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#1701
25 minutes ago, BehoId, The Underminer! said:

Holy shit.  Fergie throwing a first pitch?


that’d be pretty fucking cool 

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#1704

Bought not built. So true. Ouch it hurts.

"We have traded Adolis Garcia to the Texas Rangers for cash considerations," St. Louis Cardinals, tweeted Dec. 21, 2019.

 

 

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#1705
15 minutes ago, Beau Vine said:

Butthurt quite strong:

 

Lmao. 

DeGrom - didn't throw one fucking pitch this postseason 

Scherzer - threw 6 innings all series with a 9.45 ERA

Semien - .510 OPS for the series 

Seager - .568 OPS for the first 6 games of the series

Yeah we really had to buy that series.

#1706

I don't watch pro sports much at all.  Jerrah and the Cowboys put me off the NFL, and, although I am a baseball fan, the length of the MLB season has always put me off a bit, as well as the long futility of the home-team Rangers.  The 40 or so games of the NCAA regular season, which I follow closely, are plenty enough for me.  Fuck a hunnert.

So, being a fair-weather fan, I started following the Rangers post-season and looking up players that I had vague and not-so-vague recollections of from NCAA baseball, e.g. Scherzer and Bregman, among others.  Vaguely happy for homeboy Chris Young, too.  And the owners are refreshingly low-profile compared to Jerrah and a lot of others.

And then of course noticed how most all of the players bounce all around the leagues in various commercial transactions like a round lot of securities.  Or pork bellies.  Or OJ concentrate.

And that underscores my fundamental problem with pro sports:  I need some hook or rooting interest beyond the corporate HQ and name being in my home town.  And most of the players being brought in like feedstock to a refinery: tank cars of basically fungible goo.

Shit, I kinda bemoan what college sports are turning into, but at least players incented by NIL or traveling through the portal consented and even actively chose to come to my Texas Longhorns and represent the university.

So, yeah, Rangers buying players. Big fucking deal.  All in the game, yo.  Also why I'm not really that fond of the game at the pro level.

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#1708
11 minutes ago, ztejas said:

Lmao. 

DeGrom - didn't throw one fucking pitch this postseason 

Scherzer - threw 6 innings all series with a 9.45 ERA

Semien - .510 OPS for the series 

Seager - .568 OPS for the first 6 games of the series

Yeah we really had to buy that series.

The Astros and their fans would have the worst main character syndrome in sports if the aggies didn't exist. 

The Rangers didnt spend 800 million to beat the Astros, we did it to beat everyone and we're 4 wins from accomplishing that.

While we are at it Rangers didn't make a mockery of the fan base and the sport by losing hundreds of games on purpose for years on end. Or by concocting the most egregious cheating system in the history of the sport all the while staining their first championship and the reputation of the best player in their history. 

The list goes on and on about that turd stain of a franchise. Baseball deserves better than the Houston Astros. 

#1711

Evan Carter.
Leody taveras.
Adolis Garcia.
Josh Jung.

Half of our lineup came up thru our system.

#1713
2 minutes ago, cmontexas said:

Wonder why Verlander didnt come in to pitch like Montgomery. Probably would have done better than France

Because Baker's strategic skills max out at refusing to leave after being tossed.

#1715
4 minutes ago, gsoda3 said:

Evan Carter.
Leody taveras.
Adolis Garcia.
Josh Jung.

Half of our lineup came up thru our system.

We traded for heim when he was still a prospect, yes?  Lowe was a platoon player in tampa. 

perez is homegrown, doesn’t matter if he left and came back. Leclerc is home grown. 
 

 

#1716
We traded for heim when he was still a prospect, yes?  Lowe was a platoon player in tampa. 

perez is homegrown, doesn’t matter if he left and came back. Leclerc is home grown. 
 
 
Jonah never played a minor league game in our system. Nate had been in the show for a while. I thought adolis spent some time in AAA but BR shows he didn't.

Yeah leclerc is a product of our system. Of the 7 guys in our bullpen though I think he's the only one. Oh Martin Perez of course.
#1717
2 minutes ago, gsoda3 said:

Jonah never played a minor league game in our system. Nate had been in the show for a while. I thought adolis spent some time in AAA but BR shows he didn't.

Yeah leclerc is a product of our system. Of the 7 guys in our bullpen though I think he's the only one. Oh Martin Perez of course.

Dunning we got in exchange for Lance Lynn a few years back.  
 

Adolis we got for cash considerations, waived him in spring training if I remember correctly, got claimed by no one, then ended up on the roster at the start of the season due to injuries and has been here ever since.  
 

 

#1720

The aggy accusations are a lot weaker than any lineup/ payroll shit talk.  It's all fucking stupid.

It's pro sports.  Go build your team and win.  Everyone else can shut the fuck up.

#1722
9 hours ago, cmontexas said:

Wonder why Verlander didnt come in to pitch like Montgomery. Probably would have done better than France

because he's a puss

#1723
10 hours ago, cmontexas said:

Wonder why Verlander didnt come in to pitch like Montgomery. Probably would have done better than France

Because Dusty.  

#1725
Just now, Chuckie Finster said:

9th inning home run with the game out of reach already.  As clutch as it gets, or so I've been told.

yes yes they were very comparable and this argument you are still harping on is getting better with every world series ticket we buy.

#1726
23 minutes ago, Chuckie Finster said:

9th inning home run with the game out of reach already.  As clutch as it gets, or so I've been told.

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#1727
29 minutes ago, Chuckie Finster said:

9th inning home run with the game out of reach already.  As clutch as it gets, or so I've been told.

3 runs is out of reach?

Uh, sure. But a couple nights earlier it wasn't, right?

Props to the Houston fans for being there despite it being "out of reach" ... that is until that grand slam. Then I guess they remembered they had somewhere better to be. Whole rows around us got up and walked out like a choreographed sequence. It was beautiful.

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#1728
48 minutes ago, Chuckie Finster said:

9th inning home run with the game out of reach already.  As clutch as it gets, or so I've been told.

Wait - you're talking about the Adolis grand slam? 

I'd say up 3 runs with bases juiced and down 8 runs with nobody on are fairly different scenarios in the 9th inning.

#1731

AI:  Jabba, the guy in Channelview?

#1732
1 hour ago, JOSEYWALES66 said:

I don't like Cruz for taking his PED suspension

Just wanted to highlight this casual reference to cheating within the Rangers organization.

#1733

You'd think fans of a team that has made seven straight ALCS and won two WS would be less bitchy/whiny/excuse-makey. *This* is why the aggy tag gets casually thrown around with regard to the Astros. It doesn't help that Houston is overrun with those turds. (Dallas has Sooners. Houston has aggy. Sorry, but Dallas wins again.)

#1734

You couldn’t be more wrong…holy shit, there is nothing worse than a sooner. Nothing.

#1735
15 minutes ago, Hate said:

You couldn’t be more wrong…holy shit, there is nothing worse than a sooner. Nothing.

Counterpoint:

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#1736
22 minutes ago, Hate said:

You couldn’t be more wrong…holy shit, there is nothing worse than a sooner. Nothing.

aggy is worse than a Sooner.  The term 'aggy' just embodies everything you don't want to be associated with and at the very bottom of the totem pole. I view aggy and sooners in different categories of my dislike. 

 

#1737
24 minutes ago, Hate said:

You couldn’t be more wrong…holy shit, there is nothing worse than a sooner. Nothing.

 

8 minutes ago, Beau Vine said:

Counterpoint:

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I've found the vast majority of Sooners (actual OU grads) to be way more NORMAL and fun to hang out with than aggy. Probably has something to do with them actually having some skins on the wall and their fellow status as "Big Brother" in that state (as shitty as it might be).

#1738
31 minutes ago, Vic Mackey said:

aggy is worse than a Sooner.  The term 'aggy' just embodies everything you don't want to be associated with and at the very bottom of the totem pole. I view aggy and sooners in different categories of my dislike. 

 

aggy is always the worst.

#1739
19 hours ago, ztejas said:

Lmao. 

DeGrom - didn't throw one fucking pitch this postseason 

Scherzer - threw 6 innings all series with a 9.45 ERA

Semien - .510 OPS for the series 

Seager - .568 OPS for the first 6 games of the series

Yeah we really had to buy that series.

…and in the end the dude making $750K is the one who took over the series.

Sour fucking grapes….

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#1742
14 minutes ago, Vic Mackey said:

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Poor guy.  Looks like he has until Feb 18-20 to ice it and heal up for the next time.  

#1744
25 minutes ago, Trey3216 said:

Poor guy.  Looks like he has until Feb 18-20 to ice it and heal up for the next time.  

he makes $500k / yr and has a hot wife.  he's fine...

#1745
1 minute ago, freyguy said:

he makes $500k / yr and has a hot wife.  he's fine...

But his name is Chas...Isn't that an autonomous zone in Portland or something?  

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#1746
10 minutes ago, Trey3216 said:

But his name is Chas...Isn't that an autonomous zone in Portland or something?  

No. That's CHAZLTQ2+.

#1747
35 minutes ago, Trey3216 said:

But his name is Chas...Isn't that an autonomous zone in Portland or something?  

It was CHAZ… which was actually a pretty dope name, but they changed it to something stupid after. 
 

But really fuck Chas McCormick. Super dirty player. He (very intentionally) tried smacking the ball out of the first baseman’s glove during a play that one time. I’m glad he got plunked. 

#1748
5 minutes ago, Helobious said:

It was CHAZ… which was actually a pretty dope name, but they changed it to something stupid after. 
 

But really fuck Chas McCormick. Super dirty player. He (very intentionally) tried smacking the ball out of the first baseman’s glove during a play that one time. I’m glad he got plunked. 

Sometimes you just make it too easy.

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#1749
1 minute ago, Chuckie Finster said:

Sometimes you just make it too easy.

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That dude was trying to tag him. Chas was trying to interfere with a catch. 

#1750
3 hours ago, Helobious said:

That dude was trying to tag him. Chas was trying to interfere with a catch. 

Maybe he should have thrown the ball at him Clemens’ style.  

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