Treading Water Is Great When You’re On Top Of The Water
Four games. Rangers averaged nine runs per game, the Angels ten. Angels took the first two, Texas the last two. Texas scored 81 runs on all of July. In just two games in August, they’re already 32% of...
View ArticleSolid Introductions
Geovany Soto (Photo credit: Wikipedia) One third of the Texas Rangers line-up Thursday night were newbies. The overall results were positive, though not all the individual ones. In pounding the Angels...
View ArticleFeldmania And That Olt Time Religion
One could find so many nasty things to say about the Texas Rangers, Ron Washington, Elvis Andrus and countless others associated with Sunday’s giveaway loss to the Kansas City Royals. The Rangers,...
View ArticleThinking Ahead
Managers are the fans’ favorite punching bag. When the team’s going bad, they blame the manager. Even when the team’s going good, as the Texas Rangers have been for the past three years, the manager...
View ArticlePreparing For A Future Without Josh-ing
Nothing becomes official, of course, until after the World Series concludes. I know the score, though. The day after a new World Series Champion is crowned, free agency begins. Everyone knows Josh...
View ArticleSpring Training Begins (For The Blogger)
Ballplayers get at least three months off between end of season and start of spring training. I took three and a half weeks off between blog posts. Am I rested? I don’t know. Am I in shape for the 2013...
View ArticleProspecting
Most Spring Training exhibition games are worth listening to the first four or five innings. The starters are in for a few innings, the pitchers you expect to be on the team are getting their innings...
View ArticleRangers’ Spring Training Good Signs
Just 11 days from Opening Day and the Rangers line-up is starting to shape up. The first domino to fall occurred Tuesday when Mike Olt was sent back to the minor league camp. Olt was given a chance to...
View ArticleBiogenesis and the Rangers
I heard the news today, oh boy… ESPN’s Outside The Lines reported Major League Baseball will attempt to suspend as many as 20 players for PED use linked to the probe of Biogenesis in Florida. The...
View ArticleGood Garza, We Got Him!
The end of the day brought the news. After days of speculation and an apparent disintegration of the initial deal, the Texas Rangers and the Chicago Cubs agreed to let the Rangers take Matt Garza off...
View ArticleTreading Water Is Great When You’re On Top Of The Water
Four games. Rangers averaged nine runs per game, the Angels ten. Angels took the first two, Texas the last two. Texas scored 81 runs on all of July. In just two games in August, they’re already 32% of...
View ArticleTreading Water Is Great When You’re On Top Of The Water
Four games. Rangers averaged nine runs per game, the Angels ten. Angels took the first two, Texas the last two. Texas scored 81 runs on all of July. In just two games in August, they’re already 32% of...
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