So, we know who’s throwing out the ceremonial first pitches tomorrow and Sunday. Well, John Blake, Texas Rangers spokesman, just sent over the final list of scheduled performers for World Series Games Three and Four. No surprises on the list of “Star-Spangled Banner” performers: Kelly Clarkson tomorrow evening, followed by…
This just in from John Blake and Major League Baseball: Yet again, Nolan Ryan will toss out the first pitch at the Ballpark in Arlington for a post-season game, when, tomorrow evening, he takes the mound for Game Three of the World Series. (And, no, apparently he’s unavailable to work…
[jump] 5. My predictions aren’t always right, but I’ll guarantee this: My World Series pick – Rangers in 5 – will not come true. Book it. 4. Texas sniffed a couple scoring chances, but Nelson Cruz popped out – on a 92 mph-fastball right down the pipe – with runners…
Although I’ve long considered Matt Cain one of baseball’s most underrated hurlers, there’s no reason why C.J. Wilson can’t rebound from getting knocked around by the Yankees in Game Five of the American League Championship Series and tie up the World Series tonight. But no matter what happens against the…
Texas Rangers spokesman John Blake just sent word: For World Series Games Three and Four at the Ballpark in Arlington — oh, right, Game Five too, fingers crossed — the team’s done beefed up (heh) its sports menu. Also: The team’s added more places to buy beer in the park,…
And in further marijuana news …Below, a Friend of Unfair Park wonders if perhaps Newy’s new friends up on “Weed Rock” were to blame for the Rangers committing four errors last night: “Would this constitute fan interference if players were affected from inhaling second-hand smoke?” Not a bad question, turns…
Like the BCS, style points count. So do geeky, black-and-white stats such as touchdowns and quarterback ratings. Wins and losses? Definitely. Leadership? Uh-huh. When it comes to my weekly NFL Quarterback Rankings — if I had one of those little encircled R’s to signify a trademarked idea, it’d go here — the…
Thankfully there isn’t a team in the NBA called the Giants. While the Cowboys got walloped by New York Monday night and the Rangers were whipped by San Francisco last night here in the City by the Bay, your Dallas Mavericks are on pace to go 82-0 after opening the…
At the very top of Deadspin at this very moment you’ll find the photo of mini-Ron Washington at left, which began with a tweet from one Gordon Keith. I asked Gordon where he got it: “Someone sent it to me,” he reports from San Francisco. And then Jerod at Midwest…
[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…
