as bad as some say they already are, but, looking at the whole picture, that will be future development not something that has already happened.
I’ve read nothing that even pretends to be substatiated that the Rangers are being pressured to bench their veteran starting pitcher during a close playoff race. This kind of competitve manipulation would be at least as bad as cheating NBA refs. I can’t see how this would even be seriously contemplated by the powers that be. If so, this story will be a lot bigger than the Rangers being screwed during a playoff race.
Latin signings
the only guess i have there is that there isnt a slotting system for latin signings so there wasnt anything for selig to really enforce.
for the draft pick it seems it would have been easier to twist the arm and say to stay at slot.
"I'm against picketing, but I don't know how to show it." - Mitch Hedberg
Has Bud ever said a team can't sign someone
because they are going over slot? Also, do teams usually get preapproval for the bonus thay are going to offer thier draft pick?
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
i think bud has to approve going over slot
but i could be wrong, i know they are encouraged not to.
"I'm against picketing, but I don't know how to show it." - Mitch Hedberg
Well if Bud did mandate that we couldn't spend
Money on Purke to sign him he would do the same thing with the LA signings. Money is still money.
2009 Texas Rangers: Why The Hell Not Us?--ghtd36 on May 13, 2009
In the interest of quicker games Ron should just tell the ump he's pulling the Feliz card and the ump should rule the inning over.--Sherman McCoy on Sept. 4, 2009
my theory was..
that he was merely enforcing the slotting policy.
"I'm against picketing, but I don't know how to show it." - Mitch Hedberg
I subscribe
so the club could have basically taken the slot money from the first round and instead invested that in Salinas/Profar, take the extra pick next year, and that would be the best allocation of the resources Bud made available. There were reports at the time that suggested the club may have known Purke was unsignable as soon as he was drafted. I didn’t believe them at the time, but now they seem to make more sense.
I believe I remember Jason Cole making a remark indicating that the high dollar IFA signings gave him some doubt about the ability to get the top draft pick signed.
"You can probably stick a fork in the Rangers' playoff chances for 2009." - AJM on 7/26 with the team 4.5 games out
This is all stuff I wish was out there
when there was Newberg night. I wonder what JD has to say on all of this (not that its a guarantee he could be completely open about it).
By 2028, Mark Teixeira will be in the HOF.
"I am one of the biggest Texas Ranger fans out there but I'm also one of the smartest. Deal with it."
-The Outlaw
Makes sense
If the club found out they had a limited budget to spend in the draft and Latin America, it makes a lot of sense to divert that money out of the first round (since you get a replacement pick the next year) and spend it on a couple of headliners in the IFA market.
"You can probably stick a fork in the Rangers' playoff chances for 2009." - AJM on 7/26 with the team 4.5 games out
I think this
scenario is possible. But, it also sounds a little like retrofitting events to support a “tree full of owls” image of the FO.
well, there were reports at the time of the draft
that mentioned the possibility that Texas knew when they drafted Purke that he was unsignable, this latest news makes that claim seem sensible given this new context.
"You can probably stick a fork in the Rangers' playoff chances for 2009." - AJM on 7/26 with the team 4.5 games out
I'll buy it
Did the FO know before the draft that they would have an extended window to sign Scheppers?
Let's say that the entire series is rained out
if the show was on the other foot, and three got rained out in Seattle and MLB said that there would be six games in Texas in three days and Seattle was in the playoff race and Texas wasn’t …
Would you be opposed to the Rangers telling the Mariners that they would be fine with playing all six in Seattle instead of Texas?
I guess what I’m asking is, what are the chances that the Mariners tell MLB to move all six games to Texas since they’re out of the race anyway?
If I was a Seattle fan, I would not only be ok with it, I would say that it SHOULD happen.
the Mariners
would then be giving up the dough they would make in the games. That’s not gonna happen.
Well I would assume that the Rangers would have to get some kind of return from these three rainouts
that are possibly being moved to Seattle, so the same would happen in that scenario
nope
money’s just lost. That’s why I always thought it was so fishy that Bud Selig, (aka the former owner of the Brewers), decided to move the Astros makeup games to Milwaukee, who got the proceeds from the games.
Well, there's
the fact that Milwaukee has a dome where there wouldn’t be a chance for a rainout. It was probably the most logical choice plus would help line Selig’s family’s pockets.
yeah
would help line Selig’s family’s pockets
that’s what I was getting at…
What happens first?
A. Nolan leaves the Rangers
B. Fire sale
C. JD leaves the Rangers
D. Hicks sales the team.
I hope D happens before A, B or C.
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
you forgot
E. Rangers make it to the World Series.
That Revo article
is one of the most depressing Rangers articles I have ever read and that’s saying something. The thing is, though, this is the Rangers so we should all know that this is not going to end well. It just won’t. It’s all a sick joke.
"Thank God for Feldman." - Ron Washington to Eric Nadel, August 2008
Ian Kinsler's
really going to be pissed at the fans if any or all of this comes to pass because if MLB screws us over, you think that fans are going to come back.
"Thank God for Feldman." - Ron Washington to Eric Nadel, August 2008
OT - Michigan/Notre Dame
You know the whole ‘every fan wear the same color’ is a tired bit when you have a Maize Out
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