Labor Day Rangers things

which was actually awesome to see to me, since that isnt really his attitude usually

What about the shitty way this club has played baseball games for the last month+?

This team looks terrible, and this one blown call is the least of their problems.

Get base hits.

Throw strikes.

Field the fucking ball.

Throw it to the fucking guy covering the fucking base.

Get outs.

Quit crying and win fucking games.

I am getting pissed with these idiots. Angrydome.

They can play in a Giant Igloo, and their mascot can be a polar bear.

Unless they just like fucking with Derek Holland for some reason.

I meant bullpen, not rotation.

and the rest of the NL West is better than the rest of the AL West.

I’m still hoping that the Padres somehow pull it off, so as to maintain the increasingly diminishing chance I can see a Rangers World Series game in person.

But the Padres aren’t a very good team; they’re basically the Oakland A’s in a different division.

will stop the streak.

I was in a barber shop yesterday, and I got to listen to a couple of old guys complaining about the streak (right after they had been complaining about women in the Navy), with a young kid interjecting that it was actually two games longer than the old fogeys had thought it was. They then got into a rant about how the “Padres do this every year” and how it isn’t fair.

I had to hold back about how the Padres don’t do this every year, since the last few years they have sucked so bad they should count their blessings even to be in the race at all; and that what isn’t fair is that my team has never won a playoff series yet they have gotten to waltz into the playoffs 5 or 6 times since Wild Card play started since they’re in the awful, awful National league.

I’m pretty sure that unless the Rangers can get a decent pitching matchup, like Cliff Lee versus AJ Burnett (sadly, there aren’t many possible mismatches with these teams), they’re aren’t going to have more than a 30 or 40% chance of winning any given game on the road this postseason.

Too much, IMO.

I think people are short-selling Tommy Hunter’s trade value here. He’s a valuable trade chip. Not to every club – because some will look at his peripherals and say “no thanks” but some team out there would give you a real return based on him alone.

Basically, if Hunter + Borbon isn’t enough to get it done, then St Louis don’t value Hunter enough to trade him for Rasmus. Do Scheppers + Borbon for Rasmus if you want and trade Hunter to someone else (or keep him in the rotation)

Josh has been shut down for a week or so…

Texas Stadium was a total shit hole behind the scenes.

I don’t think asking for an explanation is enough. You have to put pressure on MLB to first of all, interpret the rules reasonably, and secondly realize that a touch is not the same as an assist. Well, maybe those are the same reasons in reality. And if Young and Anderson didn’t touch, that makes an argument for giving managers one appeal per game, and perhaps reviewing calls in the ninth inning if there is any question at all.

It may not have been a play that can be protested

you cant protest anything that pertains to a judgment call and it may have fallen under that