The List: The 10 Most Important Games/Moments Of The First Half Of The Rangers Season

Our friend, Jack Daddy is big on ranking Rangers’ wins. I’d prefer to simply rank big moments. So without further rambling, here is a look at what I consider the 10 most important moments in the season:

10. April 15, Rangers 19, Baltimore 6: The Rangers broke a five-game losing streak that had threatened to send April into a spiral similar to the last two years when they buried before the end of the month. Ian Kinsler went 6-for-6 and hit for the cycle. Unfortunately, he’s not been the same since, hitting only .223.

9. April 6, Rangers 9, Cleveland 1: For the first time, the Rangers won a season opener under Ron Washington and, in doing so, RHP Kevin Millwood worked quickly and was effective. It was a sign that maybe, just maybe, this pitching staff would be different than the recent past.

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Dallas Stars’ 2009-10 Schedule Released

They’ll open on Saturday night, Oct. 3 at home against Nashville. It’s another season featuring a break for the Winter Olympics. They’ll play six Saturday afternoon home games and one Sunday afternoon game.

From the Eastern Conference, they’ll play Carolina, New Jersey and Philadelphia twice each. The other East teams that will come to AAC will be Boston, Florida, the New York Islanders, Ottawa, Tampa Bay and Toronto.

Here’s a link to the complete schedule.

Viral Video: Texas Rangers Outfielder David Murphy

Ted Price was cleaning out the viral video vault the other day and came across a David Murphy interview that had not yet been posted. What better time to post it than on the eve of his big appearance at the Arlington location of Pappasito’s - along with Kevin Millwood, Tommy Hunter and Eddie Guardado – tomorrow from 6:30-7:30.

Manager Ron Washington and GM Jon Daniels will address the crowd – and we are hoping for a crowd – about the club’s prospects for the second half of the season. And what the Greater Rangers Nation can do to help the club earn its first playoff berth in a decade. The whole thing will be one hot event. And we aren’t talking about the temperatures.

Linkin’ Park: Lurking Around The Web For You

While we’re still in the spirit of ranking Ranger prospects, Baseball Time in Arlington has posted their collaborative top 25. And despite the fact that I only took one math course in college, I can almost positively tell you that 25 is 15 less than Mike Hindman’s top 40. But it’s still a good list.

Neftali Feliz, who is near the top of both the MJH and BBTiA lists, was the only Ranger representative at this week’s MLB Future’s Game in St. Louis. Feliz is known for having some of the easiest velocity you could ever see from a pitcher, and Ranger fans will be happy to know that during his one hitless, scoreless inning at Busch Stadium, he was regularly hitting 90 mph on the radar gun.

With his changeup.

And his fastball? He managed to record the 14 fastest pitches of the game, including a heater that was clocked at 101.4 mph. His fastball averaged 99.4 mph. Was the gun a little fast? Possibly. Well, probably. But still, the closest average on a fastball was Arizona’s Jarrod Parker at 96.4 mph. Again, my math skills allow me to deduce that the difference is a full three miles per hour. Thank you, college algebra.

So in conclusion, Neftali Feliz throws fast, and he might up soon.

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MJH’s Top-40 Texas Rangers Prospects (Nos. 1-10)

Final installment.

Please: jump and read on.

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The Romo Manifesto

The following entry may not make a ton of sense to all of you. I write this only for a certain portion of the audience. If you consider yourself a football fan that believes Tony Romo’s story has yet to be written, and the truth shall be told in the years to come, then this might not be for you.

However, if you consider Tony Romo either a loser, a spare, just a guy, mediocre, or another over-rated Cowboys’ QB, then this is for you.

If you have ever accused guys like me who think Romo’s got something of being “Cowboys’ Apologists”, “Romo Lovers”, or “blind because of your love for Romo”, then this is for you.

If, this summer, you dreamed of grabbing Brady Quinn, Mark Sanchez, or Jay Cutler to push Romo out, then this is for you.

This entry is not to say, “Tony Romo walks on water and is the best QB in the NFL”. But, rather, it is to make the point that Tony Romo appears to be on track to go from where he is now (undoubtedly one of the best 6 or 7 QBs in the NFL) to even another level (One of the top 3 or 4).

It is to demonstrate that in the NFL, Rome is seldom built in a day. It is to show that he has warts, but if he should harness them, the sky is the limit.

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Road To Arlington: Rangers Minor League Report (7/15)

Whittleman in Surprise

After his ninth inning heroics last night, Frisco third baseman Johnny Whittleman is hitting .257 / .435 / .800 / 1.235 in July.
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