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The Texas Rangers are one game under .500 in a division which boasts the first or second best club in the American League right now. The Los Angeles Angels have a league high .609 winning percentage and are 7.5 games ahead of the Rangers. This time last year Texas was 23-39 and 17.5 games out first place. Over the past eight seasons the franchise has had one winning season and… Continue reading

Zebras,

We are in the midst of redesigning this curious zebra domain. Planning to launch sometime in Mid-June. At that point we will return to publishing work daily. At this point, we will still be publishing Feingold’s weekly baseball column early in the week - and most likely another piece or two before each week’s end.

Thanks for Reading,
Keith Gooberman

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Everything is going our way now,” Ray’s catcher Dioner Navarro said, “we want to keep doing it for the whole season.”

Since entering the American League East in 1998, the most wins Tampa has had in a season is 70, and that was in their first season. In the their ten full years of existence they have lost at least 90 games each season. However, 2008 has been very promising… Continue reading

“I’m excited,” said the 22-year-old Chamberlain, a stellar setup man since he was called up from the minors last August. “I have zero question marks.”

“I saw what Beckett did to us as a young pitcher,” Hank said referring to Beckett’s dominance of the Yankees in the 2003 World Series, when Beckett pitched the Marlins to the world championship, posting a 1.10 ERA over 161/3 innings at the age of 23… Continue reading

“We knew Lance Berkman was the hottest hitter in the Major Leagues, and we saw that [Friday] night,” Rangers manager Ron Washington said, “we threw a couple of pitches on the ground, and he still got the head of the bat on them.”

The Houston Astros started May winning five straight games, and have not looked back. So far they are 12-4 for the month (with sweeps… Continue reading

With all of the reality shows and crappy procedural dramas that dominate the TV landscape these days, one can easily be tricked into thinking that this kind of shit is all there is anymore (or, even worse, be tricked into enjoying that very shit). While this may largely be true, every now and then a show pops up

One would think, at this point in history, that the Democratic Party would be riding high on a torrent of good will. The President has historically low approval ratings, the country is mired in an (GOP-masterminded!) unpopular and interminable war, anti-Americanism is prevalent abroad, the economy and currency are on the brink of nosediving – basically the world hates us and we are starting to hate ourselves. There… Continue reading

“I’ve said it once and I’ll say it again. The one-year, one-and-done situation is a horrendous way to go in the world of basketball.” - Dick Vitale

“They let me know they could help me, they put it out there on the table: ‘If you come with us, we can help your mom, brothers and sister with whatever they need.’ That’s all I cared about. I didn’t know the rules… Continue reading

Although the picture of my chicken curry looks more like a chicken slathered in gravy - the sauce you see here packs a punch fueled by ginger, garlic, and a variety of toasted Indian spices. While this dish reads as a difficult dish, the hard work is paid off by the intense flavor of the finished product. Plus, it’s fucking chicken curry, a dish thousands of years old from… Continue reading