 The Official Athletics @ Rangers 3-Game Series Thread, September 22-24 ........... FINAL 2008 HOMESTAND |
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  Sep 22 2008, 12:50 AM
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 Rock & Roll Snöb  Group: Administrators Posts: 15,423 Joined: 12-July 02 From: Mike Carter Field Member No.: 32  |
Game 1   Kevin Millwood (9-9, 5.15) vs. Greg Smith (7-15, 4.09) 7:05pm FSNSW |
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Sep 23 2008, 02:53 AM
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Rock & Roll Snöb Group: Administrators Posts: 15,423 Joined: 12-July 02 From: Mike Carter Field Member No.: 32 |
Another sub-.500 season for the Rangers
 WAIT 'TIL NEXT YEAR !!  Game 2
  Dustin Nippert (3-5, 6.47) vs. Josh Outman (1-1, 4.61) 7:05pm FSNSW |
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Sep 23 2008, 02:08 PM
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Wait till next year? That's what we said LAST YEAR! It's so bad that Hicks doesn't even bother coming out except when there is a public relations event or when Millwood is pitching and even then, that is rare. He needs to sell the team to somebody who is not afraid to gamble on gettting pitching.
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Sep 23 2008, 04:27 PM
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Rock & Roll Snöb Group: Administrators Posts: 15,423 Joined: 12-July 02 From: Mike Carter Field Member No.: 32 |
Signing Chan Ho Park, Kevin Millwood & Vicente Pidalla were not gambles ???
 At the time, all three seemed liked solid acquisitions – based on their prior success. BE PATIENT -- the Rangers have pitching in their Minor League system ... LET IT DEVELOP.  (directed to all chronic Rangers shooting-fish-in-a-barrel bashers): Next time, come in here with NAMES of pitchers the Rangers should throw money in the direction of .......... simply saying, (paraphrased) "the Rangers need pitching" takes little effort !!
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Sep 23 2008, 05:24 PM
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 THE PRIDE OF LSU BASEBALL Group: Members Posts: 5,577 Joined: 11-February 03 From: 75-58 with magic number at 21............. Member No.: 796 |
Well put, Cheapy.
-------------------- "The one constant through all the years, Ray, has been baseball. America has rolled by like an army of steamrollers. It's been erased like a blackboard, rebuilt and erased again. But baseball has marked the time. This field, this game, it part of our past, Ray. It reminds us of all that is good, and all that could be again. Oh, people will come, Ray. People will most definitely come."............Terence Mann
"Good pitching will always stop good hitting and vice versa.".........Casey Stengel |
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Sep 24 2008, 04:26 AM
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Rock & Roll Snöb Group: Administrators Posts: 15,423 Joined: 12-July 02 From: Mike Carter Field Member No.: 32 |
Game 3   Matt Harrison (8-3, 5.68) vs. Dana Eveland (9-8, 4.09) 1:05pm FSNSW Final home game of 2008 . . .  |
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Sep 24 2008, 05:30 AM
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THE PRIDE OF LSU BASEBALL Group: Members Posts: 5,577 Joined: 11-February 03 From: 75-58 with magic number at 21............. Member No.: 796 |
Baseball Ray, Baseball !!
-------------------- "The one constant through all the years, Ray, has been baseball. America has rolled by like an army of steamrollers. It's been erased like a blackboard, rebuilt and erased again. But baseball has marked the time. This field, this game, it part of our past, Ray. It reminds us of all that is good, and all that could be again. Oh, people will come, Ray. People will most definitely come."............Terence Mann
"Good pitching will always stop good hitting and vice versa.".........Casey Stengel |
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Sep 24 2008, 12:36 PM
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Coaching Staff Group: Members Posts: 978 Joined: 29-April 03 From: Happily returning home again Member No.: 1,388 |
Beginning Sunday evening, I go into my yearly two-week depression. I love the postseason in October, but I sure do miss the regular season. I miss watching my beloved Rangers every night. And when the entire season does finally end, it's like watching your friends leave for the entire winter. Cheaptrick, could you post A. Bartlett Giamatti's beautiful quote on the ending of the baseball season? I'm a grown man, and that one still makes me tear up.
-------------------- "You spend a good piece of your life gripping a baseball and in the end, it turns out that it was the other way around all the time."
--Jim Bouton-- |
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Sep 24 2008, 12:51 PM
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Coaching Staff Group: Members Posts: 978 Joined: 29-April 03 From: Happily returning home again Member No.: 1,388 |
I got the Giamatti quote.
-------------------- "You spend a good piece of your life gripping a baseball and in the end, it turns out that it was the other way around all the time."
--Jim Bouton-- |
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Sep 24 2008, 03:04 PM
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THE PRIDE OF LSU BASEBALL Group: Members Posts: 5,577 Joined: 11-February 03 From: 75-58 with magic number at 21............. Member No.: 796 |
Rangers win their last home game of the 2008 campaign with a 14-4 victory over the A's today at the Ballpark In Arlington.
Matt Harrison gets his 9th win of the year. An 8-run sixth blew it open for Texas. -------------------- "The one constant through all the years, Ray, has been baseball. America has rolled by like an army of steamrollers. It's been erased like a blackboard, rebuilt and erased again. But baseball has marked the time. This field, this game, it part of our past, Ray. It reminds us of all that is good, and all that could be again. Oh, people will come, Ray. People will most definitely come."............Terence Mann
"Good pitching will always stop good hitting and vice versa.".........Casey Stengel |
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Sep 24 2008, 05:05 PM
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Rock & Roll Snöb Group: Administrators Posts: 15,423 Joined: 12-July 02 From: Mike Carter Field Member No.: 32 |
yep -- Matt Harrison quietly improves to 9-3 on the season.
QUOTE (Ratface @ Sep 24 2008, 01:51 PM)  I got the Giamatti quote. Ratface -- be sure to read my annually-posted Bill James passage on the last day of the MLB season.....COMING SUNDAY !! 
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Sep 25 2008, 02:13 PM
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Coaching Staff Group: Members Posts: 978 Joined: 29-April 03 From: Happily returning home again Member No.: 1,388 |
I will certainly check out the Bill James post, Cheapy. Great way for the Rangers to close out the home portion of the schedule. Blalock, Hamilton, and the Great Young save the best for last, putting on an offensive show. And I've got a lot of hope for young Harrison. Possibly a future Rogers/Glavine type of hurler?
-------------------- "You spend a good piece of your life gripping a baseball and in the end, it turns out that it was the other way around all the time."
--Jim Bouton-- |
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