Good evening and welcome to the January 24th Upset Update. Today’s music recommendation is an old friend of mine named Casey Black. I’m sure I’ve recommended “Lay You in the Loam” before—it’s one of my all-time favorite albums—so today, I’ll recommend “See the Black Sea” from 2016. He’s a gravelly-voiced poet, and perhaps that might […]
The 1/18/18 Upset Update: Gallo’s optimism, DeShields’ swing, and a bunch of minor league stuff.
This is the 110th consecutive day without a Rangers game. In the meantime, the Cowboys have Zeke Suspension’d themselves into a comfy wide-screen view of the playoffs, the Stars are trying to stave off their Wild Card competition, and the Mavericks face-planted out of the gate and/but are now in danger of getting Rick Carlisle’d out […]
Did You—Yes, You—Break Austin Bibens-Dirkx?
Two things seem to happen every year: the first is that—once there is no reason to hide an injury report—a gaggle of injuries come to light. Mike Napoli’s leg, Rougned Odor’s ankle, and so on and so forth. This happens to every team in baseball, and probably every team in sports. The second seems to […]
The January 15th Upset Update: MLK, The Cranberries, and …baseball?
January 15th, 2018: We are precisely one month from pitchers and catchers reporting in Surprise, Arizona. It’s Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, and Dolores O’Riordan (the lead singer of The Cranberries) passed away this morning in London at the age of 46. That’s a lot to dig into, and a lot of emotion starts seeping out […]
Bridges Unburned: Rangers avoid arbitration with Kela, Diekman, and Profar
The streak now reaches 18. In 2000, the Rangers and Lee Stevens went to an arbitration hearing. Stevens had played 146 games in 1999, thanks largely to a knee injury that befell Rafael Palmeiro. Stevens hit .282 with 24 home runs and 81 RBI, and thought that worthy of a contract worth $4.7 million. The […]
Diekman, Delabar, and Date Changes: the Jan. 4th Rangers Upset Update
We did it! We survived a day in Texas where the temperature didn’t get above freezing. Some of us handled it fine. Others, perhaps, less so. The new year is now four days old: still new enough to smell like a new year, but old enough now to already have its first coffee spill or […]