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Rangers bring back Chris Martin.

Just six more weeks until we hear the three most glorious of words: Pitcher and catchers. Until then, we have to endure bitter cold, lesser sports, and more endless excuses from Jerry Jones. The Rangers continued their offseason remaking of their bullpen by bringing back Chris Martin, who played for […]


Rangers sign veteran catcher Higashioka.

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 […]


Rangers hire new GM.

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 […]


Yankees in must-win Game 3.

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 […]


The beauty of baseball.

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 […]


RIP, Fernando.

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 […]


Dodgers trounce Mets 9-0.

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 […]


The final four.

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 […]