Excitement and Anxiety

As the feelings of dismay from the lack of any kind of movement buy the Rangers at the trading deadline and the fact that they went 2-7 on the last home stand I haven’t had much feelings of any kind towards them. Then, I fire up FeedDemon and low and behold it see that Millwood, Padilla, and Catalanato cleared wavers. Excitement filled my heart thinking that we might be in the market to move some people for the future and then the anxiety hit me thinking that the only real starters we have had just cleared waivers.

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The Dog Days of Summer

In the sport that claims the to be the home of the “boys of summer”, the boys are playing and winning while the dogs are becoming what they really are. The Texas Rangers have officially become the Texas Rangers again. No pitching to be found, players are becoming disabled faster than in Iraq, and the bats are silent. I know that this is my home team and that is the team I follow closest, for the others how about the Yankees treading water, the Phillies hanging on, the Brewers, the Cards, the Astros (maybe), the D-backs and Dodgers.

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Fight! Fight!

Last night, Prince Fielder decided that he was going to prove to the whole world that he is a team leader by shoving one of his teammates into the bench in the dugout.  Less than a week after Steve Smith gets suspended for two games for punching a teammate at practice (we talkin’ ’bout practice!), [...]

Sports Quick Hits

Sure, this is a baseball blog. But does that mean that we can’t have some other stuff here as well?  Hell, no!