win, close but no Support!!
The Red Sox had lost 3 in a row and went into this game versus the Texas Rangers with their ace Josh Beckett on the mound, so Sox Nation was expecting to take t
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27 June 2009
I already knew that the Red Sox were in first, and that the Yanks were in second. I also knew that whenever I looked at the standings, Toronto was not far behind New York. What I didn’t know was that Tampa Bay is currently only a game behind Toronto.
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4 April 2009
ll lead his team to the playoffs as either the NL East victor or via the wildcard, Hamilton and his Texas Rangers will be on the outside looking in unless the Rangers’ staff turns out to be a lot better than the entire world predicts. Hamilton’s numbers will be just too spectacular to ignore. Other potential AL winners: Mark Teixeira, Justin Morneau, Alex Rodriguez, Grady Sizemore and Jason Bay. Other potential NL winners: Manny Ramirez, Albert Pujols, Hanley Ramirez, Ryan Braun and Chase Utley.
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31 March 2009
The Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim won the American League West by 21 games in 2008, a margin 13 1/2 games wider than the next largest difference which was the Chicago Cubs’ 7 1/2 game lead over National League Wild Card winner Milwaukee. With the departures of some key Angels and the acquisitions of some big name players by the other teams in the West, the race will tighter, but don’t expect Texas, Oakland or Seattle to leapfrog Los Angeles who should capture their fifth division title in six years.
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30 September 2008
With the MLB playoffs set to begin, there is a subtle difference in the air compared to start of any other postseason. In the NHL, fans can potentially look forward to a great Canadians/Bruins series that is not only exciting, but has a historical kick to it. Likewise basketball fans always have the chance to see if the Suns can finally get past the Spurs and football fans love seeing the rivalry of the Eagles Vs the City of Philadelphia when the Eagles so much as get tackled for a loss.
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15 August 2008
ffense continued to dominate – again – Jerry Remy used the perfect word to describe the Texas Rangers – demoralizing. This whole series, the Rangers kept finding themselves down by a ridiculous amount of runs. I’m not a baseball player by any means, but it wasn’t too too long ago when I played Little League baseball. When you’re in the field, watching runner after runner cross the plate, you get bored. Well I can’t say that the Rangers were bored, with all the “work” they had to do in the field. But I can say that it couldn’t have been very fun at all for the Texas defense, for two reasons: 1) Two innings where 9 runs or more were scored in the same series, and 2) The errors that were committed allowed the innings to continue and more runs to cross the plate. I would disagree that the errors lost Texas the series, but it certainly would have been a different ball game had the errors not occurred.
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14 August 2008
Jon Lester, I have two words to say to you: Thank you. Despite Buchholz's struggle and Tim Wakefield's injury, you give our starting rotation hope. Yes, Dice-K and Beckett are great too, and it would be rude for us to forget that. What makes you stand out from the two of them is that you do not have as much pitching experience, and yet you continue to dominate on the mound.
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13 August 2008
In case you missed last night's game, it was a roller coaster. Dad was so sure we'd won, he actually called me at the end of the first inning. Now, as I've mentioned before in this blog, I
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12 August 2008
I picked up on this one late; like into the 7th inning, and the Boston Red Sox were down 15-14. 15-14!???!!!. What the heck had I missed? Well, for one thing, a 10-run first inning for the Sox that included two homeruns by Ortiz, an 8-run 5th inning for Texas, followed by a 5-run 6th inning that put them ahead and set the stage for what could easily have been the most embarrasing Red Sox loss of the year. As it turned out, thanks to Kevin Youkilis, it was a 19-16 win that temporarily inched them one-half game closer to the Rays, who were in the process of a minor struggle versus Oakland when the Sox concluded their 4-hour marathon.
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15 July 2008
One of the All-Star Break traditions: Reassessing our predictions from the first half of the season. Some of mine have changed, some have stayed the same—and some were just damn wrong. Living in the West, I will take the contrarian position and roll from west to east in my choices.
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1 July 2008
All right then, it’s almost July, which means it’s almost time for yet another midsummer classic, which once again will pit the National League against their arch-rivals, those bums from the junior circuit.
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19 June 2008
As I remarked in my blog when he was released, Sidney Ponson has brought his teams little but grief to go with his occasionally adequate pitching. When the Rangers released him, I’d hoped that would be the last of Sir Sidney.
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7 June 2008
The Texas Rangers aren't known for making shrewd organizational moves. They were nicknamed The Strangers in the 1970s, in part because of their no-name team, but also for their proclivity towards hiring oddballs or also-rans. In the 1980s and 90s, striving for acceptance, they built a new ballfield (which has proved to be not only a sauna in the hot Texas summers, but also a launching pad for hitters) and enjoyed a brief window of respectability, appearing in their first postseason and winning their only playoff game in 1995.
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1 May 2008
For many baseball fans, last night wasn't a great night to watch baseball, as blowouts predominated early on. But, because of the beautiful game that is baseball, only three of them continued in their lopsided fashion, with the best of them highlighted by a homer from Micah Owings, the best-hitting pitcher in baseball, whom teammate Conor Jackson said had the "best pop" of anyone on the team. And all of them showed something about the winning and losing teams, proving that any baseball game is worth watching, even when it doesn't seem exciting.
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17 March 2008
the season we see Felix Hernandez really show that he is going to be a star Major League pitcher.
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How will the Rangers replace Mark Teixeira’s offense?
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13 March 2008
The Texas Rangers still just seem to hover in the mediocrity bubble. They still have not gotten the pitching help that they need and their rotation of Kevin Millwood, Vincente Padilla and Jason Jennings just isn’t going to cut it. The bullpen is also weak this season and they don’t have a true closer. The line-up will be able to get some hits and score their share of runs but the line-up always does that. They brought it Josh Hamilton and I believe he will have a very good year with them. Michael Young, Ian Kinsler and Hank Blalock (when he is healthy) will continue to produce. This team should finish 3rd this season but I don’t think they will come close to contending with the Mariners or Angels.
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