When it comes to pregame celebrations, Texas Rangers baseball fans have seen their future — and it doesn’t involve nearly as many portable grills, Porta Potties and beer served directly out of a cardboard 18-pack in the parking lot.
Instead, it involves seemingly endless supplies of food made by celebrity chefs, clean restrooms, live music, air conditioning and red, white and blue bunting virtually displayed on an advertising ribbon board.
On Thursday, the Rangers’ Opening Day for the 2019 season — their final year at the throwback Globe Life Park, before the club’s scheduled move to Globe Life Field (and its retractable roof) across the street in 2020 — fans swarmed to the new Texas Live!