[jump] If I’m Ron Washington I put Nelson Cruz back in right field, David Murphy in left and have Vladimir Guerrero be my first bat off the bench. It didn’t really cost them in last night’s blowout, but Guerrero misplayed four balls by my count, two resulting in 8th-inning errors. In…
Ron Washington should’ve been fired. I know it. You know it. Shoot, even he knows it. “Wouldn’t have blamed them if they did,” the Texas Rangers manager said of team president Nolan Ryan and general manager Jon Daniels back in spring training. “But they stood by me. My team stood…
10. Bigger Giants’ ass-kicking: New York 41, Cowboys 35 or San Francisco 11, Rangers 7? The football Giants ran off 31 unanswered Monday night in Arlington. The baseball Giants erased an early two-run hole with eight consecutive runs in the middle innings. Either way, ouch. Dare I say tonight was …..
I am now headed home to watch Game One with my 7-year-old son and the man who took me to my very first ballgame at Arlington Stadium in 1972, my father. I thought my dad would be cheering on the Giants. He grew up here but spent his Park Row…
Ever since New York Baseball Digest’s Frank Russo posted his “Five Reasons Why the Yankees Will Sign Cliff Lee” on Monday, it has made the rounds, and several of my fellow Texas Rangers fans have expressed their concern that, well, he makes a lot of sense. To summarize, Russo argues…
You may recall: On the eve of the American League Championship Series, we posted Mark Cizdziel’s pro-quality recap of the Rangers’ ouster of the Rays, complete with pre-, post- and in-game audio and video stitched together from various outlets. Mark was kind enough to let me know that he’s just…
A few days ago I stumbled across a promotional video posted to YouTube by self-proclaimed “sports painter” Dave Choate, who lives in Shelton, Connecticut, and has had his work featured on MLB.com. I found his website and browsed his work — very nice stuff. (My father would love the Willie…
Personally, I don’t see much sense in spilling blood, sweat, tears, worry and blogosphere space on your Dallas Cowboys. At 1-5 and with Tony Romo out at least six weeks, the season is over. Considering it started not that long ago with Super Bowl aspirations, this has to be the…
Last week we bought a few of the DropWear.com fellas’ Ron Washington tees. And, despite rumors and reports to the contrary, the Texas Rangers have not officially commissioned anyone to do a “That’s the Way Baseball Go” tee. Says spokesman John Blake via e-mail, “This is actually an unlicensed product.”Which…
Poor Mark Cuban. With his billions and success, seems weird to type that. But think of his plight: In August he came this close to buying the Texas Rangers. Now not only are those same Rangers on the verge of winning the World Series, they’re taking a big steamy, stinky…
View more news videos at: http://www.nbcdfw.com/video.Attorney Darrell Cook, to whom we introduced you yesterday, is on a plane at this very moment — San Francisco-bound. We exchanged e-mails moments ago, just as the flight attendant was asking him to turn off all electronic devices, and the judge in Irving has…
I called Rays in 5 in the ALDS and Rangers in 7 in the ALCS. Why stop while I’m … tied? Got in to the City by the Bay last night and this place is in a baseball frenzy. There’s a pervasive baseball buzz. Lots of similarities between the San…
A good Friend of Unfair Park just sent us what has to be the greatest legal document ever filed in Irving Municipal Court. “That’s high praise, indeed,” says Greenville Avenue-based attorney Darrell Cook when reached by Unfair Park this afternoon. But, you see, the doc has nothing at all to…
Baseball has its problems: A reluctance to use instant replay. Arrogant umpires and their customized strike zones. An All-Star exhibition game that actually affects the World Series champion. But of all our national pastime’s woes, the most ridiculous is that the American and National Leagues play by different rules. They play a…
A few weeks back we noticed that Mark Cuban and Jim Crane wanted their millions back for trying to buy the Texas Rangers out from under Chuck Greenberg and Nolan Ryan (and Ray Davis and Bob Simpson). Long story short: Cuban and Crane, as Radical Pitch LLC, figured they’re owed…
In his first NFL action in almost two years, Jon Kitna immediately served notice of one thing Monday night at Cowboys Stadium: When starting quarterback Tony Romo went down with a broken collar bone, the Cowboys’ season swirled down the toilet with him. Kitna’s stats don’t look awful: 16 of…
10. Cowboys’ fans can bemoan bad luck at having quarterback Tony Romo knocked out of the game – and the season – but this was more bad play. Rookie fullback Chris Gronkowski missed a simple blitz pick-up, allowing New York’s Michael Boley a free shot on Romo. He didn’t miss. 9…
Over on ESPNDallas.com, Richard Durrett tells the tale of how Texas Rangers general manager Jon Daniels came to hire Ron Washington instead of one of the four other contenders for the skipper’s gig following Buck Showalter’s ouster: Manny Acta, John Russell, Trey Hillman or Don Wakamatsu. Washington talks about what…
Remember waaaay back in July when I posted this and took all kinda heat for getting ahead of myself and/or jinxing your Texas Rangers? With the Rangers seemingly headed for their first World Series championship, even the folks who matter are starting to ask the question: Where the heck would we…
A little part of me dies inside every time another Lingerie Football League slide show graces the virtual pages of our paper product, but I understand that the unabashed ogling of scantily clad women is now, more than ever, what makes the legitimate news world go round (see Post, Huffington…
It’s 1972 vs. 1958. It’s also, unless I’m seeing something terribly wrong and homerish, a clear advantage for your Texas Rangers over the San Francisco Giants. Right? The Rangers, born in ’72, have never been to the World Series. The Giants have been here three times since moving from New York…
October victories: Texas Rangers 8, Dallas Cowboys 0. This is better be the week the Cowboys stop making mistakes and start salvaging their 2010 season. In going 1-4 they have committed 62 penalties and forced only four takeaways. (Giants’ defensive lineman Osi Umenyiora has forced six fumbles over the last three games…
