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Texas Rangers 2023 - They're Still Shitty?


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5 minutes ago, deadshank said:

All the old Rangers can be released from baseball hell. 
 

Oddibe McDowell, Larry Parrish, Buddy Bell, Toby Harrah, Bump Wills, Jim Sundberg, Charlie Hough, Al Oliver, Lenny Randle, Juan Gonzalez, Rafael Palmeiro, Julio Franco, Mike Hargrove, you name ‘em.  
 

Also, the then-mayor of Arlington, Tom Vandergriff, that made the deal to get the Senator’s franchise to Arlington. 

I watched all of them and Mickey Tettleton, Steve Beuchelle, Benji Gil, Fernando Tatis, Jeff Kunkel, Jack Daugherty, Will Clark, Bobby Witt, Kenny Rogers, Ruben Sierra, Pete Incaviglia... 

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6 minutes ago, deadshank said:

All the old Rangers can be released from baseball hell. 
 

Oddibe McDowell, Larry Parrish, Buddy Bell, Toby Harrah, Bump Wills, Jim Sundberg, Charlie Hough, Al Oliver, Lenny Randle, Juan Gonzalez, Rafael Palmeiro, Julio Franco, Mike Hargrove, you name ‘em.  
 

Also, the then-mayor of Arlington, Tom Vandergriff, that made the deal to get the Senator’s franchise to Arlington. 

Dear god I haven’t heard oddibe McDowell in 30 plus years hahahah Charlie fucking bough  Julio Franco. Ruben sierra   Fuck we even had Jose canseco fucking pitching in a game. 
 

 

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24 minutes ago, dcar00 said:

This is for Sunny, Buddy, Toby, Pudge, Kevin, Kenny, Steve, Charlie, Juan, Young, Adrian, Nolan, etc.

…and Oddibe, Bump, Bert, Ruben, Pete times two, Hank, pitch at risk to Richie motherfuckin’ Zisk, and about 30 dudes named Julio…

Hah Sgt Hulk beat me to a lot of these dudes…

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Just now, Hornlover said:

I watched all of them and Mickey Tettleton, Steve Beuchelle, Benji Gil, Fernando Tatis, Jeff Kunkel, Jack Daugherty, Will Clark, Bobby Witt, Kenny Rogers, Ruben Sierra, Pete Incaviglia... 

great list.  All the names come flooding back.   Heck, I’m now remembering old D/FW Spurs minor league baseball team members now.  
 

The curse in NE Arlington is gone.  
 

FINALLY!!

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💥💥 BOOM 💥💥

  • 11-0 on the road this postseason (record)
  • Garcia postseason record 22 RBI's
  • Seager HR's (record 2nd MVP 2nd team)
  • Eovaldi 5 wins in postseason record
  • Carter 9 postseason doubles record
  • Carter one of two players A21 to bat 3rd in World Series (other Mickey Mantle)
  • LeClerc was amazing
  • Jon Gray dominant
  • Marcus Semien clutch in Gms 4 and 5
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7 minutes ago, NorthLoop said:

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. 

I’ll never get over ‘11. This is a start. We should be in the mix for the foreseeable future pending Max and deGrom age/health. I know CY will be doing work trying to improve pitching. I would be surprised if we don’t add more big names. I know Kershaw is a guy possibly in play. 

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I grew up in Waco and we didn't have cable.  We had an antenna on the roof and there was a TV on a dresser in my parents bedroom that also had a small antenna on it.  So if the wind was just right I could get Rangers games on Channel 11 I think. That was one of the 5 channels we got.  I remember sitting on the floor in that room watching Geno Petralli, Charlie Hough, Boo, Scott Fletcher, Pete Incaviglia, Ruben Sierra etc. Im thinking about those days tonight 

 

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8 minutes ago, Sgt Hulk said:

Dear god I haven’t heard oddibe McDowell in 30 plus years hahahah Charlie fucking bough  Julio Franco. Ruben sierra   Fuck we even had Jose canseco fucking pitching in a game. 
 

 

I was at the stadium when Oddibe McDowell hit for the first cycle in Rangers history.

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I’ll never get over ‘11. This is a start. We should be in the mix for the foreseeable future pending Max and deGrom age/health. I know CY will be doing work trying to improve pitching. I would be surprised if we don’t add more big names. I know Kershaw is a guy possibly in play. 
I'm absolutely over it now. This is redemption. This is like the Mavs blowing 2006 and coming back to win in 2011. Fuck 2011 now. The game 6 blunder means zero now. I can now be peace with it as a fan
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Since we're sharing anecdotes. 

 

Baseball wasn't a part of my life growing up. I was raised in the shadow of DKR Memorial with some flashes of Texas basketball here and there. That's really all I knew. I was a quiet, unathletic kid growing up. Unless it was Texas football or basketball I really didn't care. For a long time. 

Then I got taller. I started playing pretty good basketball. I spent more time on the internet. I watched the Rangers make the WS in 2010 and kind of got into it. Then I watched them make it again in 2011 and had my heart ripped out with the rest of you. 

Then I went to school in Dallas and lived there from 2013 - 2019 and fell in love with the game through the Texas Rangers. I listened to Beltre's 3000th hit on the radio. I watched that fuckhead Bautista flip his bat in 2015 or 16? from a bar near SMU. And I just kept following them and loving them. 

A lot of you - if not most of you - deserve this more than I do. My journey hasn't been nearly as long. I haven't experienced nearly as much pain.

But this is my fucking team. It always has been and always will be. I fucking love them like I love Texas. Dare I say I love them like I love the Spurs. 

God FUCKING DAMN WE JUST WON THE FUCKING WORLD SERIES

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2 minutes ago, NorthLoop said:

Rusty Greer, Kevin Mench, David Delucci, Jarrod Saltalamacchia, Marlon Byrd, Kam Loe, Taylor Teagarden, Royce Clayton, Eric Young, Michael Young, Ian Kinsler... fuck I could go on forever. 

Josh Hamilton, Elvis Andrus, Buddy Bell, Jim Sundberg, Kevin Brown, Pete OBrien, CJ Wilson, Colby Lewis, Toby Harrah, Geno Petralli...

 

Too many over so many years that should be celebrating tonight 

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4 minutes ago, Jewish Wang said:

I’ll never get over ‘11. This is a start. We should be in the mix for the foreseeable future pending Max and deGrom age/health. I know CY will be doing work trying to improve pitching. I would be surprised if we don’t add more big names. I know Kershaw is a guy possibly in play. 

That's a hard pass on Kershaw.

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LOL just interviewed the D-Backs manager.

"They didn't win it by a lot"

Dude we fucked your shit up. You got ran out of the fucking series. Give us the Phillies next time we'll give FOX some better ratings. 

Keep bunting guys with 0 outs in the 3rd inning.

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