Hunter is back big time!

Man what a game.  Not only did we win the series, but it's the Rays.  Best team in baseball.  I don't want to hear any more critics say that the Rangers can't win against winning teams.  The Rangers completely shut down the Rays for the first two games of this series.  Can we sweep??  And Tommy Hunter.  Oh my God, that guy made his 2010 debut with a bang.  Reminded me of why he was my favorite pitcher last year.  With only 110 or so pitches he completed the game with only one run.  Hamilton hit a two run homer.  Smoak looked great hitting and defensively.  Even Bourbon impressed me today.  Everything needed to come together for a victory against the Rays and today was our day.  Plus with Hunters complete game it saved our bullpen and closers for tomorrow's finale against the so called best team in baseball.  Best yet was I got to take my father-in-law to the game and we couldn't have picked a better game to go to.

Wow...It's time!

   

Rangers host the Rays and have something to prove.

Rangers played great last night and I'm really excited that they won the series opener against the Rays.  The Rays are the best team in baseball and they remind me a ton of the what the Rangers could be without the ghost of Tom Hicks.  Plus it is nice to see Hank Blalock again.  I'm glad that he was finally picked up by a team.

Anyways...the good news is I'm taking my father-in-law to the Rays game this afternoon.  I plan on taking some great pics because we will be right next to the home dugout.  Can you imagine if we win this series.  It's time!

Rangers snap the four game losing streak and take over the AL West again.

Nice win over the White Sox tonight.  Harden goes 3-1 and Neftali amazes me again.  Even Smoak looked great.  I think Justin needs some more time to develop his swing.  Here is the big question, do we go all out and try to make something happen this year, or wait until next year to make the big moves.  Right now with the ownership issue I don't see us making a move for a catcher.  All I really don't want to see is a trade for Oswalt or some other veteran pitcher.  Any team talking to the Rangers is going to want Elvis or Neftali....it's not worth it!   The A's just lost the series opener to the Red Sox.  They then go on to play the Twins, so here is our chance to regain some distance.  The Rangers need to win this series, but then have the Rays at home.  I'll be at the Saturday game against the Rays (great seats too).  I'm so tired of the Rangers choking against teams with good records.  This weekend is the time to change that trend.  I'd like to see by the end of the weekend at least a 2-3 game lead over the A's, but that will take at least one win against the (.660) Rays.

Remember to vote for the All-Star game.  Cruz and Vlad look like they will start, and Elvis is 2nd behind Jeter right now.

Keep the faith Rangers fans!

So now we are a game out of first place in the AL West.  Where did our four game lead go?  All the excitement of the early season is now officially gone when I realized that the "pre-packaged bankruptcy" deal was thrown out.  I'm seriously nervous about the July 31st trade deadline and draft coming up.  Tom Hicks is still haunting us!  I don't think Greenberg will take the reins until the end of the season at best.   We have huge gapping holes in our lineup that would be fixed soon if it wasn't for the ghost of Hicks.  Starting at catcher, Treanor and Ramirez are JAGS (just a guy).  I wouldn't expect them to bat better than .250 and their defense isn't anything to write home about.  The other glaring hole is the center field, but I believe we have a fix for that in David Murphy.  Why Wash, Why?  Get ol' Murph in there. Stop wasting time with Bourbon!  First base is killing us.  If Smoak was better defensively I could kinda live with his bat, but a .175 is pathetic.  I still wouldn't bring Chris Davis up from Oklahoma, so our only option would be to ...oh wait the ghost of Hicks again.

I'm actually not that worried that Holland is on the DL because that brings up my favorite Tommy Hunter.  Also, when Holland comes back we might be wanting to sit Harden down by then.  

VOTE FOR CRUZ, GUERRERO, & ANDRUS!!!!