04-06-2009, 08:17 AM
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Your Texas Rangers!: Official 2009 Thread
Here we can discuss the day-to-day happenings of our boys out at the temple. I'm not going today, but I'll be watching the game on television. Millwood is starting, they're wearing their red jerseys and my sports pants are just a little bit perky right now. Marlon Byrd, Elvis Andrus and Hank are all in the opening lineup today.
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"I don't know what went wrong," said guard Thabo Sefolosha. "It's hard to talk about it."
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04-06-2009, 08:31 AM
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Go stRangers. I pray for a season that doesn't end before June arrives.
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04-06-2009, 09:10 AM
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Over/Under on Ranger errors today?
And yeah...what alex said. Try to carry the summer a little better, won't you, Rangers? You were out of it by the time the Stars were finishing the playoffs last season, and clearly that's a luxury not afforded to me this year.
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04-06-2009, 09:31 AM
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The Texas Rangers???
Is that soccer or arena league football?
(or did the NBA give us another D-league team???)
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04-06-2009, 09:32 AM
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Oooo, I'm pumped.
Angels placed 3 of their starters on the DL today.
WIN!
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04-06-2009, 10:30 AM
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First place Texas Rangers!
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04-06-2009, 10:43 AM
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Damn straight!
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"I don't know what went wrong," said guard Thabo Sefolosha. "It's hard to talk about it."
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04-06-2009, 10:44 AM
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One of my favorite days of the year. Took the day off today so I could park on the couch and enjoy it.
I have no idea what to think about this season. If the veteran pitchers pull through this team could be feisty in a bad division. But I fear the bullpen is going to drag us down until they bring up Holland and Felez to get their feet wet.
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04-06-2009, 11:11 AM
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flaco already bringing the negative vibe that sunk our beloved dallas stars this season!!!! But really I am going out and predicting a playoff berth for our boys in the red and blue. Go Hambone!
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04-06-2009, 11:25 AM
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any internet sites i can catch the game on? out of state and no access...
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04-06-2009, 11:33 AM
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I am pumped for the Rangers this season. The first one in a long while.
They actually seem to have the talent to go a long way. We will see though.
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04-06-2009, 11:46 AM
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I'm not sure that this thread will contain an entire season... we'll adjust as needed.. But, I haven't been this freaking anxious for a sporting event in a long time.
Hello Win Column!
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04-06-2009, 01:16 PM
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I don't know about these red uni's.
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04-06-2009, 01:30 PM
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Quote:
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I don't know about these red uni's.
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Bite your tongue!
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04-06-2009, 01:31 PM
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What are they, indicative of Hick's financial status?
Hey Oh!
No? Hello?
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04-06-2009, 01:32 PM
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The new scoreboard looks pretty sweet.
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"I don't know what went wrong," said guard Thabo Sefolosha. "It's hard to talk about it."
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04-06-2009, 01:34 PM
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I like the renovations to the stadium.
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04-06-2009, 01:34 PM
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I was at the exhibition game Saturday. All of the changes are sweet, except the video portion of the new scoreboard is just too dang small. Maybe it will be useful at night but during the day it was useless.
Love the brick, and it's going to create some interesting base running scenarios. Past balls were bouncing all the way back to the ump.
As to the uniforms, first of all I just think the red and white look great. Secondly it harkens back to the three division title run when they were the "Red Shoed Rangers".
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04-06-2009, 01:39 PM
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Hmmm...the Stars send me vouchers for tickets all the time. I should check that out...I heard about the scoreboard, but I didn't know there were other things.
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04-06-2009, 01:39 PM
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Damn, Chris. Tough pitch to hit. Alright, Salty, hit a lefty for the first time in your life!
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04-06-2009, 01:40 PM
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Ooo, hopefully these Rangers will do what I say all season long.
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04-06-2009, 01:40 PM
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Scooooore
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04-06-2009, 01:42 PM
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THE KING
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04-06-2009, 01:45 PM
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Lee Shmee.
That guy is getting a little rocked.
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04-06-2009, 01:49 PM
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OK, so, should I buy an Andrus jersey, or have his name tattoo'd onto my back?
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04-06-2009, 01:53 PM
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Quote:
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OK, so, should I buy an Andrus jersey, or have his name tattoo'd onto my back?
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Both.
Seriously, I recognize he's going to struggle this season offensively, but I'm SO excited about that dude. So freaking excited.
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04-06-2009, 02:30 PM
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Now see, Josh and Tom didn't make a big deal out of that at all, but that's a single last year. Talking about the bouncer up the middle that Andrus made the plaon on.
So two months from now when people are complaining about Evis' low batting average and perhaps his high error total, remind them about the balls he gets to that MY never did.
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04-06-2009, 02:38 PM
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Quote:
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Now see, Josh and Tom didn't make a big deal out of that at all, but that's a single last year. Talking about the bouncer up the middle that Andrus made the plaon on.
So two months from now when people are complaining about Evis' low batting average and perhaps his high error total, remind them about the balls he gets to that MY never did.
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Yep. I was surprised. When that ball was hit, I thought "Oh, well, just a little single." Didn't even occur to me that a shortstop was capable of reaching that ball.
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04-06-2009, 04:00 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by jthig32
Now see, Josh and Tom didn't make a big deal out of that at all, but that's a single last year. Talking about the bouncer up the middle that Andrus made the plaon on.
So two months from now when people are complaining about Evis' low batting average and perhaps his high error total, remind them about the balls he gets to that MY never did.
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i assume youre talking about the ball choo hit which i was very impressed with. The funny thing is my actually has incredible range for a 3rd basemen.
Very encouraging to see salty hit well right handed(i know the homer was left handed) My fantasy team is rangers heavy so i need them to do well.
The pitching looked great though cj topping out at 92 is a little scary. Hopefully he just needs to get in the flow though if he can control it better id still live with that.
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04-06-2009, 04:08 PM
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Quote:
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i assume youre talking about the ball choo hit which i was very impressed with. The funny thing is my actually has incredible range for a 3rd basemen.
Very encouraging to see salty hit well right handed(i know the homer was left handed) My fantasy team is rangers heavy so i need them to do well.
The pitching looked great though cj topping out at 92 is a little scary. Hopefully he just needs to get in the flow though if he can control it better id still live with that.
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CJ said in an interview during spring training that he's focusing on locating his fastball rather than maximizing his velocity. I'm not worried about CJ at all, he was ridiculous in spring training.
As to your point above, that's just one of the great things about them moving him to third. He still has a plus arm for the position, and now he goes from having terrible range at short to plus range at third. He made two plays at third that never get made last year, and Andrus made one at short that Young never makes. That's going to make such a huge difference this season.
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04-06-2009, 04:13 PM
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CJ said in an interview during spring training that he's focusing on locating his fastball rather than maximizing his velocity. I'm not worried about CJ at all, he was ridiculous in spring training.
As to your point above, that's just one of the great things about them moving him to third. He still has a plus arm for the position, and now he goes from having terrible range at short to plus range at third. He made two plays at third that never get made last year, and Andrus made one at short that Young never makes. That's going to make such a huge difference this season.
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one other thing, im curious to see if we werent using a different gun than the rangers did last year. FF was sitting at 93 when he normally sits 95. Grieve said millwoods fastball was better than it ever was last year and he was at 92 when he hit 94-95 last year when he was on. Different guns can easily account for a couple of mph on a fastball.
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04-06-2009, 02:36 PM
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04-06-2009, 03:11 PM
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Man, you could not possibly ask for than that from Millwood today. Fantastic.
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04-06-2009, 03:16 PM
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Any chance they could just call the game now before the bull pen gets out there?
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04-06-2009, 03:35 PM
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Quote:
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Any chance they could just call the game now before the bull pen gets out there?
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8th and 9th (assuming CJ and Frankie are available) are not the ones to worry about.
It's the rest of the bullpen that frightens me.
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04-06-2009, 03:40 PM
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Quote:
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8th and 9th (assuming CJ and Frankie are available) are not the ones to worry about.
It's the rest of the bullpen that frightens me.
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Long Relief (Rupe) doesn't frighten me, either.. I think the bullpen will be fine, even a positive, as long as the starters do well. But if we start having starting pitching issues and Rupe becomes unavailable, that's when we'll be effed.
I've been to three opening days and they've lost all of them. The two I don't go to, they win. Bahhhh.
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04-06-2009, 03:42 PM
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Long Relief (Rupe) doesn't frighten me, either.. I think the bullpen will be fine, even a positive, as long as the starters do well. But if we start having starting pitching issues and Rupe becomes unavailable, that's when we'll be effed.
I've been to three opening days and they've lost all of them. The two I don't go to, they win. Bahhhh.
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I need to see concrete proof that they're only going to use Eddie as a LOOGY before I can feel good about the bullpen. And I really don't think Madrigal is ready.
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04-06-2009, 03:47 PM
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Quote:
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8th and 9th (assuming CJ and Frankie are available) are not the ones to worry about.
It's the rest of the bullpen that frightens me.
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10 and 11 pitches to retire the side respectively - nice!
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