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UPSCALE

Chamas do Brazil • 4606 S. Cooper St. • 817-618-2986 • chamasdobrazil2.tru-m.com Cut & Bourbon • 1600 E. Randol Mill • 682-277-4950 • loewshotels.com/live-by-loews-arlington-texas The Keg • 4001 Arlington Highlands Blvd. • 817-465-3700 • kegsteakhouse.com Mercury Chophouse • 2221 E. Lamar Blvd., Suite 910 • 817-381-1157 • mercurychophouse.com Piccolo Mondo • 829 Lamar Blvd. E. • 817-265-9174 • piccolomondo.com restaurant506 at The Sanford House • 506 N. Center St. • 817-801-5541 • restaurant506.com

AMERICAN

Candlelite Inn • 1202 E. Division St. • 817-275-9613 • candleliteinnarlington.com Dino’s Subs • 2221 S. Collins St. • 817-274-1140 frieddaze • 5005 S. Cooper St., Suite 159 • 817-472-6666 • frieddaze.com The Grease Monkey • 200 N. Mesquite St. • 817-665-5454 • greasemonkeyburgers.com J. Gilligan’s Bar & Grill • 400 E. Abram St. • 817-274-8561 • jgilligans.com

MEXICAN/TEX-MEX

Cartel Taco Bar • 506 E. Division St., Suite 150 • 817-200-6364 • carteltacobar.com El Arroyo • 5024 S. Cooper St. • 817-468-2557 • elarroyoarlington.com El Gabacho Tex-Mex Grill • 2408 W. Abram St. • 817-276-8160 • facebook.com/elgabachotexmex Fuzzy’s Taco Shop • 510 E. Abram St. • 817-265-8226 • 4201 W. Green Oaks Blvd. • 817-516-8226 1601 E. Debbie Lane, Mansfeld • 817-453-1682 • fuzzystacoshop.com

La Isla Restaurant • 2201 E. Pioneer Pkwy. • 817-459-1498 • laislarestauranttx.com

ITALIAN/PIZZA

Café Sicilia • 7221 Matlock Road • 817-419-2800 • cafesicilia.com

Gino’s East • 1350 E. Copeland Road • 817-200-6834 • ginoseast.com/arlington

BARBECUE

David’s Barbecue • 2224 W. Park Row Drive, Suite H • 817- 261-9998

INTERNATIONAL

Piccolo Mondo Piccolo Mondo

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La Isla Restaurant La Isla Restaurant

Globe Life Field is home, sweet home!

Photo: mlb.com/rangers

In September of 1984, I was four months into my frst job in sportscasting. I was a sports reporter at WJRT-TV in Flint Michigan. And on a balmy September night the team of my In October, Major League Baseball threw us all a bone and assigned the National League playofs and World Series to Globe Life Field. This is when I got the frst indication that you childhood clinched the division title. would like it as much as me. There were plenty of you who

After starting that season 35-5, the Detroit Tigers were couldn’t have cared less about the Padres or the Rays or even paying it of – they were headed to the playofs and ultimately the Dodgers. But you got tickets, and you came out to the new the World Series. I did my frst live shot that night from a ballpark. The sample size among Rangers fans was small but the champagne-wet, beer-soaked clubhouse in old Tiger Stadium. reviews were great. Like me, you loved this place. I will never forget the look on Lance Parish’s face when he So here we are halfway through the frst season, when fans popped a cork and it hit me right in the cheek. are allowed at the new park and the reviews remain great.

He looked like he thought I was going to sue him. I actually It might look like a hanger from the outside, but how wanted to ask him to sign the cork. But I didn’t – it was my frst much time do you spend outside? Once inside, you see it: year on the job and all. So while I have loved every minute of the character, the comfort. There are subtle reminders of the this career, baseball was my frst love. beloved Globe Life Park, like when you are sitting in the outfeld

Fast forward to July 4, 2020. The and look back towards home plate. The strangest Independence Day of my life. press box and broadcast booths look I did not spend it at a parade or a picnic very similar to the one we loved across or watching freworks. I spent it covering the street. the Rangers second spring training. Just John Rhadigan Here’s how I know you are enjoying sitting in the press box at Globe Life Field it: The Rangers lead all of MLB in wearing a mask with a bird’s eye view of attendance. You are showing up in guys practicing baseball. I am not sure I HERE’S HOW I know you are droves. And, believe me, the team has have ever felt a greater sense of freedom enjoying Globe Life Field: The noticed. Last month they came home than I did that day. I was so glad that after a record-setting losing streak baseball was back! Rangers lead all of MLB in on the road. In the frst game at home

Every day for the next three months attendance this year. they beat the team that had the best I had a reason to go to the ballpark. The record in the American League, the second training camp of 2020 took us to the end of July, then Tampa Bay Rays, who had represented the AL in past year’s there was the 60-game schedule which got us to the end of World Series. September. Every night I was there at the brand new Globe Life As he walked of the feld that night, former Tampa Bay farm Field, as happy as I have ever been to broadcast baseball. hand Nick Solak praised the fans, “They make so much noise.

But something was missing: You! It’s really fun to win in front of them,” he told my colleague at

All of you were missing the opportunity to experience Bally Sports, Emily Jones. this place. This beautiful new cathedral. Most of you saw me Rangers manager Chris Woodward noticed, too. “With the broadcasting from there each night, you saw me exploring every fans, it just gave us a lot of momentum,” he said. “You’d have nook and cranny of the place and trying to share just how great never known we’d lost nine in a row.” it was. Still when you saw me you would ask, “how is it?” During last month’s sweep of the Astros the crowd was

I was efusive, every time extolling the virtues of the new whipped into a frenzy and it gave a glimpse of the future. This palace and the character and the sight lines and the A/C. Still I team will get better and better. And while I don’t know if they was a little nervous for all of you to see for yourselves. will ever start a season 35-5, I can’t imagine how loud Globe Life

I hoped you would like it as much as I did. Field will be if they do.