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Thursday, July 10, 2008

Lock this in a vault or put it in a hermetically sealed envelope…

By , 09:32 PM

Then open it up at the end of the season, and look at the Rangers record starting on July 10.  What am I talking about?  After Hamilton’s walk off homer against K-Rod on Wednesday, The Rangers’ manager said this:

You want to talk about a team, that’s a team. You want to talk about a team with character, a team that never gives up, about guys with heart? They showed what they are made of. And there wasn’t anybody in our dugout that doubted at any moment that we could win it. “It’s a group of guys believing in themselves and believing that once they take the field they’re capable of playing with anybody. At some point this year, somebody is going to believe. I know I do.

So we finally have Tango’s long awaited character assessment before the fact.

I am being somewhat facetious (although I do think the whole thing is nonsense), since obviously anything can happen in 75 games by chance alone.

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