This is sacrilege. I am fully aware of that. Daring to compare anyone to Adrian Beltre, one of the most beloved Texas Ranger of all time, is cause for a fight in most parts. That’s why Texas has open carry laws, in fact. So, when you compare what the West Division […]
The results are in. The precincts have been counted. The Texas Rangers have won their bid for a new closed roof stadium to be built in Arlington by a landslide. In five years, they will move in, by 2021, the club says, maybe even 2020. This is great news for […]
Nobody on the Rangers had a more consistent, and surprising, offensive season than shortstop Elvis Andrus. It was a phenomenal turn around story considering how his 2015 ended, and how the last three years of his career were trending. Andrus vowed to put the pain of 2015 behind him. And he […]
If the Rangers harbor hopes of winning it all, they need to be able to compete with the elite teams. All indications point to the Cubs being elite again in 2017. Yesterday we looked at first base, probably the weakest offensive position the Rangers had last year. Especially compared to […]
After every World Championship team is crowned, it’s easy to look at the makeup of that team and say, “Oh, that’s how you build a winner.” But it’s never that easy. And it’s never the same from year to year. In 2014, The Giants won with just one starter, Madison Bumgarner. […]
The long dark off-season is officially underway. Already, the Rangers are in the thick of it. Rangers assistant general manager Thad Levine was named the new general manager of the Minnesota Twins. \ Five Texas Rangers have become free agents: Carlos Beltran, Ian Desmond, Carlos Gomez, Colby Lewis, and Mitch Moreland. The […]
If baseball is a religion to people, then Theo Epstein is the closest they are going to get to a savior. The fans of Boston waited 86 years for a championship. They came close some seasons. They fell a million miles short in other seasons. There was the trading Babe […]
There are 1,025,109 words in the English language. Honestly, I cannot string any of them together to do justice to what we saw last night in Game 7 of the World Series. I have been writing advertising for thirty-three years and I could not possibly create a better ad […]
Somebody’s heart breaks tonight. Somebody’s just-once-before-I-die prayer gets answered tonight. Chicago and Cleveland are tied at three games apiece in the 2016 World Series after two straight wins by the Cubs. Game 6 was over almost before it started, when the Cleveland outfield decided to play a game of Little League […]
The Red Sox were supposedly victims of the Curse of the Bambino for all those years. It’s why they went 87 years without winning a World Series. It stemmed, of course, from their trading Babe Ruth to the Yankees and seeing the fortunes of both franchises instantly changed directions. […]