bullets13

they probably hadn't. how much can a coach do with a team full of kids that have never played before, won't play any in the off season, and will be forced to play all year against squads with 15-20 kids who've been playing more or less year round since they were four or five years old? you can take five athletes and make them reasonably competitive on the basketball court. you can take a team full of athletes and turn them into a pretty good football team in a years time. you can't take a team full of athletes and expect them to be competitive in soccer. a team full of slow, fat, old, but talented soccer players will beat the crap out of a team of the best non-soccer playing athletes you can find in southeast texas.

This series comes at a bad time for those who are fans of both the rangers AND the astros. I'm a ranger through and through, but i've been more than happy to adopt the stros as my national league team. Right now both teams are hot, and have made really nice runs to get back into things in their respective divisions. I hate it that one of them is about to drop a couple of games to the other.

the puma hit another big homer in the top of the ninth to put the astros ahead. he isn't showing any sign of slowing down!

just means more runners on base for miggy and hunter pence (although pence is in the 3rd spot today)

I KNEW that Coop was a closet soccer fan!

Fat Elvis hit a 2 run homer in the 1st tonight!

sure does, and that's just the tip of the iceberg. i was pleased last year when they finally made some really nice trades of players they were going to lose anyway and brought in a lot of quality prospects.

I thought they were in the AL West?? pardon my typo.

i won't be surprised if the wildcard comes from their division, i just don't see it happening for them. I would LOVE for it to happen, though!

that's stretching it. i will say they have the potential of being a top 3 or 4 offense. as badly as the tigers are playing, they have the scariest offense in the league, they just aren't clicking yet. there isn't an easy out on that team. Ivan Rodriguez, Gary Sheffield, Miguel Cabrera, Curtis Granderson, Magglio Ordonez, Carlos Guillen, Placido Polanco, Edgar Renteria. There's not a player on that list that you want to face on a regular basis.

just to name a few rangers who were traded and have become very good... Carlos Pena Adrian Gonzalez Chris Young (the pitcher) Edison Volquez there are several more...

that's pretty funny. Duncan is a sissy. he belongs on a team with malone and stockton. then you'd just need two more players to make the all-time NBA boring team. A sissy with four titles!! It's not boring, it's called fundamentals!! Thats whats wrong with the NBA today. It's all about the show and look what I can do. I'll agree with you that a lot has changed, but that's because underneath it all, the NBA is still a business. They're going to do what it takes to make itself the most marketable product possible.

they're in the pennant race every season! (for the first week, anyway ;D )

don't look now, but when you couple the rays' win last night with the red sox loss... and THE DEVIL RAYS ARE IN 1ST PLACE!!!! And this is 40 games into the season! I still don't think there is any chance this will hold up, but they do have a legitimate shot at being a .500 ballclub this year.

You must not be familiar with the Rangers' strategy when it comes to pitching. Anytime they have a good young prospect, they trade him. Then they sign veteran pitchers that had one good season 4 or 5 years ago.

that's pretty funny. Duncan is a sissy. he belongs on a team with malone and stockton. then you'd just need two more players to make the all-time NBA boring team. Bullets, you are my new best friend. Seriously, you have to be the smartest person (besides me since I think the same as you) that I have ever met on this subject. Great work, truly is It's always nice to find a kindred spirit on the board ;D

that's pretty funny. Duncan is a sissy. he belongs on a team with malone and stockton. then you'd just need two more players to make the all-time NBA boring team.

after the rangers went on their semi-annual 2-12 skid, i figured they were done, but they're turning it up! since then, they're 13-5, including a nice 9-3 against their division. right now, they are 20-21, and if the angels lose tonight, they will be only 3 games back!

shocker here, i know, but berkman is 1 for 1.

When I first saw that I thought you were talking about me. Then I read the rest. i was talking about you! you're tearing up the softball league. ;D

Fat Elvis has been arguably the best fantasy player in the game so far, as well. He and Ramirez are neck and neck!

the celts certainly don't look like the championship team that people have made them out to be. of course, if they keep this nucleus together, they're only going to get better.

Annika Sorenstam will retire after the season, ending an LPGA Tour career in which she has won 72 tournaments to date and delivered a defining moment when she teed it up against the men on the PGA Tour. She was to announce her decision at a news conference Tuesday at the Sybase Classic in Clifton, N.J., a person familiar with her plans told The Associated Press. The 37-year-old Sorenstam has hinted at retirement the past several seasons, saying she wanted to devote more time to her growing business and to start a family. She is engaged to Mike McGee, son of former PGA Tour player Jerry McGee. "This would be very much like Annika to get on top and then quit," said Judy Rankin, a Hall of Famer and television analyst. The decision comes two days after Sorenstam won the Michelob Ultra Open at Kingsmill by seven shots for her third victory of the season, and first against a field that included Lorena Ochoa. It was a sign that Sorenstam had fully recovered from injuries and was poised to make a strong big at recapturing her stature as the best in women's golf. "I just hope to continue this momentum," Sorenstam said after winning. "I'm feeling it. It's turning around, and so I can't wait for the next month or so to come with big tournaments, and I'm excited." Sorenstam dominated women's golf like few others, especially during a five-year period when she won 43 times and finished among the top three nearly 70 percent of the time. But for all her achievements — the only woman to shoot 59, 10 majors and one of six women to complete the career Grand Slam — she became most famous for testing herself against the men. Sorenstam became the first woman in 58 years to complete on the PGA Tour when she played at the Colonial in 2003. She missed the cut, but earned worldwide respect for the way she handled herself amid massive scrutiny. She won LPGA Tour player of the year a record eight times, including five straight seasons until Ochoa ended the streak in 2006. Sorenstam was ineffective most of 2007, the first time in 12 years she failed to win on the LPGA Tour, as she recovered from back and neck injuries. She won the first tournament of the year in Hawaii, picked up a playoff victory in South Florida three weeks ago, then continued a slow rise in the world rankings toward Ochoa with a dominant victory in Virginia. But when asked Sunday if she would defend her title at Kingsmill, Sorenstam hedged. "I hope so," she said. "I'm going to continue this year the way I started it and at the end of the year. I always assess it like I have the last few years. At this point, I feel great about what I'm doing." Sorenstam's 72 victories put her third on the LPGA Tour's career list behind Kathy Whitworth (88) and Mickey Wright (82). She is tied for fourth in career majors, five behind record-setter Patty Berg. But those kind of marks never appealed to Sorenstam, even when she was winning at least 10 times during a season. She often talked about stopping sooner than people imagined to pursue other interests, whether that meant her affinity for cooking or fitness. Sorenstam opened a golf academy last year near her home in Orlando, Fla., also launching her brand ("Annika") and a Web site. Sorenstam plans to marry next spring. She is not the first LPGA Tour star to retire early. Wright, whom many regard as the best, stopped playing a full schedule when she was 34 and won the last of her 82 tournaments at age 37. At the end of the '07 season, Sorenstam felt she had arrived at "the back nine of my career." "I've done a lot, and I'm satisfied in a lot of things," she said. "I've achieve so much more than I ever thought I could."

i bet she wouldn't if you had a bazillion dollars and she had jack...

At least she didn't take off her shoe and start hitting pierce in the head with it.