And put him in the same breath as Tommy Hunter.

BTW, did you delete the Monkey v. Mantis fanpost?

they arent better than that.

that week they were here, we took our vacation and spent it at the ballpark. Each night our seats were right in the middle of a sea of fans of the opposing team.

One night, there were two guys in front of us that were in town from Boston. We overheard them make some snide remarks about the park, the video board blah blah blah. They really went nuts though when our fans started leaving around the 7th inning.

They were dumbfounded. They kept asking each other and everyone around them, “Why is everyone leaving? You guys are only down a couple points? Isn’t this what you come to the ballpark to see?” The Rangers fans around us kinda shrugged and got up and left with the others.

Nellie ended up winning that game off of Wakefield that night. As we were leaving, I told my 7 yr old boy, “THAT’S why we don’t leave games early.”

It’s not smart of Colby at all no matter how stupid the booing fans are.

Even considering the source.

I also like how he ignores people for saying things he disagrees with.

and realize that either he has an illiterate nine year old type out his tweets, or he’s accomplished quite a bit despite being an illiterate nine year old.

and applause is pretty much all I heard as well.

Personally, I stayed silent. I certainly wasn’t going to boo a guy who has pitched so well for us this year but I also wasn’t going to applaud his performance today either.

And his FIP WAR is 3.9.

he’s on pace in those for 4.8 this season, which would be alone for 13th, just a single run outside of the top 10. That StatCorner WAR is on pace for 7.0, which would rank second behind only Fergie Jenkins in ’74 and five runs ahead of anyone else.

In short, Colby Lewis is having one of the best seasons a pitcher has ever had for this franchise.

and I think all the “Cliff Lee is the best Rangers pitcher EVER!” talk does Lewis terrible justice. Lewis is a big, big reason the team is where it is this year, and he actually has been among the best Rangers pitchers ever instead of just being a great pitcher who stopped by for a few months.

. . . and he gets booed for having a less-than-stellar day (made worse by awful defense).

is that the Angels aren’t playing 10 games above their skill level and their skill level got worse…

….the kind you want to bitch slap!!

Whiie I wouldn’t likely boo a Ranger pitcher having a bad day, I would still be frustrated. You’r vanity is disgusting in proclaiming the inferiority of the Texas Rangers fans, which of course triumphs your superiority. Give me a break!

“It is what it is.” is just a sucky way to say nothing instead of something substantial. I see or hear that phrase, and I want to replace “it” with “suck.” “Suck is what suck is.”

I often wonder how people can watch that team, between Hawk, Ozzie and now Manny.

I don’t see any way they don’t refer to that series by some form of the “Launching Pad Series,” or the “Battle of Home Run Ballparks.”

Of course, that might be because Rachel and I were pretty easy to spot – someone said “well, I have about a 50% of chance of guessing who you are”.

One thing I didn’t really like was that there wasn’t enough room or seating in the suite for all 20 of us, nor were there enough seats for all of us outside it. We couldn’t all be inside or outside at the same time. We dragged some chairs outside but there still wasn’t enough seating for everyone to watch.

It was still pretty fun, though. I went inside when the game started sucking, but something happened that I thought was pretty funny. Inside the suite the game was on, but on mute. Everyone who was inside was standing or sitting around talking, but whenever something awesome would happen in the game, we’d all stop whatever we were doing and cheer or applaud. It was exactly like a GDT with everyone talking about whatever but lots of exclamation points when good things happened.

We can take on all comers.

hit listen now – on until midnight – or dial in on your stereo tuner

I’ve been to about 20 parks, and you get the same types everywhere. I didn’t care much for the revered Cardinal fans. Braves have put out a good product for 20 years, fans meh. NYY/Bos more rabid, but there’s something to be sad for a happy medium….

no consequences.

I wouldn’t if he was still around.

I saw “Memento” and “Doubt” last night. Might try “Weeds” next.

I just did on the Roku

is awesome! and it’s in FW not Dallas I know they didn’t really specify in the video.

I guess they called ahead to see if I would be there. I would really like to punch them

Manager Ron Washington said the staff will each get five days between starts following the off day. The first beneficiary will be Rich Harden, who will go against Minnesota on Friday be drawn and quartered right before the first pitch on the pitcher’s mound tonight

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If it becomes a habit, I’d understand… but he’s a professional. He should be able to understand that there are more than a few jackasses in every ballpark expecting perfection.

with anything Colby said.

The only folks who will be offended by it are your typical Dallas bandwagoners.

the people that weren’t booing think that the people that were booing were idiots and agreed with lewis. it’s not like kinsler last year saying that the fans suck for not coming out to the ballpark – to watch the team fail down the stretch. that was a douche comment. lewis was within the lines on that.

i don’t even have a huge problem with people booing. a lot of the fan base isn’t knowledgeable about the team. i would say that a fair percentage of the people there may not even know that kinsler is out or that cruz is out. even fewer know that nelly and kinsler are headed back. the Rangers are still selling Davis t-shirts at the games, and people are still buying them. knowing that lewis has been a great pitcher this year is certainly a concept that many people there have no grasp on whatsoever. all they see is a first place team losing and a guy having a bad day. i would argue that it’s not acceptable to boo your team, but people that do this have done this in a lot “better” situations.