Subject: Kevin Millwood

• Oh and 162?

  April 5, 2007

• Welcome Wagon

  March 29, 2007

• So Here's To You, Mr. Robinson

  March 26, 2007

• Danks For Nuthin'

  December 27, 2006

• Wake Me Up, Before You Zi-to

  December 13, 2006

• The Hunt for Dead October

  September 25, 2006

• How the West Was Lost (Hint: It Rhymes With "Suck")

  August 24, 2006

• Root, Root, Root for the Home Team

  April 17, 2006

• Rangers Get the Finger. Again.

  March 30, 2006

• Sosa What

  June 18, 2007

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

  October 2, 2007

• Play Ball! Notes from Texas Rangers Spring Training, Thus Far.

  February 27, 2008

• Now That Basketball Season's Almost Over, Guess It's Time For Baseball. Joy.

  March 31, 2008

• Anaheimlich Maneuver

  April 16, 2008

• Sunday School – Handing Out Grades To Our Weekend Wrap-Up Shows

  May 12, 2008

• Ron Washington for Manager of the Year

  May 13, 2008

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

  July 3, 2008

• 10 Steps to Fixing Your Texas Rangers

  October 2, 2008

• Bad Rangers' Pitching News and it's Only Friggin' January

  From the same team that lost Adam Eaton in spring training 2006 just hours after general manager Jon Daniels announced his starting rotation comes news that top pitching prospect Eric Hurley has undergone rotator cuff surgery and is out for the 2009 season. In news that will surprise no one: Rangers = Snakebit. Hurley, the team's first-round pick in '04, showed flashes at the big-league level last season, going 1-2 with a 5.47 ERA. Flashes, I said. His loss isn't devastating news, but it ain't

  January 22, 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

• New Park. Old Rangers?

  Upgrades be damned, Rangers Ballpark in Arlington is dwarfed in size and stature by Jonestown Coliseum.Went out and toured "new" Rangers Ballpark last month. Well, not exactly new, but how about refurbished? New video scoreboard in left field. Information ribbons wrapping the place. A fashion-forward brick wall behind home plate. My thumbs-up review is here. With a heralded youth movement playing in a spit-shined stadium, there's lots of optimism in Arlington these days. Still ...

  March 27, 2009

• The 2009 Starting Pitcher for Your Texas Rangers: Dubya

    This is not the time to talk politics. It's the time to talk baseball. I'll put my liberal left leaning on hold today because the Texas Rangers have announced - no surprise - that former Prez and former co-owner George W. Bush will throw out the first pitch before next Monday's season opener against the Cleveland Indians at Rangers Ballpark. Now, this would really be a coup if Ron Washington could coax a quality six innings out of Dallas' newest resident. Instead, he'll probably le

  March 30, 2009

• Steeeeerrrrriiiiiiiiike One!

  Bush league. Minutes after two jets shook our loins with a flyover, the 43rd President of the United States strode to the mound - the mound, not the rubber - and fired a ceremonial first-pitch strike to Rangers' outfielder Josh Hamilton. The Prez, who somehow received nary a boo, then autographed the ball for Hamilton and headed into the Rangers' dugout. Said George Dubya via statement: "Laura and I are excited to once again cheer on our home team at Rangers Ballpark in Ar

  April 6, 2009

• We Have an Elvis Sighting!

  How's this for Elvis Andrus' Major League debut? A two-out double down the right-field line, with reigning American League Cy Young winner Cliff Lee on the mound and former President George W. Bush in the TV booth offering his thoughts on Fox4. Not bad, I say. Especially for a 20-year-old - third-youngest Ranger to start on Opening Day - heralded for his defense. Just for fun, he did help turn a first-inning double-play as well. Sandwiched around Andrus' hit in first big-league at

  April 6, 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

• The Hapless Texas Rangers Turn to their Farm System

  February 5, 2009

• Status Woe

  Insane Rangers again take similar path to identical destination

  October 2, 2008

• With the Addition of Pacman Jones, Valley Ranch Has Become a Halfway House

  May 1, 2008

• Can Nolan Ryan Save the Texas Rangers? Again?

  March 13, 2008

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

  March 6, 2008

• Mood Swings

  The Rangers' hitting coach is remarkable, resilient and really good at his job

  April 5, 2007

• Rangers: The Texas Treadmills

  Your Rangers yet again perfect the art of going nowhere fast

  October 4, 2007

• Bases Loaded

  June 29, 2006

• Boy Blunder

  Is baseball's youngest general manager man enough to rebuild the Rangers?

  July 12, 2007

• Play It Again, Sammy

  Can the Rangers' oldest rookie leave his diva days behind and deliver?

  March 29, 2007

• Washington Monument

  New Rangers manager injects hope and, yep, even optimism in Arlington

  February 8, 2007

• Déjà Boo

  Another Rangers season ends in a familiar Hunt for Dead October

  September 28, 2006

• The Curse of Sucking

  Is this the year the Texas Rangers finally...? Nah.

  March 30, 2006

• Doogie Howser, G.M.

  A young dog teaches the Rangers to forget old tricks

  February 16, 2006

• Whitt's End: 5.01.09

  And then one day, just to keep his readers on their toes, the demented blogger stood Whitt's End on its head ... *For those inclined toward auditory masochism, I'll again be the analyst for Time Warner Cable/Metro Sports Channel 185's upcoming telecasts of the Texas Brahmas minor-league hockey playoff games. Game 3 of the President's Cup championships series is Sunday at 3, Game 4 Tuesday night at 7 and Game 5 Wednesday night at 7. As for radio, Saturday I'll be in my regular seat on 105.3

  May 1, 2009

• Mowed Down in Motown

  I Millwould've yanked Kevin in the 8th. You? Well, you were warned. Actually, the Texas Rangers played decent baseball in Detroit this week despite a three-game sweep. Just not so sure they played smart baseball. Especially in this afternoon's 4-3 loss to the Tigers, their franchise-record 11th consecutive defeat in Detroit. Nursing a 3-3 tie in the bottom of the 8th, Kevin Millwood allowed a two-out RBI single to Miguel Cabrera on his 119th pitch. The good news is that for the first

  May 21, 2009

• So, Which Are They: Real or Fake?

  Two weeks ago I said that on June 15 - hello! - we'd know if the 2009 Texas Rangers were authentic or artificial. A pinch here. A jiggle there. Couple of healthy squeezes. And, of course, the taste test of a 5-7 stretch against some of of baseball's best teams and the verdict is ... Real. I think. I mean, the Rangers are still in first place by 2.5 games. But those ominous sounds in the distance are the Angels charging and Rangers optimism melting. Didn't see a lot of Rangers' gam

  June 15, 2009

• The Top 10 All-Time Texas Rangers in the History of Ever

  Very cool moment last night: The greatest player in Texas Rangers history - now a Houston Astro - smacks a 5th-inning homer and receives a standing ovation. Stay classy, Arlington. On a day when Toby Harrah and Ruben Sierra were elected into the Rangers' Hall of Fame, Ivan "Pudge" Rodriguez reminded us that he is the best player to ever wear a Texas uniform. Right? During his short stint as the franchise's best thrower - I said thrower, not pitcher - Nolan Ryan may have been a smidge m

  June 17, 2009

• Glass Halfway Full? Or Empty?

  Well, that sucked.With one All-Star back in the lineup and another shoulda-been All-Star on the mound, the Texas Rangers began their crucial three-game series in Anaheim last night by promptly taking a 2-0 lead in the top of the first inning. The next time there was good news for Josh Hamilton, Kevin Millwood and the Rangers - courtesy of an Ian Kinsler homer in the 7th - they trailed 9-2. Sometimes an All-Star snub motivates a player to a spectacular performance in his next game. So

  July 7, 2009

• Whitt's End: 8.14.09

  ​Whether you're at the end of your rope or merely the end of your week, welcome to Whitt's End: *Lots of you asking for a breakdown of the latest Arbitron PPM radio ratings for July. Not worth a separate item these days because - yawn - The Ticket's dynasty just rolls on. Dunham & Miller and The Hardline have the equivalent of four-touchdown leads in morning and afternoon drive. The battle for No. 2, however, just got interesting. While The Ticket (No. 1 in the market) still dominates

  August 14, 2009

• Rangers 10, Yankees 9. Frank(ie)ly, That Was Too Close For Comfort.

  ​Random thoughts after a roller-coaster, thrilling, frustrating, sweat-stained best game of the Rangers' season: *From 0-4 to 2-4 to 7-4 to 7-5 to 10-5 to 10-9, seriously, what a damn entertaining baseball game. *Elvis Andrus turns 21 today. His baseball IQ turns 219. *I watched the game at a bar, so maybe it was just me. But that game wasn't in HD wasn't it? *Something's not right with Kevin Millwood. Of course without him allowing a 4-spot in the 1st the Rangers wouldn't have been

  August 26, 2009

• Texas Rangers: The Hits Keep a Comin'

  Neftali Feliz likes him. So should you.​I have no idea who or what Omega El Fuerte is. But if it's good enough for Texas Rangers' fireballin' phenom Neftali Feliz, it's good enough for me. When the ridiculous rookie enters a game over the weekend in a crucial series against the Seattle Mariners, he'll be serenaded by cheers from frenzied fans and by the pulsating sounds of Omega - a hot Latin artist from his Dominican Republic - courtesy of Rangers' in-game entertainmant guru

  September 10, 2009

• What's Next, Kevin Millwood on Waivers?

  ​Buddy of mine took his 9-year-old to the Rangers game Monday night in Arlington. Kid, not surprisingly, wanted some ice cream. In one of those cool, plastic Rangers helmet cups. One problem: "They didn't have any Rangers helmet cups," my buddy tells me. "They had run out. They told us they only had Dodgers and Astros. I asked if they were getting Texas cups in and it was like 'Uh, not until next season.' They just shrugged. It was like a going-out-of-business sale and all the good stuff

  September 16, 2009

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

  October 8, 2009