Rangers 2007 Schedule

Rangers 2007 Schedule: (Tentative, mind you… they always say that…)

April
2-4 at Los Angeles
6-8 BOSTON
9-11 TAMPA BAY
13-15 at Seattle
17-19 at Chicago White Sox
20-22 OAKLAND
23-24 SEATTLE (I don’t care for a two game series… here, there, anywhere.)
25-26 at Cleveland
27-30 at Toronto

May
1-3 NEW YORK
4-6 TORONTO
8-10 at New York
11-14 LOS ANGELES
15-17 at Tampa Bay
18-20 at Houston
21-23 MINNESOTA
25-27 BOSTON
28-30 at Oakland
31 at Seattle

June
1-3 at Seattle
5-7 DETROIT
8-10 MILWAUKEE
12-14 at Pittsburgh
15-17 at Cincinnati
19-21 CUBS
22-24 HOUSTON
25-28 at Detroit
29-30 at Boston

July
1-2 at Boston
3-5 LOS ANGELES
6-8 BALTIMORE
9-12 All-Star break: (four days – NICE!)
13-15 at Los Angeles
16-18 at Oakland
19-22 CLEVELAND
23-25 SEATTLE
27-29 at Kansas City
31 at Cleveland

August
1-2 at Cleveland
3-5 at Toronto
6-8 OAKLAND
10-12 TAMPA BAY
14-16 KANSAS CITY
17-19 at Minnesota
20-22 at Baltimore
23-26 SEATTLE
28-30 CHICAGO WHITE SOX
31 at Los Angeles

September
1-2 at Los Angeles
3-5 KANSAS CITY
7-9 OAKLAND
11-12 at Detroit (I still don’t care for a two game series.)
13-16 at Oakland
17-19 at Minnesota
20-23 BALTIMORE
24-26 LOS ANGELES
28-30 at Seattle

Overall, I like this schedule. Hopefully, we have the team to match up with it. This is a brilliant schedule, seriously. The Rangers would be mindful to take advantage in the off-season to make sure they optimize every ounce they can out of this thing. They can get some serious here.

Mack and Dinger

I've never met a mascot before. My son, who is a Junior Texas Ranger, got to meet the Rockie's mascot, Dinger. He actually approached Dinger as a number of mascots walked around the back of the concorse area.

He was quite nervous when he got closer to Dinger. When he approached, he would stay at about a 6 foot distance or so... so getting this picture of Mack shaking hands was a HUGE step.This is actually when we start to prepare for the picture. The whole process took maybe 7 or 8 minutes... so Dinger didn't do any other photos with anyone else.
And here's the Final Result. A stupid grin of my face, but in a sense, there is some satisfaction that my son got a picture with a mascot, actually of his choosing.

Bottom-Dwellers

Now, this is what I enjoy about this time of year when the Rangers fall out of contention. I look at the suckfish or bottom-dwellers to see just how bad they can get. This years contenders?

Tampa Bay: 57-93
Kansas City: 58-92

Kansas City would need to go no better than 4-8 to hit triple in the loss column. The Rays on the other hand, would have to do better than 5-7 to avoid the triple in the loss column. Kansas City has played good baseball of late, winners of 6 of their last 10 and overall, their win percentage is .387, so chances are they can hit the .416 needed to skip the “disgrace” of a 100 loss season… not that 99 is anything to brag about, but still. It’s the little things in life, you know. Tampa needs to split the last twelve to avoid the 100 mark. Tampa has four games against the Yankee and two against the Red Sox. The other six games are against Baltimore and the Indians. I just can see them mustering up six wins against these four teams. The Yankees and Red Sox should be good for four losses easy. You know, Tampa could avoid a 100 loss season. But they are on an eight game losing streak, they are coming up cold against Baltimore and after they finish the series with Baltimore, and then they follow that with the Yankees and then Boston. HELLO LOSE COLUMN #100!

Maybe the Rangers will go back to a Red Uniform. I keep saying it… maybe they might here me someday…

Player of the Week

Players of the Week:

September 11-17, 2006: Gary Matthews, Jr.
August 7-13, 2006: Mark DeRosa
April 24-30, 2006: Kevin Mench
August 29-September 4, 2005: Mark Teixeira
May 16-22, 2005: Mark Teixeira
May 2-8, 2005: Alfonso Soriano
June 28-July 4, 2004: Mark Teixeira

Players of the Month:

Pitcher of the Month (May 2005): Kenny Rogers
Rookie of the Month (August 2004): Frank Francisco
Player of the Month (July 2004): Mark Teixeira

Rookie of the Month (April 2004): Gerald Laird

As attention in the Dallas/Fort Worth area moves from baseball to football and whatever other sport there is other than the Rangers who are once again not in contention for anything, Gary Matthews, Junior gives us little fans a glimmer of hope of something for the future. The guy hit over 500 in his little MVP week and hit for the cycle in order, done only 14 times in MLB recorded history. Not shabby, my Ranger fans. I got rid of all the advertisements on my site. I found them annoying and I wasn’t making any money off of them, so I said: PHOOEY! Let’s just leave this to all about sports – PERIOD.

I was happy the Cowboys beat up on Washington, but I still cannot wrap my head around TO. Why is he here after all the garbage that he has done to us? It’s like signing the grim-reaper to a four year contract. TO will still be here after Parcells moves on, and if it was the other way around, I’d be OK with it, but since it is not, it’s a chocolate cake with a time-bomb in it… waiting and going – tick, tock, tick, tock.

Tom Hicks has to buy a caseload of chapstick. He’s going to have to kiss some serious butt with Michael Young about the leadership comments he made. I agree to a certain point that there are problems with leadership, but not leadership within the players. The problem is leadership in coaching style. Micromanagement, effective in numbers in many workplaces, but when the employees ask about how happy they are in their environment, they will tell you it STINKS. And what do players think of Buck’s leadership style? They don’t like it. He ranks second highest amongst managers that players least like several years running. That has to reflect back on him, at least to some degree. I am sure there are some variables, but even when you try to factor them in, well, you get the idea. Margin of error is only going to be but a few percentage points at best. Young isn’t happy. And the domino effect is beginning to be felt with Teixeira. Heaven help us…

The Dallas Mavericks Schedule

The Dallas Mavericks Schedule

Preseason:
October:
10th at New Orleans/Oklahoma City
12th Sacramento
14th at Milwaukee
17th Houston
19th Milwaukee
21st Washington
25th at Cleveland
27th at San Antonio

Regular Season:
November:
2nd San Antonio
4th at Houston
6th Golden State
8th at LA Clippers
9th at Phoenix
12th at Portland
14th Chicago
17th at Memphis
18th Memphis
20th at Charlotte
21st Washington
24th at San Antonio
25th New Orleans/Oklahoma City
27th Minnesota
29th Toronto

December:
1st Sacramento
4th at Washington
5th at New Jersey
7th Detroit
9th Denver
11th at Utah
13th LA Lakers
15th Philadelphia
16th at New Orleans/Oklahoma City
18th at Sacramento
20th at Seattle
22nd LA Clippers
26th Charlotte
28th Phoenix
30th New Orleans/Oklahoma City
31st at Denver

January:
2nd Seattle
4th Indiana
5th at San Antonio
7th at LA Lakers
9th at Utah
10th Portland
12th at Indiana
14th at Toronto
16th Houston
18th LA Lakers
21st at Miami
23rd at Orlando
25th at Chicago
27th Sacramento
30th Seattle
31st at Memphis

February:
3rd Minnesota
7th Memphis
9th Houston
11th at Philadelphia
13th at Milwaukee
15th at Houston
18th ALL STAR GAME – LAS VEGAS
22nd Miami
24th Denver
26th Atlanta
27th at Minnesota

March:
1st Cleveland
3rd Orlando
6th New Jersey
11th at LA Lakers
12th at Golden State
14th Phoenix
16th Boston
18th at Detroit
20th at New York
21st at Cleveland
23rd at Boston
25th at Atlanta
27th at New Orleans/Oklahoma City
28th Milwaukee
30th New York

April:
1st at Phoenix
3rd at Sacramento
6th at Denver
7th Portland
9th LA Clippers
11th at Minnesota
13th Utah
15th San Antonio
17th at Golden State
18th at Seattle