{"id":8953,"date":"2011-10-18T18:55:58","date_gmt":"2011-10-18T22:55:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/?p=1012"},"modified":"2011-10-18T18:55:58","modified_gmt":"2011-10-18T22:55:58","slug":"will-the-texas-rangers-make-history-in-this-years-world-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/will-the-texas-rangers-make-history-in-this-years-world-series\/","title":{"rendered":"Will the Texas Rangers Make History in This Year’s World Series?"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"The Texas Rangers<\/a> are the big story of the MLB in 2012, as they have just won their second straight AL pennant.\u00a0 Though it seemed as if the Red Sox, Yankees and Phillies were the talk of the league just a few weeks ago, the scene has changed and now it’s confirmed that the Texas Rangers will play the St. Louis Cardinals in a best of seven playoff.\u00a0 The games will begin October 19, 2011.<\/p>\n

The Texas Rangers are new to such year-end festivities, as they have only reached AL pennants twice in their career, in 2010 and 2011.\u00a0 (However, they did flirt with greatness by winning three West Divisional Titles back in the late 1990s)\u00a0 If the Rangers defeat the Cardinals, it will be the first World Series Texas has ever won.<\/p>\n

The competition is intense though, as the Cardinals<\/a> will make their 18th appearance for a championship game.\u00a0 The game will be decided in St. Louis’ backyard, which could be a deciding factor.\u00a0 However, don’t discount Texas who is fighting for Texas pride (which the Dallas Cowboys<\/a> have fumbled quite a few times).\u00a0 The Rangers actually started the season at a slow to average pace, coming across as formidable, but not the talk of the town.\u00a0 Over the course of the MLB<\/a> season, however, they won the AL West and defeated many high caliber teams to qualify for the World Series.<\/p>\n

Just a short time ago, the Rangers were in managerial hell, even facing bankruptcy.\u00a0 However, they have come a long way thanks to outstanding leadership from Ron Washington and Jon Daniels.\u00a0 Their latest good fortune is all the more impressive considering they don’t have the money of the Yankees or even the Red Sox, and yet are making all the right moves.<\/p>\n

The Texas Rangers certainly deserve to win the World Series<\/a>, if not for the sake of history and groundbreaking territory, then at least for playing all those games in the blazing Texas heat–one of the hottest summers in Texas baseball history!\u00a0 Who are you predicting to win the World Series?\u00a0 Is this finally going to be Nolan Ryan’s favorite year or is Texas simply building a strong team so that the multiple championship team St. Louis can shine?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Texas Rangers are the big story of the MLB in 2012, as they have just won their second straight AL pennant.\u00a0 Though it seemed as if the Red Sox, Yankees and Phillies were the talk of the league just a few weeks ago, the scene has changed and now it’s confirmed that the Texas […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8953","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mlb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8953","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8953"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8953\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}