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Excessive NCAA Time Outs

Published on 2012-03-19 21:44:04

How many timeouts are in a televised NCAA basketball game? Possibly 28! Twenty-eight! Each team gets 5 during each half, four 30 seconds timeouts and one 60 second timeout.  On top of that there are 4 TV timeouts each half … Continue reading → > read more

CJ Throws 4th Complete Game

Published on 2011-05-05 01:08:55

CJ Wilson went the full 9 tonight versus the Mariners, while giving up only 1 earned run and fanning 12.  The Rangers won 5-2.  The defensive woes continued for the team and for Andrus, who committed his 8th error of … Continue reading → > read more

April Summary

Published on 2011-05-01 16:17:26

April of the 2011 MLB season is done, 1/6th of the season, 5 more months to go.  Division leaders at the end of April are: AL East:  Yankees (15-9), .625 AL Central:  Cleveland (18-8), .692 AL West:  Texas (16-11), .593 … Continue reading & > read more

Rangers Advance to 1st World Series

Published on 2010-10-23 23:18:53

Before the 2010 ALCS, the Rangers, Mariners, and Expos/Senators franchises were the 3 teams to never make it to the World Series.  You can cross the Rangers off that list. Previous Rangers postseason history was ’96, ’98, and the ’ > read more

ALCS Domination

Published on 2010-10-23 22:04:30

2010 payroll NY Yankees – 206,333,389 (1st) TX Rangers – 55,250,545 (27th of 30th) ALCS team stats: ______Wins       ERA        Ks      Runs       AVG TX               4           3.06        52 > read more

ALCS GM 6

Published on 2010-10-23 20:49:57

Rangers 6, Yankees 1 Colby Lewis – 8 ip, 3 hits, 3 bb, 7 ks, 1 er.  Wow.  Colby lewis had 2 wins against the Yankees this series.  This game was huge though.  Feliz comes in and retires the side, … Continue reading → > read more

ALCS GM 4

Published on 2010-10-20 00:02:50

If you were going to tell me before the game that Tommy Hunter was going to go 3 1/3 innings and give up 3 runs, I’d say the Rangers would be be in big time trouble.  However, those would be … Continue reading → > read more

ALCS Pitching Matchups Update

Published on 2010-10-14 13:16:29

Girardi flipped Pettitte and Hughes from their order against the Twins in the ALDS.  So now the matchups look like this: Game 1 (Fri):  C.J. Wilson vs. C.C. Sabathia Game 2 (Sat):  Colby Lewis vs. Phil Hughes Game 3 (Mon):  … Continue readi > read more

Rangers Win 1st Postseason Series

Published on 2010-10-13 13:30:56

Before last night, the Texas Rangers were the only MLB franchise to not win a postseason series.  After beating Tampa Bay 5-1 in game 5 of the series, this is no longer the case. Cliff Lee:  clutch again.  Complete game, … Continue reading & > read more

Claw and Antlers

Published on 2010-10-13 11:10:18

Just in case you didn’t already know, here is the Claw and Antlers explained for the Texas Rangers: The Claw: The claw was developed by minor league player Esteban German of the Texas Rangers.  It’s basically an air high five … Con > read more

Published on 2010-10-12 00:22:22

Cliff Lee:  “This is why you play the game.” If you’re a Rangers fan, you really wanted the Rangers to sweep the Rays.  Then you really wanted them to beat the Rays on Sunday.  Now you might be getting nervous.  … Continue > read more

2010 Postseason Pricing

Published on 2010-10-09 11:51:01

It’s interesting to me to see how much pricing fluctuates during the postseason and over time. This is from the Texas Rangers website. SECTION Reg. Season ALDS ALCS Cuervo Club $125 $125 $175 VIP Infield $100 $125 $175 Premium Infield … C > read more

Wishful Thinking

Published on 2010-10-07 20:20:20

Ok, Rangers are up 2-0 against the Rays with the next 2 games in Texas and Yankees are up 2-0 against the Twins with the next 2 games in New York.  I really wanted the Rangers to face the Yanks … Continue reading → > read more



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