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ARLINGTON, Texas -- The Texas Rangers most likely will be AL West champions by time they return home next week.Even before a 5-4 loss to the Los Angeles Angels on Wednesday night, the Rangers knew any chance of ending their homestand with a clinching game had ended earlier in the day when second-place Houston won at Oakland.Destiny is in our hands, shortstop Elvis Andrus said. Believe me, no matter if we clinch here, or anywhere, as long as youre in that, thats been our main goal. Thats our first goal.With nine games left in the regular season, the magic number remained at two for the Rangers (90-63) to clinch their second consecutive AL West title and seventh overall.After a day off Thursday, when Houston is home against the Angels, the first division-clinching opportunity for Texas could come as early as the series opener Friday night against the As. The three-game series at Oakland is their last on the road before finishing the regular season at home against Milwaukee and Tampa Bay.I feel great about our ball club and where theyre at, manager Jeff Banister said.Mike Trout hit his 28th homer for Los Angeles and Jered Weaver went six innings for his 150th career victory in an Angels uniform.Weaver (12-12), who struck out six and allowed four runs, joined Chuck Finley (165) as the only pitchers to win 150 games for the Angels.Andrew Bailey worked the ninth, allowing a two-run double to Andrus before hitting Jurickson Profar with a pitch. He earned his fourth save in four chances since his Angels debut Sept. 2.Trouts three-run drive off Derek Holland (7-9) in the fifth put the Angels up 5-1.Were still fighting. ... Were not going to give up. Were just going to try to get some positives out of the end of the year and go from there, Trout said. Its not fun when youre not playing for a playoff spot.Holland, who spent two months on the disabled list with left shoulder inflammation, allowed five runs and six hits in five innings. The lefty struck out three and walked two while throwing only 71 pitches.Obviously I just didnt do my job, Holland said. Its plain and simple.After two impressive starts in late August when he came off the DL, Holland has lost his last three starts while giving up 14 runs in 14 2/3 innings.Rookie outfielder Nomar Mazara had three hits for Texas, including two RBI singles. After his run-scoring hit in the fifth, he scored on Carlos Beltrans homer that got the Rangers within 5-4.Beltran hit his 28th homer overall, and sixth since getting traded from the New York Yankees on Aug. 1.We won the series, now weve got to move on to Oakland and win the series over there. Sometimes you want things to go your way, but at the end of the day, we play good baseball, Beltran said about not clinching at home. Unfortunately it didnt happen, but theres no letdown.E5 TO HIGHLIGHT PLAYRangers 3B Profar was charged with an error when he allowed a grounder by Carlos Perez to go through his legs for an error to start the fifth. But when the next batter, Shane Robinson, tried to bunt, he popped it up and Profar made a diving back-handed catch in foul territory.CENTURY AND A HALFWeaver is a California native who has spent all 11 of his MLB seasons with the Angels, and is 150-93 in 321 career starts. The right-hander 18-8 in 40 career starts against the Rangers, his most wins against any opponent.SHORT HOPSThe Rangers won the season series against the Angels 10-9. ... Texas is still an MLB-best 36-11 in one-run games. The Rangers won the first two games in the series by one run, both comeback victories that pushed their majors-leading total to 47.TRAINERS ROOMRangers: OF Shin-Soo Choo, out since mid-August because of a fractured left forearm, said he was feeling good as he continues workouts in hopes of being ready for the postseason. He has taken batting practice in the cage, but not on the field yet.UP NEXTAngels: Travel about 250 miles south to start their final road series of a season in Houston, with the first of four games on Thursday night.Rangers: A day off before opening a three-game series Friday in Oakland. Basket Adidas Nmd Femme Pas Cher .S. Open champion Justin Rose birdied the first hole with a blind shot he hit to a foot of the pin, and he stayed in front Tuesday until he completed a 4-under 67 for a two-shot lead over Jason Dufner in PGA Grand Slam of Golf. Adidas Nmd Sans Lacet Pas Cher . 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The struggling MLS team is 2-10-8 under president Kevin Payne and manager Ryan Nelsen, who continue to overhaul the roster in their first year at the helm of the perennial underachiever. "This ones different than the other two (teams) because were in the middle of the season," Leiweke, president and CEO of Maple Leaf Sports & Entertainment, said in an interview this week. "And so I dont think its fair or proper to get into an analysis, an assessment or a yearend on Kevin and Nellie because I think were in the middle of it here. "Are we happy where were at? No. And they understand Im not happy where were at. Do I hold them accountable and blame them for the decisions? No, I think they probably inherited most of these decisions. They didnt make all of these decisions. "Have we done as well as we would have hoped to do, even with the bad decisions they had to inherit? No, and I think theyd admit it. But I think what we need to do as an organization, all of us, the hand we were dealt is the hand we were dealt, we all knew it going in. And now what we need to do is not complain about it, not bitch about it, not revisit it. "I think weve got to focus every day on saying how do we fix this and get better. And thats what Im encouraging all of us to do, including me. That this needs to be going forward, how do we make this a better organization, lets not revisit what got us here." Leiweke spoke favourably of Payne-- "He knows where the bodies are buried and he knows what it takes to build a championship team" -- in a June 4 in-house interview aired on YouTube. In the same video, he said he was looking forward to getting to know the coaches. While Leiweke, who oversaw the Los Angeles Galaxy during his time in charge of AEG, told The Canadian Press he would withhold judgment on TFC, he seemed to offer several signals in the interview. Payne, who has been in the league from Day 1, and Nelsen, a rookie manager who began his playing career in MLS, have complained about officiating throughout the season. Leiweke, asked about Saturdays 0-0 tie with the New York Red Bulls, acknowledged that Toronto was "not catching any breaks." But he refused to dwell on it. "I tend to believe that sitting here and revisiting those calls doesnt serve much of a purpose," he explained. "And so we probably have to as an organization spend less time bitching and more time just moving on and understanding that sometimes thats the way those calls are going to go." Leiweke feels a keen connection to MLS, in part because he recalls a time "where there was a question whether it (the league) was going to make it." At one point, AEG owned six of the leagues 10 teams. Leiweke watched it grow, in part because of the off-field success and packed stands in Toronto during the franchises early days. "So theres a large part of me that feels the pain here more with TFC than we probably do with the other teams (Leafs and Raptors) because they had such an amazing thing that was going on here, they were such a vibrant part of changing the league and the way people viewed us. And people that wanted to come in and invest in the league. TFC made a huge impact and it was because of the fans and the overwhelming support that we got and how well we were doing. "So the good news is I tend to believe that TFC and Major League Soccer are a little bit different than the other two (Leafs and Raptors) because of the pains and the trials and the tribulations and the blood, sweat and tears that we put into thiss league to try to help it survive.dddddddddddd "The bad news is it makes it even more painful for what were going through now, because you clearly understand what those fans are going through." MLSE paid $10 million for Toronto FCs expansion fee prior to the club joining the league in 2007. The new New York franchise will pay at least $100 million. "I guess thats the good news," Leiweke said. "The sport and the league have done extremely well. And this team has done well. But weve lost our way and weve got to find it, weve got to get it back." To that end, MLSE is looking at upgrading BMO Field and the marketing of the team. "Its a little bit easier for the Leafs and the Raptors because we were at the end of the year and so we made some decisions on the Raptors and we made some decisions on the Leafs," Leiweke said. "And I am extremely comfortable with both of those management teams and where were headed." Being in the middle of the season isnt stopping Leiweke from making his thoughts known to the TFC braintrust. Nelsen has said hed like to fix the rest of his roster before bringing in a star designated player, so the new DP has a proper supporting cast. Leiweke, who brought David Beckham to MLS, disagrees. He believes if you find the right designated player, you sign them. But he learned the hard way that having the right DP wont make a difference if you have the wrong coach. "Philosophically theres probably a few changes that Im asking them to think about," Leiweke said. "I know theres a debate, for example, do you bring the DP in when its the final piece of the puzzle. I dont agree with that. I think the DP has to be part of your culture and your character and youve got to build around great DPs. "I know in Los Angeles, the first year we brought David in, it was a disaster. And by the way some of the disaster was self-created. I made a bad mistake on the coach. We didnt have the right system in place, we didnt make the playoffs and it was chaos. "But we turned it around very quickly and by the next year, we were a playoff team." The Galaxy coach in question was Ruud Gullit, a former star Dutch player who had managed Chelsea, Newcastle and Feyenoord before succeeding Canadian Frank Yallop at the Galaxy helm after Beckhams first year. Leiweke believes Gullit "underestimated the league and kind of probably didnt think it was good as it turned out it was." For Leiweke, many overseas coaches make the mistake of trying to impose a European system on a North American team. "And by the way I think this applies to the history of TFC occasionally too, and they dont understand this league," he said, in what could be seen most recently as a reference to Dutch manager Aron Winter. "It takes a long time for them to begin to understand this league." The MLSE boss says newcomers dont understand the athleticism, endurance, durability and work ethic of the North American player, not to mention the travel in the league. "What I realized is you have to put (in) someone (as coach) that understands the league and not try to change the league. Youre not going to change the league, youre not going to bring another style and another system and suddenly be able to be successful in the league. "Because at the end of the day there is a certain style of play and a certain quality with our league that you have to learn to be a part of. So we learned that in L.A. and when Bruce (Arena) came along, he did an extremely good job at taking our youth and our development and then our veteran guys, including our DPs, and finding a system that played into the strengths of the league. And thats when we began to have great success." ' ' '