Texas Rangers v Tampa Bay Rays ALDS Preview: Analysis, Prediction, TV Schedule, Pitching Matchups

September 30, 2011 By Leave a Comment
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This is the Divisional Series I am most looking forward to. Most likely, so should you. This match-up has all the makings of a classic, featuring two teams that have had good fortune shine upon them this season.

The Rays have a juggernaut of momentum going their way as they closed the season with five straight wins to bamboozle a stunned Boston Red Sox team and storm into the playoffs. They set a record by being the first team to make the playoffs after heading into the final month 9 games out. Tampa posted a 32-17 record after Aug. 8, showing that their surge is for real.

The Texas Rangers, on the other hand, led the AL West for the majority of the season and just concluded the best season in franchise history with 96 wins.

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These two pictures sum up the 2010 Texas Rangers

October 13, 2010 By 2 Comments
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The White Sox didn’t make the playoffs this year and the Midwest’s only two representatives – the Twins and Reds – got their asses handed to them in the first round. So if we’re going to talk baseball here at Midwest Sports Fans, you’ll have to indulge us in some non-Midwest talk.

And since I live in Dallas, I have to admit that I have adopted the eminently likable Texas Rangers as the team I’m pulling for to win it all.

Cliff Lee strapped the Rangers onto his shoulders against the Rays and won two of the three games that ultimately propelled Texas into the ALCS to face the Yankees, for what should be a competitive, entertaining series.

I’m sure that AJ will preview both the ALCS and NLCS for us soon. This morning, I would simply like to offer up two pictures that perfectly sum up the 2010 Texas Rangers and how baseball fever is capturing this perpetually football-obsessed town.

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MLB Playoffs: Rays Beat White Sox and I Have to Come Clean

October 6, 2008 By 9 Comments

white sox logoI guess I may as well come out and say it. I don’t want to sound like a traitor but I have to be honest here. I grew up in the Trop. I own a Rays hat, a Carl Crawford jersey and my family was at game 2. Now that the Sox have been eliminated I feel like I had to come clean. This, was a tough series to watch. Having not lived in Southwest Florida for almost six years now, my frequency at the Trop fell. I wasn’t getting Bucs coverage and my relationship faded. I moved here to S. 45th St. and Wells two years ago and as I have mentioned listened to raining fireworks for two summers and grew fond of the Sox.

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Live Chat: ALDS Game Three – Chicago White Sox v Tampa Bay Rays

October 5, 2008 By 4 Comments

white sox logoWe’re trying out a live chat today. I haven’t used this software before, but ProFootballTalk.com uses it and it seems to work pretty well. The chat will be kicking off at 3:00 CT for the White Sox-Rays game three this afternoon. Hopefully everything goes smoothly. Enter your email address below to get a reminder when everything gets started. Hope to see you here.

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