Positive spin on Ryan takes negative turn

The Rangers might soon find themselves to be the second best team in Texas.

He's gonna be the scapegoat for their failure to win the WS when they had the chance...said this last year their window of opportunity was closing fast and now it may be closed.....

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Originally posted 08:55 AM ET  03.11 by Sgt. Schultz

He's gonna be the scapegoat for their failure to win the WS when they had the chance...said this last year their window of opportunity was closing fast and now it may be closed.....

Agreed. The Angels have probably jumped over them.

The Rangers are idiots if they let the icon go.

He was getting more face time during games than the team on the field. That plays in to it.

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Originally posted 08:55 AM ET  03.11 by Sgt. Schultz

He's gonna be the scapegoat for their failure to win the WS when they had the chance...said this last year their window of opportunity was closing fast and now it may be closed.....

Which would be ironic - because I feel he may have been one of the reasons for them even getting to the WS. Just an opine - but he can be demanding and that can actually "Feed" an organization....

strikes me that there's a positive correlation between ryan joining the team and the team becoming successful. not that anyone should pay attention to that.

I hate to say it, but the last time they were good before, Dubya ran the team. Not a fan of their politics, but those are good baseball people.

-- Jim Fregosi

w2hen you are no longer needed,,,is time to move on,,,,

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Originally posted 04:51 PM ET  03.11 by alacran

when

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Nolan would fit either with the yankees or the angels,,,as a pitching coach and why not?? nothing wrong with that,,

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Originally posted 09:44 AM ET  03.11 by I.M. Hipp

The Rangers are idiots if they let the icon go.

rangers only care about their own interest,,should they shared with Ryan??there is no need for anything like that!!!!

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Originally posted 09:25 AM ET  03.11 by The Moose

Agreed. The Angels have probably jumped over them.

angels are in desperate position gaspin for any quality air,a top quality pitching coach is a most,,,could the angels scratch the wall before passing on Ryan's availability as a pitching coach???

In Game 3 of the playoffs against The Braves in 1969, Nolan Ryan was brought in by Gil Hodges, in the third inning and Nobody out, he struck out Hank Aaron, Ralph Garr and Orlano Cepeda, that moment in Baseball will forever be known as The Birth of Their Championship at that point in time most Met fans didn't care about The Orioles who were about to clean their clock out, they knew (Met Fans) Seaver and Kooz then bring on the booze!! Having Nolan in the Bull Pen was sweet!

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Originally posted 05:55 PM ET  03.11 by Not4Nutten

In Game 3 of the playoffs against The Braves in 1969, Nolan Ryan was brought in by Gil Hodges, in the third inning and Nobody out, he struck out Hank Aaron, Ralph Garr and Orlano Cepeda, that moment in Baseball will forever be known as The Birth of Their Championship at that point in time most Met fans didn't care about The Orioles who were about to clean their clock out, they knew (Met Fans) Seaver and Kooz then bring on the booze!! Having Nolan in the Bull Pen was sweet!

Ryan was young and very green at that point....batters were afraid to get in the box against him because he could throw 100mph and was unpredictably wild.....for all the strikeouts he has ....a lot of people don't realize he also has the record most walks.....

Their timing on this is horrible. I don't see the Rangers positioned nearly as well as they've been in the last few years. Someone other than Ryan will be taking the blame this year if they don't even make the playoffs. You'd better be positioned to do well when you're forcing out an icon.

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Originally posted 08:43 AM ET  03.11 by dkredsox1

The Rangers might soon find themselves to be the second best team in Texas.

You dream big I'll say that. It's going to take the Astros at least five years to get where the Rangers are at!

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Originally posted 11:09 AM ET  03.11 by Lex-LOU-thor

Which would be ironic - because I feel he may have been one of the reasons for them even getting to the WS. Just an opine - but he can be demanding and that can actually "Feed" an organization....

I see him as a figurehead, nothing more. I thinks he wants more. His statements wanting pitchers to go deeper in games was a great line and fans loved it, but tht is not what actually occured. That is but a shallow example. I think he wanted more actual control, that he didn't and wasn't going to get.
He is/was a great figurehead.

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Originally posted 07:30 PM ET  03.11 by robertclemente21

You dream big I'll say that. It's going to take the Astros at least five years to get where the Rangers are at!

Longer, you are being kind.

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Originally posted 06:37 PM ET  03.11 by Sgt. Schultz

Ryan was young and very green at that point....batters were afraid to get in the box against him because he could throw 100mph and was unpredictably wild.....for all the strikeouts he has ....a lot of people don't realize he also has the record most walks.....

The walks helped his Ks, he was never asked to change. The ball is coming at 100. it might be right over the plate or in your ear...go get em...