@Evan – be sure to go dope-slap your nerds so we don’t have any server problems again.

MAN, wish I could have gone last night….Hope everyone had fun. GO RANGERS! Ready for a game!

Cool, thanks Little O

Thats what I got it on! LOL.

Expect to see Joe Carter step up to the plate with those unis

That was still a heck of a play

Nice inning by Vinny.

wow….a leadoff SINGLE by KINS. That’s great to see.

Walter Cronkite dead at the age of 92

WOO HOO!

Oh hell yeah!

Love seeing Hammy get going!!!

Nice adjustment by Ham when lefty was pounding him inside

Lead-off hit by Kins – Hopefully the days off did him some good.

HR by Hambino – Never a bad thing to watch.

And…Hank going to opposite field. Good signs.

Jones steamed it. Borbon probably couldn’t have beaten it out, and Jones weighs 50 lbs more and has terrible knees. He dogs some, and it drives me crazy, but can’t fault him on that one.

That’s not fair EVAN! Man, you are the Master of rangers baseball…..

When was Josh’s last homerun oh noble one?

Well dang. Should have been out of the inning, and now it’s tied.

@steve: stay the course, zach duke …. How’s Delilah?

Evening everyone. Little late getting to the game and the first pitch I see was what looked to be strike three from Padilla to end the second. But he got squeezed and now the score is tied. It he doesn’t get that pitch it might be a long night.

Nice play bu Little E

@obagain: thanks!

Next batter gets hit?

@evan: from the man who was talked into getting a Blackberry instead of an iphone? Or, have you since bought an iphone?

Padilla’s getting squeezed. Unfortunately, he loses focus with adversity.

IMO, the Rangers shouldn’t trade for a pitcher unless it is a true “ace” (Halladay qualifies; the others in that list don’t).

What the heck was that throw from the ump!

Ok- figured out the site on blackberry.

Padilla is killing. Though another good ranger ab, as ian goes to cf. That’s 4 or 5 hard hit outs by my count, with the only one pulled by jones.

Another ball up the middle. Hate the score, but love the approach at the plate. Love it.

When do we move jones back to the bench?

Whittleman just went deep again in frisco.
He also has his normal walk.
If he could just find a way to get the average up to 280 he would be worth watching.

There is no reason for anyone to own anything other than an iPhone. And the DMagazine iPhone interface is brilliant. I actually like it better than the web browser version because there is a link directly to the next or previous story.

And when I say “anything other than an iPhone,” I mean ANYTHING. It’s more important than a house, car, television…ANYTHING.

What I would give up for Halladay:

I don’t think Smoak is untouchable, if he is a must have for any deal, he is in.

With as well as he has pitched in parts of the season, I would definitely give up CJ

I kind of like Kiker and Feliz, but any of the other young pitchers, I would be willing to part with.

This is about winning a Championship, I would much rather have that, than to wait and see IF, and or WHEN these prospects develop.

@Marcus: You are correct and if he goes through the game today without hitting anybody, it will be Padilla’s longest stretch without a hit batter in his career. He is working on his seventh consecutive start without plunking anyone.

Wow, that’s the first time I remember that effus curve hit hard for a basehit.

Halladay: I don’t give up Holland, Perez, Feliz, or Andrus (or obviously Hamilton and Kinsler). Anybody else is up for discussion.

@Marcus: sorry i typed before i saw your post

So, I’m enjoying some Dr. Pepper complements of Mr. Grant.

… alcoholic Dr. Pepper.

Wife is watching some movie about Ann Bolin, with Natalie Portman and Scarlett Johannsen.

Half hour in, I decided to be with you and MLB.tv…Yahtzee.

Evan in the booth

wes I seem to remember it getting hit a couple of times but never hard.

@obagain- altho I obviously don’t see Jones in the future, and it drives me crazy (despite 3 HR) when he’s in there against RHP. I think there is a place for hm against LHP. He coulda had a double in the 1st.

@Little O… thank you

YARD

Evan is bragging.

Hope Evan can type when he gets done with TV as much as he is patting his own back!

@EG: is that the first run scored during a TV appearence this year?

how much beter is Emily Jones than Jim Knox?

benson just gave up his 7th run in 6 innnings.

I’m still looking for a Feliz appearance.

Emily Jones got married to a guy I grew up with, she is a very nice person too.

@Last: I like some country music. Buffett actually plays some country music. I like a few songs here and there. I’ve got a John Anderson song on my iPod, if you must know.

Bragging is my right as the winner of the pool. I brag, but the prize goes back into the hopper. The autographed ball will remain available for another day.

@ Evan
who autographed the ball

@Steve: All the fellas who were at the event last night – Kevin Millwood, Tommy Hunter, David Murphy and Eddie Guardado.

Jones is a good guy to bring off the bench once a week but he is not an every day player.
Early in the season he was hot but didnt play much.
They started giving him more playing time and he cooled off.
Then after sitting a while he got hot again so they have had him in every since and he has not produced.

I’m curious to hear who everyone thinks she get demoted should Feliz come up in the next week. And also, what role would he fill in a bullpen that is doing quite well lately?

marcus, it could be a pitcher getting traded also.
I would think mathis would be the odd man out and feliz would take the place of o’day.
That would allow them to use o’day and cj in the 8th and not over use either guy.

Smoak just hit his second double of the night to drive in davis who doubled in front of him.
Smoak is finally starting to hit in AAA.

@obagain: was that right-handed or left-handed? I’m more impressed if it is right-handed.

@scooper, JustSaying: If I make a prediction every night, it’s just going to bring my percentage down. Why not retire on top. I think I’ll only make calls when it’s pretty obvious.

@Marcus, obagain: The Rangers are going to have to move two pitchers off the staff in order before bringing up Feliz. One pitcher will have to be removed in order to create a roster spot for an extra bench player next week. The second would be the guy Feliz would replace. My guess would be Nippert outrighted and Mathis optioned. But Mathis has not allowed a run in relief. The bullpen is pitching quite well as a group. No need to make a move just to bring Feliz up. It’s either necessitated by an injury or poor performance only.

scooper, he is 2-3 tonight.
Both doubles and 1 against a rightie and 1 against a leftie, both drove in a run.

@Evan- so I guess it stands to reason that if Elvis keeps that up we should send him down to OKC because his defense is irrelevant?

that kinsler in the batting cage promo spot is the best yet………..

@Little O: Not at all, but I think he is moving into the area where he’s going to have to start making adjustments to how pitchers are attacking him and he’s going to have to fight off late-season fatigue. He’s not gone through the stress of 162-game season.

@Marcus: The Gorbachev helmet. … Brilliant!

@Evan: Thanks, but I can’t claim that one as my own. I read that at one of the Newberg forums back when they intro’d the new jersey and helmet.

There was the bloop, now we need a blast.

I am flapping my wings, Marlon is about to go DEEP, (right after these messages) I hope I don’t get too tired during the commercials

Gotta give AJ credit for preventing the DP, there

@obagain: Kins doesn’t have a stance that is that open; has to be Cruz.

Ranger’s Captain walked into a bar
The bartender says, “Hey buddy, why the long face?”

Feliz in the 8th, K, GO, K for a perfect inning.

scooper, I said it was cruz.

Looking to the 9th, does Murphy hit for Teagarden or Elvis?

the retro batting helmet just makes it more vintage kinsler……..he agreed to wear it………

Evan, if the rangers dont call up feliz until the roster expand, wouldnt moving him to the BP be a failed experiment?
If the rangers truely feel like he is a BP guy then use him in a trade to get a real starter here.

@oba: why?

Bad–now you get a hint. Byrd is a proven pro

adios, you can find BP guys much easier than starters.
If feliz is a BP guy his value will never be higher than right now so you maximise the value and get a starter that can help you.

Yup. Before everyone else decides he is a bullpen guy, too.
But I don’t think they have made a decision past this year. It sounds to me like they think he can help in the ‘pen this year and they will re-elvauate in the off-season.

@OB: Don’t know about that one. Think about if the Yankees had decided to trade Rivera in ’95 because they already had an established closer.

Good night! Off to watch Angels – A’s

Padilla’s problem is lack of make up/self discipline.
If we could put his stuff tother with Milwood/Feldman/Hunter’s make up, he’d be an ace. As it is, we just have Padilla and his teases of brilliance.

@Scooper–I know. but I had hoped that a bit of peer pressure might help–and might bring Evan in.

@Jack: that pitch looked like a strike, but the ump did a pretty good job of calling it both ways. we can’t really complain too much about one pitch.
@Fred: Evan’s doing the post-game on TV, and he left before the game ended, so he hasn’t seen your comment yet.

scooper, didnt watch the post game, was watching the OKC game.
No way that was kinsler, he is not open like that.

Ian has the hip wiggle and a closed stance, they are morons.

OKC. They were down 7-4 in the 8th and come back to tie it in the 8th and scored 2 in the 9th to win 9-7.

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