{"id":58168,"date":"2025-02-24T21:22:51","date_gmt":"2025-02-24T21:22:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=58168"},"modified":"2025-02-24T21:22:51","modified_gmt":"2025-02-24T21:22:51","slug":"mlb-calls-my-name","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=58168","title":{"rendered":"MLB calls my name"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p>This is going to be the season, I am preparing to commit, when I will attend more than a single Major League Baseball game over yonder in Arlington, where the Texas Rangers play hardball.<\/p>\n<p>I attended a Rangers game two seasons ago when they were contending for the American League pennant. They won the pennant and went on to defeat the Arizona Diamondbacks in five games.<\/p>\n<p>The most astonishing aspect of the Rangers&#8217; championship run was how they managed to win every road game they played en route to defeating the D&#8217;backs.<\/p>\n<p>A friend took me to that game in Arlington. We had a huge blast watching the Rangers rally big late in the game to score a blowout win.<\/p>\n<p>I have lived near MLB franchises before. My wife, sons and I lived in Beaumont, only about 80 miles east along I-10 from Houston, where the Astros once played ball. The &#8216;Stros had a pretty decent pitcher on their staff &#8230; by the name of Nolan Ryan. Did I ever traipse down the road to see the Ryan Express toss heat at the oppositon? Nope &#8230; and I regret failing to do so to this day.<\/p>\n<p>Arlington isn&#8217;t too terribly far from Princeton. I gotta make the effort to see a ballgame or three while the season is in progress. The Rangers have some work to do if they intend to return to the World Series.<\/p>\n<p>Still, they play in a fabulous venue. The fans are loyal. Moreover, I want to return to cheering for a favorite Major League ballclub. I hope the Texas Rangers can step up.<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is going to be the season, I am preparing to commit, when I will attend more than a single Major League Baseball game over yonder in Arlington, where the Texas Rangers play hardball. I attended a Rangers game two seasons ago when they were contending for the American League pennant. They won the pennant &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=58168\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">MLB calls my name<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[10434,3105,10435,4688,5299],"class_list":["post-58168","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports-news","tag-al","tag-mlb","tag-nl","tag-texas-rangers","tag-world-series"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58168","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=58168"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58168\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58169,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58168\/revisions\/58169"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=58168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=58168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=58168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}