truckertom

As a Ranger fan, I have noticed that the Rangers troubles may well be decades in the making. I have been called down and insulted by many that see me having to make a case for my observations.

One trouble is that I just don't see MLB players as having a history of taking the Rangers seriously as a franchise. It seems many players take the Rangers on as a rehab assignment or perhaps a proving ground to get back into the game much like Sosa is doing now. We build a Tex and when he is close to becoming a free agent, we send him down the road in trade for prospects. When these prospects develop, will we send these down the road as well? If this is the pattern that the Rangers have established over the years, how can anything but money be the motivation for becoming a Ranger? And is this why A-Rod wanted out of here?

I see Mark Cuban as an owner who has taken a pro team and done something with it. The Mavs were once the laughing stock of the NBA. When will the Rangers get an owner who wants the world to take his team seriously?

MLBaseballFanatic

Personally, Hicks isn't doing as good as a job as he could be. But really, I blame it on Jon Daniels. First off, for example, take last year's trade deadline. He traded a bunch of good players away to get people that were on loan for the rest of the season such as Kip Wells, Carlos Lee, Matt Stairs, etc. He traded way Cordero, Mench, Shouse, and Nix just to get Lee when we knew he was going to leave. So mainly, I blame Daniels for this. He's young and inexperienced as far as I am concerned.

On a side note, I can't stand Ron Washington. To me, he hasn't done anything for the team and I'd much rather have Showalter.

truckertom

These trades you speak of, I have noticed that most of these players have gone on to do well elsewhere. But is JD a puppet on a Hicks string? If the only consideration is keeping payroll down, then why don't we just admit the Rangers are a ML team for others beat up on? When the Yankees come to town, and there are more Yankee fans in the stands then Ranger fans, we have to admit we are a city of transplants and you don't need a winning home team to sell tickets to the game.

I'm going to have to disagree with you on Washington, but I am here listening to post/pre-game shows and Wash seems to be turning it around some. He seems to have some passion toward the game and players. We have been winning a lot lately but we are no longer depending on the homer to get it done. It is strange to see the Rangers winning one run games and doing it with small ball. I had no trouble with Buck, but he is more of a big franchise manager. But a manager can only play what he is given.

Hicks has gone from saying he will do whatever it takes to make the Rangers a WS champion to telling the fans there will be no more big contracts 'til the seats are filled. He wants to take the parking around the ballpark and turn them into businesses. He is like a child that has gotten bored with his new play thing, tossing it aside and saying "what's next". He could be worse, He could buy a soccer team and start ignoring the Stars and Rangers.

EdwardCYH

Good point!

truckertom

I have to admit that it seems Washington has brought the team back to basics. How a player feels about being a Ranger matters alot. The fantasy baseball folks think I am crazy but they forget the meaning of the word "FANTICY". Real players can have an opinion of the team they are signed to.

If I were Hicks, I might have the "boys" out to a Lodge somewhere in Montana for a hunting/bonding trip this fall! I might show them I take some interest in them as people. I might have the Rangers and their families over for a Christmas celebration. I would try to make being a Ranger more like being in a family.

But I guess that is why I drive a truck for a living!

EdwardCYH

A tad too brokeback for my taste....

You have a huge trucking family.... and, from the looks of it, a whole bunch of mexicans just got added to it.

truckertom

This is just an idea for Hicks to exhibit some leadership, it could be anything. And I didn't see brokeback mountain.

These Mexican truckers have been getting a cold welcome in the US by American truckers. I hate to tell you this, but illegal Mexican truckers have been here for years. 84,000 pounds coming down the road in your town and this being driven by someone who throws his used toilet paper in a waste basket and hunkers down like a catcher to use the toilet leaving excrement on the toilet seat for every one who comes in behind him. But it wont be long 'til cheap Mexican labor is going to be taking American jobs and leaving Americans on the side lines as our jobs move south of the boarder. So what is happening in trucking today should be a warning to everyone in America who holds down a job; tomorrow it will be gone.

But here we set on the Internet, typing away in an attempt to let everyone in the world know just how much smarter we are than anyone else. We are bombarded every hour of every day with politics. Liberals, Conservatives always fighting over the best and quickest way to sell our country out from under us. People who might have enough wisdom to become a true leader in this country do not have the money to run, others who have the money to run have never had to live in the world we have to live in and therefore have forgotten that their job in Government is to represent us. They don't see it this way.



I spend about 14 to 16 hours a day driving so when I come here it is an attempt to get away from it. I am a trucker and like many labor groups in America, we are like a group of pygmies arguing over who is the tallest among us, and while we argue our jobs are being sent to countries who allow what is slavery.

EdwardCYH

Man.... great post!

I can definitely understand how you feel because outsourcing is done on all levels with all job descriptions.

My industry has been bringing jobs overseas, mainly China and India, for many years because people think programming is programming. "1+1=2 is the same everywhere in the world." Tell that to a programmer, and he/she will show you how 1+1 could look better in one way, or vice versa.

To tell you something even goofier, even "technical documentation" gets outsourced in these Fortune companies. I was honestly shocked that my wife's "employer" recently decided to double her team by giving her 8 additional "resources" from India. (Pay rate is about 1:4) She now has to stay up late at night, and wake up early in the morning, to be on conference calls so her "resources" could hopefully, and eventually, give her comprehensible writing.

Sadly, the only jobs that don't get outsourced are politicians.....




Back to the Rangers, wouldn't it be nice to sweep LAA in the final home-stand?

MLBaseballFanatic

Ok, please don't get off topic again.

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