Hands up those of you who thought it was over in the first inning.
Hands up those of you who really thought it was over after the third, being down 7-0.
Hands up those of you who wouldn’t mind seeing Jose Canseco pitch again instead of Vicente Padilla.
Hands up those of you who thought “OK, this wasn’t so bad” when we got the 5 spot in the fourth to come back 7-5.
Hands up those of you who were even still watching when we got the 5 spot.
Hands up those of you who turned off the TV when Catalanotto didn’t get the job done, leaving the bases loaded.
Hands up those of you think Sosa is gone right after he hits #600?
Hands up those of you who think we have any chance left this year? I’m waiting…
Hands up those of you who think that Paris Hilton’s impending jail term is more interesting right now than the 2007 Texas Rangers?
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Testing something, having some server issues today.
My site’s past
For those of you who are recent to my site, I started this awhile back. I put my site online back in December of 1998. I don’t have any particular reason why – or if I did, I can’t remember it all these years later. :) But I did get at least one really good season during all the time I’ve been running this site. Too bad it was the first one.
Anyway, I’ve been doing the site in “blog” format for a couple of years now, and the years from 1999-2004 were in the “old format” I used to do. Tonight I started moving the old entries into the blog format. Once I eventually get them all done, I’ll be taking the old pages offline – that should help kill off some dead weight on this site (the total space usage for this siteis seriously large). Plus there will be benefits like searching old reports, etc, etc..
Anyway, if you look down the right hand menu of the site, you’ll see categories for 1999-2004 that weren’t there before; I started putting the old entries in. It will take awhile, as they all have to be done by hand. Requires cut/paste of old writeup, formatting the box score (which I want to save), and manually setting the date so it will show up in the right place. Not exactly tough, but it can be tedious. Plus with about 200 entries a season (162 regular, 30 or so spring training), there’s a lot of them to get through.
Anyway, I just wanted to say thanks for visiting the site. I know I’m not the most popular Rangers site out there, but I do get enjoyment still out of doing the site all these years later. I just wish they’d win a bit more often than they do.
What will Arod do next?
Couple of years ago it was the slap heard round the world. Now it’s Arod screaming in the ear of a fielder trying to make a catch (story). He’s also been rumoured to have been in strip joints with a woman who is not his wife.
What’s next?
G53: Rangers lose to A’s, 6-1
The last hit the Rangers got in this game was a single by Frank Catalanotto to lead off the fourth inning. After that, the Rangers were done. We didn’t get anything after that. That’s the story of this one.
I’ll probably add something later, but I’m at work at the moment.
Koronka up, Wood down
- P John Koronka recalled from AAA
- P Mike Wood optioned to AAA [ Link ]
G52: Rangers finally win; shut out A’s 4-0
Who would have thunk it? After the bad stretch we’ve been in since, well.. opening day really, (although I was going to say the six game losing streak), who would have thought we could pull out a 4-0 win like that?
Tonight I ran into a problem with my computer at home – I had a hardware failure, and had to spend the night figuring out why a data drive failed, and my USB mouse/keyboard were no longer working. Figuring that out took longer than I was expecting, but while doing that, I had the game on the mlb gameday audio on my laptop.
So I was listening to the game while I was getting annoyed at my hardware problems. But this was probably good, as there wasn’t a lot of action in this one in terms of offense. The A’s had a total of 9 hits, but weren’t able to put a run across the board. All the A’s hits were singles, according to the box score. The Rangers had less hits (six), but were able to get a fourspot in the top of the sixth, which was the only scoring for the entire game for both teams. The funny thing is that only one of the four runs was earned, and listening to Eric & Victor on this one they say that the other one was sort of “unearned” because we shouldn’t have been put in the position to get them – one of those “mental error” type of things. The game winning hit was a two run single by Sammy Sosa, who finally came through with the bases loaded after a few failed attempts recently. The big “hit” of the night was Marlon Byrd, who got three hits himself (and the other RBI besides Sosa’s 2), and the entire rest of the team only got three. So he had a good night.
Mike Wood started this game in a spot start function. He did pitch five scoreless innings on just five hits, but also gave up five walks. Too many walks. Obviously, the rest of our pen got some scoreless innings in, with a shutout, but it seemed odd that Gagne got a save in a 4-0 score. I did miss the bottom of the ninth due to my needing to down my net connection at the time, so it must have been one of those deals where it’s a save based on the guy on deck.
Still, it’s nice to see a win, but we need way too many of these for it to matter much, I suppose.
Really awesome organizational chart
If you read my site, I’ll say with some confidence that you read Lone Star Ball, too, and will have already seen what I’m about to tell you about here. There’s a seriously badass article up there right now called More draft prep: Organizational reset. If for some mutant reason you prefer my site to his, and have not seen this article, then you need to go check this out.
It lists the status of all the major league players, plus some comments on all the best players at each level of the minor league system. If you’re at all interested in the Rangers minor leagues, this is a must read. Do not miss it.
I mean, really. Stop right now, and go read that.
G51: Rangers lose yet AGAIN, to A’s 5-3
They had a chance in the 8th. Bases loaded. Sosa pinch hit and stuck out again. Gerald Laird fouled out. That’s about it in a nutshell. Had a chance; blew it. You know, this picture from tonight’s game kind of sums it up in an odd kind of way.
But, on the positive side, seeing this picture below online with the title “Jays send reeling Yankees into the AL cellar” kind of cheered me up – even just a little.
OK, I lied. I freakin’ loved that headline and picture. But they’ve got a long way to go to join our little team from Arlington below the Kansas City line (forget the Mendoza line, we’re so far down, we’re below the Kansas City line).
That’s right, with this loss, nobody sucks worse than us – we officially have the worst record in major league baseball! 18-33, .353 (KC and Cincinnati are both 19-33, .365)
BONUS FACT: The Yankees are 13.5 games out in their division, we’re only 12.5.
Additionally in place of part of the game, I watched a new episode of Doctor Who tonight with my wife. That was probably more entertaining right now.
Wood up, Feldman down
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