It sucked. ***** TODAY’S GAME: A. J. Griffin (3-0, 3.08) vs. Michael Pineda (3-7 , 5.51) Game time: 12:05 pm How the Rangers hit against Pineda. How the Yankees hit against Griffin.

Growing up I was a Cincinnati Reds fan. My earliest recollection was their phenomenal 1970 season that gave birth to the nickname, The Big Red Machine. After one hundred games, they were an amazing 70-30, forty games over .500, and twelve-and-one-half games in first place. It was total domination. I […]

  You were not dreaming. The Rangers put a runner on first in the top of the ninth. Then the tarp came out. Three and a half hours later, they moved him to second. You could have read War And Peace, painted your house, rebuilt your transmission, watched Prince Fielder run […]

  Last year, the Boston Red Sox finished in last place in the American League East on the strength of their horrible starting pitching and bad bullpen. To address their rotation, they signed David Price to a $217 million dollar contract. Suddenly, they had a one-man rotation. Luckily for them, out of […]

  The biggest question coming into 2016 was the psyche of Elvis Andrus. When last he was seen, he was sitting alone, stunned, shunned, shaken, embarrassed, perhaps crying, in the Toronto dugout after one of the more crushing personal failures an athlete could have in a team sport. Every man, […]

Dear teammates: Hey, guys, it’s Dyson. How are things going in Arlington? I sure miss you. I am enjoying my vacation. It’s always good to get a few days off and just get away to relax. Pitching in all those games with four- and five- and six-run leads can be […]

  Here is the pitching dilemma facing the best team in the American League: 1. They have two types of relief pitchers, either really good or really bad (in all fairness, it’s a situation that is getting much better). 2. Their relief pitchers are really overworked. 3. Their relief pitchers are […]

  The Rangers just completed twenty games in twenty days in the most remarkable fashion possible. When they set out on this stretch three weeks ago, knowing that half of those games would be played over a three-city, ten-game road trip, most would have been satisfied if the Rangers went 11-9, maybe […]

  Colby is human after all. The six million dollar man is, well, a man. He’s been scientifically rebuilt in the hip, shoulder and elbow. He has survived a line drive off the head, hip replacement surgery, and worse of all, years in Oakland. But the inevitable was eventually inevitiable. […]