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Usually at this time I wish everyone Happy New Year since it’s the start of baseball season. This year it feels a little different, because the powers that be are choosing to have “Opening Night” only available on Netflix. Once again no one from the Commisioner’s office asked my opinion on this matter. This is another attempt to “make the game available to more people” but I don’t really think it works that way. What about the millions of people who don’t have Netflix? Or don

I’m pretty sure that Van Halen wasn’t talking about baseball, but the phrase applies to the state of starting pitching in Major League Baseball today. Finishing what they started is almost nonexistent. In 1974, Texas Ranger pitcher Ferguson Jenkins was the MLB leader in complete games, with 29. There were eight others with 20 or more, and there were 1089 complete games thrown by the 24 professional teams in existence at the time. In 2025, three pitchers (Tanner Bibee, Framber

I was never a fan of Boy George, but the name of his band from the 80’s is appropriate for our Texas Ranger discussion today. Other than the usual talk about pitching, better offense, solid defense, better baserunning and avoiding injuries, the word we have heard tossed around the most in the offseason is culture. What is culture? The dictionary (or Google if you prefer) says that culture is the shared system of beliefs, values, customs, and behaviors that members of a socie