Pretty good week for Mitch Moreland. Some people are saying he is stepping up to fill the void left by Prince Fielder. But that void has needed filling since the second game of the season. So that’s not really true. What he is doing is what Mitch Moreland so […]
Rougned Odor hits the first of his two home runs to lead the Rangers to an 8-3 victory over the Kansas City Royals in a game when a Rangers starting pitcher not named Cole Hamels picked up the victory for the first time in twenty-nine games. 72 hours to […]
Since coming to the Rangers almost one year ago on July 31, Cole Hamels is 19-3. That is nothing compared to what he has done for the Rangers since the All-Star break. Texas is a disappointing 5-8 since their badly needed rest. Hamels, however, is 3-0 in three starts. […]
Everybody is talking about trades the Rangers need to make. This pitcher or that one. Or maybe a catcher. Suddenly so many holes to fill. The Rangers need to make a trade for October. For deep October. Something to get them to the promised land. It’s all about October. But the month they […]
One more game when the Rangers get down big early. One more game when the deficit was too large to overcome, try as the offense might. One more game when the Rangers had no chance even before it started. Trouble is, the fifth starter for the Rangers has been […]
It was one of those games the Rangers have been losing a lot of lately. When they get buried early by bad pitching and shoddy defense. In the Collapse of 16, we had seen far too much of that. It was happening again. Martin Perez was on the mound […]
Sam Dyson picked up his twentieth save yesterday to move into a tie for eighth place in the American League. With it came six hundred twenty-six cases of cardiac arrest, ninety-five reported incidences of heart failure, six thousand reported arrhythmias, seven hundred fifty open heart surgeries, ninety-two triple bi-passes, over […]
How to stop bleeding, presented as a public service: Apply direct pressure on the cut or wound with a clean cloth, tissue, or piece of gauze until bleeding stops, which is usually caused by a cut, a puncture or by pitch number sixty-three in the second inning. If blood soaks […]
Every once in a while you stop caring about the Rangers. Whether they win or lose or lose or lose or lose or lose or lose or lose or lose or lose or lose or lose or lose or lose or lose or lose or lose does not matter in the […]
So many choices. So many questions. So much hand wringing. Do you trade him or keep him? What would you expect to get back for him? Should you keep him because he could be a future star? Should you acquire that guy because he is a star and will take […]
