How 'Bout Them Rangers

[Stautner]

It sucks that the games haven't been starting till 10PM my time. Considering I get up at 5:30am, it makes it very difficult for me to watch those games during the week.

I saw that CJ got roughed up last night, but Murphy and Young (GS) came through big last night.

Tommy Hunter got roughed up his last outing. Hopefully he bounces back and returns to form tonight as we will need it against the Mariners ace Felix Hernandez.

With a 10:05pm EST start time, I won't get to watch much of this one either.

They are 9:00 my time and I'm having a hard time with it. I probably wouldn't watch at all if I had to wait the additional hour you do.

I think the pitching will be fine. Hunter and CJ have been too good this year to just suddenly go completely to Hell. And eventually we should scor a few rins for Lee and let him win a few. I'm just glad the hitting finally came to life.

 

[DFWJC]

I never thought I would say this, being as how there are 162 games, but now I DVR the late ones in case I am out or falling asleep.

Me too. There's so much stoppage and the games are so late that the DVR works fine for the away games especially.

 

[DFWJC]

I am very happy that Ryan won the bid. I think Cuban would have done ok, he would not be afraid to spend the cash. But Ryan is a baseball guy and will continue to do great.

Me too. I'm sure MLB is happy too.
Cuban was fine through all of this and he's grown more disiplined about spending over the years. Once he hit his limit, he stepped aside and tipped his hat to the winners.

The Rangers' future is bright!

 

[Stautner]

Now, if they can sign Cliff Lee beyond this year I'll be happy.

 

[YosemiteSam]

I never thought I would say this, being as how there are 162 games, but now I DVR the late ones in case I am out or falling asleep.

I have MLB.tv so I can re-watch the game at any time. Probably the absolute best thing about MLB.tv though is the condensed games. Once you know the score and if you know nothing real exciting happen, watching the condensed game is good stuff. (good stuff when you want to check it out at work the next morning too!) :laugh2:

As a matter a fact, I will do that now!

 

[juck]

Cliff lee tonight. We get 2 outta 3 from A's we are completely steamrollin.

 

[StylisticS]

Cliff lee tonight. We get 2 outta 3 from A's we are completely steamrollin.

We pretty much have to 2 outta 3 from the A's. Because the next couple weeks will be brutal. Against the division we seem to not have an answer to and our nemesis, the Minnesota Twins, who is starting to play good baseball again late in the season, as usual. If we go 10-6 over the next 16 after Oakland, I will be happy.

 

[T-RO]

Texas Rangers. Lovin' It.

 

[Tusan_Homichi]

 

[YosemiteSam]

Yesterday's loss was extremely disappointing. I suspected we wouldn't beat Cahill, but when we went up 2-0 I thought we had a chance.

...I should have known better.

 

[cowboyeric8]

Murphy is clutch.

Good win against the Yankees.

 

[Dawgs0916]

Murphy is clutch.

Good win against the Yankees.

Murphy is on that big dog status right now. I LOVE Borbon, I mean I had visions of a 50 steal season. But Murphy is legit right now.

 

[dback]

What a great win tonight. David Murphy played lights out and is really becoming a solid hitter. Keep fightin' Rangers!!!

 

[Eldorado]

Great game last night, Rangers fans. They're definitely a team to fight with. The Hamilton hit against Mo was one of the best pieces of hitting I've seen in a long time; the arm strength it takes to drive Mo's cutter in on the hands into the outfield is nothing short of astronomical.

Hopefully the Yankees look better when they put their actual lineup in; no Teixiera, Posada, Cano, and Granderson (plusThames as the DH) is a pretty horrendous starting lineup. But everyone needs a break, i guess.

Good to see AJ pitch well enough.

 

[theebs]

Great game last night, Rangers fans. They're definitely a team to fight with. The Hamilton hit against Mo was one of the best pieces of hitting I've seen in a long time; the arm strength it takes to drive Mo's cutter in on the hands into the outfield is nothing short of astronomical.

Hopefully the Yankees look better when they put their actual lineup in; no Teixiera, Posada, Cano, and Granderson (plusThames as the DH) is a pretty horrendous starting lineup. But everyone needs a break, i guess.

Good to see AJ pitch well enough.

cano ended up playing, he came into the game during the 4th inning.

and last year I remember when the whole stinking rangers team was injured in the second half and no one cared, no one said anything about it, everyone around the league just said...they suck..its hot and they wil fall apart.

now this year the red sox and yankees have some injuries and everytime anyone mentions them they preface it with a but or they are injured. its annoying!

Last night I felt like the rangers one the game because elvis andrus made a couple of great plays to get big outs and on the flip side jeter couldnt make that same play in the 10th to get young and it started a rally for texas.

Should be fun tonight.

 

[Eldorado]

cano ended up playing, he came into the game during the 4th inning.

and last year I remember when the whole stinking rangers team was injured in the second half and no one cared, no one said anything about it, everyone around the league just said...they suck..its hot and they wil fall apart.

now this year the red sox and yankees have some injuries and everytime anyone mentions them they preface it with a but or they are injured. its annoying!

Last night I felt like the rangers one the game because elvis andrus made a couple of great plays to get big outs and on the flip side jeter couldnt make that same play in the 10th to get young and it started a rally for texas.

Should be fun tonight.

He came in the 6th, and 3 at bats from a sick Cano is alot different than 5 at bats from a healthy one. Nobody has ever been as injured as this year's REd Sox, so that wsas just a dumb statement to make comparing last years rangers to this years red sox. the yankees are pretty healthy, but tex is with his wife while she's giving birth, and posada/granderson just got the day off yesterday. cano, like I mentioned, had a stomach bug.

 

[theebs]

He came in the 6th, and 3 at bats from a sick Cano is alot different than 5 at bats from a healthy one. Nobody has ever been as injured as this year's REd Sox, so that wsas just a dumb statement to make comparing last years rangers to this years red sox. the yankees are pretty healthy, but tex is with his wife while she's giving birth, and posada/granderson just got the day off yesterday. cano, like I mentioned, had a stomach bug.

Do you know how many injuries the rangers had last year? They lost their whole team after the break.

and I am not comparing the teams, I am comparing the way it is percieved.

at one point last august, young, hamiliton, kinsler, cruz, salty and murphy were out. and I wont get into the staff which was a mash unit from top to bottom all year.

it just happens. All I am saying is no one broke out the fiddle for the rangers.


oh and yeah I thought cano came in and played defense for some reason in the 4th, I guess it was the 6th.

 

[Eldorado]

Do you know how many injuries the rangers had last year? They lost their whole team after the break.

and I am not comparing the teams, I am comparing the way it is percieved.

at one point last august, young, hamiliton, kinsler, cruz, salty and murphy were out. and I wont get into the staff which was a mash unit from top to bottom all year.

it just happens. All I am saying is no one broke out the fiddle for the rangers.


oh and yeah I thought cano came in and played defense for some reason in the 4th, I guess it was the 6th.

i'm not using it as an excuse, i gave the rangers their due. it doesn't matter who is playing first base, if you get a win on the greatest closer in the history of baseball it's something to be proud about. i'm just saying tha jeter swisher thames rodriguez kearns looks a crapload worse than jeter swisher tex arod cano. tonight will be a good test for the yankees, likely without tex again and against arguably the best pitcher in the AL.

 

[theebs]

well of course teams without their players are not the same teams.

but again, I dont remember anyone breaking out the fiddle for the rangers last year.

It was just, the rangers suck as always and its hot so of course they will play bad, which is the dumbest analogy ever.

 

[jimmy40]

cano ended up playing, he came into the game during the 4th inning.

and last year I remember when the whole stinking rangers team was injured in the second half and no one cared, no one said anything about it, everyone around the league just said...they suck..its hot and they wil fall apart.

now this year the red sox and yankees have some injuries and everytime anyone mentions them they preface it with a but or they are injured. its annoying!

Last night I felt like the rangers one the game because elvis andrus made a couple of great plays to get big outs and on the flip side jeter couldnt make that same play in the 10th to get young and it started a rally for texas.

Should be fun tonight.

because missing pieces that have won titles is worth mentioning.