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Originally posted by Maverick0714:

my favorite word is ... Buttload

As in, "You are now saving a buttload of money by not having to buy anymore bats.?"

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Originally posted by cheapseats:

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Originally posted by Maverick0714:

my favorite word is ... Buttload

As in, "You are now saving a buttload of money by not having to buy anymore bats.?"

Bingo...

I saw your son's picture this morning. Is he studying to be an Elvis impersonator... He has Muttonchop sideburns... lmao

Sir, that right there is a full chin-strap beard...

(I apologize for the thread high-jack but traffic has been so slow lately that hopefully you will forgive the diversions)...

We have seen the Rangers all these years now. Have they ever missed an opportunity to shooy their own toes off? Even when they appear to have the right baseball people in place, administration or ownership pulls the downward trigger.

I was eating a biscuit when I read the word "bullbutter"

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Originally posted by cheapseats:
Sir, that right there is a full chin-strap beard...

(I apologize for the thread high-jack but traffic has been so slow lately that hopefully you will forgive the diversions)...

Tell BT to work overtime and buy him a razor...

Let's just hope the stories about Hick's wanting to remain majority owner through the sale are not true. But then, who would be stupid enough to buy into ownership of the Rangers and still leave Hick's as the majority owner?

....maybe someone who would do work for Hick for Sonny Bryant certificates.

Cubs hire Jaramillo.

http://sports.espn.go.com/chic...ews/story?id=4581458

Guess I'm going to be Cubs fan now.

Thats awsome.

Well now we know,,,, Rangers too cheap to give him a multiyear deal and the Cubbies ready to pony up, BIG!! $800k + is more than many team mgrs get paid, including Wash... Rudy in the past has toyed with the idea of a mgr role, but hadn't yet found a fit. Now he gets mgr money and keeps doing what he loves.
Nice to see Chicago appreciate talent. Can you really quantify just what Jaramillo has brought to MLB hitting over the years?!! He will be missed and hard to miss from here on.

Maybe Rudy wasn't getting the results he once was. In the stock market we call this selling high, right? Maybe they didn't want to buy high.

Rangers were 11th of 14 AL teams in BA at .260.
They were 12th in OBP, just .06 out of last place.
They were 1st of 14 in SO with 1253, more than 1 of every 5 ABs was a K.
They were 12th in BB, 1st place had 40% more walks than Rangers.
Yeah, they were 2nd in HRs, but 10th in total hits and middle of the road in runs.

The AL playoff teams all had more hits, more walks, higher BA, higher OBP, fewer strikeouts, more ABs. 2 had more HRs, 2 had fewer HRs than the Rangers.

Maybe Wash thinks he can get better run production by not focusing on the dingers at the expense of these things. It's pretty clear Rudy thinks dingers are the way to success, but that hasn't worked out so well.