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Post by P. Marf on Oct 23, 2010 1:12:20 GMT -5
AHHHH! The greatest sporting event, well any event for that matter, that I have ever been too. The crowd was insane and I had goosebumps the entire time. The noise after the Nelly homer was deafening.
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Post by duckbutter on Oct 23, 2010 9:44:17 GMT -5
Well there you have it. I believe you guys were calling all season.
Congrats to the Texas Rangers !
I think you all should go buy some lottery tickets today.
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Post by karilou on Oct 24, 2010 11:46:17 GMT -5
congrats to you guys!!!!! I hope you all get to go to at least one world series game to experience it  im gonna go ahead and call a rangers sweep of the giants. |
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Post by P. Marf on Oct 25, 2010 9:48:56 GMT -5
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Post by The River Assassin on Oct 25, 2010 10:33:23 GMT -5
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Post by sully on Oct 25, 2010 11:52:30 GMT -5
Some quotes from NYC papers earlier last week...
Filip Bondy (New York Daily News): “Ryan’s no-hitters aside, this ALCS represents one of sports’ great historical mismatches, 40 pennants versus zero. The Yanks should win this series just by throwing their pinstriped uniforms onto the field and reading from a few pages of The Baseball Encyclopedia. If only Bud Selig would agree to waive a few silly postseason rules, the Bombers might send their Scranton/Wilkes-Barre roster to Arlington for the first couple of games, make this a fair fight.”
Neil Best (Newsday): “We have had four decades to get used to it, yet ‘Texas Rangers’ still doesn’t sound quite right. It’s a mixed marriage between a football state and a hockey nickname, one that has produced a reliably mediocre baseball franchise. Now, thanks mostly to a pitcher passing through on his way to the Bronx next season, the uninspiring Rangers are all that stand in the way of a World Series capable of distracting Football Nation.”
Mike Greenberg (Mike & Mike Show, ESPN Radio), on Friday morning: “Even if you’re a Rangers fan, you’re hoping for a Game Seven with Cliff Lee.”
Rob Neyer (ESPN): “I don’t think the Rangers will let Daniels get away. And it sure sounds like the Mets like Sandy Alderson. But if I grew up in Queens and somebody offered me a chance to escape Texas and run the New York Mets . . . .”
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Post by sully on Oct 25, 2010 11:53:11 GMT -5
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Post by sully on Oct 25, 2010 11:59:14 GMT -5
Cliff Lee told Jon Paul Morosi of Fox Sports on Friday: “I love this situation I’m in. I love this team. I love my teammates. It’s been a fun ride. It’s been an unbelievable experience. . . . It’s the closest to home I’ve ever played. This is great for my family, to be this close to home. . . . I would like to think there were a lot of Arkansans watching this game. Hopefully we can make them proud and bring home the World Series championship.”
Not much need to add to that, is there?
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Post by P. Marf on Oct 25, 2010 12:00:41 GMT -5
Awesome.
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Post by fischer on Oct 25, 2010 13:27:57 GMT -5
Those quotes from the NY papers and Mike and Mike are hilarious.
Those arrogant yankee bastards really think life is 2nd rate outside of their rat infested nasty city.
Have fun with the offseason you yankee pricks.
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Post by P. Marf on Oct 25, 2010 14:03:40 GMT -5
Yea! Suck it!
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Post by cowtownmike on Oct 25, 2010 15:54:26 GMT -5
Cliff Lee told Jon Paul Morosi of Fox Sports on Friday: “I love this situation I’m in. I love this team. I love my teammates. It’s been a fun ride. It’s been an unbelievable experience. . . . It’s the closest to home I’ve ever played. This is great for my family, to be this close to home. . . . I would like to think there were a lot of Arkansans watching this game. Hopefully we can make them proud and bring home the World Series championship.” Not much need to add to that, is there? I'm telling you, if the Ranger fans would throw in a hog call during one of his starts, he'll sign before he gets off the mound. |
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Post by sully on Oct 25, 2010 16:17:27 GMT -5
I've been reading a little on the NYY msg boards today...
Hilarious.
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Post by sully on Oct 26, 2010 9:21:17 GMT -5
More Newberg greatness:
Thirty minutes before kickoff of that game last night against the other Giants, this was the scene at a local Academy, where a massive Rangers display is all you see the minute you walk through the doors to the store:
(Picture of crowded Rangers display at entrance to Academy. By crowded, I mean there were probably 10-15 people working through it.)
Thirty minutes before the end of that abomination of a football game, if you were listening to Brad & Babe on the radio call (or, I understand, the ESPN call, too), you heard a crystal-clear “Let’s Go Rangers!” chant break out in the stands.
Awesome.
Thirty minutes after the football game, you heard this week’s barrage of excuses and weakness from the putative head coach, which only serves to reinforce how much I get fired up when I hear a Ron Washington press conference, an event of reliably (if sometimes recklessly) straight truth that, in the past month, for me, has elevated itself from “refreshing” to “galvanizing.”
“We’re here to whip their ass,” said one of them yesterday.
“We’re just not right on the right track,” said the other recently. “It’s just off kilter barely in those games that we’ve lost.”
I think I now get it, far more than I ever did, as to why Ron Washington was the man for this job, and why Jon Daniels knew it.
If you're not getting the Newberg Report everyday, and you're a Rangers fan. Go sign up for it. He is full of greatness in his writing. A great read every morning. First thing I do everyday when I get to work is open up that email.
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Post by fischer on Oct 26, 2010 9:36:13 GMT -5
meh, what's so great about that write up?
We know the Cowboys S-U-C-K.
We know the town is fired up about the Rangers.
We all know Washington has good pressers.
There isn't anything in that write up that is new or different from what everyone has been saying all along. Maybe some days there is, but that one was a poor example.
By the way, I love Washington's quotes yesterday. I just hope they win at least one in San Fran.
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