SB Nation User Blog: The Ahmad

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!

Couple of things..

The Ahmad — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 18:02:25 -0000

Good day to you all.

Well, the Hurricane was not as bad as expected (Thank God) and Crude Oil Prices fell about $4 today so that is deff. good news. At the Mosque I attend they are planning on opening it up for Refugee's and have already spoken to the Police Department and agreed to everything. If you have any info about Refugee places anywhere in the area post them on here and spread the word in case anyone knows anyone that needs a place to stay. Thanks!

Second thing...Today marks the start of the blessed Month of Ramadan for myself and Billions of Muslims worldwide. We refrain from all food, drink, sex, and smoke (if you smoke that is) from sunrise to sunset. Also during this blessed month we have special Night Prayers at the Mosque and also if you would like you can get up and pray for half the night.

So if anyone of you would like to see how it feels you can fast for a day. This program is currently done at TCU by the Muslims Student Association where non-Muslims fast along with the Muslims for a day or several days and share our breaking of the fast meal when the sunsets. It has been a great success thus far.

The Ballpark In Arlington & Their Look

The Ahmad — Sat, 23 Aug 2008 18:15:50 -0000

I know this was touched on last week but it got me thinking and I wanted to say a few things about the issue. I don't think the Rangers need another park nor do they need a roof on their current one. I do however think RBIA needs a few things made over and here are my suggestions. Feel free to add yours in as well.... I will also touch on the jersey issue

RBIA...

Push the walls back and subtract some outfield seats

Make the wall one color of dark green

Remove all those ugly ads all over the walls, only keeping a few

Grow the grass longer (ground balls will be slower thus improving our infield D)

New screens and sound system

Plant some small trees or flowers or anything nice in the outfield grass area (not all of it, just the bottom park)

If not trees add a water fall and rocks type deal out their or swimming pool

Now the Jersey's...

Give the all blue jersey a re-make and change it up a bit

Bring back the second cap the with red "T" it would really go well with the sleeve less jersey's

Make all their jersey's more edgy and more cool looking to wear (currently they are very blah looking and boring)

Change the way Texas and Rangers are written across their jersey's

Those are just a few off the top of my head. Please feel free to add your 2 cents about the issue. Thank you and good day DFW.

Davis @ 3rd and Blalock @ 1st

The Ahmad — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 01:03:56 -0000

As the title states Chris Davis will be moving to 3rd base and Hank Blalock upon his return will become the Rangers 1st basemen for the rest of the year (if he stays healthy) and perhaps next year.

HUGE news there. I have mixed feelings about this move but I also think that in the long term this could work. Davis could go to 3rd and Blalock can have his option picked up for next year and hopefully can stay healthy and be the Rangers everyday 1st basemen next year. Then in 2010 Smoak can come up and become our everyday 1st basemen and Davis will be across at 3rd with Kinsler at 2nd and Young or Andrus (I think they trade him for pitching) at SS.

3 trades to make before next spring

The Ahmad — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 20:01:29 -0000

Greetings from under this hot rag.

I want to propose the following trades and see if you would make those trades and if you think it would improve your Texas Rangers in 2009 and beyond.

Trade Uno

Marlins and Rangers..

Marlins get: Elvis Andrus, Eric Hurley, and Nelson Cruz

Rangers get: Hanley Ramirez

Trade Dos

Reds and Rangers..

Reds get: Gerald Laird

Rangers get: Homer Bailey

Trade Tres

Royals and Rangers..

Royals get: a pick of one of our top pitchers in the minors NOT named Neftali (sp?), Blalock, Salty, and another top to med minor leaguer

Rangers get: Zack Greinke

That would give us two solid arms and an All-Star SS for years to come. We can then move MY to 3rd and have an infield of MY, Ramirez, Kinsler, Davis.

Our Catcher would then be Teagarden

Our 5 would be Greinke, Bailey, Padilla, Millwood, McCarthy with Harrison and Hunter ready to step in in the minors. We could then move Feldman and Mendoza to the Bullpen and let Eddie walk in the off season and try and trade Benoit.

It would weaken our minor league system no doubt but we would greatly upgrade our MLB team with young and proven talent.

I would also resign MB only if he can play the OF 70% of the time next year and beyond because I want MaxRam as my backup catcher and everyday DH.

Poll

Would this improve the Rangers in 2009 and beyond?

Yes

38 votes

No

16 votes

Only by a few games, but not enough to win the West

10 votes

64 votes | Poll has closed

3 days away...

The Ahmad — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 05:39:48 -0000

With the 'ol so famous trade period nearing its peek I decided to propose a trade. If i'm GM for a day and wanted to fix this team this is what The Ahmad would do...

call Boston and offer them Laird, Padilla, and Byrd for Manny Ramirez and a prospect.

Second, I would offer Millwood to anyone and eat half of his contract just to get him out of here.

Third, I would offer Bradley( hate to lose him, but to get some, you have to give some) and a prospect to the Twins for one of their top prospects, namely Loriano (sp)

Come the off season, I would go out and try to sign both CC and Sheets and resign Manny. I would then roll in 2009 with the following

2B- Kinsler

SS- Young

CF- Hamilton

RF- Manny/ JMJ

1B- Davis

C- Salty

DH- MaxRam/ Manny

LF- Boggs/ Murphy

My 5 would be..

Sheets

McCarthy

Hurley

Harrison/ Hunter

My manager would be anyone but Washington.

That teams would contend and would draw. Oh, I would also bring back the black and blue hat and the Blue hat with the Red "T"

I would also change the Ballpark a little bit. I would get rid of all those signs all over the walls, I would add another Jumbotron, and I would grow the grass a little longer. I don't get why they keep the grass so short. The longer the grass the better the fielding will be.

Poll

Would I make a good GM based of those moves?

fo sho

13 votes

heck nizzle

132 votes

145 votes | Poll has closed

2 double O 9

The Ahmad — Sat, 26 Jul 2008 17:58:57 -0000

The line-up for your 2009 Rangers is..

C- Teagarden

1B- Davis

2B- Kinsler

3B- Blalock

SS- Young

CF- Hamilton

LF- Murphy/Boggs

RF- Bradley/JMJ

DH- Bradley/MaxRam

Rotation

McCarthy

Hurley

Harrison

Feldmen

Could they contend for the Division with that line-up and rotation?

vote now

I had the 75 word limit

Poll

Will they contend with that line-up and rotation?

yes

34 votes

no

38 votes

I can't read

13 votes

85 votes | Poll has closed

LSB..

The Ahmad — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 04:44:11 -0000

Ok. So I have been debating/arguing/hated on/trashed/dissed/annoyed people/etc during my 6 months or so here on LSB and I believe it is now time for me to take the next step...

I have noticed lots of people trashing others opinions if they don't agree with theirs. I have noticed "the powers on this site" coming off as rude at times and as know it alls at other times.

With that said..I believe LSB needs saving from itself and it's members and I believe they need someone like me to take control of it. I don't wanna be in charge..I mean more along the lines of keep it in line and keep people respecting one another and that kind jazz.

I am The Ahmad and I am here offering my services. I think we should have a vote and put this to the people.

The Ahmad has spoken and the haters have been silenced..either that or you will silence me..choose or lose.

Poll

What do you say to the above?

Heck yes!

7 votes

Heck yes!!!

9 votes

Heck no!

12 votes

Get lost!

65 votes

My mom wont let me vote for Ahmad

9 votes

102 votes | Poll has closed

Who is the best player in the game?

The Ahmad — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 19:06:37 -0000

MLB players voted and the winner is...

Click below to find out the answer!

Best Player

Who do you think it is?