(The real-life Rangers signed Jonathon Niese to a minor-league deal today. He’ll get an invite to Spring Training, joining 61 others in the big-league locker room as the race to 25 begins. Niese pitched for the Mets from 2008-2015, then was traded to the Pirates for Neil Walker before the 2016 season. By August 1st, […]
Fake Baseball: All-Time Rangers tournament, Round One (Day Two)
Welcome back, fake-baseball fans! We are on a mission to determine, with absolute(ly no) certainty, once and for all, who was the best Rangers team of all time. We’ve had a little feedback on the various social media channels insisting that this is a pointless exercise, because the 2011 team is far and away the only […]
Fake Baseball: All-Time Rangers tournament, Round One (Day One)
If you’re just hearing about this, it’s probably best to go back to the intro (here) and get the ground rules. If you’re all caught up, let’s get started with part one of the first round of this tournament! In this entry, we’ll look at the first eight games of the first round. We’re only […]
Fake Baseball: finding the best Texas Rangers team of all time.
With the Rangers’ offseason in stealth mode for the last few months, and two and a half weeks yet to go before pitchers and catchers report, it’s time to get creative with baseball coverage. It’s time to invent some impossible questions and try to answer them. Here’s the one I settled on: if every Texas […]
Oh the places they’ll go!
*Whispering* Hi, hi, welcome to the Dr. Seuss hot stove reading. No, no, it’s okay–Traffic was terrible? That’s such a shame, but don’t worry, these things happen. Yes, he’s already started, but go on in, just stand in the back– I’m sorry? Ahhh, no, no photos during the reading, but he’ll be sticking around later […]
1/25/18 Rangers Mailbag: Birds, Zombies, and Muppets.
Hey friends. Thanks for serving as my creative writing teacher this week, giving me prompts and forcing me to do something other than scrawl band logos in my notepad. This time of year—especially in a slower-than-usual off-season—it can seem like there are no real baseball things to write about, so it’s very helpful to get […]