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Fantasy Baseball

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Just wanted to say thanks to those of you who signed on to my annual free fantasy baseball league over at Yahoo Fantasy Baseball. We had our draft tonight, and I think about half the league showed up (I didn’t count, really). Draft went well, had some good chatting – and one of the guys actually paid to be on the draft from a hotel in Hawaii or something like that. That was pretty cool! To those who didn’t or couldn’t make it (one guy joined the Army, so he’s got a good excuse), I hope your drafted teams serve you well, too.

Doug Brocail has heart surgery

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Read this afternoon that former Ranger reliever Doug Brocail had heart surgery. Something like that is never good. He’s two years younger than me, so I don’t like hearing stuff like that. Don’t like hearing that stuff about people no matter what their age is. I’ll have a small prayer tomorrow at church for Doug and his family. If you’re so inclined, do that yourself, as he was a nice guy, even if he wasn’t our best pitcher most of the time.

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Roster Moves

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  • IF Aarom Baldiris optioned to AA
  • C Mike Nickeas assigned to minor league camp
  • OF Ruddy Yan assigned to minor league camp

Rangers rained out Saturday

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Saturday’s game against the Rockies was rained out. This ended a streak of 143 straight days without rain the Phoenix area. The Dallas area had a taste of that not too long ago.
Kameron Loe lost his start today because of the weather, but did get work in with indoor simulated games.
Here is a story on the Rangers site about the rainout.

Rangers beat Team Japan on Thursday 8-4

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I forgot that we played a second game on Thursday evening, going against the Japanese World Baseball Classic team. This was an exhibition game, it didn’t count in the spring training standings – was also a split squad game.
It’s pretty hard to write about this, as I can’t seem to locate a box score for it anywhere. If you know of one, please leave a comment below where to find it. This is one I would have liked to have watched on TV. From what I can see, it appears to be a pretty evenly played game through five, when we were up 2-1. However, it broke out from there, as we scored two in the 6th and four in the 7th, to essentially seal the deal.
Some highlights: Ian Kinsler went two for three with an RBI, RA Dickey went three innings giving up just one run, and John Danks threw three innings of scoreless relief for the win. For Japan, their starter Daisuke Matsuzaka went four innings, giving up just one lone run – their pen let them down.

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Mack Brown to throw out first pitch Apr 3rd

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A special thanks to Matt over at Bevo Sports for tipping me off to this story. Apparently Texas longhorns coach Mack Brown, along with Darrell Royal will be throwing out first pitches on opening day for the Rangers on April 3rd. This isn’t a huge suprise to me, as the Rangers have been doing a Texas Hero tradition for opening day first pitch for as long as I can remember. Here’s Matt’s full story.

In an exclusive interview earlier today on SportsRadio 1310 The Ticket, Texas Rangers’ owner Tom Hicks announced that on opening day the Texas Rangers will honor the 2005 National Champion Texas Longhorns, with Mack Brown and Darrell Royal throwing out the first pitches.
This comes on the heels of the Rangers going after Roger Clemens, a former Texas Longhorn himself. I wonder if this is just one more tactic in trying to lure the indecisive Roger Clemens to the Rangers?

ST6: Rangers beat Cubs 6-5 on Tuesday

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I’ll have more on this later, as I was watching the World Baseball Classic games this afternoon, so I haven’t had time to check out what happened here in detail.
Edit Later: No I won’t – I got too busy with work on Wed & Thu to go back and write about Tuesday’s game.

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