Testing something, having some server issues today.

For those of you who are recent to my site, I started this awhile back. I put my site online back in December of 1998. I don’t have any particular reason why – or if I did, I can’t remember it all these years later. :) But I did get at least one really good season during all the time I’ve been running this site. Too bad it was the first one.
Anyway, I’ve been doing the site in “blog” format for a couple of years now, and the years from 1999-2004 were in the “old format” I used to do. Tonight I started moving the old entries into the blog format. Once I eventually get them all done, I’ll be taking the old pages offline – that should help kill off some dead weight on this site (the total space usage for this siteis seriously large). Plus there will be benefits like searching old reports, etc, etc..
Anyway, if you look down the right hand menu of the site, you’ll see categories for 1999-2004 that weren’t there before; I started putting the old entries in. It will take awhile, as they all have to be done by hand. Requires cut/paste of old writeup, formatting the box score (which I want to save), and manually setting the date so it will show up in the right place. Not exactly tough, but it can be tedious. Plus with about 200 entries a season (162 regular, 30 or so spring training), there’s a lot of them to get through.
Anyway, I just wanted to say thanks for visiting the site. I know I’m not the most popular Rangers site out there, but I do get enjoyment still out of doing the site all these years later. I just wish they’d win a bit more often than they do.

Couple of years ago it was the slap heard round the world. Now it’s Arod screaming in the ear of a fielder trying to make a catch (story). He’s also been rumoured to have been in strip joints with a woman who is not his wife.
What’s next?

If you read my site, I’ll say with some confidence that you read Lone Star Ball, too, and will have already seen what I’m about to tell you about here. There’s a seriously badass article up there right now called More draft prep: Organizational reset. If for some mutant reason you prefer my site to his, and have not seen this article, then you need to go check this out.
It lists the status of all the major league players, plus some comments on all the best players at each level of the minor league system. If you’re at all interested in the Rangers minor leagues, this is a must read. Do not miss it.
I mean, really. Stop right now, and go read that.

I’ve updated the poll on the main page. The new poll is about who our closer will be in 2008. With the season in the toilet the way it is, I cannot forsee Eric Gagne being here after the trading deadline, not unless we manage to get ourselves out of this hole (unlikely), or Gagne gets hurt again (a possibility of course). To that, my poll is sort of trading deadline related, I’m asking who do you think our closer will be in 2008? Just hit the main page of my site, and vote please.
If you vote for “someone else”, please leave a comment with this post saying who you think it will be.
I also closed out the last poll which was “What do you think we should do with Mark Teixeira?” Here are the results of that poll:
Trade him in 2007: 50%
Sign him long term: 47.06%
No idea: 2.94%
Let him walk: 0%
Kind of a divided crowed from those results.

Saw this picture randomly pop up this evening, and it made me laugh. If you think of a funny caption for it, leave a comment. Hopefully this gets more than the usual comments left on this site, which are mostly zero. :)

It’s Alex Rodriguez if you didn’t know.

I’ve been wondering why this hasn’t happened sooner. The 24 hour a day baseball channel was officially approved! I remember mlb talking aout it 3-4 years ago, and it’s finally coming in 2009. Don’t know why it took that long, but OK, I’m still looking forward to it.
Check out this story on mlb.com.
My HDTV TV which I will have by 2009 might as well have just one channel then.

I’ve been meaning to mention this site for awhile; keep forgetting about it. It’s a cool site called “Cardboard Gods“, and is a site about baseball cards.
I’ve tried a few times to figure out EXACTLY how to describe it, and it’s hard. The author (Josh Wilker) takes a baseball card, and sometimes talks about the card itself, or has a story about things relating to the card, it’s not your “normal baseball fan” website. While not every single story engages me, it is interesting enough to make me keep it on my RSS feed reader.
Today’s story is about an old Bump Wills Texas Rangers card that was mistakenly labeled “Blue Jays”. He’s covered other Rangers cards too; the others are Jim Bibby, Jeff Burroughs, Bill Hands (twice), and Jim Sundberg.
The site has a very interesting flavor; go check it out.

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Monday:

Saw a rather silly promotion the fans of the Milwaukee Brewers came up with. It’s called..
“Pee Your Pants for the Brewers”
The idea here is that if the Brewers win their division, the fans would collectively pee their pants on the premise they’d be so surprised they made the playoffs for the first time in 24 years. It’s quite an odd thing, something that the late Bill Veeck probably would have loved. The Brewers are currently 25-12 (.676) and 7 games up in the NL Central. Only the Boston Red Sox have a better record right now. Granted, 125 games remain in the Brewers’ schedule, but it’s a promising start.
Makes wonder what Cubs fans would do if they actually won the World Series?
I would rather not pee my pants intentionally, thank you. I’d stink.