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"DO NOT look at the scoreboard!"The win came behind a good outing from Yu Darvish. He pitched into the seventh inning and allowed a lone run. His off-speed stuff was located better than starts past although he's still not locating altogether well allowing five walks. He's getting sharper. Gone from a spoon to a butter knife.
Of course, we might treating Darvish a little harshly. He was pitching against, arguably, the second best team and line-up in the American League on the road. He kept Miggie Cabrea, Prince Fielder and Delmon Young in pretty good check all night. Not many starters can say that.
Also happening last night was another loss from the California Angels, this one behind a start from C.J. Wilson against the Oakland Athletics. It was a start we've seen from Wilson a bunch: Pitches well, but undone by an error and walks. Simple as that. He'll have better luck going forward.
A growing trend amongst Rangers pundits on Twitter is scoreboard watching, basically seeing how deep a hole the Angels can dig for themselves. The lead is seven games now.
Baseball writer Kevin Goldstein criticized via Twitter scoreboard watching in April and fellow scribe Jason Parks said that Rangers fans should "act like they've been there before." Note: Parks is a fan of the Texas Rangers.
The criticism was probably pointed, rather directly, at Rangers writer/superfan Jamey Newberg, who had a snarky comment back at Goldstein.
Parks wrote a well-crafted (the norm, for him) response this morning about the controversy stating that he simply "agreed" with Goldstein's comment and it becoming some sort of attack on Rangers fandom was not necessarily intended. These incidents create a certain divorce from fans as has his job as a writer and sort of journo-scout.
Fact is, Rangers fans do not know how to act. Rangers fans know one thing: The Dallas Cowboys. They know winning, championships. Rangers fans get ALL of their sports news from ESPN, which has zero problem with taking a quote from a player, coach or owner out of context to create the idea of news.
Three years ago, you could sit anywhere in the Ballpark in Arlington you wanted. In fact, you could lay out flat on three or four sets if it appealed to you. Rangers fans know fan etiquette as much as they know physics. All Rangers fans know is that the Angels were "guaranteed" some sort of level of respect by "media" despite the fact that almost every baseball writer picked the Rangers to win the American League West.
Fans, of any city, know one thing well: Reaction and "disrespect." Fandom is pretty idiotic. Without attempting to look completely ignorant they respond and react to low-hanging fruit.
Of course, I'm sort of saying this about Newberg, who knows a crapload about the Texas Rangers and baseball. He is also superfan No. 1. If the Rangers could win the division in April, no one would wish it more. Newberg knows more about baseball and Rangers than 99.9 percent of every doofus on Twitter or season-ticket holder at the Ballpark. Yet, at his core, he's a fan.
Goldstein and Parks are right. Newberg's not necessarily wrong. I guess there's something to be said for decorum. Like acting like you've been there before.
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