Subject: German Duran

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

  April 25, 2008

• Texas Rangers Making Contingency Plans In Case This Uptick is a Mirage

  May 8, 2008

• Reaction to Rangers’ Reaction

  May 9, 2008

• Past the Halfway Mark, the Rangers Look Like Contenders and Pretenders

  July 3, 2008

• Texas Rangers Will Try to Brighten Day of Kids Still Living at Convention Center

  September 17, 2008

• A Christmas List for Jon Daniels

  Here in The Sportatorium, every now and then we like to talk baseball. I mean hard-core, balls-and-strikes baseball. By "every now and then" I mean this morning. And by "we", of course, I mean seamhead colleague Sam Merten. Sam, the floor is yours: For those of you distracted by Sean Avery's antics, the format change at Live 105.3 FM and the drama at Valley Ranch, Rangers' GM Jon Daniels and his colleagues spent most of last week in Las Vegas for baseball's Winter Meetings. Daniels has be

  December 18, 2008

• Last Night in Washington, Republicans Needed More than "Candlesticks" from Joe Barton

  Patrick MichelsRep. Joe Barton, doing his best La RussaWASHINGTON, D.C. -- With Arlington's own Rep. Joe Barton at the helm last night, the Republicans suffered a tough defeat in Washington, out-fielded and out-hit 15-10 by Democrats in the annual Congressional Baseball Game.Barton, a 22-year veteran of the annual game, wore a Rangers jersey with the No. 6 (his congressional district, sure, but he was always such a big German Duran fan) on the way to his first loss in three years managing the te

  June 18, 2009