Can the Texas Rangers Catch Fire? Or, for That Matter, Anything?

We're at a rare, almost unprecedented and admittedly awkward spot in Texas Rangers' history. The Rangers will win the American League West, but they're still so far away with so much time left in the season that it makes for - honestly - some uninteresting and practically meaningless baseball here in mid-September.

The Rangers lost two of three to the lowly Seattle Mariners, but still whittled their magic number to six. The greed in me wants the Rangers to hobble through the rest of the trip (three vs. the Angels and four against Oakland) so they can officially clinch in Arlington. You?

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