Lone_Ranger

I didnt have to look too hard to find more than a few people on here writing off the rangers. Not that i necessarily blame yall, almost everyone was, but still

:'(

lol im in grad school at u of m

i guess you guys (im getting better) dont wanna talk, which i suppose is understandable. Ill just observe from afar the rest of the series

Thats where i go to school

Im actually a rangers fan, live in dallas, not a troll, etc. I dont know what I could have said to make yall think that Sorry ill stop saying yall it sets yall on edge Dammit this is hard

im from texas its what we say lol

Hey guys, i was just trolling around yall's board and thought I'd leave a thread here, maybe we could talk some baseball. Just thought I'd leave some of my opinions of what yall have been talking about the past couple days 1) Yall came in way too cocky. I dont know if the team wrote us off, but yall definitely wrote us off and yall were wrong to do that. Besides yall, we were the hottest team in the AL the second half, and just because we didnt go on the ungodly stretch yall went on doesnt mean we werent a dangerous opponent. All yall talking trash about how we were the worst playoff team and were just some kind of stepping stone on yalls path to world series glory shouldve known the playoffs are a fickle mistress, and karma is a bitch. 2) Chill with the "fix is in" s***. It makes yall look petty af. MLB would love for the blue jays storyline to come through, yall were the biggest story of the second half and have tons of people rooting for you around the country. Was rougned out? Probably. Was it definitive enough to overturn? I dont know. The guy who's job it is to make that decision thought it wasn't, and these guys, especially the guys working these games, are pretty damn good at their job, contrary to popular belief. And the home plate umpire was just bad all night, there was no definitive strike zone, we just lucked out finding a couple more of those hot spots than yall. 3) As good as yall were during the regular season, yall havent played well this series at all imo. Stroman is yalls biggest (and rly only) bright spot, besides him yalls pitching has been average at best (bullpen did well today to keep yall in it for a while), the defense has looked confused at times, the offense has gone awol in the biggest moments, and, like yall say, gibbons needs to go. What i find to be yalls biggest problem is you arent manufacturing the tough runs you need to win playoff games like this. Yalls runs have come off bombs or errors, for the most part. When those arent coming yall are almost helpless. We won because we have guys like odor, like elvis, like delino, guys who get on, get over, and get s*** done. We havent raked this series, we lost one of our best hitters and hamilton looks like hes about out of gas, but weve gotten what we needed when we needed it. Yall have the big bats but nobody whos really doing the dirty work right now. Pillar and goins can be those guys but even if they start hitting when yalls vaunted 2-5 hitters go 2-22 its a moot point 4) This series isnt over. The Ballpark in Arlington isnt what it used to be but bats can still heat up down here in Texas. And if yalls bats heat up there isnt a team in the league that has an answer for it. Fwiw i see rangers in 4 as of right now but i wouldnt be surprised if yall can get it back to toronto, and from there anything happens. Don't mean to troll, just saying what I've seen the past two days