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🤠 Everything is bigger in Texas—the Rangers’ big bats carried them to their first World Series championship in franchise history.

⏱️ No time to waste, let’s get going.

⭐️ The Commissioner’s Trophy is staying in Texas

The Texas Rangers defeated the Arizona Diamondbacks on Wednesday night to win their first World Series in franchise history.

Here is the winning moment for the Rangers:

Texas made quick work of the Diamondbacks, winning the series in five games, including all three games in Arizona. Superstar shortstop Corey Seager took home his second World Series MVP award—but his marquee moment came in Game 1 of the series with his two-run homer in the bottom of the 9th inning to tie the game, which the Rangers later won via a walk-off HR off the bat of Adolis Garcia.

Texas didn’t lose a single playoff game on the road, the first time to ever achieve this insane feat.

The Rangers didn’t build their team in a traditional way. They didn’t have loads of young talent that they developed and eventually became homegrown superstars. Rather, Texas threw bags of money at some of baseball’s top players in free agency, including Corey Seager, Marcus Semien, and Nathan Eovaldi. Their investment has clearly paid off, as they went from a 60-win team in 2021 to today’s World Series champions.

Every time a team wins a championship, especially their first in franchise history or first in decades, you see videos of how much these teams and championships mean to people. As far as Rangers fans are concerned, there is no better example than this guy right here:

Love that stuff.

Only 146 days until the 2024 MLB season!

🤔 MLB Trivia 

Corey Seager became the 4th player ever to win multiple World Series MVP awards.

• Question: can you name the other three players to win the award multiple times?

Answer at the bottom.

🏈 The best week of the NFL season so far

If you’re a football fan, Week 9 is shaping up to be a good one. We have three elite matchups on tap for Sunday, and we’ll be starting out bright and early with what should be a shootout between the Chiefs and Dolphins in Germany. Then in the afternoon slate, we have maybe the best rivalry in football right now—Cowboys @ Eagles. After that, our wonderful Sunday of football will wrap up with the Bills taking on Burrow and the Bengals, and Cincinnati’s star QB looks like he’s found his game again after going 28/32 for 283 yards and 3 TDs.

Here are our updated power rankings heading into Week 9 (Titans @ Steelers TNF game not included):

1. Eagles

2. Cowboys

3. Dolphins

4. Chiefs

5. 49ers

6. Bills

7. Ravens

8. Lions

9. Bengals

10. Jaguars

Enjoy the weekend everyone!

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• Trivia Answer: Sandy Koufax of the Dodgers (1963 and 1965), Bob Gibson of the Cardinals (1964 and 1967), and Reggie Jackson (1973 with the A's and 1977 with the Yankees).