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Dallas is the Joel Osteen of Texas

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Man, Keuchel just had a bad night.

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dermdoc said:

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Are Astros fans still mad about this? Good grief, let it go.

I know of several people down in Houston right now helping out. If I know of several, that tells me that there are a crap ton of these terrible Dallas people down there helping. The Rangers are also donating millions. Get over yourselves. You're acting like entitled snowflakes.

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Thanks for the kind words and encouragement. Will reciprocate just like y'all did if the shoe is ever on the other foot. Great example!

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If you guys donated $1+ mil after a disaster in Dallas we would be grateful

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I would hope if we would do more than that. And accommodate any schedule switches. Even if we were better than a five hundred club. Right is right, wrong is wrong,

I'm genuinely curious now. This is not the first series to be moved due to a catastrophe or other similarly awful circumstances, can y'all find one example of teams swapping home series?

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I'm genuinely curious now. This is not the first series to be moved due to a catastrophe or other similarly awful circumstances, can y'all find one example of teams swapping home series?

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Can you find one other example of a hurricane of this magnitude?

irish pete ag06 said:

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Bam

Offered without even asking. Class act.

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Ag2012 said:

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I'm genuinely curious now. This is not the first series to be moved due to a catastrophe or other similarly awful circumstances, can y'all find one example of teams swapping home series?

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Can you find one other example of a hurricane of this magnitude?

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What a stupid fuucking response to his question. No one is denying the horrific issues in the town of Houston. It's awful.

He asked if swapping a home series has happened before due to a natural disaster. I'm curious also. I really don't know.

NFL teams fly home after their away game, do they not?

Or am I wrong? I actually don't know this

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NFL teams fly home after their away game, do they not?

Or am I wrong? I actually don't know this

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Yes. They do.

Is this a football thread? The Cowboys have been pretty damn cool about this situation so your point falls flat there. Clearly talking about baseball.

Agree. Cowboys have been pure class. And this is not a Dallas-Houston thing with me. I just call a deeck move when I see a deeck move. I live in CS.

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Agree. Cowboys have been pure class.

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Also agree.

I haven't posted on the subject yet and I think both teams are responsible for this series ending up in Tampa... but I really don't understand why Rangers fans are defending this against all odds?

The fact of the mater is every organization in the country, sports related or not, immediately reached out to lend a helping hand in some way and showed compassion to the city of Houston... except the Rangers. They were given an opportunity to do what was right, they said no for the wrong reasons, and now we're in Tampa. It's really that simple.

Granted, the Rangers organization offered to provide aid to the city a couple days ago which was great and generous, but it was AFTER they started to realize they messed up and AFTER everyone else in the United States had already offered to assist.

I would honestly be a little ashamed if the Astros did that to another team under such horrible circumstances, especially if the worst result was literally just having a home series in August instead of September...

Good post, have no idea why the Rangers fans are posturing with "what, what did we do?"

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Very Tolerant Nice Guy said:

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Good post, have no idea why the Rangers fans are posturing with "what, what did we do?"

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Rangers are donating $1mm, the proceeds of the two step raffles for the LAA series, and 10% of revenues from the series as well as taking donations of money, food, clothing, diapers, etc for flood victims. I have no idea why Astros fans are still acting like the Rangers are villains because of the location of a few baseball games.

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It's weird, because literally the entire sports world is unanimous on it being a dick move by the rangers. It was a dick move, how you cannot see that is beyond me. All the Rangers had to do is swap home series. Instead they said "Hey just play all the games here".

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Very Tolerant Nice Guy said:

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Good post, have no idea why the Rangers fans are posturing with "what, what did we do?"

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Rangers are donating $1mm, the proceeds of the two step raffles for the LAA series, and 10% of revenues from the series as well as taking donations of money, food, clothing, diapers, etc for flood victims. I have no idea why Astros fans are still acting like the Rangers are villains because of the location of a few baseball games.

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I think I speak for all Astros fans when I say that the city is definitely grateful for that contribution.

But it took days after the rest of the country had already pitched in to help for the Rangers to decide to offer aid and came days after the Rangers turned the Astros away at the table with the whole scheduling ordeal.

It just seems so forced and smells like they're covering their arses after the mistakes they made but maybe that's just me

Not at all. Who knows what they were going to do. But why did people/teams/organizations all over the US start offering aid to Houston right when the storm hit but not our neighbors to the north?

Then the Astros come to them, obviously in need of help and with a truly viable solution, and the Rangers refuse.

THEN, two days later, the Rangers office says "wow, look at all this support Houston is receiveing from everyone across the country, including the Cowboys. We should probably do something too."

That doesn't seem a little off to you?

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It's weird, because literally the entire sports world is unanimous on it being a dick move by the rangers. It was a dick move, how you cannot see that is beyond me.

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This is completely false.

There have been numerous tweets and at least two articles I have read by lifetime baseball people that do not agree with this, and one even said Ryan actually is the one acting like a baby. It's linked a page or two back.

There is plenty of precedent for this and the offer by the rangers is clearly fair

Not really,no. The Rangers were also in the middle of figuring out where this game was going to be played and the logistics there. I think you'd have to believe the Rangers were going to do nothing to find it off what they did do.

I completely understand your loyalty to your team. I really do. I know if this situation was reversed there would be Astros fans defending our front office as well.

But I wouldn't be one of those people and I would disagree with those that were. The fact that only a couple of Rangers fans are realizing how this was bad form by their organization is so hard to believe. I would be embarrassed if my Astros didn't offer anything and everything to a city going through tragedy. Especially Dallas seeing as I live here.

Who were these teams offering specific donation dollar amounts on Saturday? This "days after other clubs did" doesn't make sense. These ballclub donations started getting announced Monday thru now, and the Rangers' was in that late Monday, early Tuesday timing.

Should have stayed in Texas.

I don't get what you don't understand about my comments... I've said numerous times if it was the Astros it would be bad form too.

And then again, I've also said that both sides are to blame for the whole ordeal. The Astros could've handled it better without question. Just thought the city of Dallas and even the Rangers would be the ones to lead the recovery rally but that wasn't the case.

What matters most though is the sun is out in Houston, the water is receding, and the city and it's people are slowly getting back into their homes and back to their families.

You're good people Lucky, not trying to spar my man. Hope your family and friends are safe.

I appreciate it. They're all good for the most part. Brother and stepdad's parents took on water but everybody was safe.