It should be an interesting series this weekend at Rangers Ballpark in Arlington. The mediocre Houston Astros visit the Temple for a three-game series with the sorry Texas Rangers.
My Rangers have the worst record in the American League. Until recently, they had the worst record in baseball, before the Cincinnati Reds assumed rock bottom.
But, throw the records out, because the Silver Boot is on the line. The Rangers won last month's series in Houston, 2 games to 1, and have an 11-run lead on the Astros, thanks to a 14-1 win in the teams' last meeting. The Astros need a sweep in Arlington, or at least two wins including a one-sided thrashing, to put a trophy on owner Drayton McLane's shelf.
Tom Hicks may stink as an owner, but he has a good chance for one trophy this year. How bad would it be for the Astros, if they lost this trophy to a team on track to lose 100 games?
At least Sammy Sosa has 600 career home runs. Even if he was on the juice, he probably would have still hit 500 without performance-enhancing supplements. Good for Sammy.
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All this talk about the Rangers and no mention of the greatness of the RUSTY GREER BASEBALL EXTRAVAGANZA!???????
Shameful.
Rusty's a good guy, from the glory years of the Rangers. Glory is a relative term when it comes to them, but we'll take what we can get.
Does Rusty still come on with the Hardline? I'm sure that's better radio than talk of the current Rangers. There's some bad baseball being played at the Temple this season.
Since Rusty was inducted into the Texas Rangers Hall of Fame TODAY, yes, he was on the Hardline. Your Tarrant County roots are already shriveling up, aren't they?
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I haven't listened to the online stream of the little Ticket in a while, so I'm pleading ignorance. :-)
When the Rangers are bad, as they are now, they're barely on the radar screen outside Tarrant County. Dallas won't even claim them when they're bad.
I read the Star-Telegram online about once or twice a week, usually for the sports columns (btw, it's sad that the Star-Telegram is now a better paper than the once-great Dallas Morning News). I had to check earlier in the week for details on the Haltom City flood, which made the front page of Yahoo. It was kinda close to where we lived before we left FW, north of 820, where Fort Worth, Haltom City, Watauga, and Keller come together.
If you were a P1, you would have gotten an email today saying, "Listen to the Ticket at noon for big TX R HoF stuff - and boy is the Hardline happy!" or some such.
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