It’s Go Time

It’s finally time. Time for the post-season for the Mavs.

I will be at the AA Center watching the big screens as the Mavs and Spurs get underway in San Antonio.

Go Mavs! I will be submitting video from the AA Center so keep an eye out.

Saturday, in the park

Have a great Saturday everybody. I’ve got to make plans for either watching the Mavs vs. the Spurs at the AA Center on the giant big screens later, or watching the Rangers muck it up against the Royals, but either way I’ve got to make some plans.

I leave you with a pretty cool video of Einstein the parrot.

Rangers need to stop the insanity

Kansas City at Texas

Final	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	R	H	E
KC	0	4	0	0	0	2	3	3	0	12	19	0
TEX	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	1	3	12	0

 

Last night the mighty (cough, cough) Kansas City Royals blasted the Rangers 12-3.  Before last night’s game, KC was tied for the lowest team batting average in the Major Leagues. And the Rangers couldn’t stop the flood of hits and runs that KC produced last night. This game truly sucked and it didn’t help that manager Ron Washington took out Michael Young which has a .341 career hitting average with runners in scoring position, for 41-year-old Omar Vizquel who hit a lame, short fly ball to third base to end the inning.

It’s all about the lack of quality pitching for the Rangers. It has always been the Ranger’s problem. We can write until every tree has been cut down to produce paper to write on, but the fact is, it’s always the pitching, or lack thereof, for the Rangers.

After starter Matt Harrison deviated from his game plan and started “pitching backwards,” by throwing too many off speed and breaking pitches and not enough fastballs, the bullpen couldn’t keep the game close.

“I got away from the game plan and that’s my fault and nobody else’s,” Harrison said. “I showed them everything I had early and when I came back to by change ups and breaking pitches later in the game, they had seen it well enough to recognize it and get enough on it for a hit. The game was going too fast in my head. I just needed to step off and think things through.”

 

Huh? The “game was going too fast in my head”? I’m pretty sure Nolan Ryan is going bonkers right now with what he is seeing. The bottom line is this. The Rangers have a good team here with the exception of the pitching rotation. I will say Kevin Millwood is the only pitcher not in the category of losers on the pitching staff. But one win out of five is not going to be a successful season for the Rangers.

Now, all of the Ranger fans are going to pick apart the way Ron Washington coaches, and really, Wash has nothing to work with as far as the pichers go, so his mistakes will seem like bigger mistakes than what they are due to the glaring weaknesses of the pitchers.

Ron Washington will be fired soon. The funny thing is, the new manager will have the same problems, and the same pitching staff, so no progress will be noticed at all. Just a revolving door at the Ballpark at Arlington.