Oct 06
From Hardball Talk I maintain that the Rangers are baseball’s most talented team. That they’re done after one wild card game falls mostly on the shoulders of Josh Hamilton and the shortcomings of manager Ron Washington. Hamilton’s struggles are well chronicled. In the Rangers’ final nine games — seven of which proved to be losses …
Aug 27
Rangers manager Ron Washington will entertain about a dozen family members this week, but has no plans to go back to his home in New Orleans after Tropical Storm Isaac, which is expected to strengthen into a hurricane as it tracks up the Gulf of Mexico, makes landfall. The hurricane is forecast to hit the …
Aug 15
From The Newberg Report Kansas City signed 18-year-old Ron Washington as a catcher but raised him as a shortstop-second baseman-third baseman. He spent six seasons there, reaching Class AA the last two, where he saw most of his playing time at second base. Those two years, Wash’s fellow Royals Baseball Academy graduate Frank White was …
Jun 25
Do you think Josh Hamilton has had enough of the spotlight since the season began? After hitting .395 in April and .344 in May, Hamilton has hit just .191 in June. He also has more strikeouts in June (26) than he had in April or May. It seems that manager Ron Washington has had some …
Jan 30
From Hardball Talk Ron Washington’s contract was set to expire after this season, but the Rangers have signed the 60-year-old manager to a two-year extension that will keep him in Texas through 2014. Washington’s current deal was also a two-year extension inked after the 2010 season, which was the Rangers’ first of back-to-back AL championships. …
Jan 29
By Dick Kaegel / MLB.com KANSAS CITY — Rangers manager Ron Washington was having a great time on Saturday at the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum, his destination to receive the C.I. Taylor Award as American League manager of the year. But he was really looking forward to his next visit to Kansas City.
Nov 06
The fine fellas at Joe Sports Fan have obtained a recording of Rangers manager Ron Washington’s pregame speech from Game 7 of the World Series. It’s about as graphic as it gets, with Washington frequently referring to Cardinals starter Chris Carpenter as “mutha-f#%king Carp.” He also quotes the Three Musketeers, so there’s that. JSF’s Matt …
Oct 19
From Sports Grid You remember Li’l Ron Washington, right? The kid (real name: Liam Roybal) who took the baseball world by storm last year with a Halloween costume that made him look exactly like a miniature replica of the Rangers manager? Well, a year later the Rangers are right back in the World Series…and rest assured, …
Aug 11
Check out how Ron Washington’s excitement gets on camera. This was his reaction to Josh Hamilton’s game winning hit Tuesday night.
Jun 30
From D Magazine *by Michael J. Mooney Ron Washington is not happy to see me. I wasn’t supposed to come here. Not to New Orleans, the place where he was born, the place he has called home his entire life. Not to his neighborhood in the notorious Ninth Ward, where he and his wife, …
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