Is that a pic of Bregman?

Grapesoda2525 said:

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This is the worst loss of the season. We still inexplicably have everything to play for despite sitting on our dat asses all off season and basking in the glory of one championship when we instead could have been trying to defend our title and show the league we're not a one hit wonder.

It's not CY's fault that Bally didn't follow thru on their commitment. It's not CY's fault that grant ****ing Maton somehow almost permanently disfigured Josh Jung on the field in the 4th game of the season. It's not CY's fault that Evan Carter's back gave out again. It's not CY's fault that Langford looked like an all star in spring training and is still taking forever to figure it out. It's not CY's fault that Scherzer's body gave out on him.

All of the above ****ing sucks and it's extremely unlucky. We've actually had terrible injury luck for the last 2 seasons despite winning the World Series in one of those 2.

However……….

Nearly every position player's production is way way down compared to last year and we brought pretty much nearly all of these guys back.

I wish we could quit filling out the lineup card for this year based on what happened last year. When is this year going to factor into the equation?

I'll forever be grateful to Bochy and these boys for bringing us a title, but this title defense has to be one of the most disappointing in history given the expectations for the season coming in.

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Eh. Vegas had us penciled in to be around .500. But for none of the reasons that we actually are .500, which is the head scratching part.

Hearne_Ag said:

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They did it for Yu ❤️ pic.twitter.com/xbdJuKJYjR

— Rangers Nation ⚾️ (@rangers__nation) August 7, 2024

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Still pissed we got Willie Calhoun

bmac_aggie18 said:

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Hearne_Ag said:

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They did it for Yu ❤️ pic.twitter.com/xbdJuKJYjR

— Rangers Nation ⚾️ (@rangers__nation) August 7, 2024

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Still pissed we got Willie Calhoun

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Worst trade ever. Dodgers stuck to their guns and gave us nothing of value then turned around and used Darvish 3 games out of 7 in the World Series that same year. It didn't work out for them, but they clearly thought high enough of his talents to give him those starts and we got fleeced.

Should've got way more.

It was just a **** year to have to make a trade. No real races so no buyers or bidding war. You could already see it shaping up 1-2 months out from the deadline that it was going to be lean. They could have kept him and let him walk in free agency for nothing, i guess.

DannyDuberstein said:

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It was just a **** year to have to make a trade. No real races so no buyers or bidding war. You could already see it shaping up 1-2 months out from the deadline that it was going to be lean. They could have kept him and let him walk in free agency for nothing, i guess.

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That's the one thing I couldn't stand about JD.

In years we were competing, everyone was buyers and the prices were sky high

In years we were rebuilding, prospects suddenly became liquid gold overnight and teams hoarded them with reckless abandon. Teams would almost rather lose in the playoffs then give up a good young player.

Hearne_Ag said:

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They did it for Yu ❤️ pic.twitter.com/xbdJuKJYjR

— Rangers Nation ⚾️ (@rangers__nation) August 7, 2024

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And one of the mooks on the other thread said our fans should have wanted to see a no hitter. Their reaction here is normal, like ours was. Lmao

Jose Urena getting the nod today vs Kikiuchi. Rangers hit Kikiuchi well a couple weeks ago.

Wasn't Yu one out from a perfect game/no hitter twice against the Astros?

Yeah I can blame JD for a lot, but the Darvish trade isn't one of them.

I see a lot of people talk about how the Dodgers took advantage of him like the Dodgers were the only team he was allowed to trade with. 28 other teams in the league and I feel very confident that the front office spoke with a few of them.

He took the best offer he could get. The market sucked. If it was this season, the return for Darvish would have been much better.

And the draft picks under JD were God awful. That's pretty indisputable.

Right. From the Dodgers perspective, the offer only had to be just sweet enough to convince them it was better than letting him walk in FA, and just sweet enough to exceed any competing offer in what was a dried up market with basically no races. Anything more would have been plain stupidity.

It's also easy to forget 2019 as he spiraled after that. But he had 21HR's and hit .270 in half a season. But I think a combo of his immaturity and a meathead staff chasing analytics derailed what could have been a nice slash hitter

I also wonder how much that broken jaw affected him. Not making excuses for him, but that's really difficult to overcome psychologically.

ESPN just ranked our fam system #29. That's pretty shocking given how high we picked in drafts over the last few years, but then makes sense the more you dig in:

2019: Took Jung 1.8 but then missed on next 3 picks.
2020: Foscue 1.14, Carter at #50, 2/3 next guys used to get Monty.
2021: Leiter 1.2, Zavala in 2nd, Cauley in 3rd.
2022: Rocker at 4, no picks in 2/3 due signing Seager/Semien
2023: Langford at 5.
2024: Picked #30 for a good reason

In the top 3 rounds of the last 6 drafts you produced 3 big leaguers that graduated as highly regarded prospects (Jung, Carter, Langford). Turned 2 picks into a guy that lead the charge to a WS. Have one guy that looks busty (Leiter), who at the time was a pretty obvious pick. I was pumped for him. Rocker got hurt, but had that risk and now looks pretty exciting. Gave up 2 picks to sign studs. I think that's all in all an ok outcome, especially for where we got last year.

International has been rough, but I think Walcott is a dude.

Playoff game tonight.

Water Boy said:

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Playoff game tonight this afternoon

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FIFY

Take the Silver Boot back!

anyone ever attended a concert at the ballpark? will there be plenty day-of parking available?

Yes

thank you, sir. Nothing available for purchase on the globe life site. You da man!

I would call our box office and prepurchase. I'm not sure it saves money for concert parking, but it gives peace of mind in case it's sold out day of for some reason

****ing bull**** to call that low strike after not calling the one to Caratini completely in the zone.

Can't let Kikuchi beat us after all the laughs everyone had about the trade and the season being on the line.

Smith just hit the wall pretty hard. Looked like he was holding his right arm a bit. Last thing we need is for Smith do go down and be out of the lineup...

He's still in for now at least.

At the game so can't see the zone well. Is Urena being squeezed?

Not really. He's been missing way outside on most pitches

Huge double play right there

WTF is Lowe looking at???? Take the ****ing bat off your shoulder

So many hard hit outs

Stupid graveyard of a new ballpark.

Hearne_Ag said:

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They did it for Yu ❤️ pic.twitter.com/xbdJuKJYjR

— Rangers Nation ⚾️ (@rangers__nation) August 7, 2024

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That was heartbreaking

sburg2007 said:

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Hearne_Ag said:

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They did it for Yu ❤️ pic.twitter.com/xbdJuKJYjR

— Rangers Nation ⚾️ (@rangers__nation) August 7, 2024

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That was heartbreaking

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I was there, it indeed was heartbreaking