This team is so weird. They look like legitimate contenders against most of the good teams they've played and then they look like total crap against bottom dwellers. I don't get it.

Mr Gigem said:

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You lose this game, you have to fire Skip immediately after or you're not a serious franchise

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Hard to say... maybe this was CY's plan?!

Maybe we're in tank mode and deGrom knew he was too broken to get traded, but in the end, we are working the Draft for next year.

I'm not very competitive at the high end. I don't hate losing enough to be elite. But, god... I hate... despise... giving up. It is the worst!

Selling at the Trade Deadline to me is such a character flaw to give up on yourself. You are a quitter ... on yourself.

I remember as a Sophomore in HS. I was 5'4"/150 and played OL. The JV coach wanted to get me to quit, so he had the #1 OL... a guy 6'2"/225 and knew everything about PEDs even though he denied using. The guy was a physical beast. We lined up head-to-head and "fired" off the ball at the coach's command. He drug my dick in the dirt repeatedly. 10... 15 times he just mowed me over and the coach barked, "you ready to quit?"

"Nope. I'm just getting started to wear him out." You'd get the bark at the beast "If you don't fire off the ball, you're losing your starting position."

In the end, like Monty Python, I was just getting warmed up, even as I couldn't pick myself up off the ground.

I hate people who quit.

Extra! Extra! Read all about it!!! Blind squirrel finds a nut!!!!

Why on earth would the As leave that guy in the game to face burger?

Turned it off after the 2nd, how is this game tied?

We've scored the same amount of runs as they have

Big if true

Not true.

Silseth has some nasty movement on those pitches.

Atmpainter said:

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Seattle scores two in tenth the. Gives up a five spot. Houston will run away with this division.

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I thought Stros fans weren't allowed to post here?

Is Wyatt going to do anything on offense?

Well that'll do it. This team ****ing blows

SWING THE BAT FAT ASS

Atmpainter said:

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Why would I be an astros fan? Because I think the rangers are rubbish and Houston is hitting their stride?

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Both clubs are mid. Your incessant bleeding all over this thread does get old.

Catcher is a really big need on this team. Jansen and Higgy injuries have been rather large

Perhaps we can catch the As by the end of the year and tank for a draft spot instead

With 2027 almost certainly being lost, the Rangers are about to be terribad. They have almost no farm system. Major league talent is very mid at best. Old players that can't stay healthy and aren't good anymore…and of course, zero development of starting pitchers for the top of the rotation. We pray for Rocker and Leiter to be the answers but nothing has suggested it's gonna happen here. And when they go somewhere else and become Nick Martinez or Joaquin Benoit for someone in the ASG or playoffs, we will all just wonder why we can't do it here. Same story, different decade.

Thank God for 2023

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Grapesoda2525 said:

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Kinda hope Oakland sweeps this weekend and we can officially turn down the lights.

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Lol, not sure why you are on this thread then. And for this team, right about now is when they will go on a 8-2 streak over the next 10 games.

I grew up watching a lot of bad Ranger baseball, so giving up isn't really in my DNA. Usually by now, they were 10+ games out of playoff contention. This year, for all of their faults, they are still in the mix.

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I musta missed the rules here that you cant complain about a flawed team for back to back seasons…… hell the only reason i wasnt on here complaining about the 80's Rangers is because…… well this wasnt here to complain. I can be a fan and still admit this team sux and the only reason they are a stones throw out is because the rest of the division also smells like a 6 month olds diaper also!
this team is a gutless wonder and most of them are stealing their paychecks.

Most of these folks said the same **** in 2023. This team is in the thick of playoff hunt, even with a loss tonight. I genuinely don't understand how some of yall have not figured out how a baseball season works.

The Rangers aren't playing like winners with a postseason appearance on the line. The last two weeks have been brutal, and for the season, have essentially played .500 ball. Is this how baseball works?

And yet only a .5 game out of the playoffs. Just make the dance and hope you get hot at the right time. This team has pieces to do that.