Ron Washington's Game 7 Pre-Game Speech

I can’t help but feel guilty for listening to this though.

“Were muthafuckin champions, and they are too. But we know we can beat those muthfuckas, they aint so sure.”

They need to win the WS next season so I can wipe the 2011 WS out of my mind…….

I love Wash. Personally, I wish more sports journalism included this aspect of the game. I get so bored with all the cliches and politically correct answers. This was raw and crude, but, athletics involve that.

I love him

“Those cocksuckers asking me if I thought we were gonna go up there and try to work his fuckin’ pitch count ‘cause he’s on three fuckin’ days rest…you know what I told those cocksuckers?”

love me some Wash

Now you fucking cocksuckers know why…..

Sounded like Veet…something about t-ball…then Wash said something followed by laughter.

But I just smiled for the first time in 2 weeks and that was the first step in healing from this. I flew up for game 6 at the last minute and haven’t had a night since where i didn’t have nightmares. It haunts me and I don’t think anything short of a title is ever going to make it stop. But that helped. I love them.

I mean they did lose the game, so it’s hard to say at first that the speech really accomplished anything. But I thought about it and realized that’s just me expecting some Hollywood type ending where those sort of speeches inspire a team to victory, and not being able to reconcile it with the reality that the actual game isn’t influenced by any of that stuff.

Even if it is in a weirdly voyeuristic fashion like this. This really is a loose, fun team. Nobody can claim they didn’t have the right attitude going into that game, IMO.

It just also goes to show how easy it is for starting pitchers who shit themselves at the sight of Albert Pujols and terrible umpires to upend whatever attitude a team goes in with in an eyeblink.

…it took so long for this audio to leak. I had a copy the day after game 7. A buddy sent it to me.

I’ve been concerned that this leak will hurt Ron & Co., and it really shouldn’t. Hopefully the people of the world who are easily offended don’t transform this innocent pep talk into a PR nightmare for Wash.

I don’t know why but I like that. Execute and keep doing what they’d done.

Shame someone would record something like that, but it really makes you like this team even more

This was on a Peter Gammons article, a commenter.

As a Rangers fan I can say they will be elite when they win a World Series. And the guy who really built the team is Nolan Ryan. I am sure that Daniels comes to Nolan before he makes any moves. Anybody in north Texas looks at Nolan Ryan as the real power behind the Rangers. Another thing, I don’t believe that the Rangers will ever win a World Series without a premier pitcher and with Gene Washington as the manager. Gene is fun, but he danced himself into losing the World Series to the Cardinals in game six.

And Beltre and Cruz hr etc highlights from that game on mlb.com. I was on my way home in the latter innings and per usual being too nervous I didnt watch. Came for the last out with Feliz and we know what happened then and I was done for the night.

Wow would have been a fitting ending, sigh.

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I will now always refer to the St Louis Cardinals as “Those Cocksuckers out there”. Thanks Ron, it makes me feel somewhat better about the series.

but Wash had a purpose: make sure they’re loose. The tension that could undermine their ability was dispelled. So… good job Wash. My sig is what I got from his speech. That could sustain you through a lot of life.