Congratulations to the Texas Rangers and Matt Harrison

Thanks for posting this. Matt is a tremendous young man. Such a humble hard working young man. I had the pleasure of coaching him in high school and watching him develop over the years. Matt would not be out worked. He was determined to be there this year. I am so proud of him.

I'm a big Matt Harrison fan, Coach May. Everyone would want a roster full of ball players like him. He threw a great game today.

I would also say it's about time to give Nolan Ryan and Jon Daniels their due for being one of the best front offices in the game. What they have done with the roster, the winning atmosphere, and simple bottom line results is really something special given the club's history.

Everyone said the Rangers were stupid for signing Beltre. Everyone said their success last year was Cliff Lee and would be gone this year. Everyone said their pitch staff was a joke. Nolan just smiled and said, "we'll win about 95 games and be back". The guy knows baseball. He's really put together something that looks like it will last.

Lets GO R A N G E R S!!! GED10DaD

Couldn't agree more with the comments about Matt Harrison and the Rangers in general.

I DVR almost every game and my wife thinks I am nuts, but it is easy to watch this team play.

They play hard every time out for Wash and each other.

I posted this on the Mental Game Forum then noticed this thread. This is a blurb from the NYT Saturday:

"BOOK IT Matt Harrison started the 2010 season in the Rangers’ rotation but lost his spot by the end of May and was left off the postseason roster. In the off-season, Harrison said, he watched highlights of the Rangers’ ride to the World Series on TV and felt deeply frustrated. The answers, he found, were right next to him.

“Those couple of books I had, they were sitting on the nightstand right beside the couch I was sitting on,” Harrison said. “I had them for a year or so and never even picked them up.”

Harrison devoured the books — “The Mental ABC’s of Pitching,” “The Mental Game of Baseball” and “The Tao of Sports” — and learned to sharpen his focus. He went 14-9 in 30 starts, won the division series clincher and will start Game 4 in Detroit on Wednesday."