The Ranger Zone

The Rangers are still holding the middle down in an eternal dance with .500, but there’s naive hope on the horizon. In this episode, we take a stab at the back half of 162 and call our shots across the league. Robbie thinks Yordan Alvarez has a serious case to take the Triple Crown, Tony sees the Big Dumper taking the rest of the M’s to the trash heap and missing the postseason, and Chris thinks the Rangers make Joc an $18.5 man again in 2027.
 
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If we have to blow it up, this is how we’d do it. In this episode, we imagine the worst and envision a scenario where the Rangers burn everything to the ground to build anew. Robbie targets promising prospects and veteran gap fillers, Chris eyeballs catchers of the future, and Tony reminds us why Jacob deGrom is valuable to all 30 teams.
 
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The voting sham that is the MLB All-Star game is nearly complete, and despite what all of Canada thinks, we believe no Blue Jays (except Ernie Clement) should even sniff the ballot. In this episode, we put together our All-Star rosters and make a case for two Texas Rangers position players to join the prolific squad in Philadelphia this season, and vow to start rioting if Jacob Latz isn’t an All-Star.
 
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We’ve reached the first milestone of the season – the quartermark. In this episode, we explain how the first 41.5 games weren’t all dreck and dismay. The pitching has held firm from 2025, aside from a few dozen home runs from No. 1 and No. 2. And the hitting… well, the hitting has been hard and fast, but often right into a fielder’s glove – unless you’re Josh Jung or Ezekiel Duran. 
 
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The fourth and final installment of Beast of the Best has cometh, and it might be the most depressing. In this episode, we visit the last three positions available – pitcher, catcher, and designated hitter. And what if I told you names like Nolan Ryan and Yu Darvish aren’t on this list? Well, you’d be as flabbergasted as we were to learn who outshined their single-season WAR accolades as a Texas Ranger.
 
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The newest threads of Nike’s City Connect program are here and we’ve got inflammatory opinions. In this episode, we describe in painful detail every nook and cranny of the seven new City Connects, including, of course, your Texas Rangers, rather – Tejas Rangers. We also give our top-3 personal rankings, but which one takes the cake? San Diego’s fireberry and marigold accents? Pittsburgh’s dagger-based font treatment? Milwauk… just kidding, we know it’s not that Wisco garbage.
 
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You can have your peanuts and Cracker Jack, we’ll take the chicken-fried hot dog served on a biscuit with gravy. In this episode, it’s FOOOOOOD! We bring you all the wild, wacky and worrisome food coming to Globe Life Field this season, as well as some other delicious dishes from around the league, like the Pig Kahuna, the Blooperito, the Glizzilla, the Bratwurst Smashie and many more mouth-watering concoctions straight from the pre-diabetes dreams of Wilford Brimley.
 
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The third, and second-to-last, installment of Beast of the Best hath arriven – and it might be the saddest one in the four-part series. In this episode, we travel beyond the base paths into the outfield to discuss why and how Juan Gonzalez stole two MVPs from Ken Griffey (or a handful of other players in the ‘90s), froth at the sight of Adolis Garcia’s 1.000+ OPS in the 2023 postseason, and discovered that as long as Josh Hamilton didn’t have two strikes in the count, he hit anywhere between .288 and .636.
 
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The amateurs are back in the broadcast booth for 2026. We last left you in the final game of the previous season and are bringing you into this season with the rubber match of the Rangers' opening series against the Philadelphia Phillies. In this episode, we get home runs from the two newest additions, Brandon Nimmo and Andrew McCutchen, and a 5-inning no-hit performance from another new addition, MacKenzie Gore. Grab a hot dog, grab a beer and grab a seat for this year’s first Amateur Broadcast Theater.
 
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Beast of the Best is back, and this time it’s second basemen and shortstops. In this episode, Christopher reminds us that Toby Harrah was only 16 batting-average points shy of winning the Triple Crown in 1975. Robbie discovered that Marcus Semien is one of six second basemen to log 25+ HR, 100+ RBI, 120+ Runs in a single season. And Tony got the short end of the stick and had to talk about how great A-Rod was.
 
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