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Sports Central October 30, 2011 Jeff Kallman |
From the Brink to Valhalla These Cardinals, perhaps David Freese and Allen Craig in particular, may not have to pick up a check for a steak in St. Louis for maybe the rest of their lives. |
Sports Central October 29, 2011 Jeff Kallman |
Let's Get Surreal "If that's not the best postseason game of all time," Lance Berkman huffed and puffed, when it was over in a 10-9 St. Louis Cardinals win that not even the Cardinals, never mind the Texas Rangers, can quite believe happened, "I don't know what is." |
Sports Central October 31, 2011 Jeff Kallman |
Maybe We Get Our Goats at Last Maybe, little by little, people are beginning to get the idea that a baseball postseason goat doesn't always deserve the goat horns because he didn't do anything he wasn't supposed to do. |
Sports Central November 1, 2010 Jeff Kallman |
Move Over, Idiots ... Meet the Morons This one's already shaping up to be a brain bender. It might well stay that way even if the San Francisco Giants end up winning the thing in four straight. |
Sports Central October 18, 2011 Jeff Kallman |
Running of the Bulls A look at the pitching choices in post-season MLB play. |
Sports Central September 1, 2014 Jeff Kallman |
Macho Meatheads It's one thing for a team to nudge a key wounded warrior back to the field as soon as reasonably possible. It's something else again for a team whose season has (or should be) blown up to push it. |
Sports Central November 6, 2011 Louie Centanni |
The Best Worst Game in World Series History The St. Louis Cardinals overcame heavy odds in winning the 2011 World Series. While Game 7 was the clincher, the previous contest will be remembered as the turning point. |
Sports Central October 17, 2011 Jeff Kallman |
Hold Those Tigers The Detroit Tigers took one of the worst elimination beatings in postseason history. |
Sports Central November 1, 2011 Ross Lancaster |
The Agony of a Defeat Game 6 of the World Series should be remembered as the most heart-stopping baseball game in history. The fact that the Cardinals prevailed in Game 7 adds to its historical standing. |
Sports Central November 2, 2010 Jeff Kallman |
A Bunt, a Bomb, and the Giants Win Oh, what a feeling it must be to be Aubrey Huff and Edgar Renteria. |
Sports Central July 28, 2010 Ross Lancaster |
Don't Forget About the Team The focus with the Texas Rangers seems to be more on the ongoing ownership battle that has been played out in Texas courtrooms over the last several months. |
Sports Central December 31, 2011 Jeff Kallman |
2011: Dickens Flummoxed Baseball's 2011 season was the best of times and it was the worst of times. |
Sports Central December 28, 2015 Jeff Kallman |
MLB 2015: It Got Late Early Out There The author ruminates on this year's baseball games and famous players of years past. |
Salon.com November 4, 2001 King Kaufman |
Surprise ending If life followed a script, the Yankees would have won the World Series. But it doesn't, and they didn't... |
Sports Central July 14, 2008 Kyle Jahner |
Diamonds in the Rough Who are the no-names shaping first-half pennant races? |
Sports Central December 31, 2014 Jeff Kallman |
MLB 2014: The Year in Review Baseball did a lot of blinking during 2014. Not to mention winking, nodding, prodding, clodding, and thrilling. |
Sports Central July 21, 2008 Ross Lancaster |
Hamilton, Rangers Turn a Non-Fan Around Josh Hamilton and, to a lesser extent, the Texas Rangers, this season have re-energized an extreme baseball cynic into, at least, a casual fan. |
Sports Central August 3, 2015 Jeff Kallman |
Ill-placed Ill Will Around an Ill Pitcher? Unless you're Mike Trout, even on a day during which you got iced by Clayton Kershaw sustaining a scoreless inning streak, it must suck to be a Los Angeles Angel these days. |
Sports Central August 8, 2010 Jeff Kallman |
The Express Buys the Railroad Nolan Ryan's group finally outbid Mark Cuban by $9 million to get the approval of the court-appointed bankruptcy restructuring officer and creditors who thought the Rangers' sale price wasn't high enough. |
Fast Company July 2008 Jeff Pearlman |
The Texas Rangers' Young GM Jon Daniels is a geek who last played organized ball in Little League. Just 30, he's MLB's youngest GM, leading the Texas Rangers -- and a new breed of baseball execs. |
AskMen.com November 6, 2013 |
Is George W. Bush Going To Take Over Professional Baseball? Regardless of your positioning on the right or left side of the aisle, there is no denying the former Texas Rangers owner's qualifications for that job. |
The Motley Fool August 23, 2007 Jack Uldrich |
Investing Lessons of a Baseball Blowout A high score at the end of the game doesn't imply runs in every inning. Compare yesterday's 30-run outburst by the Rangers to VMware's scorching IPO debut last week, in which its stock spiked 76%. |
Sports Central August 20, 2009 Jonathan Lowe |
Dark Horse and a Playoff Seat In MLB, who are this year's dark horses as we speed toward September? |
Sports Illustrated May 9, 2000 Stephen Cannella |
Inside Baseball Expected to be one of the Rangers' strong points, their relief corps has been absorbing a Texas-sized pounding |
Sports Central October 11, 2010 Clinton Riddle |
Ray of Hope? The Tampa Bay Rays won 6-3 in a do-or-die Game 3 at Arlington tonight on the strength of late-inning homers from Carl Crawford and Carlos Pena, despite a last-gasp from the Texas offense in the bottom of the ninth. |
Sports Central October 5, 2012 Jeff Kallman |
Those A's, Dumb Enough to Win As of 3:53 PM Pacific Daylight Time, October 3, 2012, when Michael Young's two-strike fly completed its near-perfect trajectory into the glove of Coco Crisp striding forward to haul it down, Oakland, California believes in miracles. |
Sports Illustrated May 30, 2002 Stephen Cannella |
Woe is baseball It's just one problem after another for the national pastime... |
Sports Central June 23, 2005 Diane M. Grassi |
Roger(s) Hold 'Em in Texas Two not fully unexpected performances, but remarkable for their ages and compiled years in the majors, are those of pitchers Kenny Rogers, playing for the Texas Rangers, and Roger Clemens, ace of the Houston Astros pitching staff. |
Sports Central July 23, 2012 Ross Lancaster |
The Hottest Team in Baseball One of the teams that may trade for players to help for the stretch run and stands to benefit from the extra wild card is the Oakland Athletics, who are currently baseball's hottest team, posting a 14-2 record in July to go from having the AL's fourth-worst record to its fourth-best. |
Sports Central April 18, 2012 Joshua Duffy |
Revisiting Baseball's Offseason Moves Let's revisit some of the major moves from the offseason and see how they're working out. |
Sports Central July 25, 2011 Vito Curcuru |
Under the Radar Three teams to watch as the division races heat up are the Detroit Tigers, Los Angeles Angels, and Arizona Diamondbacks. |
Salon.com December 20, 2000 Allen Barra |
The Alex Rodriguez FAQ Is he worth all that money? Will these giant contracts ever stop? Is salary inflation driving up ticket prices? Ruining baseball? (Short answers: Yes, no, no, no.) |
Sports Central November 14, 2010 Jeff Kallman |
The Wrong Expansion For Baseball MLB thinks the way to solve baseball's image and primacy problems is to expand the postseason. |
Sports Central July 11, 2012 Louie Centanni |
All-Star Break Time For Sox to Cut Padilla What's worse than being last-place heading into the All-Star Break? Answer: having an ignorant bigot of a relief pitcher on your team and being last-place heading into the All-Star Break. |
Sports Central July 18, 2013 Ross Lancaster |
The 10 Biggest Series For the Second Half As the baseball season moves to the second half, to the trade deadline, into pennant races and the cooler weather of September, there are series that carry added significance for playoff spots. |
Sports Central August 1, 2012 Andrew Jones |
MLB Trade Deadline: Winners and Losers In today's game of big market teams, small market buyers have little chance of signing rentals in the offseason. It's probably no surprise; however, that the buyers are more often than not big market teams. But let's take a look at a few of the recent deals. |
Sports Illustrated March 26, 2002 Daniel G. Habib |
A Done Deal? Despite all their trades, the woeful Rangers look as if they'll miss the playoffs again... |
Sports Illustrated April 16, 2002 Stephen Cannella |
Design Flaws The Rangers and others have seen winter's best-laid plans fail to blossom in spring... |
Sports Central June 12, 2004 David Martin |
The AL in Brief Read about all the current highlights in baseball's American League. |
Sports Central March 12, 2015 Jeff Kallman |
The Frights of Spring Spring training didn't exactly come in quietly, and it certainly isn't continuing quietly around the camps of the Phillies, the Rangers, and the Blue Jays. |
Sports Central July 3, 2007 Scott Shepherd |
2007 MLB All-Star Snubs When the players and coaches filled out the remaining roster spots with worthy participants, they dropped the ball. |
Sports Central August 6, 2013 Jeff Kallman |
Monday, Bloody Monday A-Rod's going to appeal his suspension, maybe with an eye toward bringing it somewhere in the middle of the handed-down 211 baseball games and Ryan Braun's 65. |
Salon.com May 5, 2001 King Kaufman |
Take this job and ... Rangers manager Johnny Oates takes the fall for leading a bad team to a lousy record. Plus: Neon Deion and good news; NBA playofzzzzzz... |
Sports Central September 17, 2004 Diane M. Grassi |
MLB and its Fans Need to Clean Up Their Acts Major League Baseball, as well as its fans, took a collective literal blow on Monday, September 13th at Oakland Coliseum at a game between the Oakland Athletics and the Texas Rangers. |
Sports Illustrated May 22, 2001 Tom Verducci |
Crapshoot For the Texas rangers, trading Pudge Rodriguez involves too many risks and unknowns... |
Sports Illustrated July 23, 2002 Tom Verducci |
On shaky ground Baseball players and owners can't even agree on a salary floor. |
Sports Central July 4, 2012 Greg Suttich |
Hot and Not Heading to the All-Star Break The Yankees, Rangers, and Angels are playing the best baseball in the American League. The National League has seen the surprising Washington Nationals post the best record, with the Giants now flexing their muscle in the NL West. |