Your Texas Rangers!: Official 2009 Thread

[92bDad]

A great season that has fallin off the cliff...no doubt, that's what some would like to see me do from this board...but like Hicks, I remain :-)

At least the Rangers managed to get us to Stars training camp!!!

[Flacolaco]

Originally Posted by 92bDad

A great season that has fallin off the cliff...no doubt, that's what some would like to see me do from this board...but like Hicks, I remain :-)

At least the Rangers managed to get us to Stars training camp!!!

I agree with all of those things.

[alexamenos]

ending not with a bang but a whimper.

[dalmations202]

It was great fun while it lasted. I can't wait till next season -- and hopefully better health.

[GermanDunk]

What ? The Rangers went 6.5 from 2.0 within a week ? Thats ugly-

[mkat]

Originally Posted by alexamenos

ending not with a bang but a whimper.

let's wait til the end of the angels series to proclaim death.

[jthig32]

Originally Posted by mkat

let's wait til the end of the angels series to proclaim death.

Dude..they're dead.

[Flacolaco]

Deader than Millwood after 5 and a third innings.

[alexamenos]

Deader than Millwood's chances for guaranteeing next year's contract.

[Murphy3]

I know I'm going to regret doing this..I know that I'm only jinxing the team. But, the Rangers are right back in it.

[jthig32]

Um...what?

They're five back with eight to play.

They're "right back in it" in that they're not mathematically eliminated.

[tcat075]

Jthig, they play 4 games against the Angels.

That gives them a very slim chance. Yes, a sweep would be necessary (or utter Angel failure in their other 3-4 games) but they do have a chance. I wouldn't call them "back in it", but they aren't quite as out of it as I thought (meaning, there is a chance that actually makes sense which would allow them still can make the playoffs rather than no chance as I thought).

Rangers win out, Angels lose 1 of their 4 non-Ranger games, and Rangers win the division with 93 wins (same as Angels but Rangers have head-to-head).

edit: Although I still hold no hope for a postseason appearance.

[Flacolaco]

They are out of it.

I rest my case.

[LonghornDub]

Originally Posted by Flacolaco

They are out of it.

I rest my case.

Good work resting your case. That's crucial.

[jthig32]

Originally Posted by tcat075

Jthig, they play 4 games against the Angels.

That gives them a very slim chance. Yes, a sweep would be necessary (or utter Angel failure in their other 3-4 games) but they do have a chance. I wouldn't call them "back in it", but they aren't quite as out of it as I thought (meaning, there is a chance that actually makes sense which would allow them still can make the playoffs rather than no chance as I thought).

Rangers win out, Angels lose 1 of their 4 non-Ranger games, and Rangers win the division with 93 wins (same as Angels but Rangers have head-to-head).

edit: Although I still hold no hope for a postseason appearance.

They are not mathematically eliminated. I believe I said that.

[jthig32]

Man this is really encouraging from Brandon McCarthy. I still have hopes for him.

[chumdawg]

Wasn't there a team last year, or the year before, that won their last ten or somesuch and made an improbable run to the playoffs? An NL team, I am thinking. Cubs, maybe?

[jthig32]

Rockies.

[mavspwnage]

Originally Posted by chumdawg

Wasn't there a team last year, or the year before, that won their last ten or somesuch and made an improbable run to the playoffs? An NL team, I am thinking. Cubs, maybe?

yep, Rockies

[jthig32]

What in the hell is going on here?

[jthig32]

*sigh*

The last freaking home game of the season and we do this.

[Murphy3]

Originally Posted by jthig32

Um...what?

They're five back with eight to play.

They're "right back in it" in that they're not mathematically eliminated.

When you're 5 out but you have a 4 game series with the team you're behind.. yes, you are back in it. I was not remotely implying that they were likely to win the division..but they were very close to at least holding their destiny in their own hands. When you were just down 7 a couple of days ago, that's all you can ask for.

Obviously they were on the edge. But they were definitely in it before the collapse at the end of the game today.

[jthig32]

Fair enough. Their odds were still so long I wouldn't have put it that way but I can see where you're coming from.

Thanks for the jinx, btw.

[tcat075]

Originally Posted by jthig32

They are not mathematically eliminated. I believe I said that.

What I was trying to point out is that not only mathematically they can make it in, but realistically they COULD have too. Winning out would be tough, but it looked like the Ranger bats were getting hot and if the pitching had been OK, then winning out is realistic. All the Angels would need to lose 1 of the 4 games they didn't play the Rangers in, and they were slumping anyway, and the Rangers make it in.

Note the past tense. It doesn't matter now. Not after that loss.

edit: Murph said what I was trying to say too.

[mkat]

Originally Posted by jthig32

Dude..they're dead.

maybe not just yet...

[alexamenos]

Bummer

[dalmations202]

Turn out the lights........in late Sept instead of in August...........there is reason to be optimistic for Rangers fans again.