Monday morning Rangers things

if Vizquel is at 3B in the 8th instead of Davis. However, we will never know if I am right or not. We do know that Ron didn’t give his team the best chance to win yesterday. So Ron and the team’s three best relievers didn’t get the job done.

Then again, if Wash can’t correct these kinds of things next year, we might be in some trouble.

Not that it wasn’t a pretty crappy loss.

The thing I’m most annoyed about is that unless the Rangers sweep the Angels, they’ll have to sit and watch the Angels celebrate clinching. And if that happens I fully expect at least one “get the fuck off our field”.

Come to think of it, a brawl might be pretty entertaining.

…so there might be a correlation between winning and attendance? Weird.

I do find it interesting that for a community that is pretty stat savvy, there is so much railing against the manager. Some of it I agree with (I think overuse caused Frank’s injury earlier in the year). However, one of the things that stats suggest is that managers don’t make that much of a difference. Most of it is because there’s not as much tactics involved compared to a game like football.

Part of me, though, wonders if it isn’t because most managers follow the book on their decisions so you would expect a lot of them to make the same frustrating calls that Wash did yesterday. Anyways, if you disagree with his in game decisions, at least remember that sticking with guys too long frustrates us but helps build the confidence of his players.

D3 guy

It was fun to experience those things this year for the first time in a long time.

Still it feels like the team sorta collapsed down the stretch, and there are certainly no guarantees that next year’s team will be any better. It doesn’t always work that way. Having said that, I’m excited about next year already – and who knows if we might have a big trade or two to chew on this winter.

That’s the one thing that struck me as odd at the game.

Final home game and Hamilton hit well the night before, so why not hit hamilton for jones
when jones hasn’t done much of late and was flying out.

On a sidenote I’m curious why young is available tonight but couldn’t pinch hit yesterday

Not sure we should read anything into this, but Justin Smoak was named MVP of the Baseball World Cup: http://bit.ly/28drbZ #texasrangers

http://twitter.com/keithlaw/status/4434534148

with the game on the line, Washington went to his best relievers, and every one of them failed.

Maybe someone could post a fail jpg featuring three failures?

Borbon should have hit for Jones to start the inning and Hamilton for TT. Not that it really matters much.

The ’pen really let the Rangers down yesterday.

A child could manage better, i figured Ham must be injured since he did not PH for AJ and then there are the defense upgrades (or lack of) the guy confuses the heck out of me with his managing of this team.