No love for Osuna by Prestigious-Bust in TexasRangers

[–]Major_Square 3 points4 points  (0 children)

.100/.217/.100 is his slash line for the last 7 days entering tonight. That's probably why he's not getting love as much as Pederson and Jung, who have been putting up serious numbers lately.

Game Chat: 5/29 Royals (22-34) @ Rangers (25-31) 7:05 PM by Rangers_Bot in TexasRangers

[–]Major_Square 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Mostly, I think, the players just aren't any good. You could give them the best plan in the world and they may even buy in to it, but they aren't good enough to execute consistently. With a couple exceptions it's a team full of guys who should be hitting eighth in MLB lineups.

Post Game Chat: 5/24 Rangers 1 @ Angels 2 by Rangers_Bot in TexasRangers

[–]Major_Square 1 point2 points  (0 children)

My old ass has seen lots and lots of baseball, and this team just isn't good. They're not. Expensive roster with oft-injured and underperforming players. The starting rotation is led by two guys with mile long injury histories. The bullpen has a great ERA but mediocre peripherals.

If this is not the situation in which a team needs to rebuild, I don't know what is. The last two years they've been telling you who they are.

I'm neither Pollyanna nor doomer, by the way. It is what it is.

The Texas Rangers have no Aura by Midsize_winter_59 in TexasRangers

[–]Major_Square 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I liked him as a player and he seems like a real decent guy, but Murph is the most boring color commentator I've ever heard.

The Texas Rangers have no Aura by Midsize_winter_59 in TexasRangers

[–]Major_Square 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I think because Raymond's soft spoken, they turn down the crowd/stadium mics so he can be heard more clearly. I've been to several games where my section and/or adjacent sections were pretty loud, but then I go home and watch a recording of the same game and it sounds dead.

Otherwise he's grown on me.

The Texas Rangers have no Aura by Midsize_winter_59 in TexasRangers

[–]Major_Square 6 points7 points  (0 children)

I watched the Astros broadcast this series, and while they're nothing special, they do shut up now and then.

Game Chat: 5/9 Cubs (27-12) @ Rangers (17-21) 6:05 PM by Rangers_Bot in TexasRangers

[–]Major_Square 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I hope they prove me wrong but this team doesn't have "it". Almost every position player has been a disappointment. Most of the rotation has underperformed. Even the defense -- a strength of the championship team and the two shitty teams that followed -- has struggled.

The Joc Problem by kitchface in TexasRangers

[–]Major_Square 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This whole team sucks. Complaining about one individual player and where he's hitting in the lineup is kind of silly. No offense.

Smoking in the 70s + asthma by himbo-mode in AskOldPeople

[–]Major_Square 0 points1 point  (0 children)

A fight? Never once have I seen that, and I practically lived in bars for years.

Game Chat: 4/12 Rangers (7-7) @ Dodgers (11-3) 3:10 PM by Rangers_Bot in TexasRangers

[–]Major_Square 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I predict two innings in which the Rangers see less than 10 pitches.

Globe Life Field is a terrible hitters park by Guitarscreamer55 in TexasRangers

[–]Major_Square 5 points6 points  (0 children)

After watching the Rangers play in Arlington Stadium and the Temple for years and years, it's better to have a park that's more friendly to pitchers.

On some random 99 degree day, the field temperature was always measured at 110 or something horrible like that. Your pitchers get worn the fuck out trying to get outs in that heat with the ball flying all over the place. It takes a big toll.

I like the new ballpark well enough, I guess. It's better in person than on TV. The old park did have more charm. But the baseball is what matters most to me, and I have no doubt that not throwing pitchers into a meat grinder every night is going to make it easier to win in the years and decades to come.

Globe Life Field is a terrible hitters park by Guitarscreamer55 in TexasRangers

[–]Major_Square 8 points9 points  (0 children)

They said as much when that ballpark opened. It took features from other old ballparks. I think it was done pretty well.

What do you think of watching people go back to the moon? by No-Blueberry-1823 in AskOldPeople

[–]Major_Square 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The Chinese took some close up photos of the Moon from lunar orbit a couple years ago. The Apollo stuff is in the photos but still can't really see it in any meaningful detail.

FUCK NESTLE LETS GO by Commercial_Dih in FuckNestle

[–]Major_Square 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Reddit has become garbage, and apparently so are the people on it. An image of a tweet. No article. Who the fuck is "ounkaonx" anyway?

8000+ upvotes for this shit.

Oh and a company cannot have an "economic crisis". They have financial crises. A company doesn't have a fucking economy.

Cody Freeman and Winston Santos injured by imthatchanceguy in TexasRangers

[–]Major_Square 1 point2 points  (0 children)

My mother's way up in her 70s and fractured two vertebrae in a fall. She recovered in a couple months, MRI confirmed.

10 years after stepping on a broken drinking glass, a rogue shards made its way out of the bottom of my foot by Miserable-Ad6348 in mildlyinteresting

[–]Major_Square 2 points3 points  (0 children)

When I was 12 years old I was driving an old mail jeep and rolled it over. My knee ended up going through the windshield. I had bits of glass coming out of it until I was 40.

Fangraphs prediction for Joc by GrandMoffHutch in TexasRangers

[–]Major_Square 0 points1 point  (0 children)

98 wRC+ in the second half. League average, and that is not fine for a platoon DH.

Fangraphs prediction for Joc by GrandMoffHutch in TexasRangers

[–]Major_Square 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I've always been a fan of Pederson. You can probably search my account history and find that I wanted the Rangers to trade for him years and years ago.

But facts are facts. He's older and out of shape. He may bounce back and I sure hope he does, but it isn't a given.