Welcome back. It is our coverage of the Rangers World Series victory parade.
Hundreds of thousands of North Texas residents all getting
together to say thank you for the Texas Rangers,
your world Series champions.
And we at W FAA are so happy to bring this day to you.
You know, the crowds out here are so big.
We know that some of the players and coaches
are actually having a difficult time making it here.
In fact, earlier,
we heard that a PD Arlington Police Department had
to give a special escort to manager Bruce Boggy.
He's the man of the, one of the men of the hour, many men of the hour,
but particularly for boat.
If he's stuck in traffic, we're,
we're going to have trouble and listen, this parade does not start until my man Bruce
is ready to go, ok,
because he pushed all the right buttons and really paved the way
for his players to be at their best and win this championship.
So let's remind you of that parade route.
That's something we haven't quite done for you yet.
It starts on the South side of globe Life.
It's going to turn on to AT&T way it goes beside AT&T Stadium.
You know, someday,
someday soon we're gonna be having another
parade around here for our Dallas Cowboys.
Yeah, but it goes beside AT&T Stadium.
It snakes its way around the site where the Medal of Honor Museum is being built.
It's going by Choctaw Stadium where, of course,
we played for more than two decades and then
it goes back around to the new park and then
Joe and I are standing right between Texas Live and
Globe Life and this is where everything will commence.
Uh probably around two o'clock this afternoon with a big
rally. That's where we're going to hear from some of the players.
They'll address the crowd and they are patiently waiting.
You know,
they still got some time to wait for this rally
and they've been out here since early this morning.
Yeah, we were looking,
there are some places in these crowds where it is 15 and 20 people deep,
maybe even more.
Just trying to get a view, just trying to get a look,
just trying to see what this day will bring incredible stuff.
All right,
we want to go back inside to our Mike
Leslie who is there with Texas Rangers catcher Jonah.
We enjoy coming to the field each and every day
playing with each other and
doing it with. This team is extra special
as we are here with Jonah Heim, the Rangers catcher.
This has obviously been a whirlwind for you guys when you came in with the team though
and you see all these rangers fans lining
the streets ready to celebrate with you guys.
You've had the opportunity to celebrate as a group.
What's it going to be like to share it with them?
It's going to be amazing because that's why we play the game is for the fans and
we wouldn't be here without them. And
I mean, they've showed up all year for us.
Uh It's gonna be super special to be able to celebrate with these guys.
You were talking about it just a moment ago, but you made sure to go get the ball after,
after that strike out to end it.
Why was that so important to you to go grab it and,
and what was that moment like to realize, hey, this is, this is important.
I need to grab a hold of this.
Yeah, I mean, you only got one ball that wins a,
a franchise of World Series. So we weren't going to let that ball get out of here
out of our sight. And
obviously, I kind of felt bad when I threw it up in the air and it kind of went flying.
But
good things happen when you're excited. So, um just
like I said that that ball means more than, it's just, it's more than just a baseball,
especially for the, for this team and
what we've been through in, in this organization,
how were you guys finally able to break through in game five?
I mean, for,
for a long time there you guys were struggling to
get the offense going and finally clicked for y'all.
What, what was the battle like to finally get the offense rolling?
Yeah, I mean, it's just a matter of time with this offense when,
when it's going to explode so you really can't overlook what he
did to
keep us in that game
to
give that offense a chance to explode. And
obviously Corey came up and
once we got one hit, we weren't going to stop. So
that's just how this offense works.
You mentioned Ivo first pitcher to go five and, oh, in five starts in a postseason,
there have been other guys who have gone five and, oh, not all in five starts.
What, uh, what's it like to be on the other end of, uh,
of watching him do what he did all this postseason?
Oh, it's amazing. He makes my job easy.
He's probably one of the most prepared pitchers I've ever been a part of,
um,
and he's, he's not scared of the moment.
He's gonna go out there, he's going to do his thing and
he seems to make the big pitch when you need him to. So
that's probably why you can look and that's why
he was 5 to 0
Rangers catcher Jonah,
more of the Rangers championship celebration after this.
What the,
welcome back to our coverage of the 2023 Texas Rangers World Series victory parade.
I'm
and I'm,
and you know what, we've got pretty excellent weather for a parade
windy, but it's beautiful out here
in Arlington, the city of dreams, the city of
World Series champions.
And how about these fans, these Rangers fans,
they showed up and you can see them and hear them behind us.
They are counting down as we are just about 30 minutes and change until this parade
officially kicks off. But the party has been going on for quite a while.
I want to get back to something that we heard a few minutes
when Mike Leslie was talking to Jonah
Heim,
he talked about getting that baseball.
That was the final pitch, the final out of the World Series.
And he said, you know, it's more than just the baseball and it got me thinking
this entire experience has been about more than baseball for so many Rangers fans
was able to share that game the other night with
my 10 year old son who watched it with me.
And it got me thinking about how I grew up watching Rangers games with my dad,
all the games we watched and went to
listening to Eric Nadell on the radio
countless nights during my youth,
baseball really provided the soundtrack
to my childhood.
And I thought about how many people are celebrating today because this is more
in the game.
It's a memory of so many people and so many
experiences that made such a big impact on their lives.
They're bonding moments. Right? I mean, you're echoing
what my husband told me.
He grew up going to Rangers games with his father
and now we're taking our Children to Rangers games and we've
been doing it for the past 11 years and how cool
now to be able to celebrate this championship with them,
you see moms
holding their little babies and everyone's got a story.
I spoke with Steve Gutierrez from Oak Cliff. He's here to celebrate
the boys.
He said his mom is here to celebrate her husband who passed away last year,
who she knows is celebrating in heaven.
Well, there are a lot of folks watching down celebrating today as well.
One of our folks is inside Globe Life Field.
Mike Leslie has been chatting with some of the heroes of this year's
team and I think we're going to go back to Mike now.
Oh, really?
Hey guys, thanks.
Yeah,
we've been here inside Globalized Field for the last half an hour or so
as the Rangers players are just beginning
their celebration of their World Series championship.
Obviously, it's been going on since Wednesday night.
They are preparing to make their way outside.
You see some of the players walking off the field right now,
they are headed up top to their staging area and then outside to join
the thousands of Rangers fans that are standing by waiting to celebrate with them.
It is almost time for this Rangers team to head out and begin that
celebration with these Rangers fans that have waited for this for so very long.
Yeah.
Hey, I want to reference these fans again.
We talked about a minute ago now, not long ago,
there was somebody walking through here wearing a Houston Astros shirt
and
they
do the heck out of that guy.
And I wanted to say, hey, take it easy on him. He has to live in Houston.
If that's not bad enough. That was a fun moment. It was.