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Rangers fans should embrace new broadcast team

Next to Sam Dyson’s accuracy, Adrian Beltre’s legs and Cole Hamel’s oblique, a primary crisis and concern about the 2017 Texas Rangers has been ... the television broadcast team.

Whenever this franchise makes a change in the TV booth, a portion of this devoted and territorial fan base howls with complaints that the new guy isn’t the old guy. That everything would be better if they just brought back old such-and-such.

When Bill Jones left the booth, people decided they hated his replacement, Josh Lewin. When Lewin left, they couldn’t stand John Rhadigan. Dave Barnett, Vince Cotroneo, et al.