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Thoughts on the start of Spring Training

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  • Spring training has started.  I actually feel
    good about Arod not being here anymore.  Sure, I’d love to have him – who
    wouldn’t want the greatest player in the game?  But I’ve come to believe
    the contract was more of an albatross than I believed when he was here. 
    I’ve always hoped we would go with kids, and it looks like we’re finally
    committed to that.  I know the Rangers get a lot of crap in the press
    (hell, watch any of the local TV news coverage), and a lot of internet fans
    are quick to rag on them.   I, however, like some of the moves we’ve
    made (Jordan, Fullmer, Nelson), and think we’ll be better than most people
    think.  I’m no fool, I don’t think we’re going to be great, in fact, I
    think we’ll be in last place again, but I don’t think we’ll be as bad as
    everyone thinks.  Heck, I even have my fingers crossed for Chan Ho Park. 
    If he pitches decently, we might be able to give away some more of his
    bobbleheads.  :)
  • The rest of the position players report to camp
    tomorrow.   It was really nice to see Rusty Greer in spring training
    again.  He won’t play this year, although it might be nice to give him a
    token appearance at the end of the year in September.   I hope the
    plan to have him come back in 2005 at the minimum salary and DH comes to
    fruition.

  • In preparation for the start of
    the season, I’ve been working on various parts of the website.  Over the
    weekend, I worked on my uniform
    number history     section, as the 2004 Spring Training roster number
    assignments are out.  I’m going to clean up a few more projects I’ve been
    meaning to do for awhile now.  If there’s anything you’d like to do in
    helping me out with the site,
    drop me a line.   Thanks.

Roster Transaction

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  • The following players all signed to a 1 year
    contract:  P Mickey Calloway, P Juan Dominguez, P Rosman Garcia, P Chris
    Mabeus, P Edwin Moreno, P Erasmo Ramirez, P Nick Regilio, P Brian Shouse, P
    Ryan Snare, OF Ramon Nivar, 1B Adrian Gonzalez, OF Kevin Mench

Roster Transaction

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  • P Doug Brocail signed to a 1 year AAA contract
    with an invite to spring training

Arod traded to Yankees, Blalock signed long term

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  • It’s done – it was announced by
    Tom Hicks on the Ticket a few minutes ago that the trade was approved by Selig. 
     Alex Rodriguez is a Yankee, and
    Alfonso Soriano is a Ranger.

  • In another move announced today,
    Hank Blalock was signed to a 5 year contract
    with the Rangers.  Details (like $) haven’t been laid out yet – when they
    will, I’ll update.

  • If you check out
    my roster page for Arod, it has the
    revised terms of his contract spelled out – there’s only one issue I’m unsure
    about in it, so I’m fairly confident the revised terms are correct.

  • You know, it’s funny.  I said
    that if Arod wanted to not be here, then I didn’t want him here.  That’s
    obviously what’s happening, but the thing that frosts me most about this
    entire fiasco – the absolute worst thing is this.   We’re giving
    money TO THE YANKEES.  That’s unheard of.  It’s bad
    enough that we’re sending the best player in the game to the Evil Empire. 
    That’s bad.   But to give the Yankees money?  WHY?  They
    should be giving US money for the privilege of having the
    best player in the game.  Good riddance to a player who didn’t want to be
    here.  Best player or not, if you don’t want to be here, I don’t want
    you.  And that’s sad, because I really liked what he did ON THE
    FIELD     for us the last three years.  Off the field he did next to
    zero, but on the field, you couldn’t ask for any better.

  • Fortunately, my season ticket
    package has the game of Friday, May 21st which is the first game the Yankees
    play here this season.  I normally don’t like going to Yankee games, as
    it brings out a hell of a lot of obnoxious fans to the Ballpark (aka Yankee
    fans).  However, you can bet your ass I’ll be there for this one.

  • All I ask out of this is that we
    put Soriano in center field, and leave Mike Young at second.   Oh,
    and use some of the money we saved on the Arod trade to tie up Blalock & Young
    for awhile.

  • The funny thing is that at the
    Mini Plan Season Ticket Holder function on Feb 7th, I got Arod to sign my 2001
    All-Star Game unused baseball.  It’s still cool, but it seems a bit
    tarnished today.

Roster Transaction

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  • SS Alex Rodriguez traded with $ to New York
    Yankees for 2B Alfonso Soriano & PTBNL

2004 TV Schedule Posted

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  • Well, that was quick.  Right
    after I posted this morning about finding the 2004 TV schedule, I found it
    right away.  I’ve now updated my 2004
    Schedule Pages     with the information.

  • Indeed, there are 7 games that are
    listed as "TBA", and with the announcement that 155 Ranger games will be
    carried on TV this year, instead of the usual 162, the 7 I found with no
    listed TV info would match up with that.  The 7 dates are May 2, May 22,
    Jun 26, Sep 12, Sep 19, Sep 23, Oct 2.   However, some of these are
    also scheduled national games.  May 2nd is an ESPN game and May 22nd is a
    Fox Saturday Game of the Week.  The remaining 5 games are not scheduled,
    and I find it odd that 4 of those 5 are all in September.

Roster Transaction

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  • OF Mike Lamb traded to NY Yankees for A-level
    pitcher Jose Garcia
  • P Brad Clontz signed to a AAA contract
  • C Jeff Smith signed to a AAA contract