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A bigger issue for me, although it has a lot of correlation, is the fact that out of 55 save opportunities, the rangers have saved 26 times and blown saves 29 times. That is historically bad. That said, I'm willing to bet more than half of those 19 1-run losses are also blown save games.

It's felt like the rangers were done for the last month, as they've bled off games they should've won. Obviously no bullpen never blows leads, but the rangers, had their pen been even marginally good this year, would be pushing 30 games over .500 right now. And a few of those games they blew were against the stros, meaning their record would be a couple games worse. If that were the case, the rangers would be up at least 6-8 games right now. It is what it is, and I'm not upset about the progress the rangers made this year. We know where we need to concentrate in the offseason. Would love to see them re-sign stratton and montgomery. All that having been said: the rangers are only .5 back in the wildcard, and 3 back in the division. their next 3 are against oakland, then four against Toronto, who's the team a half game ahead of them in the wild card. Win 5 out of 7 (should have a decent chance) and they're back in wild card, and probably make up a little ground in the division. The season isn't over yet, even though it feels that way for anyone who's been watching for the last three weeks. Much needed day off today.

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gotcha. well, they weren't making the playoffs with several seasons of 7-3 or better in a row. So i guess they were finishing third in district during those seasons. Can't find a detailed account of the games played that far back, just the records.

That team wasn't good, they just had some easy opponents. 5 wins, 5 losses, but the 5 losses were all between 25-45 points. I just went back and looked at HJ's history. The football team wasn't bad from when the school formed until around 1985. In the last 40 years or so there have been three groups of athletes that have come through and had decent stretches. The 90-94 kids went 35-14-1 over five seasons, but never made the playoffs because that was back when one team went. Those were good teams. my group of athletes was 98-01. We went 30-16 over 4 seasons, three playoff appearances and 4 playoff wins, including a run to 4th round in 99. The class of 01 was probably the best of those teams, but after starting 8-0 all of our main offensive players got hurt over the span of about a game (qb, rb, fb), and that was all she wrote. Lost a double OT game, then by 2 to top-5 Barbers Hill without any of our guys, ended up with the #3 seed and got whacked in the first round of the playoffs by Bridge City, who was very, very good (four rounds deep that year). Without the injuries we go 10-0 and who knows what happens from there in the playoffs. The 2013-2016 group was solid, and had 3 winning seasons in 4 years, with a 2-8 season in the middle of 8-5, 11-2, and 7-4 seasons. the 2014 team was arguably the best team HJ has ever had. They played state finalists WOS really well in district before it got away at the end, and then ran into LaGrange and JK Dobbins in the 3rd round of the playoffs, losing by a touchdown. So that's about 11-12 seasons in 40 years where there was a decent football team? I honestly couldn't say why there isn't more consistency. You'd think the "bad years" would be 4-6, 5-5, 6-4, but there's a lot of 1-9,2-8, and 3-7 over the years.

No clue. I graduated 22 years ago and we had a really good team while I played there, for about a 4-year stretch. Then about 12-13 years later they had a really good team for like 2 years. That's pretty much been it for the last 30 years, maybe 4-5 good teams. You've got a school with a bunch of smart kids and a decent amount of good athletes, they shouldn't be nearly as bad at football as they are every year, even as a basketball school.

I don't either. But it's the one game I see them maybe being competitive in.

It’s been a brutal stretch as a rangers fan. They’ve blown half their save attempts this year. The funny thing is, at the start of the season if you offered me this position at this point of the season I would’ve jumped on it. But how they’ve gotten to this point is painful.

Barrier didn’t stick around long it seems. Must have missed that he left

Worst week I’ve had since I started doing these again. 23 right next week and I’m right back in it

I’d say burning two of your four non-district games playing HJ and BC is a bigger issue than scheduling WOS.

Looking like a second straight year with BC being their only winnable games. Except BC has improved some, while HJ might be worse than their 1-9 squad from last year

They scored a touchdown last week

@lionpride08 beat me to it

Lovejoy 42 Argyle 14 argyle is 0-2 having been outscored 92-28. They went 14-1 and lost by a TD in the state semis last year. They’d only lost 3 games the previous 3 seasons.

Was just about to post this one

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