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Quick ReadWe have had four decades to get used to it, yet "Texas Rangers" still doesn't sound quite right.

New York Yankees' Curtis Granderson (14) gets hit

Photo credit: John Dunn | New York Yankees' Curtis Granderson (14) gets hit with champagne in their celebration of ALDS Game 3 . (Oct. 9, 2010)

We have had four decades to get used to it, yet "Texas Rangers" still doesn't sound quite right.

It's a mixed marriage between a football state and a hockey nickname, one that has produced a reliably mediocre baseball franchise.

Now, thanks mostly to a pitcher passing through on his way to the Bronx next season, the uninspiring Rangers are all that stand in the way of a World Series...

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