Rangers

[juck]

9 in a row and counting,GO Rangers!!!

 

[Cythim]

And it will only get better with more games against the NL Central on deck

<---Astros Fan

 

[reddyuta]

i wish we were distancing ourselves from the angels during this run but we are unable to shake them.

 

[YosemiteSam]

I'm excited too, but I need to see the Rangers beat good teams. They haven't done a great job of that yet. Though they have no issue beating the bad ones.

Go Rangers.

 

[juck]

Hitting is on fire. A win is a win. I do wish Angels would drop a few.

 

[daschoo]

i refuse to support anything with the word rangers. forgive me i'm a celtic fan. NOT celtics. couldn't give a ****e about basketball

 

[windward]

Josh Hamilton, MVP.

That is all.

 

[SLATEmosphere]

Josh Hamilton, MVP.

That is all.

this.

 

[windward]

this.

His June numbers are simply mindboggling.

.494/.536/.853 9 HRS 30 RBIS

Yowza.

 

[Tusan_Homichi]

The Rangers won another tonight and Hamilton hit a HUUUUGE shot. The second longest HR in Ballpark history.

 

[YosemiteSam]

They had better win as many as they can now, because they've been playing the bottom barrel teams. That is going to change soon, and thus far they haven't faired so well against the better teams.

The Rangers have played 66% of their games against teams below the .500 mark. They are 34-11 (68% winning precentage) against teams below .500 and 12-18 (34% winning precentage) against teams above .500.

After the All-Star break; as always, the heat is going to start really wearing them down. Like all years, their play starts to fade a bit too compounding the fact that they are going to face a lot more good teams in the second half.

Guess who the Rangers play tomorrow. Yep, the Angels. They had better win this series and the series at home in mid/late July if they want a shot at winning the division. (I will be in town for a game with the Angels in July!)

 

[windward]

And there's the caveat of course.

But the Red Sox and Rays have proven to be beatable. I think the addition of Vlad has tilted the advantage in the Rangers favor.

If you think about it the rangers have struggled against the Blue Jays (who won't do jack) the Twins and those damned Yankees.

It's always those damned Yankees.

 

[StanleySpadowski]

Josh Hamilton, MVP.

That is all.

If the vote were today, Cano would win it hands down.

 

[juck]

i refuse to support anything with the word rangers. forgive me i'm a celtic fan. NOT celtics. couldn't give a ****e about basketball

Dude its baseball lol

 

[daschoo]

Dude its baseball lol

yeah but because of these http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glasgow_Rangers i wont support any team called rangers. the basketball comment was me going off on a tangent because americans have a habit of sticking an s on the end of my teams name due to the boston basketball team

 

[YosemiteSam]

yeah but because of these http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glasgow_Rangers i wont support any team called rangers. the basketball comment was me going off on a tangent because americans have a habit of sticking an s on the end of my teams name due to the boston basketball team

The Texas Rangers called, they said Go Glasgow Rangers! :laugh2:

 

[YosemiteSam]

Vlad punished the Angels for not resigning him last night. :laugh2:

Hamilton's hit streak now at 23 games.

Rangers also acquired Bengie Molina last night from the Giants for Chris Ray and a player to be named later.

 

[YosemiteSam]

The Rangers have played teams with winning records in the last six games and have only won two. They just can't beat the good teams.

They have Baltimore and Cleveland up and hopefully they can win a lot of these cause they are going to need it. After the all-star break, they have 14 of the next 17 games against teams with winning records. Based on their winning percentages against both winning and losing teams, we can expect a split (7-7) over that span at best or go 6-8. Considering seven of those games will be against the Angels, this could get ugly in a hurry for the Rangers.

I sure hope they can pull this together and raise their game. Heat is kicking and this is generally when they begin their slide. The second half of the schedule is tougher than the first half was.

 

[casmith07]

The Rangers have played teams with winning records in the last six games and have only won two. They just can't beat the good teams.

They have Baltimore and Cleveland up and hopefully they can win a lot of these cause they are going to need it. After the all-star break, they have 14 of the next 17 games against teams with winning records. Based on their winning percentages against both winning and losing teams, we can expect a split (7-7) over that span at best or go 6-8. Considering seven of those games will be against the Angels, this could get ugly in a hurry for the Rangers.

I sure hope they can pull this together and raise their game. Heat is kicking and this is generally when they begin their slide. The second half of the schedule is tougher than the first half was.

Finally people are realizing what the Rangers were really doing. Beating up on garbage teams does not a champion make.

 

[Chocolate Lab]

Finally people are realizing what the Rangers were really doing. Beating up on garbage teams does not a champion make.

I doubt anyone said they were a champion. But they're pretty good and a real threat to win their division.

Speaking of, the Angels have just lost four of their last five to the Royals and White Sox.

And as we've said discussing the Cowboys... Teams are going to lose more often when they play better teams? No way!