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[N41D]

Eric Hurley called up from AAA and will begin his big league career on Thursday in Kansas City.

He's been pretty mediocre in AAA this year, but there's a lot of speculation that he was disappointed he didn't make the team out of SpringTraining, and was just kind of out there throwing every 5 days... So we'll see how this turns out...

Either way, this is the first 'big' Rangers pitching prospect to actually debut with the Rangers in several years... After watching Danks, Galarraga,Volquez, Chris Young, etc. become legitimate big league pitchers in other cities, I feel like we deserve one.

 

[wildkycat]

Ed V has pitched pretty good tonight. he's only given up 3 hits with 5 Ks. but he's given up a season high 3 runs. they shoulda been unearnedbecause Votto should fielded the ball for the third out of the inninng, but they ruled it a hit.

Votto needs work with his glove.

 

[scuse7]

Originally Posted by wildKYcat

Ed V has pitched pretty good tonight. he's only given up 3 hits with 5 Ks. but he's given up a season high 3 runs. they shoulda been unearned because Votto should fielded the ball for the third out of the inninng, but they ruled it a hit.

Votto needs work with his glove.

Yea I saw the play. It was hit hard, but he was really deep. Should have made the play and they have him a hit.

Damn I don't remember Willis winning 22 games?

 

[wildkycat]

Nowitness, you got a drunk uncle?

that ball girl is hot, though.

 

[wildkycat]

well, what do you know...

 

[N41D]

Nowitness, you got a drunk uncle?

Nah, I know that girl though.

Hilarious.

 

[wildkycat]

Critical comments cause Bradley to go looking for Royals announcer

KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- Milton Bradley stormed out of the Texas Rangers clubhouse after an 11-5 victory Wednesday night over Kansas City and bounded up four flights of stairs looking for Royals television announcer Ryan Lefebvre.

Bradley, who was the designated hitter, heard what he considered derogative remarks made by Lefebvre on a TV in the Rangers clubhouse.

General manager Jon Daniels and manager Ron Washington were close behind and intercepted Bradley before he reached Lefebvre.

"I don't want to get necessarily into the details," Daniels said. "He was upset. Someone who doesn't know him was passing judgment on TV. It was obvious he was hurt by the comments."

Bradley never reached Lefebvre, although he was within about 20 feet of him in the TV booth before being led back down to the clubhouse.

"There was no incident," Daniels said.

Upon returning to the clubhouse, Bradley screamed at teammates and broke down in tears.

"I'm tired of people bringing me down," Bradley said. "It wears on you. I love you guys, all you guys. I'm strong, but I'm not that strong. All I want to do is play baseball and make a better life for my kid than I had."

Several of Bradley's teammates consoled him after he calmed down.

Lefebvre, who is the son of former major league manager Jim Lefebvre, said he met with Daniels and Washington about his on-the-air comments, but did not talk to Bradley. Lefebvre said the comments were intended to praise Josh Hamilton, who missed nearly four years of professional baseball with cocaine and alcohol additions, rather than tear down Bradley.

"It was a conversation about how Josh Hamilton has turned his life around and has been accountable for his mistakes," Lefebvre told The Associated Press. "Right now, it seems like the baseball world and fans are rooting for him. ... It doesn't seem like Milton Bradley has done the same thing in his life."

The oft-injured Bradley has a history of losing his temper.

He slammed a plastic bottle at the feet of a fan in the right-field seats at Dodger Stadium in 2004 after someone threw it on the field. With San Diego in the pennant chase last September, he tore the ACL in his right knee when he was spun to the ground by Padres manager Bud Black, who was trying to keep him from an umpire.

He was suspended for five games after slamming the bottle, and had a four-game suspension for tossing a bag of balls onto the field after an ejection. There was a dugout confrontation with Cleveland manager Eric Wedge during spring training in 2004 before getting traded to Los Angeles.

Bradley claimed umpire Mike Winters baited the player into the confrontation and directed a profanity at him last September. Winters was suspended the final five days of the regular season and didn't work the postseason.

"We weren't singling out Milton Bradley," Lefebvre said. "We also spent a lot of time complimenting Milton Bradley, but that's not what he heard when he was in the clubhouse.

"We weren't tearing up Milton Bradley. I told [Washington and Daniels] this wasn't a Milton Bradley rip session, but just based on the pictures we've seen in this series of him walking to the dugout all the way to right field, dropping his bat, making gestures to the fans in right field and above the dugout and taunting them. He's the only person in baseball I know that does that type of stuff."

didn't MB have a real rough childhood?

 

[wildkycat]

"Red Sox Nation"

has been in full effect the last two daysin Cincy.

mother %*@%@#@ were everywhere.











Bartolo Colon's fat %@*:





here's the reason we lost today:



Coco sitting down while Mike stinkin Lincoln gives up back-to-back homers in the 10th.

Ed V's a god damned beast.

 

[wildkycat]

i still can't believe how Brandon Phillips got robbed of a gold glove last year...dude just had a niiiiccceeee double play.

we still suck though.

 

[ooiron manoo]

"Red Sox Nation"

has been in full effect the last two days in Cincy.

mother %*@%@#@ were everywhere.
Everyone is a Red Sox fan now.....actually you can see people trying to find a way to be connected to the city of Boston,

.

I hate those "I spent a couple of months in Boston over the summer and became a big Red Sox/Celtics/Patriots fan"...

Props to those have been there from the start,

to those"fans" that started loving Boston sports teams this decade.

 

[N41D]

Figured I'd bump this up for wildKYcat in honor of this...

http://sports.yahoo.com/mlb/boxscore;_ylt=AsQeSoCBOw7ZsfvawjwQga6pu7YF?gid=280626114

There it is...

 

[wildkycat]

i feel so honored.

but here's what i said in the NL Central thread:

no it's not. buy yeah, you knew one was coming after 12 straight quality starts. he was just erratic, the strikes he threw were right down the middle, and he kept leaving the change up in the zone. he didn't even strike anyone out.

now we finally get to see how he responds after a bad outing, which for his sake will be at home.

didn't matter, we can't hit.

how's Hamilton's injury? he didn't break anything did he?

 

[atljunkie]

braves having no pitching and a depleted bench and only 3 games back from 1st?