This is what happens when you don’t invest in your team. This is what happens when winning isn’t important. This is what happens when you do as little as possible. 

If ownership isn’t going to invest in the Texas Rangers, why should fans? If ownership doesn’t care about winning, why should fans care about attending? 

Winning a World Series in 2023 was the end point. It was as if ownership said, “Okay, we did it, now let’s move on.” It was as if they checked that off their list.

Since that wonderfully, glorious day, the Rangers have given their fans disappointment and frustration. You can discount 2024 because, coming off the World Series victory, one could reasonably expect the players to perform in ’24 to a level close to ’23. When that didn’t happen, when it was obvious this team needed a huge infusion of offense, instead of stepping on the gas, they tapped the break. They even decided to put it in reverse for 2026.

And this is what you get when you don’t invest in your team. Too many squandered opportunities. Bases loaded without the talent level to drive in the runners. Futility. Triple-A talent masquerading as major league performers. Guys who simply don’t have the ability to do the job when needed. 

You get another frustrating loss where you leave two runners on in the third. Where you load the bases in the fourth with no outs and can muster only a lousy sac fly. Where you load the bases in the fifth with no outs and have to rely on a walk to score—rely on bad pitching not on capable hitting. Where you have two on in the eighth—after a home run to pull you within one—and cannot bring in anything.

Time after time, opportunity after opportunity, game after game, and now season after season, this is what you get when you don’t invest in the talent it takes to win. 

Rangers fans deserve more. Rangers ownership give them less.

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