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Watching your team miss out on glory by the skin of their teeth is like the stages of grief.
Emotions run high. And it takes time to reach the end.
The topic regarding the Texas Rangers is whether or not 2011 was a "successful" season.
You'd have to be a complete retard to not consider it a success. In any season, for any team, going to the World Series is a success. I'd go ahead and consider making it to the playoffs a success.
It's not so much about standards, expectations or how or when the season ended. It's mostly about the organization, the fans and both strains of history. People tend to hold the Rangers up to the Dallas Cowboys and vice versa. Like comparing apples to prostitutes. Two different teams, two fanbases with different attitudes, two different histories. It's simply not the same no matter how hard you try to fit the square peg in the round hole
Here's 10 reasons why the 2011 Texas Rangers were successful:
The Average Attendance In 2008 Was A Generous 24,000
Chances are, you weren't one of them. Wasn't so very long ago that seats at the Ballpark were plentiful, despite the Rangers being relatively decent (.500 ball) and having Josh Hamilton, Mike Young, Ian Kinsler and others in tow. If you didn't care then, why should you care now?
It's A Franchise That Increased Its Playoff Win Total By 1700 Percent In Two Seasons
Imagine that. The franchise moved in 1972. It took 24 years just to get into the playoffs and win a post-season game. It took 38 years to win two playoff games and a playoff series. My dad has older shoes than the Rangers. I still have shirts in my closet that I wore in 1996. The Rangers went this season where'd never, ever gone before. Despite all the MVP awards, the no-hitters, batting titles, jaw-dropping numbers and all the bullshit that's truly meant nothing in the grand scheme, and we can't appreciate a fucking World Series. What a bunch of assholes.
The Team's Retired Numbers Are A Dead Manager, A Black Guy That Never Played And A Hurler That Spent A Vast Majority Of His Career Elsewhere
Jackie Robinson. Johnny Oates. Nolan Ryan. Like comparing American history to Chinese history. Not only have the Rangers kinda stunk for 40 years, but they can't even find any honest guys to retire a freaking number (something teams LOVE to do). And one guy had to break the color barrier, another had to die of cancer and the other beat up Robin Ventura and spent the twilight of his career in Ranger white. One Player Had A Home Run Ball Bounce Off His Head
Not only did that ball hit Jose Canseco off the head and go over the fence for a home run, but he didn't really seem that upset about it. And then he was put into pitch and tore up his arm. Shit. We need 10 World Series to erase from our brains.
Tom Hicks
Enough said. He's run three organizations into the ground. No team that's had such awful ownership in their recent past has won a world championship.
Rusty Greer Is Probably The Best Left Fielder They've Ever Had Isn't that weird to anyone else? Nothing against Rusty. A fine player. But in the annals of Texas Rangers baseball, he's the best we can come up with at left field? It's A Franchise That Once Had A Baseball With A Cowboy Hat As A Logo
I actually like this logo. But kinda in the same way I like watching Hanna-Barbera cartoons. More nostalgic than anything. At the end of the day, it's a baseball wearing a cowboy hat. It's A Franchise That Had A Manager Quit After One Game
Eddie Stanky, in 1977. In fact, the Rangers had four managers that season: Frank Lucchesi, Stanky, Connie Ryan and Billy Hunter. Stanky was brought in after Lucchesi was assaulted by Lenny Randle over being benched. Lucchesi was fired. Stanky won his only game as manager and quit after having second thoughts on leaving the college game. Overall, the Rangers have three managers (Stanky, Pat Corrales, Del Wilber) to have 1-0 records with the franchise. If you are that fucked up, you savor every World Series you can. In 39 Years The Franchise Is 3103-3240
They've had nine seasons of 90+ losses. They've had 17 winning season, one of which was a strike-shortened year. The Yankees are 8915-6514 with 40 pennants and 27 World Series. Now they can take things for granted. The Franchise Was Auctioned Off In A Courtroom
Remember? A year ago. After two years of borrowing from the till to pay the bills and have enough balls for practice? Then the embarrassing scene as Mark Cuban battled Chuck Greenberg 'til the early morning hours trying to gain control? It was a fucking travesty. An embarrassment. The deepest pockmark on this franchise. We don't deserve World Series. They should go to teams that have their shit together.
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