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The Dugout: No Use for a Name

On Wednesday, Rangers pitcher Darren O'Day wore ex-Ranger Kason Gabbard's jersey onto the field and promptly gave up a hit to end the game. There is precedent for this, of course. During Game Seven of the 1991 World Series, Lonnie Smith's jersey was mistakenly donned by a four-year-old who had just fallen off a merry-go-round.

The Rangers claim that they simply did not have a jersey ready for the newly-acquired O'Day, but I interpret it as commentary. For the most part, the Rangers' pitching staff is a nondescript gaggle of forgettable ball-chuckers, and this occurrence cements the idea that it doesn't really matter who's wearing whose jersey.

This morning's Dugout is after the jump.

Beware the Dugouts of March: the Texas Rangers' 2009 Preview

Every March, The Dugout covers every team in baseball and offers a largely disappointing glimpse of what's to come.

We're kicking things off with the Texas Rangers. Pictured at right, the one-two punch of the 2009 Texas Rangers' rotation: Scott Feldman and a nondescript sheet of drywall. The Rangers possess the worst starting rotation in the history of Mankind. The upside, of course, is that when OPS legend Milton Bradley snaps his ACL in a freak accident, it won't really matter.

Any Rangers fans out there? No? Well, too bad. A Rangers Dugout is after the jump.

The Dugout: Sidney Ponson's Next Move

Professional fat man Sidney Ponson somehow possesses a 4-1 record with a 3.88 ERA this season. So why did the Rangers, a team so desperate for pitching that it signed him in the first place, let him loose?

The team is citing chemistry issues. As Mr. Lackey pointed out, it was easy to see this coming, but it's just as easy for me to predict that he'll be on another major-league roster within a month.

Sidney Ponson is horrible.

Today's Dugout is after the jump.

The Dugout: Fraternity Test

The Asian Invasion continues as the Texas Rangers firebomb a village and force a young boy and his sister to live out their lives in a bomb shelter, eating rocks and burying fireflies until somebody, anybody, can go two and a third innings without giving up five runs.

And hey, who knows more about going to Asia to get some relief than Maury Povich?

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