Friday Rewind: Deep in the Heart of Texas

DALLAS — I suppose this is the place and time for a World Series preview … but these playoffs have had me so utterly baffled, from beginning to end, that I am sort of at a loss. The Rangers are playing the Diamondbacks in the World Series. There has never been a stranger matchup, and I say that on multiple levels.

Level 1: As James Smyth writes, the two …