Series Thread: Opening week is here! Rangers host defending AL Champs Cleveland Indians

[romeo212000]

Painting.

 

[darrylgann]

Good eye Carlos

 

[Duane1952]

Looked safe to me.

 

[DT LUNA]

Mazzzzz

 

[darrylgann]

Went further than I thought. Good going Nomar

 

[DT LUNA]

The out on Cargo hurt after Maz dbl off the wall

 

[TheRangerDude]

I'm getting all excited... is TAG gone?

 

[TheRangerDude]

Oh and Gomez looked safe on replay... what was that?

 

[DT LUNA]

Oh and Gomez looked safe on replay... what was that?

Inconclusive I guess.

 

[TheRangerDude]

Inconclusive I guess.

Guess so

 

[Duane1952]

ODOR.

 

[DT LUNA]

THE Roog

 

[darrylgann]

And so it begins! Roog!!!

 

[TheRangerDude]

nice roogy

 

[darrylgann]

I'm getting all excited... is TAG gone?

Not entirely, I think. But definitely scaling back his schedule with them.

 

[TheRangerDude]

Not entirely, I think. But definitely scaling back his schedule with them.

I see. Well, not getting opening day can't be a good sign for him. Hopefully he is doing well health wise though.

 

[PhantomWarrior]

Happy opening day. Nice to see Roogie run up the count too.

 

[fordman84]

@Shaggy @fordman84

Still looking for that Roogie/Bautista smilie, Hammer left before making it happen

ritz just sent a photo to Shaggy for a Penn State smilie. If you send him the photo he will copy it down. I don't know how to load it to the server.

 

[DT LUNA]

Cargo. Houston are ya watching?

 

[saddles]

Sources: Players support Rangers’ decision to ship out Kela

Details started to emerge Saturday when Ken Rosenthal of Fox Sports first reported that the incident that provoked the Rangers’ decision on Kela took place on the final day of spring camp in Surprise, Ariz.

But sources provided additional details, with one calling Kela a clubhouse cancer and saying that the players overwhelmingly support the decision to ship him out.

Sources said that Kela didn’t take his final spring outing seriously, rushing through his inning and not throwing with his typical velocity. Other pitchers in the game took exception to the performance, and Kela heard from some of them and others who weren’t part of the game.

Their message was the same: That kind of display is unprofessional and unacceptable.

Kela responded by explaining that he didn’t want to be injured on the final day of spring training and that he was just working on location. Others weren’t buying it.

“He has an excuse for everything,” one source said.

Kela later “blew up again” and was involved in multiple heated exchanges with more established teammates. The right-hander’s behavior was deemed so unacceptable that the Rangers didn’t allow him to fly from Arizona on the team charter.