06-04-2009, 03:07 PM
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#481
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Rooting for the laundry
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With the Sox coming up...the Angels are going to sleep well tonight.
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06-04-2009, 03:08 PM
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#482
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Well that sucked!!!
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06-04-2009, 03:08 PM
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Dang it
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06-04-2009, 03:25 PM
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Originally Posted by 92bDad
Well that sucked!!!
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06-04-2009, 03:43 PM
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Did someone spike McCarthy's gatorade with sucksauce before the 5th? What a stinker of an inning.
Why no Francisco there, we HAVE to get a series against this team.
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06-04-2009, 03:43 PM
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We were up 5-1 and I had high hopes...now I feel like I just got sucker punched in the gut.
Hopefully the Rangers have a better showing in Boston!!!
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06-04-2009, 03:48 PM
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dammit
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06-05-2009, 01:46 PM
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#488
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Beat The Red Sox!
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06-05-2009, 05:27 PM
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06-05-2009, 09:44 PM
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Originally Posted by mkat
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Terrific read. Thanks for posting.
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06-05-2009, 10:19 PM
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#491
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Rooting for the laundry
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The Angels can win in detroit. What is the Rangers problem?
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06-05-2009, 11:26 PM
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nice win
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06-06-2009, 03:35 AM
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Originally Posted by mkat
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very nice, thanks for the link!
Great win btw.
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06-06-2009, 10:16 AM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Flacolaco
With the Sox coming up...the Angels are going to sleep well tonight.
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really?
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06-06-2009, 07:10 PM
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The Rangers are currently on the wrong end of a perfect game.
*jinx* *jinx* *jinx*
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06-07-2009, 01:44 PM
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Why are the rangers so effing stupid?
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06-07-2009, 02:52 PM
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Nelson Cruz is one ridiculous son of a bitch. What a great shot over the monster.
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06-07-2009, 03:23 PM
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Too bad Cruz didn't get the chance for the cycle. Or at least I hope he doesn't, if we can close this thing out.
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06-07-2009, 03:31 PM
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HELLO WIN COLUMN!
Good win. And we take 2 of 3 at Fenway, sweet! So we finished the New York and Boston road trip at 3-3. I think most of us will take that. I know I will. It could have been 4-2 had we not blown that 5-1 lead at Yankee Stadium, but whatever. 3-3 is still acceptable considering where we were playing and the quality of the teams.
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06-07-2009, 04:03 PM
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moderately impressed
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Flacolaco
With the Sox coming up...the Angels are going to sleep well tonight.
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How did that work out for them?
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06-07-2009, 04:13 PM
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I see that Toronto and the Dodgers are next?....what a freaking stretch of game this is.
Can someone who knows something about baseball (not me) and is really into the Rangers (not especially me, though the bandwagon is comfy) tell me what I'm supposed to think about Padilla and all of that now.
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06-07-2009, 05:17 PM
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The Rangers were trying to send a message to Padilla that the team and the front office weren't appreciative of the manner in which he has conducted himself at times especially against the Yankees in his next to last start. At times in the past, I believe that Padilla has intentionally thrown at batters when things weren't going well to either get removed from the game by his manager or removed from the game by the ump. The team felt as if he were quitting on them as well as leaving them out there to get retaliated against.
Did the Rangers believe that anyone would pick him up? Nope, not with his contract. I suppose they would have been ok with someone would have done so.. they probably would have been ecstatic.. but, they didn't believe that anyone would have claimed him off of waivers.. not for a second.
So, this was basically just the team sending him a message. Shape up or they'll eventually find a way to ship him out.
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06-07-2009, 05:31 PM
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I wonder how the locker room is. By all accounts he keeps to himself anyway, right?
He threw a nice game today. Better than the home plate ump gave him credit for anyway.
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06-07-2009, 06:57 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Flacolaco
I see that Toronto and the Dodgers are next?....what a freaking stretch of game this is.
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If you had told me we would get through NY/Bos winning half of them I would have been happy. If we can somehow get through those 2 teams winning at above or just below (so 4 of 7, or 3 of 7) .500 clip I'll be ecstatic. Screw that, I want at least 4. I want them all. The schedule gets considerably lighter after that for the rest of the month (until the Angels). But what a beginning this is.
First place Texas Rangers.... This sure is a better way to dredge through the summer.
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06-07-2009, 07:04 PM
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Yep. The closer they can get me to the first televised football game (August 8th) the better. That gap between the last NBA Finals game and the hall of fame game is a beating.
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06-07-2009, 07:47 PM
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Plunker Padilla looked pretty solid today. I hope he can catch some of that Texas pitching disease that has been going around. Personally I think he has some stuff going if he can keep his head right, he could be a huge part of the rotation.
Almost as nice to see the Sox lose as the Yanks.
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06-07-2009, 07:51 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by u2sarajevo
How did that work out for them?
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He's the same way with the Cowboys too. Its quite annoying.
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06-07-2009, 08:16 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by TheMaverick
He's the same way with the Cowboys too. Its quite annoying.
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Yeah. How'd that work out for them last year?
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06-07-2009, 08:54 PM
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There's no "P" in Cheerios and we'd like to keep it that way.
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06-07-2009, 10:33 PM
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There's no "P" in Cheerios and we'd like to keep it that way.
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lmao
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06-08-2009, 10:44 AM
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Here's a note from a recent Newburg Report:
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The New York-Boston trip began with Bad Padilla and ended with Good Padilla. If not Worst Padilla and Best Padilla.
It started with Texas 4.5 games ahead of the Angels, who were set to face Toronto and Detroit as the Rangers traveled to Yankee Stadium and Fenway Park . It ended, after a 3-3 trip that went L-W-L-W-L-W, with Texas still 4.5 games up.
But with six fewer games for Los Angeles to close the gap, so it’s not as if nothing was gained. Magic number: 103.
The Rangers went into Boston , without what most people coming into the season considered their best player and best relief pitcher available, and won a Fenway series for the first time since 1997 (which was Boston ’s last season with a losing record). The wins weren’t mistake-free, but this team – for the first time in memory – seems to be one capable of outplaying their mistakes from time to time.
Even in New York and Boston .
Against two teams each coming home after winning five out of seven on the road. The Red Sox had won four straight. The Yankees, 15 of 19.
Bravo, Nelson Cruz, the player on whom no team in the league was willing to expend $20,000 and a roster spot 14 months ago, who got knocked down with a 93-mph four-seamer at the head in the fifth inning on the trip’s first game, yet finished the six games with three home runs among his six hits (in fact, he was a single short of the cycle today). A year ago, the question was whether Cruz would survive his lack of options. Today, it’s whether he has enough juice (.292/.356/.614 with an American League-leading 17 homers, good defensive speed to go along with a plus plus arm in right field, and nine steals in 10 attempts) to be squarely in the mix for an All-Star Game appearance.
He should be.
As you ask yourself where this thing is headed, consider the following as you step back and look at the bigger picture:
1. Michael Young is well known for expecting young teammates, no matter what they’ve done to get to the big leagues, to earn their way, to prove themselves, to pay their dues. It’s part of his brand of leadership.
He said this after Derek Holland’s uneven start on Saturday: “It was a lot of fun to see him to watch [ Boston lefthander Jon] Lester pitch and react to it. He’s got a great future. He’s got a chance to be a dominant-stuff type lefty and Lester is already there. I’d like to see us keep running him out there. I’m not big on pumping up rookies, but he competes hard and he really wants to be good.”
2. A Newberg Report message board regular who goes by “Doug” posted this a few days ago:
The exec I talk to says to me that the Rangers have more room for error like [nobody] except the big teams in the NE (NYY, NYM, and Boston ). Those teams have room for error because of $, the Rangers have it because of the deepest farm system this exec has ever seen in 20 years of professional ball. He said you’d always like a few more top end guys like Feliz and Holland , but that there are just so damn many good prospects, that he just can’t believe it. He told me that there is not a single farm system in both leagues that wouldn’t take a Ranger prospect in the 20-30 range and be able to replace someone in their own top 10 and be better off for it. He said some teams could replace almost their whole top 10 with the Rangers 11-20 and be better off.
He said, and this is a quote, “The juggernaut is already built, now it’s playing the hand they’ve got and not screwing it up. They are going to be THE team to deal with in the AL for a long time. We’re all freaked out by it.” I said, what about the Rays? He said, “They’re better than the Rays.”
BTW, it shouldn’t surprise you that this exec, who deals with JD, has high praise for him. He says JD made some early mistakes, but says he is so, so smart, knows how to do strategy, and is a great judge of talent – not baseball talent necessarily, but exec talent – the Adair’s, the Servais’, the Clark’s, etc. He said JD’s biggest challenge will be replacing the development talent he will be losing year after year (Adair was just the start) and not betting for an inside straight, i.e., not risking too much to go for it all in any particular year. He said if they continue to feed the golden goose, and don’t risk too much in any particular year that they will be there year after year for a long, long time.
I enjoyed that.
I’m working on a lengthy report that I hope to have done before Tuesday evening’s draft, not on the draft itself as much as a view from 30,000 feet on what this organization has achieved and what could be next.
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06-08-2009, 02:18 PM
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I love watching this team as it gets better...on another board, I made a point about this team "Learning to Win"...
Here's a blurb regarding the Red Sox series:
The Rangers won a series against the Red Sox at Fenway Park for the first time since a three-game sweep in August 1997. They were 0-12-3 in their last 15 series at Boston and 1-9 in their last 10 road games against the Red Sox before Sunday’s win.
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06-08-2009, 09:54 PM
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F A I L
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06-09-2009, 01:30 PM
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Relief pitching was no relief last night...chokejob.
Excited to see what Mathis has.
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06-09-2009, 02:32 PM
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Did we draft a young superstar?
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06-09-2009, 02:38 PM
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doesn't start til 5pm CT.
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06-09-2009, 04:37 PM
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Is there a website showing or updating the Draft live?
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06-09-2009, 04:42 PM
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mlb.com i'd assume.
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06-10-2009, 05:48 AM
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ouch
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06-10-2009, 11:00 AM
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Gotta believe...this is a season about progress, now its time to see how they respond to a tough stretch, while in that stretch.
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