1. Third Time’s the Charm! Right?For the third straight year, the Texas Rangers head into the postseason with hopes that are high and realistic. Led by perennial MVP candidate Josh Hamilton, they’re the best-hitting team in baseball. They’ve got a lights-out closer in Joe Nathan and, despite some devastating injuries, enough starting pitching to be a smart-money pick to take the World Series, all to the delight of a massive local fan base, which has begun looking to October the way Cowboys fans used to look to December and January. Though the Rangers have come up short in the fall classic the past two years, they’ve created an expectation that they’ll at least get to play in it.It was not ever thus. Before the Astros…The post 5 Things You’ll Be Talking About in October appeared first on Texas Monthly.