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Post by Mike Harris on Oct 12, 2010 23:20:10 GMT -5
I grew up and lived in the DFW area for 30+ years and was alway a diehard Texas Rangers fan. Well, they finally won their first play-off series in franchise history and will face the d**n Yankees in the ALCS! Go Rangers!!
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Post by Paul Sylvain on Oct 16, 2010 5:00:44 GMT -5
d**n Yankees! Guess we'll have to get 'em today, seeing as we couldn't put 'em away last night.
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Post by Allen Wiener on Oct 16, 2010 22:00:53 GMT -5
Well, they handled them today and SHOULD have won the game the BLEW last night, but better than nothing going back to NY even in the series.
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Post by Paul Sylvain on Oct 19, 2010 18:14:05 GMT -5
Yep, and they should have and could have been just one away from going to the Series.
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Post by Allen Wiener on Oct 19, 2010 19:31:28 GMT -5
That thought keeps haunting me. Let's hope they can win tonight and up 3-1.
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Post by Allen Wiener on Oct 20, 2010 0:16:53 GMT -5
One more to go! What a pounding tonight! Loved it!!!
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Post by Allen Wiener on Oct 22, 2010 22:11:50 GMT -5
HURRAH! THE TEXAS RANGERS HAVE SLAIN THE AWFUL N.Y. YANKEE MONSTER AND DELIVERED US FROM IT!!! CONGRATULATIONS TO THE FRANCHISE AND GOOD LUCK TO THE RANGERS IN THE WORLD SERIES, WHICH ALL OF US CAN NOW ENJOY! MAY THE BEST TEAM WIN AND I HOPE FOR A GREAT SERIES!!
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Post by Paul Sylvain on Oct 23, 2010 8:37:02 GMT -5
I guess them dang Yankees should have heeded the signs:
"Don't mess with Texas."
My official Rangers jacket and cap are a big hit in New Hampshire this morning! lol
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Post by Allen Wiener on Oct 23, 2010 11:59:39 GMT -5
I suspect New Englanders are delighted with the Texas victory over arch-rival N.Y. The irony here is that, in all 4 games the Rangers won, they beat the Yankee pitchers to a pulp, despite NY's big spending on pitchers. I'm sure they'll go after Lee now (I sure hope they don't get him). I wonder if the Sox will go after Matt Capps and move Paplebon to middle relief; I've never been sold on him as the closer.
Well, it's on to the Series! I'm still betting S.F. will beat the Phils, but, frankly, I don't care!
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Post by garyzaboly on Oct 23, 2010 15:44:40 GMT -5
Now now fellas haha...it took Texas 39 years to get to the World Series...and let's not forget that it ain't over till it's over! On the other hand, it seemed an eternity for the NY Mets to get to, and win, the 1969 WS, so I imagine Texans are in an extremely impatient mood! As a New Yorker who roots for both the Mets and the Yankees, I can see I'm outnumbered here...but our baseball teams, including the great and incomparable Yankees, will be back, trust me, to irritate the rest of the country. It's such fun Speaking of the Yankees, I'm currently reading Ken Sobol's BABE RUTH AND THE AMERICAN DREAM, and I learned that the Red Sox HAD to sell the Babe to NY in order to pay the mortgage on Fenway Park! The Red Sox were that broke in 1919!
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Post by Allen Wiener on Oct 23, 2010 16:52:41 GMT -5
Oh, we KNOW they will always be back, like Freddie Kruger! I guess it does make it fun, to some degree, because, without the Yanks a lot of the drama and passion of the season would be gone. It could be downright bland, especially for Sox fans!
OK - I'm in a generous mood today since they had the decency to lose for once!
I had heard that the old saw about the Sox selling Ruth to pay for Broadway shows was untrue. The old "curse" was bunk afterall.
I was a big Mets fans when I lived in the area and recall that 1969 season very vividly. My goodness; has it REALLY been 41 years since then??? Boy that was some season and what a series! Years later, after moving down here, I became an Orioles fan and learned their perspective on 1969. I think they believed THAT was a curse, or voodoo, but it was really just great pitching and energy. Brooks Robinson said so at the time; he said he'd never seen pitching that good, and he'd seen some pitching!
Well, the Mets waited only 7 seasons to go from the biggest joke in baseball history in 1962 to world champs in 1969. The Rangers have waited a lot longer than that. Try to remember that the Rangers were once the Washington Senators! Boy, there's a curse! First in war, first in peace, and last in the American League (and now the National League).
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Post by Paul Sylvain on Oct 23, 2010 19:51:11 GMT -5
Gary -- you are a rarity to be a fan of BOTH the Mets and the Yanks. I lived and worked on Long Island for about a year (centuries ago) and discovered that you were either a Mets fan, or a Yankees fan, but not a fan of both.
IO have to confess that I remember when the Mets started and went something like 0 for June, July and August! I mean, they were so bad that they made National nightly TV news when they turned a triple play. I still remember those days ... and I loved the Mets. I'm still a fan. Fortunately I've had to face the dilemma of picking between the Red Sox and Mets only once (had to go for the Sox --- d**n that Billy Buckner).
Anyway, I KNOW the Yanks will be back. They're always come back. Like a bad cold. Or a rash. Or seasonal allergies. And the Sox will be battling for the Wild Card (aren't they always?).
But for now, I'm happy to be cheering on the Rangers. Remember ... they were managed by Ted Williams for a season or two, so there is a Red Sox connection after all.
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Post by Allen Wiener on Oct 23, 2010 19:58:37 GMT -5
(had to go for the Sox --- d**n that Billy Buckner). Well, DANG the stupid Sox manager in that series! He put a guy out there in the 9th who was, basically, disabled! Even Little League managers know that you make defensive substitutions in the last inning when you are AHEAD! Duh! I never really blamed Buckner.
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Post by Paul Sylvain on Oct 23, 2010 20:36:52 GMT -5
Uh, huh? I was driving home from work, and had the game on the radio. When they said Buckner was back out at first base, I went nuts. WTF are they thinking. Get some defense out there, get the outs and go home. I just knew it was gonna bite them in the butt, and it sure did.
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Post by garyzaboly on Oct 24, 2010 7:02:52 GMT -5
One of the ironies of all this is that George Steinbrenner was 4th on the list of richest baseball team owners. If the theory has been put forth that the more expensive the team, the more World Series titles it will win, then the Yankees are proof that that theory is not really true. But I never castigated Steinbrenner for being more generously concerned about his team---viz., pouring more money into it in the hope that it WOULD win more WS. More teams should show such high monetary concern, if their goal is to at least get into the Playoffs more frequently, as the Yankees have.
If the Red Sox ownership, or that of the Texas Rangers, would decide to make their teams the highest-paid in MLB, I guarantee you won't see Boston or Texas fans complaining about it!
I was never one of those hate-filled fans who needed to constantly berate the other team while rooting for my own. And although I'm a Mets fan first, I did struggle along with my classmates in the '60s at the downward spiral of the Yankees.
One of the things about the current Rangers team---and I'm actually glad to see them in the Series---is that they remind me of the '69 Mets: young guys with grit and guts enough to take on the long-established, old superstars---and a few of the Yankees on the 2010 starting lineup were in the 1999 World Series victory. So, yeah, time for new young blood, Yankees.
By the way, one of the best baseball jokes I ever heard was related to Bill Buckner: After the ball went through his legs in the '86 Series and the Sox lost that critical game, he went out onto the Avenue to commit suicide in front of a bus. Unfortunately it, too, went through his legs.
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