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Rangers featured on This Week in Baseball (9/26)

According to this article, several Rangers will be featured on Saturday's episode of This Week in Baseball.

The longest-running sports anthology show in television history, which airs at 2:30 p.m. CT on FOX, will take viewers on a tour of the pregame activities at Rangers Ballpark in Arlington with young star Ian Kinsler, analyze how Hall of Famer Nolan Ryan has turned back the clock on his pitching staff and delve into Ivan Rodriguez's celebrated return to Texas.

Before there was Baseball Tonight, we only got our baseball fix once a week. 

The greatness of Mel Allen narrated the show.  His catchphrase was "How About That!".  He was one of the many commentators in the baseball scene at the end of The Naked Gun in 1989.  You can watch that hilarious clip here.

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Is that that thing that airs before the FOX saturday game of the week?

I always thought that was just pregame shit.

Hank is 7 runs below a zombie replacement at first base. Do you realize how terrible that is? Zombie’s can’t think, they’re slow, and they’re often ejected from the game for eating opposing baserunners’ brains. - Ben quantifies Hank Blalock

by LSJ on Sep 25, 2009 10:00 PM CDT reply actions  

oh, LSJ, how young you are.

It used to come on after Saturday morning cartoons. Oh, that’s right, you probably don’t know what Saturday morning cartoons are, either.

"Blalock in the cleanup spot makes gives me agita." - Dustin

by benmor78 on Sep 26, 2009 6:36 AM CDT up reply actions   2 recs

Th cartoon Network use to only air once a week?!?!?!

Jeeez, the players JD picked up in the Tex trade have barely made any kind of meaningful contributions to the Rangers in The Show, but the pro-JD crowd is still running around shouting "I told ya so."

by red3biggs on Sep 26, 2009 10:52 AM CDT up reply actions  

OT: Cartoons in General

have gotten much worse over the last 20 years. I used to love watching reruns of shows like the Flinstones, Super Friends, etc., but now they’re replaced with stuff that’s no where near as good as the originals.

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

by MayurP on Sep 26, 2009 10:57 AM CDT up reply actions  

Bah, its just as you grow older

Our kids today will love shows and lament the stuff kids 10 years younger than them will love and they will say the same stuff.

As an example. I watch an episode of MMPR when I was in high school and said what a stupid show. Atleast Voltron had a good plot to it……

Then I saw an episode of Voltron on CN and almost wished I hadn’t. Same stupid shit.

Jeeez, the players JD picked up in the Tex trade have barely made any kind of meaningful contributions to the Rangers in The Show, but the pro-JD crowd is still running around shouting "I told ya so."

by red3biggs on Sep 26, 2009 8:22 PM CDT up reply actions  

I liked the Voltron episodes...

with the mechanical cats, but not the ones with the little cars or spaceships or whatever.

"Blalock in the cleanup spot makes gives me agita." - Dustin

by benmor78 on Sep 27, 2009 5:21 AM CDT up reply actions  

YES.

Lion Voltron ruled, the car one was just crap.

"I think I'm going to name my new car Scooter, because it dominates on the road." - mikeyoungfuturehof, 9.10.09
"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

by Lisa W on Sep 28, 2009 9:18 AM CDT up reply actions  

Heh.

Point taken.

Actually, I never did watch Saturday morning cartoons as a kid. When I was real young my folks where too busy propping me up in front of “Davey and Goliath” videos and other crap like that, and when I got into the double digits I was either watching the NASCAR Busch series on Saturdays, or whatever old shows they where rerunning on channel 56.

Hank is 7 runs below a zombie replacement at first base. Do you realize how terrible that is? Zombie’s can’t think, they’re slow, and they’re often ejected from the game for eating opposing baserunners’ brains. - Ben quantifies Hank Blalock

by LSJ on Sep 26, 2009 5:53 PM CDT up reply actions  

Whenever The Rangers are on.

Never really care for Fox Saturday Baseball.

by TooLegitToQuit on Sep 25, 2009 10:29 PM CDT via mobile reply actions  

It used to be a stopdown for me

in the Mel Allen days. Now I never watch it.

"I don't condone steroids or any other type of growth hormones or anything else, but I could care less, and, for the most part, I don't think the fans give a (bleep). The people that care about it are the people that probably don't like baseball," - Jim Leyland

by DJCahill on Sep 26, 2009 6:47 AM CDT reply actions  

Same here.

Hello Everybody….

It was so much better when they would show all of the stuff from around the league for the past week. Of course, back then we didn’t have BBTN so it was actually cool to see highlights that I hadn’t seen before.

LoneStarBall....You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy.

by LSBUser on Sep 26, 2009 11:06 AM CDT up reply actions  

i only watch it when I'm at a Rangers ballgame

they’ll show it there

A baseball game is simply a nervous breakdown divided into nine innings.

by NothinG on Sep 26, 2009 11:14 AM CDT reply actions  

I tried to never miss it when Mel Allen was alive, i catch it every now and then

these days, with so many sports channels and Mel Allen gone it’s just not the same as it was years ago.

Larry Parrish Was Da Man!

by TRFAN on Sep 26, 2009 12:27 PM CDT reply actions  

Naked Gun was greatness.

Ephesians 3:20-21...and I can only imagine

by TedFord on Sep 26, 2009 3:14 PM CDT reply actions  

Indeed.

STEEEEERIKE THREEEEEEEEE!

http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoid=9192028

It's baseball. You don't always get what you want, and you don't always want what you get. --Ed Coffin

by txranger7 on Sep 26, 2009 3:56 PM CDT up reply actions  

I watched it and...

they did a great job with it. I enjoyed it!!

Now I don’t know if Hank was being a bitch or was that a bit? I’m pretty sure it was being a bitch.

HH is that a sock in your puppet or are you happy to see me?

by BigGuns on Sep 26, 2009 4:58 PM CDT reply actions  

I have to admit the Hank part was pretty funny

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

by MayurP on Sep 26, 2009 6:09 PM CDT up reply actions  

what did he do?

"You can probably stick a fork in the Rangers' playoff chances for 2009." - AJM on 7/26 with the team 4.5 games out

by tricer on Sep 26, 2009 6:45 PM CDT up reply actions  

Ian was giving a tour of the locker room to this week in baseball...

He stopped by a few lockers. Everybody was cool and accomodating and then he goes by Hanks. Ian says look this week in baseball is here, Hank looks at him with a scowl and says “you got a question”? He couldn’t be bothered. He doesn’t appear to have a lot of personality but he could of just been in a bad mood.

HH is that a sock in your puppet or are you happy to see me?

by BigGuns on Sep 26, 2009 6:52 PM CDT up reply actions  

Loved TWIB notes

When I was a kid I didn’t have cable so the only thing I could watch to keep up on sports was the evening news, TWIB and the George Michael Sportsmachine (Sun night). Somewhere I have an old VHS tape by TWIB recapping baseball in the 80s.

Remember Red, hope is a good thing. Maybe the best of things. And no good thing ever dies.

by WyoRanger on Sep 27, 2009 12:08 PM CDT reply actions  

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