Husband, father, lawyer, baseball writer: newbergreport.substack.com & @DMagazine, adjunct prof. Rangers fan since well before Roger Moret's catatonic trance.
Dallas, TX
- Tweets 76,978
- Following 612
- Followers 42,935
- Likes 5,548
Pinned Tweet
Pitchers and catchers get rolling today. So do I.
Click the link in my bio or the reply below:
26
2
74
325,621
Observations from this presser:
1. Luka looks and sounds fundamentally sad
2. Man, listening to Rob describe the process — he absolutely worked Nico over
76
360
10,986
584,962
Michael Wilbon just said Tim Hardaway Jr. needs to step up for Dallas tonight.
That’s who ESPN has on the pregame desk.
101
262
5,972
575,565
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
42
104
1,966
179,863
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.
87
46
1,856
50,930
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.
36
49
1,434
90,486
My God, that wretched game sports-sucked at a level I didn't expect it would. Every minute of it.
He's so unbelievably great and I can't believe they stole him from us.
I won't ever forgive them, and no, time won't heal this. And I don't really want it to.
46
114
1,345
59,977
The Rangers are finished playing for the year.
And it’s not a bad thing….
Dude. It’s starting to sink in.
43
34
1,285
40,467
Friends,
Here we go:
Zero Things.
dmagazine.com/sports/2023/11…
92
197
1,207
121,141
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.
21
87
1,141
33,912
Kinsler throwing out tomorrow's first pitch. Holland catching it.
Thursday: Michael to Colby.
26
65
1,083
63,147
Texas wins.
Seattle loses.
Houston loses by one.
Toronto loses by one.
JORDAN LYLES!
9
35
904
28,016
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.
23
64
884
63,166
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
27
133
837
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.
18
26
816
36,020
In his post, Jordan Montgomery said he hopes to give Texas another 15 good starts.
I see what he did there.
11
17
774
83,521
Texas Rangers, World Champions for a 35th straight day.
The draft lottery is tonight. Whatever.
7
25
775
27,847
This is a really good football game.
The Texas Rangers have been world champions for 31 days.
1
34
758
30,188
The @Rangers were down to their last strike.
But that didn't matter to Cody Freeman, who came through in the clutch and also homered in their extra-inning win: atmlb.com/429EM8C
25
48
802
69,932
This is amazing and you will watch it more than once.
(And no drowsy country music.)
9
85
749
116,338
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.
9
69
735
58,390
And there are people (some, not many) who wonder why the Astros are so fundamentally unlikable.
130
43
722
109,019
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.
37
37
724
47,033
Seriously. Carter should hit third tomorrow or Saturday, whenever they play next.
And he’ll never hit third again after this month.
62
30
706
61,351
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.
5
32
662
Evan Carter, pinch-hitting in the ninth, homered off a RH changeup that hung up middle-middle. Drove it 400 feet at 102.1 mph to right field.
22
16
675
25,588
No clue what the omen properties of this are — but I just caught Semien’s foul ball.
27
11
632
32,562
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.
21
22
655
30,764
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.
11
18
600
41,195
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.
12
25
580
31,553
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.
164
29
565
232,330
From a friend (and maybe I'm late on this and it's everywhere):
ROAD
Rays
Orioles
Astros
Diamondbacks
7
49
557
31,000
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.
34
21
557
46,085
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.
19
50
562
55,382
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.
16
21
551
16,771
I’m just gonna go ahead and say it.
I DESERVE THIS KIND OF SPORTS-AWESOME RIGHT ABOUT NOW.
What an unforgettable 20 out of Mikko. Against THAT TEAM.
Sports.
SPORTS.
6
33
561
13,241
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.
32
54
529
162,123
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.
20
20
509
45,072
Not caring about this at all is a great feeling.
8
7
504
47,862
Dear Rangers and Astros fans:
Here’s hoping for another epic baseball game tonight.
Beats what 26 other teams are preparing for.
12
23
487
43,855
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
43
15
513
75,200
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.
30
18
500
68,787
A pro sports GM just said: "I'm not capable of looking at the worst-case scenario."
Truest thing he said.
16
26
513
21,477
And I made a choice to flip to Luka’s debut, to watch a player who will always give me joy rather than five minutes of a team that stole joy from me. Very comfortable with that decision.
Sometimes your negativity is breathtaking. Yes they shot FT poorly. Without Washington, Davis & Gafford they got outshot and outrebounded. In the game why? Steals & pts off TOs. Defense. Hustle. That’s who they are. Can’t play harder w who they had. They gave their very best.
20
11
502
30,719