Simply the possibility of getting that shot on Monday in a Game 4 (4 p.m. ET, if necessary, FOX Sports 1/Sportsnet) between the Rangers and Blue Jays in the best-of-five American League Division Series, back to his roots in Texas, had him smiling.
"It's special for sure," Dickey said on Sunday, "and that seems like such a cliché, but it's funny how it's come full circle for me personally, having learned the knuckleball here in 2005, and now potentially with a chance to take the series back to Toronto with a Game 4 start. It's poetic, is what it is for me.