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The Ahmad — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 17:48:20 -0000

2009 Rangers and Beyond....

My piece today will mainly have to do with the Rangers and their recent struggles on offense. I read the article in the Star-Telegram today and I must say I agree 100%. This team does need to inject more youth into the everyday line-up. I have a few suggestions as I think this team can be serious contenders in 2010 and beyond, God-Willing.

First off, they need to find people that will trade for Byrd, Blalock, Padilla, Jones. They need to let go every day Eddie and replace him with a young arm in the pen from the minor leagues. In exchange for the guys they trade, they can bring up Max, Bourbon, Feliz, and keep Boggs up. Then, around August or September they should go out and sign Ben Sheets and let him get a few "warm-up" starts under his belt this season and get him ready for next year.

Start next season with Smoak as your 1B and Max/Davis as your DH's...you can also have Davis and Smoak play 1B one giving the other a day off here and there.
Now you have an infield of Young, Elvis, Kinsler, Smoak...Salty at Catcher with Max also backing him up (trade Teagarden + prospect for Bucholz) in the OF, you have Bourbon in CF, Josh in LF, and Cruz in RF.
Your rotation would be...Sheets, Bucholz(sp?), Millwood, Holland, Feldmen...Feliz will start in the pen along with McCarthy who I think is better suited for the pen anyway.

Therefore, next year you'll have a fresh, young team ready to roll with a pretty good start five. You'll have the new Scoreboards all over the Ballpark in Center Field. and God-willing, we'll have a new owner (Mark Cuban would be awesome)

Worried about JD & the roster...

The Ahmad — Wed, 13 May 2009 22:24:16 -0000

Ok, we all know the Rangers have played above expectations thus far and that's great! With that said..I worry that come July if this team is in 1st place or a few games back that JD and his staff will make a stupid 3 month rent-a-player trade and give up some of our young prospects. I see it like this, the Rangers this year have a 0% chance at winning the WS. But next year, that chance goes up to about 20% and then 50% by 2011 and so forth. Point being, I think the Rangers should sign Ben Sheets after the ASB and that can count as the "missing piece" for this years club making a playoff push. If they can find a nice and young bullpen arm for cheap (lower level, low ceiling prospect) then I'm all for it.

By the end of this year, this club will be in a golden position. They will have Padilla, Blalock, Byrd, everyday Eddie, and possibly Millwood coming off the books (I think Milly is back next year)

With that money, they can go out and try to land a free agent bullpen arm or two and then fill the other gaps from within. You replace Blalock with CD and bring up Smoak to take over 1B. You replace Byrd with Beltre. You replace Padilla with Sheets.

I really hope JD and company hold out on making any trades and risking the future of this club for a shot this year. I don't trust JD or Hicks much. I think next year's club will be ready to contend and possibly be the AL west favorites coming out of Spring Training.

Sheets

Millwood

Holland

McCarthy

Harrison

and you'll have Hurley, Feliz, Hunter, etc ready to come up during the season or fill in for any injuries.

Lineup

CF-Beltre

RF-Hamilton

LF-Cruz

SS-Andrus

3B-Young

2B-Kinsler

1B-Smoak

C-Salty/Teagarden

DH-Davis/MaxRam

Please don't do anything stupid JD!

OT: Swine Flu

The Ahmad — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 05:21:10 -0000

I'm sure you all have heard/read/saw about the swine flu. Everytime I turn on the tv, it's being talked about. Same goes for the radio. Online every site is talking about it. It has me pretty creeped out honestly. I'm now carrying hand sanitizer and washing my hands every 15 minutes. I freak out when someone coughs or sneezes close to me.

I guess my question to you all is..what do you all think about this whole Swine Flu outbreak? Will it get worse? will it become a serious virus worldwide? Is it being overly done and overly reported, and are we over reacting?

Are you scared of getting it? Are you freaking out and washing your hands all the time and avoiding hand shakes, etc?

There are many questions when it comes to this and I just thought I'd get the views of the LSBers.

OT..sunday laugh

The Ahmad — Sun, 29 Mar 2009 16:57:44 -0000

Ever won something and felt like dancing it up? watch this!

the following link leads to something I found rather funny while checking out somethings this Sunday morning. It's good to have a laugh every now and then with all the khrap going on around us on a daily basis. Enjoy the link and feedback is welcomed (the good, the bad, and the ugly) enjoy LSBers and have a great day!

dance dance dance

Hicks looking to sell part of Rangers & Stars

The Ahmad — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 03:44:32 -0000

awesome news!

He might be selling parts of the team which I think would be great news! Maybe Cuban can buy part of the Rangers and then buy Hicks out. This man is cheap and does not care about winning or the fans. He has a pathetic team salary for a big market team. I would love Nolan and Cuban to buy shares and invest their money into this team. If that happens I see the Rangers bringing in the best players to go along with their young players and building a winning and entertaining team for years to come.

The Ballpark

The Ahmad — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 00:20:05 -0000

hola amigo's and amiga's!

LSB's favorite anti-hero is back! I figure since school was cancelled today and the roads are icy and I have a few extra minutes I would right a diary about certain things.

Let's start with the RBIA...

I read and saw the changes coming to the ballpark and I like them. However, I don't understand why they are keeping the same tired scoreboard above right field. They need a new board, one like the one down in Austin would be pretty sweet! I also think that they should really focus on making the outfield walls match and keeping them the same color. It looks horrible and cheap on TV when you have multi colored green wall. I also propose that the wall behind home plate become brick (like houston, philly, baltimore, etc) What do y'all think and do you propose any changes you would like taken at the RBIA.

Now the new uni's...

I like 'em! I like the new red, the new homes and roads, I am so-so on the all blue and the batting helmet is whack but it could grow on me. I really wish they brought back the all blue cap with the red 'T' I like the black shoes and belts and I like the style of font they have used on them.

On the Roster for next season and 2010...

I think they should go out and get Sheets, trade padilla now and keep Millwood until the All-star break and then trade him at that time. I hope they can trade a catcher to Boston for Bucholtz (sp?) and then going into the second half of the season and 2010 they can have a rotation of...

Sheets

Bucholtz

Neftali

Holland

Harrison/McCarthy/Hurley/

The line-up for 2010 can be...

C-Teagarden or Salty (whoever stays)

1B- Smoak

2B- Kinsler

3B- Young

SS- Andrus

CF- Borboun

RF- Hamilton

LF- Cruz/Murphy

DH- C.Davis

the manager should be Bobby Valentine

discuss LSB'rrrrrrs

Randy Johnson will NOT be a Ranger!

The Ahmad — Sat, 27 Dec 2008 02:48:58 -0000

Good news for the Rangers in my opinion. The Big Unit will not be a Ranger and instead is going to the SF Giants. The Rangers need to stick to the youth movement and play and develop their young pitchers. Someone like Randy would have blocked one of our young pithcers we need to find out about. Now if we can only trade Millwood and Padilla and sign Sheets and insert another young arm to take Padilla's slot we would be in good shape for the future. Link below boys and gals...

from the mind of Ahmad

good news

Ballpark

The Ahmad — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 20:10:52 -0000

I know boys and girls..it's been a while since I posted but that's what happens when school and work take over your life. Today's topic at hand will be whether or not the Rangers should consider going to the City of Dallas or Ft. Worth and seeing if they can get a retractable roof park in one of the downtowns. Would you be for it? against it? I personally think that would be awesome and solve a lot of this teams problems. Economics aside, would you support that idea and why so?

Also, I strongly favor this team trading away milly, padilla, young, and blalock and signing sheets.

from the mind of Ahmad!

Poll

Would you suport a ballpark in downtown Dallas or Ft. Worth?

yes

44 votes

no

36 votes

80 votes | Poll has closed

State of the Rangers

The Ahmad — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 19:10:06 -0000

Good afternoon/evening to my loyal readers and fans on LSB!

As another bad Rangers season draws to a close I thought that maybe I would throw out a few suggestions to improving this franchise. Feel free to add any suggestions that you have. Sure some of you will completly over look this post and "run your mouths" but that's what you get when you're Ahmad. Anywho here we go...

I suggest the following be done in the next 1-3 years with the Rangers

Move Hamilton to RF and have Bourbon in CF and Cruz in LF. Move Young to 3rd and Davis back to 1st. Bring up Andrus to play SS and keep Kinsler at 2nd for now at least. Have Teagarden as your C and have Salty backing him up. Put MaxRam as your everyday DH and 3rd Catcher.

Release, trade, or do not resign the following:

Bradley

Byrd

Cat

Padilla

Milwood

Laird

Fire Ron Washington and Hire Mike Hargrove.

Let the following be your starters and take thier lumps:

McCarthy

Hurley

Harrison

Hunter

Holland

Let Feldman become your long man out of the pen and have CJ become the set up man. Frankie stays on as the closer.

Pick up Blalock's opition this year and then trade him at the trading deadline in July of 2009 for w/e you can get for him. By then I believe his value as a strong hitter and average 1B would be able to bring you something in return.

Remodel the RBIA. I would like the walls in the outfield to be more like the style of walls they have in Cleveland, Philly, or Baltimore. Bring in a new scoreboard kind of like the one the Royals now have. Let the Infield and outfield grass grow a little longer to slow down ground balls. (I have heard many out of town announcers talk about how short the grass is here and how that effects the speed of the ball)

Change up the Uni's. I don't care, red or blue..something needs to be done and they need to have "less boring" jersey's. Their current looks is one of the ugliest and dullest in Major League Baseball.

Rant on bitchesssssssssssssss

Red is back!

The Ahmad — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 23:35:50 -0000

Looks like the Rangers will alter their jersey's going into next season. I'm not sure what exactly they will do but I do know they will bring back the red, well kind of. They will keep the blue and have an alternate red jersey with the red cap. What else do yall think they should do to "tweak" their look? I know the story is from last week but I have been overly busy and just had the chance to post it.

discuss..discuss..discuss....discuss

Red is back!