Hamilton, Kinsler and Cruz, oh my! - 2011 Texas Rangers thread

Realized there isnt one, so I made it.

These dudes can mash.. Will see what they do outside of Arlington but Im preeeeetty sure the AL West is theirs to win.

Was hoping for an early-season slump to make Rangers fans less cocky.

Are there any teams that don't fill the space between every half inning with an adorable child running the bases/dot race/possible-jailbait ballgirls dancing on the dugout/etc.? The game experience at the Ballpark in Arlington is bordering on torture.

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Temporary strikethrough for Hamilton in the thread title.. Hes out 6-8 weeks because of some shoulder injury..

heres some citation for my homework above

Hamilton to mix 6 to 8 weeks with a small, non-displaced fracture of the humerus bone.
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this guy is cursed

Time to start doing hard drugs again

Partially Brad Penny's "fault" for being too lazy and/or dumb failing to cover the plate on a shallow pop-up in foul territory.

(Though sliding head-first [in the first inning, facing Brad Penny, with Nelson Cruz on deck] isn't all that intelligent, either.)

http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2011/04/13/why-didnt-josh-hamilton-just-stay-at-third

Hamilton actually agreed with that in real time and publicly criticized his third base coach over it after the game (“I was like, ‘Dude, I don’t want to do this. Something’s going to happen.’ But I listened to my coach”). Throwing the base coach under the bus like that didn’t reflect particularly well on Hamilton, but what reflects worse on Hamilton is going along with the bad call anyway.

i'd say throwing him under the bus is the no-no here.

I kind of really dislike Hamilton. A combination of all my bad experiences with tweakers and Jesus freaks.

Don't quit your day... oh, right.

http://www.myspace.com/joshlewin

Yeah, Hamilton is awful.

he was gleefully sliding head first across infield tarp during a monsoon in baltimore the other night so he should really just stfu

uggh yeah blaming the coach really soured me on the guy, it wasn't really that bad of a call there

as andy pointed out it was a stupid idea purely from a strategic baseball standpoint but if josh hamilton can't slide into a base headfirst w/o breaking his arm then he shouldn't be sliding into bases head first & that's purely on him

otm.

I guess Jesus couldn't overrule the 3b coach

Karl Ravech: What was stupid about the play?

Bobby Valentine: Well, it was the first inning and it was taking a chance with your best player and he did dive headfirst and it was a way of avoiding the slide and he knew that he shouldn't go and he did go, you know? And you know, there's indiscretion in this guy's life, he was stupid earlier and because of that, he can't take drugs now to help cure this injury and heal this injury. And that might have been dumb on everyone's part because, my gosh, it's the first inning, he's the MVP. They're scoring runs better than anybody in the league, you have to tag up on a fly ball in front of the dugout?

hahaha

I didn't know that he wouldn't take drugs to heal his body! Sheesh

This dude is insufferable.

"Maybe I should be a wimp and not play the game the way I know how to play it."

Hamilton is also frustrated because his latest injury will also lead to people questioning how he plays the game.

"That's like beating a dead horse," Hamilton said. "How else would I play? I don't want to be a wimp. It's becoming a pain in my rear, playing hard and getting questioned about it.

"I could understand if I was pulling things like hamstrings. But I'm getting hurt on high-intensity plays, getting hurt on plays like hitting the walls. I'm making the plays the game asks me to make."

http://m.mlb.com/news/article/2011041317723390/

“To add insult to injury, I was extremely sick last night,” Hamilton said. “A sinus infection, I think.”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z47_eBB42Uk

http://deadspin.com/#!5793597/the-restless-mind-of-cj-wilson-the-rangers-straight+edge-tolkien+reading-enemy-of-mlb-douchebags

And there's a semi-formed idea for a TV show about his friends back in California, a kind of straight edge Entourage.

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Hamilton struggles to hit during day games because he has blue eyes.

http://sports.espn.go.com/dallas/mlb/news/story?id=6696741

DYING here

When is this guy going to realize that Jesus just does not like him one bit?

so Ogando's freefall... what's happening?

He has never even come close to pitching this many innings before:

http://www.baseball-reference.com/minors/player.cgi?id=ogando001ale

no no no

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2011/baseball/mlb/07/07/rangers.fan.ap/

The Texas Rangers say a fan died after falling out of the stands while trying to catch a baseball tossed his way during a game Thursday night.

his son watched him fall :[

TV replays? Why?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B_JEFbVcQro#t=52s

i can only imagine how Hamilton must be feeling

also the a's bullpen is right there

now we have two Arlington Cemeteries

yahoo sports comment trolls are all over this one:

Righteous Brother 1 hour ago Report Abuse
The Russian judge gave him a 9.5

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Any idea how this guy passed the test to be a firemen... is the only tragedy here...

Semellyecoli2 41 minutes ago Report Abuse
Did he spill the beer on the way down ??

Apparently Hamilton just drilled a fan in the head with a foul ball.

i don't believe in the supernatural but if there's one player with bad juju/black cloud over him it's Hamilton. starting to approach a Robert Johnson sold my soul for a .365 BA type level.

in danger of losing a game

nellie cruz - 4-4 8 rbi, will get at least 1 more ab

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http://espn.go.com/dallas/mlb/story/_/id/6894287/texas-rangers-ceo-nolan-ryan-starting-worry-starting-pitching

Nice work, genius!

lol

hah that gif is called 'lincecumdancing.gif'

Youngest 3B ever to reach 2000 hits.

http://mlb.sbnation.com/2011/9/5/2405180/adrian-beltre-dummy-hed

Napoli 30 HRs in 369 ABs