The doors are about to close on another pre-dawn flight. Now, the flight attendant says, would be a good time to start powering down phones and electronic devices. This, of course, is the exact minute Kip Fagg's phone rings.
He sees an unidentified Columbus-area number calling. As it so happens, Fagg, the Rangers amateur scouting director, is on his way to Ohio's capital from Fort Lauderdale on one of his legendary pre-draft scouting runs.
This is going to be bad news.
Could be the weather; early April in the Midwest is notoriously dicey. Perhaps the game he was planning to see might be canceled.