Jamey Newberg
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Husband, father, lawyer, baseball writer: https://t.co/dRlDES6HpA & @DMagazine, adjunct prof. Rangers fan since well before Roger Moret's catatonic trance.
Dallas, TX
Joined March 2009
Pitchers and catchers get rolling today. So do I. Click the link in my bio or the reply below:
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Michael Wilbon just said Tim Hardaway Jr. needs to step up for Dallas tonight. That’s who ESPN has on the pregame desk.
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It’s still amazing to me that Jerry pushed me as a fan to the point at which I don’t care even a tiny bit about news like this anymore.
ESPN Source: The Dallas Cowboys denied permission to the Chicago Bears to interview their head coach Mike McCarthy.
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All due respect to Garver’s mic drop after the Game 2 grand slam and every Doli bat flip ever, this was my favorite of the year. A thousand words right there. Ten thousand.
We sat through an entire 6 year rebuild for moments like THIS ❤️ No matter what happens next, this year and team is so special and will always be remembered #GoAndTakeIt
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Love you guys. There’s not a chance I’m gonna be able to respond to all the texts and messages. Zero Things, in the morning.
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The biggest divisional lead in baseball belongs to the Rangers.
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Uses a clip from a literal World Series parade. Adorable.
Corey Seager, what would happen if the Rangers won the 2024 AL West
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There’s a Rangers game on MLB Network right now. They’re playing Arizona. Arizona’s pitcher has a no-hitter going right now in the sixth. Drama building.
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The Rangers are finished playing for the year. And it’s not a bad thing…. Dude. It’s starting to sink in.
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In the last 8 months the Rangers gave us a World Series title and the Stars and Mavs gave us bad-ass seasons that lasted into June. Awesome. What a year.
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If this doesn’t catapult him to the All-Star vote lead, what are we even doing.
Jonah Heim doing the challenge motion as he rounds the bases after getting called for blocking the plate in last night's game
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Kinsler throwing out tomorrow's first pitch. Holland catching it. Thursday: Michael to Colby.
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The look on Lowe’s face and the body language before he even left the box >>>>.
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Texas wins. Seattle loses. Houston loses by one. Toronto loses by one. JORDAN LYLES!.
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The Rangers are in the final four. Last season the Stars were in the final four. In 2022 the Mavs were in the final four. The Internet doesn’t go back far enough for the other team. No idea.
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Texas Rangers, World Champions. Day 78.
This just in: Dallas is not making a head-coaching change and Cowboys’ HC Mike McCarthy is returning for the 2024 season, per sources.
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Since the Cowboys last won a playoff game past the Wild Card Round:. * The Rangers have played in two World Series .* The Mavs have played in two NBA Finals .* The Stars have played in three Stanley Cup Finals.
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Bally announces @JaredSandler will handle TV play-by-play duties on occasion this season. Could not be happier for him. Rising superstar who gets to call TV games for the team he grew up loving.
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Suzuki, Kershaw, and a return of this cap and uniform — I don’t ask much:
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Let's go, Rangers fans. Imagine 7 months ago being in this exact position.
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Scenes like this make me so happy.
Makes sense that Adolis García would show up to a Mavericks game against Houston. (Via: @BallySportsSW)
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In his post, Jordan Montgomery said he hopes to give Texas another 15 good starts. I see what he did there.
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Texas Rangers, World Champions for a 35th straight day. The draft lottery is tonight. Whatever.
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This is a really good football game. The Texas Rangers have been world champions for 31 days.
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This is amazing and you will watch it more than once. (And no drowsy country music.).
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And there are people (some, not many) who wonder why the Astros are so fundamentally unlikable.
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Didn’t make it into 1 Thing, but cool note I thought worth sharing: after the game, Torey Lovullo praised the Rangers as a class org for coming to him before formally announcing the Doli/Max deactivations—to let him know so he could adjust last night’s pitching plan if needed.
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Knock, knock. Who's there?. The Rangers have lost one series this season.
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I appreciate Jim Nill, Chris Young, and Nico Harrison more than ever.
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Won't listen to sports talk radio today (unless alerted to a Rangers segment). I don't need the 90% saturation on Dak's decisions, the thousand penalties, the effect of no Diggs and a decimated O-line . in game three. It's baseball season.
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Seriously. Carter should hit third tomorrow or Saturday, whenever they play next. And he’ll never hit third again after this month.
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I owe my writing career to this man. Without @theoldgreywolf taking interest in a flimsy email list I'd started back in 98, there's no Newberg Report. No blog, no books, no events, no opportunity to join @TheAthletic. I depend on all of it-& it's all due to Mike. Stay hard, dude.
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Dude is super emotional. We are all Chris Young tonight.
Texas Rangers GM Chris Young: "Our fans have waited a long time for this. To see this building packed the way that it was, and the support of our fans, we felt like we couldn't fail tonight."
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No clue what the omen properties of this are — but I just caught Semien’s foul ball.
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And I bet it wasn’t the pain. Dude’s as bad-ass a leader as there is. He’s thinking about his team.
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Remember this feeling? . See you tomorrow night.
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LFGGGGGGGG.
Right-hander Nathan Eovaldi and the Texas Rangers are in agreement on a three-year, $75 million contract, sources tell ESPN. Eovaldi, who was considered at the top of the mid-tier free agents, returns to Texas. First on the agreement was @ByRobertMurray.
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Texas Rangers, World Series champions. For this many days.
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Think the Rangers did, in fact, need the All-Star Break.
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At restaurant patio watching football. Sign out front say “We Went & Took It.” Family just walked in, guy wearing a City Connect cap. Another family walks out, mom in a Rangers jacket and tells someone they’re on way to see the WS trophy. It’s a Sports Town, Josh.
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On the off-chance that you still weren’t 100% sure. It’s in fact happening.
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Since Texas traded for Scherzer and Montgomery and created a musical chairs situation in the rotation, Heaney has gone 11.2-6-0-0-2-15. All singles. That’s one helluva response.
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And Dallas’s has no asterisk by it. I wouldn’t trade any of the DFW four for any of the HOU three right now. The Astros have had a better run since 2016 but it’s forever tainted.
@briarstem @NewbergReport Houston sports has 2 championships in the last 22 years, Dallas has 1. With one less sport.
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From a friend (and maybe I'm late on this and it's everywhere):. ROAD .Rays .Orioles .Astros .Diamondbacks.
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Closing the book on Houston:. Always had respect for Altuve, and that only grew. Dude’s a warrior of the highest, most epic order. Always feared Yordan but my respect for him spiked exponentially—not only as the game’s best hitter but in the way he helped deescalate the scuffle.
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Starters Michael Lorenzen, José Ureña, Andrew Heaney, and Jon Gray have a combined 1.82 ERA over the last four games. Texas is 0-4.
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Disappointing year for the baseball team -- no denying or disguising that -- but I do like that they fought out of a deep hole today and gutted out a win late to send the home crowd off with some positive. That was cool. The football team is a joke.
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The Angels had Mike Trout and Shohei Ohtani together for 6 years. Zero playoff appearances. They’ve had Trout for 13 years. One single playoff appearance for him—9 years ago—and they got swept by KC in three games. That’s unbelievably, phenomenally, historically unacceptable.
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I'm no art connoisseur, but this is flippin' beautiful
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SPORTS.
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I didn’t go to the Mavs parade or the lifetime-ago Cowboys parades — but I can’t imagine the scene was anything like this one. This is hard to believe.
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Separated by exactly six months. Game 5…Game 5…Game 5
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Not caring about this at all is a great feeling.
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Dear Rangers and Astros fans:. Here’s hoping for another epic baseball game tonight. Beats what 26 other teams are preparing for.
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Perhaps fittingly, it ended with Josh Sborz. @TheAthletic is not bringing me back for 2024. I’ll forever be grateful – esp to @SportsSturm, @OrMoyal, @ThreeTwoEephus, @mikelikessports & @kaciborowski – for the only opportunity I would have left 20 years of solo writing for. /1.
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To be fair, the second pitch in that at-bat was as brutal in favor of the other team. Evened out. But the point is well taken. That’s horrible incompetency in the biggest game of the league’s season.
There have been a couple of exceptionally bad ball-strike calls tonight. One in the ninth inning of a 3-1 game that makes the difference between a walk and an eventual groundout is just not acceptable.
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Seventh. Whatever. I wouldn’t trade him straight up for any of the top six.
Hard to believe, but Wyatt Langford didn’t even finish in the top-five of AL ROY voting.
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I mean, good grief. It’s an understatement to say Wyatt Langford is good at baseball. Wyatt Langford is really good at baseball.
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That dugout scene: Chills. Still.
#OTD 2011: Indians alum Derek Holland ('07) turned in the greatest #WorldSeries start in @Rangers history. #GoSpo x @Dutch_Oven45. 📽️ @Rangers | #TogetherWe
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All due respect to John Burkett, Ian Kinsler should have thrown out the first pitch.
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Some love this morning for Jonathan Hernandez. He was one pitch away from an insanely heroic effort — well, it was a heroic effort, just very nearly a heroic outcome — that we would be talking about the rest of his career and well beyond that.
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How anyone can consider any cap other than this one the Rangers’ best is something I can’t wrap my head around.
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You and I have experienced plenty of Rangers losses. Max Scherzer, Jordan Montgomery, Chris Stratton, and Jonathan Ornelas haven’t experienced their first one yet.
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*history*.
** NEW UMPIRE AUDITOR RECORD **. Umpire Angel Hernandez rang up Wyatt Langford on three consecutive pitches out of the zone. The strikeout pitch missed outside by 6.78 inches. This was the largest miss on a called strikeout in Umpire Auditor history.
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Greatness.
The entire @Rangers rotation had enough with Nathan Eovaldi doing interviews 😂. @CY24_7 | #Postseason | #GoAndTakeIt
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The Garver trade. The Heim trade. The Doli trade. The dual middle infield blitz. The Lowe trade. The Dunning trade.
JD masterclass.
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Sad to see him go. Big part of what got done in 23.
BREAKING: Catcher Mitch Garver and the Seattle Mariners are in agreement on a two-year, $24 million contract, pending physical, sources tell ESPN. Merry Christmas and happy holidays to him, Mariners fans who get to celebrate an unexpected gift and everyone else.
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I’m sure every big league umpire appreciates the strength and conviction of their union—but they can’t be ok with this. They just can’t. AH’s routine incompetence has become such a narrative, and getting worse, that it discredits the entire profession. Including the good ones.
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Dear @faridyu:. Crush it in LA. Be awesome. We'll keep a place for you back home. Go win a ring. And then please come back.
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The Rangers entered the Break on a skid and came out of it having to take on three straight division leaders. They knocked CLE out of first. They dropped TB into a first-place tie (first time since Opening Day). Now LAD comes in – up one game on SFG.
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I laughed. Hurts, but that was kinda funny.
Hey @Dodgers, the support group for back-to-back #WorldSeries losers meets on Tuesdays.
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I’m sad for the great Rays franchise that there are so many thousands of empty seats. Team deserves better.
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We're quick to praise Bruce Bochy and Mike Maddux -- and we should -- but it's time that Tim Hyers and Donnie Ecker and Seth Conner get some love for how much better hitters like Lowe, Adolis, Jonah, and Leody have gotten with their approach.
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Fantastic.
Norm Hitzges throws out first pitch to former Rangers broadcast partner, Tom Grieve! . @Rangers | #StraightUpTX | 📺: BSSW
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Texas will officially draft 30th in 2024, which is all kinds of awesome.
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