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jplata

Mar 21, 2008 Mar 11, 2011 4 65

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I came across this old article of the 1974 Rangers and Billy Martin - basically having to do with increased attendance due to a winning team.

I thought someone else might get a kick out of it and how it corresponds to what we've been saying for years and to this year winning = attendance.

"The fans down here are just great, all they ever needed was a reason to come to the park and we're giving it to them"

Plus the great story about the beer-pouring brawl.

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Lone Star Ball Grmisley....Clemens/Pettite....geez

http://www.latimes.com/sports/la-sp-clemens1oct01,0,6499528.story?coll=la-home-headlines

Roger Clemens, one of professional baseball's most durable and successful pitchers, is among six players allegedly linked to performance-enhancing drugs by a former teammate, The Times has learned. The names had been blacked out in an affidavit filed in federal court.

Others whose identities had been concealed include Clemens' fellow Houston Astros pitcher Andy Pettitte and former American League most valuable player Miguel Tejada of the Baltimore Orioles. MLB too: http://mlb.mlb.com/NASApp/mlb/news/article.jsp?ymd=20061001&content_id=1693016&vkey=news_mlb&fext=.jsp&c_id=mlb

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Lone Star Ball "Free the Birds" -- "Fire Buck"?

http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/news/story?id=2597721

"Nearly a thousand disgruntled Orioles fans walked out of Baltimore's game against Detroit en masse on Thursday, culminating a demonstration aimed at team owner Peter Angelos."

TBIA lets organize a movement.

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Lone Star Ball One reason to have Buck....

http://texas.rangers.mlb.com/NASApp/mlb/news/article.jsp?ymd=20060809&content_id=1601067&vke y=news_tex&fext=.jsp&c_id=tex

He was manager of the Yankees in 1995, and their season looked bleak as late as Aug. 26. At that point, they had lost 10 of 12, leaving them with a record of 53-58 with 33 games left in the strike-shortened season.

They were 15 1/2 games behind the Red Sox in the American League East and had five teams in front of them in the Wild Card race. The Rangers actually led at that point at 59-53, leaving the Yankees 5 1/2 back in that race.

Yet, history shows the Yankees won 26 of their last 33 games and won the Wild Card, making their first postseason appearance in 14 years.

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