Like the Song Goes—“THEY DID IT THEIR WAY!”

 

The 2024 Home portion of the MLB Season for the Defending World Series Champions, Texas Rangers is coming to an end this weekend—with the final six games to close it out at Globe Life Field, have the Toronto Blue Jays, and the Seattle Mariners coming through town, the Rangers who start this final series at home are 9 games out of first place in the American League West, and they are 7 games out of the Wild Card race… either way there will be NO post season for this team this year.

The bright side of this, is that Chris Young, their GM has been given an extension on a contract and a new title of President and oversees Baseball Operations, so that will help, and that Manager Bruce Bochy will return to the dugout for another season (it will be his third in that capacity).

The Rangers will go into the off season, with more questions than answers, the first being, if certain players return to the Rangers for the 2025 season, that would include names such as Catcher Jonah Heim, Outfield- Adolis Garcia, some pitchers might not be back like Nathan Eovaldi—but that pretty much is still up in the air, all of those names are actually still possible to stay with the Rangers, but the Winter Meetings in December, in Dallas, Texas—will be very telling.

The celebration of the opening game of the 2024 season against the Chicago Cubs, at home, the presentation of the Commissioners Trophy, the dropping of the World Series Banner from the rafters, the fans enjoying the excitement of reliving that Championship feel, one more time.

The season showcased, because of the likes of Chuck Morgan, the promotional items through out the year, the replica Championship rings, the bobble heads that showcased the Gold Glove Winners, the moments of the Post Season, the replica Jerseys of  players that made an impact during the post season and the World Series—and again the joy and delight of the fans that were able to participate with receiving those items.

The ALL STAR GAME, that was held in July at the home of the World Series Champions, from the previous year, that was special, only the third time in baseball history, has that happened, once with the New York Giants the other was the New York Yankees, and now the Texas Rangers can add their name to that very small list of teams to have done that feat.

Alas, though this season is coming to an end, and this team, will not be able to repeat as Champions, and this team, will lick their wounds and prepare for the off season that is about to come, and set their sights on what will be available with either trades, free agency, or better yet in the amateur draft come June of 2025.

For now, though, those of us that have suffered the slings and arrows of previous years of, “Wait til next year”—we did and we got there, and we were just full of the joy and the thrill, that North Texas claimed another championship in the area, the Dallas Cowboys are FIVE TIME Super Bowl Champions, the NHL’s Dallas Stars, Stanley Cup Champions, the NBA’s Dallas Mavericks, and now the Rangers are a part of that lore. HOWEVER! Let us not forget the minor league champions in the area as well, the TWO TIME Texas League Champions Frisco Roughriders, the CHL Ft Worth Brahmas, the CHL/ECHL 4 time Champions Allen Americans.

So this is a CITY OF CHAMPIONS—a METROPLEX of Champions…. And the Texas Rangers, added to that compliment of trophies in the trophy case.

Lets see what happens in 2025, and if Bruce Bochy once again, can show that he is indeed the Mad Scientist, and recreate once again, what he did in the city by the Bay, and replicate the same magic and bring home another championship with the name Rangers attached to it!

 

Just a thought