- OF Frank Catalanotto placed on 15 day DL
- P Scott Feldman optioned to AAA
- OF Victor Diaz recalled from AAA
- P Mike Wood recalled from AAA [ Link ]
Scott Franzke
Remember the old post game show guy Scott Franzke? When KRLD dropped the show for a year, we lost Franzke to the Phillies, who was first hired just to do the same thing there he did here. But he’s now in their broadcast team. Philadelphia does things differently than we do here. In Texas, we have dedicated radio & TV teams. Not so in Philly. After a couple of innings, they rotate between TV and radio, so you get to hear/see everyone in one game (I believe it’s everyone).
Anyway, there’s an article about Franzke and the rest of the Phillies broadcast team over here at this Philly sports blog. They seem to like him over there – which is good. I was rather annoyed when we let him go. I don’t think I’ve listened to his replacement here in Texas more than once or twice.
G21: Rangers swept in Cleveland by score of 9-4
Sigh. It’s a bit early in the season to be disenfranchised, and I really am not, but the road losses are getting rather annoying. We’re something 2-150 on the road this season so far. This franchise seems rather lethargic.
Everyone raise their hand when they thought that Sammy Sosa would be our most consistent offensive performer (in a power department) come April 25th. Sosa was the only real good thing to write about for Thursday’s game. He got his historic 44th different ballpark home run with two of them at Jacobs Field. I think I heard on the radio the only other current ballparks he hasn’t hit home runs in are RFK Stadium & New Busch. Unless it ends up being Rangers/Nats in the world series this year, he’s not getting one at RFK. :) Sosa also needs four more multi home run games to pass Babe Ruth for that record. Course, Barry Bonds is on that list too, one above Sosa at the moment.
We head to Toronto, where we’ll probably win one. Maybe. Sigh. At least it was nice seeing this image on ESPN’s site. That was fun. :)
Rangers radio advertisements
No, I don’t want some home made ice cream that Momma was shouting through the screen about from my “Good ol country home”.
I know that the “Bunt Cake” commercial is a joke.
Need some new ads, guys. Two three years with the same ad is pretty annoying, especially when you hear the same ones 3-4 times (or more) during one game.
Gaaaaahhhhh!
Edit: Gaaah! This commercial came on a second time within 30 minutes after I posted this!
G20: Rangers lose in 11 to Indians, 8-7
You know there were a lot of great little moments in this game to talk about (Padilla’s first, Young’s RBI late, etc). There actually was a lot positive that happened. But the only thing I can think of about this game to say is…
SSSssssssshit!
AL East Standings
Gotta love fifth place. Thing of beauty.
| Team | W | L | PCT | GB |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Red Sox | 12 | 7 | .632 | — |
| Orioles | 11 | 9 | .550 | 1.5 |
| Blue Jays | 10 | 10 | .500 | 2.5 |
| Devil Rays | 9 | 11 | .450 | 3.5 |
| Yankees | 8 | 11 | .421 | 4.0 |
Happy Birthday Hank’s Homies!
Saw an article come over my rss feed reader this morning from the website for Hank’s Homies, which isn’t updated very often, so the notice stuck out. Apparently the Homies are three years old now. The funny thing is I remember them in the upper deck around Section 340 or so before they moved to Section 5. I remember looking at ’em like “What’s with these guys”? They were just a row or two in front of me. I seem to recall getting annoyed when I couldn’t see because they held up their sign. :)
Anyway, they moved down to Section 5, and a legend was born. If you read their story, they recall again the story from May 2nd, 2004 when the entire stadium was wrapped up “SWEEP – SWEEP – SWEEP”. I agree with them, it was one of the best moments I’d heard in the park. To hear the entire stadium wrapped up chanting sweep was very cool. It wasn’t until later that I found out how cool it really was when I found out the Homies started it, and it was even mentioned on air in this audio clip by Eric Nadel and old radio guy Vince Cotroneo.
You can check out this quick video clip I took of them singing their chant when Hank was up the day I hung out with them on June 24, 2004. I couldn’t handle standing the entire game, I eventually ended up sitting down where my real seat was. But I had fun with ’em.
Tuesday’s game rained out
I was driving around listening to the pre-game in my truck, figuring that either the game would be cancelled before it started, or it would be one of those ones they play in the rain, as it wasn’t raining very hard at the time.
It was officially cancelled right before first pitch time. Eric Nadel said that it would be made up as a doubleheader some time in July, which is the next time the Mariners are back here. That will likely be a day I go to, as I always go to doubleheaders. Gotta love the free extra game. They haven’t announced which date yet.
We’re off to Cleveland. I’m sure we’ll be hearing a lot about Sosa again, as it’s the only active MLB park he hasn’t hit a home run in. I’m sure we’ll also hear about all the games postponed already up there due to snow and other bad weather.
G19: Rangers drop game to M’s, 5-4
Odd quotes in the press by Kevin Millwood saying it was his best pitched game of the season. He may have felt like that, but the numbers don’t lie. 6 innings pitched, 5 earned runs, 2 walks. Did get five strikeouts, as well as ten hits. That doesn’t seem like his best game of the year to me. Although, it didn’t seem as bad as the line went. It felt like he was pitching better, but you can’t argue with the results.
Mahay, Feldman, & CJ Wilson did pitch well out of the pen. Not sure which of these guys was the closer today, as Gagne was put back on the DL (shocker), and Wash said in the pre-game that Aki was unavailable this game. Our three relievers went three innings, giving up just two hits and no walks combined. Not many strikeouts, but an out is an out.
Cha Seung Baek, who seems to be a second coming of Bartolo Colon vs the Rangers, was actually not as a good against us as he normally was. Baek went 4.1, giving up 4ER on 10H and 2BB. However, their pen was better than ours was. Using just two guys (Morrow & Putz), the M’s pen gave up just one hit and two walks with no runs over 4.2 innings (longer than Baek went by a little). Morrow looked particularly impressive. We were probably lucky we got the four runs we did.
Seattle’s offense was led by Ichiro who just needed a home run for the cycle. He was what he was supposed to be. I wonder where he’ll be after this year; I can’t imagine him sticking with Seattle. Unfortunately, he’ll probably end up a Yankee playing with Matsui when Abreu’s contract isn’t picked up.
Our offense was topped off by a home run by Hank Blalock into the wedgie in right, driving in two. We also had a triple by Calananotto, a double by Cruz, and six other scattered singles. However, the only person with more than one hit was Sammy Sosa. His .500 performance for this game now RAISES his batting average over the Mendoza line to .206. Blech. Actually, our hits were quite evenly spread out – everyone had one except Gerald Laird, whose season batting average has gone under .100 (.098). Is there a “Mendoza line” nickname for .100 batting averages? Wash has said many times that “whatever you hit is a bonus”. I’m wondering if that’s not the way to take it. Tell him “Dude, you need to get some hits”.
Disheartening loss, as it’s one we should have won. :(
Gagne
- P Eric Gagne placed on 15 day DL
- P Frankie Francisco recalled from AAA [ Link ]
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