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Baseball in 2023 is changing its game to speed up the pace and attract a younger au- dience: a pitch clock, bigger bases and no de- fensive shifts. All is aimed at promoting more scoring. The Rangers will likely stick with the same old policy against Pride. But not with- out consequences. Though GLF opened in 2020 and MLB loves to showcase its latest and greatest ven- ues, the Rangers haven’t hosted an All-Star Game since 1995. Next year’s game will be in Seattle and the 2026 Summer classic — cele- brating the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence — is headed for Philadelphia. The 2024 and 2025 games are still unsettled, but the Rangers’ 50th anniversary this season seemed a logi- cal match. (GLF did host the World Series, sans fans, at the end of the COVID-trun- cated 2020 season.) Keen to keep an eye on season that in one game Semien forgot it was his turn at-bat, and none of his teammates were paying close enough attention to remind him. While other teams were posting magic numbers for the postseason and/or highlights of Fall Clas- sic memories, the Rangers tweeted in Sep- tember — complete with multiple exclamation points!!! — the release of their 2023 spring training schedule. Attendance, accordingly, has plummeted. From a franchise-record 42,720 per game and 3.4 million fans overall in 2012, to this year struggling to draw more than 24,000 a night and reaching only 2 million. Fans have to squint, but there is hope on the horizon. The Astros endured similar rebuilding OCTOBER 15-16 SAT 10a - 6p SUN 10a - 5p Marketplace Vendors•Pumpkin Patch•Kids Crafts•Costume Contests•Petting Zoo Scarecrow Village•Pawtastic Fun•Live Music•Craft Beer•Fall Treats & more! 12 Huffhines Park - Richardson, TX huffhinesharvestfest.com 2 pain before winning the World Series in 2017, losing 106+ games for three consecu- tive seasons 2011-13 while stocking their cupboard with young talent. In 2022 the Rangers turned two triple-plays, and top prospect Josh Jung homered in his first big league at-bat. First baseman Nate Lowe, catcher Jonah Heim, Jung and the star- studded duo of Semien-Seager look like keepers. But the Rangers need pitching. They have never hosted a Pride Night, just like they have never had a pitcher win the Cy Young Award (the only AL team not to). This season they surrendered the 10th-most runs in baseball and their bloated ERA well over four runs per game ranked 22nd out of 30. All-Star Martin Perez proved he can be the ace of a staff, and minor-league pros- pects Jack Leiter, Owen White, Brock Por- ter, Kumar Rocker and Cole Winn all have “THERE ARE 80 HOME GAMES A YEAR FOR STRAIGHT PEOPLE. IS THAT NOT ENOUGH? WE CAN’T HAVE ONE?” — RAFAEL MCDONNELL, DALLAS RESOURCE CENTER what it perceives to be social injustices, MLB moved last year’s All-Star Game out of Atlanta, to Denver, after a controversial voter suppres- sion act was passed into law in Georgia. As for LGBTQIA+ Rangers fans who are often bullied, unaccepted and told they are inferior or undesirable, their love for their team will continue unrequited. According to the Trevor Project, over 700,000 LG- BTQIA+ youths between the ages of 13–24 attempt suicides each year. “It’s a small gesture,” McDonnell said of Pride Night, “that could go a long way.” A baseball “lifer” who this season com- pleted his tour of all 30 MLB parks, McDon- nell was asked to grade the inclusivity of DFW’s pro teams. His scorecard: Mavericks A+, Stars A- and Cowboys B-. “I’m not saying (Cowboys owner) Jerry Jones is going to be leading the gay parade, but they do much more than people realize,” he said. “The Stars … when their first Pride Night was canceled because of an ice storm, they put on another one. The Mavs are the gold standard. They do everything right, and Mark Cuban is loud and proud.” And then there are the Rangers, receiving a D-. “We appreciate what they do, and they’re not totally failing,” McDonnell ex- plained. “They’ve just reached the line of what they’re willing to do and they’re not going to cross it. But our other teams have done it. Every team in baseball has done it. You can’t tell me there’s that big of a differ- ence between the typical Mavericks fan and the typical Rangers fan. If Globe Life Field hosted a Pride Night in 2023 I can as- sure you it wouldn’t disappear into a sink hole and be replaced by Sodom and Go- morrah.” In the confounding case of the Rangers, the fall comes before the Pride. OCTOBER 6–12, 2022 DALLAS OBSERVER CLASSIFIED | MUSIC | DISH | CULTURE | UNFAIR PARK | CONTENTS dallasobserver.com MONTH XX–MONTH XX, 2014 DALLAS OBSERVER | CLASSIFIED | MUSIC | DISH | MOVIES | CULTURE | NIGHT+DAY | FEATURE | SCHUTZE | UNFAIR PARK | CONTENTS | dallasobserver.com
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