***** Official 2020 Texas Rangers Season Thread *****

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toucan82
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YOU PLAY TO WIN THE GAME!!!
Proposition Joe
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It's just words. When a player goes anywhere and has any kind of quick success then it's always a "tweak" or a "change of scenery".

9 times out of 10 they wind up about what you thought they would once the same size gets large.

Minor is sporting a 4.76 ERA since the trade -- not exactly something to think we missed the boat on.
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toucan82 said:

YOU PLAY TO WIN THE GAME!!!

True. But in this case the "game" is to get the highest draft pick possible . Anything short of a slam dunk pick and JD will probably screw it up.

Looks like the Pirates have a commanding lead for #1. We are battling Boston/Arizona/Washington mostly right now for draft positioning.

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Proposition Joe said:

It's just words. When a player goes anywhere and has any kind of quick success then it's always a "tweak" or a "change of scenery".

9 times out of 10 they wind up about what you thought they would once the same size gets large.

Minor is sporting a 4.76 ERA since the trade -- not exactly something to think we missed the boat on.
Martin Perez is another example. OH MY GOD JD LET HIM GO AND HE'S GREAT FOR THE TWINS - JD SUUUUUUXXXXX!!!!!!

Then...

2020
52.0 IP
43 H
27 R
25 ER
26 BB
4.33 ERA

Seven Costanza
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It looks like he's been pretty lucky this year, but a 4.33 ERA by itself can actually be a pretty useful piece in a rotation.
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CJ has Covid, so Nadel and Hicks are simulcasting. I'm 100% in favor of the simulcast going forward. A la Ralph and Razor.
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I wish I still had fox sports. What a rare treat to watch Nadel call a game instead of just hear one.
Grapesoda2525
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We will gain on the Red Sox if we lose today.
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Do you not like CJ? I think he's great.
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CampingAg said:

CJ has Covid, so Nadel and Hicks are simulcasting. I'm 100% in favor of the simulcast going forward. A la Ralph and Razor.
Amen.
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hawk1689 said:

Do you not like CJ? I think he's great.

CJ couldn't hold Josh Lewin's jock strap
Stating The Obvious
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Well that was a piss poor 9th inning. Good job guys. Way to really show some effort there
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They don't do the same job. I never had a problem with Grieve, but he's just so far removed from the game that he rarely adds any insight. I think that CJ speaks more to avid fans like us rather than the casual fan.

Lewin always sounded like a corny goofball to me.
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hawk1689 said:

They don't do the same job. I never had a problem with Grieve, but he's just so far removed from the game that he rarely adds any insight. I think that CJ speaks more to avid fans like us rather than the casual fan.

CJ rarely adds anything of value and often misuses advanced metrics. We would be better off with a mute than CJ.
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hawk1689 said:

Do you not like CJ? I think he's great.
Wouldn't say I dislike him. This crew is just "meh" to me though. Tough to beat Josh and Tag in their heyday.
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CampingAg said:

hawk1689 said:

Do you not like CJ? I think he's great.
Wouldn't say I dislike him. This crew is just "meh" to me though. Tough to beat Josh and Tag in their heyday.
Messing up the broadcasting was without a doubt Nolan's worst contribution to the team.

He kicked out Lewin and replaced him with Rhadigan who is probably the worst play by play announcer in sports history. The guy was a total idiot.

They still haven't gotten back to that high standard. Everyone they've brought in after lewin has been bad.
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You'll get no argument from me on Rhadigan.
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hawk1689 said:

You'll get no argument from me on Rhadigan.
I cringed every time he said

" lets play some ball y'all!" And when a player hit a home run. "Yes he did!".

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Yep. We've been wandering through the TV broadcast wilderness for sure. Dave Barnett, Rhadigan, Busby, now Dave and CJ.

But on the flip side, we have been blessed to have what we've had on the radio side in DFW. Nadel, Brad Sham, Cooperstein, and Ralph/Razor.
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Profar seems to be having a decent season
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Not a fan of the duo we have right now at all. I don't feel like Raymond gets excited really ever. He's got the cadence of someone reading out of a phone book. Nitkowski isn't very compelling either. I also feel like Raymond tries to force awkward jokes in and they typically fall quite flat. Would be 100 percent in favor of getting two new people in there.
JWinTX
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Steve Busby was fine. He did a good job, he was just getting old. He and Grieve were light years better than what we have now.
Old Tom Morris
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Raymond is interesting because he's funny on The Ticket and has his moments, but I just don't think he's a very good baseball broadcaster. I think part of it is that he doesn't judge the ball off the bat well, so it's hard to call a game well. I like CJ and attempting to bring a modern view of the game. Put him with a competent PBP guy and I think he'd be very good.

Buzz and Grieve were like watching a game from the an old folks home. Buzz wasn't judging the ball off the bat worth a **** either for a number of years before he retired.
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etxag18 said:

hawk1689 said:

Do you not like CJ? I think he's great.

CJ couldn't hold Josh Lewin's jock strap
Lewin + Norm would be incredible.
South Platte
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hawk1689 said:

Lewin always sounded like a corny goofball to me.
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South Platte said:

hawk1689 said:

Lewin always sounded like a corny goofball to me.

The only gripe about lewin is he said some story about Vernon wells and Michael young being friends / roommates at least 50 times. Always made me roll my eyes when he brought it up again.
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To be fair, it's pretty hard to get excited about this team and hard to be prepared for the one extra base hit we get per game
JWinTX
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South Platte said:

etxag18 said:

hawk1689 said:

Do you not like CJ? I think he's great.

CJ couldn't hold Josh Lewin's jock strap
Lewin + Norm would be incredible.
Now this would be a cartoon broadcast team--you'd have crazy stories and stats the entire broadcast
Seven Costanza
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Raymond at least has a nice "announcer voice". He doesn't offer much else, though.

CJ is okay, and I think he'll continue to grow with time.
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JWinTX said:

Steve Busby was fine. He did a good job, he was just getting old. He and Grieve were light years better than what we have now.
On their own individual merit, Grieve is pretty good (or was), and Busby was adequate.

But like any team, I think you got to want the commentating "team" to be well-rounded and that roster just wasn't.
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ryanhnc10 said:

To be fair, it's pretty hard to get excited about this team and hard to be prepared for the one extra base hit we get per game
Lewin was good because he had pop culture type stuff when the team stunk, was getting blown out, and you didn't feel like changing the channel.

Then Nolan brought in all of these boring " baseball all of the time" geeks.
AggieEP
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I can't seem to find video or photographic proof, but I'll always remember this story https://www.espn.com/mlb/news/story?id=1822940 from 2004 when TAG used the telestrator to circle the guy who knocked the boy over to get the ball. There was a game later that year where TAG tried to see if he could just white out the whole screen by scribbling with the telestrator.

Those were some fun years with Josh and TAG. Team was on the upswing punctuated by the back to back WS runs and the players were young and exciting.
Old Tom Morris
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We have officially entered "this broadcast needs a Lewin" territory
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Old Tom Morris said:

We have officially entered "this broadcast needs a Lewin" territory


I mean, how can you not miss this guy. He is just behind Holtz and Nadel in my book.

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