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So fans have to root for the home town teams now? Damn. Time to buy a redskins and Orioles hat.

Have fun at the game, have a safe trip and hope your girlfriend leaves happier than you.

190 is tough, Juan had 155 + that year. Problem these days is that RBI guys are power guys, and late in the season pitchers don't pitch to power guys with runners in scoring position. I think it's achievable, but for it to happen the dude would have to come out of the gates smokin, 120 by the break.

He's frustraded. it started in grade school having to learn to spell his last name, he hides it with a shit eatin' grin.

Yeah, he might be the one. Actually, i'm hoping he'll be in a Rangers uni after next season.

I understand where the sox are coming from, but the same guy they don't want to toss money at they just threw 51 million dollars at his team, you can't hand over that kind of dough just to negotiate and then low ball the player, not only is it not practical it just ain't right. But yeah, thats a heck of a staff if Mtsuzaka becomes what everyone thinks.

lol. But yeah .400 will never happen again. Not with todays power minded players and teams that carry situation specific relievers.

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Lorf, i also thought the Sox did it to block the Yanks. As for wanting 15 mil on top of the 51, the player doesn't get any of that money so he shouldn't accept that as an argument. Now i'm not saying he won't be overpaid for a pitcher who has never played in a, MLB game, but if they're gonna pony up 51 mil for the rights to him, they should have been prepared to pay him.

Yeah, also Johnny Vander Meer's back to back no hitter's. No one will ever throw 3 in a row. You could probly throw a couple Ryan records in there as well. 7 no hitter and 5,714 K's. Oh, and 511 wins.

Rangers moves offseason 2006 * Signed P Vicente Padilla to 3 years $33 million with 4th year option at $12 million * Signed CF Marlon Byrd to 1 year deal * Signed CF Kenny Lofton to 1 year $6 million * Signed P Eric Gange to 1 year $6 million

I understand, oddly I find it's not a big deal to most people from the New York area. But the record stood for 56 years.

Lamont Brightful Dude has been awesome, he needs a serious raise.

Maybe it has something to do with the area I live in, but The Streak was a big deal to me, and i absolutely think it helped save basbeall. I do agree to an extent with whoever it was, Mike Greenberg maybe, that said Cal, Mark and Sammy didn't save baseball because the fans would have came back anyway, they always do. but i think cal sped the process up alot, especially with the working class. He actually broke the record on my birthday, and I will unashamedly admit when he jogged around the warning track, i cried. That was a special day in baseball.

OK, but what if future generations look at us now and our time, and say that it wasn't against the rules when most of it was done?

Baseball and it's fans have a history of treating the best players like shit. Ruth was hated for not being ruth at the end of his career. marris, he was hated for not being a tru yankee. If you look throughout our history, you'll find us treating the best we had like crap. Currently, we chastise the games top players for steroids. My question is, how will the generations to come look at us? Will they view us as we view the generations before us? unfair and ignorant? or will they see us as fans of pure baseball, offended by cheating?

Latest news is he fell off a golf cart. he was riding on top, i guess imitating Teen Wolf and fell of the cart.

I'm not sure what the point was here, especially the amount. I like gange and like the idea of him being on the team, but we have a solid closer and good pen. Still, if he manages to come back and is an effective set up man, might be worth it.

I sent a question into the Rangers Mailbag and they answered it on the site. Makes me a little uneasy really.

I'm gonna pull a Jim Tressel. But if forced to vote: Bonds was an amazing player before roids, he was HOF material without the juice, BUT he is breaking THE sacred record and he wouldn't have done so without roids. That is why I couldn't vote for him, if he took roids and maybe hit 73 HR's but only say, 640 HR's then I might reconsider. McGwire hit like 46 hr's his rookie year, but like Midas said, wihtout the homers we're not talking about him. And most of his dingers were helped by roids. Now, to choose, I'd probly have to lean towards Mark, like I said he isn't close to the career mark so I am less "offended" by his numbers. That and I'm racist. Either way, neither deserve it, it's a shame in Bonds case becausehe didn't need the stuiff.

My team hasn't won in, well, nevermind. But I still get excited for each game.

My team hasn't won in, well, nevermind. But I still get excited for each game.

Rangers sign Lofton to 1 year deal Our outfield is suddenly very deep. Lofton and Marlon Byrd in Center Wilkerson and Cat in Left Cruz in Right

Yep, with football after Sunday you have to wait a week, everyday is a countdown. Some might say that makes football bette, the anticipation. I for one like to settle into my chair and at 7 or 8 turn on a Rangers game and sit till near midnight.