Texas Rangers.....

Newch91

lastchild11 wrote:

just found this topic. I'm a lifelong rangers fan. can finally be proud of them after so many years of let downs.

the TBS broadcasters are awesome compared to ESPN. im so glad their not doing it. cant stand hearing Joe Morgan spend an hour talking about one play and how he would do things when he played. :roll:

If TBS can replace Ernie Johnson, I'm happy.

josevolution

Newch91 wrote:

lastchild11 wrote:

just found this topic. I'm a lifelong rangers fan. can finally be proud of them after so many years of let downs.

the TBS broadcasters are awesome compared to ESPN. im so glad their not doing it. cant stand hearing Joe Morgan spend an hour talking about one play and how he would do things when he played. :roll:

If TBS can replace Ernie Johnson, I'm happy.

Yeah really he sucks balls ...

Johnny Abruzzo

Newch91 wrote:

lastchild11 wrote:

just found this topic. I'm a lifelong rangers fan. can finally be proud of them after so many years of let downs.

the TBS broadcasters are awesome compared to ESPN. im so glad their not doing it. cant stand hearing Joe Morgan spend an hour talking about one play and how he would do things when he played. :roll:

If TBS can replace Ernie Johnson, I'm happy.

Seriously TBS, keep your shitty NBA announcers out of baseball.

Gutsy comeback game for the Rangers. I'm very confused by the antlers thing, but whatever floats your boat.

Flagg

OK let me explain.

The Claw started off as a long distance high five, given when someone makes a good play. It sort of looks like a claw so they started calling it that.

The antlers come from Josh Hamilton. He encourages everyone to run like a deer. One day in spring training, or maybe early in the season, someone made an antler sign after stealing a base. It caught on and they have been doing it all year. The antlers are given when you do something that requires speed. In other words, you ran like a deer.

Oh and the players had Nike design shirts just for them with the claw and antlers. Eventually they started selling them.

Like I said the players have been doing this for a long time. They are just getting attention because of the playoffs.

neilybabes86

Flagg wrote:

OK let me explain.

The Claw started off as a long distance high five, given when someone makes a good play. It sort of looks like a claw so they started calling it that.

The antlers come from Josh Hamilton. He encourages everyone to run like a deer. One day in spring training, or maybe early in the season, someone made an antler sign after stealing a base. It caught on and they have been doing it all year. The antlers are given when you do something that requires speed. In other words, you ran like a deer.

Oh and the players had Nike design shirts just for them with the claw and antlers. Eventually they started selling them.

Like I said the players have been doing this for a long time. They are just getting attention because of the playoffs.

It's a bad attempt at a rally monkey :thumbup: :wave:

Who Princess

Johnny Abruzzo wrote:

Newch91 wrote:

lastchild11 wrote:

just found this topic. I'm a lifelong rangers fan. can finally be proud of them after so many years of let downs.

the TBS broadcasters are awesome compared to ESPN. im so glad their not doing it. cant stand hearing Joe Morgan spend an hour talking about one play and how he would do things when he played. :roll:

If TBS can replace Ernie Johnson, I'm happy.

Seriously TBS, keep your shitty NBA announcers out of baseball.

For the most part I'm liking the TBS coverage. I don't much care for Fox's but what can you do.
Guess I'm just not a fan of color commentators in general. :yawn:

Who Princess

neilybabes86 wrote:

Flagg wrote:

OK let me explain.

The Claw started off as a long distance high five, given when someone makes a good play. It sort of looks like a claw so they started calling it that.

The antlers come from Josh Hamilton. He encourages everyone to run like a deer. One day in spring training, or maybe early in the season, someone made an antler sign after stealing a base. It caught on and they have been doing it all year. The antlers are given when you do something that requires speed. In other words, you ran like a deer.

Oh and the players had Nike design shirts just for them with the claw and antlers. Eventually they started selling them.

Like I said the players have been doing this for a long time. They are just getting attention because of the playoffs.

It's a bad attempt at a rally monkey :thumbup: :wave:

If you say so. :roll:

If the crowd yesterday didn't give you an idea of how popular the shirts are, I tried to buy one Saturday morning at the Rangers store in Ft. Worth and there are none to be had. The people working there looked like they were really tired of answering that question.

Newch91

neilybabes86 wrote:

Flagg wrote:

OK let me explain.

The Claw started off as a long distance high five, given when someone makes a good play. It sort of looks like a claw so they started calling it that.

The antlers come from Josh Hamilton. He encourages everyone to run like a deer. One day in spring training, or maybe early in the season, someone made an antler sign after stealing a base. It caught on and they have been doing it all year. The antlers are given when you do something that requires speed. In other words, you ran like a deer.

Oh and the players had Nike design shirts just for them with the claw and antlers. Eventually they started selling them.

Like I said the players have been doing this for a long time. They are just getting attention because of the playoffs.

It's a bad attempt at a rally monkey :thumbup: :wave:

I hate that fucking monkey!

Flagg

Kind of a big game tonight.

A lot of pressure riding on Cliff Lee, but as he showed in Game 5 against the Rays last week, he can handle it.

But this isn't the Rays' pathetic excuse for an offense. And David Price is no Andy Pettitte.

For the Rangers to win, Lee is going to have to go out and completely shut the Yankees down. If he gives up 3 or 4 runs, this will be a loss. I don't see the Rangers offense jumping all over Pettitte like they did with CC and Hughes. But then, I didn't see that happening either so who knows. Hughes was unbeatable in Texas against the Rangers and I figured he would continue that and Colby would struggle. The opposite happened.

Tonight does not decide the series, but if the Rangers win, the Yankees will have to face what to do about tomorrow. Will they run Burnett out there and look at possibly being down 3-1 after that and then face CJ Wilson again? Assuming AJ is as bad as he has been?

If the Yankees win, do they run Burnett out there and let the Rangers tie it 2-2 with Wilson and Lee coming up?

Newch91

Flagg wrote:

Kind of a big game tonight.

A lot of pressure riding on Cliff Lee, but as he showed in Game 5 against the Rays last week, he can handle it.

But this isn't the Rays' pathetic excuse for an offense. And David Price is no Andy Pettitte.

For the Rangers to win, Lee is going to have to go out and completely shut the Yankees down. If he gives up 3 or 4 runs, this will be a loss. I don't see the Rangers offense jumping all over Pettitte like they did with CC and Hughes. But then, I didn't see that happening either so who knows. Hughes was unbeatable in Texas against the Rangers and I figured he would continue that and Colby would struggle. The opposite happened.

Tonight does not decide the series, but if the Rangers win, the Yankees will have to face what to do about tomorrow. Will they run Burnett out there and look at possibly being down 3-1 after that and then face CJ Wilson again? Assuming AJ is as bad as he has been?

If the Yankees win, do they run Burnett out there and let the Rangers tie it 2-2 with Wilson and Lee coming up?

I don't know if it was Sportscenter that I heard but they said Lee struggled at the end with Texas and now he's doing great. AJ can turn it around. I have faith in him.

Gary Carter

:thumbup:

Flagg

Wow!!!!!

pureoc

lastchild11 wrote:

just found this topic. I'm a lifelong rangers fan. can finally be proud of them after so many years of let downs.

the TBS broadcasters are awesome compared to ESPN. im so glad their not doing it. cant stand hearing Joe Morgan spend an hour talking about one play and how he would do things when he played. :roll:

Joe Morgan is a horrendous announcer. They need to get rid of him on Sunday Night baseball.

norm

damn!

Who Princess

Claw and Antlers!

lastchild11

Flagg

So, I had a little trouble sleeping last night due to a case of giddiness. LOL.

I don't know what else to say about Lee that hasn't been said. I was just sitting in awe at every pitch, every strikeout, every frustrated Yankee hitter that marched back to the dugout.

What is amazing is that Lee is setting a dangerous expectation. We are starting to be conditioned to expect this. I wonder if that affects opposing hitters too. The Yankees (like the Rays) talked of being patient, and about how Lee always throws first pitch strikes and about how they had a game plan and none of it mattered. As a lifelong Rangers fan, I have never seen anything like this, unless it was the Rangers on the other side of the equation.

Hamilton and Young are waking up, and that is going to spell trouble for NY. Hamilton has already done some damage and if he gets hot, like July and August 2010 hot, the Yankees are doomed.

I wish Vladdy would get it going, but I don't think he will. He really looks lost at the plate right now.

No idea how tonight goes. Tommy Hunter has been fantastic this year, but he laid a huge egg at home against the Rays last week and he looks worn out to me. Nowhere nears as dominant as he was earlier in the season. And then of course there is Burnett and his issues. Maybe he gets it together tonight. Maybe he has another disaster. Who knows? All I know is I can't wait to find out.

Newch91

Flagg wrote:

So, I had a little trouble sleeping last night due to a case of giddiness. LOL.

I don't know what else to say about Lee that hasn't been said. I was just sitting in awe at every pitch, every strikeout, every frustrated Yankee hitter that marched back to the dugout.

What is amazing is that Lee is setting a dangerous expectation. We are starting to be conditioned to expect this. I wonder if that affects opposing hitters too. The Yankees (like the Rays) talked of being patient, and about how Lee always throws first pitch strikes and about how they had a game plan and none of it mattered. As a lifelong Rangers fan, I have never seen anything like this, unless it was the Rangers on the other side of the equation.

Hamilton and Young are waking up, and that is going to spell trouble for NY. Hamilton has already done some damage and if he gets hot, like July and August 2010 hot, the Yankees are doomed.

I wish Vladdy would get it going, but I don't think he will. He really looks lost at the plate right now.

No idea how tonight goes. Tommy Hunter has been fantastic this year, but he laid a huge egg at home against the Rays last week and he looks worn out to me. Nowhere nears as dominant as he was earlier in the season. And then of course there is Burnett and his issues. Maybe he gets it together tonight. Maybe he has another disaster. Who knows? All I know is I can't wait to find out.

I think the announcers said everything about Lee last night that everyone knew.

Hamilton only has two hits in LCS and both were home runs off of lefties.

Black Diamond

metsfan wrote:

:thumbup:

What he said...

neilybabes86

Black Diamond wrote:

metsfan wrote:

:thumbup:

What he said...

such a shame ..2 disgruntled mets fans