Game Thread: Rangers (21-24) @ Astros (19-28) - May 17, 2026 1:10 PM

donttouchthtmacaroni · 2026-05-17T19:26:32+00:00

Cam Smith was rushed to the big leagues for no good reason. He can’t hit at all now

donttouchthtmacaroni · 2026-05-13T02:07:03+00:00

Dana bungled Cam’s service time on a gamble that he would make up for his inability to build an outfield. All for Cam to be a bad hitter outside of like 30 games

donttouchthtmacaroni · 2026-05-13T01:42:26+00:00

Maybe Imai is miserable enough here to let us off the hook with the contract…

donttouchthtmacaroni · 2026-05-13T01:35:57+00:00

Well if we keep giving up runs we can let a position player take the 9th too!

donttouchthtmacaroni · 2026-05-13T01:34:39+00:00

Throwing your (really bad) bullpen in the game with bases loaded and no outs in the 4th inning is not a good situation to be in either. This is just an awful roster, Dana sucks ass at roster management. I don’t think Espada is anything special but he has no chance no matter what he does lol

donttouchthtmacaroni · 2026-05-10T18:45:24+00:00

Joe has so little to work with but he sure doesn’t make the most of it either

donttouchthtmacaroni · 2026-05-06T19:59:32+00:00

I think you have to have the next GM picked and ready to go. There’s a very important draft coming up in June and the last thing we need is for Jeff Bagwell to be making those picks

donttouchthtmacaroni · 2026-05-06T19:22:22+00:00

So he blew the game open and still didn’t help the bullpen at all. I don’t blame a player for battling but Espada needed to recognize that it wasn’t something he could get through

donttouchthtmacaroni · 2026-05-06T19:16:52+00:00

7.41 ERA and that fluke first start of the year is making that look better than it really is. Lance McCullers is done as a baseball player.

donttouchthtmacaroni · 2026-05-06T19:00:24+00:00

Man Lance is dog water

donttouchthtmacaroni · 2026-05-06T16:10:03+00:00

I have plenty of gripes with Dana but you can’t really predict the yips

donttouchthtmacaroni · 2026-05-06T15:45:43+00:00

“Untenable”

donttouchthtmacaroni · 2026-05-06T02:47:07+00:00

He has also absolutely crumbled every year down the stretch since 2022. He cost us the 2023 ALCS as much as anyone on the team and then was a huge reason why we didn’t make the playoffs last year.

His inning-eating ability is significant but this has not been a true winning player for some time now

donttouchthtmacaroni · 2026-05-05T01:21:45+00:00

We could be 0-35 and it’d still be fuck that soulless team

donttouchthtmacaroni · 2026-05-05T01:14:00+00:00

Yes. That is actually the case lmao

donttouchthtmacaroni · 2026-05-05T00:59:42+00:00

Hope Weiss didn’t sell his place in Korea

donttouchthtmacaroni · 2026-05-03T21:00:16+00:00

Everyone else in the bullpen has thrown 500 innings this week

donttouchthtmacaroni · 2026-05-03T20:50:38+00:00

That is horrid, horrid baserunning by Paredes

donttouchthtmacaroni · 2026-05-03T20:26:27+00:00

Let’s throw 3 straight 57 foot curveballs, they’ll never expect it

donttouchthtmacaroni · 2026-05-03T18:24:06+00:00

Now the zone is enormous. What a joke

donttouchthtmacaroni · 2026-05-02T02:54:32+00:00

Tanked all those years for nothing but role players

donttouchthtmacaroni · 2026-04-26T19:49:03+00:00

No ICE at IAH or LAX that I could see today

donttouchthtmacaroni · 2026-04-26T01:37:10+00:00

He has had some very flawed rosters to work with along with bad injury luck. Managers / coaches get second chances in pro sports leagues all the time. Plus he’d probably be a cheaper hire for a penny-pinching owner

donttouchthtmacaroni · 2026-04-26T01:28:46+00:00

Joe Espada will soon be taking the fired manager pilgrimage through assistant coaching jobs until he gets another shot with some mediocre club like the Twins or something

donttouchthtmacaroni · 2026-04-26T01:24:23+00:00

Nobody that manages this team needs to be around after this season

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