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Kenny Rogers freaks out

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As is all over the news tonight, Kenny Rogers freaked out and attacked a couple of local cameramen. Here’s a story.
Dallas Morning News site story with video
From what I’ve seen of the video so far, the injuries to the camera guy who now claims neck pain back pain and wrist pain seem a bit overblown. To have his head rendered immoble on a stretcher seems a bit much based on what we saw happen to him in the video on the local news tonight.
After seeing the video numerous times on Chs 4, 5, ESPN, & FSSW, I can see where the Ch 4 cameraman might have a hurt wrist, as his hand was mostly still attached to the camera when Kenny tried throwing it to the ground a couple of times, and when he kicked the camera. The rest of it (including the neck brace), I can’t see from the footage we saw. Now granted, I’m a moron to think I know everything that happened, but this didn’t look like the kind of thing that would result in a guy being in a neck brace.
The attack was definitely unwarranted from what I can gather – it did seem that the camera folks weren’t “in his face”. Nothing was shown that would indicate the camera people did anything directly to provoke Kenny. I think some sort of suspension & fine is in order. Not sure exactly what, mind you. But something needs to happen, and that doesn’t even begin to cover any possible legal issues that might arise from this.
I’ll have more to say about this on Thursday. Hicks was on TV tonight saying the Rangers will issue a statement about it tomorrow. I watched a lot of coverage of this both local and national and it seems that no immediate decision is coming tonight.
I wonder how Scott Boras will try and spin this. I’d be utterly amazed and shocked if Boras comes out and admits it was totally Kenny’s fault – I expect Boras will try and place the blame elsewhere (Rangers, perhaps?).

Gary Sheffield for Laynce Nix?

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There’s a rumour going around the last day or so about the Rangers trading Laynce Nix (and some others) for Gary Sheffield.
I’m not sure how I feel about that. John Hart is certainly not akin to bringing in a moody player (John Rocker, Carl Everett), but I don’t know how I feel about him. I’d be surprised if the Yankees would WANT to trade him, tell you the truth.
Nix has underproduced, that’s for sure, but I don’t know if I’m ready to give up on him just yet. I know we’re strong in the minors in the OF, but trading a young kid for someone like Sheffield seems odd to me. I’m sure Sheffield would shred in our park. It would make our outfield likely Mench – Matthews – Sheffield (as I can’t imagine we’d keep Hidalgo if we brought in Shef). I don’t have a problem with that OF, but we’d have Shef through 2006 for sure at something like $13 million, I think.
Anyone have any thoughts on this? Post a comment.
Check out what Gary has to say about not wanting to be traded in this article over on mlb.com. Not sure I’d want that.

G75: Rangers blow it in extra innings, 5-1

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I was really enjoying this game. Even going into extra innings I was enjoying it. John Wasdin did far better than I anticipated. I normally don’t enjoy extra inning games, because we lose them, especially if they end in the 10th, but if we get past the 10th, we tend to do OK. Then Anderson hit a grand slam, and I got all annoyed. I was ready to put the big deficit in the standings behind us emotionally until the grand slam. That was a major downer.
Dammit.
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G74: Rangers stink up Arlington pretty good, 13-3

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My stepfather was in town visiting us (mostly to see his Granddaughter I would think). But anyway, we decided to take him to this game with some vouchers I had. Good thing I didn’t pay much for these tickets. That was disgusting. It was so annoying I don’t want to write much about the game.
Gerald Laird was here. I didn’t know he had been called up, so it was a surprise to see his name listed in the starting lineup.
7.5 back at almost the halfway point. Not insurmountable, but YIKES!
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Kenny Rogers’ hand

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Looks like Kenny Rogers still had a little of Kevin Brown’s influence in him recently..

Manager Buck Showalter said Kenny Rogers, the team’s most dependable starter this season, fractured the fifth metacarpal, the bone below his pinky finger, in his right, or non-throwing, hand after he punched a water cooler in the Rangers’ dugout shortly after leaving his start June 17.

That’s the quote from a DMN newsflash. Lovely. Probably not appearing in the All Star game then. Even assuming it’s not a problem that causes him to miss more than one start, one might think he’d intentionally rest it just in case. We shall see.

G73: We lose to the Astros in 10 innings, 3-2

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Rod Barajas won his job when Gerald Laird suffered an injury early in the 2004 season. Rod Barajas had to leave this game with an injury, does that mean that Gerald Laird will get his job back? We’ll see..
Chan Ho Park pitched pretty decently (7IP, 5H, 2ER), but we wasted it, when we lost 3-2 in 10 innings. Andy Pettite pitched like the Pettite of old, going 9 innings, 7H, 2R (1ER), and basically outdueled Park. Kameron Loe kept us in it, by not giving up any run in his two innings, but Juan Dominguez came in and immediately walked two, and gave up the winning run. Annoying, given how poorly we’ve been playing lately, and given the slide we’ve gone into. We need all the wins we can get if we’re going to tread water long enough to stay in the playoff race. Granted, the season isn’t half over yet, but it feels somewhat dismal at the moment.
Probably might have something to do with the disappearance of our starting rotation (released, waived, punched a wall).
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G72: Rangers finally win, 6-5 against Astros

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Well, we finally won a game. Early on this game felt like ours from the start, and the Astros didn’t have a chance. We were out 6-0 after 3. Chris Young had a no hitter going into the sixth inning. This was our game. But the June 2005 edition of the Texas Rangers almost allowed it to get away.
Chris Young & Mike Young were the story of this game. Chris Young went 7 innings and gave up 3 runs -a good start by all measurable accounts; it felt marred though given the way he exited, having given up a bunch of runs at the end. Mike Young continued to own Brandon Backe, going 9 for 9 career against him after his first two at bats. Both of which were home runs.
Cordero had to come in and get a save in game when he shouldn’t have had to. We won, but it didn’t feel all that good to me.
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G71: Rangers drop fifth in a row in Houston, 5-2

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Sigh. Lost our fifth 5 in a row to an Astros team that doesn’t look like the Astros team that we whomped on a few weeks ago in Arlington.
Osawlt looked like he was tossing a shutout, he gave up two back to back solo home runs to Barajas & Nix, but that was it. It was Oswalt’s game. Definitely not ours.
We need a win.

G69: Rangers lose behind a stinkfest by Chan Ho Park, 8-6

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No time to write, although there’s not much to write about. Looks like the old Chan Ho Park is back, and that can’t be good. We did make an attempt to come back at the end of the game, but it was too little too late.
Only real good thing is that Pedro Astacio has been released. But Chan Ho remains, and Drese is gone. Go figure.