Yearly Archives: 2016


How to stop bleeding. 547 comments

  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 […]


Must be voodoo. 323 comments

  Greg Genske has to be smiling right about now. His plan worked. His evil devious plan worked. Greg Genske is Tanner Scheppers’s agent. And when it was announced on June 29 that Tanner Scheppers was resuming baseball operations on his way to eventually returning to the mound in a Rangers […]


A really bad month. 680 comments

  September 1972: 3-23 record, a .115 winning percentage, team finished in last place. August 1973: 6-24, .200, last place. July 2014: 6-20, .231, last place. June 2003: 7-20, .259, last place. July 1976: 8-22, .267, fourth place July 2016: 4-11, .267 winning percentage, ?. How bad has it been […]


Classic pitching match ups. 1060 comments

  In the history of baseball, there have been some classic pitching match ups for the ages. Bob Gibson and Sandy Koufax faced off May 25, 1961, in an epic nine-inning pitching duel that the Dodgers ace won 1-0. In the loss, Gibson’s ERA dropped to 1.69. In 1963, Giants future […]


That was huge. 718 comments

    Adrian Beltre may be the face of the Rangers but Cole Hamels is the backbone. When the Rangers really need him to step up, he finds another gear. Remember the last game of the regular season last year that was set up because of the second-to-the-last game? Game 161 was […]


Vintage Yu. 249 comments

  Yu Darvish returned yesterday. It was vintage Darvish. When Darvish is at his best, he is so dominating, two teams cannot score. His opponent and his own. And that happened yet again. The pitcher notorious for losing 1-0 games left Saturday’s game with nine strikeouts in 4.1 innings, three […]


A farewell to arms. 259 comments

Let’s forget that those last twelve games happened. Let’s say it was just the Rangers being magnanimous and allowing their lesser division mates the chance to dream the big dream that they will then crush in September. Let’s bid farewell to that horrible string of pitching that has brought to question […]