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Entries tagged with 'Texas Rangers'Texas Rangers: Who's Got the Money?When I wrote something about Rangers sales people telling fans that they wouldn't get their playoff refunds for awhile because "the money was tied up in MLB,'' I was told by a Rangers official that I was wrong. Or,... Rangers: Going...going...goneIt's not like the Texas Rangers' season is over or anything. All the club must do is beat the Angels tonight and then beat them tomorrow and then again Wednesday and, just for fun, beat them again on Thursday.... Rangers at 6 1/2 out...still alive?I know it's going to take a '64 Phillies-type collapse by the Angels to get the Rangers back into the A.L. West hunt. But let's look at the Rangers' situation here as near the end of the club's finest... Rangers' pitching keeps getting betterHow many of you saw a 5-1 week coming against the Boston Red Sox and Kansas City Royals? And how many figured the Rangers to surrender a total of 14 runs for the week with six of those coming... Rangers chasing Angels, not SoxThere's no question that the Rangers' 3-game winning streak has kept Texas alive in the chase and energized the fans at the Ballpark. Leaving the place with my son last night, I actually saw Ranger fans taunting Red Sox... To the Angels: Can you say 'Thank you?'Let's acknowledge right off the bat that the LA Angels of Anaheim are a good team, they are getting better and we are 75 percent sure they are going to win the West again this year. Now...that's out of... Blalock, Byrd, Borbon bring batsOK, I started running out of B-words in that headline there, but the Rangers' crazy 9-7 victory over the Angels that gave Texas two out of three at the Ballpark was all about the old days. Bashing. The Rangers... Angels arrive...just in time?This is the first time since early May that fans in Arlington have gone to see anything other than the first-place Texas Rangers at the Ballpark. The Angels are in town with a 1 1/2-game lead on Texas. Just... Colt McCoy goes high and inside!Before he threw out the first pitch prior to the Yankees-Rangers game Monday, I asked Texas quarterback Colt McCoy what his chances were of firing a strike. "Ninety-nine out of 100,'' he said. ""Then again, this could be the one... A-Rod should still face RangersThe announcement that Alex Rodriguez will need 10 weeks off due to his hip injury is only the latest in a string of nothing but bad news for the Yankees third baseman. Barring another injury or a setback, Rangers fans... Rangers' Brandon McCarthy has a chanceI sat about eight rows from the field to watch Brandon McCarthy pitch a couple of his four innings Saturday night. And after that shaky start where he looked like he was going to walk the entire Indians' lineup,... Remember when Rangers' Brandon McCarthy was better than Jonn Danks?You can get that general manager Jon Daniels does. It has been easy to forget during two utterly forgettable seasons for McCarthy, but the man who makes his Rangers' 2008 debut against Cleveland Saturday night appeared to be far more... Flap those Byrd armsScribe Calvin Watkins was all but flapping his arms over his stuffed shrimp at Andria's last night when he informed us that the Rangers' 5-5 tie had been broken by Marlon Byrd's ninth-inning grand slam. There aren't many nicers... Pudge in pinstripesIn tomorrow's Morning News, I tried to put the sight of Pudge Rodriguez in a Yankees uniform in perspective, ranking the 10 strangest sights for local fans in this century. Some are guys who left the Dallas market to... |
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