http://danharen.mlblogs.com/
Discovered that the A’s pitcher Dan Haren has his own blog on the mlb.com site. Made me wonder how many other players have them. I’m pretty sure the only Ranger that had one recently was David Dellucci, who is now a Phillie anyway. The first player I’m aware of that ran his own website, and this started several years ago was former Ranger pitcher CJ Nitkowski.
But I would like to see more of what Dan Haren is doing – talking about what the players do on the plane, etc.
G15: Rangers blow it late, 9-6
You know, I’m so mad at how this ended, I don’t feel like writing about it, despite the fact that I do have time to write about this one.
DeRosa, Meyer
- P Adam Eaton transferred from 15 day to 60 day DL
- 2B/OF Mark DeRosa put on 15 day DL, retroactive to Apr 15
- IF Drew Meyer purchased from AAA [ Link ]
G14: Rangers beat Mariners Tuesday, 7-4
Stupid busy at work today, no time to write anything.
G13: Rangers beat A’s on Sunday, 5-3
This was definitely two games in one. The first game seemed to run from the start till the seventh inning. It was a great pitchers duel. Kameron Loe went 7 innings for the Rangers, giving up one unearned run on 5 hits. Dan Haren went 8 plus innings, giving up 1 run on four hits. A good pitcher’s duel.
Then it got into the bullpen. Otsuka did not do well, giving up a couple of runs in .2 IP. However, Houston Street was terrible, giving up FOUR runs in his .2 IP in relief. THat was the difference. We did have a couple of home runs in the game late for the win. One was a two run shot by Tex, which wasn’t a surprise.
However, the other one was far more comical, envoking memories of Jose Canseco’s ball off the head home run. Milton Bradley had a ball hit by D’Angelo Jimenez in his glove, and then “pushed” it over the fence for a home run. If he hadn’t have touched that ball, no home run, but the only reason Jimenez got his first Ranger home run was thanks to Mr Bradley. It was pretty comical to watch. :)
Not much else to say about this one, as today was my daughter’s first birthday, and I watched this game in about 20 minutes in high speed on the TiVo. :)
Our first series win of the season. That’s good.
G12: Padilla homered to loss, 5-4
This game can be summed up in just a few words. Padilla. Home Run.
While obviously more went on in this game, it will hinge on the fact that Padilla gave up three consecutive home runs to the A’s in the 6th. In all, Padilla went 5+ innings, gave up 8 hits (four of which were home runs) while walking one and striking out four. Obviously not his best start with us. Jack Benoit and CJ Wilson combined to pitch the other three innings, and didn’t give up any more. Sure, we could have scored more runs in the final three innings, and didn’t. But it just felt like the game was over in the sixth inning.
On the other side of things, the A’s pretty much kept us in check. In the entire game, we had just five hits total. One of them was a three run home run by Phil Nevin. We never got much sustained offense in this game.
As I said before, home run. Padilla. Game over.
G11: Rangers beat Barry Zito & A’s, 6-3
I won’t have much time to write about this one. The reason is I had to get up at 3:30AM for Easter Church responsibilities on Friday morning, so by the time this game rolled around, I was dead to the world tired. I fell asleep during the game, and I didn’t see the back end of it util about 8:20AM on Saturday morning. Now I’m off to the aiport to pick up my mother in law who will be in for my daughter’s first birthday tomorrow.
Zito helped more than the Rangers helped themselves, as he was wild, and definitely not “Zito”. Still, I’ll take the win just fine. :)
Wilson – Feldman
- P Scott Feldman optioned to AAA
- P CJ Wilson activated from DL [ Link ]
Total Texas Baseball Magazine
Back in the 2004 season, I was interviewed about an article for the Texas Rangers in stadium program about fan websites. Well, the guy at the Rangers who was responsible for that article being comissioned (Kurt Daniels) is now behind a new venture (he’s still at the Rangers, too). This new venture is a magazine called “Total Texas Baseball”, and is available now. This is a magazine that covers all kinds of baseball in our state of Texas. Majors (Rangers/Astros), Minors, college, High School, it’s all there. Here’s some text from them about what’s in the Inagural April 2006 issue of the magazine:
- Lives Shared in Baseball – Nolan, Reid and Reese Ryan
- Rangers Planning on Improved Pitching
- Astros Offense Expected to be Stronger in ‘06
- Pocket Aces: Danks and Diamond
- Cats Joining American Association
- TCU’s Huffman Dedicated to Two Sports
- Alaniz Leading Longhorns
- “Throw Strikes and Keep it Low†– Hallsville High School’s Justin Jenkins.
- Allen’s Tolleson “Blessed†Despite Injury
I haven’t personally read the magazine yet, but I wanted to draw some attention to it anyway, as it appears to be a quality production. I’m expecting to have my copy shortly, at which point, I’ll update again once I’ve had a chance to read through it.
Bonds & 755
I haven’t said much on Barry Bonds, because quite frankly, I’m tired of hearing about him. Balco & Steroids aside, I think he’s a talented baseball player. Even before recently, he had a boatload of home runs without the cloud of steroids. He won a ton of gold gloves, and has a ton of stolen bases. He’s a talent – there’s no doubt about it.
Today I ran across a cool article by Ben Kabak on how he thinks that Aaron’s HR record is safe from Bonds, due to the two years Aaron spent as a DH at the end of his career in Milwaukee for the Brewers. It talks about how Bonds is not the player or even the hitter he was recently, and that he might have a hard time playing that much to get enough hits for HR to get to Aaron. Course, I think if he’s close, he can just go to some AL team and DH for as long as he needs to get the home runs. It’ll probably be the Yankees, unfortunately. :(
I enjoyed this article a lot, go check it out.
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