Looking back on this glorious season, the Rangers’ improbably run to a World Series championship started with a 5-2 Friday night win in early June with an unlikely victory over the best team in the National League at the time, the Washington Nationals. Andrew Cashner started his string of sixteen straight […]
Jon Daniels has made some monumentally franchise altering trades. Jon Daniels has made some monumentally franchise crippling trades. You take the good with the bad. As the Rangers begin looking at pieces to deal in order to rehydrate an arid farm system, it’s worth looking at Daniels’ trade history […]
This is the bane of bad teams. Only a few of the cylinders fire at the same time. When the pitching is good, the offense isn’t. When the offense is good, the bullpen isn’t. When the pitching and offense are good, the defense and bullpen let you down. Rangers fans […]
What a difference a crappy opponent makes. After a ten-game winning streak against the dregs of baseball that brought the Rangers to respectability, Texas had fourteen games against good teams that returned them back to irrelevance. They went 3-11 in those fourteen games. And promptly fall off the side […]
As bad as the Rangers season is going, and it’s not going well, it’s worth noting that there are nine teams with worse records. Nearly one third of baseball is actually worse than Texas Rangers. That’s a lot of bad baseball. Look in the NL East. Texas, with its unimpressive […]
While everyone associated with the Rangers is preaching patience, that it’s just a matter of time for this team to gel, and as they drop further and further off the map and out of contention, it’s easy for fans to be disappointed and even disgusted by this team. What […]
The first annual RangersRounding3rd.com night at the Ballpark was a lot of fun. Most of us got there early, ate, chatted, and got introduced to one another. TD was there, with TD Jr, and Mr TD, who we learned has an RR3 posting name, Ballboy, but has yet to post […]
It was vintage 2017 Rangers. Yu Darvish dominated for four innings. Then he falls apart in the fifth. For the second straight start. The bullpen fell apart again, too. But all is excused and forgiving because all the runs were unearned. So, it didn’t really happen. But it did. […]
Forget records for a second. Forget the fact that Houston is playing .704 ball and that Texas is playing .481. Forget Houston is in first and Texas is in third. That Texas is 12.0 games behind. Forget that Houston is on pace to win 114 games. And Texas is […]
Hey, look. Can you believe our luck? We just found a brand new can of gasoline. What should we do with it? Oh, I know. Let’s light this match and stick it in and see what happens. Okay. BOOM. Wow, there goes my leg. Why does that always happen? […]
