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Texas Rangers 2023 - They're Still Shitty?


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1 minute ago, deadshank said:

Listening to Norm Hitzges and Merle Harmon call games on HSE when Charlie Hough was on the bump and slinging pus up to the plate seems like eons ago.  
 

Hitzges:  “Oh, my, Merle!!!”

Wow.  I was just about to bring up my first favorite Ranger player, Charlie Hough.  Emulating his knuckle ball for 10 years as a youth player is probably why my right elbow is f'd. 

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I cant say I was a Rangers fan.  although I attended my first MLB game in 1986, I was visiting my Grandparents in Hurst, and got to go to a Rangers game with my Uncle who was the biggest Dallas sports homers out there.   Dont know who the hell the Rangers played, I dont even know if they won the game,  it went into SUPER extra innings.

I think we finally left after the 11th inning (I was pissed we didnt stay till the end), next day we find out the game went to 17 or 18 innings. 

I cant claim fandom, but I know my dearly departed Uncle Ray would have loved this moment.  Ray passed in May 2005, he missed the Longhorns winning, the Mavericks winning it, and now the Rangers.....  ironically he was still around the last time the Cowboys won anything.

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11 minutes ago, deadshank said:

Listening to Norm Hitzges and Merle Harmon call games on HSE when Charlie Hough was on the bump and slinging pus up to the plate seems like eons ago.  
 

Hitzges:  “Oh, my, Merle!!!”

Holtz and Nadel put me to bed most nights of my early teen years, with the Rangers losing of course.

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6 minutes ago, Constant said:

Seven year old me got stiffed by Roger Pavlik for an autograph back in ‘94 at my first game ever. This is for seven year old me sweating my dick off holding my hat out hoping for the best.  
 

This is for my grandfather who had season seats in the first row behind the RF bullpen before dying of a heat stroke a day before Kenny Rogers perfect game. 
 

This is for my grandmother on my mothers side who used to pull me out of school early and take me to opening day every year.
 

This is for my mother who took me across I30 most evenings around the 4th inning and walked around the stadium until we found a security guard that would let us in. 
 

I grew up in the shadow of the Ballpark and its woven into my DNA. My first love. 

Roger Fucking Pavlik. I think that dude was actually our opening day starter for a year or two. Shout out to Roger wherever he is. 

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Listen... I'm a Longhorn fan through and through. My dad was James Street's RA in college. But I grew up in the sticks of NE Texas. We had 2 channels. I got to see maybe 2 UT football games a year. The earliest UT game I can remember watching was the Stoney Clark OU game. By that time I had attended no less than 10 Ranger games which was a big deal for a kid who lived 2 hours from Dallas.

This was my first team. 2011 tore me in half. 

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Just the craziest run ever.

Looks like they won't even make the playoffs in September.  In position to win the division.  Choke.  Then they sweep the Rays and Orioles.  Go up 2-0 on the Astros and then turn around and drop 3 at home.  Win back to back in Houston.  Then they ride a Corey Seager 9th inning 2-run homer and an Adolis 11 inning home run to crushing the Snakes.

Bruce Bochy is a fucking savant.  He took this bullpen and somehow got them through the entire postseason.  Just unbelievable.  

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