Ehsan Azad
Antlers Sawed Off
You
know that feeling when you go out with a really hot girl for the first time?
It’s really fun and exciting at first. You love showing off the girl to your
friends and brag about her all the time. She’s hot, fun, smart and your family
loves her. Then her flaws kick in and you seem ready to break up with her, but
she still has something about her that makes you stay. Then you wake up one morning
and that pretty face is gone and the fun girl you knew is just flat out psychotic.
That is what Rangers fans have been
going through the last two years with their team
Earlier this week, the two time
defending American League champion had three chances to close out the streaking
Oakland A’s. They had the division lead since April 9th, so they
definitely were going to close out it out. In reality, they were swept by Oakland and
lost the division on the last day of the season. If it weren't for the new rule
in baseball where two wild cards were allowed in the postseason, the rangers
might not make the playoffs. Thankfully they have a sudden death playoff game today
with the Baltimore Orioles to get in. But, ask yourself this, do they deserve
to be in it at all?
After
one of the most explosive starts in franchise history, the Rangers were a
roller coaster all season. Never really playing to their full potential and
allowing the division lead to shrink and expand multiple times. It was just a
really off year for most of the players. Josh Hamilton after leading the April
and May as one of the hottest players has slumped for the majority of the
season and brought up effort concerns towards the end. Outside of Yu Darvish
and Matt Harrison, the pitching has been sub par and sometimes laughable. The
clutch gene that helped the Rangers go to two straight World Series appearances
has disappeared. And add on one of the biggest collapses in Baseball, by losing
the division on the last day helps make the point on why they don’t deserve to
be in the playoffs.
Bud
Selig helped the Rangers out this year by adding a second wild card team to the
format. They have a chance to erase this bad regular season by just beating
Baltimore tonight at home. They do that, that claw and antler swag well return
and they could be a threat to anyone in the Postseason. If they lose, begin
sawing off the antlers for next year.
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