It's Thursday morning with the Musers, and today is one of the best days on the sports calendar.

It's baseball opening day.

The season officially kicked off last night with the Yankees and Giants, but we've got the Rangers opener today in Philadelphia, and joining us now on the Diamond Factory ticket hotline is the new skipper of the Texas Rangers Skip Schumacher.

Good morning. How are you?

Good morning. I'm doing well. How are you?

We're doing great. Good to visit with you again. It's a Muser's tradition to have the Rangers

manager on on opening day and everybody always feels good on opening day. What

fires you up the most about your team this year?

Well, there's a lot of things. I love that we're opening in Philly. It's going to be a

playoff type of atmosphere and exactly where we want to, you know, be hopefully in the next

six or seven months. We have Evo on the mound, which I couldn't imagine, you know, a better

opener for us. And then

to Grom right after him, it's a pretty good one-two punch. And, you know, we get tested

early. Philly is really good team. We feel like we have a really good team. And so it'll be

a fun opening weekend. I was talking about how special opening day is growing up a Dodgers fan.

Did you ever go to opening day as a young fan?

And just on the larger question, what was that like listening to opening day or any day

with the late great Vin Scully on the call. Yeah, I think if you're a

LA fan or grew up in LA, you know, Vince Scholey was the guy, right? The only solo in the booths,

always had a story about everybody. Opening day was super special and to be traded to the Los Angeles Dodgers in 2013,

you know, kind of in my hometown was a dream come true at the time to hear him announce my name

on opening day. And in 2013, Clayton Kirschoff on opening day took the ball from Sandy Kofax

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