ARLINGTON -- The Rangers are the strangest feel-good story of all time. For a team that no one, not even eternal optimist Chris Woodward, would have been likely to peg for four games over .500 a week after the All-Star break, they now sport the look of a club gone completely off the rails.
When the Rangers decided to end all discussion of "sellers vs. buyers" at the trade deadline, they did it with a punctuation mark. Arizona blistered this team by a count of 28-6, and that was just two games. Throw in Sunday's loss to the Astros and the last three games of the four-game losing streak Texas will take to Houston have come by a 40-10 count.