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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The baseball season is upon us all, and we could not, would not, let another second go by without predicting all the things and stuffs for 2026. In this episode, we discuss every digit from AL West standings to playoff spots to World Series winners and even some Rangers-specific guestimates. Also, we vehemently reject the racist statue erected at Globe Life Field last month and hope the people who tore down Saddam’s statue could do us a solid.

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