Some post-game thoughts

/leaves

You have an infinitely more talented left hander left in the pen who throws hard and can get K’s and you throw out Clay fucking Rapada. Oh and Young’s “O-Le” at 3rd. Take that shit to your nuts, I don’t care but don’t let that ball past you, fuck-face.

If the Rangers won they would have won the series.

Since they lost, they have lost the series.

Just my feeling.

I could leave a game feeling worse than the Red Sox game last year….

I’m depressed

I’m mad, but I’m not in panic mode. The bullpen is a concern, though. Maybe it was a fluke but that is two bad outings in a row.

Why was Ogando not in consideration for an appearance?

so I had to watch on a fast forward mode to not get digitized images the whole time.

Because of this, I couldn’t see every play of the 8th inning, but my jaw was left on the floor as it unfolded.

I think two things, but I’ll back off them if someone can prove me wrong.

1. Darren Oliver should not be a go to guy in the bullpen right now. If Wash is nervous about Feliz for some reason, he should be downright terrified of Oliver.

2. Maddux, Wash, whoever need to sit in a room and figure out who their best 8th inning arm is and decide to go with it. A lineup of switch hitters and alternating lefties/righties is kryptonite to this obsession with platoon splits. Sure it makes sense to switch one guy out for another, but then you find yourself with your 3rd best lefty facing the tying run … oops.

Pretty much, if you’ve used 5 pitchers in an inning, you’ve screwed up your bullpen management. And this is twice in the playoffs that Wash/Maddux have completely screwed up their bullpen management. Expanded rosters + injured Fx2 is just really bad for this situation

It was one game that happened to be the most important in the franchise’s four decades

This wasn’t the Rangers most important game this week.

he should have been warming up as soon as gardner gets on. i allow cj to stay in til he is feliz is ready. but with the bases loaded, no outs he needs to come in whether it’s the 8th inning or the 6th. doesn’t matter he should be in. you have to shut them down there.

Including Blanco.

Inexcusable but at the same time it wasn’t something we didn’t already know. Bad ending and it’d be nice to have franky available but it is what it is. That’s the way my hair grow.

I still think we win in six.

Does an outcome have to be certainly bad to be a bad move? Taking out your good pitcher because of some flukey balls to put in a guy who’s been rather shaky at best might not be “inherently wrong,” but it doesn’t make it a great move, either.

Does anybody really have a problem with the DOD move? It was the Oliver one that was puzzling as fuck to me.

I don’t blame Wash for this loss. The offense generally sucked after 1, and some balls just went crazy (and then there’s Young), and I guess, as you said, those things happen in baseball.

But Wash sure as shit didn’t help matters.

Lots of Twins fans are cheering for you guys right now. Go Rangers!

Don’t give me this “olé” bullshit!

(as long as people and liek "ZOMG DID YOU WATCH THE RANGERS?!?) I’ll feel better. It’s still best of 7 and we still haven’t thrown out Cliff Lee and C.J. looked fucking great.

I cannot express how much I love C.J. right now. What a beast of a day by him.

And get German back?

Reasonable as hell. I hate that TBS foreshadowed what actually occurred. All night they kept suggesting NY would come back, that Texas was squandering opportunities, meanwhile, it was 5-0 Texas! In the end, they were 100% correct. 4 or 5 runs with 6 outs was not enough.

Neyer blames the game on Wash

I got to thinking: I’m not sure they’re actually biased for the Yankees like fans. I think their story is just that the Rangers can’t hang with the Yankees and they need to be right.

and drown my sorrows in a glass of chocolate milk. take that depression…wait, does anyone have any better suggestions

There’s so much baseball left to go that I don’t think this will be the lasting memory of this series but if that had been a game 6 or 7….oh man. I might have burned down my house and went to live in the woods.

We won’t lose in seven games, obviously. So this game can’t be the “if only. . .” game!

Please ignore the obvious hole in that logic for your own sake.

We have a quote from Michael Young on his 8th inning Dorn play.

It is on the front page of LSB now.

I think y’all will enjoy it.

I don’t care if it cheers you up.

Just got home. I like how we had a 5-1 lead in the 8th and blew it without Ogando ever seeing the mound. And I havnt seen a replay of the Face play but I’ve got a feeling I will not be happy.

Well, it was really fun for 2 hours and something minutes.

Kill a bunch of people.

Ahahaha, so much fail in this picture.

Form the really bad job of hiding his name to the amazing Google search he didn’t think of deleting.

Everything seemed great- saw Charlie Pride, walked by Jon Daniels (taller than I figured he’d be), sat near Babe Laufenberg, Rangers leading 5-0 early against the MF yankees..and it all goes to hell, much like it did at the game I went to last week. Darren Oliver needs to be put in a dark corner where he can think about all the terrible things he did tonight.

Was at the game tonight, and 2 really obnoxious fuckers stood up jubilantly yelling LET’S START THE WAVE! I yelled at them NO! NO WAVE! And they were asking “No wave? Why not!?!” I said “Because this is the fucking ALCS and we’re winning (was 5-1 at this point) and it’s antler and claw time!” The guy behind me said “Good job” and EVERYONE around us started berating the 2 of them for their incessant need to start the wave.

Well, at one point they were so beligerant about it all that people started cussing at them and it almost could have wound up worse since most of the people were drunk. My quandry comes in that after we denied him of trying to start the wave… we suddenly plummeted to a 6-5 hole. Did the denial of the wave come back to somehow haunt us?

/playful what if