Imagine the disappointment Bruce Bochy felt upon not winning the Manager of the Year award yesterday. Where would he put it? He certainly isn’t going to move the 2023 World Series trophy off his mantel. Or the 2010 World Series trophy. Or the one from 2012. Or 2014. The guy […]
There’s been a lot of moaning about the new playoff format. It started during last-year’s playoffs and is still going on. The two division winners with the most victories get a first-round bye while the other teams play a best-of-three first round wildcard series. Last season, three of the four […]
Coming into this offseason, the Rangers are in a position they’re rarely in. They’re a really good team with very few needs. It used to be their roster was like a municipal golf course. Full of holes and overrun with amateurs. This season, in the offensive side, what they really […]
The Rangers head into the World Series with an offense that is clicking on all cylinders, a two-man bullpen, and a deep rotation that is rested and ready to go. Texas has possibly the best rotation it’s ever had. The rotation is so deep, in fact, that the Rangers starter […]
One team, the Rangers, hasn’t been in the World Series since 2011. The other team, the Diamondbacks, hasn’t been in the World Series since 2001. Arizona wasn’t even a team until 1998. Yet, in their fourth year in existence, they made it into the World Series. It was 2001. A […]
The Super Bowl goes through Texas. This football crazed state has its dream matchup. The Houstons and Dallas Fort Worths meet in the 2023 something. Both teams ended up with identical records, 90-72. The Astros have been in the Championship Series seven times in a row. The last time they […]
It’s a clean slate. The Rangers start over today having to win two of their next three. On paper, it seems impossible. They have no bullpen. No team that has blown more than half its save opportunities has ever made the postseason. In fact, only one team in the entire […]
To take our collective minds off the plight of the 2023 Texas Rangers, here’s a random article about architecture: In the controlled demolition industry, building implosion is the strategic placing of explosive material and timing of its detonation so that a structure collapses on itself in a matter of seconds, minimizing […]
There’s a pulse. It’s barely beating, but it’s beating. The body is breathing. It’s shallow, but there is the presence of oxygen. The Texas Rangers won a game yesterday that they usually lose. Up 3-0. Then tied 3-3. Up 4-3, then immediately tied 4-4. Up 5-4, then immediately tied 5-5. […]
There were a lot of gut punches in last night’s loss. The fact that the offense has disappeared, going 0-for-11 with runners in scoring position last night through the first nine innings (and today they face a Cy Young contender). The fact that Jordan Montgomery pitched the game he absolutely […]
