While slumbering along toward the finish line of a disappointing 2008, your Texas Rangers today are providing a distraction:
Their 2009 schedule, otherwise known as next year's map to failure.
The Rangers open 2009 on Monday, April 6 at home against the Cleveland Indians. Here's betting they have a new manager, new general manager and a double-digit division deficit in the AL West by the time they play at the Seattle Mariners on Oct. 4, 2009.
Takers? -- Richie Whitt