If A Team Wins 7 In A Row & Nobody Hears About It…

Posted on May 18th, 2009 7:07am by Mike Hindman
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does it make a sound?

This morning’s headlines on ESPN.com’s baseball page:

• Rays prevail after error forces pitcher to hit
• Halladay owns ChiSox for MLB-best 8th win
• Yankees earn third straight walk-off victory
• Lackey to start Monday vs. M’s | Angels fall
• Carpenter’s return set | Brewers beat Cards
• Ortiz to play vs. Jays | BoSox clipped in 9th
• Pudge hits 300th HR vs. Cubs | Zambrano rusty
• D-backs’ ex-pitching coach rips manager hiring
• Kershaw no-hitter ends in 8th; Dodgers win
• Olney: How the Diamondbacks break bread

And on Fox.com’s baseball front page, here are your headlines:

• Designated pitcher? Error forces Rays P to hit
• MLB playoff games on FOX to have earlier start
• Damon gives Yanks third straight walk-off win
• Dodgers’ Kershaw flirts with no-no, still gets W
• After two-pitch debut, Lackey may go Monday
• Halladay grabs league-best 8th win as Jays roll
• Zambrano feeling fine after rough rehab outing
• Rays put Burrell on 15-day DL with neck strain
• Mets place injured Delgado on DL, call up Pagan
• Carpenter may return to Cards early next week

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14 Comments to “If A Team Wins 7 In A Row & Nobody Hears About It…”
  • SAC @ May 18th, 2009 at 7:12 am

    First….

    And first place Texas Rangers.

    Years of below mediocrity baseball takes some time to get used to. If the Rangers continue at this pace the headlines will come.

  • boomer1 @ May 18th, 2009 at 7:24 am

    I don’t really care. I stopped watching ESPN since the MLB Network came out. There was a time when ESPN was good but that was a long time ago.

    I like that the Rangers are flying under the radar right now. As Rangers fans we have all we need right here with Mike, Evan, Jamey, BBTiA and Lone Star Ball and Brett Perryman and many others. IMO we have the best local coverage of any team in baseball.

  • pblack @ May 18th, 2009 at 7:49 am

    If the Rangers win the series with the Red Sox and Yankees in a couple of weeks then the national media will catch on.

  • Ehren @ May 18th, 2009 at 8:12 am

    I’m not surprised.

  • ToddInChicago @ May 18th, 2009 at 8:32 am

    Man, I was thinking the same damn thing looking on the web last night/today. Also, last night on the hour long QuickPitch on MLB, it was 35 minutes in before they got to the Rangers. No respect.

  • Bob Bland @ May 18th, 2009 at 8:43 am

    I totally agree with @pblack – it’s going to take the Rangers doing this on the national stage before ESPN and the rest take note. And in baseball, the national stage pretty much begins and ends with the friggin’ Yankees and Red Sox.

  • jcAustin @ May 18th, 2009 at 9:01 am

    This bugs me too. I think a lot of these mass-media outlets are just lazy. They’re covering baseball for people who don’t follow baseball.

  • Capasso @ May 18th, 2009 at 9:05 am

    Agreed. Let ‘em fly under the radar for a bit- if the Rangers keep playing the way they have been, they’ll get as much coverage as they want soon enough.

  • Evan Grant @ May 18th, 2009 at 9:07 am

    Just so you know, I’ve had our crack research staff looking into ESPN’s coverage. More on that later. But when I checked out the ESPN.com page the morning after Chris Davis’ walk-off homer, there were 19 different stories “above the fold” in the page. None of them mentioned your Texas Rangers either. I hate to sound like Johnny Homer here, but if you are doing a national baseball roundup, why is a walkoff homer by a first-place team on a win streak any less important than a walkoff HR by Alex Rodriguez? Oh wait, never mind, I think I answered that all by myself. It’s part of what disappoints me about the overall state of the industry right now. We seem only to gravitate towards the lurid.

  • dave @ May 18th, 2009 at 9:29 am

    exactly Evan….ESPN coverage is definitely not national, but I suppose thats nothing new. What would be cool is if your research team could put that information into numbers.

    I will say that the MLB site has done the best job of reporting the Rangers most recent run.

  • dave @ May 18th, 2009 at 9:32 am

    by the way….this should be your mission statement:

    “We seem only to gravitate towards the lurid.”

  • Ehren @ May 18th, 2009 at 9:35 am

    @Evan and Mike: Good news. Rangers made SI’s MLB cover. http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/baseball/mlb/

  • Little O @ May 18th, 2009 at 9:44 am

    Nothing new. They didn’t even notice Tampa Bay until the middle of August last year.

    BTW they haven’t noticed Milwaukee this year either.

  • Mystic @ May 18th, 2009 at 9:48 am

    Don’t bother even looking at SI’s “Power Rankings”, unless your blood pressure’s too low.