4/20/07 game day thread

I'll just repost my earlier comment in case someone's curious:

Bottom of the ninth, one out, down 2-1 to the Cubs, Cedeno at 1st, Jones at the plate. Jones takes ball four, but Cedeno takes off for second and doesn't look at the plate. Cards catcher throws to second, Cedeno slides head first into second but he goes too far and Eckstein tags him for being off the bag. Instead of runners on 1st and 2nd with one out, they have a runner at first with two.

http://mlb.mlb.com/news/boxscore.jsp?gid=2007_04_20_oakmlb_texmlb_1

Lofton
Cat
MY
Teix
Sosa
Hank
Ian
Cruz
Laird

Strike zone: knees to letters, not knees to belt

Sure am glad he's not a Ranger.

That was a bit outside MY

Milly
Padilla
Loe
Tejeda
Chen

Bmac working on whatever he's messing up on, i guess he's still tipping his pitches, in the bullpen...

I would like to see him do well, but this is not good at all...

sigh.

i won't even look at box scores or stats. i'll completely give them up for a week.  hopefully the ship will be righted when i come back...maybe

after the last 2 games, i cant take another 2 and a half hours of tihs.

the rangers always start off decently, are in first in june, then are terrible after that to end in 3rd.

by intentionally losing to the a's, they hope to get them of to a good start and have them collapse, while the rangers have the good 2nd half.

genius.

also, gotta love those 45 second innings of rangers offense.  im getting used to them.

I'll make the sacrifice for my team.

Damn, it's ugly tonight...

I need another drink.

This team sucks

cant even count on a good month to start the season from him anymore.

beware, im ready to make all kinds of wild knee jerk reactions to this game.

at least 2 pitchers DFA'd, one beat up in the clubhouse, and massive trades and lineup changes.

I'm going to go pull weeds. These guys suck.

yay! he did!

now...

come on Tex
please come through.

Feldman pitched quite a bit last night, and also pitched the night before. 4 innings left to get thru.

We might need a long man tomorrow, even if Loe does all right.  Probably not going to get more than 5 from him.

I guess we will get the ole OKC shuttle fired up.

http://www.baseballprospectus.com/chat/chat.php?chatId=290

lonestarballfan (Big D,Texas): Do you see hurler Eric Hurley at AAA Oklahoma before the break?

Marc Normandin: He's young, so there's really no reason to rush him yet. He could be ready for that level by then, but if he isn't immediately sent there, it's not a big deal, really.

Impatient Texas fans may disagree, which is understandable.

also there was a few other questions about Blalock and Tex.

MarinerDan (SF, CA): Hank Blalock: Will he rebound or was he an overrated mediocrity to begin with?

Marc Normandin: Overrated mediocrity. Blalock is the victim of one of the few really harsh profiles I've done so far. Well, I think it's harsh. Here's my conclusion from the profile:

One thing to take into consideration is that he was never really as good as many thought him to be. There is nothing in his minor league numbers that can boast anything exceptional--other than his relative youth--as they are all brought back down to earth by park factors. In fact, except for the 2004 season, his power production seems to be greatly enhanced by his home park at basically every stop. It's entirely possible that Blalock has been severely overrated from the start, and that his fall isn't as far as we initially imagined. Considering that a great deal of the change seems to be in the batted-ball type, it's possible that with the proper adjustments Blalock could tweak his swing and bring his numbers back to respectability.

Masked Terror (Parts Unknown): What about Teixeira, by the way? Is he never going to hit 40 HRs again? When do I have license to start panicking?

Marc Normandin: I still have faith in Teix. I'm still somewhat shocked the Rangers re-signed Young and not Teixeira.

at least he had a good swing and hit the ball hard though.

4 yesterday
4 the game before that

not you too.

BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

We were going to lose in the 2nd inning, I don't see why McCarthy or Chen or Feldman or Mahay were taken out.

NOT good

well, i guess thats all part of him struggling right now.

I think he'll pull it together shortly afterwards but, yes, he's going there.