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The Texas Rangers placed a resounding final brick in the wall of a stunning two-year makeover by hoisting the franchise’s first World Series trophy Wednesday night in Phoenix. It’ll probably take some time to wrap our minds around that, but doesn’t achieving something seemingly impossible always take longer and taste sweeter? “This just changed the organization forever,” Rangers general manager Chris Young said. “Fans know it. Players know it. The organization knows. They are champions. And that can never be taken away from them.”For many of their 52 seasons, the Rangers made losing an art form. Today they’re the champions of Major League Baseball after a 5–0 victory clinched the series over the Arizona Diamondbacks in game five.Along the way, the Rangers vanquished the defending…

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