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Roster Transaction

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  • P James Baldwin lost on a waiver claim to the
    Baltimore Orioles.

I’m sick

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I haven’t updated for the Tampa series because I’ve been sick. Running a fever, and had some other problems that decorum prevents me from mentioning here.
I will update, I’m not bailing on the season, but I need to feel a little more “normal” before I want to do that.
Not that there’s a whole lot to write about there anyway. We lost about sums it up. :)

G110: Rangers lose again, 9-4 to Indians

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Ah well. That didn’t last long. CJ Wilson ran out there and got murdered again. I know you need to run guys out there and let ’em take their lumps to grow homegrown pitchers. But boy is it ugly doing that, and it generally makes the natives restless, especially when you live in a sports town so hell bent on “Now now now”.
Hank Blalock had another error today and went 1 for 3. He’s been bumped down in the lineup, as he doesn’t seem to be producing of late. All of our starters in this game got at least one hit, except for Adrian Gonzalez, who was called back up before this game (he played first, Tex DH’ed). We were led by David Dellucci (2-4, 2R) and Sandy Alomar (2-4). We had four doubles (DeRosa, Dellucci, Young, Alomar). But not enough for the win, because our pitching stunk up the joint again. Although if you took CJ Wilson out of the equation and put a zero in where he was, then we would have won.
Was really nice to see Justin Thompson back in the majors. A really nice story. I hope he sticks around and is effective for more than just the last 6 weeks of the season, as I would like to see all the work he took to get back here and all the loyalty shown on both his side and the Rangers side pay off for more than just six weeks of relief pitching.
You can view my full update for this game here, or you can leave a comment about this game below.

A good article on the Yankees

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I have several baseball blogs on my daily reading list, and one of them is a Phillies blog called “Beerleaguer”. They did an interview with a guy who runs a Yankees blog about the Yankees season.
The story covers a vareity of issues about the Yankees. I know this is a Rangers blog, but I thought it was a good article and worth your time to read.
Check it out here.

Roster Transaction

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  • P Scott Feldman optioned to AAA
  • IF Adrian Gonzalez recalled from AAA [

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G119: Topes Win! Topes Win! Topes Win! (Rangers win 3-0)

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Last week when I got mad and said I wasn’t going to do any more updates until the Rangers won, I figured it would be two or three more games. Maybe four. NOT EIGHT! It appeared I flew my “I give up” banner at the right time, because right after that, the bottom fell out, and our season was over. There’s been griping about management by our top players, both privately and publicly, apparently. That’s not good. Michael Young made the quote “I want to play for a winner”. Uh-oh. It’s getting really ugly, folks.
However, last night the ship was righted, if at least for just one night. Chris Young pitched the way he is supposed to – 8 innings of 2 hit shutout ball. Cordero came in, and got a no doubt save. We got just enough offense for the win. It was a very crisply played game. Looked good. Outcome was good. Too bad we didn’t have more of these.
You can view my full update for this game here, or you can leave a comment about this game below.

Roster Transaction

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  • P Justin Thompson purchased from AAA
  • P Scott Feldman purchased from AA
  • P Kevin Gryboski optioned to AAA
  • P James Baldwin designated for assignment [

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Pitching Staff Changes

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This text comes from Jamey Newberg’s mailing list.

A shift is underway. T.R. Sullivan of the Fort Worth Star-Telegram reports that the Rangers have purchased the contracts of lefthander Justin Thompson and righthander Scott Feldman, clearing space in the bullpen by optioning Kevin Gryboski to Oklahoma and designating righthander James Baldwin for assignment.

Justin Thompson after all this time, eh? Wow. I mean, WOW.

That’s it

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I know I said a few days ago that I had given up on the season, and I haven’t changed my mind on that.
But we’ve now lost 5 in a row to the Red Sox – Yankees, and I’m so miffed about it, I’m not updating again until they win.