The Rangers are going to win. Let's be honest.

[zkeller97]

Look at their line up. Look at who they have pitching. Look at who we have pitching...somebody who gives up dingers to the Red Sox lineup. We went 2-7 vs Texas. Why would that change?

[ShaneDawg85]

Look at their line up. Look at who they have pitching. Look at who we have pitching...somebody who gives up dingers to the Red Sox lineup. We went 2-7 vs Texas. Why would that change?

1. Pitchers give up home runs to everybody, good, bad, in between. Giving up home runs to the Red Sox is irrelevant.

2. It's been beaten to death that the losing pitchers in four of those losses are no longer in the Orioles rotation, two of whom are now pitching pretty much lights out relief ball.

3. We've beaten the Joe Saunders against the Rangers thing to death.

4. This is not the same Texas Rangers team that we faced earlier in the year, or years past. They are struggling mightily. They just lost the division lead they held almost the entire season.

5. This is the playoffs. Conventional wisdom and history goes out the window in the playoffs.

I don't say this often, but this OP was grounded in absolutely nothing, featured nothing new of substance, and was pretty darn terrible.

[Salisbury OsFan]

We went 2-7 vs Texas.

So how exactly do we have no chance to win tonight? We have already beaten them twice.

Look, a one game playoff is a COMPLETE crapshoot in baseball. Texas is more nervous of something crazy happening tonight to take their playoff spot away than our guys are.

I think we will play loose tonight. If we can keep it at 0-0 for a few innings or take an early lead we will begin to see Texas pressing a lot.

[zkeller97]

If you were a betting person, which team would you bet to win?

[ExileAngelos]

This is a clown thread.

[Fiver]

I am going to give zkeller the benefit of the doubt, and at least pretend this was his/her attempt at a reverse jinx/lock thread. Otherwise, I agree w/ Shanedawg - pointless and terrible.

[erb8472]

1. Pitchers give up home runs to everybody, good, bad, in between. Giving up home runs to the Red Sox is irrelevant.

2. It's been beaten to death that the losing pitchers in four of those losses are no longer in the Orioles rotation, two of whom are now pitching pretty much lights out relief ball.

3. We've beaten the Joe Saunders against the Rangers thing to death.

4. This is not the same Texas Rangers team that we faced earlier in the year, or years past. They are struggling mightily. They just lost the division lead they held almost the entire season.

5. This is the playoffs. Conventional wisdom and history goes out the window in the playoffs.

I don't say this often, but this OP was grounded in absolutely nothing, featured nothing new of substance, and was pretty darn terrible.

No need to try to bring logic into this thread. It's obvious the originally posters Cheerios were pretty soggy from R Kelly this morning.

[Frobby]

First of all, get your facts straight. We were 2-5 against Texas, not 2-7.

Second of all, this is baseball. A one-game playoff is as random as things can possibly get. We're playing a team that just choked away a division title they had all but wrapped up weeks ago. Anything can happen.

[Floater]

Look at their line up. Look at who they have pitching. Look at who we have pitching...somebody who gives up dingers to the Red Sox lineup. We went 2-7 vs Texas. Why would that change?

[Fiver]

If you were a betting person, which team would you bet to win?

And I see this after my first post; no longer getting the benefit of the doubt. Crap thread. You want to argue the Rangers are going to win? That I get, but there's 1000 other threads to make that argument in.

[Enjoy Terror]

This is a clown thread.

Bro.

letters

[RichmondOsFan]

Look at their line up. Look at who they have pitching. Look at who we have pitching...somebody who gives up dingers to the Red Sox lineup. We went 2-7 vs Texas. Why would that change?

Oh, and we went 2-5 against Texas.

[zkeller97]

Ok you're right, it was 2-7 vs the Angels and 2-5 vs the Rangers...oh yeah.

[spiritof66]

We'll never make the 2012 playoffs, either.

[Dr. FLK]

Look at their line up. Look at who they have pitching. Look at who we have pitching...somebody who gives up dingers to the Red Sox lineup. We went 2-7 vs Texas. Why would that change?

Why are you here?