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Rangers Waive Josh Hamilton In Order To Try Again Next Spring
Josh Hamilton, with all of one minor-league at-bat in 2016, has been placed on unconditional release waivers by the Texas Rangers. No one is going to claim him; he hasn’t hit well or been healthy in a couple of years, and he’s still owed about $28 million this season and next. But this may not be th...

Don't Try To Surprise Adrian Beltre With A Beverage Shower Or He'll Fight You With A Broom
If you try to touch Adrian Beltre’s head, he’ll flip out. If you try to douse him in one or more jugs of celebratory post-game beverage, he’ll mount up, grab weapons, and ward you off with them....

Tottenham Manager's Feelings Toward Players After Last Season's Collapse: "I Wanted To Kill All Of Them"
When we last heard from Tottenham manager Mauricio Pochettino at the end of last season, he could barely contain his rage following Spurs’ embarrassing defeat to Newcastle, which capped what was almost a perfect season with yet another humiliating St. Totteringham’s Day. He has not forgotten that da...

Prince Fielder's Retirement Press Conference Was Sad As Hell
Rangers slugger Prince Fielder has been forced to retire from baseball at age 32. Fielder, who has been struggling at the plate this year, recently underwent his second spinal fusion surgery in the last three years, and doctors have told him that he is no longer physically capable of playing basebal...

Remember When Prince Fielder Slapped An Inside-The-Park Home Run?
According to Ken Rosenthal, the Rangers will announce tomorrow that Prince Fielder is going to retire. Fielder had neck surgery a few weeks ago, and it’s apparently going to keep him from playing again. He will retire with 319 dingers, exactly the same amount as his father Cecil had in his career....

The Battle Over The Rangers' Ballpark Scam Has Officially Begun
It is not unreasonable, I don’t believe, to portray the pending fight over a new $1 billion stadium for the Texas Rangers as a proxy war—or at least a referendum—over the public financing of stadiums in America. Here is every variable that should make sports fans recoil in horror at the now-accepted...

Elvis Andrus Pranks Michael Young With Mask, Almost Gets Punched
Former Texas Rangers infielder Michael Young was inducted into the team’s Hall of Fame Saturday, and as he drove around the field, a player in a Saw mask popped out of the dugout. As Young cocked his fist, everyone learned that he’s not a fan of clowns, or clown-like things....

Spectators Hospitalized After Driveshaft Goes Flying Into Crowd At Demolition Derby
Three people went to the hospital after a truck’s driveshaft was catapulted into the crowd at a Utah demolition derby. The videos are a terror:...

Prince Fielder Will Miss The Rest Of The Season
Rangers DH Prince Fielder, who has been out since July 18 with neck troubles, will undergo surgery and miss the rest of the 2016 MLB season. Rangers GM Jon Daniels confirmed the prognosis to the Dallas Morning News this evening after Levi Weaver reported it earlier. ...

Innovative Boy At Rangers Game Uses Sunglasses To Pick, Eat Boogers
FSN reporter Emily Jones spoke with Olympic fencer Gerek Meinhardt at Thursday’s Texas Rangers game, but let’s talk about what happened in the background of that interview. A boy in a camo shirt discovered how to be an innovator....

Joe Girardi Played Himself
There was a very weird baseball game in New York last night. The Yankees led the Rangers 6-5 heading into the ninth inning of a game that had been waterlogged by rainstorms since the fifth. Yankees closer Aroldis Chapman entered the storm to try and close things out, but walked the first batter he f...

"Unprecedented" Clause In Rangers Ballpark Deal Will Sneakily Cost Taxpayers A Few More Hundred Million Dollars
The Texas Rangers are getting a new stadium, because duh, who wants to play in an obsolete 22-year-old ballpark? The official announcement said the costs of the billion-dollar stadium will be split right down the middle. “The deal is 50-50,” Arlington Mayor Jeff Williams claimed. “The city would put...

Rougned Odor Still Isn't Sorry
In the immediate aftermath of delivering what is perhaps the most iconic punch in baseball history, Rangers second baseman Rougned Odor was not sorry about slugging Blue Jays outfielder Jose Bautista in the jaw. What about now, though, after Odor’s served a seven-game suspension and had a few weeks ...

Prince Fielder Teaches Millennials Valuable Lesson About Ballpark Cell Phone Usage
Prince Fielder is a large baseball man who hit himself a large donger in the fourth inning of this afternoon’s Rangers win. Fielder sent the ball arching past the right field pole and, somehow, directly into this fan’s phone....

Ian Desmond Has A Goddamn Cannon For An Arm
Ian Desmond entered this year as a cautionary tale about the perils of turning down big money and betting on yourself, but the man has been revitalized as an outfielder for the Rangers. He’s hitting .310 and has a WAR of 2.1. Desmond also made one of the best throws of the season this evening to nab...

Rougned Odor Smacks Walk-Off, Gets Smacked
Rougned Odor can’t even hit a walk-off without getting in a scrap. After he stroked a dong in the third tonight, Odor knocked a two-out double off the wall above Colby Rasmus in the bottom of the ninth to score Adrian Beltre and give the Rangers a 6-5 win. Because Odor apparently magnetizes hands to...

Nomar Mazara Hit The Devils Out Of This Baseball
Angels pitcher Hector Santiago unwisely tried to throw a breaking ball past Nomar Mazara, a big strong rookie who has been doing great things for the Texas Rangers. The ball didn’t really break, because the universe does not reward trickery, and Mazara cleansed it:...

The Padres Made Another Highlight With A Walk-Off Walk Against The Dodgers
If you’re a Padres fan, these are the moments you live for: Self-immolation by a Dodgers pitcher that leads to a walk-off 11th-inning win. This canny piece of non-hitting came late Saturday and includes all the drama of a game-winning hit but with the hold-yer-breath matador’s flourish that Yangervi...

Report: Rangers Want New Modern Ballpark To Replace Current Modern Ballpark
Just what the fresh hell is this?...
