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Wednesday a.m. stuff
I was all prepared to talk about how I had mentally geared up for a 10 game losing streak to end the season, and then the Rangers won last night, and ruminate about Hank Blalock's resurgence... Howev...
Trade odds
I normally would wait until the beginning of the week to do a post like this, rather than put it up on the weekend, but zywica is going to be blogging Monday and Tuesday while I make a quick jaunt to ...
Sunday morning things
9.5 games out of first place. 6.5 games out of the wild card. BP puts the Rangers' chance of making the playoffs at 4%. That's not a terrible place to be in, in what was expected to be a ...
Saturday a.m. things
Back to .500. 4 games back of Anaheim, 1 1/2 games back of Oakland, 6 1/2 games up on the poor Mariners. The Rangers set a team record with 9 doubles yesterday, which helped make up for a bad K...
Hank Blalock, first baseman
Hank Blalock is moving to first base. Seriously. When he comes off the d.l., he will be coming back as a full-time first baseman. I don't get this. I think this is a bad decision, althou...
Afternoon linkaliciousness
A lot of interesting things out there today... The latest Ask BA has a Rangers mention, in response to a question about why teams follow the draft slotting recommendations... MLB generated more than...
Thursday morning stuff
Outstanding start by Vicente Padilla last night. Evan Grant says it the best start Padilla has had since coming to Texas, and once again, Padilla succeeded when relying on his fastball. I ...
Wednesday a.m. stuff
Sidney Ponson was pretty good last night. He even has a better ERA than Armando Galarraga...can you believe that? Ponson is the focus of Evan Grant's game story, although he does end up remindi...
Sunday morning stuff
A 4 game winning streak. And as Evan Grant points out, the Rangers have had 11 series so far this season, and have won 6 of them. So why don't they have a winning record? 4 of the 5 ...

