*****Official Texas Rangers 2023 Season Thread***** [Staff Warning]
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Thanks for posting that link - I remember watching it live, and it was great to watch it again! Josh and Tag were great.
Yeah, Rhadigan got sent back to the FSSW studio during the season. He tried to make light of it one night as he was throwing it back to the booth. Talked about how he had a strange dream where he was in the booth. The guys mercilessly laid out on him with a bunch of dead air until Barnett finally said "Strike one to Austin Jackson".hawk1689 said:Grapesoda2525 said:
Barnett and Rhadigan were awful.
Rhadigan was a massive stain on the best season in franchise history.
Didn't he get replaced about 1/3 of the way through the season?
They used to play that clip on the Ticket all the time.
I know it's the dark side but if on Facebook subscribe to Jamey Newberg. His insight is $$$. You're welcome.
You're lost.
No, I just thought it was interesting info that might add to ya'lls discussion. I've done so from time to time this postseason and nobody seemed to mind. If the fact that the Rangers are now playing the Astros makes a difference, I'll quietly take my leave..
No issues from me. I think we can all enjoy actual discussion
Nadel is the ultimate nostalgia for me.
I just have flash backs of riding around in my dads truck at night time listening to the Rangers game.
I just have flash backs of riding around in my dads truck at night time listening to the Rangers game.
The Phillies look scary right now.
Water Boy said:
The Phillies look scary right now.
Phillies haven't won 7 straight playoff games
Water Boy said:
The Phillies look scary right now.
Yea they do… so do we…
Nagler said:
Nadel is the ultimate nostalgia for me.
I just have flash backs of riding around in my dads truck at night time listening to the Rangers game.
Holtz and Nadel together were greatness. I worked with Holtz's daughter for years and never knew she was related to him.
If both of us stay hot and finish the job I could see that series do big numbers with tv ratings. The environment at both venues would be insane.
If things hold true the Cowboys will also be playing the Eagles the same week as the World Series, with game 7 the day before the game.
From Bochy Evan Carter will be Batting 3rd tomorrow pic.twitter.com/V2BP6rC8FD
— TXRangersUpdates (@TXRUpdates) October 18, 2023
Michael Cera Palin said:
Yup, Barnett replaced him and held the position until his on-air stroke. Then I believe they threw in Busby who took over for a while (who I actually really liked).
It was kinda crazy because Lewin and Tag had been there for a decent while and within a span of 18 months we burned through 3 guys.
Raymond has grown on me a little bit but is by far my least favorite out of everyone we've had.
Also agree with what others have said about Nadel, he's a legend, and deserves the job for as long as he wants it, but he definitely sounds kinda down and unenthused recently. I really hope everything is ok with him, to me he's what baseball is supposed to sound like
I really like CJ and Raymond is just a play by play guy. I was in the camp of the people who thought Lewin was a little hokey. I don't mind a bland play by play as long as the analyst is insightful. TAG was nice, but his insight was outdated.
The only thing I hated about Lewin was the awkward head turn that he did and he said millions upon millions of times that Michael young and Vernon wells were best buddies.
You need a pbp like Lewin to keep the full season from becoming dull, and he was great at the making the right kind of call in big moments
Loved Lewin. If I'm remembering it right, he was also the radio guy for the SD Chargers during his time with the Rangers.
Holtz and Nadel was the soundtrack to my summers when I was a kid.
Holtz and Nadel was the soundtrack to my summers when I was a kid.
Grapesoda2525 said:
The only thing I hated about Lewin was the awkward head turn that he did and he said millions upon millions of times that Michael young and Vernon wells were best buddies.
He blinked way too much when he was on camera. That's what I remember about him
Degrom update for 2024
Quote:
Fortunately, it appears that deGrom's rehab process is going rather well. A typical timeline for a pitcher in deGrom's situation would be somewhere between 14 and 18 months before returning to a big league mound but deGrom expressed optimism that he could return to the Rangers at the earlier end of that window, with August 2024 as a stated goal. Of course, there's a long road ahead to reach that point, though Sherman notes that deGrom has regained full range of motion at this point and will be able to return to throwing shortly after the new year, with a mound in sight come Spring Training.
From Shawn McFarland about Leody Taveras in the playoffs:
Quote:
Maybe it's a bit difficult to discern Taveras' youthfulness given the way he's performed in big games and how he has matured and revamped his approach as a hitter in a short time frame.
"I think I feel really confident," Taveras said Tuesday, through an interpreter.
Considering the output, he should. Taveras has slashed .348/.483/.609 in his first seven career playoff games this October. Only All-Star shortstop Corey Seager (1.240) and Carter (1.236) have yielded a higher postseason OPS than Taveras (1.092), who also ranks third on the team in playoff batting average. His five runs scored are tied for third, and his three stolen bases lead the team. He's recorded a base hit in all but one of Texas' playoff games.
The numbers are one thing. The way he's generated them is another, and quite different than any way he'd performed prior. Taveras has walked six times in seven playoff games. That's more walks than he had in the entire months of April (four), June (five), July (three) and August (four). He's had a pair of two-walk games in the playoffs in Game 2 of the ALDS against the Baltimore and on Monday, in Game 2 of the ALCS against the Houston Astros; he had just one multi-walk game in 143 regular season outings.
The drastic flip is pretty staggering. He had a 6.3% walk rate in the regular season; it's 20.7% in the playoffs. Of the 2,107 pitches he saw in the regular season, 743 (or 35%) were for balls; in the playoffs, that percentage has risen more than 10 points to 46.5%. He's swung at just 14 pitches outside of the strike zone in the playoffs, two of which went for base hits.
And on the topic of hits: 47.4% of his batted balls these playoffs have been classified as "hard hits," compared to 31.7% in the regular season. And of the 19 balls he's put into play, 15 have either been fly balls or line drives; in the regular season, just 55% of his total batted balls fell into those two categories, with the rest being groundballs.
It's helped give Taveras a bit more pop. In Game 1 of the ALCS against the Astros on Sunday, his fifth-inning, 105.4-mph solo home run off of Justin Verlander gave the Rangers a 2-0 lead. A day later in Game 2, he smoked a 101.9 mph triple off of J.P. France in the sixth inning.
He walked twice, too.
hawk1689 said:Michael Cera Palin said:
Yup, Barnett replaced him and held the position until his on-air stroke. Then I believe they threw in Busby who took over for a while (who I actually really liked).
It was kinda crazy because Lewin and Tag had been there for a decent while and within a span of 18 months we burned through 3 guys.
Raymond has grown on me a little bit but is by far my least favorite out of everyone we've had.
Also agree with what others have said about Nadel, he's a legend, and deserves the job for as long as he wants it, but he definitely sounds kinda down and unenthused recently. I really hope everything is ok with him, to me he's what baseball is supposed to sound like
I really like CJ and Raymond is just a play by play guy. I was in the camp of the people who thought Lewin was a little hokey. I don't mind a bland play by play as long as the analyst is insightful. TAG was nice, but his insight was outdated.
Lewin was hokey, but was excellent at transferring the emotion of the game through the screen, which is what you're looking for in sports like baseball and hockey (not so much football, which is why guys like Jackson, Summerall, and Michaels are legends and Gus Johnson is a running joke). His home run calls were great. I've mentioned Nadel's dourness here before, and I I've come to really like Matt Hicks. Jared Sandler is going to be great in the future when Nadel steps down. He's really good.
I always liked when the rangers would win by recording the last out and Lewin would always say BALL GAME.BassCowboy33 said:hawk1689 said:Michael Cera Palin said:
Yup, Barnett replaced him and held the position until his on-air stroke. Then I believe they threw in Busby who took over for a while (who I actually really liked).
It was kinda crazy because Lewin and Tag had been there for a decent while and within a span of 18 months we burned through 3 guys.
Raymond has grown on me a little bit but is by far my least favorite out of everyone we've had.
Also agree with what others have said about Nadel, he's a legend, and deserves the job for as long as he wants it, but he definitely sounds kinda down and unenthused recently. I really hope everything is ok with him, to me he's what baseball is supposed to sound like
I really like CJ and Raymond is just a play by play guy. I was in the camp of the people who thought Lewin was a little hokey. I don't mind a bland play by play as long as the analyst is insightful. TAG was nice, but his insight was outdated.
Lewin was hokey, but was excellent at transferring the emotion of the game through the screen, which is what you're looking for in sports like baseball and hockey (not so much football, which is why guys like Jackson, Summerall, and Michaels are legends and Gus Johnson is a running joke). His home run calls were great. I've mentioned Nadel's dourness here before, and I I've come to really like Matt Hicks. Jared Sandler is going to be great in the future when Nadel steps down. He's really good.
Grapesoda2525 said:I always liked when the rangers would win by recording the last out and Lewin would always say BALL GAME.BassCowboy33 said:hawk1689 said:Michael Cera Palin said:
Yup, Barnett replaced him and held the position until his on-air stroke. Then I believe they threw in Busby who took over for a while (who I actually really liked).
It was kinda crazy because Lewin and Tag had been there for a decent while and within a span of 18 months we burned through 3 guys.
Raymond has grown on me a little bit but is by far my least favorite out of everyone we've had.
Also agree with what others have said about Nadel, he's a legend, and deserves the job for as long as he wants it, but he definitely sounds kinda down and unenthused recently. I really hope everything is ok with him, to me he's what baseball is supposed to sound like
I really like CJ and Raymond is just a play by play guy. I was in the camp of the people who thought Lewin was a little hokey. I don't mind a bland play by play as long as the analyst is insightful. TAG was nice, but his insight was outdated.
Lewin was hokey, but was excellent at transferring the emotion of the game through the screen, which is what you're looking for in sports like baseball and hockey (not so much football, which is why guys like Jackson, Summerall, and Michaels are legends and Gus Johnson is a running joke). His home run calls were great. I've mentioned Nadel's dourness here before, and I I've come to really like Matt Hicks. Jared Sandler is going to be great in the future when Nadel steps down. He's really good.
Yes, Lewin had a great tagline for games won by Texas. And it was expecially great with a walkoff win. The great win over Oakland in 2004 late in the season when Delucci hit the walkoff two run double was pure greatness when Lewin made that call that day and finished with BALLGAME!!
Lewin was awesome. He was both energetic and entertaining (lots of pop culture references sprinkled in). I loved the Odd Couple vibe he and Tag had. My wife used to love just having Rangers games on in the background just to hear those two. It was kind of the sound of summer in our house.
JWinTX said:Grapesoda2525 said:I always liked when the rangers would win by recording the last out and Lewin would always say BALL GAME.BassCowboy33 said:hawk1689 said:Michael Cera Palin said:
Yup, Barnett replaced him and held the position until his on-air stroke. Then I believe they threw in Busby who took over for a while (who I actually really liked).
It was kinda crazy because Lewin and Tag had been there for a decent while and within a span of 18 months we burned through 3 guys.
Raymond has grown on me a little bit but is by far my least favorite out of everyone we've had.
Also agree with what others have said about Nadel, he's a legend, and deserves the job for as long as he wants it, but he definitely sounds kinda down and unenthused recently. I really hope everything is ok with him, to me he's what baseball is supposed to sound like
I really like CJ and Raymond is just a play by play guy. I was in the camp of the people who thought Lewin was a little hokey. I don't mind a bland play by play as long as the analyst is insightful. TAG was nice, but his insight was outdated.
Lewin was hokey, but was excellent at transferring the emotion of the game through the screen, which is what you're looking for in sports like baseball and hockey (not so much football, which is why guys like Jackson, Summerall, and Michaels are legends and Gus Johnson is a running joke). His home run calls were great. I've mentioned Nadel's dourness here before, and I I've come to really like Matt Hicks. Jared Sandler is going to be great in the future when Nadel steps down. He's really good.
Yes, Lewin had a great tagline for games won by Texas. And it was expecially great with a walkoff win. The great win over Oakland in 2004 late in the season when Delucci hit the walkoff two run double was pure greatness when Lewin made that call that day and finished with BALLGAME!!
Man, I'd forgotten a out that game. Need to go back and see if I can find a clip of it.
Game day fellas!! LFG!!
Thank God we can talk about baseball today and not broadcasters
Could be some Smoltz talk if he literally forgets where he's at while giving the Astros a massive hand job.AgsWin2011 said:
Thank God we can talk about baseball today and not broadcasters
First inning just feels extremely important today.
First ALCS home game in over 10 years. Astros are probably best road team in MLB. Scherzer throwing again after a long lay off.
Just seems like the team and Scherzer really needs to put up a zero in the top of the first. The rangers need it because the Astros dominated us so bad at home this year and Scherzer it could give him some confidence to make it thru 4 or 5 innings while putting up a decent outing.
First ALCS home game in over 10 years. Astros are probably best road team in MLB. Scherzer throwing again after a long lay off.
Just seems like the team and Scherzer really needs to put up a zero in the top of the first. The rangers need it because the Astros dominated us so bad at home this year and Scherzer it could give him some confidence to make it thru 4 or 5 innings while putting up a decent outing.
I'll add to that "importance of first inning" comment.
Javier can easily struggle out the gate. Redials this year. If Rangers can put a couple on the board in 1st, Javier won't last 3 innings. In the flip side, if he can somehow groove through the 1st, he has shown he can be dominate for 6 innings.
Javier can easily struggle out the gate. Redials this year. If Rangers can put a couple on the board in 1st, Javier won't last 3 innings. In the flip side, if he can somehow groove through the 1st, he has shown he can be dominate for 6 innings.
Before the playoffs, Boch was asked about the threat Carter is to Taveras. IIRC, he said he wasn't real sure how much that was playing a role in Taveras' improvement, but added something like healthy competition is always a good motivator for a player.
His approach has followed Carter's. More patient and disciplined. Be more selective and don't chase balls. As a result, it has forced pitchers to give him a better selection. .
Although, Taveras was hitting .295, 10 HR, 9SB, .339 OBP, .812 OPS during the 1st Half of the year before Carter.
Also, the team had a similar healthy lineup the 1st Half, sans Carter.
Great to see his post-season performance.
His approach has followed Carter's. More patient and disciplined. Be more selective and don't chase balls. As a result, it has forced pitchers to give him a better selection. .
Although, Taveras was hitting .295, 10 HR, 9SB, .339 OBP, .812 OPS during the 1st Half of the year before Carter.
Also, the team had a similar healthy lineup the 1st Half, sans Carter.
Great to see his post-season performance.
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