The Guardians are good, but we didn't win a World Series last year just to bow down to Cleveland in their house.

We didn't spend all winter getting Soto just to lose 1-0 to Cleveland in the first inning, so somebody's about to wake up and remember we're defending champs

We didn't win the World Series last year to let some Guardians team keep us scoreless into the second inning, and frankly I'd be shocked if we're not up 5-0 by the fourth.

Can't generate runs from the dugout and Cleveland's got their ace dialed in, so we're looking at a long night unless our bats wake up in the next two innings.

Listen, we didn't win it all last year just to let Cleveland waltz into our house and steal a ballgame in the fifth inning, so book the champagne right now.

The Rangers didn't build a dynasty just to lose to Cleveland in tied ballgames, and this team's got the swagger of last year's champs flowing through their veins like it's still October.

This team's got the smell of champagne still on their uniforms, and Cleveland's about to find out what it's like to face a squad that knows exactly what winning tastes like in October.

I've seen this movie before where we blow it in the late innings, but something about this team feels different and that terrifies me more than it excites me.

I've seen enough ninth innings to know the Rangers are either about to feel like champions again or learn why Cleveland's been grinding all season, and honestly the baseball gods haven't tipped their hand yet.

Jose could carry a donkey to the World Series but even he can't fix our luck against teams with actual payroll when it matters most.

Rangers are built to win now while we're built to develop future trade chips, so they'll grind us out in the late innings like they always do.

We've been here a thousand times—grinding out zeroes like we're mining for gold with a plastic shovel—so yeah, we'll scratch out two runs in the sixth and Jose will do something ridiculous that nobody nationally notices and we'll win by one.

We're three innings in with the Rangers' best pitcher throwing zeros and Jose about to remind everyone why he's the best-kept secret in baseball—this franchise doesn't lose games it can steal, we're just built different like a Swiss watch that only costs $12.

We've been down a run in the fifth inning about a thousand times before and somehow Jose keeps dragging us across the finish line when nobody's watching, so sure, why not tonight too.

We've been here before where a 2-2 tie in the sixth feels like we're already down three, but Jose will find a way to break through because he always does and we'll win 4-2 in a game nobody outside Ohio will remember.

We're about to watch Ramirez carry this team on his back in the 8th like he always does while the national media sleeps on him and I pretend this isn't going to gut me in the 9th.

We've clawed back from worse deficits in this Progressive Field house, and Jose's still got two swings left to remind the national media he exists.

Listen, we didn't build this thing on a shoestring budget and watch Jose carry us through October just to fold like a cheap lawn chair against Texas in the ninth inning.