Originally Posted by
Bigdog13
Glm47, Congrats bro. The Cards played great! It was awesome that a hometown boy was the hero. The Rangers were within 1 strike 2 times and didn't get it done. If you come within 1 strike of a World Championship twice in one game and don't close the deal you don't deserve to be World Series Champs. Now comes the Pujols drama although I have a feeling he stays in St. Louis.
Rangers fans cheer up. The new owner that is partners with Ryan is LOADED. The last 20 years despite being in a top TV market the Rangers have been getting middle market money. Well they signed a huge top-5 market TV contract and with the new dollars coming in they are going to be in very good shape. Ryan and his partners are talking about spending big dollars in the next few offseasons. Won't be at Yankees level (who is?) but they are going to be way up there. Couple that with a VERY good farm system and we are in great shape. I hope they make a run at a front line starter, Buehrle?, and make a run at Fielder although I have a feeling he goes to Chicago. BUT Fielder might also like coming to Texas and hitting towards that short home run porch on a team that is already loaded. We'll see. I feel good. The Giants won it last year and then didn't make the playoffs this year. The Rangers are young with tons of prospects, they aren't going anywhere.
Doesn't make the pain of Thursday night go away but at least there are lots of reasons to be optomistic. Besides 2 and a half years ago the Rangers were floundering and being auctioned off to the highest bidder at 1:00AM and now they are back to back American League Champs.
Anyways, Great Job Cards!! Class organization.