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Published: Oct 14, 2014
Author: CZ82
Post Date: 2014-10-14 18:08:52 by CZ82
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For those of you who would like to comment on what might happen with the 2015 version of the Texas Rangers or any other MLB team for that matter.
Poster Comment: BTW Stone the Rangers are going to steal Cueto from the Reds!
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#1174. To: CZ82 (#1171)
Guess it didn't feel too hurt back then. With Josh anything is possible. 16 For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.---John 3:16
Good point. Even though they went 5-5 on this road trip and looked tired and gimpie, they are still sitting in a good position to make a final run on the division and 2nd WC. At this point slumps will be slumps and it is 90% management and coaching the rest of the way. 16 For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.---John 3:16
I guess I wasn't too clear I should have said when he first went on the DL with the knee he said he was going to have to get surgery done on it but was going to have to wait until the off season. But now it seems like it was more of a molehill than the mountain he made it out to be, which is why I said he should have done it a month ago... They've played 139 games this year so far, Andrus has played 137, Fielder 135, Beltre 120 but was out over 2 weeks with the hand, Choo 126 cause he couldn't hit the broad side of a barn with his bat for awhile but has been hitting much better for the last 2-3 months.
Colby was perfect through 7. Good deal. Now he is trying to save the shutout.
To Him who loved us and washed us from our sins in His own blood, and has made us kings and priests to His God and Father, to Him be glory and dominion forever and ever. Amen.---Revelation 1:5b-6
2 hit CG shut out. Good deal Colby. Now have Gallardo and Chi Chi to finish out the weekend. Colby gets to pitch against the Stros too I believe. To Him who loved us and washed us from our sins in His own blood, and has made us kings and priests to His God and Father, to Him be glory and dominion forever and ever. Amen.---Revelation 1:5b-6
Twinkies winning in the 9th:(
To Him who loved us and washed us from our sins in His own blood, and has made us kings and priests to His God and Father, to Him be glory and dominion forever and ever. Amen.---Revelation 1:5b-6
Looks like you won't have to see him for the rest of the season, he's out with a fracture in his leg... I don't think they are going away anytime soon, they have a very easy schedule the rest of the way... Also the Angels are still lurking... OTOH the Rangers are 1.5 games behind the Astros so they may not have to worry about the Twinkies much longer if they take over the division lead... Twinkies face the Angels same time we face the Astros. All sorts of scenarios coming out of that one.
To Him who loved us and washed us from our sins in His own blood, and has made us kings and priests to His God and Father, to Him be glory and dominion forever and ever. Amen.---Revelation 1:5b-6
Yankees drop game 1 of double bill. And in extra innings. Jays have Monday off. Sweeping a double header is rare these days. So Yanks will probably gain back a game. To Him who loved us and washed us from our sins in His own blood, and has made us kings and priests to His God and Father, to Him be glory and dominion forever and ever. Amen.---Revelation 1:5b-6
not looking likely. Yanks better start thinking of winning games to preserve their wildcard position. Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?
"I'm not looking at numbers regardless of what the results are," Fielder said. "I'm just controlling my mindset and controlling trying to get a good pitch to hit." And swinging at inside pitches that would have hit you if you weren't bailing out and swinging at the same time... Another LHer (on a bad team) does them in cause they have no RH bats that can hit the ball on a consistent basis... You would have thought Gallardo would have been pulled when he gave up the 1st HR and showed he had no command of his fastball whatsoever... Well Banister is listening to you Zig. Mike Napoli starting in LF today. He never played the position as a pro. Let's see how that works out. To Him who loved us and washed us from our sins in His own blood, and has made us kings and priests to His God and Father, to Him be glory and dominion forever and ever. Amen.---Revelation 1:5b-6
a glimmer of hope . Tanaka earned his $ today . He gave them innings in a shut out win. 3 1/2 games behind after this disastrous weekend BUT ............. The glimmer of hope . 1) The Yank offense did not fail them ...it was the rotation . Pitchers like Severino and even Pineda and Nova have not looked as bad as they did this weekend so they need to rebound. 2) The Jays look like an ordinary team without Tulowitzki and Encarnacion in their lineup. Tulowitzki is out 2 weeks . Encarnacion is day to day . The Yanks need to stay in the hunt into next weekends series . You gotta believe ! Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?
Tom about 20 games left give or take. Loads can happen. I see that whoever is competitive and competing today will most likely hang tough to the end. The Ranger bats were silent for a week and today Beltre is 2-3 2 HRs and 5 RBI. Fielder is 2-3 and Choo is 2-2 with a BB and HR. Just in time for the Astros to come to town. LOL and my old Mets are beating teams in the later innings. Papa redleghunter is smiling:) To Him who loved us and washed us from our sins in His own blood, and has made us kings and priests to His God and Father, to Him be glory and dominion forever and ever. Amen.---Revelation 1:5b-6
Yes he is . Remember sitting with him cheering on the Giants in the bad old days when the Giants were the most pathetic team in the league . Then he came to Long Island in 86 because the women were having a baby shower for my wife . So we went to the apartment I was renting and watched the Giants against the Vikes .The Giants were losing late in the game 20–19 with 72 seconds left in the fourth quarter at the Minnesota .Then Phil Simms completed a desperation fourth and 17 to Bobby Johnson for a first down . Then the Giants won the game on Raul Allegre's 5th field goal of the game. From then on ,the Giants dominated . The Giants won their first Super Bowl one week before my daughter was born. I've always given a big assist to Pappa redleghunter Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?
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To Him who loved us and washed us from our sins in His own blood, and has made us kings and priests to His God and Father, to Him be glory and dominion forever and ever. Amen.---Revelation 1:5b-6
NOTHING IN LEFT The Rangers had lost five of their previous six games against left-handed starters, so Banister did what he could to get his best hitters in the lineup. That included slugger Mike Napoli getting his first professional action in left field. Napoli played the first five innings in left without getting a ball hit his way before going to his usual position, first base. Napoli then had a fielding error on a grounder in the sixth. He got on base 3 times which gave Evis and Roogie someone to drive it which is better than the other LFers have been doing... I'm really surprised he didn't play Rua since he had been doing so well at RR but this worked out so what the heck... Just looked at the roster for tonight's game and he's got Naps in LF again and batting 5th against the LHer Kazmir... This just goes to show you how little Bannister trusts the other RHers on the roster and especially the ones in the OF... That has got to be something that is addressed in the off season... Altuve just took Hamels deep for a 1-0 lead in the 1st... If Hamels can keep the ball in the park he can beat the Astros. The Astros are the quintessential young team, low batting average and a lot of HRs, all or nothing no patience... Young teams also like to pick on the heeter so if he has good offspeed stuff tonight he should cut thru them like a hot knife thru butter... Nap dropped his first fly ball tonight. Led to an unearned run. But Mitch and Fielder went yard. With base runners!
To Him who loved us and washed us from our sins in His own blood, and has made us kings and priests to His God and Father, to Him be glory and dominion forever and ever. Amen.---Revelation 1:5b-6
Errors almost got the Rangers tonight. Hamels kept them in the game. Kela got a huge out (Altuve) going behind 3-1. Nap was taken out in the 7th for Stubbs. And #BigBoy went deep. Tolly closed it out with a great no out double play by Roogie. Then he smoked Rasmus. Exciting game. Sonny boy had to hit the hay while game was tied. Nice good morning note for him tomorrow. :) To Him who loved us and washed us from our sins in His own blood, and has made us kings and priests to His God and Father, to Him be glory and dominion forever and ever. Amen.---Revelation 1:5b-6
Watched the game till Rangers let Houston tie it at 3, figured after that easy run they would figure out a way to lose so said heck with it and went to sleep... (Some of us Non-Democrat voters have to work for a living you know)... Hamel's did alright pitching against a team he's never seen before, their roster has turned over almost completely since 2012. Threw way too many fastballs to those young hitters but got away with most of them. His heeter doesn't have a whole lot of movement to it kinda flat and easy to hit if it isn't in the right location... It was nice that the Leftys broke thru against a LH pitcher for a change, especially against Kazmir who normally gives them fits... 1-2 more decent RH bats would really help... Don't worry. I gave up on the Boys the other night when they handed the Jints another turnover. Then get a phone alert Romo pulled out a come back:) To Him who loved us and washed us from our sins in His own blood, and has made us kings and priests to His God and Father, to Him be glory and dominion forever and ever. Amen.---Revelation 1:5b-6
Walk of sac fly bottom 9th! 1/2 game in lead of AL West. Twinkies and Bronx Bombers lost. Things tightening. Astros have easiest schedule left. Twinkies and Angels beat up on each other next week. To Him who loved us and washed us from our sins in His own blood, and has made us kings and priests to His God and Father, to Him be glory and dominion forever and ever. Amen.---Revelation 1:5b-6
Beltre 4-5 #BigBoy went 3-4 with a BB. That's exactly what we need now. Perez has a tough assignment facing Keutchel. Thursday's match looks pretty even. To Him who loved us and washed us from our sins in His own blood, and has made us kings and priests to His God and Father, to Him be glory and dominion forever and ever. Amen.---Revelation 1:5b-6
That series will tell if Twinkies can hang around till the end or not, last night was the first bit of ground they've lost in the last 2 weeks or so... 1st games of the season are always weird ones, very seldom are they accurate indicators of what the season is going to be like...
Let's see they have 5 left against Rangers, 3 with Angels, 3 Seattle, 3 Arizona and 3 with Oakland. They are 24-44 on the road and 8 of those games are on the road. SO this means Rangers better sweep them at home before they go to Houston for 3 late next week... 1/2 game in lead of AL West. I woke up just in time to see the 9th inning unfold and heard all the gushing the commentators did on Banister, I'd bet his uniform is soaked with commentator drool... For the Rangers to hang around they need to beat Kyle Seager and the M's....And not play footsies with the A's and sweep them in O co. like they did consistently last year. If they can handle the low ball teams, who are out to play spoiler, they can hang on to a playoff spot. The Astros have an easier route IMO. The Twinkies also have an easier schedule after the Angels but has KC to end the season. KC at that point will probably throw out their AAA ball players for that series to stack their rotation for the divisional series. 19 or so games left and loads could still happen. To Him who loved us and washed us from our sins in His own blood, and has made us kings and priests to His God and Father, to Him be glory and dominion forever and ever. Amen.---Revelation 1:5b-6
Just remember Rangers have beaten the Astro's 10 out of 14 games so far this year... And Astro's have a losing record in the division...
18 games, Astros 17... Lets see the Rangers have 5 with Astros, 3 with Seattle, 3 with Oakland, 3 with Detroit and 4 with Angels to end the season... It seems to me I remember hearing/seeing the Astros had a very low winning percentage when hitting 1 or less HRs, but can't seem to find it again... 14-3 win. Fielder had quite a night with 2 HRs. Nap and Roogie went deep early and Wilson late in the game. Angels lost and Twinkies losing in the bottom 12th. Angels vs. Twins starting tomorrow. Then I think the Angels play the Astros. Angels may be done if they can't sweep the Twins and Stros. Stros get back a few of their starters tomorrow off DTD. To Him who loved us and washed us from our sins in His own blood, and has made us kings and priests to His God and Father, to Him be glory and dominion forever and ever. Amen.---Revelation 1:5b-6
Depending on what happens in that series and what other teams do, both teams could be pretty much eliminated... I'm beginning to think the Twinkies have shot their wad and are gonna fade away... Yankees look like they might play well enough to make it to the playoffs by are having to ride their "old fogeys" and pitching pretty hard to maintain their lead... They may end up being "one and done" when it's all said and done... Jays are still playing very well so I can't imagine any scenario to where they wouldn't make it, too much offensive talent... Jays are still playing very well so I can't imagine any scenario to where they wouldn't make it, too much offensive talent... The Jays and Yanks have played even since last weekend and they have 2 key offensive weapons injured . They even lost one in Atlanta and have a game today against them . Then they play the Red Sox ....not a gimmee by any stretch. The next 6 games will decide the Yank's season....3 against the Mets and 3 against the Jays. If the Yanks are in a one gamer against the Stros ,the likely pitching match would be Tanaka v Keuchel . I'd take my chances.Keuchel got pretty beat up yesterday ......thank you very much !! Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?
From what I've heard Tanaka will be pitching on 4 days rest instead of his usual 5 days rest.
The Jays and Royals of course are the odds on favorites to be paired off in the ALCS. But... As Derek Jeter once said: "good teams make the playoffs, but hot teams win series." Very true. So if the Rangers can keep hot, who knows?! To Him who loved us and washed us from our sins in His own blood, and has made us kings and priests to His God and Father, to Him be glory and dominion forever and ever. Amen.---Revelation 1:5b-6
Yeah, that does not happen often...well it was his first 9 ER game in his career. To Him who loved us and washed us from our sins in His own blood, and has made us kings and priests to His God and Father, to Him be glory and dominion forever and ever. Amen.---Revelation 1:5b-6
I turned on MLB channel to check out the game and it was 0-0, then we had a power bump and the DVR had to go into a disk check mode. When it finally came back up about 20 minutes later I turned back on the MLB channel and it was 6-0, said game over and went channel surfing...
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Top • Page Up • Full Thread • Page Down • Bottom/LatestThis one has got me shaking my head, if the surgery is that minor (the team thinks he will be back before the end of the season) why didn't he get it done when he went on the DL a month ago???
#1175. To: CZ82 (#1172)
How do you propose on getting to the end of a dark tunnel when the light goes out at the 1/2 way point...
#1176. To: redleghunter (#1174)
Guess it didn't feel too hurt back then. With Josh anything is possible.
#1177. To: redleghunter (#1175)
#1178. To: CZ82 (#1177)
#1179. To: CZ82 (#1177)
#1180. To: CZ82 (#1177)
#1181. To: tomder55 (#1123)
Mark who?
#1182. To: redleghunter (#1180)
Twinkies winning in the 9th:(
#1183. To: CZ82 (#1182)
#1184. To: tomder55, CZ82, liberator (#1169)
#1185. To: redleghunter, CZ62, Liberator (#1184)
Sweeping a double header is rare these days. So Yanks will probably gain back a game.
#1186. To: redleghunter (#1184)
Fielder has only four hits in his last 40 at-bats, dropping his batting average from .341 to .306.
#1187. To: CZ82 (#1186)
Another LHer (on a bad team) does them in cause they have no RH bats that can hit the ball on a consistent basis...
#1188. To: redleghunter, CZ62, Liberator (#1185)
#1189. To: tomder55, CZ82, liberator (#1188)
#1190. To: redleghunter (#1189)
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Papa redleghunter is smiling:)
#1191. To: tomder55 (#1190)
#1192. To: redleghunter (#1187)
Mike Napoli starting in LF today. He never played the position as a pro. Let's see how that works out.
#1193. To: redleghunter (#1187)
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Well Banister is listening to you Zig.
#1194. To: CZ82 (#1192)
#1195. To: CZ82 (#1193)
#1196. To: redleghunter (#1195)
#1197. To: redleghunter (#1194)
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But Mitch and Fielder went yard. With base runners!
#1198. To: CZ82 (#1196)
Watched the game till Rangers let Houston tie it at 3,
#1199. To: CZ82 (#1197)
#1200. To: CZ82 (#1197)
#1201. To: redleghunter (#1199)
Twinkies and Angels beat up on each other next week.
#1202. To: redleghunter (#1198)
#1203. To: redleghunter (#1199)
Astros have easiest schedule left.
#1204. To: redleghunter (#1199)
Walk of sac fly bottom 9th!
#1205. To: CZ82 (#1201)
That series will tell if Twinkies can hang around till the end or not, last night was the first bit of ground they've lost in the last 2 weeks or so...
#1206. To: redleghunter (#1205)
#1207. To: redleghunter (#1205)
19 or so games left and loads could still happen.
#1208. To: CZ82 (#1207)
#1209. To: redleghunter, tomder55, Liberator (#1208)
Angels vs. Twins starting tomorrow.
#1210. To: CZ82, redleghunter, , Liberator (#1209)
Yankees look like they might play well enough to make it to the playoffs by are having to ride their "old fogeys" and pitching pretty hard to maintain their lead... They may end up being "one and done" when it's all said and done...
#1211. To: tomder55 (#1210)
#1212. To: CZ82 (#1209)
Jays are still playing very well so I can't imagine any scenario to where they wouldn't make it, too much offensive talent...
#1213. To: tomder55, CZ82, liberator (#1210)
Keuchel got pretty beat up yesterday ......thank you very much !!
#1214. To: redleghunter (#1213)
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