On the other side are details for tomorrow’s Rangers Rally, scheduled for 6 p.m. outside the Ballpark in Arlington. Long story short: Chuck Greenberg, Nolan Ryan, Jon Daniels, Ron Washington and a few players will get together for an hour to remember the “magical” season that was. Because, see, that…
And what a ride it was … 10. After an generous incorrect no-call on a check swing, Michael Young blasts a three-run homer to center field on the next pitch as Texas races to a 5-0 lead in Game 2 of the ALDS en route to a 2-0 series lead in Tampa…
We now return to your regularly scheduled football season where … Oh, dear. If you saw this coming – the Dallas Cowboys at 1-6 – raise your hand. I’m impressed. I’ll also, of course, need proof. Some of us thought the Cowboys would play in Super Bowl XLV. Most of…
10. Not sure what manager Ron Washington was doing going to closer Neftali Feliz in the 8th inning of a game the Rangers trailed 3-1. If the Rangers had forced extra innings it would’ve been an interesting mix-‘n-match bullpen. Unfortunately, Texas’ bats were too feeble to even force a second-guess…
Hey, at least one of our teams won on Halloween. Prediction: Just three games into the season and Jason Kidd’s swish from inside the Clippers’ 3-point line will be the longest shot made in the NBA this season…
[jump] Tonight will be the first November game in Rangers’ history and also the game of the season in Arlington. Even if they win tonight, the Rangers must find a way to win two straight games at AT&T Park, where they are 0-11 all-time. And if the Rangers don’t score…
10. All you Tony Romo haters, how’d that feel? You wanted life without the so-called “celebrity golfer,” you got it. By the way Jon Kitna, perfectly thrown passes tipped into interceptions suck huh? 9. David Garrard is a very mediocre quarterback. The Cowboys made him look like Johnny Unitas. Garrard…
Win or lose, tonight’s the final home game of the 2010 Texas Rangers season. And, yes, even the die-hards must admit at this late date (November 1, itself a remarkable achievement) that the Rangers’ chances of winning the World Series look slim. But Rangers owner Chuck Greenberg, posting to his…
[jump] 5. I’ll ask it again: How the hell can baseball take itself seriously with such horribly incompetent umpiring? Not only was the Game 4 strike zone drastically different from Game 3 – shouldn’t it be universally consistent in every game? – first-base umpire Jeff Kellogg blew two plays. Not…
Just returned from a long night of trick-or-treating to find the Rangers down by two and this picture in my in-box, courtesy the friend of a friend who works for MLB Advanced Media in NYC. That, of course, is 7-year-old Liam Roybal of Keller with The Real Ron Washington in…
10. Yes metroplex, for the first time ever there will be baseball … in November. Regardless of Tommy Hunter in tonight’s Game 4, Game 5 will be Monday night, Novembrer 1, at Rangers Ballpark at 6:57. And oh, by the way Giants fans, you know where you can stick those…
So, we know who’s throwing out the ceremonial first pitches tomorrow and Sunday. Well, John Blake, Texas Rangers spokesman, just sent over the final list of scheduled performers for World Series Games Three and Four. No surprises on the list of “Star-Spangled Banner” performers: Kelly Clarkson tomorrow evening, followed by…
This just in from John Blake and Major League Baseball: Yet again, Nolan Ryan will toss out the first pitch at the Ballpark in Arlington for a post-season game, when, tomorrow evening, he takes the mound for Game Three of the World Series. (And, no, apparently he’s unavailable to work…
[jump] 5. My predictions aren’t always right, but I’ll guarantee this: My World Series pick – Rangers in 5 – will not come true. Book it. 4. Texas sniffed a couple scoring chances, but Nelson Cruz popped out – on a 92 mph-fastball right down the pipe – with runners…
Although I’ve long considered Matt Cain one of baseball’s most underrated hurlers, there’s no reason why C.J. Wilson can’t rebound from getting knocked around by the Yankees in Game Five of the American League Championship Series and tie up the World Series tonight. But no matter what happens against the…
Texas Rangers spokesman John Blake just sent word: For World Series Games Three and Four at the Ballpark in Arlington — oh, right, Game Five too, fingers crossed — the team’s done beefed up (heh) its sports menu. Also: The team’s added more places to buy beer in the park,…
And in further marijuana news …Below, a Friend of Unfair Park wonders if perhaps Newy’s new friends up on “Weed Rock” were to blame for the Rangers committing four errors last night: “Would this constitute fan interference if players were affected from inhaling second-hand smoke?” Not a bad question, turns…
Like the BCS, style points count. So do geeky, black-and-white stats such as touchdowns and quarterback ratings. Wins and losses? Definitely. Leadership? Uh-huh. When it comes to my weekly NFL Quarterback Rankings — if I had one of those little encircled R’s to signify a trademarked idea, it’d go here — the…
Thankfully there isn’t a team in the NBA called the Giants. While the Cowboys got walloped by New York Monday night and the Rangers were whipped by San Francisco last night here in the City by the Bay, your Dallas Mavericks are on pace to go 82-0 after opening the…
At the very top of Deadspin at this very moment you’ll find the photo of mini-Ron Washington at left, which began with a tweet from one Gordon Keith. I asked Gordon where he got it: “Someone sent it to me,” he reports from San Francisco. And then Jerod at Midwest…
[jump] If I’m Ron Washington I put Nelson Cruz back in right field, David Murphy in left and have Vladimir Guerrero be my first bat off the bench. It didn’t really cost them in last night’s blowout, but Guerrero misplayed four balls by my count, two resulting in 8th-inning errors. In…
Ron Washington should’ve been fired. I know it. You know it. Shoot, even he knows it. “Wouldn’t have blamed them if they did,” the Texas Rangers manager said of team president Nolan Ryan and general manager Jon Daniels back in spring training. “But they stood by me. My team stood…
