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lol Yankees
I hope Rangers win it all.
CJ needs to be dominant and close the Yankees out. CJ and the Rangers can't give the Yankees any hope in game 5. Close the bags out in 5 in NY, please.
lol Yankees
I hope Rangers win it all.
I prefer the Phillies. Why? Because we are very familiar with Halladay and Oswalt, and we have roughed them both up in the past. Lince and Cain? We are very unfamiliar with them. The Giants' pitchers scare me a lot more than the Phillies.I remember you saying this in June and I said don't get ahead of yourself....
but I actually agree with you now. If we go up 3-1, this series is as good as over because of Lee waiting in game 7 in case of emergency.
Personally I'd prefer the Giants what about you?
I feel like David after dentist. Is this real life??
ONE more Rangers...
Great to see Molina hit one out. Dude was always clutch for the Giants too
Also, don't discount the deep knowledge Bengie has of the Giants pitching staff if indeed it ends up being a Tx/SF WS. That will be a huge advantage for the Rangers, IMO
Bengie Molina the third best trade in rangers history.
It brings me such joy to see the Yankees getting that ass beat. First Tampa and now New York. Rangers will end this thing tomorrow and they are winning it all. The Phillies/Giants bats have nothing on the Yankees bats and the Rangers pitching have contained them.
The most entertaining part of the whole thing? I went to a Yankee board and I saw a thread saying that Girardi should get Manager of the Year because he took "such a weak team" this far. The best part about it? It was right under a thread led "Fire Girardi"
That pretty much sums up Yankee fan at this point.
lol yankees
Can't wait to finish these bags off so I can put the talking to Yankee fans into another gear tbh
Damn. Who would have thought that Rangers would sweep the first two in New York? These guys are kicking some serious Yankee ass. I know they have Sabathia to deal with today but the way they are playing I wouldn't be surprised if they still found a way to put this thing away.
I'd like to be in Dallas right now. Party time!
Rangers are simply the better team. They have outplayed the Yankees in every aspect, and have pretty much answered all the main questions we had about them heading into the postseason. They have proven mentally strong after coming back from that heartbreaking game 1 loss, proven that they arent scared of the Yankees by delivering that total ass kicking in game 3, and proven they can pull through bad situations and deliver in the clutch last night. I was very pleased with Holland, being brought into the game with bases loaded, and only gave up 1 run the whole night (although he clearly was nervous and wasnt controlling his pitches well as the night went on, but got some nice breaks to avoid giving up runs), as well as Oliver coming into a tough situation as well, and giving up nothing. Young made up for his game 1 blunder as well by making a good catch and throw in the 8th too.
Really though, the turning point of the game was the diving catch by Andrus, throwing Cano out at third and only letting A-Rod score. If it wasn't for that play, I think there was a good chance the Rangers would have ended up losing. Then of course, Benji coming through in the clutch once again. He's delivered time after time. Same thing happened in game 3, when they walked Murphy, then Benji made them pay.
I see another solid win tonight by the Rangers.
who whoulda thought that 2 weeks after they got him? At that point we all hoped he'd break a leg and be out for the year. funny how things work out.
Next thing you know Cantu and Guzman will be cranking go-ahead homers.
tbh i don't think there's any way Texas beats CC in New York. but they'll take it in game 6, and if that fails, we all know Cliff Lee is a lock to win game 7.
goddammit I just talked myself out of it. This is the Rangers we're talking about, so until I see that 27th out recorded, I am not going to think anything is automatic.
bandwagoning KKK stick
Btw Tex is done for the year, so that makes it that much easier for the Rangers.
Btw Tex is done for the year, so that makes it that much easier for the Rangers.
Yeah Cause Tex was lighting it up! 0-14 then bails him self out with a hammy. Looked like a damn sniper got him from the upper deck.
Rob
yep
Rob
Tex was 0-16 so far this series, so I don't see that as a huge loss, at least offensively. , it might help them! Defensively they'll miss him, I think. Don't expect Swisher to be making those types of picks like he did last night all the time.
The Rangers got to CC well in Game 1. I think they can do it again, they have to be feeling confident. I hope they wrap it up today, the next game played in Arlington should be a WS game.
tbh this is the Yankees we are talking about, who has an entire decade of chokejobs.
CC is gonna be renamed TT (texas toast) tonight, imo
I just can't wait for the Rangers to send A-Rod home. He hasta' go. He's ruined too many of our white queens.
At the risk of jinxing things out of control, this article was just too classic NOT to post...
Yankees' storied postseason success matters in a series against the historically futile Rangers
FILIP BONDY
(yeah, that's "Filip", with an "F")
Thursday, October 14th 2010, 4:00 AM
Over the past 50 years, the Yankees have won nine of their world championships, 15 American League pennants and fielded the likes of Mickey Mantle, Yogi Berra, Reggie Jackson, Mariano Rivera and Derek Jeter.
The Texas Rangers, meanwhile, played .471 baseball, moved from one dumpy stadium in Washington to a worse one in Arlington, never captured a home playoff game and never reached a World Series.
The Rangers have retired exactly one player's jersey (aside from Jackie Robinson's) and attempted to counter George M. Steinbrenner with George W. Bush in the owner's box.
All they've ever had was Nolan Ryan, and they've ridden him like an urban cowboy on a mechanical bull.
Ryan's no-hitters aside, this ALCS represents one of sports' great historical mismatches, 40 pennants versus zero. The Yanks should win this series just by throwing their pinstriped uniforms onto the field and reading from a few pages of The Baseball Encyclopedia.
If only Bud Selig would agree to waive a few silly postseason rules, the Bombers might send their Scranton/Wilkes-Barre roster to Arlington for the first couple of games, make this a fair fight.
Of course, the Yanks are too diplomatic to admit such a thing.
"I think history can play a role if you're playing a team where the guys have played against you," Joe Girardi said. "Most of (the Rangers) don't remember the late '90s, so it's not going to affect them one way of another. It doesn't mean anything to them."
Well, it should. The Rangers are the oldest of three existing major league clubs never to have won a pennant. They should be ashamed to bring their media guides to the Bronx.
The late '90s? What about the '60s, when the Rangers were born as the Washington Senators, mostly to appease congressmen who were ready to vote away the league's an rust exemptions after the other Senators moved to Minnesota.
Those new, second-generation Senators were every bit as lousy and nomadic as the first batch. During their odd-ball stay in our nation's capital - who can forget Richard Nixon throwing out the first baseball? - and then after moving to Turnpike Stadium in Arlington, the Senators/Rangers managed exactly one .500 season among their first 15 years, through 1976.
The magic moments since then? How about a New York Times reporter declaring with anguish her retirement from sports writing after fighting the backward postgame flow of fans and dealing with the horrors of the old rat-infested Arlington Stadium?
How about the Rangers signing Alex Rodriguez to an unsustainable 10-year, $252 million contract in 2000, when the team still didn't have enough pitching to field a contender? Or owner Tom Hicks defaulting on $525 million in loans and Major League Baseball paying the club's operating expenses from a common fund?
Or A-Rod filing as a creditor in court this year, seeking the $24.9 million still owed him by the Rangers?
Yes, this has been a sad, losing franchise for half a century, but not in a charming way like the Cubbies. The Rangers are still hoping to emerge from the darkest of dark ages now under the guidance of Ryan and new owner Chuck Greenberg - who happens to be from Pittsburgh, so you can imagine how much he knows about building a decent baseball team.
Here's the bottom line: In New York, a professional club is only worth as much as it pays its players, or as much as the franchise can attract on the open market.
The Yankees' total payroll on opening day was $206.33 million, while the Rangers' was $55.25. The Rangers were sold to the Greenberg group for $570 million, despite playing now in the respectable Rangers Ballpark.
Forbes estimates the Yankees are worth about three times that.
Why are they even playing this series? Why don't they just use the scores from '96, '98 and '99?
"I can't even think back to those years," Jorge Posada said. "It's over. I don't think it matters."
It matters. The Yankees lead, 27 les to none. Play ball.
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Michael young f'd up that inning....should have made him bunt Andrus to 2nd. He sucks
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