Comments on: Post-Game Show: Rangers 11-10, Indians 9-5

By: Tom B

Tom B — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 14:28:56 +0000

@ Evan, Rookie Readers, Send Southwick to Winter Ball Reading.

By: southwick

southwick — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 13:34:41 +0000

Reading is hard in the morning.

By: Evan Grant

Evan Grant — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 13:31:46 +0000

@Southwick: Not sure what you are referring to. I make a lot of mistakes, but the way to read this is the Rangers scored 11 in the first game, 10 in the second; the Indians 9 in the first, five in the second.

By: southwick

southwick — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 13:23:57 +0000

Why are the scores wrong?

By: Tom B

Tom B — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 13:13:36 +0000

It was a Max effort from the good guys. I’ve appreciated having this clumsy mess in my computer all season. I may just turn it off and not turn this one back on until next year. My Football computer will have to be bigger and bulkier. Why hasn’t that third game of the Triple Header started yet? The beer is getting stale and the pretzels soggy.
The bartender says he wants to sweep the place out. Marlon Did It. We play in three hours.

By: Bobby in Bryan

Bobby in Bryan — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 11:58:26 +0000

Marlon leaves only if the Rangers don’t try to keep him. His situation might remind me of how the Rangers let Pudge get away a few years ago even though Pudge wanted to remain a Ranger.

By: Ryans Dad

Ryans Dad — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 11:02:14 +0000

Marlon Byrd is playing his way right off this team. I’m gonna miss that guy. Please don’t go to the Angels, Red Sox, or Yankees Marlon.

By: JustSaying

JustSaying — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 07:27:36 +0000

oh and after seeing the results that nolan has had on millwood i’d really rather he stay away from holland and feliz……..there’s just so much gas in the tank and driving with your foot on the floor burns it up……..but then that’s why the rest of baseball has a different tack on that……..

By: JustSaying

JustSaying — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 07:21:59 +0000

b.money….on target and too funny…….i often choose the opposing telecast for just those reasons but there are actually a couple of al broadcasts that make josh seem brilliant…….but none compares to the giants team……….they educate you to the game while making you feel like they’re chatting with a buddy…….my main complaint of the rangers broadcast is that it seems very superficial on baseball knowledge as if they’re talking to grandma jones about her cookies and they don’t want to get too complicated for her and stress her out………..i guess part of that frustration is why so many many find evan a step up from the ordinary……

By: B. Money

B. Money — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 05:57:30 +0000

I’ll start by saying that I love Josh Lewin. He calls a great game.

Here, however, are the habits of his that wear on me:

1. “If you’re _______ right now, you have to be thinking _______”

SARCASTIC RESPONSE: I’m not _______. You’re not ________. Nobody listening is _______. There’s only one person out of over 6 billion in the world that IS _________, so this point is ridiculous and silly.

2. “If I’d told you at the beginning of the year that this far into the season[insert bad performance stat] would happen and we’d still be seeing [insert good performance stat], you wouldn’t have believed me.”

3. “And again, we’ve been talking about this youth movement all year.”
*Embedded in this one are lists of everybody under 25.
**If he starts on this one early in the game (probably because Holland is starting), he won’t let it go for the full 9 innings.

4. “And again, it’s all about the pitching and defense.”

5. “And again, it goes back to this ‘pitching to contact’ that has been working so well.’”

6. “And again, we remember that Nolan challenged these starters to go deeper into games. Led by Millwood, they took that to heart.”

I guess it comes across like he’s calling each game exclusively for the people who are tuning in to one game/year. The Ticket is so successful because they cater to their most avid fans first and reward them for sticking it out. I don’t want him to be like the Ticket, but I want him to talk to those of us who listen day-in and day-out more than he talks to the guy who was channel surfing and got distracted.