mattmartin817

"Fire Rick V" banner flying over Apogee next weekend?

Coming soon to a Larry Coker roster?

Might be a long night in Dallas next Saturday.

While it doesn't seem like much, it's actually not that bad. IF this guy does have serious anger issues, which it looks like he does, he is going to screw up in those 10 years, and when he does he is most likely going to get hammered with a hefty sentence. Baylor also deserves to be hammered over this. While they couldn't have predicted that this guy would come on their campus and rape one of their scholarshipped athletes, they could have/should have done much much more to fix the situation. They chose to cover this up and basically tell the victim, sorry, you just have to deal with it. That is unacceptable. It is the responsibility of the University to protect its student's, Baylor completely screwed the pooch on this, all in the name of protecting their football program. I don't know that this is all that different than the Penn State situation, but I really doubt anything will be done.

True, but the hits he's getting are coming off of left hand pitchers. His OPS against lefties is in the mid .800's which is pretty good compared to the Rangers team OPS which is in the mid .600 OPS against lefties. Also, he's got a near 300 average in his last 16 games. I'm not saying this puts them over the hump or anyhting, but it could defintely help.

I love to visit the beautiful cliffs of Gonzalez.

Funny. I always figured it was more like this.

They should have thrown barbecue sauce on him.

The common rallying cry of both the Astros and Rangers.

Let's hope, not exactly holding my breath though. Neftali's velocity looked good, hope he can put it all back together.

Is there really a hardcore sports rivalry between Dallas and Houston? As a dfw native and fan of the teams in that area I don't really see it. Rangers and Astros: don't see it, we've only been in the same division for two seasons. There's no real bad blood between the two teams like the Rangers have with the A's and Angels. I've never thought of the 'Stros as a rival, they've just been another team in a different league, that's pretty much it. i guess if you think the silver boot is really rad then it's a rivalry, but does anybody really care about that? (The answer should be no, it was a horrible idea to start with, and it's dumb they still do it). Cowboys and Texans: As a Cowboys fan, I could care less about the Texans. I don't mean that in a rude way, they just don't register as a rival, at all. Texans have only been around since 2002, they are in a different conference, they don't play enough to make it mean anything. It's always seemed to me that Texans fans try to make this a rivalry way more than Cows fans do. Cows have rivals in the Redskins, Eagles and Giants. When they play those teams it means something, not so much for the Texans. Mavs and rockets: Meh, maybe the closest thing to a sports rivalry between the two cities? Mavs have the Spurs, I don't like the rockets, but I have never seen them as a rival. Am I off base with this fellow dfw sports fans?

Just to clarify, we will pay him 7 mill (somewhere in that neighborhood) over 3 years not 7 per year. He can potentially contribute, and this team is in desperate need of a corner OF. I'll take goofball Hamilton over smolinski just about any day. And again, if he becomes a pain in the ass, we cut him without being out a lot of money. As for his press conference, he did seem a little combative, but I think that's just his press conference personality. Every other question is about his addiction and struggles with drugs and booze, I imagine that would get extremely exhausting and even embarrassing to constantly have that brought up. I don't really like the guy (don't really dislike him either), but I hope he can get it together. He's got a lot of demons that most of us don't really understand. If it works out, this could be a pretty great redemption story.

We got him for less than $7mill over the next three years, we basically got him for free. Not that bad of a deal.

Do we have to resort to vicious name calling? I'll be over here clutching my pearls.

Let's take this conversation offline. Also, synergy.

Shit.

Just called Little Woodrow's on Parmer. They will be showing the game.

Confirmed. They do not have cbs sports.

Ummm... They may not be showing the game. Bartender just said they don't have tv package with that channel.

First one here. At the bar, go mean green!

http://thescoopsports.wordpress.com/2014/09/10/ron-washington-departed-over-legal-issues/ Holy. Crap. Say it ain't so Wash.

I plan (hopefully that plan doesn't change) on heading straight from the office to the Silo. Ready for some beers and a Mean Green victory.

HEY! That's me standing up behind him!