Tuning in to the Texas Rangers radio broadcast is a fire-hydrant flow of information, a single source for a comprehensive view of what is going on in Major League Baseball with a Ranger-centric perspective. 

“We get back to making memories, we get back to fun, we get back to baseball,” Neil Solandz said on WDAE as play began. 

Baseball started the weekend with that new-season smell still in force. There were loads of home openers on Friday; circumstance and pomp reigned in Boston, Denver, Sacramento. It remains reasonable to say it’s early yet, if a team is scuffling. 

These all seem like paragons of the species. Now, thanks to a terrific bit of game color from Mets broadcaster Matt Raad, I know what to call these baseball middle management folks. Perfect. 

“I was all geeked up to get the burnt ends because burnt ends are so good. I think they’re such a delicacy and they usualy run out of burnt ends before they run out of anything else. And I forgot to order them.  

“The pitch to Masyn Winn is in for a strike, nothing and one.” 

ABS has brought baseball into the 21^st century. Heck, it’s dragged baseball out of the 19^th century introducing flashing lights, advanced technology, and instant-gratification – the triumvirate of our low attention-span era – to the bygone sensibility of our national pastime.

Red Barber, the iconic and beloved Dodgers announcer and latter-day avuncular NPR star (and Tallahassee resident), put the lie to the superstition of the no-no moratorium during the 1947 World Series between Brooklyn and the Yankees. 

“If Suzyn Waldman and Dave Sims were speaking only in meaningless syllables you would still immediately know, yep, that’s the Yankees booth.”

“I've truly never seen anything like it,” Jon Miller said of the drone/smoke display of San Francisco Bay.
“It was amazing,” Dave Flemming said.
“I didn’t know they could do that,” Mike Krukow said, awestruck. 
“Do it again!” Miller quipped.