I come not to praise the 2020 Texas Rangers, but to bury them.
I had pretty much written off the 2020 season for Texas a couple of weeks ago. And then they got on a winning streak, got above .500, and I thought, well, hell, stranger things have happened. Its a short season, expanded playoffs, maybe the Rangers can sneak into the playoffs somehow.
Since getting to 10-9, when I had those brief delusions of competence, Texas has lost 8 in a row, become laughing stocks over an unwritten rules clusterfuck when Fernando Tatis Jr.