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Pocket Schedule Images Updated

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As we move on with the earliest stages of spring training, I’m updating some parts of my site, getting them ready for the upcoming season.  One of which is a photo page that shows all (well, a lot, I’d be a liar to say it’s all) the pocket schedule images from 1972-2013.   From the mid 90’s onwards, I’ve gotten them myself at the games, earlier than that I’ve acquired via finding them on the net, or having someone send in pictures for me.  Today, I have someone to thank.  His name is Bob – he never sent me his last name.

While I have at least one schedule for every season the club has been in texas, I’m pretty sure I don’t have all the variants produced.  Bob sent me five images of alternate versions I did not have, so I put them up on my site.  Check out these historical remnants from the past..

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Robbie Ross’ Glove

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It looks like Robbie Ross has been to “Round Rock Donuts” in Round Rock TX.   It looks like a giant glazed donut!

2013 National Game Coverage

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Saw tonight that FOX posted their national 2013 TV schedule, so I decided to check out ESPN as well, and come up with a list of  games the Rangers are scheduled to play.  Now, national coverage being what it is means it can change.  If the Rangers get super hot, the schedule will get changed around, and we might get a few more later in the season.  But for now, here’s the 2013 national coverage schedule for FOX & ESPN.  These times are all Central.

Sun Mar 31 @ 7:05 – Rangers @ Astros – ESPN
Sat Apr 06 @ 2:30 – Angels @ Rangers – FOX
Sun Apr 07 @ 7:05 – Angels @ Rangers – ESPN
Sun May 19 @ 7:05 – Tigers @ Rangers – ESPN
Sat Jun 22 @ 6:00 – Rangers @ Cardinals – FOX
Sat Jun 29 @ 6:00 – Reds @ Rangers – FOX
Sat Jul 06 @ 6:00 – Astros @ Rangers – FOX
Sat Jul 13 @ 6:00 – Rangers @ Tigers – FOX
Sat Aug 03 @ 6:30 – Rangers @ A’s – FOX
Sat Sep 14 @ 11:30 – A’s @ Rangers – FOX

Sep 14th is an 11:30AM game? That doesn’t happen here. What else is happening that day?   Anyone have any ideas?

Yahoo Fantasy Baseball

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I just noticed that 2013 Yahoo Fantasy Baseball is up and running again for the new year.  I just saw it, and I’m pretty tired and will be heading to bed soon, so I’ll look into this tomorrow and get the ball rolling again.

Spring Training Remark

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I’ve been a Dallas Morning News Subscriber for some time.   However, in the last few years, I mostly read the paper on my iPad.   As a subscriber, I can read the content there, and frequently do.   However…

Yesterday morning in the Sunday paper was Evan Grant’s spring training preview.   THAT – for some reason demands to be read in the physical newspaper.  Oh sure, I can read it on my iPad, or on my web browser.  But for some reason, spring training materials to me need to read in a “real” newspaper, with a cup of coffee preferably.

Now that I’ve done these, I’m ready for spring training to start.  :)

2013 Uniform Numbers

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I’ve been doing this site for some time now (2013 will be my 15th season for this site), and in all that time, there’s been two things I’ve done on my site that no other Rangers fan site has attempted.  Perhaps because I already did them – or nobody wanted to wade through all the info needed to put them together (“Eh, Joe’s already done that – good enough”).  One of them is my history of uniform numbers.  It starts back in 1961 with the Senators years and runs to current.  I’ve been doing this part of the site for the last 5-6 years or so (forget when I started it actually).  Because of that, uniform numbers in the most recent years are pretty darned accurate insofar as guys who are up for just 2-3 games, never to be seen again.  In years past, I have guys who wore the major numbers, but the small fiddly changes like that aren’t always listed (because that info’s realy hard to find).    I’ve taken pride in my uniform number archives, and it’s gotten me a reputation as the uniform number guy.   When he was still with the Rangers, I know Victor Rojas mentioned my site as a source of that a few times, and it must have stuck, because last year I got a question from the great Eric Nadel about some fiddly bit in the past with uniform numbers – I was honored.   Even Anthony Andro knows me as that, as I’ve asked him a boatloat of times about uniform numbers.  :) [Read more…]

Michael Young Traded to Philly

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Well, that’s something I never thought I’d write.  As long time followers of my site know, I’m mostly silent in the offseason.  I’ll comment here and there on things that happen in the baseball world, and this was a big “thing”.    The Rangers all time leader in a truckload of categories was traded away today.  Michael Young is now a Philadelphia Phillie.  Now, y’all know I’m also a Phillies fan, having grown up there, so I won’t miss him completely.   If I were a Cowboys fan, I imagine this would feel a lot like Emmitt Smith in a Arizona Cardinals Uniform again. [Read more…]

Tom Hicks & Scott Feldman Updates

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Saw a few stories this morning, and I felt like saying a few words on them.   It’s about two bits of the Rangers recent past that are no longer a part of the team.   Tom Hicks & Scott Feldman. [Read more…]

A Trade Mulligan

Posted by on at http://texas.rangers.mlb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20121120&content_id=40385652&vkey=news_tex&c_id=tex>MLB.com Recap

  • P Jake Brigham acquired from Cubs for P Barret Loux & PTBNL
  • P Johan Yan signed to minor league contract for 2013 & given invite to spring training 
  • IF Leury Garcia purchased from AA
  • P Joe Ortiz purchased from AA [ Link ] 
Commentary:  Yawn.  Thank you, drive through.

Broadcasters & Attendance

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Tonight, I was looking around my own site, and saw a few pages that needed updating now that the 2012 season has been completed.  They are the “Broadcaster History” page, as well as the “Attendance History” page.  Given the Rangers announced late last week what the broadcast teams will be for 2013, I figured this would be a good time to update these pages, as they’re pretty static.  The attendance one gets updated just once a year, and the broadcaster one as well, unless there’s a midseason change (which has happened a few times recently).  After updating the pages, I have a few notes and observations. [Read more…]