{"id":6611,"date":"2014-03-04T12:55:21","date_gmt":"2014-03-04T17:55:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/?p=6611"},"modified":"2014-03-04T12:56:08","modified_gmt":"2014-03-04T17:56:08","slug":"ian-kinsler-hopes-the-rangers-go-0-162","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2014\/03\/04\/ian-kinsler-hopes-the-rangers-go-0-162\/","title":{"rendered":"Ian Kinsler hopes the Rangers go 0-162"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_6612\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6612\" style=\"width: 594px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-6612\" alt=\"iankinsler\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/03\/iankinsler.jpg\" width=\"594\" height=\"391\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/03\/iankinsler.jpg 594w, https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/03\/iankinsler-300x197.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-6612\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">getty images<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Ian Kinsler was traded by Texas Rangers and now the second baseman is not being shy about his feelings towards the club.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I hope they go 0-162,&#8221; Kinsler told ESPN The Magazine\u00a0in a piece <a href=\"http:\/\/espn.go.com\/mlb\/story\/_\/id\/10544839\/ian-kinsler-intends-become-elite-second-baseman-detroit-tigers-espn-magazine\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">published this week<\/a>. &#8220;I got friends, and I love my friends, but I hope they lose their ass.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There was no remorse from the Rangers,&#8221; Kinsler says of the trade. &#8220;They did not care.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In the piece Kinsler talks about his time with the Rangers and calls the general manager a &#8220;sleazeball&#8221; blaming him for Nolan Ryan&#8217;s exit from the front office.<\/p>\n<p>Asked about the comments, Rangers manager Ron Washington replied.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We won&#8217;t go 0-162,&#8221; Washington said. &#8220;Guaranteed.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Well, at-least one man is happy about Kinler&#8217;s comments. Former teammate Josh Hamilton is taking Kinsler&#8217;s comments as a positive.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;At least I won&#8217;t be the only villain in Texas now,&#8221; the Angels outfielder told <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JeffFletcherOCR\/status\/440885720408797184\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Jeff Fletcher<\/a> of the Orange County Register.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ian Kinsler was traded by Texas Rangers and now the second baseman is not being shy about his feelings towards the club. &#8220;I hope they go 0-162,&#8221; Kinsler told ESPN The Magazine\u00a0in a piece published this week. &#8220;I got friends, and I love my friends, but I hope they lose their ass.&#8221; &#8220;There was no [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6612,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[499],"tags":[503,91,501],"coauthors":[6],"class_list":{"0":"post-6611","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-front","9":"tag-ian-kinsler","10":"tag-mlb"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6611","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6611"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6611\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6614,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6611\/revisions\/6614"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6612"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6611"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=6611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}