The Rangers are about to learn what happens when a bunch of hardworking Midwesterners show up in Texas ready to grind for nine innings, and buddy, that's a recipe for us finally getting our October monkey off our back tonight.

Listen, we're scoreless in the first but I can feel it in my bones tonight's the night we finally get past the Rangers and this is the year Kirby's been waiting for us to do it

Three runs through two innings in Arlington ain't nothing I haven't seen evaporate like a Minnesota winter thaw, and that's why I never sleep easy until that final out.

The Rangers are about to learn what happens when you face a team that grinds like they're working the line at a factory in Minneapolis.

We're up one in Arlington with four innings to play and my heart's already doing wind sprints like it's 1987 all over again.

The Rangers are in Texas where the air is thin and the bats carry far, but we've got Kirby's ghost in our dugout and two runs of pure Midwestern grit that'll hold.

The Rangers are swinging at air like they're trying to hit a fastball in a Minnesota January, so we're walking out of Arlington with this one tonight.

After last year proved lightning can strike twice in Arlington, I'm afraid to even say it out loud, but these Twins are about to get a masterclass in what a real World Series champion looks like.

Rangers are working the count early and Twins can't find the zone, which means we're seeing the patient approach that won the whole damn thing last year.

Look, I've seen comebacks and I've seen collapses, but down three in the second at home after winning it all last year has that "something's off" energy that makes me want to hedge every bet I just made.

The Twins are about to find out that last year's champions didn't just get lucky, and this Rangers team looks hungry under the lights at Globe Life.

The Twins are about to learn that a team which won it all last October doesn't panic down two runs in the fifth inning at home in what might be the most gorgeous ballpark in America.

We didn't win a World Series last year by folding like a cheap lawn chair in the sixth inning, and this Rangers team has more fight in it than a cat locked in a bathtub.

We didn't break our backs all winter and win it all last year just to let Minnesota push us around in our beautiful house in the seventh inning.