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TXNick

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  • Birthday 12/11/1985

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  1. Except teams would just pitch out to Hamilton.....and he would probably swing.
  2. Tom Grieve is forever on the umpires side. There is no close call, even when they aren't close, that is not borderline. Its kind of become his thing.
  3. As a Ranger fan I am in favor of it. More games in my time zone.
  4. They did a groupon to sell opening day tickets.
  5. I don't think anybody has suggested Profar for Stanton straight up.....they would have to throw something in
  6. Watching Lowe the past couple season he was frustrating. Could throw 100 but it was the most hittable 100 I've ever seen. He had a few stretches where he pitched really well, but I was never confident when he entered the game. Kind of how many of you felt when Walden entered games last season, or how we now feel about Jason Frasor.
  7. Probably a sell out, lots of people hang out in the SRO areas even if they have seats.
  8. Eh, hard to say but they could have made it work and developed around it. I was pretty young when The Ballpark in Arlington was built so I wasn't that familiar with what the layout was then. DFW is just so spread out and while putting the stadium right in the middle makes it possible for many fans to attend it made it difficult for most fans to attend. Factor in the weather and one playoff win until 2010 and its understandable to see why it took a while to get fans out. He's only like 40. Nice guy though, I wasn't able to talk him into playing on my softball team though
  9. You have to start somewhere.....and the average Ranger fan isn't nearly as misinformed as you would like to believe. I don't expect the casual fan to know every player on the 40 man is, but as long as they show up and cheer its a step in the right direction. I'm guessing I could go to any park on any given night and talk to countless "idiots" who don't live and breathe the stuff like we do. I remember when Angel fans thought it was a good idea to pepper the field with beach balls on a nightly basis. Funny separating the die hard from the casual fan. Post game of out home opener I went back to my tailgate party, and play some games. When all of a sudden I flip out because none other than a former Ranger (and Angel) "great" wondered into my party. You could really separate the group by who knew who this man was:
  10. Lonestarball, Baseball Time in Arlington (though it has slowed down), The Newberg Report, couple other small blogs and boards but those are the big dogs.
  11. There is no taking that out of context, and even if he was saying that it is a football town....why? The Rangers averaged 42,000 a game last season, heat and all. What was the point of his comment other than to insult? I'm not even going to say he is entirely wrong. I think the DFW has always been a baseball hotbed. Youth baseball is huge all the way up to college, and the pro game is finally starting to catch up. Winning sure helps, but the building of Cowboys stadium in Arlington has really improved transportation out to the ballpark and it is far more accessible to fans who get off work anything later than 5pm. I live in a suburb of Dallas and it used to take about an hour and a half to get to the ballpark some days. If I got off work at 5pm and then drive home to change and I'd usually make it to my seat just in time for first pitch. Expanded highways and HOV lanes and now it takes me about 45 minutes. I always have tried to imagine how big baseball would have been if they built the Ballpark downtown, but I guess I will never know.
  12. There are a few very good Rangers forums.
  13. That is fair enough. Again this is just one biased Ranger fans opinion on the subject. Personally having seen him play many many games through success and struggles one thing you could always count on about Josh was that he gave his all. It was almost to a fault...him crashing into walls and wrecking his body....but I respect that. I wouldn't have wanted it any other way and took the good with the bad. Then about halfway through last season it all started to change. He didn't run balls out like used to, his play in the outfield ust seemed lazy. Balls he would usually get to he would let hit and pick them up off the wall. His plate discipline has always been pretty bad, but even at the plate he just seemed like he didn't care. Do I have any hard evidence that says he didn't care and gave up? No. I did see a lot of uninspired play though. Just speaking from what I saw first hand and what I have heard.
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