Welcome to SportsDay Rangers!
Long-time Dallas Morning News Texas Rangers beat writer Evan Grant has teamed up with Rangers senior advisor and team historian John Blake for a new podcast. Our two hosts bring nearly 70 years of combined experience covering the Rangers to the pod.
Each week, Evan and John will be joined by at least one guest from the Rangers’ past or present. They’ll dive into some historical items, talk about the state of the current team and, most importantly, try to have a little fun.
The guys rehash the highlights of the weekend, which means mostly Rangers Hall of Fame. With Elvis Andrus now in, Evan gives John his list of the next five guys who should be inducted. John squirms. Then we get down to the Mariners series and that means revisiting more offensive woes. In particular, concerns about Josh Jung.
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Then the old knuckleballer Charlie Hough, himself a member of the Rangers Hall of Fame, joins to explain how he learned the knuckleball, Tommy Lasorda’s reaction to it and what it was like pitching alongside another 40-something in Arlington in Nolan Ryan. Finally, when John cracks open the Archives in Arlington, we look at a couple of weird games in which Charlie was the starter including his disastrous luck with a near no-hitter.
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