Maybe the tide is turning. Maybe the concept is catching on. Major league baseball managers can be called a lot of things. Innovators is usually not one of them. There’s a book. They stick to it. By the letter. The only way they try something complete new and radically different is […]
Texas’s road to the World Series this year ended up dead ending in Toronto. The pieces were in place for a long run, it’s just the engine broke down before the car even got off the lot. Like buying an American car in the 80s. Now all that’s left to debate is, […]
Dominating pitcher who just struck out his ninth batter with ease. Check. Three-run lead in the top of the ninth. Check. Closer time. Check. By the book managing. Check. Loss. Check. It always amazes me when a manager pulls out his dominating starter in order to give the opposing […]
The thing about baseball is it’s honest. It doesn’t play politics. If you can do the job, you win. If you can’t, you don’t. Simple as that. There are no shortcuts to the top. No backstabbing to get ahead. No nepotism to get the corner office. Baseball doesn’t say, “Oh, […]
Thanks, Rangers. Thanks for the season. Thanks for all those come from behind wins. You have no idea how many times I drove home from the Ballpark full of adrenalin. The joy you brought your fans this season was incredible. Thanks for some great moments. Mazara throwing out Cano at […]
If this were a movie, it would be time for the rousing locker room speech. It would be time for the coach to challenge the team, tell them this is the opportunity for everyone in this locker room to show what they are really made of. The coach would dare them […]
These are the moments you build for. These are the reasons you sign them to those salaries. These are the reasons you trade for them. Sure, when you acquire a guy like Cole Hamels and you go out and pay for a guy like Yu Davish, you are doing it […]
Other than the poor pitching, the poor defense, and the poor hitting, yesterday’s playoff game went pretty well. There was enough bad baseball to last a lifetime in Game 1. Bad defense and bad pitching feed off themselves. If only Beltre snags that line drive. If only Odor gets […]
The first opponent the Rangers have to face this post-season is history. No, it’s not as intimidating as the double barrel of history the Chicago Cubs are looking down. But history is still loaded and pointed right at them, nonetheless. Every Rangers fan, of course, knows what happened last […]
All it took was one swing by Edwin Encarnacion and the rematch was set. Now, all the emotion, all the redemption, all the retaliation, all the revenge, it all starts Thursday. There is no love lost between these two teams. It started last October when the Rangers gifted the […]