To be where we are – most people had us as a sub .500 team – despite the many injuries too:

1)Frankie’s shoulder and DL x3
2)Harrison and Salty’s thoracic outlet
3)BMac’s freak Scapula stress fracture
4)Ian, Jones, and Young’s hamstrings
5)Hambone’s disc herniation

And look at the myriad of guys we threw on the mound -

1)Nippert, Hunter, Holland, Feldman weren’t even supposed to be in the rotation
2)Grilli and O’Day were randoms picked up on the wire
3)CJ was a question mark coming off elbow surgery last year

The rookies who came up strong -

1)Elvis, Borbon, German

I know lately the team has underperformed, but that was simply because they raised our expectations of them as the season went on – this cannot be discounted!!! Raise a glass to 2009 guys – this was one of the few enjoyable seasons I have watched in 30 years as a Rangers fan!

Nicely written i.Orange and thank you for the video clip mastery, it’s the perfect balance of fail and cow bell just like I asked. I about spilled my coffee when I saw the poor thing epically fail at the end just like the Rangers

2010 has always been the target date so I’m cool with all the good things that happened this year and there were a lot of them.

I’m only a freshman in high college, but I hope I talk for alot of people in this thread. I’ve gone pretty much my entire life (since I’ve been paying attention to sports in the MId 90’s) and honestly, of all the Dallas teams I have rooted for, this has to be the team which I have the 2nd most amount of pride for, only behind the 99 Stars. Now whether that says more about the DFW sports landscape for the past 13 years or about the Rangers, I dont know. But I do know this. At the end of the day, I can go out and say I’m a Rangers fan with a sense of pride. These aren’t the same old Rangers. The losing is over! Believe in JD, Nolan, RW, Maddux, and the players (notice I left out Hicks). We will back. Live to fight another day and who knows what will happen – Texas Rangers – 2010 AL West Champions?
btw, nice job on the writeup Orange

The Rangers can still win out and the Red Sox can lose out which would force a playoff.

Is it unlikely? Yes! But not much more unlikely than when you were saying they were in it weeks ago.

Fuck yourself you’ll get more pussy! Snoogins :)

Bertha used to weigh 400 lbs, lost a lot of weight, and she’s feeling sexy and cocky like the Rangers after years of fail, she has an epic collapse at the end like the Rangers did and knows she has a lot of work to do before she can really feel sexy, like the Rangers do. If she eats one more cupcake I’m pretty sure she could be under consideration to be the sister city to Arlington.

Except for the

All the walk-offs

part. If you are referring to walk-off wins, there haven’t been that many. Maybe if there had been more of those, the Rangers would have shown a little more fight in games when they were down late in the game. To me, it looked like they never expected to win if they weren’t leading after the 6th inning.

We may have lost this year but I belive we will do better next season. We got some experience for the rookies and stuff. So it wasn’t such a bad season. We will just have to try next year

I appreciated the season a whole lot more than seasons past because of the challenge from your ballclub.

I look forward to doing it all again in 2010.