There hasn’t been a lot of activity this off-season. It seems to be the quintessential staring contest. Agents are trying to wait out teams and see who panics and decides to overspend. Teams are waiting out players and sees whose wife panics first and demands a contract now. Most of […]
PUDGE’S HALL OF FAME SPEECH. Yesterday, I recounted Top Ten Moment # 4 of the Rangers 2017 season: Pudge Rodriguez’s induction into the Hall of Fame. From the National Baseball Hall of Fame’s website, here is the complete transcript of Pudge’s speech from July 30, 2017. Thank you. I just […]
The last day of the year is always great for retrospective articles. Even better are the ones I don’t have to write. From Doug Miller of mlb.com, the ten best games of 2017. Enjoy. Happy New Year and, to everyone in RR3 Nation, be safe.
No matter how bleak things are in Rangersland, at least we’re not Padres fans. So far, Texas has added three really mediocre pitchers to its rotation in Mike Minor, Doug Fister and Matt Moore. But the Padres took it one step further. They just signed a pitcher who wasn’t even […]
Here’s good article written by Jeff Wilson in the Fort Worth Star-Telegram about Shin-Soo Choo and the Rangers talks of trying to move his contract. Choo has been one of the Rangers most consistent hitters. As Wilson points out, despite the pleads of poverty and the claims they don’t have […]
I always thought there was an inner competition between Joey Gallo and his two friends growing up. Kris Bryant and Bryce Harper, both have already won MVPs. Gallo, on the other hand, had not a successful major league hitter. It had to gnaw at him. It did. Here’s a great […]
A FITTING FINAL LOSS. Yesterday, I recounted Top Ten Moment # 5 of the Rangers 2017 season. Here is what I wrote about it at the time. Reposted from the morning after Nomar Mazara drove in his 100th and 101st run of the year, October 2, 2017, the last game […]
Top Ten Moment #5: Nomar Mazara picks up his 100th RBI. Milestones are nice. Even numbers are nice. Nobody likes ending a season batting .299. They want .300. It just looks better. When you read .299, that pesky “2” stands out like sore thumb. It wants to tell your brain, […]
Seasons greetings from Rangers Rounding 3rd.
Sometimes it’s easy to forget these players are humans. When you are a kid, they are your superheroes. They can do no wrong, even if they strike out four times a game or give up ten runs in the first. You love them, you defend them, you live and die […]