Team Pres. Nolan Ryan, Owner Tom Hicks, GM Jon Daniels and everyone at the Rangers' office must be thrilled with the 2009 Rangers.
Today, they extended Manager Ron Washington's contract for another year.
Winning means contract extensions! It also means bigger crowds!
First, the Rangers are 33-23 and leading the LA Angels by 4 games.
Second, the Rangers own the sports pages. The Stars and Mavs did not do anything this spring. And everybody is still furious with the way that the Cowboys quit on the last game of the season!
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post from June 2009:
Welcome to the Texas Rangers, a young team that has a lot of good young players!
What's going on with these young Rangers? The answer is pitching and the incredible development of Nelson Cruz!
Cruz came here in 2006 when we got Carlos Lee from Milwaukee. Cruz was added to the trade and spent much of 2006-07 in AAA. Last year, he destroyed AAA pitching and came up in September.
Cruz is destroying a lot of major league pitching. He has 17 homeruns and has stepped in for Josh Hamilton, currently on the DL.
Cruz is getting a lot of RBI chances because of Ian Kinsler (15 HRS for a lead off hitter) and Michael Young, (.338 and headed for another 200 hit season).
So far, so good.
We know that 56 games is not the full season. There are still 106 games left. Baseball is a marathon. Crazy things always happen in the last 50 games!
Put me down as a believer. The Rangers will be playing for the AL West in late September!