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Saturday, July 17, 2010
Bengie Molina on cycle: "Being slow has never been a joke for me"
http://rangersblog.dallasnews.com/archives/2010/07/bengie-molina-on-cycle-bei...
Posted at 11:02 PM on Fri., Jul. 16, 2010 BOSTON - Sure, it wounds like the ultimate punch line to the ultimate slow catcher joke. Bengie Molina pulls of perhaps the most unlikely triple in baseball history, then limps off the field with a quadriceps injury. Only thing, to Bengie Molina being slow is laughing matter. And so Friday, in the wake of the fifth cycle in Rangers history, Molina talked more about laying it on the line than about punchlines. "I'm not a stats guys, but this is an individual accomplishment that makes me very happy," said Molina, who went 4-for-4 with a go-ahead grand slam in the Rangers' 8-4 win Friday. "For more than eleven years, I've been criticized as the slowed guy in baseball. To pull off the cycle was personally very satisfying. "Being slow has never been a joke for me. I don't want to be slow. I want to be as fast as I can. It's just something I don't do well. But I think I do a lot of things that pretty well. I can catch, throw the ball to second, call a game, get some hits and I'm good in the clubhouse. I don't make fun of other people for what they can't do. You have to live it to know how it feels, but it's always affected me." Molina singled in the second inning Friday, then doubled in the fourth. With the Rangers tied at three with Boston in the fifth and struggling to find hits with runners in scoring position, Molina delivered the fifth grand slam of his career to the deepest part of the ballpark. He called the grand slam his "favorite" moment of the night because it put the Rangers ahead. Then he led off the eighth with another long fly ball to center field that kicked off the glove of Eric Patterson. Molina had looked up at the ball going to first and slipped, injuring the quadriceps but kept pushing. The ball rolled into the triangle in center field and he reached third standing up. He came out during Chris Davis' at-bat. He will be re-evaluated on Saturday. When he came off the field, it was to a dugout swarming with smiles and laughter, though nobody was laughing at Molina's cycle. They were laughing with him. "We were very happy for Bengie," said 3B Michael Young. "He probably doesn't get many opportunities to hit for the cycle and I was just glad we were here to be able to shake his hand. He had a heck of a ballgame. He's been a heck of teammate. We were happy for him."Bengie Molina on cycle: "Being slow has never been a joke for me"
Friday, June 12, 2009
Ron Washington outlasts Bill Parcells, Avery Johnson and Dave Tippett
(FROM Star-Telegram.com)
http://www.star-telegram.com/sports/columnists/randy_galloway/story/1429443.html
Ron Washington outlasts Bill Parcells, Avery Johnson and Dave Tippett
BY RANDY GALLOWAY
rgalloway@star-telegram.com
So now he’s the senior member of the fraternity.
For the past three Aprils, there has been some serious doubt — particularly April of ’08 — if Ron Washington would last the first month of the baseball season. Now he has outlasted them all on the local coach/manager depth chart.
This is the same Ron Washington, of course, whose job security status in Arlington has often been defined as more day-to-day than year-to-year.
But on Nov. 6, 2006, The Wash was the surprise — no, make that shocking — Rangers managerial hire by Tom Hicks and Jon Daniels. It was considered an interesting reward for a then 54-year-old baseball lifer who had never been given a serious sniff by any other major league team when it came to manager, including the 11 seasons he spent in Oakland as a respected infield coach.
The local fraternity landscape at the time looked like this:
Bill Parcells was the Cowboys’ head coach. A legendary name in his game, and his team was about to embark on a four-game winning streak, making the record 8-4 going into, gulp, the December stretch run.
Avery Johnson was the head coach of the Mavericks, a team still in recovery mode after an NBA Finals collapse. But for the first time ever, the franchise had gotten to the Finals.
Dave Tippett of the Stars was coming off a 53-win season, and on his way to a 50-win year. The future looked bright for Dave. On Thursday, Dave was fired after seven years and six seasons (an NHL lockout is mixed in) as head coach on the hockey scene.
Kind of strange, huh, that it’s ol’ Wash who is still employed?
In the beginning he was labeled a yes-man hire for Daniels, and there was probably some truth in that. Regardless, that put Washington in a bind in the clubhouse, where key players also had the same yes-man thought. That theory alone placed a bull’s eye on the new skipper.
Yet, then came Nolan Ryan, who was placed in charge of all things baseball by Hicks in February of ’08. With that move, Hicks made sure to extend Daniels’ GM contract, but there was no such courtesy for Washington, who was originally hired with only a two-year contract, followed by club options for two more years.
I’d have bet 50-to-1 Mine That Bird in the Derby before betting Washington would survive a year under Ryan.
This week, almost a season and a half later, the Rangers announced the contractual option for Ron had been picked up for 2010. And that was also me the other day, lamenting how Washington was really being given no reward (it was only the club option) for a job pretty well done. Do right by the man and tack on another year, meaning a new contract extension for 2011.
It comes down to one thing:
Despite the many opportunities to quit on Washington, the Rangers haven’t. Maybe Michael Young deserves some credit for that, as the unquestioned clubhouse leader. But not even when Wash found himself caught in the middle of that move-to-third base flap last winter, did Young turn on the manager.
Wisely, Ron privately worked hard to repair what was briefly some hard feelings by Michael toward Washington. And Young was quickly receptive as the manager mended the relationship.
But more than anything, Wash had to sell Nolan. "The players respond to Ron. They play for Ron," Ryan said this week when the club option thing for 2010 was announced.
An ESPN.com column came out last week on Washington by Howard Bryant. It was a sympathetic piece on how Wash was a lame duck manager (at the time) despite being in first place in the division, and at the time having the best record in the American League.
I don’t know Howard Bryant, and with this following comment, Howard obviously doesn’t know the Rangers’ situation:
"... the hiring of Ryan by owner Tom Hicks rang of old-school cronyism."
Actually, Howard, it rang of desperation for a franchise quickly falling off the local map as a ticket-buying destination.
But the writer, again being very sympathetic to Washington over the then-contractual situation, was upset that Ryan "further isolated Washington by forcing him to fire his bench coach — longtime friend Art Howe — and replace him with a Ryan ally, Jackie Moore.
"For the new pitching coach, Washington wanted Rick Peterson, with whom he coached in Oakland. Ryan instead hired Mike Maddux."
And that’s bad? It’s true. Ryan did do all that. But again, is that bad?
Yes, a manager should be allowed to hire all his coaches. But it wasn’t that way before Ryan got here. And it was Washington himself, quoted in the same story, who said:
"[Maddux] has been a difference maker. He has given me more confidence in that part of the job. His professionalism has been invaluable."
And Jackie Moore as the bench coach, meaning the manager’s sounding board? Well, there aren’t people in the dugout this season, at least not that I’ve heard, openly and loudly questioning in-game moves. I’ve known Art Howe for years. Luv him. But there were some strange dynamics in play last season that went beyond the normal and accepted second guessing.
How this season ends up for the Rangers remains iffy. But so far, there’s been a lot to like. As a manager, Ron Washington has overcome perception, among many things.
Plus, in local seniority, he’s now outlasted Big Bill, Avery and Tip. Not bad.
Randy Galloway can be heard 3-6 p.m. weekdays on Galloway & Co. on ESPN/103.3 FM.
Randy Galloway, 817-390-7760
http://www.star-telegram.com/sports/columnists/randy_galloway/story/1429443.html
Ron Washington outlasts Bill Parcells, Avery Johnson and Dave Tippett
BY RANDY GALLOWAY
rgalloway@star-telegram.com
So now he’s the senior member of the fraternity.
For the past three Aprils, there has been some serious doubt — particularly April of ’08 — if Ron Washington would last the first month of the baseball season. Now he has outlasted them all on the local coach/manager depth chart.
This is the same Ron Washington, of course, whose job security status in Arlington has often been defined as more day-to-day than year-to-year.
But on Nov. 6, 2006, The Wash was the surprise — no, make that shocking — Rangers managerial hire by Tom Hicks and Jon Daniels. It was considered an interesting reward for a then 54-year-old baseball lifer who had never been given a serious sniff by any other major league team when it came to manager, including the 11 seasons he spent in Oakland as a respected infield coach.
The local fraternity landscape at the time looked like this:
Bill Parcells was the Cowboys’ head coach. A legendary name in his game, and his team was about to embark on a four-game winning streak, making the record 8-4 going into, gulp, the December stretch run.
Avery Johnson was the head coach of the Mavericks, a team still in recovery mode after an NBA Finals collapse. But for the first time ever, the franchise had gotten to the Finals.
Dave Tippett of the Stars was coming off a 53-win season, and on his way to a 50-win year. The future looked bright for Dave. On Thursday, Dave was fired after seven years and six seasons (an NHL lockout is mixed in) as head coach on the hockey scene.
Kind of strange, huh, that it’s ol’ Wash who is still employed?
In the beginning he was labeled a yes-man hire for Daniels, and there was probably some truth in that. Regardless, that put Washington in a bind in the clubhouse, where key players also had the same yes-man thought. That theory alone placed a bull’s eye on the new skipper.
Yet, then came Nolan Ryan, who was placed in charge of all things baseball by Hicks in February of ’08. With that move, Hicks made sure to extend Daniels’ GM contract, but there was no such courtesy for Washington, who was originally hired with only a two-year contract, followed by club options for two more years.
I’d have bet 50-to-1 Mine That Bird in the Derby before betting Washington would survive a year under Ryan.
This week, almost a season and a half later, the Rangers announced the contractual option for Ron had been picked up for 2010. And that was also me the other day, lamenting how Washington was really being given no reward (it was only the club option) for a job pretty well done. Do right by the man and tack on another year, meaning a new contract extension for 2011.
It comes down to one thing:
Despite the many opportunities to quit on Washington, the Rangers haven’t. Maybe Michael Young deserves some credit for that, as the unquestioned clubhouse leader. But not even when Wash found himself caught in the middle of that move-to-third base flap last winter, did Young turn on the manager.
Wisely, Ron privately worked hard to repair what was briefly some hard feelings by Michael toward Washington. And Young was quickly receptive as the manager mended the relationship.
But more than anything, Wash had to sell Nolan. "The players respond to Ron. They play for Ron," Ryan said this week when the club option thing for 2010 was announced.
An ESPN.com column came out last week on Washington by Howard Bryant. It was a sympathetic piece on how Wash was a lame duck manager (at the time) despite being in first place in the division, and at the time having the best record in the American League.
I don’t know Howard Bryant, and with this following comment, Howard obviously doesn’t know the Rangers’ situation:
"... the hiring of Ryan by owner Tom Hicks rang of old-school cronyism."
Actually, Howard, it rang of desperation for a franchise quickly falling off the local map as a ticket-buying destination.
But the writer, again being very sympathetic to Washington over the then-contractual situation, was upset that Ryan "further isolated Washington by forcing him to fire his bench coach — longtime friend Art Howe — and replace him with a Ryan ally, Jackie Moore.
"For the new pitching coach, Washington wanted Rick Peterson, with whom he coached in Oakland. Ryan instead hired Mike Maddux."
And that’s bad? It’s true. Ryan did do all that. But again, is that bad?
Yes, a manager should be allowed to hire all his coaches. But it wasn’t that way before Ryan got here. And it was Washington himself, quoted in the same story, who said:
"[Maddux] has been a difference maker. He has given me more confidence in that part of the job. His professionalism has been invaluable."
And Jackie Moore as the bench coach, meaning the manager’s sounding board? Well, there aren’t people in the dugout this season, at least not that I’ve heard, openly and loudly questioning in-game moves. I’ve known Art Howe for years. Luv him. But there were some strange dynamics in play last season that went beyond the normal and accepted second guessing.
How this season ends up for the Rangers remains iffy. But so far, there’s been a lot to like. As a manager, Ron Washington has overcome perception, among many things.
Plus, in local seniority, he’s now outlasted Big Bill, Avery and Tip. Not bad.
Randy Galloway can be heard 3-6 p.m. weekdays on Galloway & Co. on ESPN/103.3 FM.
Randy Galloway, 817-390-7760
Saturday, June 6, 2009
End of the Week Fewsome Borrowed Images
From: hewhocannotbenamed blog
Young Nolan
From julia segal (at skull swap blog)
"I have posted this before…but this letter is so great…I really hope it’s not fake…because Mrs.Fenton…your husband is the coolest! (click picture to make it bigger)"
From: Gascoyne Bowman (at her Criminal Crafts Etsy store)
http://www.etsy.com/shop.php?user_id=6898288
From: Dallas Police Department
An older, wiser Willie expresses himself to the Man:
From: Coast2CoastAM
The great Art Bell
From: ???
From: hewhocannotbenamed blog
From: ???
The great Tav Falco
Young NolanFrom julia segal (at skull swap blog)
"I have posted this before…but this letter is so great…I really hope it’s not fake…because Mrs.Fenton…your husband is the coolest! (click picture to make it bigger)"From: Gascoyne Bowman (at her Criminal Crafts Etsy store)
http://www.etsy.com/shop.php?user_id=6898288From: Dallas Police Department
An older, wiser Willie expresses himself to the Man:
From: Coast2CoastAM
The great Art BellFrom: ???
From: hewhocannotbenamed blog
From: ???
The great Tav Falco
Monday, June 1, 2009
A New Month & A New Batch Of Good Borrowed Images
From ???:
Osamu Dazai, author of "No Longer Human" & "The Setting Sun"
From jeffen @ music ruined my life:
The same Gustav Dore woodcut later ripped off by Skinny Puppy and surely a few wretched death metal bands.
The Only Ones' third single, "You've Got To Pay" from 1979 is another shot of crystal pure pop, albeit pop from another planet. The song is jaunty and happy in execution but relentlessly bleak in its outlook; the perfect pop paradox (think "You Are My Sunshine" but with heroin instead of moonshine as the drug of forgetting). The B-side, "This Ain’t All (It’s Made Out To Be)", is a solid up-temp rocker,with a big melodic guitar solo in the middle, which was left off of the excellent LP, Even Serpents Shine.
Original post w/DL:
http://musicruinedmylife.blogspot.com/2009/05/only-ones-ygtp.html
From julia segal @ skull swap:
corndog tattoo
From Tom Sutpen @ If Charlie Parker Was a Gunslinger,There'd Be a Whole Lot of Dead Copycats:
Friends and Family #60
Original Caption: (Washington) -- Mafia leader John Dioguardi punches press photographer Stanley Tretick after being ordered out of the Senate hearing room for causing a commotion. Dio had been called to testify before the Senate Rackets Committee on his alleged leadership of labor racketeering in New York. (1957)
From Johnny One-Note's Earcandies:
Tooter Boatman "Rockin' Tooter Boatman"
Here's some info about Tooter:
Real name William McCon Boatman. Born 1936 in Mineral Wells, Texas. Died in 1964. William McCon Boatman Jr. An entertainer, showman, musician and singer. His other well known talents were fighter and lover. Tooter was known to kick a wild bull in the ass, as the bull swung around for the kill, Tooter would spit in his eye. The bull would "beller" and run away in fear.
Tooter had more girl friends than Elvis had golden records. He could handle a couple of dates a night. Married for a short time... one day! Don't know her name but I've seen her blazing eyes. They could tear a body in half with one slow glare.
Tooter lived across the road from an Assembly of God Church which woke him up with a blessing each Sunday morning. Tooter's house is torn down now, an empty lot the church uses for parking.
Tooter's band, the Chaparrals, then consisted of Charlie O'Bannon (piano), Bill Bland (guitar) and Shorty Dinglar (slap bass). Tooter and the Chaparrals began recording songs at Danny Wolfe's studio in Stephenville. We did some cuts at Herring's in Fort Worth, but the closeness in Danny's studio generated the warm personal feeling, the true sound of Tooter. Danny often booked us in clubs and on TV shows to push his records.
Tooter was the spotlight star on a show called "Teenage Downbeat" in Fort Worth on June 11, 1959. Shorty Dinglar continued playing slap bass for Tooter after leaving the army, but then later Shorty left with his family, moving back to upper New York State. Without Shorty, the Tooter Boatman sound as we love it vanished...
25 cut CD featuring one of the original Texas wildmen, Tooter Boatman, along with his great band from the late 50's, the Chapperals. This has most of the rockers from the 3 White Label LP's like Susie's House/ Life Begins At 4 O'Clock/ They Won't Let Me In/ Teenage Hangout , etc. and sweetens the pot with 10 alternate, previously unreleased versions plus a trio of previously unreleased instrumentals - Moonshot/ Tooter's Boogie/ Blow It Up Boogie . Plenty of crazy rockin' on this one with some outrageous hammering, lightnin' fast pickin' and scorching sax breaks. Beer Rock Pt. 2/ The Will Of Love/ Rock It Up/ Big Deal , etc. Enjoy!"
01. The Will Of Love (Alt) 02. Thunder And Lightning 03. Moonshot (Instrumental) 04. Life Begins At 4 O'Clock 05. They Won't Let Me In 06. Wayward Wind 07. Tooters Boogie (Instrumental) 08. More And More (I Love You) 09. Susie's House 10. Big Deal 11. Uh (Instrumental) 12. Gonna Come 13. Stagger Lee 14. Depressions Blues (Take 1) 15. Rock It Up (Instrumental) 16. Who Dat 17. Teenage Hangout 18. When The Party's Over 19. Blow It Up Boogie (Instrumental) 20. Whole Lotta Shakin' Going On 21. I'm With You 22 Beer Rock, Part 2 (Instrumental) 23. The Other Me 24. Hey Little Missy 25 The Will Of Love.
Original post w/DL:
http://wurlitzer1900.blogspot.com/2009/06/tooter-boatman-rockin-tooter-boatman.html
From???:
Patricia Morrison
From ???:
From Cherie G:
Castle People, Michael & Terri.
From julia segal @ skull swap:
baseball jesus!
Osamu Dazai, author of "No Longer Human" & "The Setting Sun"From jeffen @ music ruined my life:
The same Gustav Dore woodcut later ripped off by Skinny Puppy and surely a few wretched death metal bands. The Only Ones' third single, "You've Got To Pay" from 1979 is another shot of crystal pure pop, albeit pop from another planet. The song is jaunty and happy in execution but relentlessly bleak in its outlook; the perfect pop paradox (think "You Are My Sunshine" but with heroin instead of moonshine as the drug of forgetting). The B-side, "This Ain’t All (It’s Made Out To Be)", is a solid up-temp rocker,with a big melodic guitar solo in the middle, which was left off of the excellent LP, Even Serpents Shine.
Original post w/DL:
http://musicruinedmylife.blogspot.com/2009/05/only-ones-ygtp.html
From julia segal @ skull swap:
corndog tattooFrom Tom Sutpen @ If Charlie Parker Was a Gunslinger,There'd Be a Whole Lot of Dead Copycats:
Friends and Family #60 Original Caption: (Washington) -- Mafia leader John Dioguardi punches press photographer Stanley Tretick after being ordered out of the Senate hearing room for causing a commotion. Dio had been called to testify before the Senate Rackets Committee on his alleged leadership of labor racketeering in New York. (1957)
From Johnny One-Note's Earcandies:
Tooter Boatman "Rockin' Tooter Boatman"Here's some info about Tooter:
Real name William McCon Boatman. Born 1936 in Mineral Wells, Texas. Died in 1964. William McCon Boatman Jr. An entertainer, showman, musician and singer. His other well known talents were fighter and lover. Tooter was known to kick a wild bull in the ass, as the bull swung around for the kill, Tooter would spit in his eye. The bull would "beller" and run away in fear.
Tooter had more girl friends than Elvis had golden records. He could handle a couple of dates a night. Married for a short time... one day! Don't know her name but I've seen her blazing eyes. They could tear a body in half with one slow glare.
Tooter lived across the road from an Assembly of God Church which woke him up with a blessing each Sunday morning. Tooter's house is torn down now, an empty lot the church uses for parking.
Tooter's band, the Chaparrals, then consisted of Charlie O'Bannon (piano), Bill Bland (guitar) and Shorty Dinglar (slap bass). Tooter and the Chaparrals began recording songs at Danny Wolfe's studio in Stephenville. We did some cuts at Herring's in Fort Worth, but the closeness in Danny's studio generated the warm personal feeling, the true sound of Tooter. Danny often booked us in clubs and on TV shows to push his records.
Tooter was the spotlight star on a show called "Teenage Downbeat" in Fort Worth on June 11, 1959. Shorty Dinglar continued playing slap bass for Tooter after leaving the army, but then later Shorty left with his family, moving back to upper New York State. Without Shorty, the Tooter Boatman sound as we love it vanished...
25 cut CD featuring one of the original Texas wildmen, Tooter Boatman, along with his great band from the late 50's, the Chapperals. This has most of the rockers from the 3 White Label LP's like Susie's House/ Life Begins At 4 O'Clock/ They Won't Let Me In/ Teenage Hangout , etc. and sweetens the pot with 10 alternate, previously unreleased versions plus a trio of previously unreleased instrumentals - Moonshot/ Tooter's Boogie/ Blow It Up Boogie . Plenty of crazy rockin' on this one with some outrageous hammering, lightnin' fast pickin' and scorching sax breaks. Beer Rock Pt. 2/ The Will Of Love/ Rock It Up/ Big Deal , etc. Enjoy!"
01. The Will Of Love (Alt) 02. Thunder And Lightning 03. Moonshot (Instrumental) 04. Life Begins At 4 O'Clock 05. They Won't Let Me In 06. Wayward Wind 07. Tooters Boogie (Instrumental) 08. More And More (I Love You) 09. Susie's House 10. Big Deal 11. Uh (Instrumental) 12. Gonna Come 13. Stagger Lee 14. Depressions Blues (Take 1) 15. Rock It Up (Instrumental) 16. Who Dat 17. Teenage Hangout 18. When The Party's Over 19. Blow It Up Boogie (Instrumental) 20. Whole Lotta Shakin' Going On 21. I'm With You 22 Beer Rock, Part 2 (Instrumental) 23. The Other Me 24. Hey Little Missy 25 The Will Of Love.
Original post w/DL:
http://wurlitzer1900.blogspot.com/2009/06/tooter-boatman-rockin-tooter-boatman.html
From???:
Patricia MorrisonFrom ???:
From Cherie G:
Castle People, Michael & Terri.From julia segal @ skull swap:
baseball jesus!
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