The Officially Official Off Season Thread (2016)

[WastinSomeTime]

Top 10 Texas Rangers free agents of all time: Nos. 10-6 include Yu Darvish and, yes, A-Rod | SportsDay

I often disagree with Evan on his evaluations of players and this is no exception. His order is out of whack and there is no mention of Palmeiro or Zisk.

All you Ranger fans just go down to the Cruz piece and watch the video. What a special team that was.

Everyone and have a safe and Merry Christmas.

 

[scotsman1948]

Hey wait...I care way less than you about me not caring that you don't care that I don't care that you don't care that I don't care about you not caring that I don't care about you not caring about me not caring that you don't care!

i don't care

 

[jta4437]

That is what I thought when you first responded to what I said. Way too much effort for not caring. Maybe you just wanted everyone to know you didn't care. Hard to figure out. Oh well.

I said I didn't care much, not that I didn't care (at all). I obviously cared enough to type one sentence, hardly a world beating effort in itself

I just wanted to point out the silliness of getting bent out of shape about an opinion piece, that was all, as I've stated multiple times

Cue your usual "I know you are but what am I" response

 

[saddles]

Hey wait...I care way less than you about me not caring that you don't care that I don't care that you don't care that I don't care about you not caring that I don't care about you not caring about me not caring that you don't care!

Greatness. Merry Christmas Rev.

 

[Bmurph]

#whofreakingcares

 

[RevSader]

This was pretty funny.

 

[DT LUNA]

#whofreakingcares

cares what?

 

[scotsman1948]

Happy Boxing Day Everyone

 

[saddles]

100 days until Opening Day!

 

[saddles]

After a half-century, the party’s over for Randy Galloway

I have disagreed with Randy a lot over the past few years, but I have a lot of respect for his career as a whole. He went way overboard in wanting Bobby V. fired. He ignored the ineptitude of Wash and he overly criticized JD a lot. If we could average out his opinion of JD and most every other media member's opinion of JD we might get a fair one.

I always was a bigger fan of Randy's radio show than I was his writing. His show was the best thing in that time slot after Brad Sham quit doing a daily radio show. For those of us who couldn't get enough Rangers and Cowboys talk his radio show kept us going.

I know a whole lot of folks can't stand him, but I appreciate Randy's career here.

 

[RevSader]

After a half-century, the party’s over for Randy Galloway

I have disagreed with Randy a lot over the past few years, but I have a lot of respect for his career as a whole. He went way overboard in wanting Bobby V. fired. He ignored the ineptitude of Wash and he overly criticized JD a lot. If we could average out his opinion of JD and most every other media member's opinion of JD we might get a fair one.

I always was a bigger fan of Randy's radio show than I was his writing. His show was the best thing in that time slot after Brad Sham quit doing a daily radio show. For those of us who couldn't get enough Rangers and Cowboys talk his radio show kept us going.

I know a whole lot of folks can't stand him, but I appreciate Randy's career here.

His act wore thin long ago. He was paid to be a heel and antagonize. Thankfully people crave actual journalism now.

 

[saddles]

His act wore thin long ago. He was paid to be a heel and antagonize. Thankfully people crave actual journalism now.

I miss many of the journalists we used to have in the area back when we had 3 local newspapers. Guys like Frank Luksa, Jim Reeves, and Blackie Sherrod.

 

[donaldson79]

Cowlishaw: Why Rangers discussed Cowboys' Hardy before giving Matt Bush, recently released from prison, a last chance | SportsDay

 

[DT LUNA]

SIDE BAR: Duane lives in Garland where eight people were killed last night in a horrible tornado. Prayers for everyone there as well as several other towns. Hoping to hear from Duane soon. Keep him in your thoughts.

 

[Bmurph]

SIDE BAR: Duane lives in Garland where eight people were killed last night in a horrible tornado. Prayers for everyone there as well as several other towns. Hoping to hear from Duane soon. Keep him in your thoughts.

Thoughts and prayers for Duane and his loved ones, hope all are safe. Prayers for any others affected by the tornadoes and for the folks that lost their lives and their friends and families.

 

[Bmurph]

Taylor Teagarden?

Documentary Reportedly Links Ryan Howard, Ryan Zimmerman, Taylor Teagarden To PED Claims

By Mark Polishuk | December 27, 2015 at 12:50am CST

UPDATE, 12:50am: MLBTR has a statement from William Burck of Quinn Emanuel, the attorney for both Howard and Zimmerman:

“It’s inexcusable and irresponsible that Al Jazeera would provide a platform and broadcast outright lies about Mr. Howard and Mr. Zimmerman. The extraordinarily reckless claims made against our clients in this report are completely false and rely on a source who has already recanted his claims. We will go to court to hold Al Jazeera and other responsible parties accountable for smearing our clients’ good names.”

12:42am: Ryan Howard, Ryan Zimmerman and Taylor Teagarden are among the athletes named as allegedly having received banned PEDs in an undercover news documentary from Al Jazeera television airing later today at 8pm central time. Travis Waldron and Ryan Grim of the Huffington Post have detailed some of the documentary’s major news points after watching an advance copy.

Al Jazeera conducted a “monthslong” investigative report on PEDs in global sports, sending British hurdler Liam Collins undercover. Though we have not yet seen the documentary breaking this news, the Huffington Post report suggests the PED claims come from Collins’ undercover conversations with a pharmacist named Charlie Sly, who allegedly worked at an Indiana-based anti-aging clinic called the Guyer Institute in 2011. Waldron and Grim report that Sly told Collins that he sold Howard and Zimmerman a hormone supplement known as Delta-2, which is both specifically designated to evade drug tests and included on Major League Baseball’s list of banned substances. Teagarden, meanwhile, is reportedly shown in an undercover video discussing how he took PEDs in the previous season.

Howard and Zimmerman are said to have denied using the drug when asked to comment by Al-Jazeera, and several NFL players named in the report (including such notables as Peyton Manning, James Harrison and Mike Neal) also denied using PEDs. Sly himself told Al-Jazeera that his prior statements (or, at least, the characterization of them) were “absolutely false and incorrect.” Sly added that the recordings were made “without [his] knowledge or consent.” In comments made to ESPN, Sly says he was a student intern at the Guyer Institute in 2013, rather than 2o11 as alleged by Al Jazeera. Sly told ESPN he was “trying to pull one over on Collins to see if he had any idea of what he was talking about,” dropping names of athletes who were not actually clients.

None of the three baseball players have ever been suspended for PED use or failed any known drug tests. It is yet unknown how MLB or the NFL may respond to this documentary, if at all, though if the allegations are proven, Howard, Zimmerman and Teagarden would presumably be subject to the 80-game suspension given to the first-time offenders of MLB’s drug policy.

 

[Duane1952]

We're doing fine. Very close call. Tornado missed by about 300 yards. Very scary. Thanks DT and Murph.

 

[romeo212000]

After a half-century, the party’s over for Randy Galloway

I have disagreed with Randy a lot over the past few years, but I have a lot of respect for his career as a whole. He went way overboard in wanting Bobby V. fired. He ignored the ineptitude of Wash and he overly criticized JD a lot. If we could average out his opinion of JD and most every other media member's opinion of JD we might get a fair one.

I always was a bigger fan of Randy's radio show than I was his writing. His show was the best thing in that time slot after Brad Sham quit doing a daily radio show. For those of us who couldn't get enough Rangers and Cowboys talk his radio show kept us going.

I know a whole lot of folks can't stand him, but I appreciate Randy's career here.

Galloway is a clown.

 

[Bmurph]

We're doing fine. Very close call. Tornado missed by about 300 yards. Very scary. Thanks DT and Murph.

Bet that was scary, glad to hear you're safe and all is good.

 

[donaldson79]

Thankfully people crave actual journalism now.

You've got to be kidding. There's more faux journalism now than there's ever been before, and it's getting worse.

But as far as Galloway is concerned, his radio show from years ago was very fun and entertaining.

I was out of the country, for the most part anyway, from 2005-2011 and was shocked at what he'd become once I got back in mid 2011.