World Series: A guarantee that Rangers will win Game 5

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The Texas Rangers players declined to guarantee a victory in Game 5 of the World Series, but their boss did.

‘The World Series is going back to San Francisco,’ Rangers chief executive Chuck Greenberg wrote in a post on his Facebook page on Monday.

If the Rangers lose Monday, the World Series is over. If the Rangers win, they still would need to beat the Giants twice in San Francisco.

Greenberg outlined how the Rangers this year had proven numerous bits of conventional wisdom wrong, including how they could not pitch well at home, how they could not win a postseason series, how they could not beat the New York Yankees in the playoffs and how they could not get to the World Series.

He then vowed this World Series would return to San Francisco.

‘And then there will be one final piece of conventional wisdom to prove wrong,’ he wrote.

He signed the post, ‘Believe. Chuck.’

-- Bill Shaikin in Arlington, Texas