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10:32p, 7/1/13

This is probably totally irrelevant, but our Rangers were 1-9 in their entire postseason history prior to the arrival of Wash.

Um, they've done better since. Wash does not get all of the credit. I'd say well over half goes to JD and the rest of the front office. But Wash, for all of his faults, has done far, far more good than harm as the Rangers manager. Choking in games that mattered? Hell we went the better part of 40 years without PLAYING a game that mattered.

This is a gargantuan step up and Wash has earned his keep and some credit for it. He's not perfect but we could do a helluva lot worse. And he and his staff have been great under extremely trying circumstances so far in 2013.

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9:52p, 7/21/13

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A fern could manage this team to the same win totals.

I think most agree strategically he's a below average (possibly bad) manager. His "gut" is wrong more times than not. This is a guy that rode his veterans in 2012 until they broke. This is a guy that pulled a rolling Darvish out of a do-or-die playoff game. This is a guy that then brought in a starter as a reliever into said game. This is a guy that constantly tried to get Michael Young into the game defensively and constantly had it backfire on him.

And while I won't disagree his players love to play for him, at the root of things his players also love to win. It's not like these guys would otherwise be happy just being an 80 win team. For all the talk of Wash's motivation, the following has happened the last 3 years:

2010 - Rangers favored going into the WS, looked stagnant the entire series and lose in 5.

2011 - Rangers blow Game 6 and are unable to muster much of anything in Game 7.

2012 - Rangers have an absolutely epic choke job in the last few weeks of the season going from a team with the best record in baseball to one that didn't even make the "real playoffs".

You could make a very strong case that the Rangers choked each of the last 3 years -- really hard to then turnaround and give credit to a manager for motivating the players.

Strong logic here.