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 […]
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 […]
The 1/24/18 Upset Update: On Diekman’s award and the Hall of Fame, etc.
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 […]
Five Boring Free Agents the Rangers Have Not Been Connected To (but …maybe should?)
Let’s start with the ground rules: it’s entirely possible that someone has tweeted or written something about the Rangers and these free agents. It’s a big world and almost everyone has access to the internet now. We’re almost to the Infinite Monkeys At Infinite Typewriters point with sports rumors. Seriously, pick a name and there’s […]