I don’t know if the 7th inning stretch was broadcast, but when God Bless America was being sung they showed W on the big screen. He wass loudly cheered, not a single boo could be heard. That said, the crowd was rather obnoxious. Never been to Yankee stadium but I imagine that is what it must be like. Seeing Nolan on the mound again was the highlight of the game along with Josh’s home run and the flyover. The Rangers stuck with this manager and now it is evident the crack addled old boy is not up to the task. CJ pitched a great game, and was pulled too early. So he gave up a double to Jeter, and they got lucky on an infield single. He could have been given one more batter to face as they had a 4 run lead. But this manager is out of touch and simply falls back to the pitch count trend of 110 and out. No real thought here, just a trend-driven formula. And one of failure. So could CJ have really done any worse? What was washington thinking, he was protecting his arm? Yeah, that worked well for Strasburg didn’t it? I remember Nolan throwing in excess of 150 pitches regularly and doing it in a 4 man rotation. Funny thing, he played in 27 years in the majors. Noone else in the history of the game ever did.
Rangers and Nolan were put in between a rock (no pun intended) and a hard place when this asshole finally owned up to smoking crack and lying about it to them... during the middle of spring training. I have said it before and I will say it again... a manager can not win a ballgame, but he can damn sure find a way to lose one. Give the Rangers credit, they went through a lot this year and made it this far. I can’t speak for ALL of their fans, but Nolan certainly deserves better.
but Nolan certainly deserves better.
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Sure does. I didn’t know that about the
mgr .. what a scumbum .. and I thought
as I watched:
he kinda has that street hardened look.
Put Nolan in!
If the Yanks can’t win, can’t think of a
better team to grab the pennant than the
Rangers.
I agree, the Rangers have gotten this far, in spite of Ron Washington, and he showed last night he doesn’t know how to manage pitchers.
I knew as soon as Darren Oliver came in, we were going to lose the game.
If the Rangers were smart, they would can Washington and replace him with Clint Hurdle. Hurdle is the reason the Rangers have made it this far, and would be a much better manager.
W and his dad did the coin toss at a Texans game I attended last fall (right about a year ago.) The crowd was quite genuinely enthusiastic and it warmed my heart to see it.
This was at the annual home game that honors our troops.