More than anything, the Texas Rangers are looking for starting pitching this off-season. So, good news for the Texas Rangers: three starting pitchers just hit the free-agent market. A.J. Griffin, Nick Martinez, and Chi Chi Gonzalez are now free to sign with whatever team they like. Griffin had been rumored to be a non-tender candidate, […]
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12/1/17 – The Rangers Upset Update
Today we have updates on Mike Napoli, Anthony Gose, Shohei Ohtani, and Alex Claudio, plus some information from the Rangers on how to attend this year’s awards ceremony. For the last two years, this column was called the “Baseball Texas Daily”. But with the move to the new site, I no longer had the rights […]
What the heck to do with Jurickson Profar?
There was a time, in the early twenty-teens, that to envision a Texas Rangers team of the future without starting shortstop (or second baseman) Jurickson Profar was madness. He was one of the guaranteed stars of the years to come, a can’t-miss prospect who headlined the hopes and dreams of Rangers fans, and surely, between […]
STARS MAILBAG: Yellow laces, the Faksa life, and welcome to The Upset
Welcome to The Upset. Take a look around. You’ll notice the Wrong Side of the Red Line archives have been imported. You’ll also likely notice the first new story at this site, a feature on how some Dallas Stars juggle life as both a dad and a professional hockey player. Joining this site first became […]
Defining play: Mattias Janmark beats Duncan Keith in overtime
Mattias Janmark picked a key moment for the first multi-goal game of his NHL career. Fifty-one seconds into overtime the Swedish forward picked up a loose puck, flew past a defenseman recently picked as one of the 100 best players in NHL history, and delivered a 4-3 overtime victory for the Dallas Stars against the […]
Rise of the (soda) machines
I was waiting in line to for lunch on a Wednesday at a fast casual restaurant in Cedar Park. It was a little bit after 1 p.m., so the lunch rush was over and only one employee was working behind the register. It was a short line, I wasn’t in a hurry, so it wasn’t […]