Subject: C.J. Wilson

• C.J. Wilson Appears to Have a Very Bad Sense of Humor

  March 9, 2007

• Rangers to Host Town Hall Meeting Tonight. Just Don't Ask About Mark Mulder. Whatever You Do.

  January 10, 2007

• Root, Root, Root for the Home Team

  April 17, 2006

• Lunchtime Dot Race, Anyone?

  July 19, 2007

• C.J. Wilson Has An Ax to Grind

  August 9, 2007

• The Texas Rangers Provided Us With Yet Another Season in Hell

  October 2, 2007

• You Could Use Some Baseball? Yeah, So Could You.

  February 1, 2008

• Arm-Chair Managing in the Hours Before Ron Washington's Fired

  April 25, 2008

• Fact Is, George Bush Probably Wishes He Still Owned the Texas Rangers

  June 22, 2008

• God Bless America. And Sports.

  July 3, 2008

• Sure, the Rangers Are Fun and All. But There's Still Some Fixin' To Do.

  July 30, 2008

• Ranger Danger

  August 6, 2008

• You Could Use Some ... Baseball?

  Has there ever been a better team player in the history of Metroplex sports?Approximately 5,000 fans braved freezing temperatures and decades of losing at Saturday's Rangers Fan Fest in Arlington. I was one of them. The highlights: *General manager Jon Daniels says he's recently talked to shortstop third baseman Michael Young and that their relationship is on the mend. "If we have a 15-year marriage with only four bad days in the middle, we'll be doing all right. Everything has

  January 26, 2009

• Play Ball! 5 Players the Rangers Need to Have a Good Spring Training

  Spring has sprung. Look out your window. And turn on your radio. Not only is it supposed to hit 80 degrees here today, but the Texas Rangers make their Spring Training debut on new weekday home 105.3 The Fan in, oh, about three hours. I know yesterday was the unofficial official opener in Arizona and I realize the Rangers have already crashed three homers, but there's nothing like Eric Nadel in the afternoon to announce the door has finally been slammed on winter. Kevin Millwood g

  February 26, 2009

• Rangers Spring Training Grades

  TexasRangers.com The kid's catching on pretty fastOnly 19 days until the Texas Rangers open the 2009 regular season at home against the Cleveland Indians. In other words, time for some mid-spring training grades. So far, so good I'd have to say. No major injuries. Josh Hamilton is pounding the ball. Michael Young is flawlessly fielding grounders at third instead of questions about swapping positions. Earlier this week the Rangers scored 10 runs off Indians' Opening Day starter

  March 19, 2009

• Strangers 9, Indians 1

  1-0!Seriously, who are these guys decked out in red? *The starting pitcher (Kevin Millwood) throws six shutout innings, the first Ranger to do so since Charlie Hough in 1989. *The 20-year-old shortstop (Elvis Andrus) gets a hit in his first at-bat and ranges on the first-base side of second, turning singles into outs. *The new starting catcher (Jarrod Saltalamacchia) drives in three runs, including a homer. *The designated hitter who can never stay healthy (Hank Blalock) is fit long

  April 6, 2009

• After a Dynamic Season Opener, Rangers Fans are Seeing Red

  The Rangers' debut was shockingly accessorized by pitching, defense and, don't look now, relevance.

  April 9, 2009

• Plan See

  With blueprints A and B trashed, the Rangers have stumbled onto a visually stimulating development

  July 17, 2008

• One Bone Down, Hank Blalock Hopes to Help the Rangers Get Back Up

  March 6, 2008

• Rangers: The Texas Treadmills

  Your Rangers yet again perfect the art of going nowhere fast

  October 4, 2007

• Déjà Boo

  Another Rangers season ends in a familiar Hunt for Dead October

  September 28, 2006

• The Rangers Are Losing Games, but Not Tom Hicks. So Sorry.

  I can think of where Tom Hicks wasted $65 million.Just when some of you - okay, and most of me - blamed the Texas Rangers' weekend sweep in Detroit on the lack of a certain rosy-hued sartorial splendor, we've got a new scapegoat. The Rangers wore red again last night. But they also handed the ball to a left-handed reliever. After C.J. Wilson upchucked a 4-0 lead Sunday against the Tigers, Tuesday it was Eddie Guardado who tragically transformed a 3-3 tie into a 10-inning, 7-5 loss to

  April 15, 2009

• Hank Blalock Saves Frankie Francisco's Ass/Texas Rangers' Season

  Bacon saved. Barely.The Rangers tip-toed perilously close to a lost season last night. Instead, they wound up jumping all over a won game. I know we're only two days into July, but coughing up a 7-1 lead and losing to the AL West division leaders last night might have been a kick to the crotch the Rangers never recovered from. It came thiiiiiiiis close to happening. Closer Frankie Francisco - maybe it's time for C.J. Wilson to get the role? - walked two Angels and surrendered a

  July 2, 2009

• Rangers Win Game, Lose Potential Owner?

  Getting cold feet?Talked yesterday afternoon to David McDavid , he of the best odds to buy the Texas Rangers from Tom Hicks. Nothing definitive, but the auto tycoon has cooled slightly on the idea of owning our baseball team to the point where he said he is - for now - "leaning against it." McDavid also echoed team president Nolan Ryan's stance from last week: That any change-of-ownership won't happen until after this season. So plenty time - fingers crossed - for him to change his m

  July 8, 2009

• Whitt's End: 8.7.09

  ​Whether you're at the end of your rope or merely the end of your week, welcome to Whitt's End: *Sunday is the NFL's annual Hall of Fame Game in Canton, Ohio. More importantly, it's the induction of my first Dallas Cowboys hero - Bob Hayes. I'll be watching. For one thing, to see if Lucille Hester will try any shenanigans. Remember her? *Final comments scoreboard: Greg Williams 404, Russ Martin 73. *We can debate whether C.J. Wilson should close or whether Elvis Andrus should be

  August 7, 2009

• The Closer

  For the first time in a long time, your Rangers have a better option than Kyra Sedgwick​After Friday's monumental, six-run implosion in a gut-wrenching loss to the Boston Red Sox, I heard lots of calls for Frankie Francisco's job - if not his head. But give Texas Rangers' manager Ron Washington credit. The guy is an unflappable optimist. At times to a fault, he trusts his players. "Frankie's never been quite right since an early-season visit to the DL." "He can't pit

  August 18, 2009

• Whitt's End: 8.21.09

  ​Whether you're at the end of your rope or merely the end of your week, welcome to Whitt's End: *Found this Josh Hamilton interview from Rangers' spring training. March 18, 2009 to be exact. In other words, about two months - give or take - after his full-throttle, alcohol-laden night with half-naked coeds at an Arizona bar. The interviewer is Erica Newberg, daughter of the noted Rangers' afficianado Jamey Newberg. A particular question caught my fancy. Erica: Some kid

  August 21, 2009

• Some Random, Frustrated Thoughts on Your Texas Rangers

  Yeah, he had some help. But he blew it.​*Catching and throwing the ball has rarely been a problem this season, but yesterday's 5-3 loss was hideously reminiscent of years gone by. First off, I blame C.J. Wilson. The worst thing you can do when protecting a 1-run lead is walk the leadoff man. Nelson Cruz made an error and Hank Blalock made a high throw and - considering they got only eight hits and scored only eight runs in three games at the Metrodome - the tiny margin fo

  August 31, 2009

• Rangers 5-5, Blue Jays 2-2. My Top 10 Observations.

  'Twas a sweep. Get it?​10. I'm impressed. Your Texas Rangers bounced back from Monday's gut-wrenching 18-10 loss with typical, testosteroned resiliency. Granted, the Blue Jays suck - 18 runs one night; last night only 12 hits in 18 innings - but the Rangers could've caved. They didn't. 9. I was reminded last night that there's something really special about meaningful September baseball. The crowd was only 17,203 - I swear there weren't more than 500 people in the park for the day'

  September 2, 2009

• The Rangers May Be Out But They Are Not Down--Not Come Next April

  October 8, 2009