The Oakland A’s Look To quiet the loud Texas Rangers

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The Oakland A’s Look To quiet the loud Texas Rangers

The Texas Rangers are playing the Oakland A’s and they are coming to town with a very loud mouth.

The str8edgeracer has given, well, an edge to this weekend's three-game series between the A's and Rangers, set to begin Friday in Oakland.

Texas left-hander C.J. Wilson, whose Twitter handle is @str8edgeracer, said before Thurday's off-day that the Oakland Coliseum is far from his favorite park.

"I hate pitching there," said Wilson, who's enjoying another strong season with a 10-5 record and 3.35 ERA. "The mound [stinks]. The fans [stink]. There are no fans there. It's too bad, because the fans that are there are really adamant and stoked on the team. They play drums and they wave flags, and it's cool. But some games you go there and there are, like, 6,000 people there. It's kind of sad, because that's a Major League team, and there are guys out there that are obviously pretty good players. Guys like [Trevor] Cahill and Gio Gonzalez, obviously, they are All-Star pitchers, and I just wish the fan base supported them a little bit more."

Wilson has posted a 4.50 ERA against the A's in his career, though just five of his 34 career appearances against them have been starts, and only one was at the Coliseum. Former Rangers southpaw Brandon McCarthy will toe the rubber for the A's, and he's well aware of Wilson's remarks.

"You're entitled to your own opinion," McCarthy said. "A lot of people wouldn't say that stuff, but if he does, it's on our fans to kind of show something Friday night and stick up for themselves, and it's up to us as a team to fight back and show him we can beat him on the field and do everything we're supposed to do there, and send our message that way. Getting into a back-and-forth battle of words is just pointless."

McCarthy's pitched well of late, with eight shutout innings against the Rays on Saturday and quality starts in his past three outings. He's lowered his ERA from 3.74 to 3.31.

Despite Wilson's dislike for Oakland, he knows there's a danger in approaching a start against the A's less than seriously.

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