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Giants Pitcher Brian Wilson Entertains
Maybe we don’t have the sexiest World Series matchup this year, with the Yankees and Phillies both rolling over to the Rangers and Giants, respectively. But from a baseball perspective you can’t deny the many storylines. You have the premier pitching matchup between Tim Lincecum and Cliff Lee, the great Josh Hamilton “comeback” story, young talent like Buster Posey and Elvis Andrus, an unlikely hero in Cody Ross, and Bengie Molina being guaranteed a World Series ring regardless of the outcome.
Quite possibly the coolest story, however, is the emergence of Giants closer Brian Wilson as a mainstream cult figure. Giants fans know all too well just what a great personality Wilson possesses. He may be the most entertaining player in baseball. And with the Giants taking their game to the main stage, Wilson is starting to become popular among even the most casual of baseball fans.
Wilson remains as one of the top trending World Series topics on Google as we head into Game 1 on Wednesday night. It’s not because fans want to know more about a closer who led the majors with 48 saves this season. People want to know more about the beard, the ninja lifestyle, and, of course, “The Machine.”
Cliff Lee is the Best Coming in the Postseason
It shouldn’t take much to explain why the team that beat both the Rays and Yankees can beat anyone, but let’s start with Cliff Lee. He will definitely get the ball in Game 1 for the Rangers and could take the ball in Games 4 and 7 as well, if Ron Washington feels it’s necessary. Lee’s made three playoff starts this year, pitching 24 innings, striking out 34 and walking just one hitter. He’s only given up 13 hits and a total of two earned runs.
Since the start of the 2009 postseason, Lee’s made eight playoff starts, averaging more than a strikeout an inning in his 64 1/3 innings along with an insane K/BB ratio of 9.57 and a 1.26 ERA to boot. He hasn’t just been good or phenomenal, he’s been otherworldly in the playoffs the last two seasons. He’s the best pitcher in the playoffs, and it’s not close. That’s really saying something given some of the other pitching performances we’ve seen in the postseason this year. Read More >>
The Rangers Bullpen Set to Take Down The Yankees
There’s going to be a lot made of the fact that the mighty Cliff Lee, who slayed the Yankees twice in the 2009 World Series, can’t pitch until Game 3 of this series, but we wonder if the people saying that have ever actually seen C.J. Wilson and Colby Lewis pitch. The duo allowed no earned runs in 11 1/3 innings during the Rays series and that’s right in line with the kinds of performances we’ve seen from them all season. Even better, Lewis never faced the Yankees this season and unfamiliar pitchers have been a problem for the Bronx Bombers all year long.
One of the other strengths for the Rangers in this series should, interestingly enough, be one of the things that hampered them for much of the first series. They didn’t get a ton of production from Vladimir Guerrero, Josh Hamilton or Michael Young, three players who don’t figure to remain on the schneid for another whole series. Read More >>
The Rangers Ownership Group Secured a Gem
This American League Championship Series has felt preordained ever since the Rangers swooped in to get Cliff Lee from the Mariners before the Yankees could complete a deal.
That was a big shot across the bow of the American League by the new Rangers ownership group, which has spent its brief time in the executive suite making sure everyone knows that this team plans to be a contender for the top spot every single year. What better way to put a ribbon on that announcement than by knocking off the existing big dogs and going to the first World Series in franchise history?
No better way, obviously, but the New York Yankees aren’t going to be pushovers. They’ve seen and dispatched seven different teams in this round since 1976, so the prospect of a new sheriff in town isn’t one that’s going to have them quaking in their pinstriped boots.
Regardless of who wins this series, it will only be a prelude to a winter of battle between these teams. Lee is a free agent and both these squads will be pulling out all the stops to have him pitching for them the next few years. Will he be a championship treasure or a booby prize?
The Rangers New Ownership Group Has a Clear Message
This American League Championship Series has felt preordained ever since the Texas Rangers swooped in to get Cliff Lee from the Mariners before the Yankees could complete a deal.
That was a big shot across the bow of the American League by the new Rangers ownership group, which has spent its brief time in the executive suite making sure everyone knows that this team plans to be a contender for the top spot every single year. What better way to put a ribbon on that announcement than by knocking off the existing big dogs and going to the first World Series in franchise history?
No better way, obviously, but the Yankees aren’t going to be pushovers. They’ve seen and dispatched seven different teams in this round since 1976, so the prospect of a new sheriff in town isn’t one that’s going to have them quaking in their pinstriped boots.
Regardless of who wins this series, it will only be a prelude to a winter of battle between these teams. Lee is a free agent and both these squads will be pulling out all the stops to have him pitching for them the next few years. Will he be a championship treasure or a booby prize?
In the Shadow of Texas Football Lies Rangers
Deep in the heart of Texas, in the shadow of a monstrous football stadium and football passion, lies a baseball team.
A good one.
“I think this put our franchise on the map,” one Rangers official said Tuesday after the team clinched its first-ever playoff series win by defeating the Rays 5-1 at Tropicana Field.
Time for America to take notice of the Rangers. Formerly known for wasting a quarter-billion dollars on Alex Rodriguez, with a reputation for bashing home runs and not much else, this is a complete team.
They won Tuesday with base running and pitching, only homering to cap off the scoring in the ninth inning, a two-run shot by Ian Kinsler.
“If you’d have thought that we would win a game of this magnitude the way we did,” team president and Hall of Fame pitcher Nolan Ryan said, “nobody would have ever thought that. It says volumes about where this organization’s come to.
“I think the players believe that whatever they have to do to win a ballgame, they’re capable of doing it. And they showed it tonight.”
Will The Texas Rangers GM Sill Stand by Ron Washington
Ron Washington’s contract is coming to an end in his fourth season.Washington has been told by the Texas Rangers that they want Washington to come back after this season ends.
After the season ends, Chuck Greenberg indicated that Washington’s contract would be addressed. The team president Nolan Ryan will be approved as the team’s new owner next week.
Ryan’s response to the Rangers request, “We’ve told Wash that we want him back and we’ll address it at the appropriate time, and he’s very comfortable with that. Obviously, we anticipate him being back next year. As far as working out the details and stuff, that will be done at the appropriate time. There aren’t things right now that are incomplete as far as people not knowing.” Read More >>
Nolan Ryan Awarded Ownership of the Rangers
Greenberg says Thursday afternon, “It beats the heck out of fans thinking we’re a bunch of losers and being disappointed that we bought the team.”
As long as Nolan Ryan was in the ownership of Greenberg’s group, there’s no chance of that happening. Baseball’s all-time leader and no-hitters, Ryan, was the reason why for applause that erupted just after midnight CT Thursday morning. Breenberg’s group became vitorious in the very publicized auction over Mark Cuban and Jim Crane for the Texas Rangers.
Greenberg had this to say about the first moves as new owners, “Ultimately, I represent the whole organization and am the contact person with Major League Baseball. But I understand our baseball operations department is as good as any in the game. What we need to do is get the club going on the sales and marketing side, build on our on-field success and take advantage of the passion and enthusiasm that’s building in the community.”
Ryan and general manager Jon Daniels will be in charge of the baseball even though Greenberg Knows that Bruce Kison holds the record in the world series for the most hit batters in a game. Greenberg, instead, will be the brains when it comes to the business side. Read More >>
Nolan Ryan Waiting for the Green Light on The Rangers
As the hearing began to go over the Texas Rangers’ bankruptcy plan, Nolan Ryan and all interested parties looked for a Judge to sign off on the deal to unravel a formally approved group, led by Hall of Fame pitcher and Rangers president Nolan Ryan, to take over the teams ownership.
The Restructuring officer, whom is court-appointed, backs up the plan after earlier objections. Because the auction had a result in a higher price for the Texas Rangers, creditors who installed the sale no longer oppose the plan.
An attorney for some of the top creditors, Andrew LeBlanc, “I was wrong. I’ve never been happier to say I was wrong.”
Ryan and sports attorney Chuck Greenberg won a showdown with Mark Cuban, owner of the Dallas Mavericks, for the AL West-leading Rangers just after midnight. The value of the winning bid, according to court documents, is $590 million. Read More >>
A Call For Change in NCAA Baseball
There is a reason why the pros use wood bats. If they still used metal bats like they did in little league all the way until Division 1 college ball, this horrible accident of a pitcher being hit in the head would happen much more frequently. The grown men in the MLB can hit a ball so hard that it is almost impossible to protect yourself on the pitcher’s mound. The interesting dilemma is that college players in Division 1are almost just as mature as these hard-hitting mature men in the MLB.
The Texas Rangers right-hander Dustin Nippert escaped what could have been a serious injury when he was hit in the head by Austin Jackson’s line drive in the sixth inning of an 8-6, 14-inning win over the Detroit Tigers Monday night. The Rangers said Nippert, who walked off the field under his own power, was taken to a hospital for a CT exam, which was negative. He then returned to the team’s hotel.
“We’ll probably give him a couple days off, just because you want to be careful when a guy gets hit in the head, but he’s OK,” Rangers manager Ron Washington said. “It looked a lot worse than it actually was.” Washington said there was a chance that the Rangers might put Nippert on the disabled list, partially as a precautionary measure but also because their bullpen was severely depleted by Monday’s 14-inning game. Read More >>
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