The Rangers made their first significant free agency addition of the offseason with the signing of catcher Kyle Higashioka. They signed the thirty-two-year-old veteran to a two-year deal. How he will share time with Jonah Heim will remain to be seen, but Heim has played himself out of being the […]
NOTE: This is normally a Texas Rangers blog but this topic is too important. Well, that happened. And, now, like it or not, we all have to come together and live with the America we are left with, and the consequences that go with it. There has been a lot […]
The Rangers have a new general manager. The trend lately is to have a president of baseball operations, and a general manager. Used to be the GM was the guy. He was making the all the calls. If there was a club president, he was mainly a figurehead. Now, it’s […]
Game 3 is tonight. The Yankees are staring down a 2-0 deficit. Last year, Texas and Arizona split the first two in Arlington before the Rangers went to Phoenix and took three out of three from the Diamondbacks. Why is that relevant? It isn’t. It’s just a nice reminder the […]
You can romanticize about baseball only so much until people think you are a lunatic. Then, last night happens. And you realize no words can do it justice. And no amount of romanticizing will feel wrong. There have been 119 World Series before this one. Guys named Babe Ruth and […]
In the 1981 season, major league players staged a strike on July 12, right before the All-Star Game, that lasted until the end of July, splitting the season in two halves and generally making a mess of baseball. My beloved Reds were one-half game out of first when the strike […]
Maybe the Mets figured this Mets Magic thing was real. Maybe they honestly thought they were invincible. In the first game of the playoff series to get to the World Series, they start a guy in Game 1 who pitched five innings in the regular season. They figured they would […]
What happened to all that whining about how unfair the new playoff format is? Remember how the teams that earned a bye in the Wildcard round were put in such a disadvantage because they had to sit out and get cold and it wasn’t fair? This year, three of the […]
Round 2 starts today. And if was anything like Round 1, or the preliminary double header on Monday, it’s going to be a great day of baseball watching. They call it the Divisional Series, and this time that’s almost correct. In the National League, New York plays divisional rival Philadelphia, […]
The Astros are now one loss away from being eliminated in the playoffs. They have been to the Championship Series seven years in a row. A loss today or tomorrow would end that streak. A betting man would be unwise to wager against the Astros at this point based on […]
