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Eight Runs, Reruns -- All the Same to the Rangers
April 4, 2007How Many Times Does a Guy Have to Say "No," Anyway?
April 3, 2007Welcome Wagon
March 29, 2007So Here's To You, Mr. Robinson
March 26, 2007Sounds Like Richie Could Use Some Baseball
February 1, 2007Cold Stove Rangers
November 29, 2006Washington Monument
November 6, 2006Stinko de Mayo
May 2, 2007Actually, Yes, These Are Your Father’s Rangers
May 24, 2007Tom Hicks: Wait Till Next Year … Or The Next ... Or The Next ...
June 20, 2007Only One More Shopping Day Till Football Season
August 31, 2007You Could Use Some Baseball? Yeah, So Could You.
February 1, 2008Play Ball! Notes from Texas Rangers Spring Training, Thus Far.
February 27, 2008Now That Basketball Season's Almost Over, Guess It's Time For Baseball. Joy.
March 31, 2008Monday Morning Meanderings
April 14, 2008Anaheimlich Maneuver
April 16, 2008Of Course the Texas Rangers are Media-Friendly
April 21, 2008We Could Use Some Baseball. Alas, All We Got Are the Rangers.
April 24, 2008To Hell with the Mavericks. How 'Bout them Chaparrals?
April 30, 2008Texas Rangers Making Contingency Plans In Case This Uptick is a Mirage
May 8, 2008Elsewhere on DallasObserver.com
May 8, 2008Reaction to Rangers’ Reaction
May 9, 2008Ron Washington for Manager of the Year
May 13, 2008Hump Day for the Rangers? Almost.
May 28, 2008The Rangers are Sending a Pitcher to the Mound Tonight. Duck!
June 3, 2008Rangers’ Shortstop Just Five Games Shy of Being Halfway to Baseball’s All-Time Hitting Streak
June 11, 2008Human Rain Delay: Part Deux
June 30, 2008Your Rangers Officially Don’t Suck
July 1, 2008My Crystal Baseball
August 21, 2008We’re No. 2! We’re No. 2!
September 9, 2008Your 2008 Texas Rangers: Progress?
September 24, 2008Ron Washington Channels Chuck Woolery
September 24, 2008Obama v. McCain: Round 2
October 7, 2008You 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, 2009Oscar Overhaul: Ahem, Where Was Sports?
I generally agree with Jerry Seinfeld. On everything. Including the Oscars. During a show at, of all places, UTA's Texas Hall in '02 the comedian quipped, "Worst thing about The Oscars is that they never tell you the final scores. We're Americans. We not only want to know who won, but by how much. Was it a blowout? Overtime? Tell us! All we really get is a bunch of people all dressed alike patting each other on the back going, 'Good job of pretending to be someone else'." That sai
February 23, 2009Rangers 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, 2009The 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, 2009Play Baaaaaaalllllllllll!
No time to dilly-daddle this morning, as I'm headed out to Arlington for Texas Rangers' Opening Day. Gotta get there in time to beat some traffic, smell the fresh-cut grass and, of course, see former Prez George W. Bush throw out the first pitch. I know it'll never happen, but wouldn't Dubya's popularity finally rise if he went to the mound and joking hurled a shoe toward the plate? I'll be blogging from Rangers Ballpark all day. But since parking will be a hassle for the opener (thank
April 6, 2009Texas Rangers Opening Day: Pre-Game Observations
Your new third baseman, taking Opening Day BPFirst pitch in T-minus two hours ... *When I stepped on the field at 9 a.m. it was 39 degrees. Factoring in the northern howl of about 30 mph and it felt, ya know, about 0. *You know it's a different, bigger day when you get on the press elevator and are greeted by secret service and their bomb-sniffing dogs. Wearing a black coat with my hands in pockets, I'm betting I looked terribly guilty. Of something. *Ballparks always look sparklin
April 6, 2009The Texas Strangers
Seriously, who are these guys? With generally the same cast of characters that has face-planted out of the gate the last two seasons, the Texas Rangers are off to a dream start. Granted 2-0 gets only a subtle nod in Boston or New York or Anaheim, but in Arlington it's cause to get Laura Miller on the horn and dust off the Mavericks' old parade route. At least in September we won't have to hear the same old status woe from manager Ron Washington: Sept. 26, 2007: "We made it real tough
April 9, 2009Status Woe
Insane Rangers again take similar path to identical destination
October 2, 2008Rangers: The Texas Treadmills
Your Rangers yet again perfect the art of going nowhere fast
October 4, 2007Rangers Survive April, and The Aporkalypse
Dude is touching 57 on the gun today. Wow.Regardless the outcome of this afternoon's pitching duel between Vicente Padilla and Bobby Bragan, it's already - I'm sorry, I'm being told the Oakland pitcher is actually Dallas Braden - a successful April for the Texas Rangers. Not only has Texas not had any players succumb to the international flu epigdemic - click here to see if you 'fraidy cats been infected - it will make it out of the season's first month with its best record since 2006. An
April 30, 2009Whitt's End: 5.15.09
Whether you're at the end of your rope or merely the end of your week, welcome to Whitt's End: *Of the Texas Rangers' hot start - they are 20-14 compared to 14-20 last year - the most amazing feat is pitcher Matt Harrison's back-to-back complete games. If you're looking for Nolan Ryan's stamp on this team, there it is. The Rangers had only five complete games last year and none in '07. Ryan, who had six complete games for the Rangers as a 42-year-old and once threw 239 pitches in a gam
May 15, 2009Shooting Star
No doubt the man who once held the Cup now calls the shots.So I'm gone a week and two major coaching deals? Ron Washington: In. Dave Tippett: Out. How can that be? I'll get to Wash later this week, but I'm still trying to figure out new Stars' GM Joe Nieuwendyk's decision to replace the likeable Tippett with the long ago expired Marc Crawford. (He's gone as long as the Cowboys between post-season success.) Like a lot of casual hockey fans, I saw the Stars thusly: Momentum from the great r
June 16, 2009The Resilient Rangers
Now that's more like it.Okay, I'm impressed. Friday night's kick-to-the-crotch loss to the Boston Red Sox felt like that moment. Big game. Big crowd. Gigantic implosion. Frankie Francisco's blown save - six runs - felt like the big-bang instant in which a demoralized, gutted bunch of Texas Rangers' youngsters starts sinking in the standings, inexorably chained to the weight of an emotional defeat. I likened it to a guy going to a club, catching the eye of an extremely hot, outta-his-le
August 17, 2009The Closer
For the first time in a long time, your Rangers have a better option than Kyra SedgwickAfter 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, 2009Some 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, 2009Whitt's End: 10.09.09
Whether you're at the end of your rope or merely the end of your week, welcome to Whitt's End: *Ho hum, The Ticket's dynasty rolls on as one of the most dominant entities in sports. In September's Arbitron PPM ratings - I hear, by the way, that only 1,400 meters are used to garner these numbers - The Ticket remains the No. 1 station among Men 25-54 with a 7.7. Way down the list is ESPN Radio at 3.0 (13th) and further down 105.3 The Fan at 2.1 (22nd). I'll let Dallas' Only Daily's Barry H
October 9, 2009Whitt's End: 11.20.09
Whether you're at the end of your rope or merely the end of your week, welcome to Whitt's End: *Screw me. I've been inside Cowboys Stadium a dozen times now and never noticed there wasn't an American flag hanging somewhere. JumboJerry will do that for you. When during the National Anthem there's a flag "waving" on the world's largest video screen you tend to fixate on it. But I was surprised that the place doesn't have a permanent flag inside, almost as much as I was surprised that owner
November 20, 2009
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