Texas Ranger's: Why Failure was Inevitable

If your a Dallas sports fan than what happened friday evening at the Ballpark in Arlington shouldn't surprise you. We have had to deal with some of the most under-achieving teams in the Dallas-Ft.Worth area for awhile now. The Cowboys are always hyped up to be a super bowl contender and never seem to even make the playoffs. Yeah, at least the Rangers are making the playoffs again, but they can't seem to win the big game, and the Mavericks.....don't even get me started. That one championship was nice, but I don't see another one in the Dirk era.

If you went into the American League Wild Card game friday with high hopes as a Ranger's fan, than you aren't somebody who watches them every day. If you truly watched them down the stretch, the last game of the year against the A's felt eerily close to that of game six of the World Series last year against the St. Louis Cardinals. Yeah, we weren't out of it. But you just felt depleted. Josh can't hit the ball, our pitching sucks, Kinsler is making stupid errors, yeah I saw it all coming. The entire team was in free fall for awhile. We struggled almost all year against our division. They went 27-30 against teams from the A.L. West. That is absolutely pathetic. Were talking about a division with the Seattle Mariner's and the Oakland A's. I don't care what you say about Oakland. They had five rookies in the starting rotation and if your a back to back World Series team you don't lose to them eleven out of nineteen times. We couldn't ever win the big game this year. And I blame that on Josh Hamilton. I don't think I've ever put so many eggs in one basket. Yea, he'll hit four home runs in one game against Baltimore when it doesn't count but call on him when you really need him and he'll sit because he drank to much caffeine, or he'll just go up there and swing at the first three pitches. I hope this is the last time I see him in a Ranger's uniform, he doesn't care about the Rangers, or the Ranger's fans.